ENJOY?, 3min., USA, Comedy/Parody
Directed byDave
A dark comedy about the student debt bubble and the people behind it.
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COLLIDE, 10min., USA, Drama/Relationship
Directed byRalph Klisiewicz
Sally comes home and starts talking with her boyfriend, Tim. Initially, she talks about having a baby. The conversations takes a turn and Sally begins describing her day. She talks about a car accident that she has witnessed. She reveals to Tim what an emotional impact the accident had on her. She saw a man “under the sheet, they were carrying him away” and how it could it have been Tim. However, there was no accident. The man under the sheet was a young, athletic, and charming Kevin.
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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: NOW AND NOT YET
BEST COMEDY FILM: SHORT CALF MUSCLE
BEST PERFORMANCES: COLLIDE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: NOW AND NOT YET
BEST MUSIC: KING OF THE HOUSE
Them of night: “Skewed Perceptions”
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Two bickering, joint smokin’, coke dealin’ drug dealers – Tuckman and Big H – discuss life’s important topics as they contemplate leaving the lifestyle and starting something new.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Esther Thibault
Jones: Brandon Knox
TZ: Hadi Kubba
Tuckman: Luke Robinson
Hanna: Rosalie Vagalatis
Big H; Sebastian Dean Biasucci
Lydia: Tiffany Davidson
Franklin Brewster, a detective fired from the Chicago PD following the loss of his wife and love affair with the bottle, now struggles performing private work tailing errant spouses and plugging retail theft. Then one day a rich widow begs him to solve a cold case murder. Will he take the case? Why weren’t the police successful? Is there an international element? Will his probe bring even more death?
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Wallace: Hartley O. Gyamfi
Laura: Jennifer Misiorowski
Robbie: Joseph Ferrari
Swanson: Sheldon Graham
Franklyn: Shawn Devlin
Barbara: Lada Darewych
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolohttp://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
A man finds himself in a strange world, in a strange form. He cant remember anything and must journey to find himself.
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Born, March 22, 1996. Ryan Jolly started animating in early middle school. Always planning film ideas and character designs on the sides of notebooks. He loved to create stories and shared them on YouTube. After graduating college he took a job as a tutor, helping young animators with the same classes he had taken.
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A red thread connects your destiny, but perhaps not the only one you find.
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I believe in the power of storytelling with a camera. Before I came to the United States, I was a full-time fashion photographer. Still, I want more, which makes me decide to pursue a new education at DePaul University with a cinematography concentration to prepare myself to understand and tell a better human story through visual storytelling.
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The Red Thread of Fate (also referred to as the Red Thread of Marriage), is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red cord around the little finger of those that are destined to meet each other. The two people who connected by the red dread are destined lovers, regardless of place, time, or circumstances. This myth is similar to the western concept of a soul mate or a destined flame.
Through stages of the relationship, the concept we want to…
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As the viewer follows a joyful trip to the beach by a family with three young children, innocence and happiness give way to the unthinkable. While the day unfolds on-screen, the audience comes to realize, through subtle audiovisual cues, that a tragedy has occurred: one of the three children has drowned. Decisions are made in a state of shock, and the blurred lines between the rational and irrational interrupt and fragment the journey back home. The parents opt to bring their dead son back in the same car with the two other children pretending as if he is sleeping.
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