2008 Feature Film Lineup

SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
NARRATIVE FEATURES COMPETITION
EMERGING VISIONS
24 BEATS PER SECOND
'ROUND MIDNIGHT
LONE STAR STATES
SPECIAL SCREENINGS

2008 Short Film Lineup

REEL SHORTS 1
REEL SHORTS 2
REEL SHORTS 3
ANIMATED SHORTS
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
MIDNIGHT SHORTS
TEXAS SHORTS
SHORTS SCREENING WITH FEATURES
MUSIC VIDEOS
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS

SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES

21
Director: Robert Luketic. Writers: Peter Steinfeld, Allan Loeb. Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne.
Based on the true story of a group of MIT students who, under the guidance of a cryptic professor, take Vegas casinos for millions through the mathematical art of counting cards. (Opening Night Film)

American Teen
Director: Nanette Burstein. A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town, and their various cliques. (Regional Premiere)

Assassination of a High School President
Director: Brett Simon. Writers: Tim Calpin, Kevin Jakubowski. Starring: Reece Thompson, Mischa Barton, Melonie Diaz, Bruce Willis.
A rookie journalist for the school paper unravels a mysterious plot involving the class president, drugs, and a ring of stolen test scores in this noir caper set at a quirky Catholic High School. (Regional Premiere)

At the Death House Door
Director: Steve James & Peter Gilbert.
An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas on December 7, 1989, after prosecutors ignored evidence inculpating a man, who bragged to friends about committing the crimes of which DeLuna was convicted. (World Premiere)

Baghead
Director/writers: Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass. Starring: Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller.
An in-depth study of the relationship dynamics for a group of desperate actor friends. And a bag. And a head. (Regional Premiere)

Bananaz
Director: Ceri Levy.
An in-depth and revealing glimpse at the cryptic cartoon band, Gorillaz. (North American Premiere)

Battle in Seattle
Director/writer: Stuart Townsend. Starring: Martin Henderson, Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta.
An all-star, edge-of-your-seat glimpse at the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle, told from the perspective of protesters, police, and city officials. (U.S. Premiere)

Beautiful Losers
Directors: Aaron Rose & Joshua Leonard.
A feature documentary film celebrating the independent and D.I.Y. spirit that unified a loose-knit group of American artists who emerged from the underground youth subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock and hip-hop. (World Premiere)

Choke
Director/writer: Clark Gregg. Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald.
An adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, this is the sardonic story about mother and son relationship, fear of aging, sexual addiction, and the dark side of historical theme parks. (Regional Premiere)

Crawford
Director: David Modigliani
Just a short time before George W. Bush announced his intentions to run for the Presidency, the New Haven-born hopeful bought a ranch in tiny Crawford, Texas. This is what happened next. (World Premiere)

Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Director: Erik Nelson.
A documentary portrait of acclaimed author Harlan Ellison, as he looks back on his fabled and influential career as one of the world's top genre writers for television and print. (World Premiere)

Flawless
Director: Michael Radford. Writer: Edward Anderson. Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine.
In 1960s London, a talented but overlooked diamond executive is convinced to participate in a jewelry heist when a veteran janitor hatches a plan. (Regional Premiere)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Director: Nicholas Stoller. Writer: Jason Segel. Starring: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand.
A comic look at one guy's arduous quest to grow up and get over the heartbreak of getting dumped. If only his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend weren't staying at the same hotel.

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Director/writers: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg. Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris.
The triumphant return of the two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. This time, the boys get themselves in trouble trying to sneak a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam. Now, being suspected of terrorism, they are forced to run from the law and try to find a way to prove their innocence. What follows is an irreverent and epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild trip around the world that is as "un-PC" as it gets.

Living with the Tudors
Directors: Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope.
After four years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the UK's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk. (North American Premiere)

Lou Reed's Berlin
Director: Julian Schnabel.
An artful document of musical legend Lou Reed, performing his influential record, "Berlin," to audiences in New York City. (U.S. Premiere)

Love Songs
Director/writer: Christophe Honore. Starring: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme.
Ismael and Julie are the ideal young Parisian couple. They both have good jobs, a great apartment and are considered part of each other's families. After several years together, they decide to add a spark to their relationship and take on a third lover, Alice. (Regional Premiere)

Mister Foe
Director: David Mackenzie. Writers: David Mackenzie, Ed Whitmore. Starring: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds, Claire Forlani.
Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, young Hallam Foe instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city of Edinburgh for love. (U.S. Premiere)

Mister Lonely
Director: Harmony Korine. Writers: Avi Korine & Harmony Korine. Starring: Werner Herzog, Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant.
A Michael Jackson impersonator lives alone in Paris and performs on the streets to make ends meet. At a performance in a retirement home, Michael falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe look-alike who suggests he move to a commune of impersonators in the Scottish Highlands. (U.S. Premiere)

New Orleans Mon Amour
Director: Michael Almereyda. Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Elisabeth Moss, Isabel Gillies.
A year after Hurricane Katrina, an affluent surgeon in New Orleans is attempting to get his life back on track. He is remarrying his ex-wife, renovating her house and restarting his medical practice. His plan begins to unravel when he runs into an old flame. (World Premiere)

Nights and Weekends
Director/writers: Joe Swanberg & Greta Gerwig. Starring: Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig, Elizabeth Donius, Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton, Kent Osborne.
A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship. (World Premiere)

Obscene
Directors: Daniel O'Connor, Neil Ortenberg.
Under Barney Rosset, Grove Press and Evergreen Review fought decisive battles to defeat legal censorship, and opened American life to new and dangerous currents of freedom. This is Rosset's story. (U.S. Premiere)

