2015 Mykonos Biennale - Film Festival Offical Dramatic Nights Selection

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dir. by Saman Hosseinpuor, 1 minutes, Iran

The Barber started cutting the boys hair while watching a Football game on TV.

Cast

mohammad Panahi (Lead Actor)
payman AZIZI (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Saman Hosseinpuor
Screenwriters: Saman Hosseinpuor
Producers: Saman Hosseinpuor
Cinematographers: ZANYAR LOTFI
Editors: ZANYAR LOTFI
Sound editors: ZANYAR LOTFI

175 Rome Churches

dir. by Patrick Kelley, 6 minutes, Italy

During a period of 11 months I walked and explored the city of Rome, visiting, documenting, and researching 175 churches from paleochristian to baroque. I was drawn to the inherent desire in classic church architecture - the focus, symmetry, and implied movement. Over time I found that I was making the same photograph in each space - aligning myself to the center axis, focusing on the apse of the church.From these collected images I assembled a layered animation in which all 175 churches are present throughout the sequence, with each space taking a turn to rise in clarity above the others. The resulting high-definition, seamless loop is a study of both uniqueness and similarity in what remains a peculiar architectural form.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Patrick Kelley
Screenwriters: Patrick Kelley
Producers: Patrick Kelley
Cinematographers: Patrick Kelley
Product designers: Patrick Kelley
Editors: Patrick Kelley

Screenings

Athens International Film & Video Festival 04/2013

8 Arañas

dir. by Daniel Lecanda, 13 minutes, Mexico

An obsessive-compulsive man is obligated to go through an experiential therapy on a woman in order to cure his arachnophobia.

Cast

Juan Lecanda (Lead Actor)
Mari Carmen Ruiz (Supporting)
Jorge Cervera (Supporting)
Luis Alberto Lecanda (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Daniel Lecanda, Mario Moreno Del Moral
Screenwriters: Hector Octavio Valdes
Producers: Juan Lecanda
Exec producers: Luis Alberto Lecanda, Claudia Lecanda
Cinematographers: Alex Z Reynaud
Product designers: Andrea Aguilera
Art directors: Arturo Filoteo
Editors: Andres Monterrubio
Sound editors: Miguel Hernandez
Composers: Eduardo Bermudez Motta

An Untold Story Of A Known Irony

dir. by Ritika Bajaj Vijra, 20 minutes, India

A emotional saga of a family during the biggest mass migration of the world- India Pakistan Partition

Cast

Credits

Directors: RITIKA BAJAJ VIJRA
Co producers: RITIKA BAJAJ VIJRA

Athanasios

dir. by Alexi Papalexopoulos, 8 minutes, USA

Athanasios, a mischievous, 21 year old Greek American, lives and works with his grandfather, a Greek immigrant, in the family shoe repair store. Athanasios takes his Greek heritage for granted, and more importantly, the significance of his name and what it means. It is through the telling of his grandfather's survival of the Kalavryta Massacre of 1943 that Athanasios finally realizes and appreciates his heritage -- never again shunning away his name or family.

Cast

Aleks Aouad (Lead Actor)
Derek Chariton (Supporting)
Kosta Kakoniktis (Supporting)
Hank Starr (Supporting)
Nic Rappo (Supporting)
Lars Slind (Supporting)
Rob Kolinsky (Supporting)
Mark Mancini (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Alexi Papalexopoulos
Screenwriters: Alexi Papalexopoulos
Producers: Alexi Papalexopoulos, David Morse
Cinematographers: Mark Sandhoff
Editors: Greg Thomas
Sound editors: Scott Westley

Screenings

San Francisco Greek Film Festival 05/2013
The Gabby Awards 05/2013

Before The Full Moon Returns

dir. by Danliewen Lu, 20 minutes, China

Before the moon festival arrives, a furniture dealer has to find back his grandmother's table which he sold indifferently. This unexpectedly difficult mission gradually revives his deeply sunken memories.

