FILMS OF THE 2012

PHENOM FILM FEST

25 5 DAY FORECAST dir Chia-Chi Lee dir Joe Wielosinski TAIWAN, 2010, 9min, color USA, 2012, 18min, color

25 is a non-linear narrative that combines video 5 Day Forecast is an emotional tale that with 2D animation. We follow a quirky young examines self-consciousness in affiliation to the woman who is overcome by nostalgia for her end of a relationship. The film details the story past life. Alone, she explores an imaginary of a young woman, Nicole Wagner, who was world about a little prince who comforts her in just dumped by her boyfriend, CJ Ferrell. Feeling her attempts to find herself in a new place. rejected and hopeless, Nicole refuses to leave her bed for the remainder of the week. Chia-Chi is a designer based in New York City. She has many interests in photography, film, Joe Wielosinski is a multi-award winning illustration and animation. Director, Writer, and Producer. With a Bachelor's degree from Purdue University Short Film, Documentary Calumet, he is currently earning his Master of Screens with: BRIDGE UNDER THE WATER Fine Arts at Governors State University. Wielosinski enjoys telling stories about heartbreak, isolation, and the bumpy road to hope and satisfaction.

Short Film, Drama Screens with: Student Shorts

ALONE TOGETHER ANIMAL BAR dir Ben Kadie dir Cayce Brown USA, 2012, 24min, color USA, 2011, 15min, color

A story of shipwrecks and love -- After a terrible Cynthia is finally given the opportunity to get a ocean storm, Brendan finds himself on a Chilean hold of an item she has been yearning to have island with Eloise, the girl of his secret dreams. in back in her possession. The only problem is it Alone together for the first time, the two grow has been in the hands of her sadistic ex lover close, yet Brendan worries: if they leave the Fran'k and he has a special night planned for island will Eloise still need him? Director Ben her which she must endure before getting a Kadie (then age 16) filmed throughout the hold of the priceless object. She is lead to a bar beautiful Pacific Northwest including where everything seems a bit off and the underwater in Lake Washington and on the people are memorable but best 100-year-old tugboat Arthur Foss. forgotten...however it is just a normal night with the normal faces at the Animal Bar. In sixth grade, Ben premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival via a newspaper TRAILER ANIMAL BAR contest. Since then, his nine films have screened in over 100 festivals in the US and Short Film, Comedy, Crime around the world and earned more than thirty Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS awards including top youth film at the Louisiana Film Festival Student Division. Ben lives in Bellevue, WA, where he is a senior in the International Baccalaureate program at Interlake High School. After high school, he plans to pursue a university film degree.

Student Short Film, Drama Screens with: STUDENT SHORTS

ARE WE LISTENING? AS GOES JANESVILLE dir Andrew Sensenig dir Brad Lichtenstein USA, 2012, 9min, color USA, 2012, 84min, color

The perfect family living just down the street, AS GOES JANESVILLE comes straight out of we all know them, or at least dream of them. Wisconsin — ground zero in the recession- But underneath it all, can dad really handle the ridden heartland’s struggle to hold on to the stresses of his job, is mom trying to juggle more American Dream. Epic and intimate, the than she can handle? A quiet family dinner documentary follows three years in the lives of quickly deteriorates as distant memories test a laid off GM workers forced to leave home in father’s faith. search of decent jobs; business leaders aligned with Republican Governor Scott Walker’s Andrew Sensenig, Director, Writer, Composer, “divide and conquer” war on unions trying to is a highly sought after actor in the Film and woo companies with lower wages and tax Television industry. When not helping to bring breaks; and a state senator caught in the others stories to life, he loves to write and middle, trying to negotiate a peace to his state’s direct his own. civil war. AS GOES JANESVILLE, so goes America.

Short Film, Drama, Family Brad Lichtenstein is an award-winning Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 1 filmmaker and president of 371 Productions, the company he founded in 2003 to create media and technology projects that contribute to the common good. 371 will use AS GOES JANESVILLE to convene business and labor in a dialogue about how to overcome extreme political polarization and join in an effort to find common solutions to our economic problems. Building on the theme of corporate accountability animated in the film, 371 is also releasing "bizVizz", a mobile app that will give users the ability to scan a logo and instantly learn how much that company has paid in taxes and the amount it has received in tax subsidies

Feature Film, Documentary

AT STAKE: VAMPIRE SOLUTIONS AUDITIONING FANNY dir Jim Weter dir Mia'kate Russell USA, 2011, 90min, color AUSTRALIA, 2011. 15min, color

For his thesis film and final grade in school, a Auditioning Fanny follows an eventful week in film student documents a small business the life of Fanny Love. A naive woman with stars struggling in the current, failing economy. To in her eyes for an old Hollywood world long further exploit his theme, he chooses a business gone, and a dream of a love story lost in that really shouldn’t be making cutbacks – a modern society. With the innocence of a child group of vampire exterminators in rural, North and a temper of a psychopath she is thrilled Mississippi. when auditions for a new musical film starring heart throb Jack Baron are announced. With a Jim Weter began film making in Oxford, MS in spring in her step Fanny knows everything will 2005 while enrolled at Ole Miss in the Theatre work out just dandy. Or will it. Arts Department. Jim worked from production assistant to assistant director on several short Auditioning Fanny is the debut film for 'Make and feature length films as well as recording live Trouble Films'. With original songs penned by performances by local musicians. In 2010 Jim the two lead actors, and all costumes designed introduced the first annual Cellardoor Cinema and handmade it was shot over four days in Screenplay Contest, held by his own company 2011. Funded by Director Mia'kate Russell, this Cellardoor Cinema to promote local films in the film was a labor of love from all involved. Make Memphis area and with a grand prize of the Trouble's next short film, a gay western winning script going into production. Duane P. werewolf tale titled SWALLOW is currently in Craig was selected as the first year’s grand prize post production. winner with his script "At Stake: Vampire Solutions" (AS:VS). Short Film, Foreign, Comedy, GLBT Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS TRAILER AS:VS

Feature Film, Horror, Comedy, Mockumentary, Found Footage Screens with: BLUE SHEEP SUIT

AWAKE BABY, BE MY SUPERSTAR dir Paul Birman dir Briana Frapart USA, 2012, 10min, color USA, 2011, 8min, color

As work hours grow longer and energy Aimee, a spunky teenager obsessed with the supplements get stronger, our appreciation for Korean pop world, discovers the chance to sleep declines. Awake presents a hypothetical meet her favorite pop star by entering a special scenario where sleep is replaced with dance video contest. In hopes of making the medication and dreams become a thing of the best video, she enlists the help of her shy lab past. Robby is an office worker, who, like many, partner, Tae Goon, who has been praised for his is addicted to sleep-replacement medication as superb dancing skills. When Tae Goon agrees to a way to keep up with modern life. help her, Aimee comes to realize what she is looking for is a lot closer than she thinks. In 2008, Paul finally took a leap of faith and found himself in New York City pursuing Briana is a Florida State University Film School photography as a profession. Currently, he student from Baltimore, Maryland. freelances as a cinematographer in reality Homeschooled through eighth grade, she television, while crafting personal projects developed a passion for movies and film scores between jobs. when she taught herself how to play the piano by ear. In high school, she was heavily involved Short Film, Sci-fi, Thriller with the theatre program as a stage manager Screens with: SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORTS and playwright, and found she enjoyed working with performers.

Student Short Film, Comedy, Youth/Teen Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 3

BABY-SITTING BEYOND THE GRAVE dir Lucas Masson dir Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro FRANCE, 2012, 20min, color BRAZIL, 2011, 89min, color

A young woman accepts a babysitting offer In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where from a couple she doesn't know. Puzzled by the the rules of reality are transformed by magic children's odd behavior, she invites some and madness, a vengeful police officer searches friends to keep her company. Little do they for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the know that it will be the worst night of their not-so-good versus absolute evil. lives... Born July 28, 1979, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Davi Lucas Masson has always been passionate de Oliveira Pinheiro is a writer, producer and about cinema. He started directing films as a director. Produced the documentary feature teenager and made several amateur movies series "Boundaries of Thought" and the on-line that were screened in competitions. After a 3- short series "Think Thank". For the latter, Davi year course in cinema studies, which included also written and directed the segment "The Soul work at the prestigious INA (the French Detective", starring David Lynch. "Beyond the National Institute of Sound & Image), he Grave" is his debut as a feature director. developed his experience in the movie industry further by working on various film sets. Feature Film, Foreign, Horror Screens with: A KILLER IS BORN Short Film, Foreign, Horror Screens with: HORROR SHORTS

THE BIG NOISE BLOOD FILM dir Dominic Pelosi dir Lara Salmon & Kevin Walker AUSTRALIA, 2012, 79min, color & b/w USA, 2012, 3min, color

Morris Falzon works with his father George in a Brakhage meets Bram Stoker in this film literally small law firm in the Inner Western suburbs of made with the filmmakers' blood. Directors Lara Sydney, Australia. With his personal life a mess Salmon and Kevin Walker each took a and the business falling apart, Morris is thrown paintbrush and dipped it in a cup of their own a lifeline when a dying client reveals he is blood. They painted over eighty feet of film to leaving Morris a small fortune in his will. It make this experimental short. seems his luck is about to change. However, when his client stages a miraculous recovery, it Lara Salmon is an artist living in Pasadena, California. seems it’s back to the grindstone…or is it? She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Morris and George hatch a plan that will either Practice of Art and a concentration in Arabic and make or break them – literally. International Relations. After a year spent living in Lebanon she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her

career in art and film. She is currently working on Dominc Pelosi is a 29-year-old director from The Blood Portrait Project, in which she acts as Sydney, Australia. The Big Noise, his feature film phlebotomist and artist to paint people's portraits in debut, combines a wry snapshot of modern day their blood. She is also working on a documentary to life with dark comedic undertones. A passion be shot in Egypt of winter 2012. for the cinematic masterpieces of De Sica and Truffaut, alongside an astute understanding of Kevin Walker graduated from Emerson College with the technicalities of filmmaking and a desire to a degree in Visual Media Arts with a concentration in tell compelling stories, are in ample evidence in Film. Over the past four years, he has been directing The Big Noise. Gaman, a documentary about the Japanese- American internment camps during World War II. He has also edited four other documentaries: Going TRAILER THE BIG NOISE Home; 32 Hours and 7 Minutes; Gracies; and The Tin Man Project. Going Home made its worldwide Feature Film, Comedy, Foreign premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Screens with: JONAS Festival in 2009 and has been shown at several film festivals in the US, including The Rhode Island International Film Festival and the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Short Film, Horror, Experimental Screens with: GUT & THE DONOR

