Here is the Line up for the Shorts Films, Music Videos and Commercials for the LA Femme International Film Festival.
AERIAL GIRL, THE
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
ANNA SIMONE SCOTT
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
TERRI SISSMAN
PRODUCER
PETER SANDS
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Sarah De La Isla, Joel Stoffer, Tara Samuel
SYNOPSIS: Urban cool teen Taylor’s life is uprooted when her father dies and she moves to her grandfather’s ranch in Wyoming with her mother. There Taylor meets a ranch hand who turns her life upside down.
AMERICAN SWEETHEART
OCT 13, 6-8 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
KARIN BINANTO
PRODUCER
AVRIL ILEJAY
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Emily Sandack, Jerry Prell, Elin Guthrie (Voice)
SYNOPSIS: CLARA discovers clues that her husband is cheating on her and bakes an elaborate, yet deadly cake to give him a taste of revenge.
AMORES CIEGOS
OCT 16 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
MARISE SAMITIER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
JAVIER MILLAN
RT: 23 MIN
CAST: Leticia Pascual, Alvaro Morte, Daniel Grao, Meritxell Laso
SYNOPSIS:
Marta can’t have children. Her husband has an affaire with Mila, Marta’s own sister and single mother of Daniel. When Daniel’s father shows up, Marta fulfills her motherhood feelings in unusual ways.
AN EVENING WITH MY COMATOSE MOTHER
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
JONATHAN MARTIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
BRIAN D. BYERS & DENVER ROBBINS
PRODUCERS
JONATHAN MARTIN, APRIL FRAMPTON, CHRIS HANSON
RT: 34 MIN
CAST: Alivia Leonelli, Michele Wilson, Missy Hill, Britt Rowe, Collin Thorup
SYNOPSIS:
Dorothy Pritchard thought she had it easy; house sit for the wealthy Poe’s on All Hallows Eve while collecting a cool paycheck. That was, until, she was introduced to the Poe’s rotting, comatose mother living upstairs. As the dark of the night comes, and as the approaching storm blacks out the neighborhood, Dorothy soon finds herself on a nightmare ride through hell that she can only beg to be woken up from.
BAD INFLUENCES
OCT 14, 8-10 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
KATE EMERY
PRODUCER
JACOB JESTER
RT: 17 MIN
CAST: Carlie Nettles, Dexter McDaniel
SYNOPSIS: Jillian moves into a rural, germ-ridden town just in time for her freshman year of high school. Her ‘friends’ tag along, ready to keep her safe from the hazards of a ninth-grade social life.
BIG P, THE
OCT 13, 6-8 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
KRISTINA THOMAS
PRODUCER
JESSICA STEPHENS
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Jayden Tamayo, Justin Mitchell
SYNOPSIS: This film is about a young smart boy named Peter who sets out on a journey to kill someone, in order to join his older brother’s gang. In the end, he finds out the person he must kill is not someone he expected. Peter must choose if doing what’s wrong, makes it right.
BUBBLES
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
DALIA SCHLESINGER
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Merav Sheffer, Yaron Bruvinsky, Roey Herzog, Talia Dor
SYNOPSIS: On a sultry night in Tel Aviv, the kind that has become a tiring routine, Shira has to face her long lasting conflicts. While waiting for her husband to return from a business trip abroad, she has to take a pregnancy test that will force her to choose between two men.
BULLET
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
REBECCA DRUMMOND
PRODUCER
MIAO YU
RT: 7 MIN
CAST: Juliana Morgan, Nikki Hartung, Brigette Davidovici, Whitnae Peters
SYNOPSIS: Callie Argyle is a preppy high school princess with the world on a silver platter. Only one thing could make Callie’s semi-charmed life complete – playing ball with the Bullets, the school’s hard-playing, tough-talking softball team.
CHRYSALIS
OCT 14, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
NIA MALIKA DIXON
PRODUCER
DAWN MANNING
RT: 22 MIN
CAST: Allison Hayden, Justin Hurtt-Dunkley
SYNOPSIS: A young man in Baltimore struggles with his choice to be a drug dealer as his lifestyle clashes with his religious beliefs.