Cast

Jiangguo Lin (Lead Actor)
Yongxuan Yan (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Danliewen Lu
Screenwriters: Danliewen Lu
Producers: Michelle Mi
Exec producers: Michelle Mi
Cinematographers: Chenghua Mi
Editors: Xiaohong Chen, Sonia Mariaulle
Composers: Fumio Yasuda

Butterfly

dir. by Yianna Dellatolla, 20 minutes, Greece

A young love between a boy and a girl in elementary school turns into a heartbreak when their family dramas end up affecting their sensitive interaction.

Cast

MARIANNA PANAGIDOU (Lead Actor)
YIANNIS KYRILIS (Lead Actor)
MARIA PANOURIA (Supporting)
PAVLOS EMMANOUILIDIS (Supporting)
MARIANNA POULOUTIADOU (Supporting)
ROSAMALIA KYRIOU (Supporting)
ALEXANDRA POULOU (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: YIANNA DELLATOLLA
Screenwriters: YIANNA DELLATOLLA
Producers: ZOE KANELOPOULOU
Cinematographers: PANAYIOTIS SALAPATAS
Editors: YIANNA DELLATOLLA
Sound editors: LIVIA NEROUTSOPOULOU
Composers: ANNA STEREOPOULOU

Screenings

FIRST RUN FILM FESTIVAL (NON-PUBLIC) 05/2014 (CRAFT AWARDS (SCREENWRITING
EDITING
ACTING))
ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 09/2014
FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL 02/2015 ( Nominated for Best Story
Best Director of a Foreign Film
Best Foreign Film and Best Lead Actress) )

Cappuccino Please

dir. by , 6 minutes, United Arab Emirates

'Always listen to your old lady.'

Cast

Credits

Art directors: Andrew Del Rosario

Ceaseless

dir. by Daniel Bloch, 7 minutes, Australia

Ceaseless is an experimental film influenced by the surrealist movement and postmodernist films. The film explores the psyche of a disillusioned protagonist, Trista, who questions the routine nature of life in the urbanized western society that she lives in, whilst promoting the message that natural moments of creativity are far too scarce in an overly capitalistically driven world.

Cast

Amy Shapiro (Lead Actor)
Amy Shapiro (Voice)

Credits

Directors: Daniel Bloch
Producers: Daniel Bloch

Crowd Pleaser

dir. by Michal Lavi, 7 minutes, Canada

A spaceship captain and a handyman's encounter unfolds under the gaze of a familiar, aging moon.

Cast

Arielle Rombough (Lead Actor)
Mat Glessing (Lead Actor)
Sarah Malik (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Michal Lavi
Screenwriters: Michal Lavi
Producers: Eric Becker
Co producers: Michal Lavi
Cinematographers: Ian Lister
Art directors: Dave Trainor
Editors: Eric Boudreau
Sound editors: Beau Shiminsky

Dabda

dir. by Nikitas Vasilakis, 6 minutes, USA

A young woman experiences the five stages of grief.

Cast

Katerina Misichroni (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Nikitas Vasilakis
Screenwriters: Nikitas Vasilakis
Producers: Nikitas Vasilakis
Cinematographers: Vladimir Subotic
Editors: Nikitas Vasilakis

Escher's Taxi

dir. by Aleksei Abib, 16 minutes, Brazil

In the old center of Sao Paulo, Carlos takes a taxi to Buenos Aires. As he crosses Escher's space-time, he accesses a deeper city within himself.Carlos now travels through his emotions, his unconscious, and goes far beyond anything he could imagine.

Cast

Alejandro Claveaux (Lead Actor)
Natalia Dal Molin (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Aleksei Abib, Flavio Botelho
Screenwriters: Aleksei Abib
Producers: Aleksei Abib, Flavio Botelho, Claudia Buschel
Cinematographers: Andre Luiz De Luiz
Art directors: Diogo Costa
Editors: André Finotti
Sound editors: Pedro Noizyman, Thiago Sachs
Composers: Kodiak Bachine, Amalia Rodrigues

Screenings

25º Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 08/2014 (Premio Aquisição Canal Curta! e Porta Curtas)
Indian Cine Film Festival 09/2014 (Best Editing)
Delhi Shorts International Film Festival 10/2014 (Special Festival Mention)
Goiania Mostra Curtas 10/2014
Festa Film 12/2014 (Best Editing)
MiamisFF 12/2014

Hear Me Out (Άκουσέ Με)

dir. by Andronikos - Konstantinos Dimopoulos, 20 minutes, Greece

The movie follows the life of a man who is daily faced with psychological violence and pressure in contemporary Athens. Inevitably, the receiver having stored all that pressure in his soul ends up causing and exerting more violence as a form of reaction towards his immediate environment. So, we watch how the protagonist enters a vicious circle of brutality in which no room for communication exists.

Cast

Konstantinos Gianakopoulos (Lead Actor)
Sirmo Keke (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Andronikos - Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Screenwriters: Katerina Pipergia
Producers: Andronikos - Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Cinematographers: Dragan Nikolic
Editors: Kyriakos Gikas

Helio

dir. by Teddy Cecil, 20 minutes, USA

A sci-fi noir set in a dystopian underground city on the eve of a revolution.

Cast

Barrett James (Lead Actor)
Dennis Keiffer (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Teddy Cecil
Screenwriters: Teddy Cecil
Producers: Teddy Cecil, David Kenneth
Cinematographers: Byron Werner
Editors: Carlos Rivera

Screenings

Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival 01/2015 (Best Sci-fi Short Film & Audience Award)
Boston Science Fiction Film Festival 02/2015
Widescreen Film and Music Video Festival 03/2015 (Best Cinematography (winner)
Best Director (nominated)
Best Narrative Short (nominated)
Best Sound Design (nominated))
Imago Film Festival 04/2015
St. Tropez & Nice Film Festival 05/2015
Black Hills Film Festival 05/2015
Fantasmagorical Film Festival 08/2015

In Overtime

dir. by Rami Yasin, 13 minutes, Jordan

When 40-year-old Amir visits his ailing father in hospital intending to reveal a long held secret, the nature of their dysfunctional relationship gets in the way. As the two men battle out their differences, the tension mounts on Amir who finally withdraws and leaves. Blinded by rage and his galloping emotions, Amir finds himself stuck between guilt and a desperate need to race back to his father before it's too late.

Cast

Rami Yasin (Lead Actor)
Makram J Khoury (Lead Actor)
Zain Duraie (Supporting)
Hamada Atallah (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Rami Yasin
Screenwriters: Rami Yasin
Producers: Ossama Bawardi, Annemarie Jacir
Cinematographers: Hazem Berrabah
Editors: Annemarie Jacir

In Search Of Scott Crombie

dir. by Frank Ciota, 22 minutes, Italy

In the summer of 1985 American Scott Crombie disappeared off the coast of Italy without a trace. Twenty five years later, the son he never knew has come back to find him.

Cast

Dario Castiglio (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Frank Ciota
Screenwriters: Joseph Ciota
Cinematographers: Giulio Pietromarchi

Isola Del Giglio

dir. by Tom Schroeder, 11 minutes, USA

Sunday morning on the long curve of Campese, Isola del Giglio. Impressions of the Italian island in the form of a sketchbook.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Tom Schroeder
Screenwriters: Tom Schroeder
Producers: Tom Schroeder
Sound editors: Tom Schroeder

Judgment

dir. by Elizabeth Kedrick, 7 minutes, USA

A psychological thriller exploring the power of guilt.

Cast

Katalin Justice (Lead Actor)
Rosaleen D'Azzo (Supporting)
Jessica McDonough (Supporting)
Lindsay George (Supporting)
Art Bryant (Supporting)
Tony Schwartz (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Elizabeth Kedrick
Screenwriters: Elizabeth Kedrick
Cinematographers: Theodore Malakin
Editors: Theodore Malakin

Junk Girl

dir. by Mohammad Zare, 17 minutes, Iran

There once was a girlwho was made up of junk.She looked really dirty,and she smelled like a skunk.She was always unhappy,or in one of her slumps-perhaps 'cause she spentso much time down in the dumps.The only bright momentwas from a guy named Stan.He was from the neighborhoodgarbage man.He loved her a lotand made a marriage proposal,but she already thrown herselfin the garbage disposal.

Cast

Credits

Directors: mohammad zare
Screenwriters: shalale kheiri

Kill Me

dir. by Damon Silvester, 13 minutes, USA

An elderly woman wants to die to be with her deceased husband but her religion forbids suicide...so she seeks alternative means.

Cast

Julia Vera (Lead Actor)
Alejandro Patino (Lead Actor)
Laeticia Rodriguez (Supporting)
Omar Levya (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Damon Silvester
Screenwriters: Damon Silvester
Producers: Joyce Fitzpatrick
Cinematographers: Quentin Lareau
Product designers: Karli Watland
Editors: Damon Silvester
Sound editors: Tony Zawinul

Klei

dir. by Ruud Matthijssen, 28 minutes, Netherlands

God created the world, the Dutch created the Netherlands. Klei (Clay) is a short film about peoples efforts to get in touch with each other in an artificial world. The film was shot at the Flevopolder, the largest artificial island reclaimed on water in the world. There are no ancient cities, no mountains, no irregularities, no rituals. There are people in search of...

Cast

Lukas Dijkema (Supporting)
Marike Op den Akker (Supporting)
Robert-Jan Van Dijk (Supporting)
Antoinette Akkerman (Supporting)
Ernst Dekkers (Supporting)
Kariné Klyan (Supporting)
Thijs Gilbert (Supporting)
Ruud Matthijssen (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Ruud Matthijssen, Thijs Gilbert
Screenwriters: Thijs Gilbert
Producers: Ruud Matthijssen, Thijs Gilbert
Cinematographers: Thijs Gilbert
Editors: Ruud Matthijssen, Thijs Gilbert
Sound editors: Ruud Matthijssen

La Fin

dir. by Hugo Hubert, 19 minutes, France

The young Lia, married to a banker that she no longer loves, sees its existence toggle in the wake of an unprecedented crisis.

Cast

Marion Huguenin (Lead Actor)
Pierre Scott (Lead Actor)
Renaud Astégiani (Supporting)
Zelda . (Supporting)
Eric Pierrot (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Francois Nolla, Les Derniers, Hugo Hubert
Screenwriters: François Nolla
Producers: Les Derniers, Hugo Hubert
Exec producers: Les Derniers, Hugo Hubert
Cinematographers: Yann Maritaud
Editors: Hugo Hubert , Francois Nolla
Composers: Stéphane Huguenin

Screenings

Projection Privé 01/2015
Projection Privé - Etoile St Germain des prés 02/2015

Noise

dir. by Paul Surety, 6 minutes, United Kingdom

'Noise' is a film that uses clever sound design to show the liberating effects of dance.It shows the world from the perspective of a withdrawn and lonely girl surrounded by arguing or hectoring adults. The film has a cold, austere feel. Instead of dialogue the film is filled with cacophonous noise.

Cast

paul coster (Lead Actor)
Anna Marie Cseh (Lead Actor)
rob knighton (Lead Actor)
cara doherty (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Paul Surety
Screenwriters: paul surety
Producers: paul surety
Cinematographers: nicholas eriksson
Editors: Alessandra Milani

Olivia Martha Ilse

dir. by Sophia Kiapos, 14 minutes, USA

Set in Depression era Mississippi, the film follows three sisters - Olivia, Martha and Ilse. Throughout the years, people come and go, but the sisters hope they will escape from their small society. When Nora, a foreigner from outside the South enters the household, the sisters begin to lose everything.

Cast

Tammy Blanchard (Lead Actor)
James Frain (Lead Actor)
Tonea Stewart (Lead Actor)
Jaclyn Bethany (Supporting)
Lindsey Newell (Supporting)
C.C. Kellogg (Supporting)
James Harkness (Supporting)
Christian Durso (Supporting)
DeLance Minefee (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Sophia Kiapos
Screenwriters: Jaclyn Bethany
Producers: Sophia Kiapos, John Kiapos, Jaclyn Bethany
Exec producers: John A Bethany III
Cinematographers: Alex Warren
Product designers: Parina Patel
Editors: Chris Visser
Sound editors: Jeffrey Alan Jones
Composers: Carlos Jose Alvarez

Ona Meta

dir. by Elinor Nechemya, 28 minutes, Israel

Wandering through mysterious paths of a sleepy seaside resort, Zohar seeks clues in hope to discover reasons for her father's absence from a family vacation. Obscurity and fear sends Zohar to darker places that threaten the unstable serenity.

