Professional narrative
“Stock Exchange”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 5:40 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Frederic Mosbeux & Stephane Everaert
12 min
(Belgium) English Subtitles
Kris, a young father, is ready to do anything to find his daughter lost in the badly organized stock of Kosta's dubious kidnapping corporation.
Director: Frederic Mosbeux & Stephane Everaert
12 min
(Belgium) English Subtitles
Kris, a young father, is ready to do anything to find his daughter lost in the badly organized stock of Kosta's dubious kidnapping corporation.
“pechorin”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 1:00 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Khrushch Roman; Producer: Zheleznikov Vladimir, Litvak Mikhall, Litvak Leonid
95 min
(Russia) English Subtitles
Inspired by a classic Russian novel, Pechorin shares the final hours of a soldier’s life as he reflects on past encounters.
Director: Khrushch Roman; Producer: Zheleznikov Vladimir, Litvak Mikhall, Litvak Leonid
95 min
(Russia) English Subtitles
Inspired by a classic Russian novel, Pechorin shares the final hours of a soldier’s life as he reflects on past encounters.
“Love is like a snake”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 2:40 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Kilasme Wu
35 min
(Taiwan) English Subtitles
Based on Taiwanese legend, Love is Like a Snake tells the tale of a photographer transformed…by love.
Director: Kilasme Wu
35 min
(Taiwan) English Subtitles
Based on Taiwanese legend, Love is Like a Snake tells the tale of a photographer transformed…by love.
Professional documentary
“the man left behind”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 1:30 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Gregory Tomlin
91 min
Paul Longgrear was sent to Vietnam to command an elite combat unit. At home, his wife tended to their newborn daughter and dutifully kept her promise to pray for her husband at war. The prayers never meant much to Longgrear until the early hours of February 7, 1968. Trapped in a concrete bunker with seven other Green Berets and surrounded by a determined enemy using tanks for the first time in the war, Longgrear retreated to a corner of the shattered bunker and prayed his first real prayer. He knew he would die, so he prayed that God would take care of his wife and child. He counted his last 19 rounds of ammunition. Eighteen were for the enemy. The last he saved for himself.
Director: Gregory Tomlin
91 min
Paul Longgrear was sent to Vietnam to command an elite combat unit. At home, his wife tended to their newborn daughter and dutifully kept her promise to pray for her husband at war. The prayers never meant much to Longgrear until the early hours of February 7, 1968. Trapped in a concrete bunker with seven other Green Berets and surrounded by a determined enemy using tanks for the first time in the war, Longgrear retreated to a corner of the shattered bunker and prayed his first real prayer. He knew he would die, so he prayed that God would take care of his wife and child. He counted his last 19 rounds of ammunition. Eighteen were for the enemy. The last he saved for himself.
"Unstoppables"
Screening: Friday, March 7, 3:25 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Daniel Jariod; Producer: Liz Roberts
71 min
(Spain) English Subtitles
Juan Mendez lost his left arm and left leg in a motorcycle accident twenty years ago. After a period of denial and sadness battling with the changes in his life he decided to fight back and took up cycling which led to him founding a cycling club, The Pirates which helps others better themselves. He is now considered the world's number one athlete in his class.In our film we follow him on the road to the Para Olympics in London 2012.
Director: Daniel Jariod; Producer: Liz Roberts
71 min
(Spain) English Subtitles
Juan Mendez lost his left arm and left leg in a motorcycle accident twenty years ago. After a period of denial and sadness battling with the changes in his life he decided to fight back and took up cycling which led to him founding a cycling club, The Pirates which helps others better themselves. He is now considered the world's number one athlete in his class.In our film we follow him on the road to the Para Olympics in London 2012.
“mobile in black and white”
Screening: Thursday, March 6, 7:00 pm Block, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Robert Gray; Producer: Robert Gray, Joe'l Lewis,
Brian Butler
92 min
In many ways, Mobile, Alabama has moved beyond the racial problems that plagued most American cities throughout the twentieth century. Overt racism is no longer tolerated, and, for the most part, race relations in Mobile are not much different than in other cities, north or south. Mobile in Black and White takes a hard look at the ways racism continues to pervade the structures and institutions of a supposedly post-racial world. Expertly blending the insights and experiences of local residences and leading experts such as Peggy McIntosh, John Powell, Tim Wise, and Bryan Stevenson, as well as the poetry of Natasha Trethewey, Sonia Sanchez, and others, this documentary is a powerful, thought-provoking catalyst for constructive community conversations on race.
