1 | Radiant
Director - Caroline Miller
4m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A girl enters a dark, desolate town and decides to change it by taking matters into her own hands.
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2 | Strangers
Director: Bernd Capitain and Paul Falk
14m08s // 2016 // Germany
Synopsis: young Swedish musician is traveling around Germany playing concerts. During his travel he finds a stranger in the back of his car. For a second you can see a knife in the strangers hand. Black. Then the young musician finds the stranger in the back of his car again, now sleeping. You witness the story of two strangers trying to get to know each other, and help the other to fulfill his dream. However something is very strange…find out!
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3 | Names On The Wall
Directors: Koura Linda
25m34s // 2016 // Sweden
Synopsis: Two soldiers fighting on opposite sides of the Vietnam War find themselves faced with a choice, in the place where humanity ends and war begins.
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4 | The Mother
Director - Paolo Monico
11m5s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: When a hardened widow receives an unexpected visit, she is given the chance to shed light on her husband's death.
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5 | This Modern Man is Beat
Director: Alex Merkin
17m12s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: In a world of cultural confusion and erroneous judgment, Habib bin Habib al Fulan pawns his guitar and reconciles with his wife.
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6 | This Path
Directors: Meko Winbush
17m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A chance encounter will give Detective Davis and the man she has arrested a hard lesson in cause and effect.
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7 | One Day
Directors: Max Sznewajs
9m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Michael and Stephanie are two terminally ill cancer patients who sneak out of the hospital for one last day.
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1 | Inventory
Director: Trevor Kyle Hansford
6 min. 32 s // USA
Synopsis: Social Black Parental Commentary through the lens of a middle aged father, who has realized he mislead his children in terms of how they are perceived by fearful and hateful Americans. A father bears his soul, pain, fear and regret for not preparing them for the eventual institutionalized racism they would face as they grew into adulthood.
2 | American Psychosis
Director: Amanda Zackem
14 min 43 s // 2017 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist, Author and Activist Chris Hedges, discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.
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3 | The Listen Project - The First Five Years
Director: Gary Bassin
1hr 15 min // 2016 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: As electrical, vibrational beings on the most minute cellular level, music from whatever genre, is an expression of the human spirit at its most basic. The Listen Project is an ongoing journey and ever growing borderless library of intimate and rarely seen performances from musicians and other artists from every corner of the globe. It is a celebration of our musical and cultural diversity and an effort to accent the positive human spirit that exists in the world for future generations to come.
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1 | Cleaning
Director - Gil Ben-Harosh
7m 42s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A cleaning lady’s day brightens up when she sees dancers practicing their routine at a dance studio.
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2 | The Retriever
Director: Nicholas Thurkettle
5m 20s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: : A hit man for a prominent mob family is walking to where he buried a body of a snitch. The dialogue is between his phone the entire time.
3 | Dry
Directors: Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
14m 34s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: In a Los Angeles that has run completely out of water, Oscar and Claire have some unfinished business.
4 | 9 ½ Lives
Director - Dave Anderson
3m 33s // 2016 // PERU
Synopsis: A study for the routinely excellent podcast Tangentially Speaking. Starring cyberspace supernovas Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell, host Dr Christopher Ryan, author of New York TImes best seller Sex at Dawn, recalls the first tug of “animal magnetism”. After this you’ll understand why “heavy petting” was banned from your local swimming pool.
5 | Helping Hands
Director: Mike Jacobson
15m 39s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: An aspiring filmmaker learns the value of being a production assistant on a professional movie set.
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6 | Panofsky’s Complaint
Directors: Peter Mackie
10m 11s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A doorman for a luxury apartment building faces police interrogation after he snaps on the subway during a confrontation with a wealthy couple.
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7 | Arranged
Directors: Mayank Bhatter
10m 25s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Anita’s parents want her to get married. She doesn’t want to. Her parents threaten to take away her inheritance if she doesn’t get married. They arrange her with a gay man. They don’t know he’s gay. They decide to get married.
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8 | Other Half
Directors: Ben West
9m 36s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A comedy about a man breaking up with himself.
9 | Check Please
Directors: Daniel Sorochkin
15m 15s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Laura, only to find out that the ring was mistakingly sent to the wrong table.