BLUE SHEEP SUIT BOMBS TO BIRDS dir Kevin Lonano dir Richard Michael Pruitt USA, 2012, 14min, color USA, 2012, 57min, color

Set somewhere in the 1980s and late in the Bombs To Birds is a documentary that explores election year a burned out news reporter changing a former munitions plant into a attempts to get a story on the front runner for Wildlife Refuge as well as the history. It is the Presidency. What he thinks to be a short located on the banks of Caddo Lake near the puff piece quickly transforms into something Texas/Louisiana boarder. more terrifying than he could he imagine. Richard Michael Pruitt spent 2 years researching the rich past of the Wildlife Refuge I find great difficulty talking about myself since grounds and its military uses to produce this the lives of others, and locations provide me documentary. with so much more. Travel is very important to me. It not only gets me from one location to Richard Michael Pruitt, a former The Dallas another through my daily tasks, but it usually Morning News photojournalist spent two years provides me with the time I need to think a researching the rich past of the Refuge grounds. great deal. I was walking down one a block in Including its military uses, interviewing my neighborhood posing as suburbia when the community members, wildlife experts, and idea first came to me. Upon returning from the former plant employees. “Bombs to Birds” is his bank, cashing a check of a humble sum from my first documentary. work on an infomercial featuring porn stars, I was struck down by an idea. It came sudden. It Feature Film, Documentary was clear, concise. I knew then what I would have to do and began formulating plans on how to do it. I haven't walked down that block in a considerable amount of time but it has never steered me wrong. Walking down that block has provided me with the answers to so many questions and the genesis of dreams. Thank you Beekman Street.

Student Short Film, Horror, Thriller Screens with: AT STAKE: VAMPIRE SOLUTIONS

BONE'YEERD THE BOOGEYMAN dir Tom Salvaggio dir Gerard Lough USA, 2011, 13min, color IRELAND, 2010, 27min, color

At his secluded shanty, the Gravedigger lives in When Andrew Billings goes to see a loneliness, desperately searching for a genuine psychologist to explain how an evil creature connection with something. When the that lives in his closet is responsible for the Overseer, a priest-like figure, suspects his deaths of his three children he is met with involvement in a taboo relationship, the disbelief. But as the story progresses, both Dr Gravedigger is forced to either escape with his Harper and the audience will start to consider deceased significant other or consider tragic the possibility that this "boogeyman" is real circumstances. after all. Based on a short story by Stephen King. Student Short Film, Drama Screens with: STUDENT SHORTS Gerard Lough is an award winning writer / director from Ireland. He got his start when he directed a music video while doing an internship at an American advertising agency. Since then he has directed several music videos as well as critically acclaimed short films such as Deviant and The Stolen Wings.

Short Film, Horror, Stephen King Screens with: STEPHEN KING DOLLAR BABIES

A BOY WITH ARMS BRIDGE UNDER THE WATER dir So-jin Park dir Gemma Duncan SOUTH KOREA, 2011, 15min, color NEW ZEALAND, 2011, 40min, color & b/w

The boy's mother packs her belongings and The proverbial water is not under the bridge in leaves her family for another man. The boy gets this town. 'Bridge under the Water' is a home only to see that his mother had left and documentary about Cromwell, a small town in decides to kill her man. He goes to find him with Central Otago where the residents were forced a knife, but gives up the idea as he sees that the to negotiate the rising waters behind Clyde man loves his mother deeply. Dam, the last of Muldoon's 'Think Big Projects'. The film follows those most affected by the Short Film, Foreign, Drama dam on a journey of remembrance of their past. Screens with: GLOBAL SHORTS Most remember it fondly, some not so much. The question this film begs is how do you remember the past when parts of it are submerged under water?

Short Films, Foreign, Documentary

BROSFERATU CAMPFIRE dir Alex Kahn dir Dan MacKenzie USA, 2011, 20min, B&W USA, 2011, 2min, color

Bro's, ho's, and bitches of all genders: beware! A stop motion animated short about a boy After sundown, none are safe from his terrible attempting to build a campfire. He does a bad influence! Hide your daughters! Cloak your job. girlfriends! And for heaven's sake, don't let him near that Natty Light! He's...BROSFERATU! A stop motion animator from Maine and recent graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design Alex graduated Tufts University in 2010. He is with a BFA in Animation. Dan MacKenzie has currently Lead Editorial at Good Engine Media had a passion for stop motion since the classic in New York. He also continues to direct and Rudolph Christmas special. Outside of his own edit short web videos and documentaries. work, Dan has animated on such projects as Robot Chicken, Robot Chicken Star Wars, and Short Film, Horror, Comedy, Musical Frankenhole. Screens with: HORROR SHORTS Student Short Film, Animated, Comedy Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS

BULLY dir Thomas Wood USA, 2012, 3min, color & b/w

'Bully' is a brief exploration into the life of one man who just can't be bothered with bullying any longer.

Student Short Film, Animation, Youth/Teen Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS

CARBON FOR WATER CARDBOARD dir Evan Abramson dir Tara-Nicole Azarian USA, 2011, 22min, color USA, 2011, 12min, color

Life is precious. Water shouldn't be. Watch In the wake of the economic downturn, what happens when dirty water, women and homelessness is a problem that faces families. girls, shrinking rainforests and climate change Unfortunately, in America, there are few collide in Kenya and how one socially conscious options, for families seeking shelter. If faced company risked everything to tackle all four at with adversity, what would you do to keep your once, ensuring access for safe water for 4.5 family together? million Kenyans and protecting the health of women, girls, and their families. Tara-Nicole began acting at the age of 4 with a small part in "A Tale About Bootlegging." She Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez has appeared in Films, advertisements, videos Abramson are an award-winning husband-wife and TV projects. She is best known for her work environmental filmmaking team. They enjoy in horror movies and her ability to cry on cue. bringing their infant Luz to film festivals worldwide to help with filmmakers Q&As and TRAILER CARDBOARD are currently working on their next documentary project about a disappearing Student Short Film, Drama, Family island off the coast of Louisiana. Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 3

Short Film, Foreign, Documentary Screens with: STIGMA

CHEESE! CHILDREN OF THE AIR dir Damien Patrik dir Damian Horan USA, 2010, 4min, color USA, 2011, 20min, color

A simple tale of three college girls and their Children of the Air is a story of fleeting love. camera, out for a good time. Say Cheese! Past and present bleed into one as we follow the rise and demise of a young couple's fairytale A former actor and member of SAG and AFTRA, love affair. Juxtaposed to the original fairytale Damien Patrik also worked in production on of the Little Mermaid, Children of the Air is an major television specials, as a casting director unflinching portrait of heartbreak. Katheryn for commercials, corporate videos and Winnick and Travis Van Winkle star as infomercials, and taught and produced Samantha and Trey, a young couple trying to voiceover workshops in Hollywood. He has salvage a haunting moment that has passed written and directed a number of short films them by. Winnick and Van Winkle relive the which have been official selections in close to wonder and disappointment of fleeting love and 80 film festivals around the world, and won broken moments left behind. numerous awards. Currently in preproduction on a number of shorts, and busy writing the A Southerner from Houston, Damian graduated screenplay for his first feature film, he is always with honors from Washington and Lee looking for Executive Producers. University in 2003. Damian's first 16mm film, "Blink", won a Remi Award and screened at Student Short Film, Comedy, Family several festivals nationwide. Damian is now a Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 3 third year graduate student emphasizing in directing and cinematography.

Student Short Film, Drama, Fantasy Screens with: DRAMA SHORTS

CIVILITEA CLEANSED dir Johnnie Hector dir Claudia Lovera USA, 2012, 12min, color USA, 2011, 14min, color

In a world gone mad, Alice and Avery Bunker sit Cleansed is the story about Elsie, an American down for a spot of afternoon tea. housewife of the 1950s obsessed with cleanliness. She can't stand being in a dirty A native of Roswell, New Mexico, Johnnie place; that's why she spends most of her time Hector came to the attention of the Kent family cleaning every single corner of her house. Her when their short script “CiviliTEA” won the husband, Lloyd, is a typical American man who Digital Shootout at the 2012 Roswell doesn't care much about his wife. A dinner at International Film Festival. As part of winning the Townsend family will put Elsie in an the competition, Johnnie was selected to direct uncomfortable, which could drastically change the short film and managed to deliver a first her perception of life. rate movie in the one week allowed by the festival. An accomplished actor, Johnnie is Student Short Film, Drama interested in moving behind the camera and Screens with: STUDENT SHORTS plans to direct more in the future.

Short Film, Drama Screens with: ONE STORY, THREE VISIONS

CLOWNTIME IS OVER COIFFURE AND QUIPS dir Phil Whelans dir Peter Kinkead UNITED KINGDOM, 2011, 11min, color & b/w UNITED KINGDOM/USA, 2012, 48min, color

Clowntime is Over is a sad slapstick (or sadstick) Coiffure and Quips tells the story of a farce in which Comedy meets Tragedy, Fantasy community that survived the collapse of the meets Reality, Life meets Death and Laurel American steel industry while retaining its sense meets Beckett. When the lives of a group of of purpose and belonging. Aliquippa, a small fresh-faced drama students, about to dip a toe suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a in the shark-infested waters of their chosen melting pot for many ethnic groups that profession, bump momentarily against that of immigrated to America during the expansion of an elderly variety entertainer who's been the steel industry. By the end of the 20th chewed up many times over and who is about century those jobs no longer existed. to be spat out before our very eyes, the results are sad, funny, sad again, funny, funny, sad, The film focuses on Maria and her beauty neutral, funny, sad and sad. When two worlds shop... both well known fixtures in Aliquippa for collide - and one falls over... it's Clowntime. over 47 years. Maria's fast-talking, thick Italian accent delivers humorous storytelling much to As a day job, Phil writes, script-edits - and the delight of her long-standing clientele. The occasionally performs - comedy for TV and annual San Rocco Festival is as celebrated as the Radio. In addition to his writing and acting, Phil town's famous football team. It is a story of has been improvising for twenty years on TV community, family, tradition and perseverance. and radio and in theatres all over the world. He's an award-winning director of stand-up Short Films, Documentary, Comedy comedians like Phil Nichol, Edward Aczel and Screens with: WRITTEN IN INK Stephen Carlin and he plays bass in comedians' punk-covers band Beergut 100.