Director: Robert Gray; Producer: Robert Gray, Joe'l Lewis,
Brian Butler
92 min
In many ways, Mobile, Alabama has moved beyond the racial problems that plagued most American cities throughout the twentieth century. Overt racism is no longer tolerated, and, for the most part, race relations in Mobile are not much different than in other cities, north or south. Mobile in Black and White takes a hard look at the ways racism continues to pervade the structures and institutions of a supposedly post-racial world. Expertly blending the insights and experiences of local residences and leading experts such as Peggy McIntosh, John Powell, Tim Wise, and Bryan Stevenson, as well as the poetry of Natasha Trethewey, Sonia Sanchez, and others, this documentary is a powerful, thought-provoking catalyst for constructive community conversations on race.
student narrative
“east of kensington”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 4:45 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Kellen Moore
20 min
Years after Peter Pan and the Lost Boys have overthrown the pirates, Peter visits London to return Wendy to Neverland and is kidnapped by a mysterious Stranger residing in the decaying remains of the Darling House. Peter is forced to confront a harsh reality that challenges his innocence.East of Kensington takes a dark introspective look into JM Barrie's classic story.
Director: Kellen Moore
20 min
Years after Peter Pan and the Lost Boys have overthrown the pirates, Peter visits London to return Wendy to Neverland and is kidnapped by a mysterious Stranger residing in the decaying remains of the Darling House. Peter is forced to confront a harsh reality that challenges his innocence.East of Kensington takes a dark introspective look into JM Barrie's classic story.
“Butterfly Dreams”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 5:15 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Venkat Krishnan
23 min
English Subtitles
A nine-year-old girl in rural India, exploited by child labor, must find a way to pursue her dream - how to read and write. She has one last chance when an educated man comes to town.
Director & Producer: Venkat Krishnan
23 min
English Subtitles
A nine-year-old girl in rural India, exploited by child labor, must find a way to pursue her dream - how to read and write. She has one last chance when an educated man comes to town.
“113 degrees”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 3:25 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Sabrina Doyle; Producer: Matilde Barbagallo
21 min
Francesca and Joe are astronauts who've become lovers. Bunkered up in their little spaceship, Earth is a distant reality: everything they want is right here. But now their mission is ending, and Joe's wife is waiting for him back home. Thinking she's going to lose him, Francesca takes desperate measures, leading to terrible and unintended consequences.
Director: Sabrina Doyle; Producer: Matilde Barbagallo
21 min
Francesca and Joe are astronauts who've become lovers. Bunkered up in their little spaceship, Earth is a distant reality: everything they want is right here. But now their mission is ending, and Joe's wife is waiting for him back home. Thinking she's going to lose him, Francesca takes desperate measures, leading to terrible and unintended consequences.
student documentary
“ditching school to whistle”
Screening: Thursday, March 6, 7:00 pm Block, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: ien chi
15 min
April 2012 filmmaker Ien Chi set out to compete in the International Whistling Competition - and make a documentary about it. This short film explores not only the fascinating people who converge once a year for this quirky event; but also tells the unexpectedly touching stories of people who discovered healing and therapy through what may be dismissed by many as silly: whistling.
Director & Producer: ien chi
15 min
April 2012 filmmaker Ien Chi set out to compete in the International Whistling Competition - and make a documentary about it. This short film explores not only the fascinating people who converge once a year for this quirky event; but also tells the unexpectedly touching stories of people who discovered healing and therapy through what may be dismissed by many as silly: whistling.
“not a statistic”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 5:15 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Shelby Hadden
36 min
'Not a Statistic' is the story of a mother who dedicates every day to ensuring her son lives a happy, normal life, despite his incurable mitochondrial disease.
