Opening our eyes each new day, we stare for a few minutes into space, seeing the first sights, hearing the first sounds. It is neither night nor day but something in-between. Fragments of dreams refusing to expire, the grip of the day not yet uponus, memory and desire hovering around the edges.
2015
Best Animation
Animation
Canada
Runtime:
5 minutes
Director:
Xstine Cook, Berlin Demuth, Maezy Dennie, Medina Dennie, Ocean Demuth, Sol Demuth, the Bum Family, Zaiyah Dennie
REIFF 2015
Lilly, a ten-foot tall orange monster, ventures into Wanda's Pet Shop in search of a friend. Lilly's escapades get her kicked out of the store but not before falling in love with a cute Fluffle. Lilly must undertake an epic journey to reunite with her true friend.
Created during a 48 hour animation challenge by The Bum Family, this group of cousins use cut outs and childrens logic to create an odd and hilarious story.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
19 minutes
Director:
Brian Schmidt
REIFF 2015
The story of Jojo and his annoying little sister Avila is an adventure story filled with ravenous wolves, raging rivers, and a crafty old hobo. Its a story where little Jojo is thrown into the woods and is forced save his little sister, but at the same time he also learns to get along with her. It starts when their mother decides to take her two children to go visit Grandma in the woods.During the trip to Grandma's, Jojo starts to realize that he is no longer the sole center of love and affection in the family and that he grudgingly might have to share some space with his baby sister Avila.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
Director:
Paolo Monico
REIFF 2015
When a hardened widow receives an unexpected visit, she is given the chance to shed light on her husband's death.
Documentary Feature
Australia
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
43 minutes
Director:
Jeff Bird
REIFF 2015
Written in the blood of mineworkers and their families, Blood on the Coal tells the story of Australias Queensland coalfields one of the worlds richest energy resources and for 150 years a bitter industrial battleground.
The film opens with a journey to Mt. Mulligan, a remote and now abandoned mining community in outback Queensland. In 1921 Mt. Mulligan was the siteof Queenslands worst mining disaster, when 75 men were killed in a coal mine explosion. A retired coal miner and his two daughters make the long journey in search of their familys past and to pay their respects to their lost loved ones. Wiping out two thirds of the towns male population, Mt. Mulligan sent a shock wave throughout Australias mining industry and began the long and bitterly fought path to improved safety and working conditions. But it would be decades before improvements began to filter through to the coal face.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
48 minutes
Director:
Anthony West
REIFF 2015
Today's nuclear industry was born in a world of secrecy duringWorld War II, as America searched for a way to create the worlds first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, a process that would allow for the creation of the most powerful bombs ever built.The Manhattan Project was the code name for the mission, and it would lead to a search for someone who could refine massive amounts of uranium.
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr, who ran a small chemical company in St. Louis, Missouri, would agree to take on the job.The Mallinckrodt workers would become some of the most contaminated nuclear workers in history, and the city of St. Louis would be left dealing with the fallout of creating some of the worlds first nuclear waste 70 years later.The questions of how to best keep workers and the public safe from these dangerous materials is as challenging today as it was in the past.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
19 minutes
Director:
Michael McDaniel
REIFF 2015
Sometimes you cant have the things that you want in life, even if theyre just paper. After a young lady runs out of room in her notebook she sets out to find more paper. The simple task quickly turns into a madcap and surreal adventure as her efforts are thwarted at every turn.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
8 minutes
Director:
Alison Mason
REIFF 2015
Two people who have suffered a mutual loss get to know each other better and look to one another for comfort.
Documentary Feature
Switzerland
Runtime:
Director:
Nick Brandestini
REIFF 2015
Children of the Arctic is a year-in-the-life portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northern-most community of the United States. As they embark on their journey into adulthood in and outside of Barrow, they wrestle with their roles as inheritors of a jeopardized culture. Their decisions are inseparably tied to the fate of their community. Who will carry the Iupiat torch? Who will choose a more individualistic path? And what hangs in the balance?
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
58 minutes
Director:
Wes Pryor
REIFF 2015
After completing his medical training at Harvard, Phillip Burke becomes engaged before leaving to serve in the Army during the Civil War. He is captured early in the war, and as a Confederate prisoner he serves as a surgeon in a southern mansion owned by Josiah Wakefield. Josiah's son Malcolm has married Clarissa Giles and has provided an heir to his family, but he doesn't treathis wife with respect and prefers the comforts of his favorite slave instead. As war rages on, Malcolm leaves to join the fight. When the Union prisoner, Captain Burke, is brought to the Wakefield home hospital as a surgeon, he meets Clarissa. An immediate spark between the two causes Clarissa to insist on staying to help Captain Burke with the wounded soldiers. Although bound to other people on opposite sides of the war, Clarissa and Phillip can't help falling in love.