A Piece of My Heart
Directed by: Stephen McKendree
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
A lonely convenience store clerk is shot through the heart during a robbery by a beautiful bandit. After his miraculous physical recovery, he finds himself still mentally damaged and is constantly haunted by unfathomable dreams about her. (Rest of logline is about potential full feature.) He eventually sets out on a surreal quest with a priest and a hitman to find and kill her, but he may soon find that he is not yet ready to handle this mysterious femme-fatale.
World Premiere (USA)
A Xinecóloga
Directed by: alfonso camarero
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
A gynecologist is working at her hospital as everyday. But the next patient.... is a boy!
(Spain)
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi
Directed by: Sebastian Doggart
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
A hard-hitting portrait of one of the chief players in the Bush Administration.
World Premiere (United Kingdom)
Astronaut Pam: Countdown to Commander
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
The sky is NOT the limit! Ride along with Commander Pam Melroy and her crew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on an exciting journey to the International Space Station. Float in ZERO GRAVITY and strap in for MACH 25, on the space trip of a lifetime.
World Premiere (USA)
Crescendo
Directed by: Pierre Terrade
Directed by: didier woldemard
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
Woman lives in poverty with a child and a violent dealer. This day will move crescendo in drama.
World Premiere (France)
Fighter Pilot
Directed by: Stephen Low
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
It's a state of the art , edge of your seat experience. Get in the cockpit with the world's best pilots to witness the most challenging flying of their careers...Follow a young American pilot as he makes his way though Red Flag ---the world's most intense simulated air combat training event--- where U.S. and international pilot's, ground crews, mechanics and rescue personnel are taken to the limits of their endurance
(Canada)
For a Fistful of Snow
Directed by: Julien Ezri
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
A long time ago, terror, loathing and power reigned over the Wild Wild North. The foolishness of the inhabitants led them to battle for anything, even... For a Fistful of Snow
Florida Premiere (Switzerland)
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Directed by: AKI ALEONG
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Can love, forgiveness, and redemption transform this violent law-less wild west into a more peaceful, moral and enlightened America?
North America Premiere (USA)
I See The Light Official Music Video
Directed by: Shantal Reich
Student Short Film (Under 25 minutes)
‘I See The Light' is a music video in which a young man reflects on his relationship with a past lover. The shots, setting, and lighting bring a warm an intimate attention that taps into his emotions throughout the song.
I See The Light Official Music Video
Directed by: Shantal Reich
Submitted by: Shantal Reich
In category: Student Short Film (Under 25 minutes)
World Premiere (USA)
Ije (the journey)
Directed by: Chineze Anyaene
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
As a child growing up in the Nigerian countryside, Chioma had warned her restless sister, Anya, about the trappings of the American Dream. Now ten years later, Anya is accused of killing three men in a Hollywood Hills mansion, one of them her record producer-husband. Chioma travels from Nigeria to Los Angeles, and with the help of a young, unproven attorney, she discovers that the dark secret her sister wants to keep hidden might be the only thing that can win her freedom.
North America Premiere (Nigeria)
In the Dominican
Directed by: Adam Macdonald
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
Alan who works at the resorts and has a nice and stable life goes in search of his missing brother. Knowing his brother has ties to the criminal world, Alan must speak to Carl Len, an expat from the U.S . As the conversation unfolds between Alan and Carl it becomes clear that Alan's brother Hector is in over his head but what Alan doesn't realize is that he may be too just from walking in the door
World Premiere (Canada)
Interfearence
Directed by: Michael Eldon Lobsinger
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
A man kills abusive people to allow the victims to live out their planned destinies. The story surrounds an abusive incident in which he comes across accidentally in a small town.
World Premiere (USA)
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MARATHON
Directed by: Biju Viswanath
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
MARATHON tells the true story of two poets, young and old who survive devastating illness through love, courage and endurance.
World Premiere (USA)
Poi Dogs
Directed by: Joel Moffett
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
Poi Dogs is the story of two local Hawaii teenagers who take a small step towards love by moving beyond their desires to act cool.
World Premiere (USA)
No Pity
Directed by: Drew Goldsmith
Student Short Film (Under 25 minutes)
A poignant exposé of pity-based fundraising, as revealed through a disabled pre-teen’s heartfelt appeal for respect and dignity.
