2019 FILM SCHEDULE
*Tentative Schedule - films are subject to change
Undeterred tells the story of the build up of enforcement along the US/ Mexico border, how it has affected and changed life in one small town and how local residents have organized to push back and resist those changes.
Director: Eva Lewis
Producer: Eva Lewis
Year: 2019
Length: 1:16:25
Country: United States
Language: English, Spanish
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/8/19
Catch and Release Is a powerful drama that explores and humanizes the abortion controversy by taking the anti-abortion agenda to a frightening new battleground.
Director: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert
Writer: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert
Producer: Laurie Colbert, Jennifer Mesich, Naomi McCormack, Paul Lee, Rechna Varma
Key Cast: Laurence Leboeuf, Nancy Palk, Aidan Devine, Peter Mooney
Year: 2019
Length: 1:19:00
Country: Canada
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/8/19
Little Comfort: A woman braved the outside world and her aversion to social interaction for a cup of coffee and a series of encounters lead her to do some good and take the first step to feel whole again.
Director: Nicole Maupin
Writer: Kevin Guzewich
Producer: Haley Margolin, Kevin Guzewich, Nicole Maupin
Key Cast: Vanita Kalra, Kelsey Hainlen, Brian Ish, Kevin Guzewich, Rose Pedone
Year: 2018
Length: 12:43
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
Separation Celebration: A partner confesses something that cracks the foundation of trust. A throuple unravels as one partner prioritizes themselves over the others. Casual interest turns to rejection for two text messaging-ing daters. A marriage is stuck between hard work and letting go.
Director: Amanda Madden
Writer: Amanda Madden
Producer: Amanda Madden, Samantha Panger
Key Cast: Synead Nichols, Noah Keyishian, Poppy Liu, Nessa Norich, T. L. Thompson, Claire Fort, Rudy Roushdi, Brian Goodheart, Evan Garrett
Year: 2018
Length: 16:29
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
'Salma' follows the inspiring story of a Hijabi Muslim Canadian as she explores different facets of her identity as a stand-up comic and a biomedical engineer - two very niche and male-dominated industries
Director: Leila Almawy
Producer: Leila Almawy
Key Cast: Salma Hindy
Year: 2019
Length: 10:32
Country: Canada
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
Material Girl: An unconfident, young girl loses herself is trying to impersonate a powerful pop star. However, when her borrowed identity is taken from her, she must remember that her own style is what makes her truly special.
Director: Jenna Spurlock
Writer: Jenna Spurlock
Producer: Jimmy Calhoun
Year: 2019
Length: 3:19
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
May Flowers: A misunderstanding occurs when Jimmy goes to pick up an order for his boss at May Flowers. Little did he expect how the tables would turn.
Director: Marianna Phung
Writer: Rong Fu
Producer: Edward Mark Jeanveau, Julius Cho
Key Cast: Connie Wang, Timothy Ng, Rong Fu, Julius Cho, Wilex
Year: 2018
Length: 6:33
Country: Canada
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
The Great Unknown: When a woman experiences a miscarriage, she arrives at her grandmother's door seeking a witness to her profound grief. As the two women struggle to find their way through this devastating loss, the ancient power of sisterhood is revealed in the sacred bond they share.
Director: Anna Jones
Writer: Desirée Matthews
Producer: Desirée Matthews, Julia Kennelly, Karine Benzaria, Kim Greenberg
Key Cast: Desirée Matthews Matthews, Olympia Dukakis
Length: 15:00
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
Bradley Whitford: Emotional Stuntman: When actors are asked to draw on dark and powerful emotions, their safety becomes a concern. One of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood is Bradley Whitford. Perhaps best known for his roles in 'Get Out', 'The Post', and the hit TV series 'The West Wing,' Bradley is also the industry's most distinguished Emotional Stuntman.
Director: Amy Landecker
Writer: Bradley Whitford, Matt Mayer
Producer: Alex Parks, Hans Sahni, Rob Hatch-Miller, Kate Lilly
Key Cast: Bradley Whitford, Gildart Jackson
Joshua Malina.
Marta Cunningham, Melora Hardin
Year: 2018
Length: 12:00
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
March 8: A celebration of womanhood.
Director: Carolina Melis
Animator: Miriam Palopoli
Producer: Carolina Melis Studio
Year: 2019
Length: 1:00
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
Bookends, a film spanning from the beginning to the end of Maggie and Chase’s relationship as told through the voicemails they leave to one another and all of the moments in between.
Director: Rebecca Rajadnya
Writer: Rebecca Rajadnya
Producer: Patricia Yi, Rebecca Rajadnya
Key Cast: Layla Koshnoudi, Nate Wise
Year: 2019
Length: 14:56
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Alamo Drafthouse
Date: 11/9/19
Paola Y Lucia: Paola, an Ecuadorian woman living in Spain, is a psychologist and Spanish immigrant. Her good friend, Lucia, is Equatorial Guinean-Spanish, and the only Black woman presenter in the whole country. Both activists and feminists, they share their goals to shift public mindsets of Black people in the Spanish-speaking world.
Director: Oluwaseun Babalola
Producer: Oluwaseun Babalola
Year: 2019
Length: 12:55
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Tristan & Kelly: On a dark night, in a small British hamlet, Kelly, a young American backpacker, and Tristan, a struggling British jobseeker, unexpectedly collide. Grappling with fear, frustration, and attraction, Tristan & Kelly’s violent introduction sets off a series of events that change both of their lives forever.
Director: Sarah Ann Masse, Nick Afka Thomas
Writer: Sarah Ann Masse
Producer: Sarah Ann Masse
Key Cast: Toby Sebastian, Sarah Ann Masse, Nick Afka Thomas
Year: 2019
Length: 15:00
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Beep Bop Symphony: When spring arrives, two cherubs, Beep, the bright trumpeter, and Bop, the suave drummer, are eager to use their musical talents to help a sprout grow. But when faced with the other’s differing methods, the two find themselves engaged in a melodic and elemental showdown that expands further than either of them anticipated.
Director: Hannah Leung
Producer: Zach Gray, Christin Smolinski
Year: 2019
Length: 3:06
Country: United States,
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Sweet Blight: After eight years, Celisse confronts her assailant...once best friend... and her daughter's father. Can her daughter Maya, Celisse's SWEET BLIGHT, help her find beauty through tragedy.
Director: Carlos Moreno Jr.
Writer: Carlos Moreno Jr.
Producer: Luella Hill, Chong Un Kim, Carlos Moreno Jr.
Key Cast: Jason Paul Field, Luella Hill
Year: 2016
Length: 10:59
Country: United States,
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Tuesday Nights: On a Tuesday morning in New York City, a woman signs her divorce papers with an expensive pen and a bottle of tequila. Then, the day begins. “Tuesday Nights” is a six-episode series (each episode runs between 6-10 mins long) and takes place over 24-hours, through the eyes of one woman, portrayed by five.
Director: Joe Bandelli
Writer: Celine Song, Leah Nanako-Winkler, Jeremy Tiang, Harrison David-Rivers, Laura Zlatos
Producer: Shiva Kalaiselvan, Joe Bandelli
Key Cast: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michelle Wilson,
Victor Williams, Julia Joyce-Barry, Shiva Kalaiselvan
Year: 2019
Length:
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Brooklyn to Benin: A Vodou Pilgrimage: A daughter born on the other side of the water, returns delving into an ancient cascade of memory, myth, and magic.
Director: Régine Romain
Producer: Régine Romain, WaWaWa Diaspora Center, Trinity Media
Year: 2016
Length: 10:31
Country: Benin/ Belize, Benin, Haiti, United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Leaving Therapy: A self-proclaimed “victim” and a neurotic therapist get trapped in a room together. If they ever make it out, they’ll both need therapy.
Director: Steven Levine
Writer: Claire Burns, Jessie Jolles
Key Cast: Claire Burns, Jessie Jolles
Length: 20:06
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Oríkì: When out of the blue and with zero preparation Otiti learns that she will be going to university in Europe, she is shocked. She has questions that her mother cannot answer. When it dawns on her that her mother has lied to her, Otiti rebels in a way neither she nor her mother could ever have predicted.
Director: Nk'iru. Njoku
Writer: Nk'iru. Njoku
Producer: Nk'iru. Njoku, Bose Oshin
Key Cast: Yemisi Fancy, Efe Mayford-Orhorha, Paul Utomi, Shirley Oke Ofou
Year: 2019
Length: 18:44
Country: Nigeria
Language: Other
Venue:UnionDocs
Date: 11/10/19
ME 3.769: A Pubescent Latina looks forward to her maturing body, but must soon cope with the sexual misconduct of someone she trusts.
