ED (TED)
USA, 2003, HD60i, 9 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Courtney Graff Lamb, Prod: Mark Cartier, Cast: Eric J. Olson, Sharon Spence, Tina Gloss, Mark Cartier

An overbearing mother believes she’s found her long lost son Ed in the hospital. Or is it her other son Ted? Or is it just some guy in pajamas? She tries to figure it out while a frantic Ted scrambles to avoid her.

EL DORKO
USA, 2003, 35mm, 13 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: Harrison Brown • Writers: Tom Clark, Harrison Brown • Prod: Ron Timmons
Cast: Tom Clark, Kurt Scholler, Natasha Arnold, Chris McFadden, Chris Tallman, Steve Agee

Tom Clark isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Kicked out of his parent’s home at the tender age of 28, Tom finds himself all alone in the big city. Dubbed “El Dorko” by the local street gang, Tom eventually finds a job, gets a promotion, and meets the girl of his dreams. Life seems to be perfect… too perfect. When a jealous co-worker decides to finish Tom off once and for all, Tom is forced into the battle of a lifetime. Will dorkiness triumph over evil? Find out when you discover the Man, the Myth, the Legend… El Dorko!

ENSTEIN'S PLAYGROUND
USA, 2002, 35mm, 16 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Matthew Heckerling, Prod: Steven Cleveland
Cast: Michael Adler, Robert Towers, Rebecca Reese, Morgan Luci, Charles Cooper, Jack Donner

When Albert Einstein dies, his devoted assistant, Dr. Horatio Pettincourt, steals the brain of the famed mathematician. Hoping to uncover the secrets of the universe, Pettincourt learns to face his own fears, conquer the quandaries of time & space and discover the magic of his own vision.

ENTANGLED
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 14 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Seth Larsen
Cast: Jeff Cole, Joyce Thi Brew, Durrell Nelson, Daylen Larsen, Kai Larsen, Bill Harvanek, Edwin Garcia II, Brian Wicks, Jason Drum, Radu Dudas

An infant is left at a cop’s door. And with it, a death wish.

EPIPHANY
USA, 2002, HD, 12 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Jim Hunter, Prods: Jim Hunter, Nigel Rowe, Lab 601, Inc.
Cast: Marcie Seklecki, Robert Pralgo, Steve Coulter

What if cupid was a woman working in a computerized shipping department, sending love to those in need? What if something was wrong with her own computer file? EPIPHANY illuminates the struggle of one unwitting cupid who discovers her journey between intellect and emotion to be a solitary one.

THE ETIQUETTE MAN
USA, 2000, 35mm, 22 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2001 - AUDIENCE AWARD)
Writer/Dir: Steve Coulter, Prods: Dee Wagner, Steve Coulter • Cast: Laura Burrows, Charles Cullen, Sam Bathrick, Steve Coulter

THE ETIQUETTE MAN tells the story of a stranger - picture a combination of Jimmy Stewart, Mister Rogers and Miss Manners - who drives up to the back door of a small town high school one spring morning. No one, including the teachers, really knows what to make of the odd visitor who seems to have stepped out of the pages of a 1940s dating and etiquette guide. When he drives off at the end of the day, the stranger has had a curious effect on a group of sullen, dead-eyed, loogie-spitting teenage outcasts.

EVERY NIGHT AND TWICE ON SUNDAYS
USA, 1998, 35mm, 23 min. (DWF 1999 - BEST SCREENPLAY)
Writers/Dirs/Producers: James Michael Hughes and Glenn Kiser, Cast: Danna Hansen

The honest-to-God true story of Dorothy McHugh, the actress extraordinaire who appeared in the unforgettable “I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up” TV commercial.

EVE'S DROPPING
USA, 2003, HD, 7 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir/Prod: John Halecky • Cast: S. Greg Gardner, Chuck Klausmeyer, Jennifer Burton Watson, Genevieve Zweig

Have you ever found yourself eavesdropping on a very private conversation? Should you listen in? It may change your life.

FACE OF THE ENEMY
USA, 2002, Super16, 10 min. (DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir/Prod: David Presley • Cast: Brent King, Carmen Argenziano

A compelling view of war as seen through the eyes of an eager American photojournalist. Set during WWII in the North Africa, the young Lieutenant Rizzo is ordered by his CO to shoot everyday footage of smiling troops in the rear echelon ‘for the folks back home.’ Lt. Rizzo dutifully complies with his commanders wishes and then, against orders, hitches a ride to the front to see the action. Exposed to the horrors of war, he’s caught up in the general retreat and falls into a ditch where he comes face-to-face with a German soldier.

FAITHFUL
USA, 2002, 16mm, 15 min. (DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Marzena Grzegorczyk, Prods: Iwona Witowicz,Marzena Grzegorczyk
Cast: Magdalena Cielecka, Aleksandra Konieczna, Danuta Stenka

A mysterious letter implicating Robert in a lengthy extramarital affair sparks a conflict among three women: his wife, her sister and his alleged lover. Soon his unfaithfulness becomes marginal as the three women confront the limits of their own honesty while trying to uncover the truth.

FALLEN
USA, 2005, 35mm, 17 min. (US Premiere, DWF 2006)
Dir: Allison Beda • Writers: Lara McKinnon, Allison Beda • Prod: Richar Bullock, Allison Beda
Cast: Dov Tiefenbach, Maria Delver, John Reardon, Arthur Corber, Leanne Adachi

Greg P., a desperately blocked writer, tries to escape his trouble by helping Debra K., an “amnesiac” young woman, unaware that he is only research material for her new bestseller.

FALLING
USA, 2005, HD, 10 min. (US Premiere, DWF 2006)
Dir: Carl Paoli • Writer/Prod: Kellie Madison
Cast: Kellie Madison, Rodney Holland, Kris Medina

Falling takes you on a fantastical journey to the surreal world of love, corruption, mystery and magic- set in a time where there is no time. A mystical old woman looks to alter the future. A desperate young woman struggles with the past. Experience this seedy underground world through sultry music of enchantment and desire.

FALLING IN RHYTHM
USA, 2004, Super16, 18 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: Malcolm Lam • Prod: Andrew van den Houten
Cast: Talia Castro-Pozo, Jules Helm, Anya, Angel G. Clemente

Caught in the monotonous rituals of everyday life, a young couple discovers new-found passion in the rhythm of Latin dance.

