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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Erik Lauer
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/10 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Valentina Casadei
Directed by:
Student Short/France/2018/13 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Marcus Hann, Jenna Andres
Directed by:
Student Short/Canada/2018/11 min
Laymun
The story of a gardener in a Middle Eastern war zone, fighting the destruction around her with life-giving plants.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Catherine Prowse, Hannah Quinn
Directed by:
Student Short/United Kingdom/2018/5 min
Place Cards
Two little sisters are preparing a surpise party. As time goes by their doubt whether the guest will come grows.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Andrzej Święch
Directed by:
Student Short/Poland/2018/5 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Erica Ripperger
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/15 min
Selective Memory
After recently experiencing a traumatic loss, a young woman discovers a new pill that would allow her to erase her worst memories.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Caleb Murphy
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/10 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Gavin Lankford
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/5 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
Dan Rutkowski
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/8 min
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.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
So Young Shelly S Yo
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/12 min
Valerie Morgan: TV Qualified
Based solely on her obsession with medical television shows, Valerie Morgan attempts to gain employment in the medical field.
Screening
Date
Time
12:30 pm
September 30, 2018
Student Shorts Block
LaQuanda Plantt
Directed by:
Student Short/US/2018/8 min