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White Vans

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Films, HD Shorts

Directed by Aren Hansen
When your bike gets ripped off for the second time in a month, you may find yourself wondering about the thieves and where they take the bikes. The week after this happened to East Vancouver filmmaker Aren Hansen, he began to make this film. Riding a stolen blue bicycle through the city [...]



Aquarium

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: HD Shorts

Directed by Rob Meyer
At fifteen, David and his two buddies are the youngest members of the Boston Aquarium Society. The three make their way to a monthly meeting, but David has a secret he is reluctant to share.
Biography

Rob Meyer has just finished writing a feature film, Labrador Duck, which draws inspiration, tone and characters from [...]



Everything Will Be OK

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: HD Shorts

Directed by Don Hertzfeld
The first chapter of a three part story, Everything Will
Be Ok is a series of dark and troubling events that force Bill, the main character to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof.
Biography

Don Hertzfeldt was born on August 1, 1976 in California’s Bay Area. He made four self-taught [...]



Ten Thousand Pictures of You

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: HD Shorts

Directed by Robin King
A rollercoaster ride through the animated pictures of Sarah’s world, as she seeks revenge upon the movie star who broke her heart.
Biography

Robin’s first film ‘Ten Thousand Pictures of You’ won Best Film at the Super Shorts Film Festival, Best Editing at Leicester International Short Film Festival and came Runner-Up for the Newcomer [...]



Love on the Line

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Animation

Directed by Melissa Graziano
A combination of stop-motion cutouts and computer animation, Love on the Line is about two mid-Victorian teenage sweethearts sneaking onto their parents’ telegraph machines to chat.
Phineas, a sixteen-year-old rapscallion with a healthy appetite for ‘the fairer sex’, sneaks into his train manager father’s telegraph office to contact his long-distance girlfriend, Elizabeth. Prim [...]



Circle Maker

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Animation

Directed by Jesse Davis
Bring your daughter to work day! It’s finally time to show
Wendy what ‘father’ does all night long. But being a typical kid, Wendy’s interests only arise when her childhood curiosity kicks in. Although happy she’s enthused, ‘father’ is ill-prepared for the meddling mind of his daughter.
Biography
Jesse was born in Connecticut, growing up [...]



Sebastian’s Voodoo

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Animation

Directed by Joaquin Baldwin
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Biography

Joaquin Baldwin is an animator and website designer from Paraguay, with a BFA in animation and working on an MFA in animation at UCLA. He has been granted several awards including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate [...]



Rabia

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Muhammad Ali Hasan
Rabia is a woman who must blow herself up in order to exist. From the moment she straps explosives to her bare body, we are exposed to flashbacks of Rabia’s past, filled with abuse, rejection, and struggle. By the time she steps onto a popular Israeli beach, awaiting to kill hundreds [...]



Magritte Moment

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Ian Fischer
A frustrated painter searching for his muse gets some help from the surreal visions of Rene Magritte.
Biography

Ian Fischer graduated with a BA from Tufts University. He received his MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. He was a Story Analyst for October Films and their genre subdivision Rogue. He also worked [...]



Sugar

Aug 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Alex Beh
The imagination of waiter runs wild when a beautiful patron asks him for sugar in her coffee.

Raised in Winnetka by a drama teacher and a Chicago Board of Trader. He learned acting and improvisation at The Second City, Improv Olympic, University of Kentucky, Acting Studio Chicago, Piven Theatre, and being around [...]