Cast

Mika Altman (Lead Actor)
Kareen Ophir (Lead Actor)
Yuval Kruchenezki (Supporting)
Tamir Lifshiz (Supporting)
Itzik Arviv (Supporting)
Shoshi Sulimanov (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Elinor Nechemya
Screenwriters: Elinor Nechemya
Cinematographers: Daniel Miller
Art directors: jeremy jaffe
Editors: Guy Nemesh
Sound editors: Nati Taub
Composers: Ofer Bymel

Screenings

Indie Fest USA International Film Fest 10/2014
Festival del cortometraggio 'O Curt 11/2014
International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima 11/2014
Slamdance Film Festival 01/2015
Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival 01/2015
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival 01/2015
Third Eye Asian film Festival 01/2015
Pune Short Film Festival 01/2015
Beeston Film Festival 01/2015

Pas Le Choix

dir. by Justin Wu, 7 minutes, Canada

A single father in Paris struggles to care for his child and escapes periodically through contemporary dance.

Cast

Adrien Galo (Lead Actor)
Willy Cartier (Supporting)
Melyana Fradj (Supporting)
Carine Piazzi (Supporting)
Stephane Sennour (Supporting)
Amaury Baudoin (Supporting)
Sarah Jade (Supporting)
Gaelle Pietri (Supporting)
Samia Mankouri (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Justin Wu
Screenwriters: Justin Wu
Producers: Olivier Herold, Adrien Galo
Exec producers: Justin Wu
Cinematographers: Olivier Herold, Pierre Chabrier
Product designers: Kanzas Anthony
Art directors: Adrien Galo
Editors: Kanzas Anthony
Sound editors: Antoine Stevignon
Composers: Romain Theret

Schattenseele (At)

dir. by Mike Friedrich, 29 minutes, Germany

Lucy, a young woman flees the quarantine station of a hospital in order to find a space to write down her story in form of a novel. After breaking into a house by a lake she is confronted with the neighbor, who believes she is the daughter of the owner. With the arriving of the house owner the story gets dramatic, he gets killed, the neighbor steals the book and publishes it under her own name. The book becomes a big success while the young sick woman is kept imprisoned by the neighbor in the cellar of her house. When Lucy is forced to celebrate the success of the book, the two woman start to argue and reality starts to reveal itself.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Mike Friedrich

Scrabble

dir. by Cristian Sulser, 12 minutes, Switzerland

'Scrabble' addresses the secret desire to break out of the routine of a loveless relationship and illuminates with irony the depths of humanity behind a traditional facade - using a simple board game.Once the first rush of love in a relationship has passed and the daily routine has set in, the point comes where you want to feel free again. Theo lives just such a dull routine in his allotment shed, his passion for his wife Barbara long gone. In secret, he imagines what it would be like to get away from this bleak, empty existence with Barbara.Their weekly Scrabble game presents unexpected opportunities - is it possible that a few simple letters could bring Theo`s dark fantasies to reality? That a chosen word determines fate? Is it possible to murder Barbara?

Cast

Albert Tanner (Lead Actor)
Nikola Weisse (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Cristian Sulser
Screenwriters: Cristian Sulser
Producers: Bjoern Haertel
Exec producers: Bjoern Haertel
Cinematographers: David Merkofer
Product designers: Katja Blaser
Editors: Cristian Sulser
Sound editors: Daniel Hobi
Composers: Roman Riklin

Screenings

Palm Springs International ShortFest 06/2014
13th Kansk International Video Festival 08/2014
Naoussa International Film Festival 09/2014 (won a Special Mention)
31st Tehran International Short Film Festival 10/2014 (won a Special Mention)
Kerry Film Festival 10/2014
Saint Louis International Film Festival 11/2014
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 11/2014
Foyle Film Festival 11/2014
Filmstock Film Festival 11/2014
Sleepwalkers SWFF 11/2014
MICA International Film Festival 12/2014
Berlin Independent Film Festival 02/2015
Shärt International Comedy Film Festival 02/2015
Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein 03/2015
Taos Shortz Film Fest 03/2015
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 03/2015
Skepto International Film Festival 04/2015
RiverRun International Film Festival 04/2015
24th Arizona International Film Festival 04/2015
45th USA Film Festival 04/2015
Rincon International Film Festival 04/2015
Goa Short Film Festival 05/2015
Mykonos Biennale 07/2015

Strawberries

dir. by Paul Surety, 12 minutes, United Kingdom

Alex, a middle-aged married man, is having an affair with Alma, his much younger lover. The couple meet regularly to indulge their passion, but their latest rented love nest is full of surprises. The weekend goes well until a strange presence that emanates from a mysterious locked cupboard unnerves them both, creating paranoia and casting a malevolent spell over their relationship.

