Complete event listing for
Alamo Lamar C
1120 South Lamar Blvd
Friday, March 9
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Next up from the Norwegian folklore is ”Thale”, revolving the mythical hulder, a tailed, female forest creature. “Thale” is the story of a certain hulder, found by two crimes scene cleaners in a concealed cellar....
Director(s): Aleksander L. NordaasNarrative Feature
77 min
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“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. SlingerDocumentary Feature
74 min
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Saturday, March 10
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In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared from his home in San Antonio,Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family are overjo...
Director(s): Bart LaytonDocumentary Feature
95 min
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"Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audle...
Director(s): Amy SeimetzNarrative Feature
82 min
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San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (playing himself) is at the height of his career. With a national tour on the horizon and one of his songs being featured in a widely-seen TV commercial, Goh has the life he always wan...
Director(s): Dave BoyleNarrative Feature
73 min
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It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the...
Director(s): Kevin McManus, Matthew McManusNarrative Feature
85 min
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Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction ca...
Director(s): Nir PaniryNarrative Feature
88 min
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Sunday, March 11
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A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfr...
Director(s): Brian SavelsonNarrative Feature
103 min
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After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, h...
Director(s): Guy MaddinNarrative Feature
93 min
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In the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year music version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. To engage her students, she uses hits of the tim...
Director(s): Marc EvansNarrative Feature
109 min
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Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills of Appalachia, he encounters v...
Director(s): Martha StephensNarrative Feature
113 min
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After the tragic death of a newly arrived Ex-pat, ESL kindergarten teachers Simon and Darin, steal the corpse in order to perform the final rites for the fallen stranger. Their quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a...
Director(s): Mark JarrettNarrative Feature
115 min
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Monday, March 12
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"Starlet" explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her...
Director(s): Sean BakerNarrative Feature
103 min
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Ginger Baker is known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith, but the world's greatest drummer didn’t hit his stride until 1972, when he arrived in Nigeria and discovered Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. After leaving Nigeria, Ging...
Director(s): Jay BulgerDocumentary Feature
92 min
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Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh ZahediDocumentary Feature
108 min
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In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. "Jeff" is a documentary that explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting ...
Director(s): Chris James ThompsonDocumentary Feature
79 min
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Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welco...
Director(s): Avi Zev WeiderDocumentary Feature
86 min
Tuesday, March 13
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It’s 1971 and communes and new religions are on the rise. The Source Family are an "Aquarian tribe," a secretive but outlandish group of 140 beautiful young people who stroll Los Angeles in colorful robes, de...
Director(s): Jodi Wille, Maria DemopoulosDocumentary Feature
105 min
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Thirty-five years in the life of Max (Keith Poulson), his best friend Sal (Nick Offerman) and a woman they both adore, Lyla (Jess Weixler).The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at w...
Director(s): Bob ByingtonNarrative Feature
76 min
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A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser, while his abu...
Director(s): Ya'Ke SmithNarrative Feature
86 min
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"The Last Fall" is a coming of age sports drama about the difficulties an NFL journeyman faces when trying to transition to life after his playing days are over.......
Director(s): Matthew A. CherryNarrative Feature
98 min
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Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil BerkeleyDocumentary Feature
88 min
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Wednesday, March 14
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Lost and Sound is a moving creative documentary, made by a partially deaf filmmaker. It weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence, via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people as they try to ...
Director(s): Lindsey DrydenDocumentary Feature
76 min
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After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the ma...
Director(s): Adele RomanskiNarrative Feature
80 min
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Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...
Director(s): Jonny MarsDocumentary Feature
73 min
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"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie LumDocumentary Feature
80 min
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Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat GoldthwaitNarrative Feature
100 min
Thursday, March 15
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In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as their new diet forces them to navigate the agricultural indu...
Director(s): Andrew Beck GraceDocumentary Feature
62 min
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"The Central Park Effect" reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around t...
Director(s): Jeffrey KimballDocumentary Feature
60 min
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Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills of Appalachia, he encounters v...
Director(s): Martha StephensNarrative Feature
113 min
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"Starlet" explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her...
Director(s): Sean BakerNarrative Feature
103 min
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See Girl Run is what happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in ...
Director(s): Nate MeyerNarrative Feature
89 min
Friday, March 16
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Partially blinded by an unknown illness at the age of 4 and sent out to work on the tough streets of Kano in Nigeria at the age of 9, Aisha Sani Abdullahi's life chances were not great. However, a chance encounter sent A...
Director(s): Orlando von EinsiedelDocumentary Short
10 min
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A towering figure in the art world, standing at 6'7", John Baldessari's epic career crammed into 5 and a half frenzied minutes...narrated by Tom Waits.......
Director(s): Henry Joost, Ariel SchulmanDocumentary Short
5 min
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In 1967, Brute Force had just released his first album on Columbia Records and was on the brink of becoming a star. The Beatles championed his next single, "King of Fuh," to be released on Apple Records. But dr...
Director(s): Ben SteinbauerDocumentary Short
12 min
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Aisha's Song Director: Orlando von Einsiedel Musically lush and stunningly shot, Aisha's Song is a touching and uplifting story of female empowerment from a part of the world where women are all too often overlooked. A ...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
92 min
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Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.......
Director(s): Igor DrljacaDocumentary Short
09 min
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Shot cinematically, IT AIN'T OVER is a visually stunning documentary that follows Dr. Edward Dobson, a man accustomed to counseling people through suffering, as he comes to grips with the unusual disease eating away his ...
Director(s): Caleb SlainDocumentary Short
10 min
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The Stanford MRI Lab hosts the world's first ever love competition, in which seven contestants have five minutes to neurochemically love someone as hard as they can.......
Director(s): Brent HoffDocumentary Short
15 min
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This documentary is a portrait of the band TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of music while trying to maint...
Director(s): Chioke NassorDocumentary Short
29 min
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Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his North Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner Juergen, a German engineer, created a camera designed to fit around the f...
Director(s): Seth KealDocumentary Short
15 min
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“I’m trusted with a pair of scissors and I’m in here for murder”. Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Fr...
Director(s): Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowallDocumentary Short
29 min
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CatCam Director: Seth Keal When a German engineer creates a tiny camera for his newly adopted stray cat to wear, the photographs reveal more than ever expected. Cutting Loose Directors: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall ...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
90 min
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Unearthed home movies and haunting dubbed voices collide to create a personal portrait of family dysfunction.......
Director(s): Dustin Guy DefaDocumentary Short
9 min
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A hypnotic, apocalyptic film about false choices, vulnerability and faith.......
Director(s): Jay RosenblattDocumentary Short
4 min
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Through images of kudzu-covered forms, photographed in black and white, hand processed 35mm CinemaScope and radiating with the luminance of early cinema, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling species Pueraria l...
Director(s): Josh GibsonDocumentary Short
19 min
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Hoarder, Filmmaker, Genius. The benevolent Mike Sullivan has been shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years. Obsessed with constructing the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment no...
Director(s): Matt LenskiDocumentary Short
3 min
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Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. The compelling story of a man trying to regain contact with his sister after 14 years of silence. But can one change what has already been written in ink? Beautifully shot on...
Director(s): Martin RathDocumentary Short
11 min
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A wolf in sheep's clothing who thinks he is a sheep.......
Director(s): Landon ZakheimNarrative Short
13 min
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The Chair is the story of a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in a small town and one boy's attempt to understand his mother's death, his grandmother's obsession with their discarded recliner, and the roots of this s...
Director(s): Grainger DavidNarrative Short
12 min
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An inmate convinces his mother to take a risk smuggling a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.......
Director(s): Aly MuritibaNarrative Short
15 min
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Nicola is in hospital after giving birth. When her school friend Tess comes to visit, Nicola is forced by her mother to introduce 'Joy', her new born daughter, who lived for seven hours.......
Director(s): Colm QuinnNarrative Short
10 min
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After 14 year-old Tara's boyfriend comes out to her and ends their relationship, she can't help feeling confused and angry with him. But when Tara's older sister and her friend become convinced that Brian was lying about...
Director(s): Adam Garnet JonesNarrative Short
7 min
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Peter doesn't want his seven year-old to get picked on. Peter doesn't want to get picked on, either.......
Director(s): Noah PritzkerNarrative Short
12 min
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Another Bullet Dodged Director: Landon Zakheim In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed. The Chair Director: Grainger David The story of one boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
96 min
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Warren has just been laid off from his job at a slaughterhouse in small town Alberta, Canada. With his father dying in the hospital, his romantic relationship on the rocks, and his struggle with substance abuse getting t...
Director(s): Kyle ThomasNarrative Short
16 min
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New York electronic music duo, The Golden Filter, have collaborated with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a darkly beautiful short film entitled SYNDROMES. The film focuses on a young girl's bizarre and une...
Director(s): The Golden Filter, Kristoffer BorgliNarrative Short
11 min
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I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.......
Director(s): Isamu HirabayashiAnimated Short
8 min
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663114 Director: Isamu Hirabayashi I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident. Belly Director: Julia Pott I can feel you in my belly. Caldera Director: Eva...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
93 min
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Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.......
Director(s): Julia PottAnimated Short
07 min
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Caldera is an animated short film about a young girl struggling with mental illness. The story follows her as she goes off her medication and leaves a bleak metropolis to immerse herself in a vibrant oceanic cove.......
Director(s): Evan VieraAnimated Short
11 min
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Chocolate Milk is the #1 goal. At least, that is what the Rehab informs the teenage Izzy as she enters for drug treatment. If she follows all their rules, then she can have chocolate milk. But why would she want some lam...
Director(s): Eliza KinkzAnimated Short
09 min
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Combustion plunges the viewer, from each image and note to the next, closer and closer to its materials as they catch fire and culminate in an explosion of colours and sounds! Carried along by a scorching musical score, ...
Director(s): Renaud HalléeAnimated Short
4 min
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A giraffe with personal space anxiety has a really bad day.......
Director(s): Randall HopkinsAnimated Short
2 min
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A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts ca...
Director(s): Marieka WalshAnimated Short
6 min
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A little boat goes on a journey......
Director(s): Nelson BolesAnimated Short
04 min
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A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.......
Director(s): Christopher KezelosAnimated Short
5 min
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An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment.......
Director(s): danny maddenAnimated Short
05 min
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Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise is an animated horror film constructed from the candid photos and handwritten messages of discarded high school yearbooks. As an unknown force seeps into the walls of the school...
Director(s): Kelly SearsAnimated Short
7 min
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Swirling cosmos of paint give way to a storm of color and drips. An experimental animation that is a mix of paint on glass and stop motion, Paint Showers is the anticipation, fury, and release of a colorful storm.......
Director(s): Miguel JironAnimated Short
2 min
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An elderly woman living in an abandoned town finds a camera, which becomes a means for her to recreate her past life and remember a lost love.......
Director(s): Christina Manrique, Brendan ClogherAnimated Short
6 min
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Using a found object as a catalyst Reddish Brown and Blueish Green explores a family’s destructive journey through childhood. Much of the imagery in the film comes from a baby book found on a curb in Philadelphia, Penn...
Director(s): Samantha GurryAnimated Short
3 min
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An elk wanders through a world of madness.......
Director(s): Sean PecknoldAnimated Short
8 min
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A man daydreams about what terror could be lurking in his backyard pool.......
Director(s): Bill PlymptonAnimated Short
2 min
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20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, "Uprising" documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. The film revisits the riots in gripping deta...
Director(s): Mark FordDocumentary Feature
66 min
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For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself.......
Director(s): Minka Farthing-KohlNarrative Short
9 min
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A prostitute finds new ways to attract business.......
Director(s): Mike DamanskisNarrative Short
1 min
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Take: A pinch of inspiration A handful of joy 2 spoonfuls of courage 3/8 of a litre of desire A splash of pride 3 heaped tablespoons of laughter A kg of saltwater A cup of going the distance You’ll know when its read...
