By: Sarah Shoemaker
Category: Documentary
Runtime: 00:38:36
Description: Invitation to the Dance introduces Lena Forster and her adult special needs ballet class. Filmmaker Sarah Shoemaker follows five students through a year of dance and life, offering viewers the opportunity to glimpse a perspective frequently overlooked, to listen to voices frequently unheard, and to witness the experiences of those who are impacted by the dancers. The film seeks to explore questions about life, community, and our ability to appreciate both the gifts and the limits of each of us.
By: Cameron Logan
Category: Feature Film
Runtime: 01:14:00
Description: When an autographed “golden record” is stolen from under her nose, Bryn, a self-absorbed slacker, has two days to track it down or find a replacement before her boss gets back in town. Set in 1986.
By: Randell Owens
Category:
Runtime:
Description:
By: Jonathan London
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:18:19
Description:
Having lost her father at an early age, Heidi Cousins sets off on a solo book tour for her early memoir ‘Chasing Fletcher Allen’. Seeking an audience, she instead encounters hostile and confused fans expecting the 90’s TV icon Fletcher Allen.
Tired and frustrated, Heidi perseveres, determined to share her story. Her adventure puts her on a path to meeting a pro wrestler, a kooky pair of bookstore owners, a nerdy kindred spirit and the person she’s been chasing all along.
By: Kiki Tsakalakis
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:10:37
Description:A misunderstood, deaf, white young man longs to join a black Baptist choir that he secretly admires, in hopes of becoming part of the community.
Synopsis:
A timid and withdrawn Zacharias seeks to join a black Baptist choir despite his deafness, drawn to a community with which he seems to have little in common. Zacharias perseveres against his insecurities, impairment, and difference in culture, attempting to find peace in achieving something he desperately desires, a place of acceptance and belonging. “Silent Notes” explores the navigation of two worlds through music and culture.
By: Jeremy Camp
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:03:44
Description:Following the inner dialogue of an online date, we venture into the conscious as Alex tries to put himself “out there”.
By: Christian Taylor
Category: Documentary
Runtime: 01:29:22
Description: THE GIRL WHO WORE FREEDOM brings us to Normandy, France. Once an idyllic landscape, Normandy had succumbed to German invaders who overran its farms, its manors, its countryside.
The film closes on contemporary D-Day celebrations of remembrance and gratitude, where French citizens of all ages celebrate those who were and are willing to defend freedom because they, the people of Normandy, know all too well that freedom is not free.
By: Joe Loftus
Category: Animation
Runtime: 00:11:55
Description: ‘Girl and Robot’ follows the story of a traumatized young girl who is chased across the desert by officers of the state. On her way, she meets a Robot who is afraid of being left alone. As the pursuers catch up, the Girl and the Robot must work together to survive.
By: Pat Battistini
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:09:30
Description: Several years after his wife’s passing, a man decides to get back into the dating scene with a little help from his son’s advice.
By: Galen Cunningham, Hailey Roberts
Category: Student Film
Runtime: 00:11:39
Description: David, a paranoid high schooler, finds himself surrounded by mysterious stuffed rabbits. His curiosity doesn’t end until he is face to face with their sinister source.
Director: Bradley Hawkins
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:28:46
Description: During the summer of ’66, a former rodeo champion and cattle auctioneer from Oklahoma bonds tightly with his young grandson from suburban Pennsylvania while teaching him a few tricks from his previous trades. Shot entirely in rural Pennsylvania, Calf Rope captures the intense love that grandparents often share with their grandchildren and the legacy that lives on long after they have gone.
Actress: Melissa Jackson
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:12:45
Description:
HUNG UP updates the modern-day cowboy mythology to a cowgirl mythology, telling the story of the injured-but-indomitable Patty “Duke,” played by Ecuadorian-American actress Melissa Jackson.
HUNG UP is from Mystic Entertainment and Texan Director Damon O’Steen (DEADLAND), stars Melissa Jackson (FEVAH; JACK AND JILL), Kevin Kane (Netflix’s BONDING, THE IRISHMAN) and Catherine CURTIN (Netflix’s STRANGER THINGS, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, and HBO’s INSECURE), and is produced by Jackson, Nikhil Melnechuk (DON’T BE NICE; FEVAH), Marc Henry Johnson (Writer/Producer of HBO’s THE DEUCE), and O’Steen.
By: Lilly Nelson
Category: Feature Film
Runtime: 00:57:03
Description: Christopher Guest would be proud of this mockumentary about competitive Thumb Wrestling!
Actor: John McGinty
Category: Short Film
Runtime: 00:10:37
Description: A misunderstood, deaf, white young man longs to join a black Baptist choir that he secretly admires, in hopes of becoming part of the community.
Synopsis:
A timid and withdrawn Zacharias seeks to join a black Baptist choir despite his deafness, drawn to a community with which he seems to have little in common. Zacharias perseveres against his insecurities, impairment, and difference in culture, attempting to find peace in achieving something he desperately desires, a place of acceptance and belonging. “Silent Notes” explores the navigation of two worlds through music and culture.
Good By: Gunner Willis
Category:
Runtime:
Description: