The Lineup
Friday, July 12th, 2013 6:00pm
From Nothing, Something
Directed by Tim Cawley
http://fromnothingsomething.com/
From Nothing, Something profiles creative thinkers across a variety of disciplines and finds common methods, habits, mindsets and neuroses that help bring breakthrough ideas into being. This is a thoughtful, intimate, often funny look at the creative process – straight from the brains of some of our culture’s most accomplished and inspiring talents.
Best Short Documentaries 7:35pm
L.A. Aboriginal
Directed by Bayou Bennett
http://laaboriginal.com/
A film about the life and background of dynamic artist, Dave Tourje, who was influenced by the energetic L.A subcultures of skateboarding, surfing, gang culture, motocross and hot rods.
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution
Directed by Matthew VanDyke
http://www.syrianrevolutionfilm.com/
The story of the Syrian revolution as told through the experiences of two young Syrians, a male rebel fighter and a female journalist, as they fight an oppressive regime for the freedom of their people.
Chicken and Zoe
Directed by Yael Bridge
Eating chicken takes on new meaning for 4 year old Zoe as she observes her first slaughter.
Quest For Energy
Directed by Vinit Parmar
Over one billion people still live without electricity. Off grid Indian villagers have found a way that is sustainable.
Reborning
Directed by Helen Hood Scheer and Yael Bridge
http://www.nutshellproductions.com/REBORNING
Jean likes to make something out of nothing.
Father’hood
Directed by Louis Mole
A newly released prisoner from the South Bronx, Randy, struggles to reconnect with his children after re-entering society.
Track By Track
Directed by Anna Moot-Levin
http://www.annamootlevin.com/track-by-track/
A young sketch artist with autism journeys from the world of his imagination into adulthood.
The Unique Ladies
Directed by Gloria Moran
http://theuniqueladies.com/
Outrightly denied club membership on the basis of gender, Sherry and Pat founded and maintain San Diego's first all-women's lowrider car club.
9:25pm
Blood Brother
Directed by Steve Hoover
http://www.bloodbrotherfilm.com/
Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary, Blood Brother is a profound tale of a journey to rescue HIV positive orphans in India that quickly became more than the gap-year soul searching experience he intended.
Rosemary’s Baby: The Story Behind the Movie + Spanish Horror
11:15pm
A Story for the Modlins
Directed by Sergio Oksman
http://www.astoryforthemodlins.com/
After appearing in the film Rosemary's Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his wife Margaret and his son Nelson to a distant land. They shut themselves inside a dark apartment, where Margaret devoted herself to painting the coming Apocalypse, using Nelson and Elmer as models. Thirty years later, hundreds of the family's intimate photographs and documents appeared on the sidewalk like a jigsaw puzzle, waiting for someone to come along and piece together “a story for the Modlins”.
Despierta (Awake)
Directed by Fran Moreno
Mari sleepwalks around her house, debating her reality and her childhood games. (Shown with English subtitles)
Local San Francisco Films Saturday, July 13th, 2013 2:00pm
Checkmate
Directed by Stephanie Hoang, Jasmine Ehrhardt, and Lilly Yu
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.
Choices
Directed by Takai Ginwright, Marielle Boland, Elliot Carroll
Two young men take vastly different paths in their preparation for an important exam.
Grin and Bear It
Directed by Neil Corbin
A man and woman accidentally smoke the wrong joint and strange things abound.
First Date
Directed by Viking Teng
A guy and a girl meeting for the first time expecting a romantic evening, but with Bram's negligence with filling up gas, they are forced to look for help. The evening turns into a nightmare when they encounter the zombies.
Boxed In
Directed by Naga Kataru
http://exhibition.thefreestylelife.com/boxed-in.html
Alvarez, a recluse self-storage facility manager with phobias is forced to face his fears in order to save his assistant who is his only friend and connection to the rest of the world.
The Last Tournament
Directed by Chih-Yang Cheng
https://vimeo.com/38419267
Bryan is a wushu (Chinese Martial art) athlete, he is training for 17 years, his passion and strong mind makes him keep doing this, runs in the rain doing alone. but he is getting 30 years old, his body is not on the top anymore.
