2016 Big MINI Media Festival - Saturday Schedule
Saturday, November 12th
12:00 PM - Big MINI Media Festival Begins!
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12:00-1:10 PM
24 Hour Comic Milan Erceg - USA 70 minutes (Feature Doc) 8 Artists confined to a comic book store, partake in Scott McCloud's 24 Hour Comic Challenge. Each attempting to write, draw, and complete a 24 page comic, in 24 hours. |
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1:12-1:17 PM
Dead Mall Dustin Morrow - USA 5 minutes (Experimental) Dead Mall examines a shopping mall that is in danger of closing. |
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1:17-1:23 PM
G.I. Hospital Jonny Lewis - USA 6 minutes (Animation) A group of severely wounded soldiers, who are cheerful about their injuries, but watch what happens when one of them starts to complain. |
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1:23-1:36 PM
The Evolution of Youth Sports Burn Out Briana Kay Stodden - USA 13 minutes (Short Doc) All over, kids are leaving sports behind due to the intense pressure of performance. By understanding the evolution of youth sports, parents can change this troubling trend before it's too late. |
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1:36-1:54 PM
The Great Trumbald Brennan Gordon McNichol - USA 18 minutes (Short Narrative) A washed up magician struggles with the failures of his career after losing his show at a local theater. |
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2:09-2:23 PM
Brains Bri Castellini - USA 14 minutes (Web Series) Brains is a web series set after a three-year zombie apocalypse on a college campus. Alison Sumner is a neuropsychology student with a zombie as a best friend. Alison spends her time doing research about the zombie plague and crushing on a fellow student. |
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2:23-2:36 PM
Margaret Manan Singh Katohora - USA 13 minutes (Short Narrative) After dealing with a series of extreme characters during a speed-dating event for senior citizens, an elderly woman meets a charming, exotic gentleman. |
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2:36-3:01 PM
Death and Life Gregory Alosio - USA 25 minutes (Short Doc) Journey into the rarely seen world of organ transplants and join a family that clings to hope as their father hangs on the edge of death, waiting to know if he will receive the liver transplant he needs to survive; knowing that someone else must die for him to live. |
3:00 PM-4:00 PM - Workshop in Virtual and Augmented Reality (Cancelled)
4:00-4:30 PM - Break
4:00-4:30 PM - Break
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4:30-4:46 PM
Rocket Man Jamison LoCasisco - USA 16 minutes (Short Narrative) Keith, a young man with Asperger's Syndrome, obsessively builds a time machine wishing he could take back a mistake he made in the past. Though Keith's time machine is made of little more than cardboard and scraps, his family helps to make his dream of a redemptive time travel expedition a reality. |
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4:46-4:54 PM
West Side Swordy Dan Liu - USA/Argentina 8 minutes (Experimental) The 'Jets' chase the 'Sharks' down an alley, jump over a tall fence and land in... a warehouse, with swords in their hands. Who will win this epic battle of wills and skills? |
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4:54-5:04 PM
GoodSide/BadSide David Antoine - USA 10 minutes (Short Narrative) Michael Parker is facing problems in his marriage. The devil, the angel, and a new seductive girl are only making things worse. |
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5:04-5:34 PM
My Roots Lie Here (Winner - Best Short Documentary) Ellen Silverman - USA 30 minutes (Short Doc) Filmed on location in Cuba, My Roots Lie Here follows the relationship of four elderly Cubans to the homes they have lived in all of their lives. |
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5:36-5:48 PM
The Ceiling Fan Kate Wetherhead & Andrew Keenan-Bolger - USA 12 minutes (Short Narrative) The Ceiling Fan is a story of one woman’s quiet resilience and the profound emotional significance of a simple task. |
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5:48-5:59 PM
Privilege Berman Fenelus - USA 11 minutes (Short Narrative) Privilege reflects on the epidemic of police brutality in communities of people of color. The audience witnesses the effects of such an encounter when it strikes an affluent African American family who, despite their accomplishments and achievements, realize they can still fall victim to the violent world which they thought they were far removed from. |
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5:59-6:20 PM
Window Dressing Stephen Girouard - USA 21 minutes (Short Narrative) A struggling real-estate agent, who simply wants to rent a belt tightening couple an apartment, unwittingly helps a woman see beyond the curtains, the window dressing, to something that truly matters. |
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6:20-6:23 PM
Water Logged Somer Bednar - USA 3 minutes (Experimental) Follow the imagination of a little boy, while he explores a river on a life sized paper boat. |
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6:23-6:40 PM
