Sunday
Morning Short
Films:
9:00 - 10:00am
Scotty
& Maddy (6 mins, drama)
Directed by Michael Costner
Scotty will do whatever it takes to get back the love of his life,
Maddy, even if he has to get off the couch and stop feeling sorry
for himself. World Premiere.
Apartment
A (9 mins, drama)
Directed by Michelle S. Baxter
Chronicles the lives of three sisters immediately following the 9/11
attacks as they await word about their missing father. The father
and one sister both left home for the towers that morning but only
one has made it back so far. With their dad potentially gone, the
girls must now deal with what is left of their lives, including a
manic depressive mother, an overbearing older sister and unsaid truths.
World Premiere.
Orders
(15 mins, drama)
Directed by Melissa Fulmis
When Kaci MacDonald receives a letter in the mail to re-enlist in
the military and serve in Iraq, she is faced with the difficult decision
of leaving her family to do something she feels an obligation for.
Her biggest fear is whether her family has the strength to support
and withstand her decision. World Premiere.
Followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Sunday
Morning Feature
Film:
10:00 - 12:00 noon
The
Men Who Fell (88 mins, futuristic, sci-fi drama)
Directed by William L. Stewart
The Festival audience will be amazed at the production values in this
ultra-low budget futuristic drama. Two convicts, held in an orbiting
detention facility above a post-apocalyptic earth, are hired by mega-corporation
Hunsinger to perform a risky salvage mission down on the planet. They
land, and work their way into a gigantic underground industrial complex,
following a map to their ultimate destination, to retrieve and salvage…
the item. Being prisoners, they are given little info, and are given
credit toward early release as payment. They get more than they expected,
and things go from bad to evil. Takes “ultra-low budget”
into another dimension!
Followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Sunday
Afternoon Short
Films:
1:00pm - 2:10pm
Prelude
(12 mins, drama)
Directed by Oscar Velasquez
An official selection in three other festivals including having its
European premiere at Cannes, in France, it follows the events leading
up to a high school shooting by telling the story of how seemingly
unrelated lives can intertwine and something so small can have such
a dramatic effect on us all.
Maine
Story (24 mins, drama)
Directed by Nina Chernik
Beautifully shot entirely on location in Maine, it’s the tale
of Shelly, a small town woman working in the local factory, who is
going through the motions as if her life has not yet started. When
Alex, her high school sweetheart comes back to town, Shelly is forced
to confront the things in her life that she’s been avoiding,
including Kyle, her 12-year-old son. An official selection to 17 other
film festivals around the country.
Followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Sunday
Afternoon Short Films:
2:10pm - 3:20pm
The
Desert Dilemma (8 mins, drama)
Directed by Nate White
Two men are out in the middle of a vast desert, no one to be seen
anywhere with a problem on their hands. World Premiere.
Rabia
(24 mins, drama)
Directed by Muhammad Ali Hasan
Rabia is a woman who must blow herself up in order to exist. From
the moment she straps explosives to her bare body, we are exposed
to flashbacks of Rabia’s past, filled with abuse, rejection,
and struggle. By the time she steps onto a popular Israeli beach,
awaiting to kill hundreds of innocent civilians in a massive explosion,
we find ourselves asking whether Rabia’s act is one of evil
or one of heroism?
Winner
of "Best Short Film" at the Sunscreen Film Festival, "Best
Drama" at Show Off Your Short Film Festival, and "Best Action/Adventure"
at Gone With the Film Film Festival.
Followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Sunday
Afternoon Short Films:
3:20pm - 4:30pm
Pitstop
(14 mins, drama)
Directed by Melanie McGraw
Thoughtful and introverted, 12-year-old Maggie feels invisible sandwiched
between the limbs of her eight rambunctious siblings as they drive
across the desert in the family's aging Pontiac wagon. Accidentally
left behind at a desert gas station she meets June, the desert-worn,
reclusive proprietor who proves more than just a passing influence
on this little girl's journey to find her own voice.
Winner
of a Bronze Medal at the 35th Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences Student Academy Awards.
Eaton's
Water (16 mins, historical drama)
Directed by Sally LeviDina Kadisha
Eaton’s Water takes place in California from 1861-1874 when
its once cattle economy is transformed to one based on agriculture.
Ben Eaton is drawn into a real estate deal that requires him to build
a major water ditch that will bring water through the San Gabriel
Mountains to the Arroyo Seco and Eaton’s Canyon. After much
struggle, Ben completes this task and helped transform a once desolate
area into what is now Pasadena.
Followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers.