2014

Animation
United States
Runtime:
8 minutes
27 seconds
Director:
Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster

A fearful balloon must learn to put his fragile life in the hands of an unlikely friend.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
Director:
Allen Martin, Scott Stafford, Todd Sheene

Halloween is a big night for Jasper. An anniversary of ancient sins. He prefers to ignore it and that's been easy since kids stopped making the trek out to his isolated cabin. But things change tonight when a young girl's visit begins a night of tricks instead of treats. To make matters worse, Jasper loses his lucky sobriety token and, with it, any courage he may have saved up over the past 25 years. Can he find his prize and maintain his sanity or will he pay the price for past mistakes.

Narrative Short
Japan
Runtime:
12 minutes
47 seconds
Director:
Emilie Silvestri

On his first day of retirement Japanese businessman Mr. Yamada eagerly returns home to begin his new life of leisure with his wife, only to discover that she has filled her days without him. As Mr. Yamada struggles to remind her of the couple they once were, both begin to see the compromises their new life together will hold.

Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
22 minutes
18 seconds
Director:
Donon Marion

In the space of a few minutes, this short film confronts us with the broken puzzle of a life of a young woman in psychological distress, victim of a sufferance that she is trying to control.

The watchful eye of her psychologist and the love of her partner help her, reluctantly, to accept her problems. A pure love that will help her finally to find a path, a direction, a new start…

Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
57 minutes
Director:
Barbara Klutinis

An ode to memory: Couples affected by a partner's recent diagnosis of Early Alzheimer's come to terms with their changing roles. Prominent Alzheimer's medical experts offer their perspectives on diagnosis, the nature of the disease, helpful attitudes in caring for loved ones, stigma, support for caregivers, clinical trials, and overall healthcare concerns.

Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
Director:
Katie Damien

What if you found out you had cancer, then you discovered your well water was contaminated, then you tried to sue the company responsible, but couldnt? Then you fought to get the site cleaned up and nothing happened. Then you tried to sell your house, but no one wanted to buy it. What would you do? What could you do?

My Toxic Backyard chronicles a community's fight to get clean drinking water and see the chemicals, still leaking into their groundwater, cleaned up.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
54 seconds
Director:
Max Allman

Ricky Smits is a gangly redneck who hopes that his invention, PortaPower, will make him a big shot. When he meets his bosss daughter, Abigail, a beauty pageant queen with dreams of a modeling career, the two begin an awkward courtship, connecting over their shared dreams of escaping their small, southern town. When Rickys boss discovers their relationship and fires Ricky, the two must decide what is more important their dreams or each other.

Animation
Canada
Runtime:
4 minutes
11 seconds
Director:
Medina Dennie, Ocean Demuth, Zaiyah Dennie

Two turtles embark on a dangerous quest for friendship. Will an encounter with a sea monster, a Sasquatch, and magical fairies, lead them to a true friend? Created during a 48 hour animation challenge, Ocean Demuth, Medina Dennie, and Zaiyah Dennie (ages 7, 8 and 6) used cut out animation and their own voices to bring Ocean's imaginative story to life.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
15 minutes
Director:
Yang Wang

Laowang, a trash-picker in New York City Chinatown, hides a secret from his daughter for 11 years. He finally decides to reveal the secret after her heartfelt violin performance, that she was abandoned at birth and he found her on the street of Chinatown and raised her as his own.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
9 seconds
Director:
Austin Madding

A young man discovers a world of endless violence and hate when he decides to try for revenge against those who take away his loved ones.

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