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.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
10 minutes
Director:
Mike Elsherif
REIFF 2013
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
REIFF 2013
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.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
19 minutes
Director:
Chris McDaniel
REIFF 2013
Nashville, a city currently based on music, wasn't always called Music City. Find out how this printing and Insurance mecca became the music capital of the world, and see how the devastating flood of 2010 tried to get them down, but thanks to this thriving music community, a city was reborn. Resilience in the form of the artists, entertainers and musicians that put the MUSIC in MUSIC CITY.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
17 minutes
Director:
Dan Carr
REIFF 2013
Daniel meets Mary at Bible Camp. Daniel develops a crush on her, and after the camps dance he is coerced by Mary into having sex.As camp draws to a close, Daniel attempts to reconcile the event that has hurt his faith and his relationship with Mary, who has become increasingly distant.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
14 minutes
Director:
Marcus Ricci
REIFF 2013
The 2012 Project is the story of six friends who decide to confront the possible end of the world, together. At a remote cabin in West Virginia, they prepare for the impending apocalypse, prophesied by the Mayans to occur on December 21, 2012, and band together to face a cold, uncertain future; in turn, they begin to question what's truly important about their lives. Filmed in a combination of styles including self-shot video diaries by the cast, cinema verite, iPhone footage and more, the 2012 Project is a heartfelt, whimsical, and truly unique experience about how preparing for the worst can bring out the best in people.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
43 minutes
Director:
John Gibson
REIFF 2013
A frontier preacher's life is destroyed when a gruesome power consumes the land; he now must make the choice to give in to ruin, or find his purpose in the fight against the mysterious undead. Joined by the town lawman (who has entirely different personal demons to confront), the two men learn the extremes they're willing to go to in order to make it to the next day, as well as the depths people will go to when they truly believe in something.