A set of techniques used by someone to manipulate objects secretly to deceive. This is a stop-motion film about illusions. A Man yearns to know his place in the world and how he fits in, when sometimes it's better not to know.
2013
Best Of the Fest
Animation
Australia
Runtime:
9 minutes
48 seconds
Director:
Michael Cusack
Narrative Feature
Narrative Feature
United Kingdom
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
23 minutes
Director:
Henry Scriven
A desperate man hires a crime coach to turn him into the perfect criminal.
Narrative Short
Narrative Short
China
Runtime:
23 minutes
Director:
Yulin Liu
On Chinese New Year, a little girl learns reality is not what it seems as she discovers how betrayal can be done out of love.
Documentary Feature
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
33 minutes
Director:
David Earnhardt & Patricia Sommers Earnhardt
HEAR OUR VOICES tells the inspiring stories of nine children and young adults who are fighting to overcome their mental health issues. Their stories are framed by some of the nation's top mental healthcare experts, who contend that children's mental health issues are real and treatable, occurring with much greater frequency than most people imagine.
A film by award-winning filmmakers David and Patricia Earnhardt, in association with Tennessee Voices for Children, HEAR OUR VOICES reveals the high cost society pays when young people with mental health issues do not receive the help they need. The film makes the case that all children need access to treatments and supports that will make a profound difference in their lives.
Documentary Short
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Antonio Sarte
ONE SPARK: THE WORLD'S FIRST CROWDFUNDING FESTIVAL documents the festival itself which took place in Jacksonville, Florida in April 2013, and also tells the stories of the people involved with the first crowdfunding festival ever.
Animation/Experimental
Experimental
Germany
Runtime:
7 minutes
20 seconds
Director:
Maja Oschmann
Synchronising to the music, abstract ink drawings 'grow' in an interplay of curiosity, timid encounters, dynamic pursuits and confrontation, stimulating many emotions, which carry us off on a poetical journey to a musical world of pictures.
Innovation & Education
Animation
Canada
Runtime:
23 minutes
23 seconds
Director:
Xstine Cook
An animated history of the city of Calgary and Earl Grey School from the big bang up to the present, created by 180 elementary school students.
Audience Award
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
52 minutes
25 seconds
Director:
Scott Peterson
A unique documentary film about railroad motor car excursions and the people participating in them. Weekend Railroaders explores the excitement, satisfaction and camaraderie of railroad enthusiasts through personal interviews and action footage from rail cars during speeder runs.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
10 minutes
Director:
Mike Elsherif
Two twenty-something childhood friends, Liza and Elliot, reunite and spend a day together with the mission of finding a lost golden retriever in their hometown. Along the way, the bumbling gumshoes discover unsaid feelings for each other, confront confusion about the current state of their lives, and rekindle a kinship that can only arise in quarter-life crisis commiseration. The mystery of the golden retriever takes them all the way from the dark alleys of their hometown to the shady depths of their unsung feelings and desires for each other. City Strays examines what it is to feel lost and the many ways we avoid being found.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Max Allman
A boy lives on a plot of forgotten land with his hermit father in rural Georgia. Hoping to reconcile his father's pain about the past, the young boy leaves for town to buy him a gift.