All Films

The Bond

2012 • 5 min

A married couple become the focus of an intense police investigation surrounding a series of ritualistic murders in the small New Hampshire community of Madham.

Water to Wine

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

The film is about half-documentary, half-comedy about a kid who is thought to be the top snowboarder in the world until the day he gets put in jail. When released, he's picked up by all the other top snowboarders in the world in a party van, and to celebrate, they all go up the mountain the van for a snowboard party. All of the snowboarders in the film are real people and the story is semi-true.

Clean-cut People

2012 • 35 min • Sweden

Anders, a former factory worker, has been driven into a meaningless existence and lives outside the civilized human frame. His father Stig is a demented senior with a successful academic career. Stig is full of pride and joy of life. The gap between them is an unresolved conflict.

Love and Death in Los Angeles

2012 • 19 min • United States of America

After aborting his last assignment for moral reasons, a contract killer is given a second chance to prove his loyalty. But when he learns his mark is his girlfriend's husband, he finds himself battling the ultimate moral dilemma. With only 72 hours to fulfill the contract, he must find a way to save the innocent, and himself... but not everyone is as innocent as they seem.

Me

2012 • 6 min • France

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

A survey of movies about politics, with clips from several films and interviews with filmmakers and actors.

The Auctioneer

2012 • 57 min

A portrait of auctioneer Dale Menzak and his work as undertaker of the family farm.

Bewilderbeast

2012 • 26 min • Denmark

Mads leaves his aristocratic home after his girlfriend announces her pregnancy, in the attempt to rediscover himself. Soon he joins an idealistic terror sect planning to annihilating world only to rebuild it once again. Sexually charged Mads comes to a bloody realization of what he is made of.

Turn Off Your Bloody Phone: An American Werewolf in London

2012 • 1 min • United Kingdom

One in a series of short PSAs produced for FrightFest 2012 admonishing people to turn off their bloody phones.

The 'E.T.' Journals

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

The following documentary is composed exclusively of original behind-the-scenes footage shot during the production of "E.T." in 1981. It follows the order of the scenes as they appear in the film.

The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea

2012 • 41 min • Bahamas, Canada, French Polynesia, Mexico, Palau, United States of America

From the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting, inspirational large-format and 3D cinema experience capturing one of nature's more vibrant and diverse wonderlands. Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Shot on location in Palau, Vancouver Island, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas using groundbreaking 3D cinematography, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore the connection of our cities on land with the ocean's complex, parallel world of the coral reefs beneath the sea.

Auditioning Fanny

2012 • 15 min • Australia

Auditioning Fanny follows an eventful week in the life of Fanny Love. A naive woman with stars in her eyes for an old Hollywood world long gone, and a dream of a love story lost in modern society. With the innocence of a child and the temper of a psychopath, she is thrilled when auditions for a new musical film starring heart throb Jack Baron are announced. With a spring in her step and a song in her heart, Fanny knows this is the big break she's been waiting for, and as long as nobody stands in her path, everything should work out just dandy.

Beatitudes

2012 • 16 min • Greece

A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.

Head Over Heels

2012 • 10 min • United Kingdom

After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: He lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, their equilibrium comes crashing down, and the couple that can’t agree which way is up must find a way to put their marriage back together.

Static Shock Blackout

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

Daisy Watkins, an up and coming news reporter, goes to Dakota City to to discover the name of a super-powered teenage vigilante. It's a fan adaptation of Dwayne McDuffie's comic book and television series: Static Shock.

Legs - Atavism

2012 • 11 min • Russia

In this 10-minute study the fi lm crew tries to get to the secrets of one of the wildest branches of experimental medicine.

Bird in a Box

2012 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A surreal short comedy about a lonely man whose first proper date in years is sabotaged by the unattainable love of his life, who proves to have as much control over his heart as she does over his route.

In Session

2012 • 13 min

A former Sing Sing inmate, accidentally robs and is held captive by his old shrink Dr. Beck, an ex-criminal psychologist turned librarian after the murder of his wife and son, who interrogates the intruder as though it were one of their sessions turned awry.

Practice Makes Perfect

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

The film is primarily a portrait of Kam Kelly, who teaches West African drumming to students at various New York schools, including Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn. One of his students, Jessica Jackson, is featured. The piece was commissioned for the “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012.

Broken

2012 • 21 min • Hong Kong

Everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity, and the person below is just a stepping stone up the chain of power. When two boys are left home alone with Grandpa going about his usual business in antiques and collectibles, their improvised ball game results in the breaking of a precious vase. Sly big brother attempts to lay the blame on little brother, by hook and by crook, but Grandpa is as savvy a collector as he is a guardian. The little culprits duly accept their punishment, the blows cushioned by a padding of good humour.

Killer

2012 • 19 min

Detective John Hay is told his young son has been kidnapped and he has just 15 minutes to reach him. Forced into a desperate race against time he fights to overcome obstacles the kidnapper has prepared whilst piecing together the identity of his tormentor. In the final moments he is has to face the truth about the role he has played in this deadly game and the impact on his son, who will never again see his father with innocent eyes.

Sacred Whispers

2012 • 21 min • United States of America

The story takes place in the 1940's and in the beginning of the 1960's. Thomas Smith had a religious upbringing! His mother being quite abusive, forbade him from pursuing his passions. This suppression, turned Thomas into a deprived individual resulting in his growing up a tormented soul, constantly fighting his demons, striving for salvation.

Tom Rhodes: Light, Sweet, Crude

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Back from traveling the world, comedian Tom Rhodes takes to the stage of Colorado's Boulder Theater for this blistering hour-long performance.

Blush

2012 • 26 min • United States of America

Two high school geeks create alter ego ski-bum spies to deal with their social anxieties.