Director: Elaine Del Valle
Writer: Elaine Del Valle
Producer: Elaine Del Valle,
Debbie Esko-Gold, Randy Valdes, Tara Holmes, Taryn Kosviner, Elizabeth Mitchelle
Key Cast: Samantha Lopez, Rodolfo Salas, Vanessa Elise, Elizabeth Danielle Pujadas
Year: 2018
Length: 9:00
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Game: A new kid shows up at the high school boys' basketball tryouts and instantly makes an impression. Will talent and drive be enough to make the team once they discover a secret?
Director: Jeannie Donohoe
Writer: Jeannie Donohoe
Producer: Joey Horvitz
Key Cast: Rick Fox, Nicole Williams, Tye White, Jamie McShane, Charles Parnell,
Year: 2017
Length: 15:00
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
If I Told You: When you’re as spontaneous and courageous as Vera, you have plenty of incredible stories to tell, but her most life-altering story proves the most difficult to believe.
Director: Dominique Nieves
Writer: Dominique Nieves
Producer: Dominique Nieves
Key Cast: Dominique Nieves, Amilcar Javier, Bryce Craver
Year: 2019
Length: 4:27
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Shebbie's Live Life Series: Shebbie Jacques travels the world on a journey of self-discovery.
Director: Justin Edelman
Producer: Shebbie Jacques
Year: 2019
Length: 4:28
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
VAL: Mixes live-action and animation to tell the story of a New York artist and her young teen daughter as they face the reality of a zero dollar bank balance.
Director: Valentine Aprile
Writer: Valentine Aprile
Producer: Valentine Aprile, Sarah Donnelly
Key Cast: Valentine Aprile,
Onata Aprile, Crystal Durant, Jonathan Forte
Year: 2019
Length: 14:15
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Don't Yell For Help: A first date goes wrong when a woman grows suspicious about the man she's with. Is her date capable of hurting her? Is someone following her? Or is fear all in our minds? A modern short film about the lives of women and the little things we do to protect ourselves from being assaulted on a daily basis.
Director: Irena Murphy
Writer: Irena Murphy
Producer: Irena Murphy
Key Cast: Irena Murphy, Lucas Coleman, Pamela Horton, Allyson Reilly, James Elden Sauer
Year: 2018
Length: 14:22
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
The Cunning Man is inspired by a real Cunning Man, John Harries (c.1785 - 1839). It's an enchanted tale of compassion in the face of callous greed.
Director: Zoë Dobson
Writer: Ali Cook
Producer: Ali Cook, Ross Williams
Key Cast: Simon Armstong, Ali Cook, Ian Kelly, Charlotte Jo Hanbury
Year: 2019
Length: 12:54
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
Roland. A lunge into Your Face: Roland is responsible for the security in the prefabricated building "Südblock" at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin. He shows us his territory and explains his profession. The portrait shows him not only as security but also as a "ticking time bomb" and father.
Director: Paula Stoll
Writer: Paula Stoll
Producer: Paula Stoll
Year: 2017
Length: 13:00
Country: Germany
Language: German
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
See You Tomorrow: This day should have been an ordinary one for a married couple, a taxi driver, a nurse, a casting director, and three childhood friends. Their daily lives intertwine in the streets of Paris. They have nothing in common and yet their destinies will be linked at the end of the day.
Director: Pauline Mabille
Writer: Pauline Mabille
Producer: Didier Fraisse
Year: 2019
Length: 18:47
Country: France
Language: French
Venue: UnionDocs
Date: 11/9/19
The Loving of Caridad: The Loving of Caridad follows one woman through a cycle of abuse and trauma as she exits the foster care system, haunted by a history of sex trafficking. Now she is at a crossroads and must piece together her past, present and future in search of the elusive thing so many of us take for granted: home.
Director: Lisa Hornak
Writer:Lisa Hornak
Producer:Lisa Hornak,
Key Cast: Caridad Johnson, James Anderson, Erica Thompson
Year: 2019
Length: 30:55
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Jane: A loving mother & wife has a secret life as a hitwoman for women who have been sexually assaulted and cannot live their life freely as their attacker lives his.
Director: Jessica Michael Davis
Writer: Jessica Michael Davis
Producer: Jessica Michael Davis
Key Cast: Jessica Michael Davis, Vin Demilio, Tori Tatum
Year: 2019
Length: 5:48
Country: United States
Language: English
Brooklyn Premiere
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
The Blessing: When a timid, Midwestern boy decides to propose to his girlfriend, he has to go through her immigrant, Chinese mother first.