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85 min // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Danny O'Brien dedicates one last summer to his family's Hamptons real estate business and to his father Joes' seemingly obsolete values: poetry, integrity, and community.
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89 min // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Happy Hunting follows Warren, a degenerate drifter, suffering from debilitating alcohol withdrawals on a daily basis. On his way down to Mexico, he becomes stranded in Bedford Flats, a one-horse town nestled deep in the American desert. It was a once-prosperous hunting community that has been reduced to an impoverished dust bowl. Unfortunately for Warren, it turns out that the town’s pastime is rounding up drifters and hunting them as part of an elaborate sporting event. To make matters worse, he'll go into alcoholic withdrawal unless he finds a way to stay loaded. It all builds to a blood-soaked, live-or-die showdown in the desert.
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90 min // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution is a documentary about today’s young adult hookup culture. The film follows the journey of college students during their Spring Break revelries, offering an insightful look into their attitudes and behaviors regarding sex. It is an honest and raw depiction of this casual sex environment where sexual violation has become normal. Liberated widens the view of today’s hookup culture by examining the role of pop-culture in shaping conceptions of gender and sexuality that are foundational to this new sexual revolution.
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1 | Blind Sushi
Director: Eric Heimbold
17 min // 2016 // USA
World Premiere
Synopsis: A blind adventure writer and the first sustainable sushi chef search for enlightenment in the murky depths off the New England coast.
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2 | Refuge
Director: Matthew K. Firpo
20 min // 2016 // USA
World Premiere
Synopsis: Refuge is a chronicle of human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. Shot on location in Greece, January 2016.
3 | Special Blood
Director: Natalie Metzger
1hr // 2016 // USA
U.S. Premiere
Synopsis: A poignant, no-holds-barred documentary chronicling the lives of four patients with a dramatic, rare disease. Struggling to be heard by an ignorant healthcare system, they join their voices together to conquer adversity and create change.
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1 | An Undeniable Voice
Director - Price Arana & Adam Rothlein
15m41s // 2016 // USA
World Premiere
Synopsis: Sam Harris, believed to be one of the youngest to survive the camps during the Holocaust, shares his amazing story of survival with philanthropist and activist Sharon Stone.
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2 | The Winds of Downhill
Director - Todd Wider and Jedd Wider
14m 47s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Seven homeless people share their views on life, art and beauty, as well as their fears and dreams, at a New York City soup kitchen. We are reminded that all people, regardless of how poor or mentally ill, have humanity, and it is this humanity that allows one to see the poetry that surrounds us all, despite the desperation of one's own circumstance.
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3 | Requiem for My Mother
Director: David Haugland
57 min // 2016 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: Moving story of composer Stephen Edwards and his musical quest to deal with the loss of his mother, who was a noted choral conductor. Film covers the struggles of composing a major work in her honor, and getting a choir of almost 200 Americans prepared to perform at a famous festival in Vatican City for a performance that was broadcast worldwide.
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1h23m // 2016 // Iran
Synopsis: Maryam have been past thirty. The woman who born as a girl but…she passed her puberty like a boy and in the way of love and subsistence she tried hard her every day just like a male….
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1 | Bola
Director - Ian Cumming
27m35s // 2017 // USA
World Premiere
Synopsis: The story of LA’s best street soccer team as they compete for a shot at the world finals.
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2 | Elias' Stand
Director: Jyllian Gunther
11 min // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Elias is kid with a mission. Since realizing where meat came from at four years of age, Elias has been a passionate vegetarian, vocal about his love of animals. However, his younger brother Theo remains unconvinced. Despite their differences, the boys band together for Elias's latest venture: fundraising for a local animal sanctuary.
3 | The Memory of Fish
Directors: Jennifer Galvin & Sachi Cunningham
54m // 2016 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: The Memory of Fish is a documentary portrait of one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free a river.
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Panel Members: Kim Dixon - President/Founder of dominion3 Public Relations, Jason Tyrrell - Vice President of Content for SingularDTV, Shauna Jackson - Executive Vice President of The Showcase Media Group, Marlon Campbell - Managing Member of Majer Filmwerks Distribution and Production Jarrod Donoman - Managing Member of Scriptmaster E1

85 min // 2017 // Australia, USA
Synopsis: Polly's dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands a plum role in an HBO show and starts dating Jared Leto. Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use her sister's celebrity for her own advantage – free clothes, free booze, casual sex... with disastrous consequences for them both.