A FAMILY NAME
USA, 2004, HD24, 10 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Patrick Sayers • Prods: Matt Hill, Patsy Costello
Cast: Gregory McDonald, Lisa Frantz, Nick Douglas, Steve Guilmette, Patrick Sayers

Stanley is in for a night of drinking when a seemingly random stranger takes a seat next to him at the bar. Stanley strikes up a conversation revealing that the stranger is actually a childhood friend of his. Stanley is delighted at the chance meeting; only the mood shifts and old wounds are reopened, disclosing the true nature of their relationship. The bully and the victim are reunited. Later when Stanley passes out, not breathing and the stranger is secretly surveying the scene, it is obvious it wasn’t a chance meeting. The victim has had his revenge on the bully.

THE FATHER, UNBLINKING
USA, 2006, 16mm, 23 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Dir: Ziggy Attias • Writer: Brian Evenson • Prods: Sergei Krasikau, Ziggy Attias
Cast: James Vidos, Lesley McBurney, Brian Anthony Wilson, Emily Kirst

Set in rural America a father discovers his young daughter dead of fever. Knowing her death was inevitable due to her illness; he is at first devastated but quickly realizes that he does not want his fragile wife to see that the girl has passed. While composing himself he decides to hide the girl in the barn so he may prepare his wife for dire news. But after approaching his wife in the kitchen he is unable to face her with the death of their child.

FEAR TOMORROW
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 7min. (DWF 2006)
Dir/Prod: Gregory Hobson • Writer: Paul Plunkett
Cast: Joe Roseto, Jude McVay, Robert Bagnell

A patient with ‘bird-like tendencies’ leads a psychiatrist to the ultimate transformation.

FIELD WORK
USA, 1997. 16mm, 14 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 1998)
Writer/Dir: Scott D. Hanson, Producer: Chris Prowlx, Cast: Guy Strauss, Ed Bouchard, Andy Hyman, Craig Bensen

Estranged brothers use a dispute over ownership of their fathers’ farm as battleground in a larger war of pride.

FILTERED IMAGES
USA, 2002, 16mm, 5 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Dir/Prod: Sheldon Gleisser, Writers: Sheldon Gleisser, Robert Flanagan, Chuck Nelson
Cast: Lisa Vana, Greg James, Josh Kalani, Sarah Gibson, Nicole Whitaker

A film explaining the uses of various photographic filters in a way that is both educational and fun!

THE FINE ART OF POISONING
USA, 2003, Digital, 9 min. (Southwest Premiere, DWF 2003)
Dir/Prod: Bill Domonkos

A lavish chiaroscuro montage of 2D and 3D animation, still photography and hand drawn images, "The Fine Art Of Poisoning" seduces the viewer into an elegant netherworld of deceit,plotting, and secretly-served revenge. With its fatal masquerades, parlour gatherings, and eerie hallucinations, "The Fine Art of Poisoning," will advise one to keep a particularly careful eye on their next cup of bergamot tea, or perhaps, taint the pork loin for their own devices.

THE FIREFLY MAN
USA, 2002, Digital, 11 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Todd Fjelsted, Prods: Todd Fjelsted, Tim Mainey

A pagan fairy tale that celebrates the cycle of life and death through the story of an elderly hermit who is isolated by loss and then transformed by reunion. Since the eleven-minute short has no dialogue, the story is conveyed through sequential happenings comprised of classic symbols and southern gothic archetypes.

FIRST NIGHT SHIFT
PHILIPPINES/USA, 2002, 35mm, 22 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Hubert Cheng, Prods: Aljor C. Perreras, Hubert Cheng, Cast: Lara Fabregas

A security guard had the potential to become anything, with a bright career ahead of her. Instead, she decides to start over her life with her new occupation, patrolling a shopping mall. This is no ordinary shopping mall though. Inside, she must deal with her past, her fears, and more importantly, her social surroundings all alone. Because there is something inside this mall that is taunting her every move.

FIRST NOTE
USA, 2003, Super16, 15 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir/Prod: John Meyers, Cast: Gabriel RiCharde, John Greene, Judith Austin, Birgit Huppuch, Eddie Callahan

Left alone to look after the farm, fourteen-year-old Peter Tilten stumbles on something in the milking barn one cold Vermont night. Needing to know more about his discovery, he seeks out a schoolteacher whose words help him shape what he has found amongst the cobwebs and rafters. FIRST NOTE is a day in the life of a thoughtful young man --and how the quiet world in which he lives welcomes the new sounds he will learn to make on his own.

FIRST SIGHT
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 20 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Johnny Asuncion • Prod: Hrach Titizian
Cast: Hrach Titizian, Johnny Asuncion, Brittanny Paige, Patricia Mizen, Vanessa Rice

On the heels of a break-up with his fiancee, CALVIN reads his horoscope one morning and it states "today is his day of destiny". He proceeds to spend the day hitting on every woman he comes across, with mixed results.

FIRST BORN
USA, 2001, DV, 25 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir: Greg Derochie, Story By: Greg Derochie, Charles Scalfani, Prods: Robin Schreer, Cindy Troianello, Greg Derochie
Cast: Geoffrey Donne, Andrea Marcellus, Ming Lo, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven

FIRST BORN explores human cloning with the story of a powerful biotech CEO, driven to do whatever it takes to restore his family’s happiness after the death of their only child.

FLASHPAIN, POPLOVE
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 15 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Claudia Grazioso • Prod: Ragna Nervik
Cast: Bree Turner, Jude Baas, Keith Andreen, Kim Murphy, Sara Downing, Bill Cusack

FlashPain, PopLove is a comedy about self-mutilation, dramaholics and the lengths people will go to for what they believe to be love. Sensing that she’s about to be dumped, Eliza slices herself in an attempt to guilt her boyfriend into staying with her. When that plan fails, Eliza obsesses on her wound until the wound literally takes on a life (and voice) of its own, helping Eliza to recover from her heartbreak and find someone new – an eerily kindred spirit.

FLIRTING WITH DEATH
USA, 2003, 35mm, 21 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003)
Dir: Matt Clements, Writers: Matt Clements, Fernando Lebrija, Prod: Fernando Lebrija
Cast: David Weisenberg, Kimberly Furst, Adam Paul, Elizebeth Hutchinson, Pilot Thompkins, Michael Dempsey

Mort Alvinson has found love in the Angel of Death. Through a near death experience, Mort meets and falls in love with the most beautiful women he could imagine. Unfortunately, her job is to kill him. Mort’s life is saved by Sam, a bureaucratic guardian Angel that is afraid of losing his job if Mort kills himself. Now, it’s up to Mort to get back to his true love by ending his life by whatever means necessary and avoiding his guardian angel.