Short Film, Foreign, Comedy, Drama Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 1

THE COMPANY OF THIEVES CREATE dir Shilpa Sunthankar dir Dan MacKenzie USA, 2011, 17min, color USA, 2011, 2min, color

Among a trio of thieves, loner Dex tries A young mad scientist sets out to create a pet swindling one of his partners, Sanjeev, out of monster within parallel worlds of an imaginary their spoils; but Sanjeev discovers, knocks Dex laboratory and the reality of the boy's bedroom. out and leaves him for dead in the woods. While out cold, Dex makes a deal with the Devil A stop motion animator from Maine and recent and awakens with a mission to find Sanjeev, kill graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design him, and get his loot back. with a BFA in Animation. Dan MacKenzie has had a passion for stop motion since the classic Raised in what she calls “cowboy country,” Fort Rudolph Christmas special. Outside of his own Collins, Colorado, Indian-American filmmaker, work, Dan has animated on such projects as Shilpa Sunthankar, found solace in storytelling Robot Chicken, Robot Chicken Star Wars, and from an early age, acting in productions and Frankenhole. classes. While attending NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Student Short Film, Animated, Comedy Arts, Shilpa made fifteen short films and Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS contributed on numerous student and independent productions, including Nisha Ganatra’s CHUTNEY POPCORN (1999), a feature film starring Jill Hennessy and Ajay Naidu. In her final year, she went overseas to intern in London for the BBC, and was accepted into the Master Class in 35mm Filmmaking at FAMU in Prague.

Short Film, Drama, Crime Screens with: DRAMA SHORTS

CROCODILE NILE DAY OF VENGEANCE dir Javier Dampierre dir Derek Johnson SPAIN, 2010, 19min, color USA, 2011, 35min, color

Javier and Laura arrive at a hotel after a tedious BENJAMIN COLEMAN, a young African- trip with their son Alvarito. Javier wants to American trial lawyer set to make partner, is a leave his son with some children supervisors man at the end of his rope. He is representing and go up to the bedroom with his wife. EMMETT FORREST, a brazen white supremacist However, there's just one little problem: leader accused of murdering an innocent black Alvarito is afraid of crocodile Nile. woman. Even though the trial is going successfully, Benjamin's ordeal of defending the Javier Dampierre (1977) is a Spaniard film, confrontational racist has him seeking another television and advertising director and job. Emmett's venom is directed at Benjamin screenwriter. He’s written and directed five and the two men exchange veiled threats... short films, some of them awarded when suddenly... gunshots are heard in the internationally, and he’s preparing the shooting building! of his first feature film, starting in January 2013. Derek began his film career in the Atlanta, GA. Short Film, Foreign, Comedy He made a plethora of no-budget short features Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS and rap music videos. Eventually, he met Addam Martin, his partner in Octane Movie Productions (OMP), and together they produced the most violent no-budget short films they could afford. Working on opposite ends of the U.S., they spawned their most successful… and not surprisingly… their most violent and blood-lusting flick to date: “Day of Vengeance”.

Short Film, Drama, Crime, African American, Webisodes Screens with: SHORTS OF TOLERANCE AND ENDURANCE

DEVOLUTION: RECKONING DO YOU REALLY LOVE ME? dir Gavin Heffernan dir Alastair Cole USA/CANADA, 2011, 11min, color FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM, 2011, 11min, color

Fed up with the failures of mankind, a cruel race An affectionate documentary reading of of UFOs set out to destroy Earth and all that multilingual love. A short, light hearted insight inhabit it. Can civilization survive the incredible into the world of multi-lingual couples in onslaught of the attackers? BARAKA meets WAR Europe. Shot in 12 languages across Italy, OF THE WORLDS in this unique sci-fi adventure Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary and Turkey, the film short film, told through an unconventional follows six couples into their worlds of language arrangement of dramatic timelapses shot on and love, told in both their words and those of the Canon EOS 7D, ancient radio plays, and Scottish psychiatrist and sometimes poet, R.D seat-shaking sound design -- from experimental Laing. The film gives a unique insight into the filmmaker Gavin Heffernan (Grand Wheel, challenges, humour and reality of relationships Devolution). in modern Europe.

Short Film, Sci-fi, Experimental Scotland based, New Zealand documentary Screens with: SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORTS film-maker Alastair Cole has directed a growing collection of documentary films, dealing predominantly with topics surrounding language and literacy. In combining his work in linguistic anthropology and documentary film he has created the specialist Edinburgh based creative documentary film label Tongue Tied Films, which he runs along side working towards a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently working on a feature documentary film that will be shot in Zambia over 2011/12 looking at the dilemma of language and literacy in Africa.

TRAILER DO YOU REALLY LOVE ME

Student Short Film, Documentary, Comedy, GLBT Screens with: FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS

THE DONOR DOT GOT SHOT dir Jean-Paul Bankes-Mercer dir Honey Lauren & Carlos Ramos Jr. UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 9min, color USA, 2011, 7min, Color

Peter, the rising star of the transplant surgery Ever since she broke up a neighbor’s domestic world, has it all, the beautiful wife, a fantastic quarrel and left with a bullet lodged in her skull, career and great teeth! One fatal night Peter is Dot suffers powerful nightmares that are all involved in a horrific accident, his decision to emotion and never a night’s sleep. Exhausted, leave the scene without offering assistance is armed, and suffering from PTSD (post traumatic life changing, not only for him but also for Sam, stress disorder), Dot is in a very bad mood… a young patient of Peter's in desperate need of a heart transplant. Honey Lauren is a produced and published writer. She has written feature films, television First film I saw at the pictures was STARWARS and shorts. Her Feature, STRANGED, was a semi (aged five) it blew my tiny mind. Second film I finalist in the prestigious Austin Film Festival, saw at the pictures was JAWS it blew my mind! her feature THOUGHT DISORDER and her short; Now some years later I find myself making WIVES OF THE SKIES were recently finalist at strange films, hoping one day to blow your Slamdance Film Festival. Honey directed a stage mind play written by her late acting coach, Michael Shurtleff. Short Film, Horror, Comedy, Foreign Screens with: GUT & BLOOD FILM Short Film, Drama, Crime, Action, GLBT Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 2

THE DUCK HUNTER (IL CACCIATORE EIGHT DEGREES IN SUBURBIA DI ANATRE) dir Deirdre Morales dir EGIDIO VERONESI USA, 2011, 6min, color ITALY, 2011, 90min, color To Lilith, life appears to be picture perfect. She Year 1942. The front of the war is still far and in has a beautiful house and a high paying job. a little provincial town, between the south of Most importantly, her husband Sam waits on Modena and the river Po, Mario and his friends her hand and foot. However everything changes live their youth free and easy. Each of them has when Lilith discovers that Sam generates his or her own dream to fulfill: Loris, the additional income by drugging her and selling Casanova, hopes one day he'll manage to go to her body to the neighborhood. Paris. In the meantime he begins a relationship with Luisa, who's engaged to Archimede, a Deirdre has been a dance instructor, a jazz young fascist. Oreste the motorcyclist dreams pianist, a writer and actress for an Off- of a new motorcycle. Gino is the village fool. He Broadway theater company, and a story editor lives alone, with a canary and would like to for reality TV. In an attempt to combine all her become mayor. Mario is the only one to be creative passions, Deirdre decided to become a married and has a daughter, Alice. He dreams of filmmaker. She was the line producer for the giving her an old piano, for her to study music, mirco budget feature film "For Belly" which is just like he would've loved to do as a child. But on the festival circuit. She is currently an MFA the coming of the war and the mishaps of life Film Production student at Florida State will very soon end up to overwhelm their University. destinies. Student Short Film, Comedy Feature Film, Drama, War, Foreign Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS Screens with: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ELECTION DAY AN EVENING WITH MY COMATOSE dir Zach Wechter MOTHER USA, 2011, 12min, color dir Jonathan Martin USA, 2011, 34min, color A political thriller set in a high school student government...and there's nothing meaner than Dorothy Pritchard is just your average, pretty, American high school politics. After being all-American, bratty teenager who figures she blackmailed the day of the class election, has it all made when she's been asked to house Michael Fabrizio is forced to decide between sit the wealthy Poe's on Halloween. With a pursuing his dream of winning the senior class healthy paycheck, and the prospect of her hot presidency, or saving his pregnant girlfriend's boyfriend coming over for a make out, there's reputation...unless he can get to the bottom of nothing standing between Dorothy and the the corruption and stop it before the bell rings. most memorable Halloween of her life. Nothing, that is, except for the Poe's rotting Zach Wechter is currently studying writing and comatose mother living in the upstairs directing at Chapman University, and works as bedroom. an assistant at the Sundance Institute in the Feature Film Program. Texas born and raised writer, director Jonathan Student Short Film, Comedy, Thriller Martin has long had a love affair with film. Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS Influenced greatly by the works of Sam Raimi and John Carpenter, he believes that first and foremost filmmaking should be a fun adventure that should give little heed to pretense. Despite his lifelong love for film, Jonathan actually graduated with a degree in Business Entrepreneurship from Utah Valley University, but instead of going into the world of business, used that degree to launch his film career.

Short Film, Horror, Supernatural Screens with: HORROR SHORTS

FAIRYTALE FAMILY BUSINESS dir Andy Collier dir J. Allen UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 6min, color USA, 2012, 17min, color

Another perfect morning in Kate's perfect life, Raimond thinks Brock is the kid who has until reality bites hard...Fairytale is the story of everything -- especially the Zombie Unicorn a young girl who deals with an awful domestic card. What Raimond doesn't know is that his situation by creating a perfect fantasy world for Grandfather is a purveyor of magical artifacts herself and her siblings to live in, and how the and has a real Zombie Unicorn of his own. people she meets on an ordinary morning inadvertently conspire to tear it apart. Short Film, Drama, Sc-fi/Fantasy Screens with: SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORTS Andy Collier was born in 1968, and he spent 42 years diligently not making any films. Then appearing in a documentary about ultra- marathon running gave him the idea of being on the other side of the camera, and since then he has been trying to restore the balance. Trained by ad-hoc courses from Raindance film school, and reading lots of books, fairytale is his first completed film.