Director & Producer: Shelby Hadden
36 min
'Not a Statistic' is the story of a mother who dedicates every day to ensuring her son lives a happy, normal life, despite his incurable mitochondrial disease.
“arde lucus”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 4:05 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director: Oscar Brais Revalderia Prieto; Producer: Pedro Revalderia
60 min
English Subtitles
1700 years ago the wall of Lucus Augusti (Lugo) watched over the so called world, today the people from the city celebrates this during the last weekend of June every year, making one of the most important and realistic festivals about the Roman Era in the world.
Director: Oscar Brais Revalderia Prieto; Producer: Pedro Revalderia
60 min
English Subtitles
1700 years ago the wall of Lucus Augusti (Lugo) watched over the so called world, today the people from the city celebrates this during the last weekend of June every year, making one of the most important and realistic festivals about the Roman Era in the world.
vanguard
“system preferences"
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 2:35 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Anya Belkina
17 min
SYSTEM PREFERENCES is an animated documentary that tells the story of computer pioneer Bashir Rameyev, who is on a quest to achieve something extraordinary for his country in order to prove that he and his family are not 'the enemies of the people'. The result of his struggle is the invention of a computer used to launch Sputnik into space and, as a consequence, to spur the headlong development of Russian and American microelectronics. The second narrative woven into Rameyev's story is organized around a central argument that USSR's 1969 decision to curtail national computer research in favor of cloning American products had tragic consequences not only for Russian computer science, but for the global community of computer users today.
Director & Producer: Anya Belkina
17 min
SYSTEM PREFERENCES is an animated documentary that tells the story of computer pioneer Bashir Rameyev, who is on a quest to achieve something extraordinary for his country in order to prove that he and his family are not 'the enemies of the people'. The result of his struggle is the invention of a computer used to launch Sputnik into space and, as a consequence, to spur the headlong development of Russian and American microelectronics. The second narrative woven into Rameyev's story is organized around a central argument that USSR's 1969 decision to curtail national computer research in favor of cloning American products had tragic consequences not only for Russian computer science, but for the global community of computer users today.
“Judith”
Screening: Saturday, March 8, 3:05 pm, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Takahisa Shiraishi
9 min
This is a silent short film based on the Book of Judith from the Bible. In the eighteenth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians commanded Holofernes the chief general of his army to avenge the land of Jordan, which he tried to invade once and failed. Holofernes destroyed the cities of Israel one after another. Now the army surrounded the city of Bethulia. All of the men in the city trembled with fear of Holofernes's brutal manner and decided to surrender without a resistance. However Judith refuses their decision. Judith goes to the camp of Assyrian army alone to kill Holofernes.
Director & Producer: Takahisa Shiraishi
9 min
This is a silent short film based on the Book of Judith from the Bible. In the eighteenth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians commanded Holofernes the chief general of his army to avenge the land of Jordan, which he tried to invade once and failed. Holofernes destroyed the cities of Israel one after another. Now the army surrounded the city of Bethulia. All of the men in the city trembled with fear of Holofernes's brutal manner and decided to surrender without a resistance. However Judith refuses their decision. Judith goes to the camp of Assyrian army alone to kill Holofernes.
“Mt. pleasant”
Screening: Thursday, March 6, 7:00 pm Block, UNA Communications Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Raymond Clayton Thomas
23 min
Guilt. Regret. Religion. Life. Death.
Director & Producer: Raymond Clayton Thomas
23 min
Guilt. Regret. Religion. Life. Death.
young filmmaker
“writing the big one”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 10:00 am Block, UNA Communications
Bldg, Room 131
Director: Evan Sennett
19 min
Desperate for inspiration, writer H.W. Reed turns to the Film Noir channel for inspiration on his new book. As the film unravels, Reed begins to live in the very film noir he is trying to write.
Bldg, Room 131
Director: Evan Sennett
19 min
Desperate for inspiration, writer H.W. Reed turns to the Film Noir channel for inspiration on his new book. As the film unravels, Reed begins to live in the very film noir he is trying to write.