The Order of Myths
Director: Margaret Brown.
A probing and artful portrait of the divided Mardi Gras communities that still exist today in Alabama. (Regional Premiere)

The Promotion
Director/writer: Steven Conrad. Starring: Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Lili Taylor.
The story of two mid-level supermarket employees who compete ruthlessly for a coveted post at a new store location. (World Premiere)

Run, Fat Boy, Run
Director: David Schwimmer. Writers: Michael Ian Black, Simon Pegg. Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria.
An out-of-shape divorced father makes one last attempt to win back the respect of his son, his ex-wife, and the community around him. All he has to do is finish his first marathon. (Regional Premiere)

Second Skin
Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza.
An intimate look at people whose lives have become transformed by the virtual worlds in online games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest and Second Life. (World Premiere)

Shine A Light
Director: Martin Scorsese.
The legendary film director and the world's most famous rock band make rock and roll history. A complete experience, documenting both the band’s history and a legendary Beacon Theatre show, and a window into the Stones unique relationship with Martin Scorsese. A must-see for every true rock and roll fan. (North American Premiere)

Shot In Bombay
Director: Liz Mermin.
Yes, Bollywood makes gangster films. This fast paced documentary, populated by a charismatic and often surreal cast of characters, goes beyond the tinselly glamour of "Bollywood" to explore some of the industry's darker sides.
(North American Premiere)

Stop-Loss
Director: Kimberly Peirce. Writers: Kimberly Peirce, Mark Richard. Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Back home in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a soldier refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so.

Super High Me
Director: Michael Blieden
Comedian Doug Benson, a famous marijuana advocate, decides to test the limits of his body during two, 30-day stretches. (Regional Premiere)

Then She Found Me
Director: Helen Hunt. Writers: Alice Arlen, Victor Levin, Helen Hunt. Starring: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick.
Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with this touching story of schoolteacher April Epner and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. (Regional Premiere)

The Toe Tactic
Director/writer: Emily Hubley. Starring: Lily Rabe, Daniel London, Kevin Corrigan, Sakina Jaffrey.
In this hybrid of live-action and animation, a young woman grieves for her father while unaware of the magical world around her. (World Premiere)

Where In The World is Osama Bin Laden?
Director: Morgan Spurlock.
Acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Spurlock heads to the Middle East for two reasons: to understand cultures overseas and to find Osama Bin Laden. (Regional Premiere)

Wild Blue Yonder
Director: Celia Maysles.
Celia Maysles had no idea her father and his brother Albert were pioneers of verite documentary filmmaking. Determined to uncover the secrets surrounding her background, Celia sets out on a quest to rediscover her father by using his own artistic process. (North American Premiere)

Young@Heart
Director: Stephen Walker.
The touching and heartfelt portrait of a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay. (Closing Night Film)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

Bulletproof Salesman
Director: Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. It wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand-car war where security would become the ultimate product. (World Premiere)

FrontRunners
Director: Caroline Suh
The campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election. But unlike presidential candidates, they also have to do their homework, take their SATs and write their college applications. (World Premiere)

Full Battle Rattle
Directors: Jesse Moss & Tony Gerber
A feature documentary about life inside the US Army's Iraq Simulation in California's Mojave Desert. The film follows one Army Battalion's efforts to pacify the town of Medina Wasl, one of thirteen villages in the simulation, as it tips precariously on the brink of civil war. (North American Premiere)

The Matador
Directors: Stephen Higgins & Nina Gilden Seavey
The epic tale of David Fandila's quest to become the world's top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and thrilling successes dramatize his three-year journey across Spain and Latin America and into the pages of bullfighting history. (World Premiere)

Sex Positive
Director: Daryl Wein
A look at the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has long since been forgotten. (World Premiere)

Some Assembly Required
Director: Dori Berinstein
Over 2000 kids. 400 teams nationwide. Eight months of brainstorming, designing and building. One goal: to create the next great toy. (World Premiere)

They Killed Sister Dorothy
Director: Daniel Junge
On February 12th, 2005, a 73 year-old Catholic nun from Ohio, was shot six times at point blank range and left to die on a muddy Amazon road. Who was this woman, and why was she killed? What will become of her murderers, and who else was involved? What are the implications of her murder and these trials on the future? (World Premiere)

We Are Wizards
Director: Josh Koury
An entertaining and comprehensive portrait of the passionate culture of Harry Potter fans. (World Premiere)

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Explicit Ills
Director/writer: Mark Webber. Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Frankie Shaw, Tariq Trotter, Rosario Dawson, Noamie Harris, Paul Dano. Young love, drugs and poverty collide in the city of Philadelphia creating a beautiful tale of hope and the power of coming together. (World Premiere)

The Lost Coast
Director/writer: Gabriel Fleming. Starring: Ian Scott McGregor, Lucas Alifano, Lindsay Benner, Chris Yule. As a group of old high school friends wander through San Francisco on Halloween night, two of them are forced to confront their unspoken sexual history. (World Premiere)

My Effortless Brilliance
Director: Lynn Shelton. Writers: Lynn Shelton, Sean Nelson, Basil Harris. Starring: Sean Nelson, Basil Harris, Calvin Reeder, Jeanette Maus. Successful and self-involved novelist Eric Lambert Jones has been unceremoniously dumped by his life long buddy, Dylan. In an attempt to piece together the fractured friendship, Eric takes a side trip from his latest book tour to drop in on Dylan, newly settled in the picturesque backwoods of Washington state. (World Premiere)

