(Open/Muñiz, 7 min.), A miraculous recovery shatters a fantasy.
First Date Meltdown (Comedy/ Bartell, 6 min.), A mysterious breeze exploits a man’s fragile condition on a first date.
Noise (Open/ Woodruff, 16 min.), The exploration of uncomfortable conversation at a pretentious gathering.
INTERMISSION
Credo (Open/ Snyder, 16 min.), God’s response to human violence.
Badgered (Animated/ Colman, 7 min.), A badger goes to extreme measures to get some sleep.
Vital Records (Open/Strauss, 23 min.), Documentary about adoptees and their on going struggles to obtain birth records.
Television (Open/ Rubin, 22 min.); A young man attempts to reconcile a vision he had as a child and how it relates to the woman he loves.
Yellow Hammer (Comedy/ Farias, 8 min.); “Well,” says the doc, “I’ve got good news and bad news about your test results…”
FRIDAY LATE NIGHT SHOW: (10:30 pm)
The Greenan Tapes (Open/ Salusky, 95 min); WARNING! Do not view this film unless you are a professional satisfying a state mandated ethics requirement.
SATURDAY SHEDULE:
Smart Card (Open/ Oxford, 16 min.), Edgy futuristic look at the dumbing down and dangers of a society that becomes dependent on a computerized culture.
Losing Toby (Comedy/ Lindo, 10 min.), Computer generated furry friend becomes an object of obsession.
Modus Vivendi (Open/ Liukis, 5 min.), Metamorphosis from entrapment to freedom.
The Good Daughter (Open/ Bradford, 6 min.), An aging mother remembers one child…but not the one who visits her.
Just A Girl (Open/ Scourtis, 22 min.), A young woman overcomes the betrayal of someone she thought was her friend.
Dear Sweet Emma (Animation/ Cernak, 10 min.), Emma seems to have trouble getting her suitors to leave the premises.
Tom-Cat (Comedy/ Miller, 10 min.), Tale of a cat who cares for his mistress too much to let love pass her by.
INTERMISSION
Love is Deaf (Comedy/Gay, 7 min.), Sometimes a woman’s destiny is washed ashore at her feet.
Juxtaposer (Animation/ Davidovich, 4 min.), A girl. A cat. A lot of emotional constipation.
The Telling Takes Me Home (Open/ Carawan, 29 min.), A film about music and memory that celebrates the work of activists Guy and Candie Carawan.
Emelia (Animated/ Flood, 9 min.), An awkward little girl learns about making friends.
The Last Protagonist of Edward Dryden (Open/ Leffler, 17 min.), Story of a magic typewriter and an author who would do anything to overcome his writers block.
Fly (Comedy/ Weeks, 13 min.), Geek boy meets girl…but all is not right in his world…
SATURDAY LATE NIGHT SHOW:
Freedom State (Comedy/ Douglas, 53 min); A story of love, a quest, and the definition of sanity. (Please note that this is a "work in progress" as it won't actually be finished until it premieres at Cinequest in March.)
SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
Whitebread and Goatman (Comedy/Hosford, 7 min.), Partners on “the job”, are doin’ a deal where the stakes are high.
Stop, Record (Open/ Schoon, 13 min.), A new twist on reality TV.
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana (Open/ Kimmelman, 16 min.), A 1925 National Prize-winning poem read by Eli Siegel that is put to beautiful scenery.
Hope for Tomorrow (Open/ Ershova, 6 min.), A troubled young woman and a bag lady share a tender moment.
Caught in Paint (Open/ Blitt, 6 min.), Paint in motion.
Dinner With Peter (Comedy/ Hassel, 7 min.), Getting ready for the dream date!
Robots Are Blue (Comedy/ Sebastian, 8 min.), The trouble with a robot is that it sometimes seems human.
Welcome to Eden (Animation/ Condy, 8 min.), God gives a couple an offer they can’t refuse.
Muscle (Comedy/ Owensby, 7 min.), Two dudes must fix the car prior to painting the town.
INTERMISSION
The Love Train (Animation/ Bennett, 8 min.), A misfit dragon saves the day.
A Kiss on the Nose (Open/ Neri, 14 min.), A daughter's exploration of thoughts and feelings around her father’s death.
Fanfilm (Comedy/ Quicke, 22 min.), A group of sci-fi loving boys are traumatized when a cute girl comes between them…and the greatest sci-fi movie of all time…
Stranger (Animation/ Badgerow, 4 min.); The insult that never ends!
The American Infant (Comedy/ Kurland, 5 min.), A tale of one priveleged man's life from infancy to adulthood.
Jackets For The Trip (Open/ Putnam, 4 min.), “You and the Sea”, music to dramatic sky shots.
Binta and the Great Idea (Comedy/ Fesser, 30 min.), An African girl proudly shares her father’s idea to help better the world.
Special Thanks to Harvey Mudd College.
