Features
FEATURES
INTERSECTION 1 HR 19 min USA
Tim French, Director
Los Angeles, CA
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Synopsis: Cobb Mills is a man tortured by the guilt he bears from his daughter’s death from car crash while he was at the wheel. Six years have passed. Cobb has lost his marriage, his job and any hope for happiness. But this year when he makes his annual visit to the small town where the fateful accident occurred, he meets a beautiful young woman and it appears as if his life may finally be taking a turn for the better. But do second chances come with a cost?
INTERWOVEN 1 HR 28 min USA
V. W. Scheich, Director
Beaufort, South Carolina
Synopsis: Starring Academy Award winner Mo'Nique, ‘Interwoven' is a drama interweaving thirteen true life stories to create one compelling tale of the fragile ties which connect us all. In the film, many of the talented ensemble cast members portray their own personal stories and share their experiences with homelessness, suicide, death, and addiction.
IN THE DARK 1 HR 22min USA
David Spaltro, Director
New York, NY
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Synopsis:Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for her thesis on the benefits of her supernatural research in regards to modern psychology, and joins her on a field study trip to a Brooklyn family home supposedly “besieged by evil spirits”.Self sabotage permeates the relationships of Tom, Charlie and Hannah as they drive across the country to rescue Lily from her own wedding. It's a love triangle turned emotional horror story.
KEEP IN TOUCH 1HR 45min USA
Sam Kretchmar, Director
New York, NY
fSynopsis: After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his “first love,” only to discover she was killed many years ago in a car accident. Stumbling upon her younger sister online, a musician who bares a striking resemblance, he obsesses and begins a relationship without disclosing his true identity.
DOCUMENTARY
DAYLIGHT COME 1HR 18min USA
Evan Vetter, Director
Wilmington, NC
Synopsis: While witnessing the devastation brought upon the Congolese by decades of war, each of the women in our film have one surprising thing in common, HOPE. I believe this unyielding hope will allow audiences to engage in these stories and see the Congolese people for who they truly are; strong in the face of suffering, faithful when it seems that all is lost and expectant for the future.
KEPULIHAN: When the Waters Recede
21min USA
David Barnhart, Director
Atlanta, GA
Synopsis: short documentary that captures the 2004 Tsunami aftermath and recovery told entirely through the eyes and experiences of 1 survivor over a 10-year period, as he struggles to forge a new life and rebuild his community.
LOCKED IN A BOX: Immigration Detention 26min USA
David Barnhart, Director
Atlanta, GA
Synopsis: “Locked in a Box” follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of several individuals who fled their homelands in search of safety and freedom only to end up in U.S. prisons under a mandatory bed quota system run by Immigration Customs & Enforcement.
PROJECTIONS OF AMERICA 54min USA
Peter Miller, Director
New York, NY
Synopsis: During the darkest hour of the WWII, a team of idealistic filmmakers hoped the power of the movies could reshape the world. Led by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin, the filmmakers created twenty-six short documentaries about American life shown to millions of people around the world.
OLD SOUTH 54min USA
Danielle Beverly, Director
Brooklyn, NY
Synopsis: Hope is 30 years old and fighting to save her historic African American neighborhood from encroachment by an elite white fraternity, one known to fly a Confederate flag and hold an annual antebellum parade. In the aftermath of Ferguson, Baltimore, and now Charleston, everyone’s talking about race.
SINCE: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
1Hr 25min USA
Phil Furey, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: Terrorism is one of biggest problems facing humanity today, but the families of the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103 have lived with it for decades. Bound together by tragedy when a bomb ripped the New York-bound 747 jumbo jet into pieces over Lockerbie, Scotland, just before Christmas in 1988, the Flight 103 families faced one traumatic injustice after another.
ANOTHER LOVE, 18min, UNITED KINGDOM
Victor Perez, Director
London, UK
Synopsis: A pregnant married woman struggles to tell a much older man that their affair is over.
Shorts
A CHESS PLAYER, 23min, USA
Shea Sizemore, Director
Charlotte, NC
Synopsis: A Chess Player is the story of Tony Summerall, the rise and fall of the world’s greatest Chess Master. From his relationship with his abusive sports obsessed father to the grave consequences of an expected checkmate.
A PRAYER FOR THE LONELY
12min USA
Felix Martiz, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: Laura leads group prayers but is going trough a 'cold period', a moment in which she questions her faith in people and prayer. Her Priest and friend Father Daniel asks her to look after an orphan for a day, reluctantly she agrees. Blanca, the orphan, helps Laura realize the power of prayer and faith.