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1 | Split Costs
Director: Jeffrey Blake Palmer
24m10s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: TWO JOURNEYS. ONE RIDE. Two young women from disparate backgrounds share a ride to western Massachusetts in this award-winning story of unexpected friends navigating life's bumpy roads and moving forward with hope.
2 | 1/2 Nelson
Director: Ruben Languren
14m30s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: A young man grieving the recent loss of his mother, goes to a party in hopes of rekindling an old flame, but things take a dark turn when an uninvited guest shows up.
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3 | Kid Gloves
Directors: Julia Hart
10m // 2016 // UK
Synopsis: A conversation with a young female neighbour touches something hidden deep within Merle. The lonely elderly woman is buoyed and enlivened by the contact. Merle begins making plans, projecting her hopes and dreams onto the young mother. Could this be her chance to put things right?.
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4 | They Will All Die in Space
Director: Javier Chillon
14m47s // 2015 // Spain
Synopsis: The starship Tantalus drifts through space.
5 | Blood, Sweat & Years
Director: Matthew Boda
27m10s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Two brothers must set aside a lifelong feud and learn to work together to save their younger brother's body from being embalmed against his wishes...
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83 min // 2017 // USA
World Premiere
Synopsis: Not Black Enough is a film about class warfare and the cross-tides that African-Americans are dealing with within the black community. The film takes a sometimes humorous, always personal, brutally honest and insightful look into a seldom-explored phenomenon that is pervasive in the black culture- The ostracizing of blacks for being Not Black Enough. Not Black Enough, a feature length documentary, will explore the reasons behind this practice of fear and loathing internal to the black community.

1 | Mind Your Body
Director: Silke C. Engler
22m 21s // 2016 // GERMANY
Synopsis: Jo is working as a trainer at the Fitness Company “Mind Your Body”. His consciousness is slipping into the body of a customer and he is doing their sports program for them.
2 | In a Parallel World
Director: Mario Genel
13m 14s // 2016 // MEXICO
Synopsis: In a parallel world follows a homeless American man fleeing a deep crisis in his homeland, only to be met with bigger challenges as he crosses into Mexico.
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3 | BiNARY
Directors: Paula Romy Riemann
12m // 2015 // UK, GERMANY
Synopsis: A short drama revolving around gender perceptions and its impact on the people in contemporary society.
4 | Cinephiliac
Director: Matthew Tichenor
33m 30s // 2016 // CANADA
Synopsis: A determined young cinephile chases the man of her dreams through an odyssey of film genres only to be vexed at each turn by her own insecurities.
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5 | Disposable Darling
Director: Dan Silov
25m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A wealthy and obsessed man struggles to forget his long-lost love, so he buys himself an idealized robotic copy - a replicant - only to realize that love is never about perfection.
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95 min // 2016 // Belgium
Synopsis: Ana is sleeping with Hugo, Dalhia with Graciano, Léo with Louis, and Arthur with everyone. Parties and love affairs lead to heart searching, deep desires and the craving to live life to the full. Even Lovers Get the Blues draws the portrait of the love and sexual lives of disenchanted and passionate young people.
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1 | Le Cirque Mentale
Director: Monica Mazel
18m10s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: An introverted and socially awkward 18-year-old Macy has had frequent carnival dreams for years that serve as her social escape. The dreams are led by the suave and manipulative Ring Master, who always puts Macy in the spotlight in her dreams. When her cousin Sam suggests she seek counseling because of how strange the dreams can be, she visits Peter the peer counselor. As her and Peter work on altering and eliminating the dreams, they take a darker turn to fight for their existence. The Ring Master proposes for Macy to perform in a dangerous grand finale, which leads to parallel consequences in the real world.
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2 | The Herd
Director: Colin Borden
10m51s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Louis learns the truth about the family business.
3 | Cuckold Picasso
Directors: Lance Larson
5m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Pablo Picasso's "1971 Harlequin Head", thought forever lost in a Romanian fire, is found vividly alive in the disturbed psyche of a tortured man's soul.
