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Linus - 5min, USA, Drama **WORLD PREMIERE**
Dir. Julius Onah
Starring: Bashir Solebo
- During a typical morning in New York's East Village, two strangers are changed after a chance encounter.

 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before FREE SPIRITS: 6:30pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room C / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room B  
       
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Push - 16min, Italy, Drama **US PREMIERE**
Dir. Loris Lai
Starring: Giorgio Caputo
- Four lives intersect, resulting in a bank robbery gone wrong.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Loris Lai (Dir)  
       
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Plastic - 15min, United Kingdom, Drama/SciFi **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Mark Davis
Starring: Adnana Istratescu, Niko Nicotera
- 'I knew there was something wrong with the girl the first time I killed her.' A pumped-up, overblown thriller of a sci-fi teen flick as the class reject stalks the prom queen and gets more than was advertised on the packaging.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
       
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Freedomland - 15min, USA-Ohio, Drama **WORLD PREMIERE**
Dir. JC Schroder
Starring: Darren Bailey, Katie Quinn, Eric Peterman
- When a young woman is found murdered, her story can only be told through the eyes of an acquaintance, a mysterious man who now lies on his death-bed. As he recounts her last days on earth, a dark past and tragic future come to light. When freedom becomes an expectation, how much is too much, how far is too far?
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: MIAMI SHORTS - 9:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: JC Schroder (Dir), Douglas R. Stevens (Composer), Chris Hill (DP/ED), Darren Bailey (Act), Katie Quinn (Act), Eric Peterman (Act)  
       
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Iris Moon - 13min, USA, Drama/Period **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Iskra Valtcheva
Starring: Tiger Darrow, Glori Euwer, Ramzi Haddad, Peyton Hayslip
- A dark secret lurks between Iris Moon and her guardian grandmother Maka. Its magical unraveling has the power to destroy or liberate.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before GLENMOORE JOB - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Allies - 30min, USA, Musical/World War 2 **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Frank Green
Starring: Patrick Porter, Brian Rooney, Dayle Sande
- Allies is a World War II Musical short film about five Allied soldiers, each from a different country, holed up together in a barn. When a gung-ho American soldier warns them of an oncoming offensive, will they stay and fight or flee?
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Flying Machines - 10min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Jett Steiger
- In a final effort to put her husband's death behind her, Phoebe Fairchild begins digging through his personal belongings. As she digs deeper into Howard's secrets, she discovers a man she never knew.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: before IT'S HAPPINESS - 2:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room C / 2:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
       
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Boy - 14min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Abe Magid
- Ex con Darling is forced to confront his past when he returns to his rural Georgia home.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
       
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Agnieszka: A Dark Symphony of 2039 - 17min, UK, SciFi/Experimental
Dir. Martin Gauvreau **OHIO PREMIERE**
Starring: Agnieszka Pekala, Shaina Danziger
- A fantastic view from the future of Poland. Come back if you still can.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Martin Gauvreau (Dir)  
       
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Combustible Russ - 7min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Alecia Orsini
- A young man's life is a series of frustrations and disappointments, building finally to an explosive ending.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
       
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Winter Sea - 25min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Erika Tasini
Starring: Rosalie Ward, Sebastian Lazaro, Katherine McGrego
- A secretive woman's intimate relationship to her brother is threatened when an unexpected guest shows up for dinner at their eccentric mother's house.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
       
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Days of Sleep - 5min, United Kingdom, Drama/Music Video
Dir. Claire Dix
Starring: Jingxi Yang, Martin Chong
- Days of Sleep is a music video, from Leeds based band 'All my friends are dead' and Sheffield based filmmakers.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - 4:30pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 4:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Rocketboy - 15min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Justin Guerrieri
Starring: Robert Picardo, David Clennon, Hunter Gomez, Bill Nye
- Roger Lange, a depressed, middle-aged accountant, comes face to face with a strange visitor: a young space traveler who mysteriously crash-landed on the moon in a homemade spacecraft. Roger's world is turned upside down as Rocketboy attempts to remind him of his forgotten dreams of space adventure.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Douglas R. Stevens (Composer)  
       
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An Abstraction on the Chronology of Will - 24min, USA, Drama/Comedy
Dir. Kevin Phillips **OHIO PREMIERE**
- William Porten is nothing short of apathetic and despondent after a break-up with his girlfriend. He joins the military, becomes a Special Op, and lives with a sustained note of danger until being faced with a firing squad in the middle of the desert. Through an act of divine intervention his life is saved and his will to live is revitalized.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
       
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When Elvis Came to Visit - 11min, Sweden, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Andreas Tiblin
Starring: Ben Solimanaznavi, Leila Hadji, Josef Saterhagen
- A momentous meeting between the thirty-year old Lukas and the young immigrant boy Elvis. Lukas, obviously annoyed by Elvis's presence, tries to keep his distance but the young boy's innocence gradually affects him.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before WRATH OF GODS - 6:30pm, Fri 6th: Screening Room A / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Doorways - 51min, USA-Ohio, Drama/SciFi/Thriller **WORLD PREMIERE**
Dir. Stephen Murray
Starring: Christopher Gekas, Laura Brunkala, Darren Bailey
- On the verge of a mental relapse, Brian Thompson is lead to believe that all he has ever known is a falsehood. Spurred on by an experimental drug known as Zeravin, Brian begins to recall a series of events from the past, present and future. As he begins to understand the road he must take, visions of murders lead him to the brink on insanity as he tries to sort-out fact from fiction.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: MIAMI SHORTS - 9:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Stephen Murray (Dir), Chris Gekas (Act), Laura Brunkala (Act), Darren Bailey (Act), Will Reed (AD), Andrew Strack (Audio), Andy Neilsen (PM), Anna Egofske (PD), Tom Shelley (Stunt Dir)  
       
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Ahaarrr! - 15min, United Kingdom, Comedy
Dir. Steve Skinner
Starring: Jonathan Kydd
- An actor doing a radio voice over for an advertisement for a shop that sells boating accessories is put through hell by the producer.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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The Tub - 15min, New Zealand, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Bill Giannakakis
Starring: Simon Ferry
- A new house. A new start. Confronting your past is easier when you understand the decisions you have made. For Jonathan, uncovering the tub was never a mistake.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
       
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Justice In Bloom - 6min, USA-Ohio, Comedy
Dir. Ryan Lewis, Michael Maney
Starring: Lindsey Valitchka, Jim Bussey, Eric Vosmeier
- Greg has only known Heather for two months, but he's ready to pop the question. There's just one last step before he can propose he wants her eccentric father's blessing. After meeting with Greg, Mr. Rothchild agrees to grant his consent under one condition, Greg must adopt his lifelong quest to defeat the evil Doctor Hammermeister.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before FINGERMAN - 4:10pm, Fri. 6th Screening Room B / 5:20pm, Sun. 8th Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Ryan Lewies (Dir)  
       
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Her Smile - 10min, USA, Drama **US PREMIERE**
Dir. Minji Kang
Starring: Chrystine Yeh, Shine Inn, Lindsay Kojima
- In the Red District of South Korea, Sumi, a young prostitute wishes to love so desperately from the cold ruthless society that causes her to struggle. Her Smlie is a story about a girl who was left behind by the lack of love in her life and lives everyday struggling with her misconceptions of love, hoping for the best.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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More Coffee - 14min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Luis Midence
Starring: Ian Hersey, Jessica K. Peterson, Rob Goodaman
- 6 people cross paths in a coffee-shop, some coming, some going, but as they say, 'Life is filled with accidents'.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: MIAMI SHORTS - 9:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Luis Midence (Dir)  
       
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Schimmelblume (Moldy Flowers) - 13min, Germany, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Ki Bun
Starring: Thomas Lehmann, Charly Hubner, Yui Kawaguchi, Christian Schymczyk
- Peter lives in an anonymous world of a new building complex. One day he runs into a wonderful neighbor, a Japanese woman. On his own special way, he tries to get closer to her.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
       
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Lily - 37min, USA, Drama **US PREMIERE**
Dir. Hiroshi Nakajima
Starring: Carrie Rutledge, Jill Allen, Ray Underwood
- A story of young girl, Lin, who firmly believes in a superstition that any man who gives her a lily on her 25th birthday will be the one she happily spends the rest of her life with.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Hiroshi Nakajima (Dir)  
       
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Ode To Joy - 4min, United Kingdom, Drama **US PREMIERE**
Dir. Costas Chrysanthou
Starring: James Walker
- Bleak apocalyptic 1900'S Industrial England surreal faceless guards tyrannize over zombified factory workers as a wandering maverick violinist serenades relentlessly.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before PROTESTING DIXIE - 12:20pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
       
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The Nine Year Mark - 15min, USA, Drama **WORLD PREMIERE**
Dir. Greg King
Starring: Christopher Healy, Lethia Nall
- An unlikely but charming couple meet for the last time to sign their divorce papers at a particularly poignant location in their shared history.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Greg King (Dir)  
       
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All's Fair - 19min, USA, Drama/War **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. David Jibladze
Starring: Bobby Christian, Ricky Russert, Tom Deters, Abdul Serhal
- In an occupied covert facility located in the deserts of Persian Gulf, two American soldiers are forced to choose between obeying orders to guard an interrogation of a prisoner and taking a stand against torture.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Allen Silvy - 16min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Isidore Bethel
Starring: Joe Kubler, Angelica Reeve, Matt Weiss, Kathleen Mayer
- Allen Silvy, Route 93, Drifter. Three characters project their interpretations and aspirations onto this representative of the American Dream.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
       
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Die Besucher (The Visitors) - 38min, Germany, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Ulrike Molsen
Starring: Johanna Geissler, Myriam Schroeder, Dirk Borchardt
- A young woman hosts a couple in trouble and becomes the target of their cruel game.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
       
