A young mother must come to terms with letting go the thing she loves the most, her only son. She must do the deed herself, he is subject zero the undead...
2014
Narrative Short
Australia
Runtime:
15 minutes
Director:
Chris Smellin, Robert Smellin
REIFF 2014
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
50 seconds
Director:
Robert Conley
REIFF 2014
In a short period of time, film production has become a significant part of the culture in North Carolina. The Film Tax Incentive created a remarkable increase in major motion picture production, tax revenue for the state, and jobs for local industry workers. Unfortunately, this incentive is set to expire January 1, 2015. Keep It Rolling highlights the North Carolina Film Tax Incentive's contribution to a healthy economy, but more importantly focuses on the hardworking crew members, actors, and other individuals in the film industry who will be affected most if the incentive is not renewed.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
24 minutes
Director:
Christian de Rezendes
REIFF 2014
This inspirational documentary profiles the life of Matthew G. Christian (1983-2009), known as 'Matty' from the town of Canton, Massachusetts, who was born without a full set of arms and legs and without a tongue. As told through interviews with his parents Allie and Jerry, brother Michael and several close friends and authority figures throughout his life, 'Raising Matty Christian' paints a portrait of an inspiring young man who never took no for an answer and set out to live life to the fullest.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
18 minutes
3 seconds
Director:
James Roe
REIFF 2014
Clyde Thompson lives a completely isolated, lonely existence in his crumbling New Orleans apartment. With no family or friends, he spends his days listening to conspiracy radio programs and studying the unexplainable. When he discovers a mysterious tunnel running beneath his living room, Clyde suddenly becomes the subject of his own studies. What he finds at the end of that passageway will change his life forever.
Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
23 minutes
50 seconds
Director:
Thomas Rio
REIFF 2014
Hsu Ji, 6 years old, always forget that when the police is at the school, her father can't pick her up. No more school, he said... Bored in the old house where she is locked, Hsu Ji looks at a silent movie. When 3 slapstick characters leave the movie to join her world... they have so much in common!
Documentary Short
Peru
Runtime:
52 minutes
31 seconds
Director:
Christian Chapman, Paul Jason Hoffman, Cody Troyer
REIFF 2014
La Selva Tranquila presents an original look at conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, interweaving three stories of locals who must cut, capture, and sell anything they can to survive.
Katu, a hunter-turned-conservationist, struggles to fund his eco-tourism business in a wilderness surrounded by hunters and lumberjacks.
Trapped in a world of desperation in the city slums of Iquitos, Chepa must illegally sell sloths, baby monkeys, and turtles to support three generations of her family.
After the Peruvian government imposes strict resource management laws on the Mishana community's native land, this jungle village of eighty must find a future in conservation or lose its population to the pull of city industry.
Governments and activists speak of the importance of conservation, but we rarely hear the voices of people at the ground level. When locals struggle to survive each day at the jungles expense, how can they protect the land they love so deeply?
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
32 seconds
Director:
Alex Italics
REIFF 2014
In blissful 1950s suburbia, a lovestruck bobbysoxer and her no-good-nik boyfriend seek refuge from her overprotective and hot-headed father.
Animation
United States
Runtime:
8 minutes
27 seconds
Director:
Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster
REIFF 2014
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
REIFF 2014
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
REIFF 2014
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.