COOKIE
OCT 13, 6-8 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
ENUKA OKUMA
PRODUCERS
ANDREW WILLIAMSON & CHRISTINA NORTHRUP
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Jennifer Finnigan, Jonathan Silverman, Enuka Okuma, Chris Martin, Jed Rees
SYNOPSIS: When a woman is let go from her job, she is forced to spend time with her stay-at-home husband and soon discovers he is not the man she she thought he was.
DANCE OF THE LITTLE OLD MEN; THE HEIST
OCT 13, 6-8 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
KULCHERA MATSON
PRODUCER
KATHY PARA, KESA MATSON
RT: 5 MIN
CAST: Nikola Tucakov, Paulina Steinberg
SYNOPSIS: Under the guise of a traditional Mexican folk dance, a border town cowboy is unknowingly robbed of his treasure by a traveling band of beautiful banditas dressed as little old men. In the end, the power of feminine seduction is passed from one generation to the next.
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE
OCT 14, 7-10 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Montana Mann
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Spencer Daniels, Sam Ingraffia, Alesandra Assante
SYNOPSIS: Christian ‘Sketch’ Shady was released from a detention center five hours ago. As he reunites with his friends that night, he soon realizes he must confront his past in order to redeem himself. ‘Dangerously Close’ takes you on a journey of friendship, pain, danger and love.
DEAL, THE
OCT 15, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
DELYTH THOMAS
PRODUCER
DIANE SHORTHOUSE
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Dearbhail Carr, Annette Flynn, Lesa Gillespie, Alana Kerr, Monica McNally
SYNOPSIS: Five players, two peelers, a bag, a drop of blood, and a pile of puke in the Belfast Docks set the scene for this black comedy about a heist that doesn’t quite go to plan.
DEARLY DEPARTED
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
ILO ORLEANS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
C.V. HERST
PRODUCERS
MICAH BRANDT & VICKI DE MEY
RT: 11 MIN
CAST: Gigi Bermingham, Josh Clark, Damon Sperber
SYNOPSIS: Trapped in the prison of her home, April has visions out her kitchen window of blissful freedom. Her husband Jeremy demeans and humiliates her, until April discovers an unprecedented opportunity to escape her tortured existence. But she has only a split second to decide whether to leave behind all that she’s ever known, forever.
DEATH OF TOYS, THE
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
LISA GOLD
PRODUCER
BRENDA BLAIR & MOLLY KASCH
RT: 12 MIN
CAST: Kim Rhodes, Darrien Skylar, Reese Hartwig, Bru Muller
SYNOPSIS: Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their playtime more than he does. Her insistence that he keep the toys leads to some unexpected places.
DEEP BLUE BREATH
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
PATRICIA CARDOSO
PRODUCERS
TAMIKA LAMISON, TABITHA MASON, DEBI HUGHES
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: Sean Astin, Miguel Sandoval, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Ernie Hudson (Voice of Lord Vater)
SYNOPSIS: In “Deep Blue Breath,†the boy, Clay, travels deep inside his body to an animated dram world where he engages in battle against the evil Lord Vater and his army of Kuk-nuks. Meanwhile, in the waking world, a medical team struggles to save Clay’s life.
DIRECTOR, THE
OCT 14, 7-10 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/ WRITER
DESTRI ALISON MARTINO
RT: 1 MIN
CAST: Destri Martino (Voice)
SYNOPSIS: One director attempts to make a statement. In a dress.
EL CORTEJO
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
MARINA SERESESKY
RT: 14 MIN
CAST: Mariano Llorente, Elena Irureta
SYNOPSIS: Capi is the oldest gravedigger in the cemetery. Used to working amidst the suffering of others and the jokes of his colleagues, there is only one person capable of taking him out of his daily routine. Every month for the last couple of years he has waited for Marta to take flowers to the grave of her husband. She is his last hope.
EL GRIFO
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
DENIS ROVIRA
PRODUCERS
PANCHO CASAL & BEATRIZ ACINAS
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Celso Bugallo
SYNOPSIS: Winter 2010. An old man who is temporarily staying at his daughter’s and son-in-law’s house thinks he is a nuisance to them and his grandchildren. The family leaves for a long overdue ski trip. Besides the daughter’s doubts, they leave the old man alone in their modern home. An everyday, common situation that will end in a nightmare for the old man due to an unexpected and far fetched event.