FOLEY STREET
UK, 2002, 35mm, 8 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writers/Dirs/Prods: Tim Clayton, Rob Crowther, Cast: Mike Hayley

You may not have heard of him but you’ve probably heard him. Think of Spartacus’ chains, Sam Spade’s footsteps on a wet street or the timbers creaking on Captain Blood’s galleon, well the foley artist creates all these sounds for use in major motion pictures. It’s not always easy and the research never ends. Meet the foley artist at work as he hunts down an elusive sound, lurking somewhere in his office.

FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BULL
USA, 2002, Digital, 23 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Dir: Sean Donnellan, Writers: Sean Donnellan, Marc Unger, Prods: Marc Unger, Todd Brock, Scott Grossman, Sean Donnellan
Cast: Marc Unger, Nadra Macuish, William Knight, Sean Donnellan, Brian Dietzen, Jay Donnellan, Tom Partridge, Philip Cass, Victoria Hoffman, Stacy Bellew, Paula Ficara, Jonathan Fahn

A sharply witty ensemble piece which displays the epic journey of a Hollywood lie. It begins with a coked up sitcom actor in the midst of a perverted game of Twister with his Euro-trash stripper girlfriend, who fakes illness to avoid meeting his father for an early morning breakfast and ends twenty years later with a young actress' performance of her one woman show and ensuing rise to stardom.

FOREVER
USA, 1999, 35mm, 10 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Dir: Sebastian Hedgecoe, Writer: Mark Taylor, Prod: Dawn Fanning

A visionary piece about two characters, one entering & one leaving the physical world. Both learning the important lessons of life.

FORTUNE'S FOOL
USA, 2001, 35mm, 25 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Joshua Lear

Two college buddies find themselves at odds over a girl they’re both in love with. The predicament escalates into jealous rage and an interrogation that threatens to destroy the friendship.

FOXY LADY, WILD CHERRY
CANADA, 2000, 35mm, 21 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2001)
Dir: Ines Buchli, Writer/Prod: Marlene Rodgers, Cast: Natasha Greenblatt, Nina Shock, Todd Duckworth, Jack Nicholsen

Thirteen-year-old Leah faces a strained weekend with her estranged father, Dan. The tension is broken when Leah's brash friend Karen and Dan's buddy Ray begin a playful flirtation. Leah notices her father's response to Karen, and begins to test her own sexuality. Dan's reaction forces Leah to reckon with the power of her body and the mixed messages she is receiving about her sexuality.

GABRIEL
AUSTRALIA, 2004, 35mm, 11 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2005)
Dir: Cherie Knott • Writer/Prod: Janine Burchett
Cast: Janine Burchett, Felix Dean

A young boy’s imagination transforms his first experience of death into a miracle.

THE GARDENER
USA, 2004, 35mm, 7 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Kerry Bellessa • Prods: Kerry Bellessa, Justin Lyon
Cast: Chris Hill, John Klemantaski, Drake Johnston, RonRon Joyner, Gino Salvano, Trinidad Nizelli, George Shake, Jasen Wade

GELDERSMA
USA, 2003, Super16, 16 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Joseph McKelheer • Prod: Elizabeth McCoun, Joseph McKelheer
Cast: Joseph McKelheer, Tamara Feldman, Dan Butler, DJ Harner, Linda Park, Bret Roberts

GETTING LA'D
USA, 2002, Digital, 1 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Mark West, Cast: Alec McNayr, Julie Pettis

In LA LA LAND not everything is as it appears. "Artificial Intelligence" is the first short in the "Getting LA'd" series that cleverly uses satire to mask its underlying message. "Artificial Intelligence" suggests it is tme for change in more ways than one.

GETTING LUCKY
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 19 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2006)
Dir: Michael Baez • Writer: Stacy Marr • Prods: Stacy Marr , Michael Baez
Cast: Stacy Marr, Jocelyne Lopez, Mari Marks, Jesse N. Holmes, Andrew Hamrick, Andrew Welsh, Vanessa Zuniga, Elizabeth Killmond, Cory Clay, Terence Rosemore, Pam Levin Winn, Gilbert Chavarria, Eric Casaccio, Benjamin Hartmann, Kim Estes, Jason Dibler, Darren O’Hare, Sean Biggins, Steven Wilcox, Ike Onuoha, Nicole Trembley

Kat is an ambitious yet overworked woman who’s neglected her personal life for far too long. All this is about to change, however, when a friend places her profile on an Internet dating service and Kat’s world is turned upside down by a barrage of quirky, overzealous men vying for her attention. Will Kat find true love? Will she meet “The One” or is she forever doomed in the cyber world of dating? With the help of a mysterious yet familiar stranger, she just might …get lucky.

GOALS
USA, 2003, 16mm, 11 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Mitch Gettleman • Cast: Jeff Marlow, Scott Davidson, Jim Dowd, Claire Morales, Anne Sackmann

GOLF
DENMARK/USA, 2004, Digital, 4 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writers/Dirs/Prods: Casper Frank, Talia Raine
Cast: Rick Simon, Jesse Ramirez, Dana Stampps, Juanito, Sayda Trujillo, Lina Gallegos, Ralph Rangel, CJ

THE GOOD PART
USA, 2004, DIGITAL, 33 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: Jeff Tully • Prods: Jeff Tully, Tony Dimond, Alan Altur, Bren Hill
Cast: Richard Horvitz, Jeff Ellingson, Lola Davidson, Tony Dimond, Dante Garza, David Van Wert, Alan Havey, Jimmy Pardo, Graham Elwood, Jimmy Dore, Rich Brown, Chip Chinery, Dwayne Kennedy, Catheryn Brockett, Kevin West, Jenna Lecce, Eric Edwards,Alli Danziger, Elizabeth Clemmons, Lenny Schmidt, Steve Seagren, Eric Matikosh, Bren Hill, Tom Tully, Colleen Rafferty, Kerri Wike, Chris Maguire, Tess Rafferty, Danielle Koenig, Howard Kremer, Josh Perlman, Jeanna Blackman, Marcia Brender, Lainie Jordan, Maria Arce

Thirty-ish Chauncey Canter has no wife, no life and he’s about to get the boot out of his parent’s lush Van Nuys pad. When Chauncey’s cousin, (a P.A. at Ramrod Studios) comes up with an idea for a “get rich quick” live porn webcast, Chauncey resists. Until he finds out his cousin has dug up his super-crush of the past ten years; infamous adult film legend Corey Wilder. Who’d have guessed the shoot would turn into a nightmare starring his overly-sexed high school alumni, 'know-it-all' porn gurus, a gay porn director, nosy neighbors and the Van Nuys Mafia?

