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 Director(s): James Lees Screenwriter(s): James Lees, William Bridges |
Apology Line (On The Edge - 10 mins) Based on the creation of a real-life "apology line," where members of the public anonymously confess to absolutely anything over the telephone.
James Lees - James Lees runs the production company, The Hobo Film Company, through which he produces broadcast documentaries, pop promos, shorts, and Internet viral commercials. The Apology Line is the first project developed by the Apology Line art project, set up by Lees and William Bridges in 2006. Lees also works as a freelance cameraman and photographer. His photography has been published in magazines and the press and used commercially. Lees is currently developing two features and a new fictional short, and the new music video he directed for Sydney singer/songwriter Josh Pyke currently sits at number one on the Australian music-video charts.
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 Director(s): Xuan Jiang Screenwriter(s): Xuan Jiang |
August 15th (Drama - 20 mins) A pair of countryside crooks hijacks a city bus, and the passengers must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for their own safety.
Jiang Xuan - Xuan Jiang was born and raised in Beijing, China. While working in television production, she began writing screenplays. In 2004, she was accepted into the CalArts School of Film/Video, where she is working on her MFA in film directing. She recently returned to China to shoot her thesis film. Currently based in Los Angeles, she is writing her next feature film.
Meng Tingyi, Qu Shaoshi, Zhao Xinxi, Bian Tao, Cai Lu
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 Director(s): Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung |
Because Washington Is Hollywood for Ugly People (Animation - 7 mins) A video animation that adopts the form of viral advertising to reduce contemporary events to a cartoonlike mythology, touching on identity politics, U.S. foreign policy, sexuality, and power.
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung - Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung is a new media artist based in New York City. He works in various media, including Internet art, interactive installations, video animation, and performance. His works have been exhibited at venues such as the New Museum and Postmasters Gallery in New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and Cartwrighthall Art Gallery in Bradford in the United Kingdom, to name just a few.
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 Director(s): Andrea Fasciani Screenwriter(s): Andrea Fasciani |
Buyo (On The Edge - 37 mins) Ralph's unusual voice makes Anna, who is deaf, vibrate, prompting her affections.
Andrea Fasciani - Andrea Fasciani is 25 years old. He has a degree in cinema, new media, and communication. He loves working with ideas.
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 Director(s): Matthew Lessner Screenwriter(s): Matthew Lessner |
By Modern Measure (Comedy - 5 mins) An amateur French sociologist presents his observations on a day in the life of two young Americans who meet by chance outside a Taco Bell.
Matthew Lessner - Matthew Lessner grew up in Roseburg, Oregon, small-town U.S.A., cradled in corn syrup and the American flag. His undergraduate thesis film, Darling Darling, screened at more than 30 film festivals worldwide and picked up a few awards along the way. The film is represented by Shorts International, and was a top seller on iTunes. Lessner financed his next short film, By Modern Measure, entirely with prize money from the Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker Award, which he won at the 2006 Ann Arbor Film Festival. The film was shot with a bare-bones crew and no script over a three-day period in the Southern California desert.
Adam Mortemore, Anne Sophie Dutoit
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 Director(s): Tom Harper Screenwriter(s): Fiona Kissane |
Cherries (Drama - 15 mins) A class of teenage schoolboys are about to have a life-changing lesson they will never forget.
Tom Harper - Tom Harper is a writer and director for film and television. His first short film, Cubs (2006), screened to acclaim at festivals worldwide, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and won a number of awards, including a British Independent Film Award and the BBC New Filmmaker Award. It was also nominated for a BAFTA. Most recently, he directed a 30-minute film for Britain's Channel 4, is directing a drama series for the BBC, and is working on his first feature with Celador Films and FilmFour.
Neil Dudgeon, Sam Spruell, Omari Carter, Alfie Allen
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 Director(s): Carson Mell Screenwriter(s): Carson Mell |
Chonto (Animation - 15 mins) Wilted rock idol Bobby Bird literally tries to buy a friend when he adopts a monkey from a zoo in South America.