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In the distant future, two rival ballerinas face off at a final audition that takes a turn for the unexpected.

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FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS FUZZ TRACK CITY dir William Torgerson dir Steve Hicks USA, 2012, 78min, color & b/w USA, 2010, 93min, color

Outrageously funny and filmed in Jefferson, Murphy Dunn, a down and out private Texas, this documentary chronicles one man's detective, is hired by a sultry woman from his journey from New York City to take part in what past to find her missing son. Murphy soon finds Kathy Patrick calls Girlfriend Weekend. Kathy himself embroiled in a mystery of betrayal, opened what may be the world's first hair salon music and murder surrounding an obscure / bookstore, and she founded The Pulpwood 1970's rock record. FUZZ TRACK CITY is a comic Queens Book Club that has grown to over three neo-noir thriller fueled by an eclectic retro-rock hundred chapters worldwide. Featuring former soundtrack. Can you dig it? Guiding Light Star Tina Sloan, New York Times bestselling authors such as John Berendt, and a Steve Hicks is an alumni of New York Big Hair dance party, you won't want to miss University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts this heart-warming and book-loving film! undergraduate film program. Hicks directed and produced the feature documentary, FINDING Torg teaches in the Institute For Writing Studies BRYON in 2005. He enjoys working within at St. John's University in New York. His novel established genres and bringing to them a Love on the Big Screen tells the story of a unique and personable spin. FUZZ TRACK CITY is college freshman whose understanding of love Steve Hicks’ first narrative feature. has been shaped by late-eighties romantic comedies, and his adaptation of that novel won TRAILER FUZZ TRACK CITY the Grand Prize of the Rhode Island Film Festival's screenplay competition. His film, For Feature Films, Comedy, Crime the Love of Books, is the result of the work of a Screens with: LAS PALMAS & GOOD TASTE whole literacy-loving family connected to the Pulpwood Queens Book Club.

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GENERAL OGLETHORPE'S 'SICK SICK A GIRL AND HER GUARDIAN LOVER' dir Andrew Cannizzaro dir Devin Smith USA, 2012, 21min, color USA, 2011, 3min, color The Earth is dying. The goddess Onatah is the In the late 1800s a family traveling through the world's last hope and only a young girl named woods is ambushed by a gang of swamp-folk. Sarah can bring her back to life. Yet Sarah is not The gang steals the family's two little girls and alone on her journey. Her Guardian, Jonathan, drags them back to their bayou home. After watches over her as they search for Onatah's cutting the girls up and putting them in jars the sanctuary on their quest to restore the Earth gang travels to a voodoo gypsy festival where from the shadow that has stolen it. they barter the jars of child-parts for magical musical instruments. Andrew Cannizzaro is a director, writer and producer from New York City. He is a graduate Student Short Film, Music Video of the Film & Television program at New York Screens with: MUSIC VIDEOS & SHORT FILMS University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Currently he is an Associate Producer for the Biography Channel’s website where he produces online video content & biographies.

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GOOD TASTE THE GROUND KEEPER dir Greg Hanson dir Jenna Bush USA, 2011, 10min, b/w USA, 2011, 6min, color

An obsessed record collector suspects his An old man discovers his childhood kite under neighbor has stolen his prized new record and some junk in his garage, rekindling a memory of he will do anything to get it back. emotional instability, youthful freedom, and a love to last a lifetime. Greg Hanson is a genre filmmaker whose work is marked by a macabre sense of humor and Since graduating from The College of New bad puns. His shorts Thy Kill Be Done and Good Jersey in 2011, Jenna A. Bush has worked as a Taste have played all over the world and his freelance cinematographer and editor, as an new short Meat Me in Plainville recently had its intern the camera department of the major world premier at the legendary PiFan Film motion picture Sinister (2012), and has started Festival in Korea. Constantly working on new her own production company JAB Films, LLC. In projects, Hanson hopes to create something addition to being selected for multiple film truly sublime and totally entertaining. festival, she has won the homegrown student short award at the 2012 KidZ FilmZ Festival for Short Film, Horror, Comedy her short narrative Apollonia and the Screens with: FUZZ TRACK CITY & LAS PALMAS homegrown student documentary short award at the 2010 Garden State Film Festival for her short documentary Minor Details. Jenna's goal as a filmmaker is to create films and videos that showcase the human experience and human spirit, to connect people through art, and in doing so capture the very essence of what life is all about.

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GUANG GUNS, WATER & FOOD: AN dir Shio Chuan Quek AMERICAN STORY MALAYSIA, 2011, 14min, color dir Jesse Knight USA, 2012, 13min, color Guang is a story about two brothers. The elder brother, Wen Guang is Autistic. Wen Guang is A conspiracy theorists' worst estimation often misunderstood. He listens to classical becomes reality as he faces the trials and music, eats with three chopsticks instead of tribulations of survival after the fall of modern two, cuts off his shirt labels and gets easily civilization. distracted by noise. Above all, he suffers from attention deficiency disorder, struggles with TRAILER GUNS, WATER & FOOD social interaction, and has difficulty performing day to day obligations. He also has a secret Short Film, Drama, Action, Thriller passion. To make ends meet, Wen Guang is Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 2 coerced by his younger brother into looking for a job to share his burden on meeting their monthly expenses. Throughout the film we see Wen Guang searching for a job, his daily routines and his secret passion as he searches for the final glass that will bring him a simple, pure, hard earned, fleeting moment of joy.

Shio Chuan Quek comes from the rural town of Batu Pahat situated at the Southern region of Malaysia. Graduated with a bachelor in communications (HONS) Broadcasting from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. Throughout his days as an undergraduate, he has produced and directed a number of videos that had accumulated to 17 national student level video awards. 26 years of age in 2012, he is currently employed as a line producer of Reservoir Production Sdn Bhd, a commercial film production company.

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GUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY dir Elias dir Kathrin Frey USA, 2012, 90min, color SWITZERLAND, 2011, 5min, b/w

Something is missing in Tom's life and his best A man goes out for a late night stroll. He walks friend Dan thinks he has the answer, a down alleys lost in thought, musing about a mysterious video he's got to see to believe. hopeless love affair. On hearing a mysterious What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, sound, his lonesome wanderings seem to come flooding his mind with disturbing images and to an end... desires, and quickly threatening to dismantle everything around them. Kathrin Frey was born in 1977 in Zurich. 1997- 2002 she studied psychology at the University Elias was born in Boston and moved to New of Zurich. From 2004-2006 she studied film in York to study film at the School of Visual Arts. Paris and has worked as a production assistant, Since completing "Gut", he produced the horror unit manager and independent filmmaker ever feature "Alone" and wrote the thriller "Dark". since. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and is currently working on a new Short Film, Foreign, Drama script, which he plans to direct. Screens with: The Duck Hunter

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HATED HERE THERE BE TIGERS dir Lee Madsen dir Aaron Botwick USA, 2011, 91min, color USA, 2010, 8min, b/w

When a young punk rock band starts out in the Charles, harassed by his tyrannical grade school underground music scene, the only thing they teacher, Ms. Bird, escapes from class to go to have is each other. But when a childhood friend the bathroom. Unfortunately, there may or may - with complicated connections to the group - not be a tiger in the bathroom. Based on a short leverages her P.R. skills to get them noticed, story by Stephen King. they suddenly find themselves on the verge of making it big. The only question is how far Student Short Film, Horror, Stephen King they're willing to go in the pursuit of fame and Screened with: STEPHEN KING DOLLAR BABIES fortune, and who they're willing to leave behind to get there. HATED explores the dark, smoke- filled corners where human nature and the contemporary music industry meet.

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THE HIT dir Jerald Fine USA, 2012, 7min, color

Killer Tony Basilio is having a bad day because mob hits are never supposed to go this horribly wrong.

Director Jerald Fine's two previous films have been screened in over 100 film festivals.

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HOMBRE Y TIERRA HORROMANCE dir Christian Cisneros dir Rebekah Fieschi USA, 2011, 83min, color USA, 2012, 5min, b/w

Mauro Bosque (Maurice Ripke) is a true A man wakes up from the dead and finds adventurer: he loves adrenaline and extreme himself very lonely in the world of the livings. sports. Mauro and his producer, Chucho (Julian Guevara), are about to shoot another episode Student Short Film, Horror, Romance of their outdoor extreme-reality internet show, Screens with: THE PREENING SWAN "Hombre y Tierra." The reality show consists of Mauro videotaping himself looking for ancient ruins, or traces of long lost Mayan remains. But Mauro never returned from this trip.

At a very young age, director Christian Cisneros showed an interest in filmmaking and devoted all his time to this developing fascination. Christian graduated college with two degrees, one in Digital Media Design and the other in Media Communications. For 8 years now Christian Cisneros has worked in the film and video industry as a Producer, Director, Assistant Director, Post Production Supervisor and 3D Animator.

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HULA GIRL I DECLARE WAR dir Joe Toms-Ashcroft dir Kyle Miller UNITED KINGDOM, 2011, 27min, color USA, 2011, 3min, color

Hula Girl is a documentary come road movie With the introduction of a mysterious key, two that follows two friends as they travel across boys wield the power to unlock their America in search of a woman who posts hula imaginations in physical form. From the start hooping videos on-line. within the blank canvas of another place, the world is literally painted with the ideas pulled Joseph Toms-Ashcroft graduated from Sheffield from their minds. From castles and kangaroo Hallam University in 2011 with an MA in Film dragons to tribal robots and bunnies, there are and Media Production. His debut graduation no boundaries of creation when the reigns of short film Hula Girl, won the Sean Ferrin Prize the mind are let loose. for best student project and was immediately selected for the Student Film Festival London Student Short Film, Animation, Comedy and the Sheffield Doc/Fest videotheque. Screens with: ANIMATION SHORTS

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I NEED A HERO I WAS A TEENAGE WEREBEAR dir W. H. Bourne dir Tim Sullivan USA, 2012, 14m, color USA, 2011, 30min, color

A brief look at the evolution of LGBT A spoof of 1960's Drive-In flicks, 'I Was a representation in comic books over the past 30 Teenage Werebear' features five rock and roll years. musical numbers in a mash-up of Roger Corman and John Waters that follows a day in the life of Director and Producer W. H. Bourne closeted new kid Ricky O'Reilly (played by Sean Caucasian/Native American, female, bisexual: Paul Lockhart, aka adult film superstar Brent everyone wants to know this for the sake of Corrigan) who falls for Malibu High's mysterious diversity, yet aren't we more than just labels? In bad boy Talon (Anton Troy). When aroused, the I Need a Hero, comic book creator Agnes Czaja two transform into bestial leather daddies, the talks about how the LGBT community is finally titular 'werebears'. gaining acceptance and how the next step is that we stop making assumptions. I couldn't Tim Sullivan is a Writer/Director/Producer agree with this more. If I had to pick one word known for a wide variety of modern horror to define or label myself, I'd say “storyteller”. It films, most significantly cult favorite 2001 manifests itself in various ways such as my Maniacs (2005) and its popular follow-up, 2001 writing everything from White Wolf''s Guide to Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010). Beginning his the Sabbat, to my journalistic writing for career as a New Jersey teenager pumping fake Louisiana Film and Video Magazine, to my blood for the 80's splatter classic The Deadly screenplay writing including my supernatural Spawn (1983), Sullivan moved to Los Angeles thriller Shaman's Mark, which is currently in where he worked in development at New Line post. Cinema, co-producing Detroit Rock City (1999).

