2017 Big MINI Media Festival - Saturday Schedule
12:00 PM - Big MINI Media Festival Begins!
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12:00-1:24 PM
Dogs & Fools Ali Mohammad Ghasemi - Iran 1 hr 24 min (Feature Narrative) On the mountainous and forest heights in the north of Iran, a big mistake disrupts a love story. |
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1:25-1:35 PM
Song Sotto Voce Pierre Bessette - France 10 min (Experimental) A young woman wanders the deserted expanses with a rolling suitcase. A father appears on her skin like a tattoo. A journey between two distresses where poetry is the only salvation. |
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1:40-1:46 PM
Conservation of Mass Mengyuan Xue - China 5 min 28 sec (Short Narrative) In this fictional world, the population is getting too big. To keep the population constant, the law dictates that a family can have a newborn only when there is a recently deceased in the family. |
1:46-2:01 PM - Break
1:46-2:01 PM - Break
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2:05-2:12 PM
MoonWalker Connor Griffith - USA 6 min 30 sec (Animation) Squirrels absorb moonbeams in attempt to turn into humans. |
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2:15-2:37 PM
What You Want Richard Theodule - USA 23 min (Experimental) Two groups of friends explore Paris nightlife looking for sex, love and new friends. |
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2:40-2:48 PM
The Babysitters David Bertoni - USA 7 min 25 sec (Short Narrative) Two oafs struggle to entertain a mouthy kid. |
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2:50-2:53 PM
General Dupont in General Dupont Doing laundry Thu Vu Kim Nguyen - USA 2 min 47 sec (Animation) A caricature of wealth and domestic life. |
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2:55-3:06 PM
Prysia's Garden Mišo Suchý - Slovakia 11 min (Short Documentary) A quiet rumination on exile, photography and transplanting roots, this short tells the story of two women: an aging refugee, and a photographer/daughter of refugees. |
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3:10-3:13 PM
I'm Fine Evie Dartnell - Australia 2 min 32 sec (Experimental) This film explores the division between the internal struggles associated with mental health and the exterior view that individuals portray to the world. |
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3:15pm-4:15pm Workshop
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4:45-4:53PM
Light Sight Simin F.Ahmadi - Iran 7 min 34 sec (Animation) M.E., the imprisoned character in a room is attracted to a hanging light and tries to catch it. But the room itself becomes an obstacle on his way. |
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4:55-6:27PM
The Squealer William Sparks - USA 1 hr 34 min (Experimental) An activist organizer has been exposed as a provocateur working for the government. |
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6:35-6:37PM
In The Garden Iva Kapsikova - USA 2 min 9 sec (Short Narrative) A gardener recounts her conversation with a man from the coffee shop that morning. She fantasizes of what could have been until she comes back to reality and is grounded back in the moment of her garden. |
6:40-6:55PM - Break
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6:55-7:03PM
Seek Help Andie Bottrell - USA 8 min (Web Series) SEEK HELP is a 10 episode web-series that follows the story of former child genius, Dr. Richard Pinkett, whose genius is inexplicably fading, and his complicated relationship with his second patient, Alexandria. |
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7:05-7:18PM
a la memoire de Lune Johnny Zito - USA 12 min 57 sec (Experimental) Memories interweave with the ethereal for a grief-stricken man as he struggles to accept the sudden and tragic death of a cherished friend. |
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7:20-7:41PM
We Have a Dream Giammatteo Chiarello - Italy 20 min 25 sec (Short Documentary) Filmon, Efrata, Nura and Jonathan are little more than twenty years old. They are Eritrean and are fleeing the dictatorship of their President Isaias Afewerki. |
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7:45-8:04 PM
Sound of the Future: HAITI Luke Versalko- New Zealand 18 min 55 sec (Short Documentary) This film follows the story of the most well known modern Haitian musician, Michael Brun, as he takes it upon himself to show his fellow countrymen that Haiti is worth fighting for. |
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8:05-8:16 PM
The Last Tamale Jeremy Mowery-USA 10Min 45 sec (Short Narrative) A boyfriend's worst nightmare occurs when his girlfriend's mother makes him eat the biggest, spiciest tamale known to man in order to prove himself worthy of her daughter. |
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8:20-8:45 PM
The Trap Shane Europa-Ireland 25 min (Experimental) We travel with Lana Cross through the hardest journey a person can face, that of facing themselves. |
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8:50-8:52 PM
The Lonely Giant Alek Raulerson-USA 1 min 55 sec (Animation) The Giant seeks friendship only to be greeted by people afraid of what she is and not looking past to see who she is. |
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8:55-9:00 PM
Jamie's Girl Grey Gowder-USA 4 min 33 sec (Experimental) A girl unknowingly sells her freedom and humanity to a manipulative entity in exchange for ballet lessons. |
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9:00-9:05 PM
The New Neighborhood Peter Romano-USA 5 min (Web Series) A mockumentary series exploring what it means to be a New Yorker. |
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9:10-9:19 PM
Tales of a Future Past Cecelia Condit-USA 8 min 20 sec (Experimental) “Tales of a Future Past” uses props and toy animal masks to create an environmental fairy tale about species extinctions and the loneliness that ensues. |
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9:20-9:23PM
Dischord Travis Carr-USA 2 min 40 sec (Short Narrative) A girl finds a mysterious piano, with supernatural results. |
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9:25-9:30 PM
Microbes Sophie Ingels-Fortier-Canada 4 min 29 sec (Animation) This short film is about microscopic creatures living in a dust fragment that we catch the glimpse of when it goes through the light. |
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9:30-9:38 PM
There's More Than One Way to Skin a Man Emma Penaz Eisner-USA 7 min 9 sec (Experimental) Up is down, and inside turns out: Who are these men that embody and fuel our collective existential upheaval? |
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9:40-10:08 PM
Voidgirl Brendan Cook-USA 28 min (Short Narrative) The story opens with Dan who is being broken up with his girlfriend over the phone because he is too “boring”. Afterwards, Dan goes on an online chat site looking for a distraction. Here he meets Emma, and his world is flipped on it’s head. |