Carson Mell - An Arizona native, Carson Mell has lived in Hollywood for the past five years. His short films have screened at CineVegas, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Film Festival and have been featured in McSweeney's Wholphin DVD magazine. He has recently finished a novel based on his Bobby Bird character.
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 Director(s): David Michôd Screenwriter(s): David Michôd |
Crossbow (Drama - 14 mins) A kid. His mum and dad. The sex and drugs. And the boy next door who watched the whole thing unravel.
David Michôd - David Michôd is a graduate of the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television and is a former editor of Inside Film magazine. As a screenwriter, he has recently written shorts and features for directors including Nash Edgerton and Spencer Susser. In 2004, he was accepted into the New South Wales Film and Television Office’s Aurora Script Workshop. Michôd has also made numerous appearances in film and television as an actor, most recently in Clayton Jacobson’s Kenny.
Joel Edgerton, Lisa Chappell, Cy Standen, Mirrah Foulkes
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 Director(s): Alex Haworth Screenwriter(s): Alex Haworth |
Deep (Drama - 7 mins) A journey unravels through the thoughts of a solitary character in the heart of a future dystopia.
Alex Haworth - Alex Haworth is currently studying film at the University of Utah. Since 2003, his documentary and narrative shorts have screened in a number of festivals nationwide. In 2004, his film Anima received the Best of Show award at the Utah Multimedia Arts Festival. He is writer, director, editor, and composer of The Deep.
David Spencer
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 Director(s): Danny Roew Screenwriter(s): Tonya Cornelisse, Graham Sibley |
Dog Lovers (Comedy - 4 mins) Two potential lovers meet to talk about their affection for dogs.
Danny Roew - Danny Roew has a knack for visual storytelling. He is a director of photography by day, an editor by night, and somewhere in between, he finds time to dabble in special effects. Roew works consistently in a variety of genres to hone his abilities as a filmmaker and photographer. Notorious for making something out of nothing, Roew and his crew have produced a variety of low-budget music videos that have gone on to premiere on MTV, Fuse, VH1, and at festivals around the country. He also produced the popular 2002 hip-hop documentary Tha Westside that explored the birth of West Coast rap in the early 1990s.
Tonya Cornelisse, Graham Sibley, Misty the Dog, Pudge the Dog
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 Director(s): Erin White Screenwriter(s): Erin White |
Dugong (Drama - 18 mins) In an effort to repair the past, a loner returns home with his dog on the day of his brother's wedding.
Erin White - Nominated in the emerging talent category at the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards for Two Soldiers, Erin White went on to make 62 Sleeps, winning the Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival and the Young Talent Award at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools in 2005. White’s training includes a BA in media arts from Deakin University, Australia, and she is a graduate of the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television. Dugong represents her first funded film (Film Victoria Short Film Fund).
Luke Elliot, Sue Jones, Brandon Burns, Anya Beyersdorf
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 Director(s): Wyatt Garfield, Ed Yonaitis Screenwriter(s): Ed Yonaitis |
Execution of Solomon Harris (Drama - 8 mins) After an electric-chair execution fails, the warden has to cope with the human dilemma that falls into his hands.
Ed Yonaitis - Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ed Yonaitis discovered his love of cinema midway through his high school education. Now a 2006 graduate with a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design film and television program, he expresses his unique sense of the world through the cinematic medium.
Wyatt Garfield - Wyatt Garfield comes from Portland, Maine, and has been engaged with cinema since his discovery of film club in high school. He graduated with a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he majored in film. He hopes to continue to work with Ed Yonaitis and other members of Team G on films outside of college. Will Bellais, Dave Hager, Wes Bailey, Jef Taylor, Glen Gartner, Jaysin Osterkamp
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 Director(s): Ken Wardrop Screenwriter(s): Ken Wardrop |
Farewell Packets of Ten (Comedy - 3 mins) Ethel and Nancy discuss the pros and cons of their mutual addiction to cigarettes.
Ken Wardrop - Ken Wardrop is one of Ireland’s freshest filmmaking talents. His thought-provoking work combines humanity and originality. His films have won accolades throughout the world, and Undressing My Mother merited an Honorable Mention in short filmmaking at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and the award for best short film at the European Film Awards.
