In rural California, pink-haired Michelle Laswell, and her teenage brother, Clay, navigate their stark community in search of a stolen bike. When Clay spots his bike in a neighbors backyard, Michelle breaks in to retrieve it. Back home, Michelle and Clay are bombarded by their neighbors who demand the bike back. Diane (neighbor) reveals the bike was not stolen but sold toher by Michelles mother - done behind Michelle and Clays back. Michelle negotiates to keep the bike. Clay lashes out by trashing their mothers room. Amid the mess, they discover hard drugs and paraphernalia with their mothers possessions.
2015
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
Remington Smith
REIFF 2015
A quiet post-apocalyptic drama, The Woods follows a lone woman struggling to survive in a desolate snowscape, while on a quest to take care of personal business.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
24 minutes
Director:
Herb E. Smith
REIFF 2015
Our Kentucky River follows our Commonwealths namesake river from its headwaters in the mountains of eastern Kentucky through the historic river town capital of Frankfort and finally to the watersheds confluence with the mighty Ohio River at Carrollton. This 250-mile journey provides a unique look at the historical significance of the watershed and the current problems it faces, while highlighting the many roles that the river continues to play in the lives of Kentuckians as it flows across the state.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Todd Tue
REIFF 2015
The Longest Short is about Al Jacobson and his short film that he's been working on for over 36 years. Al's film, Friends and Fast Times, began in the early 70s in suburban Chicago with Al and his friends filming incessantly as young teenagers. Over the next several decades, he began editing the footage together as well as filming new scenes.
This short doc features clips from the film and let's Al explain his compulsive labor of love. The Longest Short is a glimpse into one person's passion and their life captured on film.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
28 minutes
Director:
Mark Atkins
REIFF 2015
A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
Director:
Brenton Richardson
REIFF 2015
Death is a taboo subject in American culture. We try not to think about it. People don't like to talk about it. And it's definitely not normal to embrace death. Except for during Halloween, that is. For one month of the year, it is totally ordinary and mainstream to celebrate our fears with cartoonish skeletons, ghouls, ghosts, and zombies. Come November first, it's less socially acceptable to display your rubber dead body props and plastic skull decorations. Coffin Crusin' is about a small club of Carolinians that refuse to conform to cultural norms by not putting away their caskets for the other 11 months of the year.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
Director:
Karisa Bruin, Todd Tue
REIFF 2015
Kelsey has gone her whole life without needing female friends. Now that she's engaged to the man of her dreams, she must confront her fear and awkwardness around women. Due to her innately competitive nature, she vows to make five female friends in time to have bridesmaids for her wedding.
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
5 minutes
Director:
Scott Stafford
REIFF 2015
A man tests his mettle when he passes through a gauntlet of second-hand artwork.
2016
Best of Fest
Documentary Feature
Egypt, United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Anna Kipervaser
REIFF 2016
Every day people are being replaced by machines worldwide. After 1,400 years, thousands of muezzins in Cairo are no longer calling people to pray as wireless receivers replace them in reciting the adhan. CAIRO IN ONE BREATH unfolds as the Adhan Unification Project takes hold and as Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change.
Special Jury Award for Truth in Storytelling
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Chris Brown
REIFF 2016
THE OTHER KIDS follows six teenagers as they struggle through their final days of high school in the small, gold rush town of Sonora, CA. ISAAC, a Mexican national abandoned as a child by his family, barely treads water in a culture hostile to non-whites. Poor and living on his own in an abandoned trailer, Isaac works three jobs (landscaping, dishwashing and metalworking), studies hard, and dreams of someday becoming a diplomat. Isaac's girlfriend, SIENNA, a stable-hand and natural cowgirl, is forced to cope not only with the brutal dissolution of her family, but with her parents' violent objections to her relationship with Isaac.