Director: Liann Kaye
Writer: Liann Kaye
Producer: Liann Kaye
Key Cast: Ryan D. Wright, Yoko Hyun
Year: 2019
Length: 5:42
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
The Christmas Bull: Is a darkly comic, ‘Tis the Season tale, about a young lad and his retribution for bad behavior; a bit of an antidote for the TV Christmas ads! It lives on the edge of fantasy but never disappears from its slightly twisted contemporary English village setting. Think Santa Claus meets Roald Dahl in a League of Gentleman-esque world.
Director: Rosie Jones
Writer: Leo Whetter
Producer: Rosie Jones
Key Cast: Victoria Yeates, Jamie Baughan, Sam Clemens, Tom Grigg
Year: 2018
Length: 9:55
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Breaking Ground: Mary, a paleontologist’s assistant, finds herself working at the hands of an incompetent and misogynistic paleontologist named Mr. Collins on the Jurassic Coast of England. She receives a little help from an unexpected source to help prove her worth.
Director: Tara Norton, Ellie Morlino, Alex Shaulis
Producer: Ringling College of Art & Design
Key Cast: Lauren Cox, Glen McCready
Year: 2019
Length: 4:11
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
FOBia: An Indian FOB (Fresh Off the Boat) Kay, arrives in America to go to business school only to be informed by her neighbor Bina (also Indian...but very different from Kay..because..you know.. all immigrants are not the same) that her roommate ran off to be a Hollywood star.
Director: Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke
Writer: Priya Mohanty
Producer: Karla Huffman, Peter Dolan
Key Cast: Priya Mohanty, Alex Dauphin, Madhura Jugade, Joe Lino
Year: 2019
Length: 26:55
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Starvation: A hungry wolf gets stuck in stereotypes about being the big bad wolf of the story. She has to flee when everybody accuses her to violence and murder. She faces the danger of getting killed.
Director: Zahra Rostampour
Writer: Zahra Rostampour
Producer: Zahra Rostampour
Key Cast: Hamed Pourkerman
Year: 2018
Length: 7:12
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Pretty Dead: The world’s preeminent corpse duty actress inspires others to work one heartbeat from stardom.
Director: Inga Moren Tapias
Writer: Janet Guillet, Valarie Peterson
Producer: Allison C. Hanes, Wynona Barbera,
Key Cast: Penelope Thomas
Year: 2018
Length: 8:14
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Midnight Mind: Hear the rain falling down – streams on the windows. Feel the clouds rolling by – grey against your midnight mind.” These are the opening lyrics to the song and music video for “Midnight Mind.” This piece was composed and performed by filmmaker and musician, Mara Katria (who likewise wrote/directed/edited the film) and features J.
Director: Mara Katria
Producer: Mara Katria
Key Cast: Mara Katria, J. Jeff Ungar
Year: 2019
Length: 5:51
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
I Am: On her way home from a field hockey practice young student Viola (Vi) gets into a traffic accident with her bike. After getting up after the fall she goes to her boyfriend Kik for help. But Kik, who is at work as a night porter, behaves strangely. Then the rain begins to fall and that rain seems to hold a secret. Now Vi starts to asks herself: ‘Where are you?’.
Director: Mirella Muroni
Writer: Mirella Muroni
Producer: Mirella Muroni
Key Cast: Joy Wielkens, Wieger Wobbe Windhorst, Helen Kamperveen
Year: 2018
Length: 15:45
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Her Turf: The Untold Story about Three Female Football Refs: This short documentary follows three female football referees as they claim access to a powerful role in a male-dominated industry.
Director: Shantel Hansen
Producer: Shantel Hansen, Dean Blandino
Year: 2018
Length: 17:57
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Wanderlust: An animated short film about a suitcase who wants to go out and explore beautiful Paris, but is trapped inside with his workaholic owner. This is a charming musical with explorations in unique textures.
Director: Angelique K Smith, Regina K Cicone
Producer: Ringling College of Art and Design
Year: 2019
Length: 2:53
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Primary Needs: Sol works in a bar as a singer. She dreams of becoming a great artist.
Director: Mariana Azcárate
Writer: Mariana Azcárate
Producer: Leonor Azcárate, Mariana Azcárate, Sergio Donis, Andrés Klimek
Key Cast: Dánae Vergara Atrián, Guillermo López, Roberto Alon
Year: 2019
Length: 29:59
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Venue: Firelight Studios
Date: 11/10/19
A Little Break: On vacation with her cousin in a coastal Normand village, 16-year-old Charlotte meets a young man. He’s older, and he’s not really available. But it’s summer. And Charlotte is looking for romance.