World Premiere (USA)
Promises
Directed by: Joel Rodriguez
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Rolando Dominguez who became a self made millionaire finds himself living homeless under a South Florida fishing pier. His dirty appearance is scary and grotesque. His spontaneous erratic actions may cause some to think he's crazy, but in reality he is re-living bits from his past as he realizes that the very thing he worked so hard for in order to achieve happiness for him and his family is the very thing that has destroyed his life. Rolando's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder does not allow him to realize that there is a nationwide search for him and his missing son.
World Premiere (USA)
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo
Directed by: Gary Lester
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
In the opening days of World War II, the Nazis occupy Warsaw. In a display of extraordinary courage and commitment, Zookeeper Jan Zabinski decides to hide the city’s most endangered residents in his home.
Before war’s end, the Warsaw Zoo will become a safe haven for 300 Jewish men, women, and children.
From award-winning director Gary Lester, comes this compelling Holocaust story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
(USA)
Summer Trip
Directed by: hiroshi toda
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Hirata and Kageyama are old friends from childhood. Now in their old age they have retired from the job, and they made their mind up to hit the road for a change, leaving all cares behind.
On the road they’re taking their time to relax. They’re talking about old days, just joking around or laughing. However, there is one big problem: the food is poor, for they’re camping out along the way. Things seemed to get better dramatically when they happened to find Soba restaurant in some remote place. Of course they didn’t know at the time that it’s just the beginning of their strange, dream-like experience that would follow
World Premiere (Japen)
The Bellfield Lunar Anomaly ... from Treasure Inside
Directed by: Joel Metzger
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
I learned a way to feel the flow of life up close. Instead of an empty vacuum, life itself becomes a miraculous dance. A visual metaphor. How else can I talk about it?
World Premiere (USA)
The Creeps
Directed by: Harvey Gladden
Directed by: Sean Deosaran
Directed by: Naresh Bissoon
Directed by: Brian Daly
Student Short Film (Under 25 minutes)
Friends fed up with the constant strain of their boring and repetitive lives decide to take a trip into the unknown. In a city where it's hard to keep your sanity, we see a scheme unfold that reaches uncharted levels of creepy
World Premiere (USA)
The Donut, The Balloon and The Lifesaver
Directed by: Banks Helfrich
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Everyone in the Shocky house has an obsession. Drew just wants to get published. Shaila craves donuts and Dock loves his blower. When they get stuck at Thanksgiving with the extended family, they find themselves going around in circles.
Florida Premiere (USA)
The Money Trail
Directed by: Ray and Migdalia Etheridge
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
A drug lord will pay $2-million to anyone who can free his son from prison. Produced by husband-and-wife filmmakers Ray and Migdalia Etheridge.
World Premiere (USA)
The Phleas
Directed by: Renier Moor
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
Facing a foreclosure auction sale the next day, an elderly man plans to kill his wife of 30+ years and then himself
World Premiere (USA)
The Rich and the Poor are Naked
Directed by: Dawn Natalia
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Beth and her new boyfriend Javier reunite with Beth's college friends; only to find that secrets have surfaced that could threaten her new relationship and change her life.
World Premiere (USA)
The Shark Con
Directed by: Rusty Armstrong
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
The Shark Con takes viewers on a roller coaster ride into the big business of sharks, revealing the controversial truth about the industry, all the while trying to answer the central question…Are sharks really over-fished? Or is this just an elaborate con?
World Premiere (USA)
Vancouver Vagabond
Directed by: Heath Tait
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Vancouver Vagabond, a wacky and darkly candid autobiographical documentary of Heath Tait’s start as an artist and animator struggling through the Gen-X 90’s, attempting his indie career outside of Hollywood North, Canada.
(Canada)
Woke Up Alive
Directed by: Mark Blacknell
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
A wide-eyed American on a journey of self-discovery across Israel, gets caught between war and beauty, the natural and unnatural, the old and new, and tries to find balance amongst it all.