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IN AETERNAM INSIGHT TO STRENGTHS dir Stephen Venezia dir Jen Ackerman USA, 2012, 12min, color USA,2012, 9min, color & b/w

Victor Broadwell is a brilliant aeronautical Directed through the eyes of a social work engineer who prioritizes his work over life at student, this short documentary illustrates the home. When asked by his superiors to strengths sifted out of living in the minority participate in a deep space research mission, he status of LGBT individuals. The stories told are decides to take the opportunity. Shortly after accompanied by the creation of art. This film launch, tragic news reaches the vessel, forcing employs the strengths perspective in order to Victor to prove a theory that could ultimately reshape what it means to be different. lead to his own death. Jen Ackerman is a senior in the UCF School of Originally born in Smithtown New York, Stephen Social Work. This is her first documentary. She spent the majority of his life living in Charlotte believes that there are unique strengths in North Carolina until 2008 when he began every individual, and she wants to expose those attending The Savannah College of Art & Design strengths and reshape what it means to be with a major in film & television. Graduating different in a society that shames the with honors in June 2012, Stephen currently unfamiliar. resides in New York City pursuing his passion in directing. TRAILER INSIGHT TO STRENGTHS

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ISOLATES JAIL dir Allan Liang dir Rafael Leonardo Re AUSTRALIA, 2012, 15min, color UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 6min, color

Isolates is an action/drama film that explores After being imprisoned for two years, 22 year- the relationship between a female super- old school dropout John is in search of shelter, soldier, Delphe, and a compassionate doctor by and goes to confront his father in an attempt to the name of Dr. Maroc. Following her recent save their relationship. escape from The Agency, Dr. Maroc is compelled to help track Delphe down and Leonardo Re is an aspiring director from persuade her to return peacefully. As the dust Germany, currently studying at Ealing Studios, settles, Delphe and Dr. Maroc realize the tragic UK. Coming from a web design background, he depth of their connection and are faced with has a strong eye for visuals and aesthetic. the truth of what they hold dearest in their hearts. Student Short Film, Foreign, Drama Screens with: STUDENT SHORT FILMS TRAILER ISOLATES

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JONAS A KILLER IS BORN dir Robin Ehlde dir Lewis Leslie SWEDEN, 2012, 15min, color USA, 2011, 12min, color

Damir is a guy in his 30's with a foreign When Terence's girlfriend cheats on him with background but growing up in a small town in his buddy, something inside him snaps. Watch Sweden. He dreams of a better life, of being as Terence transforms from mild-mannered successful, of feeling like a real Swede and of teenager into a mask-wearing, machete- being respected - the good life. He moves to the wielding psycho killer. big city of Stockholm hoping for all that. He changes his name to Jonas, a typical Swedish Lewis Leslie is an American filmmaker best name, gets himself a small apartment in the known for the grindhouse slasher "Killer Ink", suburbs and takes on a job as a dishwasher in a which features Peter Mayhew, best known as posh restaurant in Ostermalm, a fashionable Chewbacca. Lewis continues to bring his visions part of the city. One day a young girl enters the to life through film, and hopes to have a restaurant. Her name is Julia. Her father is a flourishing career in the business. successful man and Jonas falls in love. Short Film, Horror Robin Ehlde, born on 26 March 1985 in Lund, Screens with: BEYOND THE GRAVE which is located in the south part of Sweden. He always have had a keen interest in film and made his first short film back in 1999 when he went to high school. After high school he moved to Stockholm and study Film and Digital Media at the SAE Institute. He completed the training in 2007 and has since worked in the film industry and also made a few short films, music videos and a series of commercials.

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LAS PALMAS THE LAST PRANK dir Johannes Nyholm dir Richard Schall SWEDEN, 2011, 13min, color USA, 2012, 8min, color

A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries On the night before a garage sale, two best to make new friends and have a good time. The friend puppets decide to rehash the good old role is played by a one year old girl, the rest of days and prank the family that lives in the the cast are marionette puppets. house before they are both sold and separated.

Johannes Nyholm, born in 1974, is an artist and Richard Schall is a native New Yorker who film director based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He produces, directs, and edits all of his work. His runs his own film production company, Joclo. As family is a big support in creating the magical an artist he is represented by Gallery Magnus worlds in all of his films. Richard is also a 1st Karlsson in Stockholm. grade special education teacher in NYC (hence all the puppets). Short Film, Foreign, Comedy Screens with: FUZZ TRACK CITY & GOOD TASTE Short Film, Comedy, Family Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 3

LE PETIT CHEF LETTING GO dir Sara Martin dir Cameron MacKenzie USA, 2011, 8min, color USA,2011, 9min, color & b/w

A young boy (Jaq) wants to become a chef in Letting Go follows a teen-aged girl who finds Paris France and in order to accomplish this, he herself confronting the loss of someone needs to gain the approval of his father to have important to her. In dealing with the universal his dream become a reality. stages of grief, the girl’s ability to overcome the emotional roller coaster she must also guides Sara Martin is a young filmmaker that has her toward the horizon of becoming a young graduated from Orange County High School of adult. Being a “silent film”, Letting Go gives the the Arts and will be attending California audience creative license to be the linguist to Institute of the Arts for Film/Video in the fall. MacKenzie’s vision. Since the age of 16, she has shown her film in over 25+ film festivals and her goal in life is to Director Cameron MacKenzie uses her triple- become the first Hispanic filmmaker to win Best threat skills to convey on film a story she Director at the Academy Awards and create conceived during a 2011 48-hour film amazing ground breaking feature films. competition. Besides being an accomplished actor with four films currently on the film TRAILER LE PETIT CHEF festival circuit -- for two of which she is Writer, Director, Actor – MacKenzie is a successful Student Short Film, Comedy, Family Singer-Songwriter, having composed and Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 3 performing the film-ending original song of Letting Go entitled “Plain Ole Country Girl”.

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LOST & FOUND THE LOST YEARS dir Saori Yamamoto dir Vivienne AuYeung USA, 2012, 25min, color & b/w USA, 2011, 3min, color

It's the last week before summer vacation, and 'Lost Years' is used to describe the time from Alexander, a high school librarian, is forced which a baby sea turtle take its first swim to together with an unwilling assistant, Alex. He when it returns to the coastal area years later. It tries to get her to work, but instead she makes is during this mysterious period that Nilla, the his work, twice as difficult. One day, Alexander sea turtle, discovers whether dreams really do finds out the library's Lost & Found box stolen come true. and the two of them put aside their differences, and join forces to find the lost, Lost & Found Student Short Film, Animated, Nature box. Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS

Saori Yamamoto was born and grew up in Osaka, Japan. In 2007, She came to the United States to study in California and then moved to New York City to study filmmaking in 2009. While in New York, she directed three short films, "A Bubble" (2010), "Behind the Hole" (2011), and "Lost and Found" (2012).

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MIRROR THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US dir Q-hyun kim dir Maria Fortiz-Morse SOUTH KOREA/USA, 2012, 6min, color NEPAL/USA, 2012, 12min, color

Two cats, living in completely different worlds, The Mountain Between Us is a documentary switch places through a mirror and experience exposing the challenges that girls face in pursuit each other's life. Finally, They realized that of education in rural Nepal. This short film tells happiness is relative. the compelling story of two Nepali girls who set out to defy the odds and become the first in He has also directed four works, ‘The Silent their families to attend higher secondary library’, ‘The Idea’, ‘Beware of the Dog’ and school. 'Mirror', all of which were screened or won prizes in many festivals from 2007 though 2012 Short Film, Documentary, Drama, Foreign in Korea, France, Hong Kong, Japan and United Screens with: SHORTS OF TOLERANCE AND States. His latest work, 'Mirror' was selected ENDURANCE Short Film Corner at Cannes, Student Academy Awards, Adobe Achievement Awards and so on at 2012. He graduated from School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Arts program in New York at May. He is working at one of the commercial companies in New York as a CG animator.

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MR. MARCEAU MUSCLE HAWK'S 'ELECTRIC LIGHT' dir J. Simon Allen dir Jonathan Martin USA, 2010, 20min, color USA, 2012, 5min, color

When a penitent clock collector 's beloved time When Sister hears a commotion in her Brother's pieces begin to mysteriously disappear, a room, she quietly investigates... only to discover spectral voice from an old radio presents him her brother entering a portal to another with a strange equation that uncovers the true universe in his closet. Following through, she is nature of lost time, and the power to embrace transported to another world where the party life's tragedies, along with its triumphs. of the future is taking place, with the Cosmos an audience to it. Soon she discovers, however, Transfixed by the moving image since early that she is an unwanted guest in a party that is childhood, J. Simon Allen works to create about to spiral out of control. stories of human fallibility, escape, adventure and searing drama, all with an approach that Texas born and raised writer, director Jonathan hinges on curiosity and a keen sense of wonder. Martin has long had a love affair with film. His first film, MR. MARCEAU, has garnered Influenced greatly by the works of Sam Raimi multiple awards, including Best Short Film, the and John Carpenter, he believes that first and Emerging Cinematographer's Award and the foremost filmmaking should be a fun adventure Panavision Award for Excellence. J. Simon Allen that should give little heed to pretense. Despite currently lives in Los Angeles, California. his lifelong love for film, Jonathan actually graduated with a degree in Business Short Film, Drama, Mystery Entrepreneurship from Utah Valley University, Screens with: DRAMA SHORTS but instead of going into the world of business, used that degree to launch his film career.

