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  • Among Giants

    Among Giants

    14 mins • Student Film • As clear-cutting continues to ravage California's coastal redwood region, Farmer, an environmental act...

  • Drum Will Never Stop

    Drum Will Never Stop

    68 mins • Native American/Indigenous • This is the story of Dennis Banks, and his movement for peace. Written and directed by a...

  • Camp Unity

    Camp Unity

    83mins • Documentary • Cultures collide, egos clash and dreams come true when students unite at an arts program in the Kurdistan...

  • Carnations

    Carnations

    6 mins • Narrative Short • A woman in pursuit of silence finds that a small flower speaks louder than words.

  • Close Ties

    Close Ties

    26 mins • Documentary • Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition provides an intimate look at a rites of passage ceremony that conne...

  • Dawn

    Dawn

    14 mins • Student Film • Kentucky, 1864 -- A young carpenter decides to hang himself. The despair and heartache of living alone...

  • Death of Toys

    Death of Toys

    12 mins • Student Film • Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their ...

  • Dislecksia: The Movie

    Dislecksia: The Movie

    81 mins • Documentary • Filmmaker Harvey Hubbell V is one of 35 million Americans who have dyslexia. Hubbell journeys across the...

  • Dying Green

    Dying Green

    26 mins • Documentary • Have you chosen to live a greener life? One man has and he has taken it one step further, he not only w...

  • Easy Street

    Easy Street

    24mins • Narrative Short • A young, Southern lawyer goes to New York for a job interview with the country's most eccentric and ...

  • Encuentrate

    Encuentrate

    28 mins • Latino Film • Anais alienates herself from her family, her culture and the spiritual teachings of her grandfather bec...

  • Eros e Thanatos

    Eros e Thanatos

    12 mins • Narrative Short • Antonio Femore died in 1918 during the first world war. Now, as a skeleton, he finds himself trappe...

  • Field of Honor

    Field of Honor

    18 mins • Student Film • The town journalist is caught up in a duel with a renowned duelist. Set in Pre-Revolutionary War South...

  • 43@43

    43@43

    38 mins • Documentary • 43@43 takes you through the career of Professional Waterskier Jeff Rodgers up until the Fall of 2010, w...

  • Gravitons

    Gravitons

    3 mins • Animation • 'Gravitons' is a 50s style mockumentary following Sir Isaac Newton and his discovery of what's really behi...

  • Homecoming

    Homecoming

    26 mins • Student Film • Nina's traditional Indian parents refuse to let her assimilate to such an American tradition as Homeco...

  • Hourglass

    Hourglass

    16 mins • Latino • As we grow up, friendship often fade away. Or do they?

  • Journey To Jamaa

    Journey To Jamaa

    42 mins • Spiritual • Journey to Jamaa is the true and deeply moving account of the difficult and often dangerous journey two or...

  • L' invité

    L' invité

    13mins • Student Film • Antoine, a lonely fisherman, makes an unusual encounter while fishing on the frozen lake.

  • Landlocked

    Landlocked

    38 mins • Documentary • This is the amazing story of how the state of South Carolina changed fishing history forever.

  • The Letter Writer

    The Letter Writer

    85mins • Spritual • Rebellious teen Maggy Fuller tries to track down the writer of a life-changing letter she unexpectedly rece...

  • Live Outside The Box

    Live Outside The Box

    4 mins • Animation • Simon is a workaholic without any social contact whose world becomes smaller and smaller.

  • Madly Unto Eternity

    Madly Unto Eternity

    13 mins • Student Film • In order to make amends with his girlfriend, Danny Lynch must overcome his lifelong anger issues as he...

  • Major Rockstar

    Major Rockstar

    64 mins • Documentary • American Soldiers with amazing talent try out for The United States Army Soldier Show, but quickly disco...

  • Maria

    Maria

    25 mins • Narrative Short • Maria is eight years old. She's growing up poor. When her violent stepfather is hospitalized after ...

  • Mascots

    Mascots

    22 mins • Student Film • Mascots is a contemporary Native American story about a college student, who is part Native American, ...

  • Masque

    Masque

    40mins • Spiritual • Colorado McBride, a prizefighter, henchman and gambler whose scarred face reflects his brutal professions...

  • Meherjaan

    Meherjaan

    119 mins • Narrative Feature • Meherjaan is a film about loving the Other. The film gives away with the unitary masculine narrat...

  • Most Beautiful Thing

    Most Beautiful Thing

    5 mins • Spiritual Film • This film takes you on a journey to discover what truly is the most beautiful thing in the world. Sce...

  • No Existe El Adios

    No Existe El Adios

    16 mins • Latino • The same love in three different moments.

  • Pablo On Wheels

    Pablo On Wheels

    36 mins • Latino Film • Six months after their parents deportation, Rey (18) and Pablo (11) do what they can to survive in New ...

  • Paraiso For Sale

    Paraiso For Sale

    73 mins • Documentary • The fast growing migration of American retirees and developers to the island of Bocas del Toro, Panama ...

  • Principessa

    Principessa

    85mins • Narrative Feature • Princess is a Cinderella-style tale settled in the beautiful hills of Italy. Matilda is a young wom...

  • Reverb

    Reverb

    16 mins • Student • Jonas, a thirteen-year-old boy, is devastated by the passing of his father. Unable to face reality, he runs ...