FAMILY FRIEND, THE
OCT 13, 8-10 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
BRAD COOPER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
LAKE SHARP
PRODUCER
BRAD COOPER & MADELINE BAUGH
RT: 14 MIN
CAST: Jack Littman, Lake Sharp, Mickey Swenson
SYNOPSIS: In this mysterious drama a troubled man with a dark past hopes to rekindle a relationship with an old friend he hasn’t seen in years. Holed up in a shady motel on the outskirts of Vegas, he calls his friend but is only able to reach the man’s precocious daughter who may or may not be telling the truth about where his friend is. To his surprise, she arrives at the motel with her invalid brother, her brash sexiness complicate things further, as he tries to figure out what happened to his friend’s family in the years since he’s been gone.
FLOATING
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
INBAL GIBROLTER
PRODUCER
LENNY COHEN
RT: 31 MIN
SYNOPSIS: Reut’s parents do not know how to deal with her weight gain, so they decide to send her for therapy at a close children’s ward for eating disorders. In the hospital, Reut meets Lilach. Lilach is the complete opposite of her. She’s a skinny and pale anorexic. They are attracted to one another. If only Lilach could starve Reut’s fat body and Reut could feed Lilach’s skinny body…two complementary diseases and two lost girls trapped in between.
GOING, GOING
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
ALICE FOULCHER
RT: 12 MIN
CAST: John Foulcher, Oscar Redding, Talia Zucker
SYNOPSIS: How do you move on without letting go? ‘Going, Going’ is a poignant short drama that explores the different ways we deal with grief, and how it can eat away at our relationships.
HEART NEEDS NO REASON, THE
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
MITU KUMAR
RT: 24 MIN
CAST: Nishikant Kamat, Sakshi Tanwar, Anand Tiwari
SYNOPSIS: An aspiring intellectual writer is thrust with the task of writing a pulp fiction erotic novel to begin his career. As he writes, we see the world he is writing about. How his out of the box thinking (personified by his fictional character) clashes with his conventional thinking and how he fights his personal demons as he progresses with his novel, all leading to the unexpected twist at the end.
KISSED BY THE DEVIL
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
M. LEGEND BROWN
PRODUCER
SHARICE HENRY CHASI
RT: 25 MIN
CAST: Grover Coulson, Khadijah Karriem, Shaun Baker
SYNOPSIS: Tragedy is a fact of life, and the way we deal with it often defines who we are as a person.
LEX TALIONIS
OCT 15, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
MELISSA KOSAR
PRODUCER
LAURA AVILA-TACSAN
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Alex Marino, Kim Hamilton, Isabelle Surby, Michael Massei, Randy Fratkin
SYNOPSIS: When you get a cut it scabs over and eventually disappears. Does time really heal all wounds?
LIKE SUGAR ON THE TIP OF MY LIPS
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
MINJI KANG
PRODUCTION MANAGER
SHANA KEEGAN
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Alexandra Roxo, Erin Wilhelmi
SYNOPSIS: Susi, as a blind young woman, has grown up with a naive dependence on her older sister Laura. As Laura helps Susi prepare for her first date, we get a glimpse at the distressing, obsession that has actualized in Laura.
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED?
OCT 15, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
K. ROCCO SHIELDS
PRODUCER
DANA GARNER
RT: 21 MIN
CAST: Lexi DiBenedetto, Sherri Levy, Carrie Lazar, Dante Thorn, Gabriella Holland
SYNOPSIS: Love is All You Need? is a straight story in a gay world – which chronicles the life of Ashley, a young teen who is raised in the picture perfect all-American family with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem, she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her. This undeniable attraction to the opposite sex causes her to be the constant target of verbal and physical abuse until she is driven to a tragic end. This film hopes to shed light onto the highly controversial issue of human and equal rights in the LB GT Community, and also raise awareness to our current world as to the obstacles that this community faces.