Cast

Anna Marie Cseh (Lead Actor)
Alex Giannini (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: paul surety
Screenwriters: paul surety
Producers: paul surety
Cinematographers: nick eriksson
Editors: Alessandra Milani

Test

dir. by Jay Lifton, 10 minutes, USA

A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility. Through his day he interacts with the odd, detached employees of the facility, guiding him from section to section, obscuring the intentions or duration of the test.

Cast

Dave Shelley (Lead Actor)
Mickey O'Hagan (Lead Actor)
Ryan McCarthy (Lead Actor)
Gus Renaud (Supporting)
Me'Lisa Sellers (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Jay Lifton
Screenwriters: Jay Lifton
Producers: Blake Ashman-Kipervaser
Exec producers: Jay Lifton
Co producers: Jay Lifton
Cinematographers: Mike Simpson
Product designers: Alan Lampert
Editors: Joshua Brown
Composers: Jay Lifton, Etrangulous Pe

Screenings

Dam Short Film Festival 02/2015
Queens World Film Festival 03/2015 (TBA)
Bare Bones Film and Music Festival 04/2015 (TBA)

The Cursed Days (Некрштени Дани)

dir. by Emilija Gasic, 17 minutes, Serbia/Montenegro

During the turbulent times in the 18Th century Serbian village, life of a poor, superstitious Serbian family dramatically changes when the head of the family, father and husband returns from the war against Turks - infected with vampirism. However, one family member manages to find salvation in the place least expected.

Cast

Vojin Cetkovic (Lead Actor)
Nataša Ninković (Lead Actor)
Andrija Daničić (Lead Actor)
Kristina Vuletić (Lead Actor)
Nemanja Pavlović (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Emilija Gasic
Screenwriters: Emilija Gasic
Exec producers: Dunja Cuk
Cinematographers: Johnny Hchaime
Product designers: Maja Djuricic
Editors: Natasa Pantic
Sound editors: Dora Filipovic
Composers: Dimitrije Cvetkovic

The Loyalist

dir. by Minji Kang, 20 minutes, South Korea

A North Korean general checks in on his daughter at a Swiss boarding school to test her loyalty to her motherland.

Cast

Hyuk-Poong Kwon (Lead Actor)
Woorim Jung (Lead Actor)
Jongman Kim (Supporting)
Stass Klassen (Supporting)
Joy Bridenbaker (Supporting)
Mary Ruth (Supporting)
Emily Dennis (Supporting)
Rebecca Young (Supporting)
Rebekah R Stellick (Supporting)
Linda Elizabeth (Supporting)
Emily Rose (Supporting)
Melinda Grace (Supporting)
Brooke Robbins (Supporting)
Mallory Rose (Supporting)
Brittany Connors (Supporting)
Savanna Cummin (Supporting)
Emma Woerle (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Minji Kang
Screenwriters: Storm Garner, Willem Lee
Producers: Alex R Ma
Co producers: Alvaro R Valente
Cinematographers: Dan Brohawn
Product designers: Storm Garner
Editors: Minji Kang
Composers: Jay Kim

Screenings

Cleveland International Film Festival 03/2015 (Honorable Mention )
Florida Film Festival 04/2015
Rochester International Film Festival 04/2015 (Best of Fest Trophy )
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival 04/2015
Boston International Film Festival 04/2015
Sarasota Film Festival 04/2015
Madeira Film Festival 04/2015 (Laurissilva Ambassador Award)
Columbia University Film Festival 05/2015

The Making Of Love

dir. by Jeannette Louie, 18 minutes, Germany

'The Making of Love' is a psychological journey into the realm of lovesickness. A seduction has altered a teenage girl. Her involvement with an older man and subsequent abandonment by him inflicts a solipsistic stupor upon her daily life. She is transfixed by consciousness, haunted by memories and subjugated by turbulent emotions. This girl is real and her words are transposed from the pages of a private journal into the space of film. 'The Making of Love' shows a mind pondering upon the ailments and emotions occurring when the unrequited manifests physically and philosophically.