Ethel Wardrop & Nancy
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 Director(s): Dan Beers Screenwriter(s): Dan Beers, Peter Karinen, Brian Sacca |
FCU: Fact Checkers Unit (Comedy - 9 mins) After being assigned to check a bizarre fact about Bill Murray, two magazine fact checkers break into Bill's house to spy on him.
Dan Beers - Dan Beers began his career working as a development executive for the New York–based independent production company Good Machine. He left in 2002 to assist filmmaker Wes Anderson for four years and served as an associate producer on the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Beers next cowrote a script with Rob Huebel ("Human Giant") for producer Scot Armstrong (Old School). He is currently writing an untitled comedy for Oliver Platt, who will make his directorial debut with the film.
Bill Murray, Peter Karinen, Brian Sacca, Kristen Schaal, Ayad Akhtar, Sarah Hudnut
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 Director(s): Randy Krallman Screenwriter(s): Randy Krallman |
Force 1 TD (Comedy - 11 mins) Three friends set off to find a very special pair of sneakers for a miniature guide horse.
Randy Krallman - Randy Krallman is a career skullduggerist. He was born in Alaska, raised in Utah, and is currently based in New York.
Justin Reyes, TJ Pellot, Nikolas Reyes, Scout
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 Director(s): Sara St. Onge Screenwriter(s): Sara St. Onge, Bob Kerr |
Funeral (Comedy - 9 mins) A young woman becomes aware of her own mortality and meticulously plans her funeral.
Sara St. Onge - Sara St. Onge was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, before moving incrementally across the nation, finally jumping the border and spending her formative years in Seattle, Washington, listening to grunge music. Barely managing to graduate from high school, she did end up with a love for photography. This led her, eventually, to the Rhode Island School of Design, from which she graduated in 2000 with a degree in photography. Since then she has returned to Canada and directed music videos for indie-rock acts such as Final Fantasy, The Diableros, and Ghettosocks. The Funeral is her first short film.
Inessa Frantowski, Bob Kerr, Rebecca Addelman, Holly Prazoff
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 Director(s): Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung |
Gas Zappers (Animation - 5 mins) An ironically over-appropriated and fuzzy polar bear abruptly finds itself in a position to save its home from climate change.
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung - Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung is a new media artist based in New York City. He works in various media, including Internet art, interactive installations, video animation, and performance. His works have been exhibited at venues such as the New Museum and Postmasters Gallery in New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and Cartwrighthall Art Gallery in Bradford in the United Kingdom, to name just a few.
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 Director(s): MK12 Screenwriter(s): MK12 |
History of America (Animation - 31 mins) A psychedelic western space opera.
MK12 - Based in Kansas City, Missouri, MK12 is a design and filmmaking collective with acclaim in both commercial and artistic arenas. Founded in 2000 by art school refugees Jed Carter, Tim Fisher, Matt Fraction, and Ben Radatz, MK12's work constantly challenges the boundaries between narrative structure and experimental storytelling via juxtapositions of live action, graphic design, nostalgic influence, and new technologies. MK12 has been sought after to direct numerous commercial and network-based projects and has also provided graphic design and animation for feature films such as Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, and Holy War. MK12's work has been featured in many international film festivals.
Jim Korinke, Marv Dunkle, Quinn Van Camp, Rebcca Neuenschwander, MK12
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 Director(s): Cam Christiansen Screenwriter(s): Kris Demeanor |
I Have Seen the Future (Animation - 6 mins) A boy is competing in a tennis match with his father when three young men approach and start to accost them rudely.
Cam Christiansen - Cam Christiansen is a principal and the cofounding partner of anlanda digital studio. The studio's work has won both national and international design awards and was included in the Venice Biennial of Architecture Exhibition in 1996. Christiansen’s diverse background in design and fine arts has led him to Web/new media, video production, and animation. He has worked for such clients as Dell, Mercedes Benz, and Rolex and was a guest creative director for Banff New Media Institute 2004. He also recently received an interactive screen scholarship from the Banff New Media Institute 2006. He is in production on a new animation project, Down with Up with People, with Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit Theatre.