World Premiere (USA)
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Directed by: Stephen Low
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea reveals the astounding sights that lie 12,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, while delivering a real-life tale of mystery as scientists search for an animal that may be one of Earth's greatest survivors. Filmed at deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and Pacific, this giant screen experience, with it's dramatic views of rarely-seen marine life and habitats, provides a paradigm-shifting view of the deep ocean
(Canada)
War Is A Bitch
Directed by: Ronald Armstrong
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
In the very near future six highly trained female soldiers are sent on a daring secret mission. Their objective, to assassinate the one man who stands in their way for the right to be human. During their mission the women discover that some of them are not human at all, but something entirely different. What would you do if the very thing you are bent on destroying is who you truly are?
World Premiere (USA)
With Anchovies...Without Mamma
Directed by: Thomas Justino
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
An anchovy makes its way onto a pizza triggering a series of bizarre consequences.
World Premiere (USA)
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Florida Road
Directed by: Brad Glass
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Florida Road follows the life of Shaan. a mid twenties boy from Mumbai, India who moved to Durban South Africa with his family. Shaan is a struggling screenwriter of Hollywood action films. His father, Raj, a fan of Bollywood films dosnt understand his son's career choice. Shaan struggles to persue his dream and seeks the love and support from his father. Shaan fights with his culture and finding his palce in the world. When a famly tragedy occurs, secrets are revieled and shaan comes to terms with the cards he his delt with.
World Premiere (South Africa)
Joel and Julie
Directed by: Andrew Sarno
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Joel's girlfriend has left him, his family has given up on him, and he can't quite get his music career off the ground. Julie hates her job, has painful blind dates, and can't quite come to terms with her flaky brother Joel. A family secret revealed forces them to confront the question: which way do we grow?
World Premiere (USA)
Mickey Donallo
Directed by: Christopher Bazzoni
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
Mickey Donallo bets with his heart and against all odds in this short gangster comedy. Based in South Brooklyn, the story revolves around the title character, a zany small-time gambler with big dreams and little means. When his fantasies collide with reality, Mickey's never ending troubles with the neighborhood bookies brings him face to face with the biggest crime boss in New York.
World Premiere (USA)
The Crimson Mask
dir. by ELIAS PLAGIANOS
Feature length (over 45 minutes)
Two desperate men, from different worlds, find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual. Greed, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Envy have consumed the lives of Thomas Caine, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and Parker, a down on his luck pro wrestler. Both are overwhelmed with insurmountable debts and struggling to break free by any means. As their lives quickly unravel, so does an age-old secret conspiracy that leads the two men down a deadly path of redemption
South Florida Premiere (USA)
Trails End (8m, U S A)
dir. by Jeffrey James
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
It's the fall of 1886. A man travels the Ohio countryside to track a notorious outlaw that destroyed his life and the lives of countless others. His journey leads him down many trails including one into a troubled past.
World Premiere (USA)
The Tainted Touch
Directed by: Frank Battiston
Shorts and featurettes (Under 46 minutes)
The mistakes of the past are exposed during the last moments of a couple’s relationship, pushing them to a painful present and an inevitable remorseful future that will change their lives forever.
World Premiere (USA)
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BEST FEATURE
Florida Road
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Ije (the journey)
Promises
BEST DOCUMENTARY
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi
The Shark Con
Woke Up Alive
BEST SHORT
In the Dominican
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo
The Tainted Touch
War Is A Bitch
BEST DIRECTOR-FEATURE
Florida Road
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Ije (the journey)
Promises
BEST DIRECTOR-SHORT
Crescendo
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo
War Is A Bitch
BEST SCREENPLAY-FEATURE
Florida Road
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Ije (the journey)
Promises
BEST SCREENPLAY-SHORT
For a Fistful of Snow
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo
War Is A Bitch
With Anchovies...Without Mamma
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY-FEATURE
Florida Road
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Ije (the journey)
The Crimson Mask
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY-SHORT
In the Dominican
The Tainted Touch
War Is A Bitch
BEST EDITING-FEATURE
Florida Road
I Am Somebody/ No Chance in Hell
Ije (the journey)
The Crimson Mask
BEST EDITING-SHORT
In the Dominican
The Tainted Touch
With Anchovies...Without Mamma
FLORIDA'S CHOICE AWARD
A Piece of My Heart
Interfearence
The Donut, The Balloon and The Lifesaver
The Money Trail
BEST STUDENT FILM
I See The Light Official Music Video
No Pity
The Creeps
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