REVOLUTION ME FILMS
For filmmakers that seek independence
SHORT FILM BLOCK C
(EXPERIMENTAL FILMS)
Friday September 30, 2022
6:50PM
VIZƏDƏNT
Director: Alexis Karl & Adam Torkel
USA
06:43min
The Vizədənt navigates between the past and the present in a dystopian landscape, seeking meaning and hope in the solitude of a broken world.
VILLA DEI MISTERI
Director: Georgia Usborne
USA
05:03min
Villa dei Misteri depicts a memory revisited through words and movement, exploring a woman's relationship to self, space and time and the lenses of perception through which we see and are seen.
SAMSARA
Director: Jonathan Murphy & Mirona Mara
Ireland
11:11min
‘Samsara’ (the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections) is a charcoal drawn, stop-motion animation, discussing the cyclical nature of life, death and rebirth. The story is played out in a dream-like world, full of symbolism and surreal imagery, laced with metaphor and mythology. Life is discussed as a series of actions and consequences in a never-ending loop. Images of things appear then disappear, grow then die, questioning the ideas of predestination and the illusion of free will. Each person is the centre of their own story, each creating their own reality by way of their choices in any given situation. You have the freedom of choice, but the inevitable outcome is the same, just each journey is different. The protagonist is both the beginning and the end, changing form before giving birth to themselves over and over again, inevitably being a part of both their own creation and destruction.
DEATH AND THE BUTCHER
Director: Alexis Karl & Adam Torkel
USA
06:24min
Based on a 19th C. German folktale, Death and the Butcher walks a cinematic pathway between archaic and contemporary imagery, ancient musical elements and contemporary composition. The film traverses a notion of timelessness as the Butcher clings to mortality, struggling in a dance of death on the shores of an endless ocean.
SHORT FILM BLOCK D
(HORROR/THRILLER/SCI-FI)
Friday, September 30, 2022
7:30PM
BREACH
Director: Sloan Turner
USA
08:00min
Following a confrontation with her husband about his infidelity, a distraught wife pursues the woman complicit in his crime.
MATCHED
Director: Zack Kron
USA
03:10min
A young woman explores an apartment during a blackout with nothing more than a box of matches.
But she’s not alone...
CHIMERA
Director: Andrew Lee Ryan
USA
25:00min
Set in a not too distant future small town, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a new dopamine game cartridge before she goes through happiness withdrawal.
COOK WITH THE HEART
Director: Mike Hayhurst
USA
13:45min
A documentary crew questions Stacy about the spiritual, ethical, and culinary dilemmas that come with the growing trend in "ethical cannibalism".
SHORT FILM BLOCK E
(DRAMA/THRILLER)
Friday September 30, 2022
8:45PM
THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH PAUL
Director: Mark Clauburg
USA
12:30min
Recently released from prison, Paul is reunited with his siblings over dinner. Some are not ready to forgive just yet, as a dark family secret is revealed.
WHEN BUYING A FINE MURDER
Director: Gabriele Tacchi
Italy
33:33min
Ronald Raynolds is an art dealer, but it's just a cover up job - he's actually a professional hitman. His new contract has a particular ask: he has to kill himself. The client is Walter Brandi, a rich Italian and powerful real estate magnate with whom Ronald has no connection. Why does that man want him dead? Maybe it's his own wife, Helen, or the digital art he trades, or it's a personal matter he needs to discover. He must take the job - he needs to find out why someone wants to kill him.
HS STUDENT FILMS
Saturday October 1, 2022
12PM
HUNTER
Director: Michelle J. Tang
USA
09:59min
A lonely nine year old boy wants to save his mom from his abusive father, but he feels powerless in the middle of all the fighting until...
GAME PLAN
Director: Sophia Winters
USA
07:43min
A group of associates meet to finalize a high-stakes business deal that will lead to the end for one of them, but which one will be finished? Game Plan is a story that explores the dynamics between friendship and business as well as perceptions of power and control.
VOICE
Director: Sophia Winters
USA
07:24min
A young teen girl becomes aware of who she wants to be and her perception of what is keeping her from becoming that person. These feelings lead her to become frustrated, jealous, and perhaps even hopeless. Her frustration with her own real limitations and real and perceived exclusion leads her to take extreme action. Voice was written and produced to be a thought provoking experience that is different for every viewer.
INFINITE YOUTH
Director: Christian Lee
USA
11:58min
After missing the bus, a group of longtime friends spend a Friday afternoon roaming around their desolate high school campus. What begins as a simple hangout gradually transforms into a vulnerable conversation about the burdens of the past.
THE VALUE OF WATER
Director: Matthew U. Agustin
USA
04:48min
A teenager who regularly wastes water suddenly finds himself desperately finding a solution for his mistake.
VINNY
Director: Tyler Riscoe
USA
07:03min
Explores the life and history of Vincent Fano, a bus driver in Jersey City
THE HOLDING ROOM
Director: Samuel J. Punto
Germany
15:58min
The murderer has been caught — but who is he? Why did he commit the crimes? Detective Mike Hamartia just can't stop thinking about it, and enlists his friends Detective Frank Sutter and Dr. Sarah Birch to help him think through the possibilities. But they don't have much time; an FBI unit is coming to take away their John Doe, and with him any hope they have of ever understanding what happened.
MAKING PAN DULCE
Director: Ebony Ramos
USA
01:51min
A low-key documentary about the realities of working in a Mexican panadería (bakery)
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Director: Cira Garza
USA
03:02min
A man grieves for his deceased father on Dia De Los Muertos
DOCUMENTARY BLOCK B
Saturday October 1, 2022
1:45PM
DAJLA: CINEMA AND OBLIVION
Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Spain
15:00min
Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.
NOT YOUR MODEL MINORITY
Director: Jon Osaki
USA
30:00min
Not Your Model Minority explores the origins of the stereotype and the intersections with past and present anti-Asian violence. The film reveals the many ways that the model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between communities of color and perpetuate divisive narratives. Not Your Model Minority also examines opportunities to build power and make progress toward addressing systemic racism in America.
FROM FARMERS TO INCUBATORS: TELLING THE STORIES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN AGTECH IN THE SALINAS VALLEY AND BEYOND
Director: Amy Wu
27:12min
Agriculture and technology both have a long history in California, but have rarely intersected. Tech is focused on disruption and innovation, while much of Central Valley and Central Coast’s agriculture is still managed with clipboards and pencils. One commonality is that women and minorities have historically been underrepresented in both industries. Now, a new generation of startups led by minority women are seeking to solve agriculture’s problems with tech innovation. "From Farms to Incubators" tells the stories of women entrepreneurs dedicated to agtech, a fast-growing sector within agriculture.
THE TRADITIONAL BRAZILIAN FAMILY KATU
Director: Rodrigo Sena
Brazil
25:00min
Produced in the year 2007, a photographic essay realized in recognition of the indigenous roots, portrayed twelve adolescents belonging to Eleutério do katu, RN Brasil. Twelve years later the photographer returns to katu in search of these protagonists, now adults, to know about his personal trajectories and his world views.