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THE MUSIC BOX MUTE dir Lewis Leslie dir Javier Melendez USA, 2012, 7min, color USA, 2011, 16min, color

In a world gone mad, Alice and Avery Bunker sit Monette hasn't been to church in years, yet he down for a spot of afternoon tea. finds himself sitting in a confessional booth. A troubling series of events involving his cheating Lewis Leslie is an American filmmaker best wife, $125,000 and a mysterious hitchhiker has known for the grindhouse slasher "Killer Ink", him telling a priest his life story and how one which features Peter Mayhew, best known as solitary ride through the New England country Chewbacca. Lewis continues to bring his visions side has turned his world upside down. Based to life through film, and hopes to have a on a short story by Stephen King. flourishing career in the business. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Javier Short Film, Drama Melendez is a writer/director based out of the Screens with: ONE STORY, THREE VISIONS greater Boston area. "Mute" is Javier's thesis project for his Undergraduate degree in Film and Television from Boston University. His films often explore the roots of human interaction, putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances in order to reveal their true nature.

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MUTE THE NATURE OF THINGS dir Jacqueline Wright dir Aradhana Modi UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 12min, color USA, 2011, 2min, color

MUTE is based on the short thriller by Stephen We often wish to be different in order to King: Monette, a traveling salesman, picks up a accomplish our goals, so does a creature living deaf/mute hitchhiker on the road. The in the woods. Hungry for food the creature tries hitchhiker falls asleep and Monette vents his hard to reach the fruits growing on top of a problems even though they fall on deaf ears. As tree. After many failed attempts he wishes to he rants to the sleeping deaf/mute, he be different. As his wishes come true he tries expresses his anger at his wife, and his fears for hard to reach the fruits. However, his efforts his daughter's future. Monette stops for a toilet are in vain. Until, he stumbles upon a realization break, but when he returns, the hitchhiker has about the Nature of Things. gone. Monette thinks nothing of it until two days later the police come with horrific news. Student Short Film, Animation, Comedy Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS Short Film, Horror, Stephen King, Foreign Screens with: ONE STORY, THREE VISIONS

THE NIGHT OF THE FALLING STAR NOBODY BUT HER dir Jean-Marc Deltorn dir Phillip Jordan Brooks FRANCE/NETHERLANDS, 2011, 18min, color USA, 2010, 7min, color

Captain Oldelaf is an astronaut for the The terrifying story of 8-year old Greta and her International Space Agency. His long haul abusive grandmother. After her grandmother's mission in space is coming to an end but a last strange death, two detectives work to unravel minute meteor shower is turning his plans the mystery by questioning the young girl, upside down. Not only is it preventing him from leading them to discover the shocking truth. going back home to his family in time for the New Year, as he had promised, but, a fatal Phillip Jordan Brooks is a Producer/Director collision with one of the cosmic bolides will lead who has worked in the film business for years him to a much more desperate situation... as a Location Manager/Scout on numerous films Ejected in deep space, drifting away alone and such as "Year One", "Season of the Witch", without hope of rescue, he will have to deploy "Drive Angry", and "Battle: Los Angeles". He has every bit of ingenuity in his possession and dig a B.A. from Centenary College of Louisiana in deep in his bag of tricks to fulfill his promise: to Film Studies, and has an extensive background come back home to his loved ones. in both acting and writing. "Nobody But Her" is the latest of several short films Brooks has Short Film, Comedy, Foreign made over the years. Screens with: SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORTS Louisiana Filmmaker, Horror, Thriller Screens with: HORROR SHORTS

NURSERY CRIMES ONE FOR THE ROAD dir L. Whyte dir Paul Ward UNITED KINGDOM, 2010, 4min, color USA/IRELAND, 2011, 16min, color

"Little Bo Peep has slaughtered her sheep... and This tale is narrated in the first person by Booth, doesn't know where to hide them!" an elderly resident of a small town that neighbors Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. The story is L(aura) Whyte's mild-mannered alter-ego is a 25 set a couple of years after the events of year old writer, animator, and concept artist Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot'. Booth describes a based currently in Dundee, Scotland. Her latest winter's night, years ago, when he and his effort, 'Nursery Crimes', was her first foray into friend, a bar owner named Herb Tooklander stop-motion animation, and it was made at (Tookey), attempted to rescue the family of a Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and motorist named Gerard Lumley, whose vehicle Design in 2010. had become stranded in a ferocious blizzard. Based on a short story by Stephen King. Student Short Film, Horror, Animated, Foreign Screens with: HORROR SHORTS TRAILER ONE FOR THE ROAD

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THE OUTHOUSE PERM 36 - DER LETZTE GULAG dir Jack Truman dir Robert von Wroblewsky USA, 2008, 5min, b/w GERMANY, 2012, 42min, color

The story of a 60-something woman and her Since 2005 the international Human Rights backyard outhouse. Forum Pilorama is held in the former Gulag Perm-36. In summer 2011 Berlin-based jazz Short Film, Documentary, Comedy, Biography singer Pascal von Wroblewsky followed an Screens with: UNDERBELLY BLUES & TILTING AT invitation. Her son Robert accompanied her SKYSCRAPERS with his camera.

Began to play theater at the age of twelve and shoot his rst shorts and documentaries with the youth theater group, Murkelb hne“. A er high school and a few more short lm experiences he started an educa on as lm video editor. In he formed the pop rock band Schuld S hne“ as a singer and songwriter.

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THE PREENING SWAN REBEL dir Thomy Kessler dir Tarek Tohme GERMANY, 2011, 106min, color USA, 2012, 8min, color

Fall, 1968. After many years Barbara visits her Chastised by his father for aspiring to be like long time crush from high school, Howard. Bad Australian rock legend Scotty Rebel, seventeen timing, a serial killer is going around town. year old Bedouin, Rachid Benjelloun, embarks on a whimsical journey of magic and self- Feature Film, Horror, Comedy discovery. Screens with: HORROMANCE A native of Los Angeles, Tarek Tohme, wrote, directed, and co-produced his film, Rebel, for a USC School of Cinematic Arts intermediate film production class this past fall. Filmed at three Southern California locations during three weekends, Tarek is immensely grateful to his talented cast and crew who understood his vision and helped him transform it into a reality.

Student Short Film, Fantasy, Music Screens with: SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORTS

SACRED GROUND SHAKESPEARE UNCENSORED dir Ben Aaron dir Andrey Kochkin USA,2011, 9min, color USA, 2012, 14min, color

Dimwitted hillbilly Richie (Jason Willey) runs With his lead having got drunk on the day of the frantically through the forest while trying to premier, the director decides to play Romeo escape the wrath of his disgruntled best friend himself to save the show. Bear (Johnnie Brannon) over an unseen act of betrayal. Richie, must find a way to talk down Andrey has always been interested in his crazed friend and repair their broken filmmaking. After making a successful career in friendship while trying not to catch a bullet in marketing, he went to a film school to learn the the process. basics of movie making. He has directed a bunch of projects (shorts, commercials, music Sacred Ground is the result of a lot of hard work videos, etc.), including an award-winning music from my cast and crew. They did a phenomenal video Grab Hold Tight. job and I'm proud of each and every one of them. We hope to represent Arkansas in a Student Short Film, Comedy, GLBT positive way, as you can see where we shot at, Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 1 Arkansas is a beautiful place to shoot your film.

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THE SHEPHERD SKEW dir Joey Dietrich dir Seve Schelenz CANADA, 2012, 10min, color CANADA, 2011, 83min, color

Isaac Banks is a bible salesman in the southern When Simon, Rich, and Eva head out on an states, circa 1972. Unfortunately, his sales are eagerly anticipated road trip, they bring along a low and as a result, his boss Mr. Norris has sent video camera to record their journey. What him a letter regarding his poor performance. starts out as a carefree adventure slowly The story is narrated via Isaac's letter of becomes a descent into the ominous as response. unexplained events threaten to disrupt the balance between the three close friends. Each TRAILER THE SHEPHERD one of them must struggle with personal demons and paranoia as friendships are tested Short Film, Horror, Comedy, Thriller and gruesome realities are revealed...and Screens with: HOMBRE Y TIERRA recorded.

Before such box office hits as Paranormal Activity (2007), Cloverfield (2008), and Quarantine (2008), writer/director Sevé Schelenz brought Skew, his first feature film, to camera in 2005. Within the same vein as The Blair Witch Project, Schelenz creates a first- person account in psychological horror that will keep audiences on edge until its revealing conclusion.

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SLOW BURN STALKER dir Michael McCallum dir Damien Patrik USA, 2012, 20min, b/w USA, 2010, 3min, color

Slow Burn is a hard-hitting drama about a young A man is being stalked through downtown girl who's being forced into prostitution by two Denver....by himself. local wannabe thugs so they can pay off debts that they owe. Her sister, a struggling waitress A former actor and member of SAG and AFTRA, is pursued by a shady cop that won't take no for Damien Patrik also worked in production on an answer. The girls set up the cop against the major television specials, as a casting director thugs so they can try and leave town. for commercials, corporate videos and infomercials, and taught and produced Slow Burn is a hard-hitting drama with people voiceover workshops in Hollywood. He has caught in between a rock and a hard place. written and directed a number of short films Sometimes to get out of those circumstances which have been official selections in close to we become desperate. To be free we'll do 80 film festivals around the world, and won anything. numerous awards. Currently in preproduction on a number of shorts, and busy writing the Short Film, Drama, Crime screenplay for his first feature film, he is always Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 2 looking for Executive Producers.

