2 hours of great shorts!
Times are approximate: We prefer patrons attend the entire event
1:45 pm The Rotation.........................0:07:00
1:52 pm Forget Me Not.......................0:21:28
2:13:28 pm Rage Monster........................0:02:40
2:16:08 pm Must Love Pie........................0:13:06
2:29:14 pm Lake of Happiness.................0:29:01
2:58:15 pm Kindled...................................0:03:27
3:01:42 pm Gold Star................................0:15:00
3:16:42 pm Redundancy...........................0:01:40
3:18:22 pm Something About the Stars....0:02:57
3:21:19 pm Feel India...............................0:11:22
3:32:41 pm Willy Goes Way Back.............0:12:56
Feel India
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
- Salman Rushdie
Forget Me Not
A silent little girl is on a desperate mission, but the only person who can see her is a forlorn homeless man, as lost and invisible as she is. Armed with only her teddy bear, Isobel must do everything in her power to convince him to help her.
Starring JAMES COSMO Winner of Scottish BAFTA awards for Best Actor (Game of Thrones, Braveheart, Highlander, Trainspotting), JOHN HEFFERNAN (Official Secrets, Brexit: The Uncivil War, The Crown, Eye in the Sky) and introduces Yorkshire born RUBY ROYLE.
Gold Star
The film is about a lesbian German-language teacher, who falls in love with one of her Muslim refugee students.
Kindled
A flame sprite and a wood sprite show that friendship can win no matter the obstacles.
Lake Of Happiness
In a small Belarusian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja, a 9-year-old girl, has to deal with
her mother‘s death.
Must Love Pie
A lonely man finds a love connection.
Rage Monster
A little girl struggles with her uncontrollable anger.
Rage Monster was hand drawn, painted, and animated. It was made with the generous support of Arts Nova Scotia and the Helen Hill Animation Award.
Redundancy
Two co-workers have same problem...
Something About The Stars
Something About the Stars is a short, animated, poetic documentary that depicts my memory of looking at the stars in the Cook Islands. Through silhouette stop-motion, this film explores the juxtaposition of the reality of memory versus the perception of memory. The voiceover throughout the piece shares my honest thoughts during this experience. The animation serves to imagine my emotions in the moment. The background of this film was done by backlighting a sarong that I made while in the Cook Islands.
The Rotation
There is a war between two tribes on claiming the sun in the sky. As a result to that war, sun annihilates and the volcano erupts. Those two tribes now are dead and a new sun is made, both by that lava. Several century will pass and the humans are still in a war to claim the sun in the sky.
Willy Goes Way Back!
Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite, Eastbound & Down) stars as Willy, an outcast with a desperate need, who is given the opportunity to go on an incredible, surreal adventure.