Director(s): Rebecca Sloan, Joseph PellingNarrative Short
3 min
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Keith Schofield’s original, outrageous and very, very funny promo for Duck Sauce’s single Big Bad Wolf has been burning up the internet, causing millions of pelvises to be thrusted worldwide. An instant classic.......
Director(s): Keith SchofieldMusic Video
2 min
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Normal guy, normal walk.......
Director(s): David LewandowskiAnimated Short
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An autobiographical video diary log (vlog) that Jillian Mayer records for her unborn grandchildren. Envisioned as an authentic solution to fleshing out the detached model of the family tree, Mayer hearkens to bygone time...
Director(s): Jillian MayerNarrative Short
1 min
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An absurdist Wall Street butt fucking comedy.......
Director(s): Steve CollinsNarrative Short
4 min
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"Gl@zin" is part of a larger narrative where a group of 6 anonymous girls innocently paint their privates and rig them to lip-synch their favorite song as a gift to the band.......
Director(s): Lucas Leyva, Jillian MayerMusic Video
3 min
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Two robotic blue-collar workers take a brief hiatus to discuss delusions of grandeur.......
Director(s): James Dastoli, Robert DastoliNarrative Short
2 min
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Man And Gun is a dark romantic comedy that chronicles one man's love affair with guns and the very special .50-caliber assault rifle that wins his heart. Written and directed by Brian McOmber from the band Dirty Projecto...
Director(s): Brian McOmberNarrative Short
13 min
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Harrison dances within an amazingly lush, deep well of crystal clear water, undisturbed by his onlooking friends.......
Director(s): Jono FoleyNarrative Short
1 min
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Cheap Extermination Director: Minka Farthing-Kohl For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself. Cherry On Top Director: Mike Damanskis A prostitute finds new ways to attract business. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Dir...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
88 min
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Patrick is a brilliant doctor, in an obsessive race to alter his own grim prognosis. During a series of unconventional experiments, he discovers a scientific loophole unlike anything he had ever imagined. In pursuit of t...
Director(s): Daniel DelPurgatorioNarrative Short
14 min
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Amidst a zombie outbreak a broken man on the run seeks refuge in a shed and accidentally locks himself inside. Isolated, alone and low on supplies, he is quickly stripped of all his humanity as he struggles to survive. A...
Director(s): Aaron McCann, Stefan A. RadanovichNarrative Short
15 min
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A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied and wounded, their chief is near death. He is about to hand over power to his son when an army of a completely different kind…descends upon ...
Director(s): Johnny BarringtonNarrative Short
13 min
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A stuffy, upscale dinner party is interrupted by the zombie apocalypse in this gory black comedy.......
Director(s): Todd CoberyNarrative Short
6 min
Saturday, March 17
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A young man realizes that his house is haunted, then decides to take matters into his own hands.......
Director(s): Jonathan MunozTexas High School
5 min
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A tale of supense as a young woman finds mysterious notes left for her on a park bench.......
Director(s): Kalen Doyle, Hirsh ElhenceTexas High School
4 min
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Timothy is a high school student; one day he is asked to write a letter. He chooses to write a letter to his father.......
Director(s): Christian BenavidesTexas High School
3 min
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A man stumbles upon a horrifying discovery. Can he make it out in time?......
Director(s): Daniel Matyas, Brian BroderTexas High School
3 min
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In the future, the basis for our decision making has evolved. Ethan chooses to live his life not like the others. Will his intuition risk destroying all guaranteed happiness?......
Director(s): Maqui GaonaTexas High School
5 min
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A mysterious man drops off a cardboard box. The next morning, a little girl finds a teddy bear contained within the box. Eventually, the teddy bear transforms the little girl into a troubled teenager who exacts revenge u...
Director(s): Jasmine DePucciTexas High School
4 min
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Four nerdy guys buy the hottest video game of the year. When they take it home to play they discover that it is not what they expected.......