  • Searching For Sonny

    Searching For Sonny

    94 mins • Narrative Feature • After receiving a mysterious postcard, directionless pizza delivery guy Elliot Knight (Jason Dohri...

  • The Secret Number

    The Secret Number

    15 mins • Student Film • A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a ...

  • Shoot The Moon

    Shoot The Moon

    27mins • Student Film • Marcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now a...

  • To Snowy Nowhere

    To Snowy Nowhere

    10 mins • Student Film • A bumbling young man named Tad -- aided by a burly out-of-work construction worker -- hits the road to...

  • Wordless

    Wordless

    8 mins • Student Film • Martin was born with only 2,000 words to use in his entire lifetime.

  • Wrench

    Wrench

    14 mins • Narrative Short • Alan is stuck in a dreary office 9 to 5 lifestyle. One day an employment ad promising fun and money...

  • Wycinanki

    Wycinanki

    3 mins • Animation • 'Wycinanki' tells the story of a woman in Poland and the three animals she rescues. Based on a true story.

 

NARRATIVE FEATURE

Meherjaan (Rubaiyat Hossain)
Principessa Part Time (Giorgio Arcelli)
Searching For Sonny (Andrew Disney) 

DOCUMENTARY

SHORT SUBJECT

 43@43 (Will Keown)
Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition (Gemal Woods)
Dying Green (Ellen Tripler)
Echoes of Exxon (Lauren Lindberg)
Landlocked (Bryan Tankersley)

 LONG SUBJECT

Camp Unity (Ryan White)
Dislecksia: The Movie (Harvey Hubbell V)
Major Rockstar (Jared Morgan)
Nowa Cumig: The Drum Will Never Stop (Marie-Michele Jasmin Belisle)
Paraiso For Sale (Anayansi Pardo)

Narrative short

Carnations (Spencer & Lloyd Harvey)
Easy Street (Russ Greene)
Encuentrate (Sonia Fritz)
Eros e Thanatos (Alfonso Pontillo)
Hourglass (Pedro Collantes)
L’invité (Colin Racicot)
Maria (Elmar Freels)
Wrench (James Edward Tilden) 

animation

Gravitons (Pisut Wisessing, Clemson University)
Live Outside the Box (Shu-Hsuan Lin, Academy of Art University)
Wycinanki (Irena Rindos, Clemson University)

 

GREEN FILM

Among Giants (Chris Cresci)
Dying Green (Ellen Tripler)
Echoes of Exxon (Lauren Lindberg)
Landlocked (Bryan Tankersley)

LATINO FILM

Encuentrate (Sonia Fritz)
Hourglass (Pedro Collantes)
No Existe el Adios (Pablo Bullejos)
Pablo on Wheels (Brett Sorem)
Paraiso For Sale (Anayansi Pardo)
Reverb (Ricardo Cardenas)

NATIVE AMERICAN | INDIGENOUS

Mascots (Scott Aaron Hartmann)
Nowa Cumig: The Drum Will Never Stop (Marie-Michele Jasmin Belisle)
Paraiso For Sale (Anayansi Pardo)

SPIRITUAL

Journey to Jamaa (Michael Landon Jr.)
Masque (Robert Hatch)
The Letter Writer (Christian Vuissa)
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (Brett Smith)

STUDENT

Among Giants (Chris Cresci, Chapman)
Dawn (Joshua Matthews, Savannah College of Art & Design)
The Death of Toys (Lisa Gold, American Film Institute)
Field of Honor (Matt Fisher, Full Sail University)
Homecoming (Gursimran Sandhu, Chapman)
Madly Unto Eternity (Pikey Holdredge, Savannah College of Art & Design)
Mascots (Scott Aaron Hartmann, Chapman)
Reverb (Ricardo Cardenas, American Film Institute)
The Secret Number (Colin Levy, Savannah College of Art & Design)
Shoot The Moon (Alexander Gaeta, Chapman)
To Snowy Nowhere (Eli Shapiro, NYU Film)
Wordless (Lisa Kappel, Victorian College of the Arts)

INTERNATIONAL

Camp Unity (Iraq)
Carnations (Australia)
Eros e Thanatos (Italy)
Hourglass (Spain / Norway)
Journey to Jamaa (Uganda)
L’Invité (Canada)
Live Outside the Box (Taiwan)
Maria (Germany)
Meherjaan (Bangladesh)
No Existe el Adios (Spain)
Paraiso For Sale (Panama)
Principessa Part Time (Italy)
Wordless (Australia)
Wycinanki (Poland)

EMERGING FILMMAKERS

A Piece of Me (Jordan West, Perpich Center for the Arts HS | Golden Valley, Minnesota)
Bangers & Mash (Holly Horne, Communications High School | Wall, New Jersey)
Burn Spark (Maqui Gaona, Saint Mary's Hall | San Antonio, Texas)
Christmas Ornaments (Holly Horne, Communications High School | Wall, New Jersey)
Echoes of Exxon (Lauren Lindberg, BVAC - The Factory Youth Filmmaking | Oakland, California)
Kenny (Andy Do, Communications High School | Colts Neck, New Jersey)
The Locket (Rachel Sonnenberg, Riverdale Country School | Tenafly, New Jersey)
My License ( Elizabeth Herrick, American Heritage Elementary | Plantation, Florida)
Secret Club (Ben Kadie, Interlake High School | Bellevue, Washington)
Substreet Parkour Team (James Wiley, Riverside High School | Greenville, SC)