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THE STAR (HVIEZDA) STIGMA dir Andrej Kolencik dir Jeff P. Johns SLOVAKIA, 2012, 20min, color CAMBODIA/INDIA/NEPAL/THAILAND/USA/VIET NAM, 2012, 80min, color The story of a 55 year old welder, who fell in love with acting. His desire began, when he got 'STIGMA' follows young filmmakers Jeff Johns the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the and Ryan Lougridge as they travel the globe in worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer search of why more hasn't been done to Space by Ed Wood Jr. The passion for theatre completely eradicate leprosy for good. Through became his destiny. India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, they talk to WHO doctors, aid workers, visit Andrej Kolencik, nicknamed Admiral, is a film countless colonies and hospitals and meet director and visual artist. At present he´s those affected by the disease and life changing working as a freelance film director of fiction stigma it has caused them and their families. and also animation films and music videos. "The The World Health Organization proudly Star" is his debut documentary film. announced the elimination of leprosy in 2000 and refused to take part in the making of this TRAILER THE STAR film. Over 200,000 new cases were reported by over 125 countries in 2011. Short Film, Documentary, Comedy Screens with: GLOBAL SHORTS Jeff Johns is an award winning photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. A native of Washington, D.C., Johns attended the Washington Waldorf School for 12 years, an institution to which he attributes a great deal of his creative talents. He went on to study art

at the University of Redlands, and in 2010 graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography with a B.A. in Visual Journalism. Along with his B.A., Johns was the recipient of the prestigious “Outstanding Achievement Award” for his work on two international documentary projects as well as his lengthy record as a volunteer after natural disasters worldwide. Jeff is also an alum of the Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshops.

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STILL FALLS THE RAIN STOP IT dir Miguel Santana dir Pravin Vatt UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 8min, color USA, 2012, 6min, b/w

Set against the backdrop of war-torn 1940s An animation film about driving. London, Stanley (Ben Walker, the Golden Compass), a homeless boy, discovers how far he Short Film, Animated, Family, Sci-Fi must go to survive in a hostile world. But just Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS how far will he go? After getting caught by a merciless Police Officer stealing food from a bombed house - in a time when looting could mean the death penalty, Stanley is forced to make a gut wrenching decision that will affect the rest of his life.

Harnessing the power of world-class Visual Effects, London is brought to life like you've never experienced it before; Still Falls the Rain will transport you back to the gritty, harsh streets, and claustrophobic alleyways of the war-torn 1940s London Blitz. Beyond the moving story of survival and guilt, nail-biting suspense and explosive action, Still Falls the Rain will immerse you in a condensed yet truly spectacular and visually rich cinematic experience not to be missed.

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SUDDENLY, ZINAT...(NAAGAHAAN, SUNDAY'S MOTHER ZINAT...) dir Aaron Jackson dir Navid Azad USA, 2011, 14min, color IRAN, 2012, 21min, color A young teenager, named Sunday, moves to a The life of Simin , a woman of 35 years old new city with his mother, Gillian. But before teacher, is turned upside down when Nasibeh, Sunday can adjust to his new life, he is the biological mother of her child, Nafas, wants confronted by the school bully, who claims he her daughter back. has a disturbing secret about his mom. And he'll tell everyone if Sunday doesn't pay up... Born in 1982 in Tehran, Iran, Azad majored in English Translation from Sheykh Bahayi Short Film, Drama, Coming of Age University of Isfahan. Rooz Az No a.k.a Square Screens with: DRAMA SHORTS One, his third film, was officially selected by twenty film festivals. He was awarded best direction in Trinity Film Festival. Rooz az No was selected among the 10 best films in Harlem International Film Festival and got Bronze Award in JamFest Indie Film Festival. It also got honorable mention by Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival and nominated for outstanding actress and original score in Van wert Independent Film Festival.

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SURVIVOR TYPE SWEET ROCK: THE RED WEASEL dir Chris Ethridge STORY USA, 2011, 30min, color dir Dan Almoney USA, 2011, 32min, color Richard Pine awakens to find himself alone on a deserted island with limited supplies. As he Before the days when flannel was in fashion reflects on how he came to be in his current and 'alternative' music became the sound of situation, Richard begins a daily struggle to stay mainstream radio across the country, a group of alive until help arrives. Eventually he find friends dared to change the rules where they himself faced with the ultimate question: How lived. Together, Dean Cartwright, Chet far will he go to survive? Based on a short story Cornman, Scott Hedeen, Steve Messick and by Stephen King. Adam Robinson formed a new type of punk band. With influences ranging across the Chris Ethridge (Director/Producer) has made spectrum from the Beatles and early Genesis to over a dozen comedic and genre-based DC Hardcore and the Butthole Surfers, Red independent films in the Atlanta, GA area, Weasel was born. This is the band's story, past including the award winning films "Painted and present, culminating with their 2010 Love" and "The Spitting Image". In addition to reunion show. directing, Ethridge has worked as a Cinematographer and Producer on many other Short Film, Documentary, Music projects. Most recently, he was Co-Executive Screens with: MUSIC VIDEOS & SHORT FILMS Producer on "Take Me Out", a short thriller starring Rob Pralgo (Vampire Diaries) that recently was awarded Runner-Up Short Film at the Action on Film Festival.

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TAIWAN FAMOUS TARZAN: LORD OF THE LOUISIANA dir Sarah Tadayon & Dave Frazier JUNGLE TAIWAN, 2012, 13min, color dir Al Bohl USA, 2012, 74min, color & b/w Sarah, a Southern California girl with dreams of a film career ends up in Taiwan as a Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle is a professional talk show guest, after her mom documentary that pulls back the curtain on the sends her demo tape to a popular variety show. facts and fiction behind the making of the 1918 After appearing on several shows, she realizes silent classic motion picture 'Tarzan of the she is being type cast as a foreigner, and Apes.' It was an instant hit with audiences furthermore, after being asked by her agents to making it one of the first feature films to earn lose more weight and perform unusual plastic over a million dollars at the box office and one surgery, she begins to lose her cool. She is of the top six movies of the silent era. Were willing to make some sacrifices, but at what there monkeys and apes left behind when cost, and for what reward? filming ended? Did Elmo Lincoln (Tarzan) actually kill a lion on film? Was this film the first David Frazier is a journalist and filmmaker living major motion picture shot on location in the U. in Taiwan since 1995. He has written TV S. A. outside of New York and Hollywood? Who documentaries for the Discovery Channel, the was Edgar Rice Burroughs? Why was Morgan History Channel and others in addition to City chosen to make this motion picture? These producing his own independent short questions and more are answered in Tarzan: documentaries. As a writer, he has contributed Lord of the Louisiana Jungle.' to the International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, Japan Times, Art in America, Far "The difficult part of making this film was not Eastern Economic Review, Taipei Times and what to put in but what to leave out. The facts many other publications. and fantasy surrounding the making of the first Tarzan movie in 1917 was a story that was Short Film, Documentary, Foreign, Biography swept into the tidal wave of global conflict. I Screens with: GLOBAL SHORTS believe we were able to weave together a film that pleases even the ardent Tarzan fans -- and there are many world-wide."

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TARZAN OF THE APES THEY CAN KILL YOU BUT THEY CAN'T dir Scott Sidney EAT YOU USA, 1918, 60min, b&w dir Susan Havens USA, 2012, 20min, color The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. After his parents In this black comedy, two mental ward patients die the newborn Tarzan is taken by a great Ape, concoct a not-so-perfect blackmail scheme Kala. Later the boy finds his father's knife and against their abusive and self-serving uses it to become King of Apes. This is a re- psychiatrist. Based on the short story by edited version of the original with a new Jonathan Ashley. orchestral score. Susan Adele Havens studied Dance at UCLA Sci-fi, Fantasy, Silent Film before obtaining her Master's degree in Film & Screens with: TARZAN: LORD OF THE LOUISIANA Television Production from USC's School of JUNGLE Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles. She continues to dance and make films in Los Angeles, but decided to shoot "They Can Kill You But they Can't Eat You" on location in the amazing city of Louisville, KY. To make the shoot even more fun, she directed the film while pregnant with her daughter Lucy.

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THOMAS EDISON WAS A REALLY TIMO's 'MORE' COOL GUY dir Brian McCulley dir Josh Skelton USA, 2012, 5min, color USA, 2012, 5min, color & b/w Belgium Superstar Timo's latest music video. 'Thomas Edison Was a Really Cool Guy' explores Timo, at age 25, writes and co-produces his own self worth and the subjectivity of reality songs. Star of music theater productions in through an unconventional look at the Belgium & Netherlands, he co-stars in A Dark highlights of Thomas Edison's life and work. Place, a new American movie set for release in the fall of 2013. Short Film, Comedy, Mockumentary Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS For more than 20 years, Brian McCulley has acted, directed, produced, written, cast, and crewed more than 1,200 film, TV, and stage productions. Brian has helped jumpstart many actor's careers as a promoter and manager.

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TILTING AT SKYSCRAPERS dir Benjamin Pitts USA, 2011, 8min, color

When a gamer is overcome by his obsession, his neighbor must shepherd him home.

Short Film, Comedy, Action Screens with: UNDERBELLY BLUES & THE OUTHOUSE

TOUCH THE TRAP dir Jane Lanier dir John Brungardt USA, 2011, 30min, color USA, 2012, 18min, color

One person who doesn't want to be touched Murray Bradley, the painfully awkward son of and one person who doesn't want to touch famous Board Game legend, Milton Bradley, is a anyone are forced into a situation where both man with an obsession...a deadly obsession. He must overcome their fears of human contact. MUST outdo his father and create THE WORLD'S And both find, through that touch, how healing MOST PERFECT BOARD GAME, before he loses begins. his mind! Will his rival classmates beat him to the punch? Only a roll of the dice will tell! Jane was born in Ft. Wayne IN. She came to Los Angeles in the early 9 ’s. Her TV and film credits Student Short Film, Comedy, Mystery include: MURDER ONE, (recurring), DIAGNOSIS Screens with: COMEDY SHORTS MURDER, THE SHEILD, MEDIUM (recurring role), a lead role in the independent film MERCY, and MICHAEL directed by Nora Ephron starring John Travolta. She joined Interact Theatre Co and did many plays there including COUNSELLOR AT LAW directed by John Rubinstein (LA Critics Circle, Ovation, and Drama Logue Awards). TOUCH is her first film.