Older Than America
Director: Georgina Lightning. Writers: Georgina Lightning, Christine Kunewa. Starring: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi. A woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about atrocities that occurred at a Native Indian boarding school. (World Premiere)

Paper Covers Rock
Director/writer: Joe Maggio. Starring: Jeannine Kaspar, Sayra Player, Clint Jordan, Tom Brangle. The story of Sam, a troubled young woman who loses custody of her six year-old daughter in the wake of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. (World Premiere)

Up With Me
Director: Greg Takoudes. Writers: Maeve McQuillan, Greg Takoudes. Starring: Francisco Vicioso, Erika Rivera, Brandon Thorpe, Justin Coltrain. When Francisco, a teenager from Harlem, is admitted to an upstate boarding school on scholarship, he is torn between his life at home (his loyal girlfriend and his jealous best friend) and the new environment. (World Premiere)

Wellness
Director/writer: Jake Mahaffy. Starring: Jeff Clark, Paul Mahaffy. The chaotic journey of one man trying to succeed in a business that doesn't exist. (North American Premiere)

Yeast
Director/writer: Mary Bronstein. Starring: Mary Bronstein, Amy Judd, Greta Gerwig, Sean Williams. A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships. (World Premiere)

EMERGING VISIONS

A Necessary Death
Director: Daniel Stamm. Starring: GJ Echternkamp, Matt Tilley, Valerie Hurt, Michael Traynor. "Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act." Cut from 142 video tapes, this project sheds light on the tragedy following the infamous internet ad. (World Premiere)

The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Director/writer: Olaf de Fleur. Starring: Raquela Rios, Stefan Schaefer, Olivia Galudo. Raquela is looking for a way out of her tireless job as a "ladyboy" prostitute, which brings her to Iceland with some unexpected outcomes. (North American Premiere)

Ano Una
Director/writer: Jonas Cuaron. Starring: Eireann Harper, Diego Catano. An impossible romance between Molly, a 21 year-old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. (Regional Premiere)

'Bama Girl
Director: Rachel Goslins. A charismatic black woman at the University of Alabama runs for Homecoming Queen, going up against a century of ingrained racial segregation, internal black politics, and a secret association of all-white fraternities. (World Premiere)

Bootleg Wisconsin
Director: Brandon Linden. Writers: Brandon Linden, Tim Donovan. Starring: Lepolion Henderson, Angela Harris, Alissa Bailey, Joyce Porter. A married Chicago Public School Teacher spends part of her summer vacation visiting outlet malls across the Midwest. At her penultimate stop, in Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin, she meets a young man who works at the mall. A relationship develops that makes them both question their lives and their futures. (World Premiere)

Flying On One Engine
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein. The documentary story of an Indian-American surgeon who, despite being critically ill himself and living in a one-room Brooklyn apartment, travels back to India every year to perform marathon surgery "camps" where he repairs the cleft lips of 700 children in a week. (World Premiere)

Half-Life
Director/writer: Jennifer Phang. Starring: Sanoe Lake, Alexander Agate, Julia Nickson, Ben Redgrave.
As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend. (Regional Premiere)

Humboldt County
Director/writer: Danny Jacobs & Darren Grodsky. Starring: Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport, Brad Dourif, Chris Messina, Jeremy Strong.
When Peter Hadley, a promising yet disillusioned medical student, stumbles upon an eccentric community of marijuana farmers, his life will never be the same. (World Premiere)

IBID
Director/writer: Russell Friedenberg. Starring: Christian Campbell, Russell Friedenberg, Chris Kriesa, Heather Rae.
Recently escaped from Trinity Psychiatric Center, a pair of patients hit the road on a mission to inscribe an addendum to the Ten Commandments in order to save the world. (World Premiere)

In A Dream
Director: Jeremiah Zagar.
The chaotic story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah Zagar, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete. (World Premiere)

The Marconi Bros.
Director/writers: Marco Ricci, Michael Canzoniero. Starring: Brendan Sexton III, Dan Fogler, Jon Polito, Zoe Lister Jones.
Anthony and Carmine Marconi have been dutifully serving out life sentences in the family carpet business. Their opportunity to escape occurs when they meet the undisputed king of the Long Island wedding video business. (World Premiere)

Medicine For Melancholy
Director/writer: Barry Jenkins. Starring: Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins.
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority living in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. (World Premiere)

Natural Causes
Directors: Alex Cannon, Paul Cannon, Michael Lerman. Writers: Alex Cannon, Paul Cannon, Michael Lerman, Paul Cannon. Starring: Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Leah Goldstein, Shonda Leigh Robbins, Peter Davenport Swan III. In the wake of a brief, but intense relationship with Shaina, David struggles to find the same connection with Cara, his new flame and Shaina's former best friend. (World Premiere)

The New Year Parade
Director/writer: Tom Quinn. Starring: Greg Lyons, Jennifer Welsh, Andrew Conway, MaryAnn McDonald.
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade. (Regional Premiere)

One Minute to Nine
Director: Tommy Davis.
A haunting and touching documentary look at one family, thrown into the disturbing reality that follows a history of domestic abuse, as one member prepares to serve a jail sentence. (North American Premiere)

The Ostrich Testimonies
Director: Jonathan VanBallenberghe.
The dramatic story of the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch near Tucson, Arizona, where in 2002, two hot-air balloons triggered a stampede of 1,600 ostriches. (World Premiere)

The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Director: Josh Safdie. Writers: Josh Safdie & Eleonore Hendricks. Starring: Eleonore Hendricks, Josh Safdie, Wayne Chin, Francesca & Miranda LaPrelle.
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks. (World Premiere)

