Award Winners
A New Beginning
When a photographer begins to lose his ability to see, he must cope with his growing disability while taking one final trip to photograph the most beautiful vistas in the world. When the dust settles and his travels are over, an unexpected memory from his travels gives him the strength to move on.
Directed by:
Erik Lauer
Student Short/US/2018/10 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Blessed Days
Adele, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.
Directed by:
Valentina Casadei
Student Short/France/2018/13 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Edge of Apollo
Alex is a young boy who has an obsession with space. After watching the launch of Apollo 11 launch he dreams that he too can someday go to space. Growing up in mid-western America in the 60s, Alex has been raised Catholic and taught to believe in God and heaven. He is learning, growing, and trying to understand, and has questions about where space goes and where heaven is. These questions become even more complicated when Alex overhears his mother, Paula, talking about an illness that has been previously hidden from Alex. Due to her developing illness, Paula's own faith has begun to waiver, and she struggles to hide her deteriorating health from her son as well as answer his questions that she doesn't know how to answer for herself. As the story unfolds Alex becomes increasingly disorientated between the reality of what is happening and his dreams, blurring his sense of hope and bewilderment of the possibilities of space exploration.
Directed by:
Marcus Hann, Jenna Andres
Student Short/Canada/2018/11 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Laymun
The story of a gardener in a Middle Eastern war zone, fighting the destruction around her with life-giving plants.
Directed by:
Catherine Prowse, Hannah Quinn
Student Short/United Kingdom/2018/5 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Place Cards
Two little sisters are preparing a surpise party. As time goes by their doubt whether the guest will come grows.
Directed by:
Andrzej Święch
Student Short/Poland/2018/5 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Ruby and Her Uncle
Two teenage girls venture to one's uncle's secluded countryside home for a long weekend where they soon become infatuated with the mysterious relative.
Directed by:
Erica Ripperger
Student Short/US/2018/15 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Selective Memory
After recently experiencing a traumatic loss, a young woman discovers a new pill that would allow her to erase her worst memories.
Directed by:
Caleb Murphy
Student Short/US/2018/10 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Splash!
Toy fisherman Skip and his faithful pup Pip sail for adventure on the high seas of their bathtub, but fun turns to fright when they discover just what is lurking below them in the soapy water.
Directed by:
Gavin Lankford
Student Short/US/2018/5 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Sweet Daisy
A neon noir western in which a rancher's daughter witnesses the death of her father, and then stops at nothing to attain splendid vengeance years later.
Directed by:
Dan Rutkowski
Student Short/US/2018/8 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
The Heartbreak Factory
The Heartbreak Factory is a short that explores the inner-world of Ava, a fiery worker, determined to mend all the broken hearts of the world.
Directed by:
So Young Shelly S Yo
Student Short/US/2018/12 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm
Valerie Morgan: TV Qualified
Based solely on her obsession with medical television shows, Valerie Morgan attempts to gain employment in the medical field.
Directed by:
LaQuanda Plantt
Student Short/US/2018/8 min
Screening
Student Shorts Block
Date
September 30, 2018
Time
12:30 pm