Director(s): Zach PrenglerTexas High School
5 min
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A bubble of ink comes out of a marker on a whiteboard and pops. The popped bubble starts to change and forms a small man. The man realizes that he is all by himself and becomes lonely. He decides to make himself a friend...
Director(s): Christian Larrave, Alex McKennaTexas High School
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A depressed working class man escapes the constraints of his utopic society, through the help of a simple object. Throughout the film his depressing everyday routine is shown through his expressions and attitude. Due to ...
Director(s): Micah AutryTexas High School
5 min
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A human goes throughout his day. He encounters a wolf, hunting and killing it. A bear from the woods breaks into the human's house. After the human discovers the bear, they have a ping-pong battle to the death.......
Director(s): Alexander VillanuevaTexas High School
2 min
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Located in a lonely laundrymat, The Janitor's Laundry follows two innocent victims and their unsuccessful escapes from a murderous janitor.......
Director(s): Brian BroderTexas High School
5 min
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15 Year Old Josh Lumsden's single 'Guilty' Music Video. Watch as prisoners attempt to escape the mental asylum while Josh Lumsden sings catchy lyrics.......
Director(s): Josh LumsdenTexas High School
3 min
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Julian Edmonson is a point guard who graduated from Fossil Ridge High School. The film shines a spotlight on this student before he went off to college and highlights the steps he took to get where he is today.......
Director(s): Jake WangnerTexas High School
1 min
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One sock's journey for love.......
Director(s): Bobby JorgensonTexas High School
01 min
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Jason has a Korean foreign exchange student staying in his home. He does not speak Korean and she does not speak English. In the end, they learn to communicate through drawings.......
Director(s): Leah SchellTexas High School
4 min
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An artist paints known masterpieces, but is unsatisfied with them all. She grows increasingly irate at her work, before calming down and returning back to basics.......
Director(s): Anele PageTexas High School
4 min
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A social revolution has come to Pasadena Memorial High. Mark McNeil's fight for the presidency, against all odds, will attempt to bring unprecedented social reform of thinking that could last a lifetime.......
Director(s): Jonathan Griffin, Josiah SandhuTexas High School
4 min
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A man's enchanted creations are interrupted by a mischievous act.......
Director(s): Samantha Fine, Andrew FieldsTexas High School
3 min
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The cameras focus on where the magic happens... they take us on a journey through the life of an artist.......
Director(s): Ty WhittingtonTexas High School
3 min
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In "The Proposal", a young boy has a hope for young love and goes on a quest to prove to his crush that she is the one for him.......
Director(s): Marcella Jimenez, Susannah RodrigueTexas High School
1 min
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The sound of the wind and cracks of thunder are heard as a teen rushes throughout his house gathering supplies. His brother lays on the couch listening to music. They enter into a closet to wait out a tornado. While insi...
Director(s): Pierce HarvellTexas High School
3 min
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Big boy runs for the love of his life.......
Director(s): James BradfordTexas High School
3 min
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The Apparition Director: Jonathan Munoz Paranormal Elimination 101. The Bench Directors: Kalen Doyle, Hirsh Elhence There's a note for that. The Bench Director: Christian Benavides One son's letter to his father. Boom...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
85 min
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An unidentified protagonist approaches a dreary office building. Inside the building sits a high-up business man signing papers. He finishes up. The hero infiltrates the building seamlessly. It is clear that he has had i...
Director(s): Cole Martin, Josh WillisTexas High School
5 min
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Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he's about to jump in front of a bus, he's saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus en...
Director(s): Matthew LillardNarrative Feature
94 min
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Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick ForbesDocumentary Feature
81 min
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"Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard lif...
Director(s): Poull BrienDocumentary Feature
74 min
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Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...
Director(s): Tom Kingsley, Will SharpeNarrative Feature
82 min
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Next up from the Norwegian folklore is ”Thale”, revolving the mythical hulder, a tailed, female forest creature. “Thale” is the story of a certain hulder, found by two crimes scene cleaners in a concealed cellar....
Director(s): Aleksander L. NordaasNarrative Feature
77 min
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