Director: Louise Groult
Writer: Louise Groult
Producer: Anne-Laure Berteau
Key Cast: Jeanne Disson, Cloé Lastère, Julien Bouanich, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Charles Guerand
Year: 2018
Length: 24:40
Country: France
Language: French
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk: After a contentious race last fall, the runoff for mayor of New Orleans came down to two candidates: Desirée Charbonnet and LaToya Cantrell, two very different black women. The winner of this election would take office as the first female mayor of New Orleans and the city’s fourth black mayor.
Director: Angela Tucker
Producer: Jolene Pinder
Year: 2018
Length: 20:00
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Trainwreck: A sleepwalker accompanied by a strange entity is compelled along his path. They must pass through spectral portals and multiple dimensions...to meet a dark end. Set to the music of French ethereal darkwave duo 'Machine est mon Coeur'.
Director: Bianca Calandra
Writer: Bianca Calandra
Producer: Bianca Calandra
Animator: Bianca Calandra
Year: 2018
Length: 4:53
Country: France
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Ghost Town is an interview-format comedic talk show that explores the modern dating phenomenon of “ghosting” and what it means for any human navigating the world of love, sex, and…abandonment. Comedian and host--Savannah DesOrmeaux--interviews NYC up-and-comers about their unique experiences with the pervasive dating trend.
Director: Savannah DesOrmeaux, Madison Seely
Producer: Madison Seely
Key Cast: Savannah DesOrmeaux, Andrew Barbato
Year: 2018
Length: 7:46
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Daughters of Solanas: A group of friends innocently become followers in a cult—things go beyond their power.
Director: Angele Cooper
Writer: Karen Cecilia, Chantel Simpson
Producer: Dymond Green, Katina Medoff, Tracy Sayre
Key Cast: Alexis Floyd, McKenzie Mayle, Malinda Logan, Rebbekah Vega-Romero
Year: 2019
Length: 9:10
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Esther: A husband plots to kill his wife with his mistress, but their plans take a turn when unsettling mysterious events occur that night.
Director: Montana Mann
Writer: Montana Mann
Producer: Emily Vere Nicoll, Hannah James, Montana Mann, Andre James Champagne
Key Cast: Hannah James, Emily Vere Nicoll, Danny Fischer
Year: 2018
Length: 10:30
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Pozole: La gringa killed her Nana.
Director: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros
Writer: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros
Producer: Jenn Garcia, WeTransfer, Maegan Simpson
Key Cast: Ana Isabel Dow, Monica Sanchez, Mike Salazar, Peter Quintana, Jessica Hinojos
Year: 2019
Length: 10:06
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Oblivion: Mehrbanoo tries everything to make her husband’s life, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, worth living. Rental issues and the absence of their children and grandchildren take their toll in this sensitive portrayal.
Director: Fatemeh Mohammadi
Writer: Hossein Amiri, Pedram Pour Amiri, Mohammad Davoodi
Producer: Fatemeh Mohammadi, Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS), Iranian Young Cinema Society (Tehran Branch)
Key Cast: Maryam Boobani, Mohsen Ghazimoradi
Year: 2018
Length: 15:00
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Language: English, Persian
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
How Far: An intense psychological thriller about bystander effect, gender inequality, and rape in America after a bus ride home for the holidays goes terribly wrong.
Director: Alexis Ostrander
Producer: Edward Liguori,
Madeleine Woolner
Year: 2018
Length: 11:01
Country: United States
Language: English
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Qui Vive: August 1914. Germany invades Belgium and terrorizes the population. Despite being pregnant, Louise is taking care of the farm, her young boy and the crops. While the front rumbles a few kilometers away from her home, a man turns up at the farm in the middle of the night
Director: Anaïs Debus
Writer: Anaïs Debus
Producer: Laurent Denis
Key Cast: Laura Fautré, Mohammed Sanouji
Year: 2019
Length: 19:41
Country: Belgium
Language: French
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Doing Money: A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of pop-up brothels. Her shocking true story offers a tense and thought-provoking thriller exposing how, in modern Britain, slavery can hide in plain sight.