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Making Do - 5min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Mary Tucker
Starring: Madalyn Marabella, Rhonda Kulhanek, David Lee Pratt
- When a bored eight year old can't get her mother's attention, she changes her focus.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before THE GARAGE - 6:30pm, Fri 6th: Screening Room B / 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
       
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Happy Valentine's Day - 13min, Canada, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Mark Ratzlaff
Starring: Sean Roche
- Daniel is 10, his parents just died, and his grandfather is crazy. And to top it all off, his zoo membership is taking forever to arrive.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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The Playground - 11min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Alison Marek
Starring: Alexa Hughes, Taliaferro Petoia, Joseph Falasca
- An 8-year-old has her first encounter with adult fear and prejudice when she tries to befriend another little girl who has HIV.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before POWER OF COMMUNITY - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 7:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
       
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On Alzheimer's - 8min, USA, Experimental **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Vanessa Woods
- On Alzheimer's is an experimental animation that explores one woman's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
       
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The Artistic Taxidermist - 6min, Canada, Comedy **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Sandi Somers
Starring: Andy Curtis, Gail Hanrahan
- When a taxidermist and his wife first discover Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the taxidermist sets off to discover his artistic potential and creative expression within his own craft of taxidermy.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before HAUNTED FOREST - 9:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room C / 9:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Anonymous - 20min, Spain, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Alvaro Ramos
Starring: Alvaro Ramos, Luz Altamira
- Anonymous is a love story, a love in a daydreaming, universe, with no time, no reference of any concrete place. Fred & Laura's Love.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 1 - 10:00am, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 6:30pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A  
       
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Waiting for Sunrise - 14min, USA, Drama
Dir. Jason Thomas
Starring: David Lester, Aamir Sekou, Linda Mcloud
- Damil, a College basketball star, gives up his career to enter himself into a drug rehabilitation clinic. On the day Damil is released and returns to his childhood home strains the relationships between him, a bitter mother, and a good-natured father resurface.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before INTO THE ARMS..- 2:00pm, Fri 6th: Screening Room A / 5:00pm, Sun 8th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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The Red Balloon - 3min, USA, Drama
Dir. Michael Olesen
Starring: Pedro Miguel Arce, Aidan Gould
- A young boy enlists the help of a balloon seller to send birthday wishes to his Mom - in the only way he knows how.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before FINDING KRAFTLAND - 10:00am, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A / 8:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Lucky Sevens - 15min, USA, Drama **OHIO PREMIERE**
Dir. Zac Nicholson
Starring: Larry Swansen, Jack Mertz, Robin Robinson
- Marvin Zigglebaum wakes one morning to find that he is being evicted from his house. In his destitute state, the old man decides to risk what little he has left at the local racetrack and on a horse with whom he shares a cosmic connection.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Zac Nicholson (Dir)  
       
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The Little Gorilla - 12min, USA, Drama
Dir. Harry Kellerman
Starring: Nicky Parks, Daniel Parks, Katie Parks
- A jungle gym as big as the sky. A boy who's afraid to climb it.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 2 - 12:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 2:50pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Pirulito (Lollypop) - 2min, Brazil, Drama **US PREMIERE**
Dir. Erick Ricco
Starring: Daniela Lopes
- To leave the amplitude of the city and be detained in a minimum action.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: before BIG STORY - 7:10pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room A  
       
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Absolute Zero - 12min, Australia, Docu-Drama/Experimental
Dir. Alan Woodruff
Starring: Ian Wilmoth
- An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours.
 
   
     
 
    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 4 - 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C / 1:00pm, Sun. 8th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Sound Machine - 17min, USA, Drama
Dir. Vera Freitag
Starring: Jeff Bell, Sarah Mcauley, Stephen Pawley
- Professor Henry Kleeblatt, trapped in a mental institution, creates the Sound Machine, an instrument to capture sound waves of plant's communication. In order to be released, he meets the doctors, but his perception ultimately drives him to the brink of insanity.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: SHORTS 3 - 8:50pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room B / 4:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room C  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA  
       
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Hopes & Dreams - 12min, USA-Ohio, Drama **WORLD PREMIERE**
Dir. JC Schroder
Starring: Jon Dicks, Emily Layman, Ben Majoy
- On a cold, November night, two complete strangers meet on a deserted street and mind out they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: MIAMI SHORTS - 9:00pm, Fri. 6th: Screening Room A / 12:00pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: Jon Dicks (Act), Emily Layman (Act), Ben Majoy (Act), Olivia Otten (AD), Nick Anderson (DP), Shira Moskowitz (Casting), Lindsay Rice (PD), Dan Tirpack (Audio), David Yousavich (LM)  
       
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Daddy's Home - 2min, USA, Drama
Dir. Alex Ferarri
- A short film that shows the nightmare that one little girl goes through everyday when daddy comes home.
 
   
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    SCREENINGS: before VANAJA - 2:10pm, Sat. 7th: Screening Room A / 9:50pm, Sun 8th: Screening Room B  
    Filmmakers In attendance: TBA