MARA DREAMS
OCT 13, 8-10 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
NICOLE GROTON
PRODUCER
CHRISTINA BRYDEBELL
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Brittany Faith Rosoff, Christopher Oroza, Jada Sanders, Jamie Doyle, Jesse Laier, Perry Powell, Theo Scott, Tamara McShane (Voice)
SYNOPSIS: Mara comes home to find her ill brother has died and all he has left behind is a present for her. Something she at first cannot understand, she soon learns that the present gives her magical dreams where her brother is still living. As she finds a way to finally say goodbye, she discovers more than she anticipated.
MARIPOSA
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
SHERETTE GREGG
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: Rosa Rodriguez, Chase AJ Clarke, Lorraine Mattox
SYNOPSIS: Living in lies half truths and fake reality have always been the way in this Puerto Rican family when it comes to their dark skin relatives, but when a young girl chooses the latter can this family ever survive?
MARTHA AND DEE VISIT THE FIFTH DIMENSION
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
NOELLE FOSTER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
ADAM KLUSKY & BARBARA KULSKY
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Ilana Klusky, Cassie Webber
SYNOPSIS:
Martha’s family has all the outward trappings of suburban bliss. But in reality, her home life is a dystopia of parental egocentricity and neglect. When Martha decides to run away from home, she brings her invisible friend Dee along for an adventure in the city. The two girls discover answers to life and the universe, including the nature of the Fifth Dimension.
MILF MONEY
OCT 14, 5-7 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
Aaron Preist
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
René Ashton
PRODUCER
Brad Isa
RT: 22 MIN
CAST: René Ashton, Brian Krause, Missi Pyle, Patrick Muldoon
SYNOPSIS: Three struggling, single suburban moms, and the pastor’s wife, a sex addict, embrace a new profession; prostitution. One of the women’s estranged sisters resurfaces penniless. Fortunately for the women she steps in as their madam and steps up their clientele. Unfortunately, juggling their johns and raising their kids proves to be as difficult as keeping their profession under wraps.
NEST, THE
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
EMILY COOPER
RT: 11 MIN
CAST: Chloe Spencer-Campbell, Jacob Krichefski, Tracy Bargate
SYNOPSIS:
One morning. Two points of view. The differences between Laura and her mother’s perspectives leave us haunted by questions about Laura’s father. When memory and reality become confused, is it possible to understand what really happened?
NOCTURN
OCT 16, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
LEANNE WELHAM
PRODUCER
ROSIE CRERAR
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Jennie Jacques, Tamzin Malleson, Gregg Chillin
SYNOPSIS: Unable to sleep one night, Jody goes to the local 24-hour garage and meets a young couple who will turn her night, and her life, upside down.
NOEMIA
OCT 13, 4-6 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
ELAYNE BLYTH
PRODUCERS
ELAYNE BLYTH & MOEMA UMANN
RT: 4 MIN
CAST: Moema Umann
SYNOPSIS: Noemia is a girl who creates her own way to be happy. Will she find it in the city?
ON
OCT 16, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
ANAIS GODARD
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
ANAIS GODARD, CELIA CHAMPION, DAVID SWANN
PRODUCER
JENNIFER GLYNN
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Celia Champion, Brad Standley, David Stanbra, Vincent Londez
SYNOPSIS: On a night like any other, Marine, Thomas, Felix, and Sebastian find themselves together again after years apart to dig through old stories of youth and friendship. However, the world around them has become filled with government control and censorship. The current administration has drawn a line in the sand and as the wine flows and the tongues loosen each of our four dinner guests discover where their old friends stand along that line. Are they terrorists, freedom fighters, or just trouble makers? Are they protectors, tyrants, or bullies? Are the reasons for this dinner as innocent as they seem? Through subtle looks and casual remarks this hand of poker gets played out, the game is ON.
PAPER DREAMS
OCT 14, 5-7 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
DATEV GALLAGHER
PRODUCER
NATASHA NARKIEWICZ
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: Heather Lee Smith, Finn Scott
SYNOPSIS: Ramona longs to reconnect with her estranged mother, but her fear of rejection continues to stand in her way. When Ramona meets an outspoken young boy named Hennery, something about him intrigues her. Before she realizes it, through a few meaningful conversations, they form a friendship that inspires within her a sense of courage she was never able to find on her own.
