Blockhain Media Summit
  • Home
  • About
  • Panelists & Presenters
  • PHOTOS
  • Video Content
  • Media Summit Agenda
  • Past Festivals
    • BMS 2019 >
      • 2019 BMS Media Summit Agenda
      • 2019 Panelists & Presenters
      • 2019 BMS Photos
      • 2019 BMS Video Content
    • BMS 2018 >
      • 2018 BMS Media Summit Agenda
      • 2018 BMS Panelists & Presenters
      • 2018 BMS Photos
      • 2018 BMS Video Content
    • BMM 2017 >
      • 2017 Schedule >
        • Friday Night Schedule
        • Saturday Schedule
      • 2017 Top Five
      • Screenplay Winners
      • 2017 Sponsorships
      • 2017 Panelists
    • BMM 2016 >
      • 2016 Schedule >
        • Friday Night Schedule
        • Saturday Schedule
      • 2016 Top Five
      • Screenplay Winners
      • The Director's Corner
      • 2016 Sponsorship
      • 2016 Panelists
      • 2016 Sponsors
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2015 >
      • Friday Night Schedule
      • Saturday Schedule
      • 2015 Sponsors
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2014 >
      • BMM 2014 Poster
      • Industry Workshop: DigiPops.TV
      • Panel Discussion
      • 2014 Panel
      • Friday Night Schedule
      • Saturday Night Schedule
      • Panel Discussion: Future of Film
      • Screenplays WINNERS
    • BMM 2013 >
      • Official Film Selections
      • Official Screenplays
      • Industry Workshop: Create a Webisode
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2012 >
      • Official Film Selections
      • Official Screenplays
      • Panel Discussion
      • Industry Workshop: Using Media to Make Change
    • BMM 2011
    • BMM 2010
    • BMM 2009
    • Festival Postcards
    • Sponsors
  • Directions
  • Contact
  • Gallery

2013 Big MINI Media Festival: Storytelling in the Age of the Internet


Friday, November 15th

Picture
 6:00 pm

The Ballad of Cat Dean

Genaro Dominguez (USA) 
8 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 
An ad executive moves to Brooklyn and clashes with his hipster neighbors.


Picture
6:10 pm 

Adaptation

Dawn George (Canada) 
11 minutes 
(Experimental) 
"Adaptation" examines and emphasizes how we are corporeally failing to adapt to our environment, despite and due to the rapid progression of technological advances.


Picture
6:22 pm

You're It

Ken Cohen (USA) 
8 minutes 
(Experimental) 
In Brooklyn, the neighborhood "killer tag" game enters its last day. Bob tries to get to work - even as all his neighbors want to kill him to win the local prize.


6:30 pm - 2013 Award Ceremony

6:45 pm Panel Discussion: Storytelling in the Age of the Internet

Stories that have a vision on now, look to our future.


Picture
7:50 pm

Bad Day

Kirill Vostrikov (USA) 
5 minutes 

(Short Narrative) 

It started as a simple day of a simple girl in Brooklyn but things went wrong…


Picture
8:05 pm 

Tooth Fairy

Rachael Sonnenberg (USA) 
4 minutes 
(Short Narrative/Honorable Mention) 

8-year-old Luke believes in the Tooth Fairy… Do you?


Picture
8:10 pm 

Luz Mob-Huerfano

Jeff Bernier (USA) 
6 minutes 
(Best Experimental) 

A lone man's search for the perfect sound leads him on an unexpected journey.


Picture
8:20 pm 

The Words I Love

Thanachart Siripatrachai (USA) 
17 minutes 
(Best Documentary) 

I come from Thailand. I am a bookish person and always carry a book with me. When I found a word I did not know, I would ask a stranger sitting next to me to explain the meaning. Later I started to record their voices and put together into this documentary to explore the issue of language.


Picture
8:40 pm 

Silent Threat: Prelude

Aldo Romero (USA) 
29 minutes 
(Best Short Narrative) 

A former news reporter named Pete Winston tracks the stories of different characters who use a social media website for UFO abductees.


Picture
9:15 pm 

Mama Needs a Ride

Matt Florio (USA) 
19 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 

Two mobsters are given an important job: pick up the Don's mother.


Picture
9:40 pm 

Tits

Opal Dockery (USA) 
7 minutes 
(Documentary) 

A documentary short film about a woman's right to be topless in public.


2013 BMM Festival (cont'd)

Saturday, November 16th

Picture
1:00 pm 

Who's Afraid of the Cape Cod Bear?

Maryanne Galvin (USA) 
52 minutes 
(Documentary) 

In May 2012, a Massachusetts black bear altered the course of history. Who's Afraid of the Cape Cod Bear? chronicles this bear's journey, in the context of debates about human coexistence with wildlife across much of North America. The film asks if bears are people with fur, who should adapt to whom and how?


Picture
1:55 pm 

Clownin' Around

Alberto De Leon (USA) 
8 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 

Jerry, a lonely clown, struggles to be taken seriously in a world where people can only see him as a performer.