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 Director(s): Spencer Susser Screenwriter(s): Spencer Susser & David Michôd |
I Love Sarah Jane (On The Edge - 14 mins) Neither bullies nor zombies are going to stop Jimbo from finding a way into Sarah Jane's world.
Spencer Susser - Spencer Susser began his career in filmmaking at 16, when he purchased a Super 8 camera. By the time he was 22, he had firmly established himself as an accomplished film editor, working with directors such as Mark Romanek, Roman Coppola, Peter Care, and David LaChapelle. He has since made a name for himself as an award-winning director of commercials and music videos. In 2000, Susser traveled to Australia to document the making of the Star Wars prequel Attack of the Clones and forged a relationship with the Australian film community. He now divides his time between Los Angeles and Sydney. Susser is currently developing two feature films, one of which is being produced by screenwriter Scot Armstrong (Starsky and Hutch, Old School, Road Trip).
Brad Ashby, Mia Wasikowska, Vladimir Matovic, Beau South, Peter Yacoub, Richard Mueck
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 Director(s): Shawn Bannon Screenwriter(s): Shawn Bannon |
Ignite (On The Edge - 3 mins) The 2007 fires of Griffith Park, shot with seven time-lapse cameras; an experimental perspective that is beautiful, eerie, and captivating.
Shawn Bannon - Shawn Bannon was born in Denville, New Jersey and raised in Dublin, Ohio. He is a graduate of the CalArts School of Film/Video.
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 Director(s): Benedict Campbell Screenwriter(s): Benedict Campbell |
Lloyd Neck (Drama - 16 mins) Alex has a crush on her brother's friend, Jesse. But Jesse likes Alex's brother.
Benedict Campbell - Benedict Campbell studied film as an undergraduate at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is from New York and likes photography and traveling. Lloyd Neck is his senior film.
Aaron Michael Davies, Carina Goldbach, Brian Dare
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 Director(s): Jed Cowley Screenwriter(s): Jed Cowley |
Loss of a Wrestling Match (Drama - 11 mins) So far Don has a perfect record, but in an upcoming duel, he has to wrestle a higher-ranked competitor.
Jed Cowley - Jed Cowley studied film and English at Brigham Young University and is currently an MFA film student at Columbia University. While at BYU, Cowley produced and edited various short films. He also directed an award-winning commercial for the Utah Film Commission. The Loss of a Wrestling Match is Cowley's first short film.
Jonathan Gappmaier,CJ Glover,Mike Bessey,Nolan Boyce,Robert Wiser
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 Director(s): Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Screenwriter(s): Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski |
Madame Tutli-Putli (Animation - 17 mins) Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train and finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure adrift between real and imagined worlds.
Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski have recently completed their first professional film, Madame Tutli-Putli, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. In addition to being filmmakers, Lavis and Szczerbowski wear many hats as animators, sculptors, collage artists, screenplay writers, and art directors. In 1997, they founded Clyde Henry Productions, a Montreal-based film and production company specializing in multimedia, stop-motion animation, and visual effects. They have received acclaim for their award-winning illustrations, music videos, and broadcast design, and inspired a cult following with "The Untold Tales of Yuri Gagarin," a serial comic strip published in Vice magazine.
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 Director(s): Myna Joseph Screenwriter(s): Myna Joseph |
Man (Drama - 15 mins) Maggie and her sister form an unusual bond during an encounter with a young man.
Myna Joseph - Myna Joseph recently graduated from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where her thesis short Man won the New Line Cinema Award for best director and the Student Choice Award for best cinematography in the 2007 Columbia University Film Festival. The short is loosely related to one of her feature-length scripts, "The Arrival" (Faculty Selects, 2006). She is currently coproducing a feature-length documentary, Pressure Cooker. Short films she’s produced and coproduced have received many awards and include The Hunter, which won the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival, and The Second Line, which was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
Sarah Steele, Adam Scarimbolo, Addison Timlin
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 Director(s): Thomas Barndt Screenwriter(s): Thomas Barndt |
Mark (On The Edge - 4 mins) A lawyer rents a room to a human lightning bolt.
