ONE SPARK: THE WORLD'S FIRST CROWDFUNDING FESTIVAL documents the festival itself which took place in Jacksonville, Florida in April 2013, and also tells the stories of the people involved with the first crowdfunding festival ever.
2013
Documentary Short
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Antonio Sarte
REIFF 2013
Animation/Experimental
Experimental
Germany
Runtime:
7 minutes
20 seconds
Director:
Maja Oschmann
REIFF 2013
Synchronising to the music, abstract ink drawings 'grow' in an interplay of curiosity, timid encounters, dynamic pursuits and confrontation, stimulating many emotions, which carry us off on a poetical journey to a musical world of pictures.
Innovation & Education
Animation
Canada
Runtime:
23 minutes
23 seconds
Director:
Xstine Cook
REIFF 2013
An animated history of the city of Calgary and Earl Grey School from the big bang up to the present, created by 180 elementary school students.
Audience Award
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
52 minutes
25 seconds
Director:
Scott Peterson
REIFF 2013
A unique documentary film about railroad motor car excursions and the people participating in them. Weekend Railroaders explores the excitement, satisfaction and camaraderie of railroad enthusiasts through personal interviews and action footage from rail cars during speeder runs.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
46 minutes
39 seconds
Director:
Kyle Nickolite
REIFF 2013
The documentary film of Donnie Vincent's bowhunting journey in to the Badlands of North Dakota, chasing a whitetail deer known as 'Steve'.
Narrative Short
Japan
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Yoh Komaya
REIFF 2013
Getting out of town always seems to be such a big deal in Hollywood movies. Characters are constantly trying to escape the town they grew up in, for example, The Last Picture Show, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Stand By Me.
I guess, getting out of town is some kind of a myth. This, I suppose, is why it needs to be so tricky and agonizing. Can't Stop Me Leavin' is a comedy about one desperate couple's escape that challenges this very myth.
The irony here is that this is Japanese town and the couple's escape doesn't look very hard nor painful. Will their escape succeed? Or will it fail as in other movies? Either way, you'll witness a new myth born in Higashiayamato city of Japan.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
10 minutes
Director:
Hope Hartman
REIFF 2013
Through work, war, love, loss, birth and death, a group of women have shared life's journey bonded by a little book club formed more than 60 years ago.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Michael Williams
REIFF 2013
After losing what meant most to him, the man behind the masked hero KANE decides to let the people he protects fend for themselves.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
1 minutes
Director:
Maynard Seider
REIFF 2013
What can residents of communities that have been devastated by deindustrialization do to improve their condition during a time of austerity, war and anti-labor attacks? The film focuses on the introduction of a massive museum of contemporary art in the same buildings that housed Sprague Electric Company in a typical New England mill town. Billed as an engine of economic development, the museum hasn't produced the jobs it promised and the city's downtown is semi-deserted. The film argues that national policy must change and that vibrant unions and social movements are needed to bring about a new 'New Deal' to deal with the social and economic crisis facing U.S. cities today.
Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
14 minutes
Director:
Stephanie Assimacopoulo
REIFF 2013
Paris - Gare De Lyon. Helie behaves as a true bounder, Selena, evermore in love, still wants to pick up the pieces. At the bar of 'Le Train Bleu', where they stop to have a last drink, neither one cannot imagine what will happen ...