Cast

Credits

Directors: Jeannette Louie
Screenwriters: Jeannette Louie
Editors: Jeannette Louie
Composers: Gen Rubin

The Outcasts Of The Calatrava Bridge

dir. by Dimitris Panakis, 8 minutes, Greece

A man and a woman, outcasts of a harsh reality, walk along the Calatrava Bridge in Athens (Greece). they stop for a while and they dream before they return to their everyday life.

Cast

Elias Valasis (Lead Actor)
Maria Mpourli (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Dimitris Panakis
Screenwriters: Dimitris Panakis
Producers: Dimitris Panakis

The Tree Of Numbers

dir. by Isis Kiwen, 15 minutes, Mexico

A little girl who is ostracized by her town is vindicated through her numbers.

Cast

Miguel Serna (Lead Actor)
Jocelyn Olague (Lead Actor)
David Perez (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Isis kiwen
Screenwriters: Isis kiwen
Producers: Jairo Sifuentes
Cinematographers: Hector Lozoya
Product designers: Isis kiwen
Art directors: Isis kiwen
Editors: Angel Chacon, Isis kiwen
Sound editors: Héctor Carlos González Sifuentes, Carlos Rojas Hagelsieb
Composers: Héctor Carlos González Sifuentes

The West Begins At Fifth Avenue

dir. by Kryssa Schemmerling, Donald Gray, 17 minutes, USA

History and myth merge in this impressionistic mini-epic that imagines the birth and early life of legendary gunslinger Billy the Kid when he truly was a kid -- one of thousands of urchins trying to survive on the streets of 19th-century New York City's Lower East Side. The West Begins at Fifth Avenue draws visual inspiration from the photographs of Jacob Riis and borrows the cinematic language of early silent cinema to create an evocative, highly unconventional Western set entirely in New York City -- and in the mind.

Cast

Christine Sircusa (Lead Actor)
Jack O'Brien (Lead Actor)
John Edmund Morgan (Supporting)

Credits

Directors: Kryssa Schemmerling, Donald Gray
Producers: Claire Beckman
Co producers: Kryssa Schemmerling
Cinematographers: Ben Wolf
Editors: Sharon Hughes
Sound editors: Eve Cuyen

Screenings

Visionfest 14 05/2014 (Won for Production Design
Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Production and for Writing)
Amarcort 14 12/2014
Speechless Film Festival 03/2015
Sound of Silent Film Festival 04/2015
NewFilmmakers New York 04/2015

Woman

dir. by Konstantinos Chaliasas, 15 minutes, Greece

Calliope, a fifty-year old woman, has only one purpose in life: to see her daughter getting married.

Cast

Kalliopi Maki (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Konstantinos Chaliasas
Screenwriters: Konstantinos Chaliasas
Producers: Konstantinos Chaliasas
Cinematographers: Konstantinos Chaliasas
Art directors: Lampros Mosialos
Editors: Konstantinos Chaliasas

بهار - Bahar (Spring)

dir. by Ali Pour Issa, 23 minutes, Iran

Fereshteh has aborted her four-month fetus in the past. Her family has kept it secret until she reveals it in the presence of Saman, who is in love with her.

Cast

Maryam Goldoz Tavakoli (Lead Actor)
Zandish Hamidi (Lead Actor)
Ramtin Roozbehan (Lead Actor)

Credits

Directors: Ali Pour Issa
Screenwriters: Ali Pour Issa
Producers: Ali Pour Issa
Exec producers: Ali Pour Issa
Cinematographers: Saeed Rasouli
Product designers: Ali Pour Issa
Art directors: Ali Pour Issa
Editors: Ehsan Sheibani
Sound editors: Alireza Alavian
Composers: Behzad Abdi

Dramatic Nights

Official festival Selection as of 17th May