Present Company
Director/writer: Frank V. Ross. Starring: Anthony Baker, Tamara Fana Sasha Gioppo, Allison Latta.
Leading very separate lives, Christy and her boyfriend Buddy live together in her parent's basement with their baby Mikey. As they struggle with the realities of their lives, questions are formed about obligations, consequences, and all the identities we employ to get through the day. (World Premiere)

Woodpecker
Director: Alex Karpovsky. Writers: Alex Karpovsky, Jon E. Hyrns. Starring: Jon E. Hyrns, Wesley Yang, Ken Parham.
Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940s, the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts over the past few months. The news is miraculous, yet concrete proof remains elusive. (World Premiere)

24 BEATS PER SECOND

Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet
Director: Paul Owens.
A documentary look at the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware. (World Premiere)

Heavy Load
Director: Jerry Rothwell.
Heavy Load are a punk outfit subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band. But they're also, uniquely, made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities. (World Premiere)

Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Director: Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi.
Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult proposition, but after Saddam's regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. (U.S. Premiere)

Nerdcore Rising
Director: Negin Farsad.
"Nerdcore" is the newest, dorkiest wave of hip-hop, born out of the internet and made possible by computer-obsessed geeks. (World Premiere)

Of All The Things
Director: Jody Lambert.
A Filipino concert promoter has been begging Dennis Lambert (one of the most successful and gifted songwriter/producers of the '70s and '80s) to come tour for decades. Thirty-five years after the release of his solo album, he finally agreed. (World Premiere)

Rainbow Around the Sun
Directors: Kevin Ely and Beau Leland. Writers: Matthew Alvin Brown and Kevin Ely. Starring: Matthew Alvin Brown, Jamie Buxton, Doug Van Liew, Brian Stockton.
A rock musical about the healing power of creativity. Matthew Alvin Brown stars as Zachary Blasto, a hard-drinking, talented songwriter and performer who envisions madcap musical fantasies in order to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life. (World Premiere)

Throw Down Your Heart
Director: Sascha Paladino.
Cameras follow American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo, and record an album. (World Premiere)

The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee "Scratch" Perry
Directors: Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough.
The fascinating story of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who soon became of the most influential artists in reggae and dub. (World Premiere)

Wesley Willis's Joyrides
Director: Chris Bagley and Kim Shively.
A portrait of the self-proclaimed rock 'n' roll star and Chicago city artist, Wesley Willis. (Regional Premiere)

The Wrecking Crew
Director: Denny Tedesco.
You heard them playing on the Beach Boys hits, on the Mamas and the Papas' recordings, on Frank Sinatra records, on Monkees' singles, and they were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. Most likely, you never heard their name. If you knew who they were, you called them "the Wrecking Crew." (World Premiere)

'ROUND MIDNIGHT

Dance of the Dead
Director: Gregg Bishop. Writer: Joe Ballarini. Starring: Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Justin Welborn, Chandler Darby.
A horror/adventure that takes place on the night of the big High School Prom: the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance. (World Premiere)

Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Director: Jay Delaney.
Through the experiences of two amateur bigfoot researchers in southern Ohio, we see how the power of a dream can bring two men together and provide a source of hope and meaning. (World Premiere)

Otis
Director: Tony Krantz. Writer: Thomas Schnauz & Erik Jendresen. Starring: Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollak, Jere Burns.
A black comedy satire about a "Leave It To Beaver" family colliding with the dark world of a serial killer that takes on murderous twists with hilarious consequences. (World Premiere)

RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
Director/writer: Robert Byington. Starring: Gabriel McIver, Kristen Tucker, Andrew Bujalski, Kevin Corrigan.
There may be one thing worse than being a sex offender sent to prison: Being a sex offender released from prison. (World Premiere)

Shuttle
Director/writer: Edward Anderson. Starring: Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, James Snyder, Cullen Douglas, Dave Power.
A late-night airport shuttle ride home descends into darkness. (World Premiere)

Southern Gothic
Director/writer: Mark Young. Starring: Yul Vazquez, Nicole DuPort, William Forsythe.
A man must atone for a tragic mistake by saving a little girl from a ruthless, undead preacher. (World Premiere)

LONE STAR STATES

Cook County
Director/writer: David Pomes. Starring: Anson Mount, Xander Berkeley, Ryan Donowho, Polly Cole.
Set in the deep woods of East Texas, an abused and alienated teenage boy and his absentee father struggle to reconnect and beat their respective addictions to crystal meth amidst a family of meth addicts and a community crumbling under the meth epidemic. (World Premiere)

Intimidad
Directors: David Redmon & Ashley Sabin.
Cecy and Camilo recently migrated to Reynosa, Mexico with a dream to buy land and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their daughter. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their marriage.
(World Premiere)

The King of Texas
Director: Rene Pinnell and Claire Huie.
Although Eagle Pennell was quickly becoming a regional film legend, his acute alcoholism and legendary ego alienated many of his friends and collaborators. Eagle remained a forgotten and mostly unsung talent throughout his life, which ended in 2002. Friends, family, and fellow filmmakers recall Eagle's life, the excitement of working alongside him, and the burden of his addictions. (World Premiere)

Tulia, Texas
Director: Cassandra Herrman & Kelly Whalen.
At the end of one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history, dozens of residents of the small farming town of Tulia had been rounded up and thrown behind bars. Of 46 people indicted for cocaine dealing, 39 were African American. In the years to follow, troubling evidence about Coleman's investigation and his past began to surface. (World Premiere)

