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The Tugboat Captain's Ball is the story of a lonely, persistent young woman who flirts with the most handsome man at 2015 Narrative Short DVD The Tugboat Captain's Ball Rick Moore Rick Moore 2 13 USA the ball. Sasha’s idea of her father is shattered by reality when she goes to a picnic 2015 Narrative Short DVD Sasha Taisia Deeva 1 23 Germany, Russia with him and his new girlfriend. In his latest project, his most personal yet, Photographer Phil Toledano has become obsessed with his own demise. Over the course of three years, filmmaker Joshua Seftel follows him as he imagines all the dark paths that 2015 Narrative Short DVD The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano Joshua Seftel Best Short Docume 1 26 USA his future could take. A boy and his imaginary friend 2015 Narrative Short DVD The Break Up Desta Reff 1 3 USA decide that it's time to part ways Consumed in a marathon of family chaos, texting and hormones, the outspoken Ju is running late for her pricey private tennis lessons, and running from 2015 Narrative Short DVD A Tenista Tennis Girl Daniel Barosa 2 15 Brazil a secret. NOWHERE expresses the filmmaker’s personal journey of 2015 Student Short DVD Nowhere I-Cheng Lee 1 3 Taiwan pursuing happiness. Two thirteen year-old boys at a conservative Christian school take a field trip to the landfill. A tattered magazine calls to them from the trash 2015 Student Short DVD Smut Tom Sveen 1 10 USA heap. Some images cannot be unseen. On what seems to be a routine day, a lonely security guard is surprised to discover a bouncing bright pink RV in the parking lot–the encounter leads to an 2015 Northwest Short DVD The Mobile Stripper Shirlyn Wong Shirlyn Wong 2 14 USA unforeseen adventure. A romantic dalliance without protection forces a young woman with Down Syndrome to come to terms with the realities of adulthood and her own place 2015 Narrative Short DVD Guest Room Joshua Tate 2 13 USA in the world. This short documentary looks at a unique program for young journalists at 2015 Documentary Short DVD Teen Press T.C. Johnstone 2 30 USA Santa Barbara Middle School. Year CATEGORY FORMAT TITLE SUBTITLE WRITER DIRECTOR AWARD #COPIE Run Time COUNTRY SYNOPSIS S THE BIG LONELY is a portrait of Michael, a homeless man who elects to live surreptitiously on public land in the Oregon woods rather than live on the streets. The footage, shot by Michael himself reveals a solitary existence in the hidden cabin he built and shares with his only companion, his dog Tic. He survives by hunting game and rationing an ever-dwindling food supply, but freedom has its costs, besides lack of food, there is the threat of bears and 2015 Documentary Feat DVD The Big Lonely David Manougian 2 82 USA the harsh and unforgiving winters. Can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive waste. Governments around the world, desperate to protect future generations, have begun imagining society 10,000 years from now in order to create monuments that will speak across time. CONTAINMENT considers an uneasy present and imagines a troubled future, exploring the idea that over millennia, nothing 2015 Documentary Feat DVD Containment Peter Galison and Robb Moss 1 81 USA stays put. At The Lillian Booth Actors Home just outside NYC, a group of long-retired Broadway entertainers dive into a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and find that nothing is what it seems to be. As they deal with the shifting mental and physical challenges of old age, they realize that creativity is a magical force 2015 Documentary Feat DVD Still Dreaming Hank Rogerson & Jilann Spitzmiller 2 93 USA of renewal. For many generations people in the Omo Valley (southwest Ethiopia) believed some children are cursed and that these children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe. The curse is called mingi; and mingi children are killed. Lale Labuko, a young educated man from the Kara was 15 years old when he saw a child in his village killed and also learned that he had 2 older sisters he never knew who had been killed. He decided one day he would stop this horrific practice. 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