PIROUETTE
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
ALEXANDRA PETERS
PRODUCER
ARLENE KALEM
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Bob Boyd, Jada Sanders
SYNOPSIS: When Clara’s ballet company is on tour in New York, she reaches out to her estranged father and invites him to coffee. When they meet, she shows him a photo album filled with pictures of her and her mother after recitals. But there is one picture in which a young Clara stands alone next to a child’s drawing of her father. She extends an invitation to come to her next performance and hopes that he is ready to rekindle their relationship.
PITSTOP
OCT 15, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
MELANIE MCGRAW
PRODUCERS
CAITLIN TAYLOR, DINAL GACHMAN, MARY POSATKO
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Andrea Helene, Shawnna Youngquist
SYNOPSIS: Thoughtful and introverted compared to her eight, high-spirited siblings, 12-year-old Maggie escapes how invisible she feels in a large family by hiding behind her snap-n-shoot, plastic camera—yet she can never find the courage to actually take a picture. While on a family road trip, she is accidentally forgotten at a rundown desert gas station. There she meets a desert-worn and broken-hearted recluse who proves more than just a passing influence on this young girl’s journey to find a voice.
PLAYING WITH ANGELS (ENGLESPILL)
OCT 15, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
JADE HAEREM AKSNES
PRODUCER
TUVA GAARDER NORDLIE
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Beate Rostin Wexelsen, Ingemar Gundersen, Gard Frostad Knudstad
SYNOPSIS:
Marcus’ father has become an angel, but is still playing a major part in Marcus’ life.
PROTECT THE NATION
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
C. R. REISSER
PRODUCER
MARCUS MACHURA
RT: 17 MIN
CAST: Thabo Mbatha, Allen Cebekhulu, Jerry Mofokeng, Wright Ngubeni
SYNOPSIS:
When faced with the unexpected kindness of a stranger, a young boy begins to question himself. Does he have the courage to do what’s right?
RUBY SKYE P.I.: THE SPAM SCAM
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
KELLY HARMS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
JILL GOLICK
PRODUCER
KERRY YOUNG
RT: 2 MIN
CAST: Madison Cheeatow, Marlee Maslove, Nawa Nicole Smith, Ali Adatia
SYNOPSIS:
Fifteen year old Ruby Skye discovers that her neighbour is a victim of an email scam. Ruby vows to get her money back, but the clues start pointing in all the wrong directions and Ruby starts losing friends fast. Can she solve the mystery and win her friends back?
SEAMSTRESS
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
GRACIE OTTO
PRODUCER
LISA SHAUNESSY
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: Barry Otto, Julie Forsyth, Mink Sadowsky
SYNOPSIS:
An ailing bird watcher becomes obsessed with a seamstress living next door when he observes her luring birds into her home. He discovers that she needs the birds to survive – and that he may hold the key to furthering the species.
SIKAT
OCT 14, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/WRITER
ANGELINA CANTADA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Erik Paulsson, Marc Stephenson
PRODUCERS
Olesia Shew, Ita Kane-Wilson
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Kira Clavell, Allisa Skovbye, Ameko Carroll, Kim DiMaggio
SYNOPSIS: It’s been over five years since Sikat left the Philippines to work as a live-in caregiver. Now the day has finally arrived for her husband and son to rejoin her in Canada.
TAROT READING, THE
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
CORY PETKOVSEK
PRODUCER
ALIA ELLA HENDERSON
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Eric Poppick, Sandra Ellis-Troy, Stefan Cap, Antoinette Oesterlein
SYNOPSIS: A businessman goes to a tarot card reader hoping for advice on the stock market, but finds himself looking for meaning after receiving the ‘death’ card.
TO HONOR ASPHODELS
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
YANA ALLIATA DI MONTEREALE
PRODUCER
YANA ALLIATA DI MONTEREALE
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Rosco Wuestewald (Voice), Ryan Wuestewald, Sophia Klein
SYNOPSIS:
Arnaud, the thief, wanders inadvertently onto an estate that curiously echoes the Greek underworld. Before he recognizes the precariousness of his circumstance, the gate closes behind him, imprisoning him with characters whose suffering will force him to unearth his forgotten humanity. Is Arnaud’s soul trapped for eternity or will his encounter with the tragic Rebecca nourish his spirit into bloom like an asphodel, the legendary flower of Hades?