Best Comedic Short Films 3:00pm
Otra Cosa (Something Different)
Directed by Laura Molpeceres
https://vimeo.com/60837802
Award winning Spanish short film about a couple, relationships, and dating. (Shown with English subtitles)
Madly Unto Eternity
Directed by Pikey Holdredge
https://vimeo.com/42110724
In order to make amends with his girlfriend, Danny Lynch must overcome his lifelong anger issues as he attempts to thwart his brother's nefarious scheme.
Spaghetti für Zwei (Spaghetti for Two)
Directed by Matthias Rosenberger and Betina Dubler
http://www.spaghetti-film.com/gb/
Armed robbery, grocery stores, barmaids and fate.
Rod
Directed by Stefano D. Andriani
A young man reflects and speculates on the personal details of a couple he encountered briefly while selling a couch.
The Bench
Directed by Gabriel Ash
The Bench' is a film fable reduced to its crystalline essence. Five minutes, four acts, three characters, and a surprise ending.
Incident at Public School 173
Directed by Andrew Tilley
http://publicschool173.wordpress.com/
A middle-school boy musters up the courage to talk to the girl of his dreams when suddenly, a huge food fight breaks out in the cafeteria and he must save her from the school bully.
10 and 2
Directed by Jeremy Smith
Wilber's a pussyfoot flunking drivers ed. Until two country ass thugs jack his car. Now he's the getaway driver and about to learn how to drive...fast.
Best Experimental Short Films 4:25pm
Quiet Please
Directed by Ronnie Cramer
Filmmaker Ronnie Cramer recently submitted to a one-hour, on-camera interview for a documentary about independent directors. QUIET PLEASE is a film document of the (almost) two minutes of silence that occurred between Cramer's responses.
Kai
Directed by Bennett Maples
In a battle with the crippling weight of grief, a young man searches for solace and escape.
http://vimeo.com/68302044
Ecstasy of St. Anges
Directed by Slawomir J Milewski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvtDOZJCxoc
Ecstasy of St. Agnes is a treatise on in communicability or just the short movie about love.
Last of Our Kind
Directed by Reed O’Beirne
http://www.emeraldreels.com/kinda.htm
Weaving together film, music and poetry, Last of Our Kind transforms the memory of a lost love into a ritualistic incantation of longing. Action is exaggerated and time seems to blur, as the lover's tale plays-out poetically into a modern interpretation of the Persephone myth.
Part of Me Died When You Left
Directed by Susan Lien Whigham
Helen copes with depression after the death of her husband Javier.
The Compositor
Directed by John Mattiuzi
http://www.thecompositorfilm.com/
The Compositor is a neo-magico-surreal-autobiographical-futuristic-contemporary-psychological-experimental-coming-of-age-in a-dark-comedy-fantasy-film that follows Paul, a New York City film compositor, struggling to decode his existence
Environmental Documentaries 5:40 pm
Tipping Barrels
Directed by Ben Gulliver
Tipping Barrels' is a unique combination of surfing and environmental journalism that follows surfers Arran and Reid Jackson on a trip into the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, where they learn more about the region and the issues confronting it. Stunning visual imagery and photography.
Over Troubled Waters
Directed by Russell Fisher
https://vimeo.com/39638832
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley, Jr. narrates the story of the battle being fought by the people of the Delta to protect the region they love and to encourage saner water policies for the Golden State and all the people of California.
Best Dramatic Shorts 6:50pm
The Life of Alexander Hyde
Directed by Dustin Whitehead
https://vimeo.com/67964338
A young girl copes with a man's struggle that she does not understand.
Dear Student
Directed by Michael Wasney
Dear Student is a film that portrays the feelings of stress and helplessness that burden many college applicants.
POSEY
Directed by Billy Damota
http://www.facebook.com/Poseythemovie/timeline?filter=2
POSEY is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Her granddaughter must make the heartbreaking decision to take her to a retirement home.