I Art New York Josh Venkataraman - USA 17 minutes (Short Doc) New York, New York has always been the center for all things art. From a hat maker to a Broadway actor, I Art New York shows how and why New York is the hub for the arts. |
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6:42-6:44 PM
Double-Blind No.1 (Winner - Best Experimental ) The Double-Blind Experiments - Australia 2 minutes (Experimental) No script, no storyboards, no concept art. Five VFX artists worked independently to produce unique VFX shots, while experimenting with different creative styles and techniques. |
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6:44-6:47 PM
French Kiss Michael Berge - Sweden 3 minutes (Short Narrative) A French-speaking woman and an English-speaking woman meet in the park and the language barrier actually pulls them together before it tears them apart. |
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6:47-6:51 PM
Drunk Psychic John Gebhart - USA 4 minutes (Short Narrative) A documentary film crew follows one of the most respected psychics in the world for a day and documents how she must use different types of alcohol to make different types of predictions. |
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6:51-7:08 PM
Runner, Runner Nic Lewis - USA 17 minutes (Short Narrative) Josiah and Thomas are two men chained together, while on the run from the Union Army. |
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7:08-7:27 PM
Ac'tiv-ist (Winner - Best Web Series) Joshua Wolfsun - USA 19 minutes (Web Series) Aspiring student organizer Samantha Rushbad grapples with the simultaneously inspiring, mind-numbingly banal, infuriatingly stupid, and downright absurd nature of campus activism as she starts a campaign to force her college to divest from Israel. |
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7:27-7:40 PM
Maya Osborne: Confessions of a Quadroon Barry Mayo - USA 13 minutes (Short Doc) Maya Osborne is a 20-year old mixed raced Bard College student who talks about her everyday struggles with being the offspring of a white father and a biracial mother (which makes her one-quarter Black; hence, a quadroon). |
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7:42-8:02 PM
Any Day Now (Honorable Mention) Albert Uria - Spain/USA 20 minutes (Short Narrative) Any Day Now is a short, sweet comedy about how short (and sweet) life can be. |
8:02-8:10 PM
[Blank] My Life
Alexandra Spieth - USA
8 minutes
(Web Series)
[Blank] My Life is a surreal, comedic web series that follows Susan on her desire to find love and simultaneously not end her life.
[Blank] My Life
Alexandra Spieth - USA
8 minutes
(Web Series)
[Blank] My Life is a surreal, comedic web series that follows Susan on her desire to find love and simultaneously not end her life.
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8:10-8:17 PM
Croissant Marius Conrotto Diaz - Spain 7 minutes (Short Narrative) Croissant is about how a new relationship can start over breakfast. |
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8:19-8:50 PM
Going the Distance Hao Dong - China 31 minutes (Short Doc) The miracle of love can find us anywhere but sometimes love calls for us to go the distance. This short documentary is about cross-national couples sharing how long-distance love is more unique and worthy than people might think. |
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8:50-9:08 PM
Carnival Games Daniel Ahmakov - Germany 18 minutes (Short Narrative) Carnival Games is an intense story of anger, revenge, love and double roles. During carnival week, the two main characters are pushed into a breaking situation. Will they play by the carnival rules or will they trust their hearts? |
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9:08-9:30 PM
Still Water Chloé Duval - USA 20 minutes (Short Narrative) In the county of Liezen, the power is hereditary. One day, the mayor is found dead, drowned in the lake below the village. His young brother has to take over the power. Unconsciously, he tries to escape it by entering the red house that appears to him alone, in front of the lake. |
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9:30-9:40PM
Bait and Hooks (MAMACI I UDICE) (Winner - Best Short Narrative) Luka Popadic - Switzerland 10 minutes (Short Narrative) Baits and Hooks is a black comedy inspired by the style of the Czech New Wave about how two workers of an old factory face the transition from socialism to capitalism. |
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9:40-9:51 PM
Club Angles Andy Boyce - USA 11 minutes (Short Doc) Club Angels is a short documentary about the forming of the band Sateen by Queen Sateen and Exquisite, a heterosexual married couple who do drag and are fixtures in the queer New York City nightlife scene. |
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9:51-10:00 PM
H for Hustle Sasha Santiago - USA 9 minutes (Short Narrative) Two broke New Yorkers pretend to be call girls. |
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10:00-10:28PM
Blue City Marcus Reyes - USA 28 minutes (Web Series) A group of NYPD detectives based out of the 5 boroughs of New York use their power and authority to run one of the biggest corruption rings. |
Big MINI Media Festival ends