A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.
2018
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
21 minutes
Director:
Mark Maxey
REIFF 2018
Millions of people have been touched by his music, yet few know the journey, hardships and triumphs of American musician and composer W.G. Snuffy Walden. In UP TO SNUFF, friends and collaborators share personal stories, laughs and insights about this generous soul who overcame the excesses of rock and roll to find success as one of the most beloved composers in television history. Infused with Snuffys music throughout, the film features luminaries from television, film and music, including Aaron Sorkin, Martin Sheen, Tom Arnold, Timothy Busfield, Fred Savage, Marshall Herskovitz, Steve Lukather, Chaka Khan and Eric Burdon, and scenes from The West Wing, Wonder Years, and thirtysomething.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
3 minutes
Director:
Sarah Okerson
REIFF 2018
This piece was created to showcase the Columbia Theatre, art, and community.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
Director:
Scott Stafford, Allen Martin, Todd Sheene
REIFF 2018
A semi-accurate telling of the story behind Kenny Rogers' hit song, Coward of the County.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
34 minutes
Director:
Jonathan Fred Schneider
REIFF 2018
Cultural mosaic Brooklyn. When a young Hasidic Jew gets caught listening to his bohemian neighbor through the air vent, his carefully planned future threatens to unravel. Should he follow his curiosity for the world behind the wall, and miss his engagement party, shutting the door to the only world he knows?
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
Director:
Shanden Simmons
REIFF 2018
A short film following one character through a particular morning scenario that expresses the casual darkness of his human psyche.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
5 minutes
Director:
Georg Koszulinski
REIFF 2018
On January 20, 2017, protestors took to the streets of Washington DC to disrupt the Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. America is Waiting presents a chronicle of the day's events, employing affective approaches to observational documentary coupled with on-the-street interviews with protestors and pro-Trump alike. By presenting the day's events in reverse chronological order, the film reflects on the nature of constructed memory, image making, and the production of meaning across an historic event, calling into question the ways in which historical events become narrativized and condensed within popular discourse.
Narrative Feature
Australia
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
47 minutes
Director:
Chris and Robert Smellin
REIFF 2018
18-year-old Ally meets 19-year-old Sara, when she moves in next-door. Quickly they form a strong relationship as Ally finds solace with Sara. Soon Sara discovers Ally's secrets and she manipulates and convinces her to participate in an act of naive revenge against Ally's abuser.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
14 minutes
Director:
Greg Chwerchak
REIFF 2018
Based on a true story, "Sac de Merde" tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
37 minutes
Director:
Anthony Pedone
REIFF 2018
An angry, crackling and defiantly disordered underclass of nowheresville punk- rock kids, see their band Surgeon Generals Warning (SGW) as their ticket out of small town Texas, as 1990 comes to a close. The band drops acid, plays gigs and carries out calculated acts of vandalism around town to the television soundtrack of 24-hour newscasts about Operation Desert Storm and devotion to country at any cost. Faced with the reality of a dead end job at the plastic plant, a life in the oil field, or fighting a war that has no meaning to them, the group's chaos and imminent adulthood leaves them completely vulnerable for what ensues.