Picture
2:05 pm 

Fox Hill Road

Paul Rapalee (USA) 
6 minutes 
(Experimental) 

A young adult is showing us how she got through a difficult childhood.


Picture
2:15 pm 

BE

Kelli Bruno (USA) 
19 minutes 
(Experimental) 

I wanted to combine my passion for film and my love of music, so I decided to make a film and compose the music score for it. As an undergraduate at Bucknell University, I wrote, shot (with the help of a friend) , edited, and premiered 'BE' during my final semester (Spring 2013).


Picture
2:35 pm 

A Close Call

Nathan Wagoner (USA) 
6 minutes 
(Experimental) 

A 21st Century story of love at first sight.


Picture
2:45 pm 

Unplugged

Maria Palacio (USA) 
19 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 

John is a hacker whose life turns for the worst after hacking an important secret file.


3:05 pm Industry Workshop: Creating a Webisode - Jorge Rivera


Picture
4:05 pm 

9:22 From Academic Watch to Academic Wow!

Kimberly Calkins (USA) 
88 minutes 
(Documentary) 

No one expected that a backwoods, rural school district in Northeastern Ohio's Appalachia region would achieve the academic success that it has. After all, these are the "922ers," the kids from Claymont. Many people call it "Dirtmont" or "Scagville."


Picture
5:35 pm 

SNA: The Supernatural Association

Maria Palacio (USA) 
5 minutes 
(Experimental) 

SNA is a government organization that handles all the illegal crimes that the Supernatural commit in their world and the human world.


Picture
5:40 pm 

The Sacred Heart

Andrew Serban (USA) 
22 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 

When an unemployed young woman from Hell's Kitchen and her equally unemployed immigrant boyfriend are threatened with eviction, the couple resort to desperate measures and find themselves in the middle of a real estate war.


Picture
6:30 pm 

Risky Business

David Mech (USA) 
105 minutes 
(Documentary) 

Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry examines the social, psychological and economic impacts of performing in adult films.


Picture
8:30 pm 

Tiffany's Audition

Francisco Lafontaine (USA) 
7 minutes 
(Short Narrative) 

A young female dancer struggles with an audition.


Picture
8:40 pm 

#3C

Mischa Auzins 
16 minutes 
(Short Narrative/Honorable Mention/Best Cinematography) 

Trapped in a lifeless body with no way to communicate with the outside world, no way to let your loved ones know you're still alive. This is one man's journey to find forgiveness and acceptance in a world he doesn't want to leave and survival in another where reality is all too final.


Picture
9:00 pm 

Independent Filmmaker

Andreas Goldfuss (Canada) 
1 minute 
(Super Short) 

The truth about independent filmmaking.


Picture
9:05 pm 

Don't Take This The Wrong Way

Ryan A. Markle (USA) 
22 minutes 
(Short Narrative/Honorable Mention/Best Comedy) 

Three guys heading into their 30s realize that adulthood is something that has to be earned… whether they like it or not.


Location

Contact Us​

  • Home
  • About
  • Panelists & Presenters
  • PHOTOS
  • Video Content
  • Media Summit Agenda
  • Past Festivals
    • BMS 2019 >
      • 2019 BMS Media Summit Agenda
      • 2019 Panelists & Presenters
      • 2019 BMS Photos
      • 2019 BMS Video Content
    • BMS 2018 >
      • 2018 BMS Media Summit Agenda
      • 2018 BMS Panelists & Presenters
      • 2018 BMS Photos
      • 2018 BMS Video Content
    • BMM 2017 >
      • 2017 Schedule >
        • Friday Night Schedule
        • Saturday Schedule
      • 2017 Top Five
      • Screenplay Winners
      • 2017 Sponsorships
      • 2017 Panelists
    • BMM 2016 >
      • 2016 Schedule >
        • Friday Night Schedule
        • Saturday Schedule
      • 2016 Top Five
      • Screenplay Winners
      • The Director's Corner
      • 2016 Sponsorship
      • 2016 Panelists
      • 2016 Sponsors
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2015 >
      • Friday Night Schedule
      • Saturday Schedule
      • 2015 Sponsors
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2014 >
      • BMM 2014 Poster
      • Industry Workshop: DigiPops.TV
      • Panel Discussion
      • 2014 Panel
      • Friday Night Schedule
      • Saturday Night Schedule
      • Panel Discussion: Future of Film
      • Screenplays WINNERS
    • BMM 2013 >
      • Official Film Selections
      • Official Screenplays
      • Industry Workshop: Create a Webisode
      • Panel Discussion
    • BMM 2012 >
      • Official Film Selections
      • Official Screenplays
      • Panel Discussion
      • Industry Workshop: Using Media to Make Change
    • BMM 2011
    • BMM 2010
    • BMM 2009
    • Festival Postcards
    • Sponsors
  • Directions
  • Contact
  • Gallery