2015

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
Director:
Karisa Bruin, Todd Tue

REIFF 2015

Kelsey has gone her whole life without needing female friends. Now that she's engaged to the man of her dreams, she must confront her fear and awkwardness around women. Due to her innately competitive nature, she vows to make five female friends in time to have bridesmaids for her wedding.

Experimental
United States
Runtime:
5 minutes
Director:
Scott Stafford

REIFF 2015

A man tests his mettle when he passes through a gauntlet of second-hand artwork.

Documentary Feature
Hong Kong, SAR China
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
31 minutes
Director:
Ruby Yang

REIFF 2015

My Voice, My Life, a Hong Kong documentary directed by Oscar winner Ruby Yang, chronicles the trials and tribulations of a group of under-privileged middle and high school students as they undergo six months of vigorous trainings to produce a musical on stage. A life-affirming journey of self-discovery and growth, the stories of these young people will challenge every parent, teacher and policy maker in Hong Kong to reflect on our way of nurturing our young.

Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
55 minutes
Director:
Joshua Maxwell

REIFF 2015

From 1903 - 1955 The K.I.T. League or Kitty League brought professional baseball to Western Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. This minor league sent more players to the Majors than any other Class D league in history. Including Hall of Fame St. Louis Cardinals Albert Red Schoendienst and Edd Roush.

This documentary will take you on a journey through baseball history based in the midwest region of the United States. Stories about when the spitball was a real thing, umpires pulling guns on hecklers, how Branch Ricky visited the teams and his brother would sign the first African American to play in the league. The Kitty League: Hometown Heroes is packed with interviews from actual players, family members, venders, fans and historians to truly tell what baseball was like in the first half of the 1900s.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
4 minutes
Director:
Glenn Hall

REIFF 2015

mary explores the struggles of solitude and change, the known and the unknown, the human relationship to place and the challenge of expectation and need.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
4 minutes
Director:
Jordan Noel

REIFF 2015

To pull off this heist, they needed the best driver in the business... he wasn't available.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Jason Gibson & Aaron Eisenhauer

REIFF 2015

The heir of a serial killing dynasty has trouble overcoming his own psychosis while trying to carry on the legacy of his ancestors. Cam Trepard, once a sweet innocent boy, has been urged into the serial killing business by his psychotic, albeit caring, father. There is one problem, Cam's ventures of death are always thwarted by myriad physical health problems that his Doctor swears are all in his head. Upon reflection while buried in tomb of depression, Cam tries to overcome his fears and become the man of which his father knew he was capable. The new, reinvigorated Cam shakes off his neurosis and finally has a potential victim in his grasp only to fall dead of a heart attack, effectively ending his murderous bloodline.

Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
33 minutes
Director:
Edward Dublin

REIFF 2015

A recent college graduate in the midst of depression must decide if he will pursue his passion or stick to the protective bubble of his small town life.

2016

Best of Fest
Documentary Feature
Egypt, United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Anna Kipervaser

REIFF 2016

Every day people are being replaced by machines worldwide. After 1,400 years, thousands of muezzins in Cairo are no longer calling people to pray as wireless receivers replace them in reciting the adhan. CAIRO IN ONE BREATH unfolds as the Adhan Unification Project takes hold and as Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change.

Special Jury Award for Truth in Storytelling
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Chris Brown

REIFF 2016

THE OTHER KIDS follows six teenagers as they struggle through their final days of high school in the small, gold rush town of Sonora, CA. ISAAC, a Mexican national abandoned as a child by his family, barely treads water in a culture hostile to non-whites. Poor and living on his own in an abandoned trailer, Isaac works three jobs (landscaping, dishwashing and metalworking), studies hard, and dreams of someday becoming a diplomat. Isaac's girlfriend, SIENNA, a stable-hand and natural cowgirl, is forced to cope not only with the brutal dissolution of her family, but with her parents' violent objections to her relationship with Isaac.

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