AM/FM
Directed by Peter Davis
Isaac is a young beat poet who works at a radio station while struggling to repay his debts.
Derby Kings
Directed by Valerie Bischoff
http://www.derbykingsmovie.com/
Demolition derby drivers Ace and Jim struggle to reconcile their broken relationship.
The Puritans
Directed by Sean Robinson
https://vimeo.com/61313420
THE PURITANS' evolved from the examination of how far one can go in an attempt to isolate himself from the 'world,' for misguided religious or moral creeds.
Was Du Nicht Siehst... (I Spy With My Little Eye...)
Directed by Gunda Aurich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70J1c8cLypM
A fairytale-like unpredictable story about jealousy and trust.
Two Travelers
Directed by Olga Klyachina
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Two-Travelers/493391020699802
Two Travelers' is a film about young love, so strong that it inextricably entails the fear of losing one another.
The Future
Directed by Venetia Taylor
When you're young and in love the future seems bright... but then what?
Kayip (The Loss)
Directed by Mete Sozer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06J6D9qWp0
After a painful breakup with the love of his life, a man waits at a cafe for a lifetime, hoping she would walk in again.
Zombi (Zombi)
Directed by David Moreno
https://vimeo.com/45076174
The short film “Zombi” is about a Spanish family that has an aging parent who’s suffering from dementia living with them. His memory loss and the need for constant care put pressure on all the members of the family. It’s a thought-provoking film that tackles important topics such as family ties, aging and dying.
The Institute 9:00 p.m.
The Institute
Directed by Spencer McCall
http://www.theinstitutemovie.com/
The Institute' is a feature-length documentary that examines a San Francisco-based Alternate Reality Game, where thousands of participants got more than they bargained for. Told From the players' perspectives, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where the real world and fictional narratives merge to create unforeseen and often unsettling unsettling consequences.
Best Animation 10:40pm
The Pyrotechnician’s Daughter
Directed by Courtney Taniguchi
http://pyrodaughter.com/
Birdie-Lou is at the height of her career as a nuclear weapon engineer when she falls in love with a peace protestor. The war breaks out, and she has to reconsider her relationship between war and peace.
A Dream at the Edge of Land
Directed by Steve Wood
http://forgifen.tumblr.com/search/dream
Simple silhouettes and old photographs shape hand-colored 16mm textures into a dream-like vision of shorelines and seascapes.
Christmas Day
Directed by Richard O’Connor
https://vimeo.com/64074265
A couple experiences a typical Christmas. Animation. Music by The Handsome Family.
Rats on Cocaine in Finger
Directed by Dean Packis
Two drug addled rodents embark on an adventure through Russian history.
Make a Wish
Directed by Hee Jin Kim
https://vimeo.com/46230793
There is a girl who is not satisfied with her appearance. She visits a magician cat and asks for a way to make her breasts bigger. She pays the fee with her pet, a hamster. She has to choose between getting bigger breasts and saving her hamster.
Freckle
Directed by Mike Cantor
http://mikecantor.net/
19,000 velcro dots. 18 months. Two velcro dot-suits. 20 volunteer 'velcro pushers'. A girl. A guy. Space. Skin. Atoms... Freckle! A music video.
King Tigermore in Strawberry Fields
Directed by Tunde Reid-Kapo
Winner of the Canada International Film Festival's The Royal Reel Award in Animation. Synchronized to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 25 in G Minor.
Retrocognition
Directed by Eric Patrick
http://ericpatrick.net/films
A dystopian sitcom reanimated from the narrative residue of Golden Age radio dramas.
System Preferences
Directed by Anya Belkina
http://systempreferences.org/index.html
System Preferences is an animated documentary that tells the story of computer pioneer Bashir Rameyev, who is on a quest to achieve something extraordinary for his country, organized around a central argument that USSR's 1969 decision to curtail national computer research in favor of cloning American products had tragic consequences.
In The Spring
Directed by Kyle Dunlevy
https://www.facebook.com/InTheSpring2013?ref=stream
In the grip of illness, when hope seems lost, Alice finds strength in an unexpected friend.