Thomas Barndt - Thomas Barndt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, is the son of a race car driver, and has a right forearm made of titanium.
Buddy Barnett, Frank Mengwasser, Cocoa Conley, Kathe Duba-Barnett, Jesse Dean, Jason Leinwand
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 Director(s): Jake Mahaffy Screenwriter(s): Jake Mahaffy |
Motion Studies: Inertia (Comedy - 2 mins) A motion study of a man running as hard and as long as he can in a full suit of Middle Age armor.
Jake Mahaffy - Jake Mahaffy was born and raised in Ohio. This Motion Study is one in an ongoing series of experiments. Motion Studies #3: Gravity screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and his feature WAR was part of the Frontier program in 2004.
Carl West
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 Director(s): Kevin Lee Burton Screenwriter(s): Kevin Lee Burton |
Nikamowin (Song) (On The Edge - 12 mins) Deconstructing and reconstructing Cree narrative, Nikamowin experiments with language to create a linguistic soundscape.
Kevin Lee Burton - Kevin Lee Burton is a director, film-festival programmer, and freelance camera operator who is a Swampy Cree from God’s Lake Narrows. In his film works, he has designed a niche by specifically working in his ancestral tongue, Cree. Burton's experimental film Nikamowin (Song) received the award for best experimental video and best Indigenous language production at the 2007 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival. Burton was one of the core members of the Aboriginal Media Lab, spearheaded by Loretta Sarah Todd, whose mandate is to challenge Aboriginal representation and presentation in the media art world. He has worked for the Native Initiative at the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as other film festivals.
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 Director(s): Leighton Pierce |
Number One (On The Edge - 10 mins) Water imagery engages the experience of elasticity between varying states of mind.
Leighton Pierce - Leighton Pierce uses film, video, and sound to create experiences in transformative time. His award-winning short films and videos have been exhibited in major art museums and film festivals throughout the world, including the Whitney Biennial and the Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, Pierce has been working with video installations that have been shown at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Museé d'art contemporaine in Montréal, and Boudin College Art Museum. A major 13-channel, 5,500-square-foot video installation, Warm Occlusion, was presented in 2006 at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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 Director(s): Ryosuke Ogawa Screenwriter(s): Ryosuke Ogawa |
Oiran Lyrics (On The Edge - 8 mins) A historical musical about the glamorous, yet plaintive, life of Kiyomi, a beautiful, high-class Japanese courtesan.
Ryosuke Ogawa - Ryosuke Ogawa was born in Sapporo, Japan, in 1980. After graduating from high school, he traveled to the United States to study filmmaking. He has directed more than 10 short and medium-length films.
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 Director(s): Adam Keker Screenwriter(s): Adam Keker |
On the Assassination of the President (Drama - 6 mins) A top-secret government file, to be viewed only in the event of the president's death by assassination, gives specific instructions on what should be done, and presents dossiers on the three most likely suspects.
Adam Keker - Adam Keker is a filmmaker and writer based in San Francisco. As a cinematographer, he has photographed documentaries for PBS, the National Geographic channel, IFC, A&E, the Discovery Channel, and many others. As a writer, he works as a script doctor and is in progress on two books. His student film, The Architect, about coal miners in Ukraine, screened in more than 50 cities in 10 countries and received several awards, including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco Film Festival. With his wife, journalist Amanda Pike, he is currently directing a feature-length documentary about the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
Will Lyman, Oscar Urcuyo, Alfonso Tucker, Ryan Dietz, Vonn Scott Bair, Eric Andersen
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 Director(s): Yi Zhou Screenwriter(s): Yi Zhou |
Paradise (Animation - 3 mins) Based on Dante's The Divine Comedy, this lyrical look at an imaginary paradise is based on black-and-white nature, insects, and no human souls in the landscape.
Yi Zhou - Yi Zhou is a young Chinese artist whose work has received widespread international renown. Born in Shanghai, she lived in Rome from the age of 10. She relocated to Paris in 2002 and currently creates large multimedia installation artworks that blend film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and contemporary music composition. Her works explore the realm of hyperrealism and Pasolinian neorealism. Blending ancient expressive methods, such as sculpture in marble, with extremely technologically advanced ones, such as 3-D animation, Yi Zhou represents an anachronistic vision of life with irony and wit. Yi Zhou has held solo exhibitions at numerous venues across the world.