Writ Writer
Director: Susanne Mason.
The story of jailhouse lawyer Fred Cruz and the legal battle he waged to secure what he believed to be the constitutional rights of Texas prisoners. (World Premiere)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year With Andre Williams
Director: Eric Matthies and Tricia Todd.
A year in the life of Andre Williams, one of the unsung heroes of the American R&B community, who walks us through the hard life he's led over five decades of making music. (World Premiere)

Bi The Way
Director: Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker.
Journeying through the changing sexual landscape of America, BI THE WAY investigates the latest scientific reports and social opinions on bisexuality, while following five members of the emerging "whatever generation"— teens and twenty-somethings who seem to be ushering in whole new sexual revolution.(World Premiere)

The Black List
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Writer: Elvis Mitchell.
In a film that works as series of living portraits, twenty prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds offer their own stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in this country and manage to re-define "blacklist" for a new century in the process. (Regional Premiere)

Body of War
Directors: Ellen Spiro & Phil Donahue.
"Support our troops" has long been a rallying cry for war proponents. But that phrase will never sound the same after you meet Tomas Young, an eloquent former soldier and current war protester. (Regional Premiere)

Dancing Alfonso
Director: Barak Heymann.
Alfonso is the lead dancer in a flamenco troupe, which rehearses in a Tel Aviv suburb After the death of his wife, he begins to obsessively court Sima, a dancer with the troupe, to the displeasure of his children, who are unwilling to accept the fact that their father might be interested in another woman. (U.S. Premiere)

Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
Director: Kurt Kuenne.
After Dr. Andrew Bagby was brutally murdered, the prime suspect (his former girlfriend) announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's baby. Andrew's childhood friend began this film as a way for the baby to learn about his father, until things started to take an even more unpredictable turn. (Regional Premiere)

Do You Sleep In the Nude?
Director: Marshall Fine.
Forty years after he blazed across the scene, Rex Reed is still going strong - a brand-name movie critic whose name and face remain easily recognizable, even if his influence has waned. (Regional Premiere)

Don't Get Me Wrong
Director: Adina Pintilie
Within a stark Romanian psychiatric hospital, patients move stones, help each other perform daily tasks and discuss the existence of God and how to stop the rain. (U.S. Premiere)

Goliath
Director: David Zellner. Writers: David and Nathan Zellner. Starring: David Zellner, Caroline O'Connor, Nathan Zellner.
A recently divorced man tries to find the one aspect of his marriage that still matters to him: his missing cat, Goliath. (Regional Premiere)

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Director: Alex Gibney.
With access to never-before-seen archives, this is a fascinating documentary look at the legendary and undeniable Hunter S. Thompson. (Regional Premiere)

Here Is What Is
Director: Adam Vollick & Adam Samuels.
An invitation to experience a year of creation, looking over Daniel Lanois' shoulder. His psychedelic past emerges throughout the film as the hyperrealism of the in-studio documentation is contrasted by moments of wild fantasia. (U.S. Premiere)

Here's Johnny
Director: Kat Mansoor, Adam Lavis and WIll Hood.
Previously renowned for his work in the comics Judge Dredd and 2000AD, Johnny now lives in an increasing state of immobility and frustration. He escapes the confines of his front room by drawing, and through the expression of his brilliant, and sometimes troubled, imagination we learn about the disease that he is forced to co-exist with. (World Premiere)

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry
Director: Erich Weiss
A feature-length documentary exploring the roots of American tattooing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. (World Premiere)

Joy Division
Director: Grant Gee.
The filmmakers investigate why Joy Division's collective musical genius and singular vision enjoys a larger audience and influence thirty years on.
(U.S. Premiere)

Mongol
Director: Sergei Bodrov. Writers: Arif Aliyev, Sergei Bodrov. Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun. The first part in a planned trilogy about the epic, violent, and romantic life of Genghis Khan. (Regional Premiere)

The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Director: David Leaf.
A documentary look at the historic James Brown concert, held just days after Martin Luther King's assassination, when the city of Boston was ready to boil. (Work-In-Progress)

Secrecy
Director: Peter Galison & Robb Moss. The film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By filming people from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, reporters, information seekers, and individuals whose lives have been marked by their encounters with the classification bureaucracy, the film probes secrecy's relationship to fear, executive power and national security. (Regional Premiere)

The Sweet Lady with the Nasty Voice
Director: Vincent Kralyevich.
This documentary is the culmination of a two-year journey with Wanda Jackson, now 70, in performances across the United States and Europe. (World Premiere)

The Visitor
Director/writer: Thomas McCarthy. Starring: Richard Jenkins.
A college professor becomes embroiled in the lives of a young immigrant couple he discovers squatting in his Manhattan apartment. Confronted with adversity, these strangers become inextricably bound together. (Regional Premiere)

Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
Director: Patrick Reed.
The former head of Doctors Without Borders returns to Africa, to confront its harsh realities. (Regional Premiere)

We Dreamed America
Director: Alex Walker.
A documentary that delves deep into the dark and hilarious recesses of the British Americana music scene, exploring the gritty underworld of the New British Country movement. (U.S. Premiere)

The Wild Horse Redemption
Director: John Zaritsky.
At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hard-core criminals are given 90 days to tame wild mustang horses. Most of the inmates who volunteer for the program have never trained a horse before, or even ridden one. (U.S. Premiere)

2008 Short Film Lineup

REEL SHORTS 1

Warlord
Director/Writer: David Garrett
A ten-year-old boy who is frustrated and confused by the world around him decides to break free and flee into the wilderness. Other kids follow him, and soon the little Warlord has built a tribe of his own.

34 x 25 x 36
Director: Jesse Epstein
A tour of the Patina V Mannequin Factory, in Industry City, outside of LA.