BIRTHDAY 13 Min USA
Chris King, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: When a young military wife gets news that her Marine husband has been severely wounded in combat, she discovers that life ahead for them is going to be a difficult and yet amazing journey.
MORNING SHIFT 5min USA
Gary Weeks, Director
Roswell, SC
Synopsis: Some people shouldn't rob some people.
PARDON THE INTRUSION 20 Min UK
Louise Caruna Galizia, Director
United Kingdom
Synopsis: The story of a housebound woman who forms an important relationship with a troubled teenage runaway.
SELLING ROSARIO 17 Min USA
Iana Simeonov & Michael Winokur, Director
San Francisco, CA
Synopsis: A family of migrant workers send their 12-year-old daughter and her outlaw cousin into the night on the promise of a stranger. Selling Rosario tells the story of a young girl growing up in a migrant labor camp and her parents' risky plan to get her out of an unsafe, squalid environment.
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT 13 Min USA
Juan Paul Rothie, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: Adapted from George Orwell's short story - a young British imperial policeman in Burma is given the no-win mission of handling a rogue work elephant only to find the role he is destined to play is that of public executioner.
THE GUNFIGHTER 9 Min USA
Eric Kissack, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: A weary gunfighter walks into a bar, looking for a drink. What he finds instead is a building full of raunchy people, and an audible, bloodthirsty narrator.
THE TUTOR 19 Min USA
Grant Johnson, Director
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: A woman who lost her fiancee in a car accident struggles in her college courses. She is given a chance to keep her scholarship if she tutors a dyslexic student.
THE VISITOR 5 Min USA
Bennett Pennington, Director
Wilmington, NC
Synopsis: Two men argue over the events of a murdered loved one in a prison psych ward.
Student Film
DANNY FREUD
13 Min USA UNCSA
Madliene Rae Painter, Director
Winston-Salem, NC
Synopsis: Danny, a highly gifted 11-year old, attempts to treat his own anxiety through the teachings of his "uncle," the great Sigmund Freud.
DEEP PAN FURY
20 Min UK University of Creative Arts
Charlie Dennis, Director
Surrey, UK
Synopsis: Deep Pan Fury is a martial arts film about Katashi Kimoto, a young Japanese street fighter trying to change his ways. After leaving his native Japan, for a small English town where his uncle Osamu runs a struggling pizza shop, Katashi soon encounters Oni, a ruthless chinpira of the notorious 9th Shade Clan.
DOUG
13 Min UK Univ. of Creative Arts
Tom Fordham, Director
London, UK
Synopsis: Story of friendship between a troubled little boy and his imaginary friend as they struggle to accept a new member into their family.
LIES BENEATH THE NIGHTSHADE
11 Min USA SCAD
Andrew Wecht, Director
Savannah, GA
Synopsis: In the throes of The Great Depression, Basilio is unable to upkeep his beloved tomato garden with his grandson Anthony serving life in prison–but Anthony has an endgame to help save the family tradition
PANFILO
20 Min UK University of London
Memed Aksoy, Director
London, UK
Synopsis: Panfilo is an apocalyptic fairy tale of three generations of men coming to terms with loss and death in rural Italy.
SCHOOLCRAFT
15 Min USA SCAD
Adam Nelson, Director
Savannah, GA
Synopsis: Based on the true story of Adrian Schoolcraft, a young NYPD beat cop secretly records audio files that expose a culture of corruption within his precinct.
SIN FRONTERA
28 Min USA Dodge College
Iz Gutierrez, Director
Orange, CA
Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Monica (Brenda Romero) and Gabriel (Eduardo Enrikez) are a couple struggling to survive both a decaying relationship and a broken immigration system after a deportation tears them apart.
THE BREAK IN
9 Min USA New York University
Robbie Lemieux, Director
New York, NY
Synopsis:The Break In' is a short comedy about a mother who is spending the night at the family cottage with her kids, Cathy and William, while her husband is away on business. Margaret is terrified of everything from spiders and ghosts, to tsunamis and serial killers.
THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
30 Min USA Dodge College
Matthew Szewczyk, Director
Orange, CA
Synopsis: After a student of Michelle Ainsley’s goes missing, she reaches out to her ex-husband, private security drone pilot Alexander Pike for help.
Animation
A GOTHIC TALE
6 Min USA UNCSA
Marceia Patterson, Director
Winston-Salem, NC
Synopsis: In a gloomy castle, a scientist, a vampire, and a giant fight over the possession of a beautiful flower.