THE GOOD THINGS
USA, 2000, 35mm, 25 min. (Southwest Premiere, DWF 2000)
Dir: Seth Wiley, Writers: Shawn Ryan, Story by: Seth Wiley, Prods: Scott McPahil, Eric Almquist, Cast: Wil Wheaton, Christian Campbell, Bob Peterson, David Snell

A young toll-booth worker is torn between leaving home to see the world or staying in the small Kansas town where he grew up.

GRAVEYARD JAMBOREE WITH MYSTERIOUS MOSE
USA, 1999, 35mm, 5 min., Animation (DWF 2000)
Dirs: Seamus Walsh, Mark Caballero, Producers: Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh

A short, fanciful puppet cartoon featuring that mischievous nymph, “Mysterious Mose” as he travels land, sea & the nether region to prepare for a music-filled bash in his graveyard home.

GROW UP
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 10 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Grinnell Morris
Cast: Johnny Clark, Zachary Reisler, Stephen Mendel, Jessica Collins, Grinnell Morris

When Thomas takes out his own frustrations on his son, Ben, Ben fights back to no avail...until a little help shows up...providing Thomas with a unique perspective.

GUARD DOGS
USA, 2004, DIGITAL, 13min. (DWF 2005)
Writers/Dirs: Vince Duvall, Tyler Brooks • Prod: Vince Duvall
Cast: Tyler Brooks, Vince Duvall, Todd Babcock, Jessica Schatz, Ariel Gayle, Billy Scott, Jack the dog

As animal rescue officers, Buckley and Johnson are at the top of their game. They’ve even found dogs that weren’t missing. When a first time ever breakout occurs in the south-yard of LCA, a maximum security kennel - their skills are put to the test.

GUIDO TAKES A HIKE
USA, 2000, 35mm, 17 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2000 - BEST SCREENPLAY)
Writer/Dir.: Joseph Tobin, Producer: Alisa Christensen • Cast: Ernie Vincent, Teddy Vincent

An endearing elderly man goes to the store, gets lost, and has an amazing adventure.

HAIRLESS
USA, 2004, 35mm, 17 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Sarah Johnson • Prods: Myra Spence, Brad Kean, Sarah Shewey, CW Jones, Sarah Johnson
Cast: Angelique Little, Johnny Sneed, Greg Kohout

Alyssa has a little secret. She has no hair…no hair on her head, no eyebrows, eyelashes…no hair, no where. Determined not to hide, she decides to be “honest” with men she dates—perhaps too honest. After failing miserably in relationships, she finally meets her ideal man, and decides she must hide her hairlessness to win his heart.

HANDSHAKE
USA, 2004, DIGITAL, 5 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2005)
Dir: Patrick Smith • Prod: Barbara Kearney

In this animated film, an innocent greeting between two people is quickly transformed into a sticky, tangled struggle for survival.

HAPPY
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 7 min. (DWF 2006)
Dir: Luke Stettner • Writers: Jason Feuerstein, Luke Stettner • Prod: Jason Feuerstein
Cast: Eric Silver, Jessie Hutcheson, Robert Burke, Francesca Cecil

Ben wants nothing more than to settle into his Sunday routine of the newspaper and coffee. However, his girlfriend Sarah insists on quizzing him on survey titled ‘Are You Happy.’ Starting out playful, their interaction becomes more revealing as the day wears on. HAPPY takes us through the morning of a very ordinary 20-something couple, and shows us the way light banter can turn into something heavier in an instant.

HARD-BITTEN
USA, 2003, 16mm, 14 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Marc A. Samson • Prod: Antony Graf
Cast: Jason Esquerra, Ryan Parks, Richard Azurdia, Tori King, Milton Snell, Kyle Souza, Shelly Weiss, Stephanie Thorpe

When a dog that may belong to the Mayor bites a pedestrian, two cops try to get to the bottom of it and wind up embroiled in a media circus.

HARRISON RUNNING
USA, 2000, 16mm, 12 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir: Christopher Cole, Prod: Annette Montaivan, Cast: Renee Rizzo, John Marlo, Dan Barnett, Israel Turner

A bank robber on the run in the southwest is forced to take care of an abandoned infant.

HATE* (*a comedy)
USA, 1999, 35mm, 22 min. (DWF 2000)
Writers/Dirs.: Drew Daywalt, David Schneider, Producers: Marichelle Inonog, Mark Colbert
Cast: Paul Hungerford, Carla Rudy, Brian Carr, James C. Ferguson, Derek Dauchy, John B. Crye, Billy Huntington, Jr., Jim Stoddard

What do you do when you’re being stalked by a homicidal maniac? What do you do when no one believes you? And perhaps most quizzically of all, what do you do when that homicidal maniac....is a chicken? Paul Wilson must answer these questions in this 22-minute dark comedy.

HEADHUNTER
CANADA, 2004, 35mm, 24 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: John Roumelis • Prods: John Roumelis, Matthew Toffolo
Cast: Joseph Griffin, James McGowan, Jennifer Miller, Clive Walton

He’s a handsome, hunky, charismatic charmer. He’s a headhunter. His mission is to persuade mortals of all stripes and persuasions to leave their current employer and toil exclusively for his client. His powers of persuasion are legendary which even the mostnoble find hard to resist. He has one regret – his methods. Seducing malcontents has taken its toll and confessing is his only redemption. Or is it? Recanting his work indiscretions in the confessional turns into a psychological war of secular demands and spiritual ideals where the stakes are soul survival.

HEADS & TAILS
USA, 2000, 35mm, 20 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Dirs: Jay Gable, Mike Dana, Writer: Jay Gable, Prods: George Belshaw, Jeffery Golden, Jonathan Judge
Cast: Dominic Comperatore, Greta Cavazzoni, Nicholas Sanchez

It's Christmas time in Hoboken. Brought together in the local fish store; a beautiful woman, a mystical little boy, and the bond between two brothers restore a fishman's interrupted faith.

HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS
USA, 2003, 35mm, 18 min. (Southwest Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Steven Brabson
Cast: Stephanie Leon, Robert McCaine, Margie Murray, Alejandro Cardenas, Monica Flores

Ernest Hemingway’s most famous and enigmatic short story is brought to life with startling authenticity. Hemingway’s sparse, unadorned style, which helped to define the modern literature movement, is captured beautifully in this film with the dialogue left intact. As the words in the story reveal so little about the characters’ motivations and the operation that the man wants the girl to have, their inner lives are instead drawn out through fine, subtextural performances, dramatically symbolic settings, luscious clear-cut music cues performed by live strings, hard, painterly lighting, and a haunting sound-design of desolate wind, clicking heels and mournful train whistles. In the end, the words only serve to punctuate the silence and emptiness that lies between these two desolate souls.

HIS LOVE FOR COLA
USA, 2002, Super16, 4 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Sara Auspitz, Prods: Sara Auspitz, Jeremy Balkin • Cast: Andrew Hunt, Angela Yarbrough, Amanda Ravitch, Felicia Walker

A boy is in desperate need of a thirst quenching cola, but he can’t seem to get his hands on one. He is down on his luck, that is, until she comes along.

HITTER AWARDS
USA, 2003, Digital, 12 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: Darrell Pfingsten • Writer: Justin Latona • Exec. Prod: Stacey Scheller • Prods: Justin Latona • Asso. Prod: Declan Joyce • Cast: Stacey Scheller, Justin Latona, Declan Joyce, Freddie Joe Farnsworth, Hunter Chapman, Matt Baron, Nick Salontro, Sean Solan, Bruce Peterson

Each year, seven men compete for the Hitman of the year award.

A HOLLOW PLACE
USA, 1997, 35mm, 17 min. (DWF 1998)
Writer/Dir: Joseph Anaya, Producer: Richard Raddon, Cast: Keno K. Deary, Robert DoQui, Reina King, Don Pedro Colley, Anthony Holiday

In a rich, elegant home, Corliss Young waits hand and foot on a bed-ridden old man, Alban Porter. Abandoned as a child, Corliss has become maid, nurse, and cook to Alban, living in dread of his constant demands and repeated insults. Their mutual dislike is their only connection in the emotionally empty home. Each day, Corliss methodically plots to kill the old man, sneaking into his room each night to watch him sleep. Corliss struggles to escape from the oppression and lashes out with dire results.

HOME DEPOT HUSBAND
USA, 2002, HD24, 19 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Kimberly Trahan, Prods: Jessica Sterling, Kimberly Trahan, Cast: Dorian Frankel, Wenceslao Saiguero, Meg Pearson, Beverly Miller

After years of hitting the snooze button on her biological clock Emily decides to take matters into her own hands. Hiring a day labor from the parking lot of Home Depot to help with a bookcase, she realizes he might be just what she’s been looking for. A fairytale of romance and commerce for the new millennium.

HONING THE EDGE
USA, 2002, 35mm, 15 min. (Southwest Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: James Canfield, Prod: Mary Lively o Cast: Todd Licea, Mary Anderson

A man drowns loneliness and disappointment with a cold beer in the bar of a waterfront hotel. His eyes fix on a woman while she delicately sips a fine Merlot. He loses himself in her like a daydream. she steps to the harbor, knowing he’ll join her. Outside, boats bob and weave like drunken fighters while the man and woman toak under the fading light of a warm Seattle night. she goes to his room. through their lovemaking they discover each other - his marriage, the burden of expectation, her marriage - unfulfilled promise, and for both the anguish of lost passion.

HOPE
USA, 2003, DigiBeta, 20 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Tamika Lamison, Prods: Jerome Butler, Carol Ann Shine, Tamika Lamison
Cast: Morocco Omari, Kim Wimmer, Jonell Kennedy

A story about the debilitating power of grief and the difficult road back to life, hope and possibility. Zach is a man grieving over the loss of his beloved wife Sara and their dreams. His haunting obsession takes on human form when he happens upon a woman on the side of the road who guides him from his abyss of grief, to a journey of Hope.

HOT SEX & STAN
USA, 2003, Super16, 15min. (DWF 2005)
Writer/Dir: David Barlia • Prod: Emmanuelle Fournier • Cast: David Barlia, Caterina Turroni, James Albrecht, Philip Peleton, Daz Crawford, Janet Crawford, Joe Wells, Julia Rounthwaite

A modern comedy about old-fashioned frustration, Hot Sex & Stan is a silent comedy in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but with a distinctly contemporary subject. Spurned on by his flatmate’s rampant sexual conquests, frustrated Stan responds to an ad in the personals seeking, “Adult Fun. Short and hairy, a definite turn on.” Just the ticket for dear old Stan... “Very clever storytelling. Great performances.”

HOW TO LAND A MAN
USA, 1999, 35mm, 6 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 1999)
Writer/Dir: Donovan Cook, Producers: Mary Alice Drumm & Jamie Foley
Cast: Kyle Howard, Jessika Portillo

Violence is a sweet revenge fantasy and young Traci can taste it. Mickey Durban is everyone’s best friend, a great guy with charm, beauty and easy talent. However, everything that is beautiful is ugly: everything that is white is black and everything that is good is bad. Traci painfully discovers Mickey’s darkness and does what we all wish we could when treated despicably. She kicks his ass.

HUBRIS
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 19 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Gary King • Prods: Gary King, Sujata King
Cast: Jeremy Koerner, Frederik Goris

Single and lonely, Barry allows himself to be talked into a speed dating scheme guaranteed to land him a date by his best friend, Jeremy. Unfortunately, the women at the speed dating session have a plan of their own. Jeremy and Barry learn that love truly is a battlefield.

THE HUMAN BEEING
USA, 2001, Digital, 45 min. (DWF 2002)
Dir: Tony Shea, Writers: Tony Shea, Jim Coughlin, Colin Harper Plank, Andy Abramowicz, Prod: Colin Harper Plank
Cast: Jim Coughlin, Ronit Feinglass, John Varga, Eric Hoffman, Meredith Weiner, Robert Ruchti, Andy Abramowicz

The terrifying tale of a greedy boss and a mad scientist who conspire to turn their office of typists into worker bees.

HUSBAND SCHOOL
USA, 2003, Digital, 20 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: J.P. Pierce • Prod: Kennedy Stone • Cast: Chris Becker, Les Robinson, Vincent Lappas

Great husbands are not born, they are made. Ray’s father sends him to a top-secret facility where young men are trained to survive on that most treacherous of battlefields…marriage. Welcome to Husband School.