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 Director(s): Dee Rees Screenwriter(s): Dee Rees |
Pariah (Drama - 27 mins) A Bronx lesbian teenager juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from friends and family.
Dee Rees - Award-winning writer/director Dee Rees is a recent alumna of NYU’s graduate film program and a 2007 Sundance screenwriting fellow. She has written and directed several short films, all of which have screened at festivals, including her film Orange Bow, which played at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and on BET Jazz. Her most recent film, Pariah, won NYU’s highest honor—the first-prize King Award for Excellence in Filmmaking and earned her the Future Filmmaker Award at the 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. Internationally, Pariah won the inaugural IRIS Prize and numerous other awards.
Wendell Pierce, Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Gameela Wright, Sahra Mellesse
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 Director(s): stadtmusik |
please stand back! (zurrueckbleiben bitte) (On The Edge - 8 mins) The directorial collective stadtmusik deals with sounds in cities by analyzing sound structures that are triggered by urban buildings.
Stadtmusik - Stadtmusik is a collaboration between the Berlin-based composers Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl and the media artist Dietmar Offenhuber, who is currently a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Stadtmusik deals with sound in cities by analyzing sound structures that are triggered by urban buildings and facilities. They focus on the aspect of movement in the city, which reinforces a dynamic experience of the urban soundscape: particular sounds emerge through movement; sound and its timbre evolve from material and space. Their work has been extensively shown at international festivals and venues, including the Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid, the Seoul International Media Art Biennale, the Transmediale, and the Tesla Gallery in Berlin.
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 Director(s): Calvin Reeder Screenwriter(s): Calvin Reeder |
Rambler (On The Edge - 12 mins) A stranger takes to the lonely highway with his guitar and traveling sack.
Calvin Reeder - A stark mix of underground horror shock and existentialist atmosphere, Calvin Reeder’s three short films, Piledriver, Little Farm, and The Rambler, are putting the art into lo-fi splatter pics. Like an Abel Ferrara Jr., Reeder meshes thought and design with genre story lines. Originally from Portland, Oregon, and living in Seattle up until this year, Reeder played extensively with the great art-punk bands the Popular Shapes and the Intelligence. But he got notoriety, for better or worse, with the twisted public-access show—and later feature film—Jerkbeast, which he made with Brady Hall. Reeder’s short films have played in festivals across the country.
Calvin Reeder, Lindsay Pulsipher, Phillip Clarke, Wendy West
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 Director(s): Ken Wardrop Screenwriter(s): ken Wardrop |
Scoring (Drama - 3 mins) A young man explains the true power of a kiss.
Ken Wardrop - Ken Wardrop is one of Ireland’s freshest filmmaking talents. His thought-provoking work combines humanity and originality. His films have won accolades throughout the world, and Undressing My Mother merited an Honorable Mention in short filmmaking at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and the award for best short film at the European Film Awards.
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 Director(s): John Magary Screenwriter(s): John Magary |
Second Line (Drama - 19 mins) After MacArthur's savings are stolen from his FEMA trailer, he and his cousin, Natt, take work gutting a house.
John Magary - John Magary grew up in Dallas. A recent graduate of Columbia University’s film division, he has written and directed several short films, including The Second Line, named best film at the Columbia University Film Festival and a national finalist for the Student Academy Awards; Site in Fishkill Creek; We Are All Guerrillas; and What’s It Like There? His film Our National Parks had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as did The Second Line. He received a Grand Marnier Film Fellowship for his essay "Shock to the System: Adolfo Aristarain’s Time for Revenge," presented at the New York Film Festival and published in Film Comment magazine.
Al Thompson, J.D. Williams, Dane Rhodes, Karen Pritchett, Saida Arrika Ekulona, Brittany Parker
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 Director(s): Justin Nowell Screenwriter(s): Justin Nowell, Thomas Nowell |
Sick Sex (Comedy - 12 mins) Amanda has a fever. Ken is horny.