TOUCH
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
JANE LANIER
PRODUCER
PATRICIA STEFFY
RT: 30 MIN
CAST: Laura Nickerson, Justin Bowler
SYNOPSIS: Touch tells the emotional account of two distressed souls who come together and experience, through human contact, how healing begins.
TRUE TALE MONSTERS
OCT 16, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
MAIKO TOMITA
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Anna Benuzzi, Francine Locke
SYNOPSIS: A children’s novelist must overcome a decision that’s putting her new book on hold until she meets a girl who resembles a character in the story that’s causing this block.
TUB, THE
OCT 16, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
MATIA KARRELL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
JAMIE FARROW
PRODUCERS
DEDEE PFEIFFER, JEFFREY HOPKINS & KEVIN J. RYAN
RT: 19 MIN
CAST: Dedee Pfeiffer, Melora Hardin, Gildart Jackson, Kevin J. Ryan, Spencer Garrett
SYNOPSIS: A black comedy about FRANNIE, (Dedee Pfeiffer) a woman who feels she has failed at relationships, and even botched her half-hearted attempts at suicide brought on by these romantic failures. Then, with the help of a WOMAN (Melora Hardin) who seems to know an awful lot about her, she realizes that her life does not have to be defined by men. Unfortunately she figures this out just as her attempt at suicide is actually finally working. She knows better now. But…
VISIBLE BRA STRAPS
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
AJITESH SHARMA
PRODUCER
SHILPA SHARMA
RT: 30 MIN
CAST: Petra Khruz, Reeth Mazumder
SYNOPSIS: This is a story of two women, a young Italian corporate professional Sandra and a young Indian college student Sanjana. They would not have even known each other had their life continued as it is. Sandra has lost her job and Sanjana has lost her love. Their solitude brings them together, not in person but in virtual, through web chat. It seems that their pain is connecting them together, but it is not. They are entirely different as individuals and their cultures and way of lives are poles apart. It is their difference that is connecting them more and more. Visible Bra Straps is their point of reference to the freedom of Sandra and bounds of Sanjana.
WAY OF JUSTICE, THE
OCT 14, 4-6 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
EMILY PECK
PRODUCER
HSING-YI TSENG
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: David Sedgwick, Robert Craighead, Sheri Mann Stewart, Griffin Freeman
SYNOPSIS: Sheriff Tom Larue is a man of the law. But when his own son turns up murdered, Tom’s world of order erupts into chaos. Tom embarks on the course for retribution. Yet in this southern town where moral standards mask dark secrets, truth is not easily brought to light. Desperate for answers, Tom begins to compromise his most sacred principles and soon comes face to face with his own worst enemy…himself. In the end, Tom must decide whether he is a man of vengeance or a man of justice.
WEIGHTLESS TRAVELLER, THE
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
EVA COLMERS
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Anne-Marie Felicitas, George McLauchlin, Glenn Nelson, Ken D. Berry, Michael Kennard
SYNOPSIS: With no possessions to tie her down and a touch of magic to keep her going, young vagabond Bo is ready to take off: to the big city, the desert and the jungle. Exciting visual storytelling combined with intriguing imagery and music make The Weightless Traveller a delight to watch!
Xo
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR
EVA RAMDOHR
PRODUCER/WRITER
CLAUDIA J. RONDON
RT: 7 MIN
CAST: Michelle Davidson, Oliver Wakelin
SYNOPSIS: Boy sees girl from a distance each day. He tries to get her attention. Does he succeed?
MUSIC VIDEOS
NOTHING IS WRONG
OCT 14, 5-7 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR
LEAH MCKISSOCK
RT: 3 MIN
SYNOPSIS: Nothing is Wrong,’ is the debut music video for Israeli artist Mika Ben-Yami. Done entirely in one single tracking shot, the video follows Mika as she walks through a surrealist version of her day.