All Films

Greg Morton: I Started Out, as a Baby

2018 • 39 min • United States of America

Greg Morton had only two choices in schoolyard conflicts. Learn the ways of the force, or use his wit to diffuse situations. That wit would soon lead to winning first prize in the, ‘So You Think You’re Funny Contest’ and the beginning of his stand-up comedy career. He was no longer the shy introverted kid, drawing cartoons in the corner. He had finally found his voice. A voice he would later use to direct and voice over twenty Saturday Morning cartoons. This former mobile disc jockey, who used to play songs at weddings, now sings song parodies on nationally syndicated radio shows, like the Bob and Tom Show. Take his Obama Man, sung to the tune of Candy Man, which has racked up over 4 million hits on YouTube.

We Out Here: A LDN Story

2018 • 39 min • United Kingdom

We Out Here: A LDN Story is a document of the people and places which have laid the foundations for London’s fertile jazz scene in 2018. It’s about the renaissance which jazz has experienced over the past few years. It’s also about friendship, community and the influences of the city that these musicians call home. The film tells the journey of these young, gifted players, many of whom have trained and come up together, and whose sounds are now becoming an integral part of London’s musical landscape – as well as representing the city around the UK and the rest of the world.

Those Who Burn

2018 • 27 min • France, Morocco

Casablanca. Samir, a young Moroccan, lives on odd jobs. One day, while cleaning a storage shed for a drug dealer, he comes across an injured man. Kai is an illegal immigrant waiting for transit. Hostile at first, Samir ends up helping Kai. A troubling relationship begins...

Rapunzel

2018 • 4 min

The charming Delta Pi, Rapunzel, turns down a proposition for a wild night out with friends, unaware of fate's cruel game and the fierce fire that will soon engulf her room in flames.

Oddbods: Party Monsters

2018 • 23 min

Dressed up as detective Sherlock Holmes, Slick must crack the case when a magician turns Jeff's spooky-costume party guests into their scary alter egos.

Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation

2018 • 55 min

Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation is a tale of science, culture, and thrilling adventure! Earth is a planet born of fire. For billions of years, volcanoes have helped create the world we know. From the continents to the air we breathe and even life itself, all have their origins in fire. With over 500 active volcanoes, Earth is bursting at the seams with these forces of mass construction. The story of volcanoes is the story of the planet’s creation, and the story of us.

Like Mother, Like Daughter

2018 • 8 min

A Vietnamese American trans woman tries on an áo dài behind her immigrant mother's back in hopes of reconnecting with her on Lunars New Year.

From the Depths of My Heart

2018 • 48 min • France, Reunion

In Reunion Island, green casuarinas are swept by trade winds. We skim the black sandy earth until we reach the center and come upon a stage, a "ron," where poets succeed one another to deliver their "fonnkers" and perpetuate the Creole language. Their bodies vibrate, their feet stomp the basaltic soil to invoke the secret tale. The poem thus becomes the ritual for an identity quest. Tonight is kabar night "Ôté fonnkézer. Rant dann ron, detak la lang, demay lo kèr!" (Oh Poet. Walk on stage, free your tongue, untangle your heart!) The texts of these poems have urged us to resist for the past forty years. Could their panting souls be whispering the possibility of resilience to our ears?

Road to Moultrie

2018 • 4 min

Two strangers meet on their journeys home and decide to travel together.

Jenna

2018 • 15 min

Jenna hears disturbing noises in the house below. In a desperate attempt to understand the cause of these, she decides to investigate further and embroils herself in a terrifying state of affairs.

Suspicious Minds

2018 • 11 min • United States of America

Three high school students finish their final semester and now kicking off the summer. Everything goes well until a black hooded figure with a clown mask kidnapes them.

Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom

2018 • 2 min

Greenpeace brings the rampant destruction of rainforest habitat in Indonesia to grow palm oil into the spotlight.

How the Moon Fell from the Sky and No One Even Noticed

2018 • 40 min • United States of America

When best friends Benji (Peter Carroll) and Ruben (Nick Trivisonno) decide to make a film about the man on the moon, they don’t realize they’re signing up for the end of the world as they know it. But when a love triangle develops on set and the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, the boys must reckon with their developing feelings for each other or face an uncertain future. Produced by and starring high school students from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, HOW THE MOON FELL FROM THE SKY AND NO ONE EVEN NOTICED is a testament to the power of young artists who work together to achieve what no one thought possible.

A Murder in Boulder

2018 • 25 min

A mother found after Christmas that her 6 year old girl is missing and a ransom note demanding $118,000. She then was devastated when her husband found the little girl's body in the basement. Who killed the little girl?

The Pushouts

2018 • 58 min • United States of America

The Pushouts focuses on the alarming rate of high school dropouts and the critical state of public education through the story of Victor Rios. Rios was a gang member in West Oakland who was headed for a life of incarceration when he met an inspirational teacher. Now a professor at UC Santa Barbara, he and his mentor dedicate their lives to motivating young Mexican and African-American teens to realize their potential.

I'm Still Here

2018 • 4 min • Australia

As nuclear war looms, a woman must make a final phone call.

Palm Trees and Power Lines

2018 • 16 min • United States of America

Sixteen year old Charlotte ambles through a summer day when she's followed home by Tommy, an older guy. Tommy helps her escape her loneliness, but after betraying her trust, Charlotte must decide what matters to her most.

Stan

2018 • 55 min • New Zealand

A documentary following acclaimed Kiwi musician and actor Stan Walker as he opens up his world to the public, sharing his most intimate moments over the last nine months.

20

2018 • 47 min

20 years later, a look back at Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game.

The Little Tools

2018 • 11 min • France

One morning where nothing starts. I discover the rubble of a recent past : an old foundry completely ripped open on the edge of a small village in Brittany. Over the course of a passage, a crossing, I draw the contours of this space. This is a film about oblivion, about modern ruins, a political film in which the foundry comes to symbolize the upheavals of the working world, the society that stirs us, and the unceasing acceleration of progress...

Soar

2018 • 8 min • France

Choreography of an imaginary journey.

Names That Matter

2018 • 15 min • Brazil

In front of the camera, transgender people reveal how they chose their new names. The testimonies evoke the affective memory of these characters and the importance of having their identity acknowledged.​

Mannequins

2018 • 7 min

Four friends, well aware of the irony and cliche involved, visit the abandoned Carpenter Hill Hospital for fun, for laughs and for scares but none of them can know the true darkness that waits for them, a force they find themselves inexplicably drawn toward...

Gulyabani

2018 • 32 min • Turkey

Gulyabani is an entity, a ghoul, an outsider. She’s the restless spirit of a desolate and lonely place. Fethiye Sessiz, a notorious clairvoyant from Izmir in 1970s and 1980s, remembers fractions of her survival from abuse, kidnappings and violence. Recounting the events of her childhood through her diary and letters to her estranged son, Gulyabani recollects the emotional landscape in the most violent period of post-Republic Turkey, where the memory of the future and fragments of the past come together at once.