“the models of bekonscot”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 10:00 am Block, UNA Communications
Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Sophie LeNeveu
5 min
A retro style documentary about an English village dating back to the 1930's. This town has country manors, schools and an airfield. But as this film reveals, it is far from ordinary.
Bldg, Room 131
Director & Producer: Sophie LeNeveu
5 min
A retro style documentary about an English village dating back to the 1930's. This town has country manors, schools and an airfield. But as this film reveals, it is far from ordinary.
“Regione Caecorum (in the land of the blind)”
Screening: Friday, March 7, 10:00 am Block, UNA Communications
Bldg, Room 131
Director: Drew Goldsmith
3 min
English Subtitles
An evening of speed dating turns the tables on ability -- and disability.
Bldg, Room 131
Director: Drew Goldsmith
3 min
English Subtitles
An evening of speed dating turns the tables on ability -- and disability.
Feature screenplays
"A Second last breath"
Screenwriter: Amanda Creiglow
A young woman struggles to survive and justify her continued existence after a plague brings her back to life, but requires her to consume human brain matter to maintain lucidity. A growing partnership with a non-infected human, and the burden of maintaining relationships from both before and after the end of the world as we know it make finding her way in a post-apocalyptic world a delicate dance. Do you always have the right to fight for your own survival?
A young woman struggles to survive and justify her continued existence after a plague brings her back to life, but requires her to consume human brain matter to maintain lucidity. A growing partnership with a non-infected human, and the burden of maintaining relationships from both before and after the end of the world as we know it make finding her way in a post-apocalyptic world a delicate dance. Do you always have the right to fight for your own survival?
"yellow brick road"
Screenwriter: Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
We all remember the lovable Kansan farm girl Dorothy Gale; her red, pigtailed hair, her luscious red lips, and her ruby red slippers. We all remember Dorothy's equally lovable friends; the Scarecrow in search of a brain, the Tin Man in search of a heart, and the Cowardly Lion in search of courage. And we are all familiar with the Wicked Witch of the West and her quest to take Dorothy's ruby red slippers. And let's not forget about the Munchkins, the Good Witch Glinda, and The Wizard of Oz himself. But we're all familiar with their light-hearted, colourful, 1939 characterizations. What if Dorothy, her friends, and her enemies lived in our present world?
We all remember the lovable Kansan farm girl Dorothy Gale; her red, pigtailed hair, her luscious red lips, and her ruby red slippers. We all remember Dorothy's equally lovable friends; the Scarecrow in search of a brain, the Tin Man in search of a heart, and the Cowardly Lion in search of courage. And we are all familiar with the Wicked Witch of the West and her quest to take Dorothy's ruby red slippers. And let's not forget about the Munchkins, the Good Witch Glinda, and The Wizard of Oz himself. But we're all familiar with their light-hearted, colourful, 1939 characterizations. What if Dorothy, her friends, and her enemies lived in our present world?
“the girl i left behind”
Screenwriter: Stephanie Bain
The man who killed her father and her brother is coming for her. She hopes he finds her.
The man who killed her father and her brother is coming for her. She hopes he finds her.
Short screenplays
"more than life"
Screenwriter: Ashley Matteson
Upon liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, a male prisoner--imprisoned for being homosexual--searches the camp for his lover who was taken away from him.
Upon liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, a male prisoner--imprisoned for being homosexual--searches the camp for his lover who was taken away from him.
“death expectancy”
Screenwriter: Elisa Herrmann
It's 2033. Thanks to advancements in medicine, life expectancy is now 200 years. That's great for humans, but not so much for the Grim Reaper. He is not only afraid he will lose his job, but he also feels lonely. There is crisis in the celestial realm, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
It's 2033. Thanks to advancements in medicine, life expectancy is now 200 years. That's great for humans, but not so much for the Grim Reaper. He is not only afraid he will lose his job, but he also feels lonely. There is crisis in the celestial realm, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
“You're a good guy, eli”
Screenwriter: Cornelius Murphy
After leaving his wife and quitting his job, Andrew can't wait to introduce his friend Eli to the amazing new woman in his life who is making it all possible.
After leaving his wife and quitting his job, Andrew can't wait to introduce his friend Eli to the amazing new woman in his life who is making it all possible.