Man
Director/Writer: Myna Joseph
Maggie and her sister form an unusual bond during an encounter with a young man.

Mr. P
Director/ Writer: JacobVaughan
A tutor gets schooled by his pupil.

A Day's Work
Director/Writer: Edward Feldman
Anna lives on the outskirts of Prague in a dismal housing project. When her neighbor says she can’t watch her son for the day, Anna must bring him along. Getting to work proves to be difficult. The bus she takes is not running. She hurries to another bus line, which makes her late for an audio dubbing session for an American film with an ornery director and his sheepish producer. What follows is something unforeseen, and gives us a unique glimpse into the depths of Anna’s inner world.

Solitary
Director: Eva Weber
High up in the sky there is an army of workers, invisible and removed from the world, going about their daily business. Gliding through the air almost weightless, cramped into small steel cubicles the size of bus driver’s cabins, they spend most of their waking hours watching and observing what happens on the ground below them - their only contact with the world a small radio transmitter.

Crossbow
Director/Writer: David Michôd
A kid. His mum and dad. The sex and drugs. And the boy next door who watched the whole thing unravel.

REEL SHORTS 2

The Problem With Machines That Communicate
Director/Writer: Matt McCormick
An examination of three lonely characters interacting with technology in a world that otherwise doesn’t seem to pay attention to them. The film features three well known non-actors making their theatrical debuts: Marty Crandall is the keyboardist for the band The Shins, Elyse Sewell gained notoriety as a participant on the first season of America’s Next Top Model, and 91-year-old George Andrus is a popular folk-artist and inventor from the Pacific Northwest.

The Soldier's Wife
Director/Writer: John Hendon
A soldier returns home from the war to his young wife. Under suspicion, she is subjected to a lie detector test. Her jealous husband wants to know if she has deceived him.

Beijing Haze
Director/Writer: J.P. Chan
For a new Chinese immigrant in America, one dream ends as another begins.

Bachianas No. 5
Director/Writer: Curtis Taylor
Three women dream of an ideal place for love, an ideal lover. In truth they work in the demimonde of a peep show and graphically imagine solace, or revenge.

Mr. Mustache
Director: Ørjan Jensen
A film about men and their mustaches. Consisting of several interviews woven together as a lively collage, ten participants tell both disadvantages and positive effects from the hair growing beneath their noses. This humoristic film covers subjects such as kissing and risky consumption of messy ice creams.

The European Kid
Director/Writer: Ian Martin
It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Neil Adamski. Tonight his problem with gambling and his problem with fidelity come to a head. And at the dinner table of the O'Connell's no less--a seemingly picture perfect family who, by the end of the meal, will find themselves united by a new-found hatred.

The Execution of Solomon Harris
Director: Wyatt Garfield
An electric chair execution fails, delivering a non-lethal jolt of electricity that leaves the prisoner screaming in pain. Protocol and routine fail to provide a resolution, and the Warden has to cope with the human dilemma that falls into his hands.

Small Apartment
Director/Writer: Andrew T. Betzer
A middle-aged man, his son, and daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space.

REEL SHORTS 3

The Second Line
Director/Writer: John Magary
After MacArthur’s savings are stolen from his FEMA trailer, he and his cousin Natt take work gutting a house.

Closing Night
Director/Writer: Christopher Rusch
A day in the life of a young actress at a local theater.

Stain on the Sidewalk
Director/Writer: Adam Schlachter
Andy, a high school freshman, secretly longs for Vanessa, the beautiful girlfriend of the neighborhood bully. In a fumbling, yet poetic exercise, he searches for the right words to declare his love for her, hoping she notices him. But ultimately, Andy discovers that actions speak much louder than words.

Kid
Director/Writer: Miguel Alvarez
A coming-of-age ritual defines the relationship between a thirteen-year-old boy and his estranged father.

Catalogue of Anticipations
Director/Writer: David Lowery
A young girl’s perspective on mortality changes when she makes an unsettling discovery in her backyard.

Glory at Sea
Director: Benjamin Zeitlin
A mythic adventure story about of a group of mourners building a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their loved ones lost beneath the sea.

ANIMATED SHORTS

Ideation
Director: Jeremiah Dickey
An ancient allegory for our modern times.

Fish, But No Cigar
Directors: Tara White and Lyn Elliot
An animated movie about a woman who has bigger fish to fry. Literally.

Tower of Grantville
Director: Buck.tv
A boxy old man wreaks havoc on some furry critters, but learns his anger will only make him less happy.

Rock in a Hard Place
Director/Writer: Matthew Monson
Testing the limits of household object cinema, this film tells the tale of three mortal enemies and a perfect plan that goes horribly wrong.

Jeu
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
The filmmaker sets the viewer down in a landscape whose scenery constantly morphs and mutates. This helter-skelter world evokes the chaos of modern life.

I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bad and Hat
Director/Writer: Becky James
A lyrical and monstrous meditation on when the mundane becomes gruesome.

Blissful
Director: leftchannel
Blissful is a collaborative, psychological landscape that describes the internal struggle of a heartless individual.

My Biodegradable Heart
Director/Writer: Dana Adam Shapiro
A story about puppy love and how long it would take said puppy to decompose.

For You, My People
Director: Jose Pablo Gonzalez
A senator’s compassionate public persona clashes with his secret deeds of corruption and dishonor.

My First Crush
Director/Writer: Julia Pott
Using interviews with people about their first encounters with love, this film deals with the humor and heartache that goes hand in hand with these early experiences.

Paradise
Director: Jesse Rosensweet
Paradise is a in stop-motion animated short that is told using tin toys from the 1950s that move around on metal posts inside an "automated" world.

