2010 Short Films

4 Pictures
Short Film
Director: Mike Madigan
15 minutes
USA 2009

’4 Pictures’ is a personal narrative comedy that focuses on Kaitlin, living and documenting a simple day to day routine. Trying to avoid ‘change’ whenever possible, an unexpected revelation causes her to rethink her closest relationships.

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Ashes To Anthrax
Short Film
Director: Corey Horton
9 minutes
USA 2010

A man follows the clues in his dreams to get answers.

Dark Scribbles
Short Film
Director: Michael Venn
9 minutes
USA 2010
Angela is a psychic whose visions might be more than they appear. Her psychic abilities and her relationships are becoming intertwined. Sometimes nothing is exactly what it’s supposed to be.

The Desperate
Short Film
Director: Ben Hur Sepehr
33 minutes
USA 2009
On a rainy night in a concentration camp a fearsome Nazi general is forced to plead with a condemned Jewish doctor to save his dying only son.

Detention
Short Film
Director: Aden Shillito
12 minutes
New Zealand 2010
A school boy struggles to expose the suspicious behavior of the one-eyed caretaker at his primary school, only to find that life is vastly more complex than he could ever have imagined.

Dialing Amy
Short Film
Director: Lexer Kadan
11 minutes
USA 2010
A young girl left alone in a hotel room gets disturbing phone calls from a child predator.  Will she fall into his clutches or not?

Empty Space
Short Film
Director: Rob Underhill
12 minutes
USA 2009
EMPTY SPACE is based in part on the Mike Wiley one-man play, Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till: A true story that chronicles the 1955 Mississippi murder trial and confession of the men accused of the horrific slaying of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Mike Wiley plays all the characters in this, his breakout film debut.

Friend Of The Devil
Short Film
Director: Eric H. Heisner
24 minutes
USA 2009
Former Texas Ranger, Jacob Matthau goes in pursuit of Bandits that robbed and killed a payroll guard. The journey takes him to the Mexican border and outside the law.

High Heels
Short Film
Director: Brett Carlson
14 minutes
USA 2009
A not too dark comedy about a guy mortally afraid of all shoes since the day he witnessed a tragic trolley accidentcaused buy a pair of sexy red heels.

In Our Closeness
Short Film
Director: Torch Eberhart
7 minutes
USA 2010
Two brothers take off one night to bond and get to know each other. Everything goes wrong with a stop at the local convenience store.

In The Shadows
Short Film
Director: Thomas D. Thompson
10 minutes
USA 2010
With the promise of a $20,000 reward a trio of Friends search The Capitol Theater to prove it is haunted.

LASTRAIN
Short Film
Director: Tony Lopez & David Sanz
23 minutes
Spain 2010
Irene meets a handsome stranger who intrigues her when his predictions become true.

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Lighthouse
Short Film
Director: Ling Li
17 minutes
USA 2009
A lonely lighthouse keeper saves a mysterious drowning girl, who insists that she is a fish. Despite their booming romance she decides to return to the ocean.

Madcap Mabel
Short Film
Director: Rudy Cecera
35 minutes
USA 2010

The life of silent screen star Mabel Normand is seen through the repentant eyes of reporter Charlie Craig, whose scandalous stories helped destroy her career and give himself a chance to survive the next four years.

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Marvin’s Plan
Short Film
Director: Marc Steele
24 minutes
USA 2009
Welcome to Marvin’s world. A world of selling sperm to pay for his dates, only to face rejection after rejection. Fed up with his lot in life, Marvin concocts an outrageous plan to have a woman unwittingly have his child. However, what he does not know, is that a woman who works at the sperm bank where he donates has secretly impregnated herself with his sperm. What follows is an hilarious turn of events.

No One Island
Short Film
Directors: Stacy Marr, Vanessa Ruane
20 minutes
USA 2009
There’s no place like home.  After the sudden death of their father, a family attempts to come together and heal the wounds of a haunted past that have been left unspoken for years.
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Only In Paris
Short Film
Director: Cary Cremidas
13 minutes
USA 2009
How Far Would you Go to Prove that you are Sexy
Only in Paris is the story of an American woman who discovers her fiancé is cheating on her. To prove to him and herself that she is “sexy” she sets out to find and seduce the “hottest” man in Paris. In a cat and mouse chase follows her target through the streets and alleys of Paris. Does she accomplish her goal?

Over Cards
Short Film
Director: Marwan A. Abderrazzaq
13 minutes
USA 2010
Five Fridayends, playing poker, discuss how each would kill his wife.

People That Do Something
Short Film
Director: Paul Galvan
6 minutes
USA 2009
An abusive man takes his stepdaughter shoplifting.

Picture Day
Short Film
Director: Ken Adachi
17 minutes
USA 2009
High school is tough. Freshman Miles Dufort will risk everything to take a perfect school picture.

Positive
Short Film
Director: Christian Cooks
19 minutes
USA 2009
Two young teenagers battle with the fact that they are HIV positive.

Ragman
Short Film
Director: Dale Ward
18 minutes
USA 2009
A ragman from another time and place visits a modern city, offering to trade his new rags for the old ones of the people he meets.

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Rita
Short Film
Director: Antonio Piazza
18 minutes
Italy 2009
Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It’s a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom.

Seventeen Cents
Short Film
Director: John Marchetti
13 minutes
USA 2009
Based on a true story, rural Georgia, just after the depression, is hard, relentless and desperate for this farming family. A young boy yearns to take a class trip for a lesson in history. The family’s lack of money and inability to send him becomes the lesson he’ll never forget.

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Sissy
Short Film
Director: Bonnie Root
22 minutes
USA 2010
Sissy is a fourteen year old girl living on the streets to esThe Capitol Theatree her dysfunctional home. Her mother, addicted to good-for-nothing men but carrying some guilt about her daughter’s situation, has a plan. She arranges for Sissy to go on the road with “Uncle Charlie,” a struggling, unstable magician headed out on a two-bit tour through Nevada. When the trip begins to deteriorate, so does Charlie. This leaves Sissy even more isolated than she was when she was all alone, and forces her to find the strength she never knew she had.

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Take My Wife
Short Film
Director: Brett Carlson
22 minutes
USA 2009
A married couple intending to hire a gigolo to save their stale sex life mistakenly hire a hit man.

Taught to Hate
Short Film
Director: James Garcia Sotomayor
27 minutes
Ecuador, USA 2009
The story of an Hispanic immigrant trying to find a job in America and an American family who’s uncle’s racial intolerance has a strong effect on his nephew.

The Nice Girl
V. K. Shah
Short Film
9 Minutes USA
A nice girl has a bad day.

2009
Weequahic
Jamie Ruddy
Short Film
9 Minutes
USA 2009

A crew of wiseguys try to take advantage of a diner owner.

When He Left
Short Film
Director: Anjuli Hinds
16 minutes
USA 2009
Amidst the turmoil and uncertainty of a militant regime, two young children of Zimbabwe are forced into a fight they hardly understand when they are pitted one against the other during a sudden farm invasion.

Zimbabwe
Short Film
Director: Anjuli Hinds
16 minutes
USA 2009
Amidst the turmoil and uncertainty of a militant regime, two young children of Zimbabwe are forced into a fight they hardly understand when they are pitted one against the other during a sudden farm invasion.