2016 Big MINI Media Festival - Friday Schedule
Friday, November 11th
5:00 PM - Big MINI Media Festival Begins!
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5:10-5:14 PM
American Freight James Wallace - USA 14 minutes (Short Narrative) Bound and gagged, Danielle Hartwig confronts her captors as they prepare her for a life as a 'snowflake' snared into sex trafficking. |
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5:14-6:08 PM
Tattooyou Vieri Franchini Stappo - Italy 54 minutes (Feature Doc) Tattooyou is a documentary about the psycho-magical world of tattooing. |
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6:08-6:12 PM
The Five Ants That Live In My Apartment Katy-May Hudson - USA 4 minutes (Experimental) A short reflection on interconnectivity, existentialism and... five household ants. |
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6:12-6:15pm
Last Shoes Yoshuya Shimasaki - Australia 3 minutes (Short Doc) After 66 years, a shoemaker decides to close his shoe manufacturer company. |
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6:15-6:30pm
Murder, My Tweet Jordan Zakarin - USA 15 minutes (Short Narrative) Dirk Devlin is a down-on-his-luck private eye. One day, a mysterious woman shows up at his office seeking help, Dirk jumps at the opportunity, plunging him into a world of deceit, double-crossing, and worst of all, Silicon Valley tech speak. |
6:30pm-7:00pm Awards Ceremony
7:00pm-8:30pm Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion: Interactive Film: A look into the future of branching narrative ." How will immersive technology affect the mainstream and subculture film business? What new modalities will arise with the use of this technology, i.e. augmented reality and 360 digital technologies?
Panelists
Caitlin Burns
Panelist Vice Chair of the Producers’ Guild of America’s New Media Council |
Lex Dreister
Panelist CEO / Creative Director / Certified Unity® Developer, VRVU – Organizer of NYC VR University – Host of Build and Run Podcast |
Daniel Durning
Moderator Professor of Computer Graphics at LIU |
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8:30-9:14 PM
Here's to Flint (Winner - Best Feature Documentary) Kate Levy - USA 44 minutes (Feature Doc) A documentary about the Flint water crisis, where a ten-year old girl, holding a bullhorn, offers up a desperate demand: “Stop poisoning our children!” |
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9:14-9:18 PM
Don't Be Afraid of Bears (Winner - Best Animation) Jill Johnston - USA 4 minutes (Animation) Reflection on childhood memories and fears induce impressions of the beast within and reciprocity of species. |
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9:18-9:29 PM
Connection Lost (The Tinder Opera) Adam Taylor - USA 11 minutes (Short Narrative) Connection Lost (The Tinder Opera) is the operatic tale of a newly single man’s first steps into the unfamiliar world of Tinder dating. Made entirely using opera singers and musicians from The Manhattan School of Music. |
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9:29-9:40 PM
Licentious Daryl Denner - USA 11 minutes (Short Narrative) Licentious is a film that follows a woman on her promiscuous prowl of a nightclub after her husband leaves on a business trip. She meets a married man and begins to draw him in. Will she get what she is looking for? |
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9:40-9:50 PM
Hybris Goekham Sayim - Germany 10 minutes (Experimental) What if it was possible to create a world in which to get a chance to rehabilitate themselves, criminals had to pass a test without even knowing it? |
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9:50-10:10 PM
The Hub Katie Locke Obrien & Claire Gerety-Mott - USA 20 minutes (Web Series) The Hub is an original single-camera comedy web series about two best friends living the townie life on the South Shore of Massachusetts. These best friends try to turn their lives into something bigger--or at least bigger than what Rockland typically has to offer. |
Virtual Reality Movies
Shown Friday & Saturday throughout the festival
Aftershock: Nepal’s Untold Water Story (Winner - Best Virtual Reality Short)
Catherine Feltham 9 mins (Virtual Reality) Follow plumber Krishna Sunuwar, as he works with his neighbors to repair the village’s water system. 
Dead Head
Ben Leonberg 3 mins (Virtual Reality) Two people are stuck in a barn during the Zombie Apocalypse. |
Back to the Summer
Jianbo Gao 5 mins (Virtual Reality) Using virtual reality, explore a memorable summer a man had with his now deceased wife. 
When the Butterfly Dreams
Kat Goh / Tammy Quah 21 mins (Virtual Reality) “When The Butterfly Dreams” is a 360º film about a false awakening. |
Ballast Point
Benjamin Shepherd 3 mins (Virtual Reality) Take a tour through Sydney's Ballast Point Park in 360°. |
Traces
Gabriela Arp 8 mins (Virtual Reality) Through virtual reality, explore the memories of 88-year old Willie White. |
I am Galway 2020
Paula Kehoe 4 mins (Virtual Reality) I am Galway 2020 is a cinematic poem in virtual reality. |
Nobel’s Nightmare
Chamsy Sarkis 6 mins (Virtual Reality) The Syrian Civil Defense teams of Aleppo perform search and rescue missions in war-torn Syria. |