Office Buddies
Directors: Dan and Jason
Office Buddies is a series of ongoing shorts about two mortal enemies cruelly imprisoned in adjoining cubicles.

Blindspot
Director: Norah Solorzano
An animated interpretation of the particular agonies of being a child and being oneself. Drawn on paper.

Shut Eye Hotel
Director/Writer: Bill Plympton
Shut Eye Hotel is a film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders they become victims of this evil force. What Jaws did to swimming, Shut Eye Hotel will do for sleeping.

Madame Tult-PultI
Director: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down by all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Bathtub
Director/Writer: Priya Sanghvi
In a bathroom set with diamonds, white cake, and a porcelain claw-foot tub, a beautiful young woman readies for death. In the minutes before her death, she practices a ritual to prepare herself for the unknown.

My Surprise Cousin Catherine
Director/Writer: Guy J Jackson
A would-be love affair between two disaffected cousins.

Grand Wheel
Director: Gavin Heffernan
An experimental walk through the modern Peace Movement in the United States.

Kupe and the Whale
Director/Writer: Nicholas Tayler
The story of a mythical encounter with the spirits of planes and money, where a Maori Warrior makes his quest to battle those forces which have changed his people's culture forever.

Upwards March
Director/Writer: Kaveh Nabatian
A seven year-old girl gets lost in a surreal amusement park.

The Timebox Twins
Director/Writer: Tipper Newton
A brother and sister discover the secret behind the "timebox" a device that is used to keep schools on schedule, you hook four together and get a time machine!

Safari
Director/Writer: Catherine Chalmers
An American cockroach, that ubiquitous urban pest, yet a species no longer found in the wild, here emerges from the primordial sea and crawls on land as if for the first time. Returning to nature, though, has its perils.

The Book of Lenny
Director/Writer: Aaron Castillo
“The Book of Lenny” is the beginning chapter of a heroic journey set after a storm of unprecedented magnitude nearly destroys human civilization.

df/dx
Director: Thomas Helman
An overexposed spiraling descent of false awakenings into the recurrent nightmare of alienation and the subsequent clockwork manufacture of an insatiable desire for unity, df/dx is an abject refutation of closure of any form.

Dynasty Handbag - The Quiet Storm
Directors: Jibz Cameron and Hedia Maron
After a communication meltdown, Dynasty Handbag (alter-ego of performance artist and musician Jibz Cameron) decides to take a vow of silence. She soon discovers that silence is golden, but the kind of golden that leads her into a vacuum of isolation and despair.

Certain Green
Director/Writer: Theo Lipfert
Following the advice of a psychic, a older woman searches from Florida to the Rocky Mountains for the perfect color green, and along the way learns that sometimes a certain green is found where you least expect it.

Doxology
Director: Michael Langan
In order to reach spiritual enlightenment, one sweater-vested young man must face a dancing Oldsmobile, endure a boozy encounter with God on a frozen tundra, brush his teeth, comb his hair, floss, Q-Tip, lather and shave simultaneously. Doxology combines groundbreaking stop-motion animation techniques and unusual storytelling with the time-honored quest for spiritual awakening.

MIDNIGHT SHORTS

SPIDER
Director: Nash Edgerton
Jack and Jill are always hurting each other's feelings. But like Mum said, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."

Swedish Blueballs
Director: Joe Swanberg and Kent Osborne
An obnoxious American tourist gets more than he bargained for when he meets a Swedish girl while sightseeing in Stockholm.

Mano-A-Mano
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Two guys compete for the same job satisfying strange men.

Fish Out of Water - Movie Night
Director: Ben Barnes
Three friends settle in for a night of movies and brews.

The Rambler
Director: Calvin Reeder
A stranger takes to the lonely highway with his guitar and traveling sack. Every rambler's got a story, this one's pretty strange.

Brute Force Sings Hey Little Bunny
Director: Daughter of Force
A short story about the impermanent nature of life as performed by 60's cult musician, Brute Force - with a rubber band.

Show and Hell
Director: Ross Wilsey
When bringing ultra cosmic horror to the classroom, make sure you bring enough for everybody.

The Adventures of Baxter and McGuire
Director: Mike Blum
An animated short that chronicles the adventures of Baxter & McGuire - the closest of friends who just happen to be testicles.

The Golden Egg
Director: J. Rick Castaneda
A modern-day fable about a perfectly normal guy who lays golden eggs. As the eggs become an increasingly, umm, large problem, Greg tries his best to hold his reality together.

LOVEolution
Director: John Bryant
Two well-meaning parents lock their newborn baby in a cage and raise him there for 18 years.

Knock Knock
Director: Jack Ferry
The worst knock knock joke ever.

Frog Jesus
Director: Ben Peters
A nostalgic voyage explores the naiveté of mankind through the eyes of a young boy. He thought he could make a frog jesus.

The Heist
Director: Ben Peters
Has a determined inventor finally found a means to possess the object of his desire?

TEXAS SHORTS

Peterson's Savings and Loan
Director/Writer: Will Elliot
Kirk Grabowski has already endured hours of mind-numbing muzak, communicated with robots, and shared his most sick and twisted secrets with a complete stranger. He never thought calling his bank could be so traumatic.

A New Toy
Director: Byron Brown
A generous, overly cautious man gives a young boy a new remote control car to play with. The man has several rules that the boy must abide by before enjoying the toy.

Clothes Horse
Directors: Craig Elrod and Joshua Krilov
Girl meets boy but can't get rid of him.

Sprout
Director/Writer: Jeanne Stern
A kitchen sink over-flows causing the room to flood. As the water rises, the room sprouts to life. Uses puppetry with water, wax and book covers.