Justin Nowell - Justin Nowell is a 2006 graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1998, where he studied English and American literature. He lives in New York City.
Ken Forman, Amanda Gruss
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 Director(s): Julia Kwan Screenwriter(s): Julia Kwan |
Smile (Drama - 17 mins) A subtle look at a Chinese immigrant family on the day they use their Sears coupon for a free family portrait.
Julia Kwan - Julia Kwan is a Vancouver-based filmmaker who studied film and psychology at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. She was also a director resident at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, where she made her award-winning short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake. In 2005, Kwan made her feature film debut with Eve & the Fire Horse, based on her Writers Guild of Canada award-winning script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and its international premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize.
Phoebe Jojo Kut, Valerie Tian, Shirley Ng, Thai-Hoa Le
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 Director(s): Simon Ellis Screenwriter(s): Simon Ellis |
Soft (Comedy - 14 mins) A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.
Simon Ellis - Simon Ellis graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1995, specializing in still photography. He has written and directed many short films and music videos since then, resulting in more than 400 screenings on the international festival circuit. His films have received many awards. He has also served on many festival juries and participated in retrospective programs worldwide.
Jonny Phillips, Matthew O'Shea, Michael Socha
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 Director(s): Simon Fitzmaurice Screenwriter(s): Simon Fitzmaurice |
Sound of People (Drama - 7 mins) An 18-year-old boy stands on a diving board, pondering what will happen if he plunges to his death.
Simon Fitzmaurice - Simon Fitzmaurice has been working with Divamedia for several years. His last short film, Full Circle, shot on 16mm in Dublin, screened at more than 50 film festivals worldwide and won multiple awards both at home and abroad.
Martin McCann, Seamus Hanly
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 Director(s): Nash Edgerton Screenwriter(s): Nash Edgerton, David Michôd |
Spider (On The Edge - 9 mins) It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Nash Edgerton - Nash Edgerton is a filmmaker who knows his craft from both sides of the camera—from his work as an actor, stunt performer, editor, producer, writer, and director. Since his short Deadline, which took the top prize at Tropfest in 1997, Edgerton has directed a number of award-winning short films and music videos. His filmmaking career began at the age of 18, when he was hired as a stunt performer. Since that time he has assembled more than 100 film and television credits. He also produced and edited the acclaimed film The Magician.
Nash Edgerton, Mirrah Foulkes, Chum Elehepola, Tony Lynch, Joel Edgerton
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 Director(s): Signe Baumane Screenwriter(s): Signe Baumane |
Teat Beat of Sex (Animation - 4 mins) A take on sex, exclusively from a woman's point of view.
Signe Baumane - Signe Baumane was born in Latvia, educated in Moscow, and lives in New York. She has done extensive research on the subject of sex.
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 Director(s): Nao Bustamante |
Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507) (On The Edge - 4 mins) An enchanting meditation on an ancient species from the future using found footage, cell-phone video, and crude chroma-key effects to create a coherent and petite spell.
Nao Bustamante - Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video. Bustamante has presented in festivals, galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites all around the world. Her work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2001, she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, and in 2007 she was named a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow as well as a Lambent fellow.
Fufurufu as the herd of buffalo
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 Director(s): Marzieh Vafamehr Screenwriter(s): Marzieh Vafamehr |
Wind, Ten Years Old (Drama - 23 mins) A day in the life of a 10-year-old Iranian girl highlights the national educational propaganda that informs a generation.
Marzieh Vafamehr - Marzieh Vafamehr graduated with an acting degree from the Fine Arts School at Tehran University. She established Arnavaz fashion products but gave the company up in 1993. She participated in acting and screenwriting, and in 1997 she founded and supervised the theatre group Andishe Javan at the Andishe cultural center. Vafamehr has been an actress in various stage and screen projects, including the plays Gladiators and Play House, and Chapter 7, a short film. She has worked as a director’s assistant in past film and television projects such as Common Pain, Behind the Curtain of Takhte Tavoos, and Navaiee.
Shaaf Noori, Parisa Kani, Mehdi Moghaddam, Maryam Abedi, Marzieh Vafamehr,...
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