ANOTHER EVEREST
7 Min USA UNCSA
Aleksandre Kosinski, Director
Winston-Salem, NC
Synopsis:
CHIAROSCURO
8 Min BRAZIL
Daniel Drummond, Director
Sao Luis, Brazil
ISynopsis: In a desolate place, a discovery by a mysterious entity sets in motion a chase through abstract space.
REALITY CHECK
9 Min USA CHAPMAN/DODGE
Alexander Woody, Director
Orange, CA
Synopsis: A young man realizes his destiny in a meeting with his guidance counselor.
SWITCH MAN
4 Min TAIWAN
Hsun-Chun Chuang, Directors
Taiwan
Synopsis: In a normal quiet Sunday, Dr. Evil Mantis attacted K-City unexpectedly with his gigantic claw, the entire city in panic and in danger.
Screenplays
ATTIC ASHES USA
Lorraine Portman, Writer
St. Augustine, FL
Synopsis: Attic Ashes: A closed space thriller. Cleaning out her deceased father’s farmhouse, Piper discovers a meth lab and is forced to defend her life against a terrifying onslaught of attacks from sadistic meth cookers hell bent on protecting their secrets, while she uncovers the truth about a father she never knew.
COLLAPSE USA
N. T. Bullock, Writer
New Orleans, LA
Synopsis: When a band of marauders takes her surrogate mother prisoner, River heads out on a rescue mission across a near-future wasteland in search of vengeance.
COASTLINE USA
Ned Farr, Writer
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: The life of a brilliant quantum physicist unravels when he becomes convinced that if he stops walking up the California coast, the love of his life will die.
CONTROLLING USA
Margaret Ford Rogers, Co-Writer
Robert Seckler, Co-Writer
Charleston, SC
Synopsis: Two old roommates and ex-air traffic controllers meet after twenty years. On the surface both mens lives look enviable. Rob is a pilot with a major airline and Earl is the COO for the worlds largest
packages delivery company. But nothing is as it seems and both men are facing desperate futures.
eDISHARMONY USA
Lorraine Portman, Writer
St. Augustine, FL
Synopsis: Single, socially awkward Molly, 44, who is trying to meet men on line, invites all the men she is chatting with to evacuate to her home on high ground when a hurricane threatens. SIX men show up and all must survive what turns into a deadly storm.
IN SPITE OF IT ALL USA
Rebecca Boyd, Writer
Columbia, SC
Synopsis:
Two Irish potato famine immigrants find love in an American Civil War hospital. Inspired by actual events.
SOULBREAK USA
Marie Bailey, Co-Writer
Richard Levine, Co-Writer
Jacksonville, FL
Synopsis: A respected prison psychologist who is unhappy in her marriage gets caught up in an escape plot at the Federal Supermax Penitentiary.
SWITCHED AT GIRTH USA
Kevin Williams, Writer
Los Angeles, CA
Synopsis: Switched at Girth is the twisted cousin of Freaky Friday; but instead of switching bodies, a football player and a pushover switch penises. It's feature length, testosterone fueled, and leaves you asking for more.
THE GERIATRIC TOUR USA
Marcia Chandler Rhea, Writer
Charleston, SC
Synopsis: An eclectic group of American travelers embarks on a trip to the United Kingdom, which turns into the vacation from Hell. Despite their ill-fated adventures, the tourists learn the meaning of comradery on the 50th anniversary of the D-Day celebration .
THE KEY FOR HOPE USA
Frederico Ferrero, Co-Writer
Chance Miller, Co-Writer
Tampa, FL
Synopsis:
TURNING AUGUST USA
Shelia Watson, Co-Writer
Tony Watson, Co-Writer
Johns Island, SC
Synopsis: A professor of linguistics, recruited by the SS to gather intel, discovers the truth of Nazi atrocities and turns the tables on Hitler's henchmen to regain his honor.
Best Actor
Ryan Patrick Bachand (Keep in Touch)
Eduardo Enrikez (Sin Frontera)
Cullen Moss (The Visitor)
Hoyt Richards (Intersection)
Anthony Reynolds (The Visitor)
Best Actress
Maritza Brikisak (Prayer for the Lonely)
Grace Folsom (In the Dark)
Gabbi McPhee (Keep In Touch)
Fiona Horrigan (In the Dark)
Mo'Nique ( Interwoven)
Best Director
Tim French (Intersection)
Sam Kretchmar (Keep In Touch)
Victor Perez (Another Love)
Juan Pablo Rothie (Shooting an Elephant)
V W Scheich (Interwoven)
