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.
2013
Documentary Short
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Antonio Sarte
REIFF 2013
Animation/Experimental
Experimental
Germany
Runtime:
7 minutes
20 seconds
Director:
Maja Oschmann
REIFF 2013
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
REIFF 2013
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
REIFF 2013
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.
Documentary Short
US Minor Outlying Islands
Runtime:
2 minutes
35 seconds
Director:
Jacob Podber
REIFF 2013
'Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland' is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee's son. Unlike most oral histories that focus on the words of the interviewee, 'Vishneva' uses silent images from the interview superimposed with typed memories that describe the unspoken pain borne by father and son through more than half a century.
Narrative Short
Australia
Runtime:
24 minutes
Director:
Chris Smellin
REIFF 2013
'Last Night' is a thriller about a seemingly perfect newly wed couple that are terrorized by two strangers in the middle of the night. The couple wake up tied to chairs they soon discover their hosts for the night are not strangers at all, rather a pair of vengeful psychopaths that are intent on unearthing the dark secrets of the couples past.
Animation
United States
Runtime:
2 minutes
7 seconds
Director:
Nathaniel Winckler
REIFF 2013
A young bee comes to the aid of his energetic friend in a time of crisis.
Documentary Short
India
Runtime:
9 minutes
56 seconds
Director:
Jesse Veverka
REIFF 2013
When people think of India they think of spiritual awakening, the worlds largest democracy, lush jungles and the towering Himalaya. But inside this country of 1.1 billion is an ongoing insurgency that tests the limits of Indias constitutional democracy. Chhattisgarh, a new state formed in 2000 is the center of a Maoist uprising that has continued since the 1960s.
Jungle Warfare College is a documentary short that shows a cross section of this conflict and Brigadier BK Ponwar who vows to fight it.
Narrative Short
United Kingdom
Runtime:
37 minutes
Director:
Hardeep Giani
REIFF 2013
Real is Love - Is life governed by Kismet, or can we change our life path.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
19 minutes
Director:
Travis Newton
REIFF 2013
A chemistry professor hopes to hike the Appalachian Trail in his retirement, but during a last-minute physical he receives news that he is unfit to hike. As he prepares for his retirement reception, he realizes that his life has had little impact, and this journey may be his last chance to give his life meaning.