4 | Millennium: Eternal Sunrise
Director: Vlad Aksenov
10m55s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Post- apocolyptic world. Girl and father live in secluded cabin in the mountains. Little girl believes in an urban legend of a mountain figure/ghost who grants wishes. She vows to seek him out and wish for her dead mothers return.
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5 | Bad Jesus
Director: Anthony Ash Brennan
15m21s // 2016 // Australia
Synopsis: Using a unique Point Of View technique, viewers are taken into the disturbed mind of ‘Pricey’, an addict spiralling towards ultimate destruction who has delusions that he is the world’s next divine savior.
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6 | Teddy Bears Are For Lovers
Director: Almog Avidan Antonir
12m 13s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis:A short horror comedy following a 20-something Casanova who becomes haunted by the teddy bears he gave to his ex-girlfriends.
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7 | Monsters
Directors: Steve Desmond
13m 38s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis:Jenn lives in an underground bunker with her family, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside...
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102 min // 2016 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: The story of 'Can't Be Stopped' is born through the unbreakable bond of brotherhood between displaced youth in the graffiti scene on the streets of Hollywood circa 1980's. C.B.S. are the initials that are united by the crews' father figure 'Skate' (R.I.P. 1969-1993), his teachings, guidance and legacy are reverberated with the integrity of the subculture in 2015. The kinship that is forged through graffiti art, hip hop, punk rock, skating and ultimate survival creates a narrative that is the focal point of this film. Graffiti art is a global movement that represents a city's culture, strife, struggles and character. C.B.S. has been at the forefront of the graffiti world since the mid 80's and has an influence in the art forms sustainability and transcendence from its early roots and negative connotations to its prosperity and social acceptance today.
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1 | A Geisha in New York
Director: Amber Gray
4m 27s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: A lovesick young Geisha makes a grand romantic gesture in an impromptu trip to NYC to find her true love.
2 | Nausicaa
Director: Alessandro Melchionda
10m 11s // 2016 // ITALY
Synopsis: In a remote house in the mountains, a package arrives from far away.
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3 | Trash Bags
Directors: Diante Singley
8m 34s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A couple reflects on the degradation of their relationship.
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4 | Don’t Sell My Guitars
Director: Lynn Montgomery
19m 51s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: A beloved country musician whispers a final request to his wife.
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5 | The Purple Plain
Director: Kim Albright
12m 40s // 2016 // UK
Synopsis: The story of the Mercury 13; the women who challenged the conventions of their time in their quest for space.
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6 | Stay
Directors: Andres Gallegos
5m 15s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Driven to reconstitute his past, an aging man searches for his most precious memory.
7 | Guardian
Directors: Anthony Gibson
34m 37s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A short film about life in the afterlife.

121 min // 2016 // Canada
Synopsis: The film tells the story of a young man and his pursuit of true happiness in the modern world. Captured with his own hands, using some of the very devices that epitomize modern day life, he shares his breathtaking journey of self-discovery and shared challenges. His intimate, personal story comes to life on the big screen in a way that will both captivate and resonate with every one of us.
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87 min // 2016 // USA
LA Premiere
Synopsis: Catching Sight of Thelma & Louise’ takes the viewer on a dramatic and exciting ride beginning with Thelma and Louise taking off for the weekend and continuing until they fly off the cliff at the end. Clips from the original film serve as a catalyst for intimate, personal stories of women’s experience in the real world. Our guides on this journey are filmgoers who responded to a survey about the iconic ‘mother film’ 25 years ago. ‘Catching Sight of Thelma & Louise’ enriches the viewer’s appreciation of the reasons behind ‘Thelma & Louise’s’ hold on popular culture.
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115 min // 2016 // USA
LA premiere
Synopsis: After wandering aimlessly for the year after her father's death, June Larson is returning home for Harley's wedding - her best friend, the love that could have been. Now, lost in grief over her father's cancer, she's not quite ready to let Harley go so easily.
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1 | Auto
Director: Connor Griffith
6m // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: It's a visual collage of faceless people, cars, and hot air ballons.
2 | What're You Scared Of, Kid?
Director: Alex Coppola
7m30s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: Blending memoir, narrative, and documentary, 'What are you scared of, kid?' explores the fears we all have as children and why--even as we grow up--we never really outgrow them.
