Event

PROGRAM 18

SPECIAL EVENT SEMINAR:
Award-winning filmmaker David Paterson takes the audience from conception to completion of his short film "OPEN AIR".

Some Jobs Are Simple 14 min
Dir. Jim Evans
Synopsis:
A desperate woman in need of quick cash, hires a seasoned criminal to pull off what he believes to be a simple job.

Roy 12 min
Dir. Gregory Mitnick
Synopsis:
Social isolation,a universal theme, impacts people in a multitude of ways. Social isolation leads the protagonist Roy to desperate measures.

Red Princess Blues 10 min
Dir. Alex Ferrari
Synopsis:
In this twisted modern day fairy tale ZOE, a young teenage girl, is lured into an after hours carnival tent by the sleazy rock n roll carney RIMO, she then gets more then she bargained for. It is up to the mysterious PRINCESS, the star of the new knife show at ROSCOE'S CARNIVAL & FREAK SHOW to pull her out of the wolf's den that she has fallen into.

Frank Mccuff: Police Force Vigilante - 9 min
Dir. Jon Trui and Alexander J. Diaz
Synopsis:
The action-packed introduction to the adventures of renegade Texas cop, Frank McCuff Jr., as he travels to the Big Apple to hunt down and bring to justice the escaped psychopath who killed his father and brother. A hybrid genre short combining elements of 70s grindhouse cop films, Westerns, superhero comics and anime.

An Anomaly of a Theory 15 min
Dir. Jeremy Profe
Synopsis:
Hugh and Erwin were strangers when a chance encounter changed both of their lives over the course of 10 minutes. Hugh's skeptical sarcasm toward Erwin's peculiar fascination with quantum theory turns dead serious when Erwin provides answers to Hugh's inexplicable life.

The Forgiven 11 min
Dir. Lawrence Saint-Victor
Synopsis:
A desperate young man is presented with the ultimate assignment by his employer: an assignment that rests on his life and the death of another. But does Gabriel have the kind of heart that will drive him to murder?
Perhaps so, especially when his only option is kill or be killed.

Daniel 24 min
Dir. Alain Furcajg
Synopsis:
A closeted young cabby in a small seaside town struggles to suppress his cross-dressing habits and a vicious impulse to kill those who question his sexual orientation.