Plan-B
Director: Kai Salim
A young woman must chose between giving life or a pink pill.

Shot
Director: Stephen Acevedo Writer: Deon van Rooyen
A hired gun looking to score his first professional hit has problems focusing in this darkly comedic tale of love, lies and long-range marksmanship.

The Aviatrix
Director/Writer: Toddy Burton
A gleaming silhouette rockets through the cosmos. She is The Aviatrix. And she exists in the mind of Anne, a young woman battling cancer.

Quinceanera
Director: Sergio Carvajal and Andrew Ruwan Perera
Two students follow a 14 year old Mexican-American girl as she prepares herself for her Quinceanera celebration. As the days approach to the big day, the real reason behind the events starts to unveil.

SHORTS SCREENING WITH FEATURES

Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks
Director/Writer: Aaron Katz
While in a hotel room in Mystic, CT Aaron eats noodles, watches TV, takes a bath, makes a phone call, and sleeps.
Screens with BOOTLEG WISCONSON

Ubuntu
Director: David Serota
Ubuntu is a mini-doc about the Soweto Kliptown Youth Organization (SKY) located in an impoverished area of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Screens with THE OSTRICH TESTIMONIES

Pierre
Director/Writer: Danger Brown
A live action short film about love, obsession and eternal longing for the unattainable, but it doesn't take itself as serious as that.
Screens with The MARCONI BROS.

X
Director/Writer: Josh Brolin
An inmate escapes prison to reunite with his daughter and searches for her murdered mother in order to ultimately exhume her body and give her a proper burial.
Screens with TULIA TEXAS

The Ladies
Director/Writer: C.A. Voros
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kept a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the importance of family and the persistence of the creative spirit.
Screens with FLYING ON ONE ENGINE

The Art of Karaoke
Director: Will Hartman
In the twilight of his life, 82-year-old Art Himmel discovered he had a voice like Frank Sinatra. Now, this WWII veteran and Cancer patient sings karaoke three nights a week at little clubs in Los Angeles.
Screens with DANCING ALFONSO

Train Town
Director/Writer: Keith Bearden Writer: Joel Haskard
Two middle aged men stage a culture war in miniature after the opening of their model train shop.
Screens with THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED

Nosebleed
Director/Writer:Jeff Vespa
A man tries to get rid of a nosebleed with disastrous effects.
Screens with IBID

Sunlit Shadows
Director/Writer: Benjamin M Piety
A visual mix tape highlighting the simultaneous holding on to-and letting go of-lost love. Told through the songs and moments of a simple lazy morning.
Screens with THE LOST COAST

The Apology Line
Director: James Lees Writers: James Lees, William Bridges
Based on the creation of a real-life "apology line," where members of the public anonymously confess to absolutely anything over the telephone.
Screens with DON’T GET ME WRONG

Odd Shoe
Director: Paul Cotter Writer: Claire Bloomfield
Joe's life seems to be going nowhere, until the day he gets his hands on a new pair of shoes.
Screens with UP WITH ME

The Temerity of Zim
Director/Writer: Joshua Kopple
Zim gets caught with another girl while house-sitting for his girlfriend's parents.
Screens with MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE

MUSIC VIDEOS

Socadia 'Always Near'
Director: Andrea Giacomini

Group Sounds 'Temporarily in Love'
Director: Randy Scott Slavin

The Happy Bullets 'The Vice & Virtue Ministry'
Director: Nader Husseini

Blonde Redhead 'Top Ranking'
Director: Mike Mills

Albatross 'Giant'
Director: Jerod Costa

Cornelius 'FIT SONG'
Director: Keigo Oyamada

Go!Team 'Grip Like a Vice'
Director: James Slater

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings 'Tell Me'
Director: Adam Elias Buncher

TV on the Radio 'Me-I'
Director: Mixtape Club

Coparck 'A Good Year For the Robots'
Director: Daniel Bruce and Wouter Stoter

The Fashion 'Solo Impala'
Director: Jakob Printzlau (PLASTIC KID)

The Specimen 'Do U Damage'
Director: Tammy Jez

Hey La La 'Art of Toys'
Director: Eric Power

Riverboat Gamblers 'Don't Bury Me...I'm Still Not Dead'
Director: Christopher Rose

The Good Life 'Heartbroke'
Director: Alan Tanner

Kissinger 'Sydney Stone'
Director: Chopper

Lomita 'Broken Boy'
Director: Jose Jones

Dead Meadow 'What Needs Must Be'
Director: Eric Cheevers

Gravy 'Rock Scientists'
Director: Victor Stilling and Mads Hjort

Yea Big and Kid Static 'The Life Here'
Director: Daniel Zox

Love Like Fire 'I Will'
Director: Thomas Barndt

TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS

Fancy Pants
Director: Ethan Denum

Nukes and You
Director: Ted Gottschalk

Dehumanized Eyes
Director: Chance Cook

An Inspiring Train Wreck
Director: Alexander Burnett

Horsebite
Director: Jack Reynolds

Suckcess
Directors: Jessica Torres & Yvonne Hernandez

An Influential Language
Director: Elizabeth Breazile

Picnic
Director: Wesley Bronez

Attaque De L'Hamburger
Director: Aaron Levy

Pantalon
Director: Jessica Torres

Inflections
Director: Matthew Campbell

Never Go Into the Boy's Bathroom
Director: Alethea Swanson

To the Ends of the Earth
Director: John Gordon

Cheaters Never Quit
Director: Harrison Smith & Derek Beck

Trebuchet!
Director: Colin Feo