I LOVE YOU
USA, 2004, Digital, 20 min. (DWF 2005)
Dir: Valerie Weiss • Writers: Amy Johnson, Valerie Weiss • Prods: Wendy Gardner, Valerie Weiss • Cast: Damon Shalit, Sarah Slattery

Miro is a high fashion photographer who is in love with Amanda, his model and his muse. Lately, Amanda’s grown cold and Miro’s convinced she’s found someone else. He’s obsessed with finding out who it is…

I WAS A MATHLETE UNTIL I MET MARGO MARRIS
USA, 2003, Digital, 18 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Dir/Prod: Joe Denk, Writer: Joe Meno • Cast: Laura Scheinbaum, Joe Presser, Tom Hanlon, Anthony Bonaventura

A punk-rock love story. Andy is a renaissance geek, and a high school mathlete. He describes himself as, "the high school kid that still looks like a grade school kid." Throughout the movie we live in Andy's thoughts (through first person narration) and daydreams which are quickly corrupted when he meets Margo Marris, a more cultured and political, punk rock, kleptomaniac. For the first time in his life he feels that he wasn't born 400 years too late and although her manipulation, provocative nature, and her cheetah print panties are what thrill him, they are bound to break his heart.

IN HIS KISS
USA, 2003, HD, 8 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: David DeCrane • Writer: David DeCrane from a short story by Charles Johnson • Prod: Rick Eyler
Cast: Pascal Atuma, Dawn-Marie Guest, Jennifer Adams

Tara is frustrated. She’s a normal, red-blooded American girl in love with a man who’s asked her to marry him. But he’s an African prince and hails from a part of the continent where kissing isn’t permitted. How far should a girl go in respecting a foreign culture?

IN MEMORY OF ME
USA, 2006, 16mm, 23 min. (DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Samantha Lavin • Prods: Warren Farnes, Juri Koll
Cast: Maryfrances Careccia, Tasha Ames, Marina Benedict

After eight years, a young woman reluctantly goes back to her small hometown for her best friend’s wedding. When the memories of an affair she had with another woman during high school resurface, her present starts to unravel.

INTERLUDE
USA, 1999, 35mm, 10 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 1999)
Writer/Dir: Vera Wagman, Producers: Suzi Winson, Scott Oscher, Russell Rothberg, Vera Wagman, Cast: T.W. King, Yolanda Jilot

Two lovers from opposite worlds struggle to define their relationship.

INTERFERENCE
USA, 2003, 35mm, 11 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Lauren Hollingsworth • Prod: Lauren Hollingsworth, Caryn Mamrack
Cast: Jennifer Fontaine, Elizabeth Greer, Chris Hietikko, Salvador Benevides, Mimma Mariucci, Connie Schiro

A female private investigator is hired to follow a woman who’s cheating on her husband. When she discovers that the woman is being abused by her new boyfriend,she tries to intervene.

INTERNET DATING
USA, 2003, Digital, 8 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: David Abramson • Writer/Prod: Jean Franzblau
Cast: Jean Franzblau, Don Cummings, Joe Connolley, Ken Beider, Romanus Isaac, Tom Katsis, Douglas Wynne

Oh, the mistakes men make in the world of cyber romance. A lucky roomful of guys get tips from the other end of the chat room.

THE INTERRUPTION
USA, 2004, 35mm, 25 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: Brian Leavell • Writers: Brian Leavell, Marcus Perry • Prods: Brian Pianko, Marcus Perry
Cast: Tom Jourden, Don Fischer, Kristen Shaw, Stephen Grove, Rudy Mettia

It all started as a simple scam, a payback to the computer software corporation that marooned Frank Summers in middle management for the last decade of his life. If Frank can sabotage a giant company merger, leaving Wall Street Czar, Thomas Randolph next in line for the takeover, the payoff will be huge. For everyone. But as Frank digs deeper under the surface he realizes that he’s entered a game far more dangerous than he could’ve ever imagined. In the next 96 hours, Frank Summers will learn that he’s capable of far worse sins than greed.

THE ISSUE
USA, 2002, Digital, 15 min. (DWF 2002)
Dir: Emad Hashim, Writers: Emad Hashim, Keri Robinson, Prod: Keri Robinson • Cast: Teke Gissel, Pamela Vig, Tara Lasey

The story should end when Jeremy breaks up with Sarah in an angry fit. But what happens when the end is the beginning? How much of our actions are influenced by the knowledge we suppress? Backwards and Forwards intertwine in search for a reason, a quest for THE ISSUE.

JANIE
USA, 2005, 35mm, 18 min. (DWF 2006 - FUSION AUDIENCE AWARD)
Writer/Dir: Christine Shin • Prods: Judith Fernando, Christine Shin
Cast: Blaine Saunders, Tanner Maguire, Deborah Quayle, John Miailovich

Janie, a nine-year-old girl, has a perfect life as an only daughter in a loving family. Her life, however, gets completely shattered when Ben, the little brother she never knew existed, unexpectedly shows up to live with her family.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERBAD
USA, 2003, Digital, 9 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: Alfred W. Gragg, Prods: Maria Abeyta, Alfred W. Gragg, Cast: Paul Eric Tyson

What if God came to earth today in the form of a man - born and raised in South Central LA? This gritty short film provides a quick glimpse into that possibility. Imagine a contemporary, urban portrayal of the Messiah and His story. JESUS CHRIST SUPERBAD depicts Him as the hero for the new millennium - a modern savior in our current times of war and unrest. His last day on earth climaxes with a ‘dead man’s walk’ to execution, backed by rock guitars and ‘funky' Spirituals. The film is both thought provoking and entertaining.

JILL
USA, 2004, Super16, 20 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Xavier Janghoonlee • Cast: Randy Thomas, Michael Alan Wright, Cheryl Vigil, Alicia Vigil, Daeg Faerch

Is it the brain or the eyes that remember what we see? Since an eye transplant 20 years ago, Joshua has been haunted by memories of a girl named Jill.

JILLIAN'S VANTAGE
USA, 2002, Digital, 23 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Geno Andrews, Prods: Salina Andrews, D. David Morin, Geno Andrews, Cast: John Valdetero, Kristi Almo, M.D., Craig Cliver

John Wheeler has secret life that keeps him sheltered from the outside world. When he discovers his "Blind Date" is actually BLIND he feels the eyes of the world are staring through him. But Jillian sees thingsdifferently. Will John Wheeler know a brighter world? Will he face the secret that haunts him? Will this cynic walk in the shoes of a man who would believe? Change is possible.