Director: Lynsey Miller
Writer: Gwyneth Hughes
Producer: Alex Cooke, Mike Dormer
Key Cast: Anca Dumitra, Cosmina Stratan, Tom Glynn-Carney, Alen Leech, Alex Secareanu, Dragos Bucur, Voica Oltean, Alina Serban
Year: 2018
Length: 1:27:00
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, Romanian
Venue: Firelight Studio
Date: 11/10/19
Screenplay Competition 11/8/19 @ 5pm
Circle of Illumination: Simon, a shy introvert, and Rosie, a bon vivant, have been best friends since Kindergarten. After Rosie dies, Simon receives e-mails from Rosie’s account with detailed instructions as to how to spread her ashes throughout Europe. The problem is: Simon only has two weeks to visit four countries. Will Simon overcome his fears and carry out his best friend’s wishes in time? We follow Simon on an epic quest that turns out to be as challenging as it is illuminating.
Writer: Trisha DiFazio
Pages: 121
Country: United States
Language: English
The Silo: The only thing smaller than the prairie town of Sylvan Lake, are the minds of the people who live there. Except for seventeen-year-old artist, SAM SIMCHUK. When she tries to solve the forty-year-old mystery behind the ghost she befriends, Sam's forced to choose between chasing her dreams, defending her friend or saving her mother's life.
Writer: Talie Melnyk
Pages: 93
Country: United States
Language: English
The Bliss Killer: She'll try to suppress her inner killer, in order to be the perfect woman.
A woman (20's) wants to be the Norman Rockwell picture-perfect vision of a woman (as her mother always wished she'd be) -- you know, 1950's a perfectly pretty domestic version of a woman. However, to be that she has to suppress who she really is, which is, Ted Bundy'esque sociopath and broke. We evolve from poverty and gross in the pilot, to earning money as a killer and starting to take on a very "Betty Draper" 1950's like idyllic persona. But to maintain that persona, she'll have to kill some people along the way to afford her perfect "Rockwell life".
Writer: LeLe Park
Pages: 70
Country: United States
Language: English
ACHE: Are we unmoving stones, or can we wake up and drive?
Writer: LeLe Park
Pages: 29
Country: United States
Language: English
The Dream Jumper's Promise: A Maui dive shop owner whose husband has disappeared is being haunted by dreams and must turn to the one man she doesn't trust to help her--an old boyfriend who claims he can enter dreams to find her husband.
Writer: Kim Hornsby
Pages: 106
Country: United States
Language: English
Day of the White Rabbit: Inspired by our SXSW AFS Shortcase selected short Mother's Day, Day of the White Rabbit is a narrative feature that travels through richly stylized decades to tell the story of Jane as she returns home to come to terms with her mother's imminent death. As Jane and her husband stay in her childhood home, every room brings an onslaught of memories that invite her to reexamine the disillusions past she has been living with for years.
Writer: Janet Travis, Elizabeth Tabish
Pages: 72
Country: United States
Language: English
The Venusian Chronicles: The story is about Dr. Ishi Banesa, a mild-mannered linguist passing as a human, whose ancestors came from Venus. His life’s mission is to help save Earth from the same fate that destroyed Venus. When astronauts discover an ancient spaceship wreck on the Moon, Ishi fears his mission will be derailed and he and his grandmother will be discovered and harmed. To complicate matters the Dean has threatened his job if he doesn't publish his works soon, works that will out him. He also feels an increasing need to tell the truth to his grad assistant, who is falling in love with him. But when "Space Alien Vigilantes" start harassing and killing innocent people, mistaking them for space aliens, Ishi can no longer hide his identity. With time running out, Ishi must reveal his identity and divert the danger to himself, or more innocent people will be killed. But will that thwart his plans to help save Earth from runaway warming?
Writer: Lynn Vincentnathan
Pages: 111
Country: United States
Language: English
THE ENTERPRISE: In 1982, Atlanta's head crime boss uses his top barbecue joint to front his drug empire and evade a federal prosecutor in a city rife with corrupt politics, racial tension, and distinctly idiosyncratic culture. A Southern-fried "Sopranos" inspired by true events.
Writer: Marisa Forrest
Pages: 65
Country: United States
Language: English
SKYFOXES: A former Navy pilot-turned-plane thief recruits an all-female crew to steal a US fighter jet for international gangsters
Writer: Marisa Forrest
Pages: 119
Country: United States
Language: English
Queen of Newburgh: inspired by the true story of her journey as a bad-ass, vivacious, twenty-year-old striving to live her best life in a tough Afro-Caribbean neighborhood upstate New York. After a series of heartbreaks and hard-learned lessons, Ronnie goes from believing Newburgh is to blame for her problems, to understanding, she has the power to change her life from within.
Writer: Lisa Cole & Veronica "Ronnie" Moody
Pages: 82
Country: United States
Language: English