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Narrative Shorts

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 [...]



Undocumented

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

Directed by Joel Rodriguez
An Illegal immigrant and his family are getting ready to celebrate their daughter fifteens party, but will their plans be ruined?



Food Fight

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

Directed by Megan Stacy
Food Fight tells the story of a schizophrenic girl who’s hallucinations reflect the war images she sees on the news. Inspired by the surreal shorts of Czech film maker Jan Svankmajer, Megan Stacey chose to create a piece involving stop motion animation to convey a deeper message of war and the influence [...]



Viola

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

Directed by Shih-Ting Hung
It is an ordinary day in an old classroom on the Pacific coast. Seven years old, Viola tries to grow up.She feels like a giant, a tiny giant.Lumbering. Isolated.She wonders if there are others like her.
She makes her way, and her first steps wobble like new shoots in the spring rain.
On too [...]



Lullabye

Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Travis David Suhr
Jack (Jason Wiechert) & Sarah (Cassandra Clark) are not only lovers, they’re best friends. They spend every waking moment with each other, kissing, laughing, and loving. Jack decides that he wants to come off his medication for schizophrenia, and live in a world that might not be real, but at least [...]



Missing Pieces

Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Tony Swarthout
Love, lost and found. A series of strange events is explained when a beautiful woman shows up on a man’s doorstep.



Lullabye

Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Directed by Travis David Suhr
Jack (Jason Wiechert) & Sarah (Cassandra Clark) are not only lovers, they’re best friends. They spend every waking moment with each other, kissing, laughing, and loving. Jack decides that he wants to come off his medication for schizophrenia, and live in a world that might not be real, but at least [...]



Anjali

Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts

Anjali
Directed by Maya Anand, 15min
‘Anjali’ is a drama about Anjali Gupal, a rebellious Indian-American teenager whose family struggles daily to accommodate both their traditional Indian values alongside more contemporary American concerns. When Anjali brings her boyfriend home to have sex, she is surprised to find someone else is already there. Anjali investigates, only to secretly [...]