JOB 7:10
USA, 2004, Digital, 10 min. (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2005)
Writers/Dirs/Prods: Sheldon Strickland, Tony J. Perri
Cast: Joe Rassulo, Mark Polish, Sheldon Strickland, Jon Simon, Austin SpearMaltz Larkin, Luis Saguar, Samy Langs

On a stormy night a Priest struggles with troubling memories and the effect of his ministry’s touch. When Death pays him a visit, he is confronted with haunting images from his past.

JOHN 11:00
USA, 2000, 35mm, 9 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir: Drew Bell, Prod: Drew Bell, Trevor A Rudolph, Cast: Derek Hamilton, Ashley Laurence

A stressed-out Everyman, John, is laying on his psychiatrist’s couch for his 11:00 appointment. Allison, the cool, sexy & impersonal psychiatrist listens with detached professionalism. One feels the abyss of insanity lingering at the edges of reality as John relays the strange dream that recur nightly.

JOHN WANG'S NEBRASKA
USA, 2006, DIGITAL, 6 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Tamar Halpern
Cast: John Fukuda, Betsy Brandt, Joe Smith, William Jones, Peter Holmes, Leslee Scallon, Jocelyn Scallon, Ashley Chase, Jesse Janzen, Loren Holmes, Jordan Halpern, Elah Davidson, Alexa Johnson

When John Wang, a failed New York actor, finds himself stranded in the heart of Nebraska, he has no choice but to teach acting to the locals as a way to make money and get the heck out of Dodge! 

JORDAN'S BARMITZVAH
USA, 2002, Digital, 20 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Matt Seigel, Prod: Tori Avey, Matt Seigel, Cast: Jordan Seigel, David Rothblum, Will Greenberg, Joel Farar

Two young Jewish filmmakers document the trials and tribulations of a boy on his journey to manhood.

JUDGE IS GOD
USA, 2002, 35mm, 15 min. (DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: James Allen, Prods: Minae Noji, Scott Duncan, Phil Frappier
Cast: Ken Kerman, Minae Noji, Emmett Grennan, Lisa Dalton, Ashley Hirsch, Nicholas Kline, Kathryn Cleasby, Denise Nelan, Emily Ishida

Where lies the difference between justice and revenge? A cold-hearted Judge finds out when a seemingly crazy young couple break into his house and take him captive. The mystery guests soon unleash a stiff sentence of their own, without parole, teaching the Judge the consequence of doing unto others as you would have done unto you. By the end, only one thing is certain – justice is simply a toss of the coin.

THE KING
USA, 2002, Digital, 23 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002 - GRAND JURY AWARD)
Writer/Dir: Russell b. McKenzie, Prods: Russell B. McKenzie, Rob Verdery
Cast: Russell B. McKenzie, Reginald VelJohnson, Lucy Lee Flippin, Smalls, Oliver Pookrum, Rod Phillips, Amanie Gethers, Sofié Calderon

Those hips, those lips, that voice! The King is alive. This time he’s dressed in black. My God! He is black! Enjoy the return of Elvis as a black man in an All-Shook-Up musical short, THE KING.

A KISS ON THE NOSE
USA, 2004, Super16, 14 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Laura Neri • Prods: Laura Neri, Brett Henenberg
Cast: Azita Ghanizada, Gianfranco Russo, Elena Fabri, Svilena Kidess, Monica Cortes, Maeva Cifuentes, Warren Sweeney,Pat Lach, Holly Persell

When Chiara's distant father dies, she is left to try and figure out the man and her feelings about him. For that, she must go back to the very beginning: her parents's birth and their first encounter. From fragments of memory and often-whimsical reconstructions of events she did not witness, Chiara little by little builds a
picture of her father – but she does not have all the pieces yet... 

THE LAST STOP CAFE
USA, 2003, HD24, 30 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003)
Writer/Dir: David H. Jeffery, Prods: David H. Jeffery, Michael Kennedy, Tony Pinker, Mark Relyea, Ryan M. Sheridan, Ronald H. Jeffery, Noree D. Jeffery, Cast: Christie Lynn Smith, David Atkinson, Charles Hoyes, Frank Sharp, John Fortson, Geoff Koch

One night, at a roadside café in the middle of nowhere, waitress Karla encounters Lyle, a handsome wandering musician who fits the description of a notorious serial killer on the loose. Although alone, Karla decides to stall Lyle until the local police arrive so she can collect reward money. But when the authorities become detained, Karla must stave off the musician’s seductive advances in order to survive.

LATE
USA, 2002, 16mm, 4 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Zackary Adler, Prod: Adrian R. Bartol, Cast: Valerie Asselin, Ori Pfeffer, Sophia Volz

A young woman has brush with motherhood, undergoing an emotional journey of love, loss and ultimately hope.

THE LAZY ASSASSIN
USA, 2004, 35mm, 10 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2004)
Writer/Dir: Jennifer Goyette • Prods: Igor Jadrovski, Jennifer Goyette, Miguel Coleman
Cast: Craig Mitchell, Igor Jadrovski, Miguel Coleman

The Assassin wakes up to another day, just like the last. Will there be another hit waiting for him in the mailbox? He hopes not, because his work just doesn’t excite him like it used to. When he sees his next hit, the Well-Dressed Man, the Assassin knows it’s his last chance. When the job doesn’t go as planned the Assassin knows his days are numbered. Does he care? In the end, one man will die and one man will get to eat more peanuts.

LE BATEAU
USA, 1999, 35mm, 11 min. (DWF 1999)
Dir: Vanessa Newell, Writers: Vanessa Newell & Nick Pustay, Producer: Kevin Huynh, Cast: Buckley, Susan Burke, Sara Perks

A triumph in color and tone, LE BATEAU is a whimsical and some times dark, quirky comedy about a young mother, Elfeen, plagued by her domestic shortcomings. When Elfeen decides to “escape” her unhappy life she inadvertently meets the Strong Woman from a capsized French Canadian circus ship who takes her on an offbeat adventure to a place where she really belongs.

LE MIME
USA, 2002, 16mm, 2 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Dir/Prod: Brian Belefant, Writer: Johanna Stein, Cast: Johanna Stein, Gary Hourani, Helson Alegi

Recently, at a Paris flea market, a 100-year-old camera was discovered, with film inside. When the film was developed, it revealed what is quite possibly the moment when the world’s greatest mime found his life’s inspiration.