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TREADING WATER TRUE BROMANCE dir Tenika Smith dir Sebastian Doggart AUSTRALIA, 2011, 9min, color USA/UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 96min, color

A drama about Emily, a young girl struggling A fever dream of a bromantic comedy, True with a mental illness that is damaging her Bromance focuses on one man's journey across relationship with her boyfriend, Adam. Emily America to gain advice from famous bros (and bro- has come to realize that being underwater ettes) on how to win the heart of a woman he has helps with her illness, but her worried boyfriend never met -- Dr. Condoleezza Rice. From New York to Alabama, Colorado to California, our Everyman hero Adam becomes far from supportive of her new Devin Ratray assembles a mad collection of counsel method of treatment. to arm him for a final assault on Rice in Washington DC -- and to find out if love really can conquer all. Australian filmmaker, Tenika Smith was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. In 2010 The film stars possibly the most surreal comedy she moved to Melbourne, where she was troupe ever assembled: cult comedian and author selected to study Film and Television at the Jim Norton (HBO's Monster Rain), Adrian Grenier prestigious Victorian College of the Arts. (Entourage, Devil Wears Prada), Devin Ratray ('Buzz' Throughout her degree at the VCA, Tenika has in Home Alone, Surrogates), Dr. Frank Luntz written and directed six short films and is (Republican consultant, Fox News, Daily Show), Carol currently working on her graduating film, a road Connors (Elvis Presley's former lover, Academy award songwriter for Rocky and Disney's The movie, entitled 'Thanks for the Ride.' Rescuers), former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (voted by Forbes as 2005's most powerful Student Short Film, Drama, Foreign woman in the world), and, as Special Guest Star, Screens with: STUDENT SHORTS Jesus.

Sebastian began his career as a journalist in Latin America, working first as Deputy Editor of the Lima Times and then as Economics Editor for the Buenos Aires Herald. After training as a drama director at Central School of Speech and Drama, he directed theatre for eminent British companies Cheek by Jowl and Actors Touring Company. In 2000, Sebastian moved to the USA where he produced/directed several major TV series.

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UNBROKEN: THE PEARL BLUEGRASS UNDERBELLY BLUES CIRCLE dir Phil Messerer dir Winston Hall USA, 2011, 90min, color USA, 2010, 76min, color An odd group of shady characters become The heartwarming story of a monthly bluegrass connected through a series of bizarre event held in the tiny town of Pearl, Texas - a circumstances and end up bringing down town so small it was once taken off the map. corporate America. Pulp Fiction meets Raising Unlike many bluegrass events, Pearl Bluegrass Arizona. prides itself on its humble, down-to-earth spirit. Far from the city lights, the Pearl Bluegrass jam Underbelly Blues was an organic, somewhat unorthodox production. The cast, made up mostly of is rich with a unique authenticity, made stand up comics, were in place prior to the writing of stronger by the acceptance of any musician, no a script, which was then written after two months of matter their playing abilities. Uplifting, moving, weekly improv sessions. As director I constantly and humorous, Unbroken will leave you smiling encouraged the actors to contribute content, and asking, 'Have you ever been to Pearl, specifically in the form of dialogue and much of what Texas?' ended up on the screen was improvised.

First time Director Winston Hall is a full time Phil Messerer is an award-winning independent pianist but has done work in film in various filmmaker and film editor. In 2012 he directed positions in the production office. He grew up Underbelly Blues, produced by Tarantino near Pearl, Texas and has always believed that Productions, an independent feature film which has already won Best Picture at the L.A. New Wave Pearl was a story worth telling. He wanted the International Film Festival and the L.A. Art-House opportunity to document many of these Film Festival. His first film, Thicker Than Water. won musicians for historical purposes. Hall and over a dozen international festival awards and Donna Chance, the Executive Producer of the received over 80 glowing reviews. In 2010, he film, did all of the production work on the film received the Asian Television Award for Best Editing and then worked closely with their editor, for his work on Yuna Kim; a documentary on the Matthew Hubbard, to tell the story of Pearl. Hall South Korean figure skating sensation and winner of has ideas for other documentaries and is eager the Olympic Gold Medal. Phil Messerer is currently to get started on those. in development on several major film projects.

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VERITABLE RED A WAY dir Evan Cutris dir Julien Drach USA, 2011, 2min, color FRANCE, 2012, 14min, color

Described as the 'Veritable Red Demon from Hell,' A man and woman enter their apartment returning this film is the struggle of 45 men trapped by the from a trip. It's night time. They have a strange 1910 Great Idaho Fire. Their leader, Edward Pulaski feeling as if this return was hiding a complete other held them at gunpoint in an abandoned mine in reality. Just like in a dream, they had imagined order to save their lives. As smoke billows into the coming back home for a little while, just to say good cave, the men start to lose confidence in Pulaski's bye... intentions. Short Film, Foreign, Drama, Paranormal Student Short Film, Animated, Drama Screens with: SHORTS BLOCK 1 Screens with: ANIMATED SHORTS

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT dir Sam Toller WANT ADS UNITED KINGDOM, 2012, 11min, color dir Li-Jay Chu USA, 2012, 8min, color Nicole is bitten by her zombie boyfriend. Or is she..? We follow as she descends into a waking nightmare that will end life as she knows it. In a desperate attempt to find a job, Gabrielle answers an ad as a dominatrix. The directorial debut of Sam Toller, this was a mammoth undertaking. Over 2 days in July 2011 the Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Li-Jay Chu is team logged 220 shots with 27 zombies, 5 makeup currently an MFA candidate at the Academy of Art artists, 6 locations and LOTS of fake blood. University, San Francisco pursuing her Masters degree in Directing. Want Ads is her first film project. TRAILER WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

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WEB OF LIES WEST WATER OUTLAWS 'REAL dir Kathryn Gould & Nelson Goforth KILLER' USA, 2011, 11min, b/w dir Kyle Woodiel USA,2012, 5min, color Joe is a former cop now working for the mob. Eleanor is the boss' number one gal. If they West Water Outlaws are a rock band from were to get together... let's just say, someone Boulder, CO. This is their second official music would end up sleeping with the fishes. And video. when a cop with questionable intentions gets into the game, there's no telling who will get Short Film, Music Video out alive. Screens with: MUSIC VIDEOS & SHORT FILMS

Kathryn Gould graduated from Stanford University, where she studied English and Psychology. Since then she has written half a dozen screenplays, one of which was optioned, and produced two of her own short films. For six years she has attended writing workshops with some of the best storytellers in the entertainment business, and has been recognized for her skills as a playwright, winning the Trimedia Film Festival’s Best Original Theatre Award in 2007 and having three official selections in the “Out of the Box” New Playwrights Festival at Theatre O in Boulder, CO in 2010.

Nelson Goforth has worked on film sets since the late 1980's, mostly in the grip and electric departments. He has paid attention. Now "Web of Lies" has given him the opportunity to put to use all of the lessons that he has learned, serving as co-director with Kathryn Gould, and as Director of Photography.

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WHORES & LEGENDS WHY DOES GOD HATE ME? dir Ryan Carroll dir Joel Ashton McCarthy USA, 2010, 17min, color CANADA, 2011, 15min, color

Rule #21: Clap for everyone; it doesn't matter if A coming-of-age comedy about Matthew, a 14- they're a superstar or tone-deaf. This rule has year-old boy living in a very religious town, been passed down through decades of karaoke whose best friend Ester tries to 'cure' him of legends. Or maybe it's just the wisdom of the being gay. But a trip to San Francisco shows cougar sitting next to you. Do you have what it Matthew that he might not be the one who takes to become a legend??? needs curing.

Indie Filmmaker and Karaoke Enthusiast. Student Short Film, Comedy, Drama, GLBT Looking for creative outlets at every turn. My Screens with: SHORTS OF TOLERANCE AND only goal is to tell great stories through visual ENDURANCE mediums.This film was a culmination of "The Rules of Karaoke" that I have been collecting over the past several years through various experiences.

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WILLA WILLA dir Amy Driver dir Mikhail Tank IRELAND, 2012, 11min, color USA, 2012, 5min, color

David is waiting at a train station with a few Worried his fiancé might miss their train, David other passengers. Unable to locate his fiancée, follows her to a local honky-tonk where he Willa, he decides to set out to a nearby town to makes a surprising discovery about himself and find her. The others try to convince him not to the other passengers. Based on a short story by go. Ignoring their advice, he heads into the Stephen King. town. He finds Willa in a busy pub sitting alone. As he tries to convince her to come back to the Mikhail was born in St. Petersburg Russia, is the station with him, he realizes a shocking truth. creator of Darksoul™Theatre, and is a Guinness Based on a short story by Stephen King. World record holder with new show, playing in Vancouver, BC. Amy Driver is a film student in IADT Dun Laoghaire. She has been making short films TRAILER WILLA since she was 15 and has entered many youth film festivals in the intervening years. Short Film, Horror, Stephen King Screens with: ONE STORY, THREE VISIONS Student Short Film, Horror, Stephen King Screens with: STEPHEN KING DOLLAR BABIES & ONE STORY, THREE VISIONS

WORLD ON A STRING WRITTEN IN INK (CO RAZ ZOSTALO dir Dawn Schwartz ZAPISANE) USA, 2012, 58min, color dir Martin Rath POLAND, 2011, 12min, b/w Yo-Yos are not just nostalgic toys from a bygone era; they are equipment for competitive sport Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. and intricate art. WORLD ON A STRING follows The compelling story of a man trying to regain members of the yo-yo community, focusing on contact with his sister after 14 years of silence. four players, as they prepare, travel to, and But can one change what has already been experience the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest. The written in ink? Beautifully shot on 35mm the contest is an international championship, film has been praised for its ability to extract drawing hundreds of contestants to compete, with sensitivity the most hidden recesses of the each player aiming to reach their sport's human soul and for its distinctive documentary pinnacle of success: to be world champion. language. Without the use of interviews and voice-over the film closely follows its WORLD ON A STRING combines the most protagonist's endeavor and becomes an compelling elements of documentary favorites allegory for the trials of human existence. Spellbound and Dogtown and Z-Boys. While it portrays a contest with its drama, Martin Rath grew up in East Berlin. He disappointment, and exhilaration, it is far more graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and is than just a competition. It is a story of a currently studying at the directing department community that has created from scratch the of the National Polish Film School in Lodz. rules and traditions that underlie a vibrant subculture. It's a story of self-expression, loss, TRAILER WRITTEN IN INK friendship, and coming of age set against the backdrop of a dramatic competition. Through Student Short Film, Documentary, Foreign, the experiences of four characters, viewers are Family brought into an international, quirky, lively Screens with: COIFFURES AND QUIPS world.

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