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3 | When Pigs Fly
Directors: Andrew Wood
15m48s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Sometimes, all you need to comfort a nine-year-old is a cold beer, a couple f-bombs, and a little magic.
4 | Sand Castle
Director: Tina Fine & Rob Feld
14m 28s // 2017 // USA
Synopsis: Faced with obstacles big and small, some out of her control, a young girl builds a sand castle.
5 | Trial & Error
Director: Antje Heyn
5m27s // 2016 // Germany
Synopsis: A film about a lost shirt button, perfectionist aunts, busy cats, startled parrots – and a long-lost friend.
6 | #Cheatday
Director: Maria Capp
4m13s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A teenage boy observes his mother and sisters as they honor the blessed cheat day.
7 | Twinsburg
Directors: Joe Garrity
15m48s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Jerry, sentimental about his fading twin identity, reunites with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry at the world’s largest congregation of twins.
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8 | Night Light
Directors: Ryan Oksenberg
14m55s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: Grappling with being on his own without his mother, a boy invents a way for the sun to always be up. Featuring Vine’s mother and son duo Harmony & Elliott Smith (1M followers) and Brandon Calvillo (6.3M followers).
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Preceding the closing night film we will have a bonus screening of the following short film:
One Per Person
Director - Nasheet Zaman & Jacquelyn "Jac" Piette
10m 30s // 2016 // UK, USA, Canada
Synopsis: An awkward fast food worker gains a new perspective on life while competing for customers against an excessively happy-go-lucky rival.
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103 min // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: An actor unlucky in work, money and love goes back home to the deep south to help out during a family crisis and is inspired to find his true voice as his mother is finally finding hers.
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Celebrate the opening night of CATE 2017 with the the filmmakers who made it all possible. Enjoy great food and drinks while you mingle with fellow artists and industry professionals.

Preceding the opening night film we will have a bonus screening of the following short film:
The Follies of M
Director - Dashiell Silva
11m 23s // 2016 // United Kingdom
Synopsis: The Provincial Parish of M was the home of the greatest concentration of follies in history. The art form lived and died at the whims of the upper classes. “The Follies of M” tells the tales of a handful of the more notable follies and their misshapen proprietors.
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90 min // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: In 1952 Rose Miller returns to her rural hometown of Beresford, South Dakota to care for her ailing mother. Once there, she falls in love with a deaf man and must decide if she has the courage to follow her heart. Wild Prairie Rose is an examination of the changing roles of women in 1950s America and in the ways people who have great differences can learn to communicate with one another. It is a film that focuses on one woman's story, and yet challenges the audience to examine their own assumptions about what makes a good life.
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1 | Bombing
Director - Gloria Mercer
13m12s // 2016 // Canada
Synopsis: Sophie is an unmotivated comedian. When her estranged young daughter is unexpectedly thrust back into her life, Sophie's plans have to be reshuffled. While they both struggle to adjust to the new environment, Sophie must come to terms with the fact that she's in over her head.
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2 | Stye
Director: Matthew Jenkin
14m48s // 2016 // Australia
Synopsis: To win the attention of his neglectful father, a teenage boy turns to crime that propels him toward an ultimate betrayal.
3 | Tattoo You
Directors: S.R. Bindler
8m20s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: When two women from the same town, yet with very different backgrounds, re-connect in the bathroom at their 20th high school reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some scars don’t fade away.
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4 | Cool Hair
Director - William Cubbon
9m29s // 2016 // USA
Synopsis: A sexually charged couple continue a violent crime spree across the Great American West.
5 | Her Unlikely Kin
Director: Kenneth Raimondi
15m2s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: Sarah Rassi is running out of options. She needs a bone marrow transplant and her only match on the registry is troubled war veteran, Peyton Sinclair. Can Peyton overcome his own battles with PTSD to step up and save Sarah's life? Her Unlikely Kin tells the story of two strangers, who by rare genetic chance, can offer each other new life.
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6 | The Lot
Directors: Russell Blanchard
15m13s // 2015 // USA
Synopsis: When a lonely cafe owner struggles to help an outcast boy build a fort on a blighted lot, their project and budding friendship is threatened by a city ordinance.
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7 | Home?
Directors: Armaan Khera
10m01s // USA
8 | Black Spider-Man
Director: Derek Reid