LEARN TO PHONE PHONY: TAPE 2
USA, 2005, DIGITAL, 7 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2006)
Writer/Dir: Mitchell Rose • Prods: Ashley Roland, Jamey Hampton, Mitchell Rose
Cast: Jamey Hampton, Lane Hunter, Laura Haney, Ashley Roland, Cristina Betts, Jennifer Hileman, Zachary Carroll, Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk, Anne Egan, Kristin Bacon and the good people of Portland, OR

An instructional video teaching the fine points of conducting the fake cell phone call for prestige, power, and popularity. Yes, you too can appear connected, just like actual important people. This is a sequel to "Learn to Speak Body" which screened in DWF 2002.

LEARN TO SPEAK BODY: TAPE 5
USA, 2002, Digital, 6 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Mitchell Rose, Prods: Ashley Roland, Jamey Hampton, Mitchell Rose
Cast: Leslie Braverman, Jamey Hampton, Sara Anderson, Ashley Roland, Eric Oglesbee, Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk

"Learn to Speak Body: Tape 5" satirizes the language instructional video, but instead of teaching Burmese or Bambara, it examines the grammatical intricacies of body language. Yes, in just a few easy lessons you too can learn to speak body just like humans do, as we conjugate head position, analyze the accent of a hip, and become fluent in the psychosexual syntax of the slouch.

THE LESSON
USA, 2001, HD, 10 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir.: Michael Cargile, Prod: Michael Cargile, D. Gunther Tarampi, Kevin Downes
Cast: Evan Ellingson, James Tartan, Robbie Troy

An Old Man, A Pretty Younger Woman, A Young Boy. Sometimes things just aren’t what they seem...
Three people...Three stories...One Lesson...

THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS
USA, 1998, 35mm, 9 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 1998 - GRAND JURY AWARD)
Writer/Dir: Michael Cargile, Producers: Alvin Durnad Mount & Michael Cargile, Cast: Cheryl Lawson, Gregory Storm

A solitary, pretty, white woman runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere. During the night, she is confronted by a homeless black man. Neither will ever forget the encounter.

LITTLE RED PLANE
USA, 2002, 9 min., Animation (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002 - GRAND JURY AWARD)
Dirs: Joey Jones, Wira Winata, Writer: Howard Kouo, Prod: Mike Frantum

An eight and half minute animation about a seven year boy whose imagination takes him on a spiritual journey with his red toy plane. This flight of fantasy transports him to an astonishing world where he is given an opportunity to reconcile the past.

LITTLE SISTER
USA, 2000, 35mm, 26 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir.: Paul Bock, Prod: Dan Dubiecki, Dominic Cianciolo, Tim Crane, Cast: Tori McPetrie, Justin Doran

Girlfriend’s in Vegas - Boyfriend’s home in Los Angeles - Little sister (of girlfriend) is stranded at the boyfriend’s apartment. Need I say more?

LIVING IN WALTER'S WORLD
USA, 2003, HD24, 15 min. (West Coast Premiere, DWF 2003)
Dir: Phil Kaufmann, Writers: Beth Seriff, Geoff Tarson, Prods: Chris Marsall, Greg Reeves
Cast: Ethan Phillips, Armin Shimerman, Stephen Furst, Christine Estabrook, Stephanie Meade, Caryn Greenhut, Vic Polizos, Gloria Dorson

Walter is just a regular guy who has the perfect life. Or does he? Why does it all feel a little like a sitcom? And where is that laughter coming from? When a man has to make a choice between fantasy and reality, he discovers there are unexpected possibilities in life and love.

LIVING WITH LOU
USA, 2004, 35mm, 4 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: Steven Morrow • Writers: Robert Sharman, Steven Morrow • Prod: Robert Sharman
Cast: John Ales, Kristin Bauer, Cassidy Giovacchini, Aubrey Sellers

On a motion picture set, the 1st AD runs the show. But how he behaves at home when he’s unemployed has remained a mystery…until now. A typical American family reveals what it’s like “Living With Lou.”

LOST IN FOUND
USA, 2003, HD, 7 min., Animation (Los Angeles Premiere, DWF 2004)
Dir: Matthew Dills • Writer: Eric Stephens • Prod: Hillary Dills

A lovesick skeleton takes a surreal journey through the afterlife.

LOVE IN RETROSPECT
USA, 2002, 35mm, 20 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2002)
Writer/Dir: Santiago Mañes Moreno, Prod: Santiago Mañes Moreno, Sam Sleiman
Cast: Jason Mersell, Rudy Mettia, Wade Barett, Peter Henry Schroeder, Gina Doctor

Two strangers. One woman. Forbidden love and a loaded gun.

LUCIA
USA, 1996, 35mm, 29 min. (DWF 1998)
Dir: Lorin Ruttenberg, Writers: Lorin Ruttenberg, Roberto Fonseca, Prods: Lorin Ruttenberg, Adam Jones
Cast: Chrystianne Pires, Selim Sandoval, Victor Mohica, Santos Morales, Lillian Hurst

Richie Mendoza, a thirty-year-old musician, returns home to the ranch in Central California where he was rasied. There he meets Lucia Ramos, a sixteen-year-old, Mexican, migrant farm worker. Lucia is at once, childlike, sexually tantalizing and bizarre. Isolated on the ranch, Richie and Lucia develop a unique relationship and their lives are dramatically altered when their darkest secrets are revealed to one another.

LUNCH
USA, 2001, 35mm, 4 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 2001)
Writer/Dir./Prod: Matthew Ehlers, Cast: Michael Koldan, TJ Zale, Maria Sanguedolce

The epic story of a corporate slave and his obscene meal. See what every white collar slob would love to do come Monday.

LUNCH WITH LOUIE
USA, 2001, 35mm, 4 min. (DWF 1998)
Writer/Dir/Producer: Peter Robinson, Cast: Alan Blumenfeld, Jim Le Fave

A repressed bureaucrat having lunch in a park finds his solitude disturbed by a somewhat friendly, somewhat threatening derelict. When the bureaucrat tries to eat his lunch, the derelict responds in ways that are simultaneously humorous and unnerving. By the time lunch is over, the two men have formed a bond that neither of them will forget. With only one line of dialogue, LUNCH WITH LOUIE shows that there are ways to communicate other than by using words.

LYCANTHROPHOBIA
USA, 1998, 16mm, 15 min. (WORLD Premiere, DWF 1998)
Dir: Harry Victor, Writer: Matt Pelfrey, Producer: Mitchell Welch, Cast: Kevin Hunt, Mitchell Welch, Brian Fitzpatrick, Jay Lacopo

A full moon. A smokey bar. All Ted wanted was a drink. What he gets instead might change his life forever.