Our first festival was a great success with submissions from local filmmakers as well as those from across the county and Canada. On the evening of the festival, nearly 100 people were on hand to view thirteen of the best submitted films.
Films Screened at the 2009 Festival
Veiled Light, Arleen Ojeda, 1st place winner
This experimental narrative is based on three lives and their stories of abuse.
Harold Please, Lindsay Berkebile, 2nd place and People's Choice winner
Harold, a late-aged recluse, is too consumed with his relational fantasies outside his window to realize the relationship within his apartment with his caretaker.
The Offering, Paul Lee, 3rd place winner
This elegiac meditation is about the progression and passing of life shown through the evolution of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and a young novice. the offering that passes repeatedly between the two men is metaphorical for love and affection.
Smile, Kristy Puchko
What can you do with a dollar? Smile is and experiment in visual storytelling and explores this question when a businessman's discarded dollar coin rolls up to an optimistic young woman.
Nunna Mia e la Barca, Jacob Dodd
A personal film that combines documentary, narrative and experimental approaches to explore and Italian grandmother's life experiences.
One More Time, Randy DeFord
A woman is invited by a friend to a costume party. Then the fickle friend keeps changing the theme, the woman reaches the end of her patience.
Songs for Daddy, Adam Shephard
When a woman singer must go on the road, she has to decide if it is best to take her father, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, to a nursing home.
Rosie Girl, Don Swanson
Desperately clinging to life, a young woman tries to escape as a demented preacher, who has murdered her mother, stalks her through the forest. Now the special gift that her mother spoke of is awakened as Rosie takes her vengeance.
If you give Chris a Cookie, Timothy Watson
A series of three shorts that explore what happens when a young man opens a fortune cookie.
Slow River, Adam Shephard
Despondent after the death of his wife, a man's days are spent in a secluded spot watching the river. The woman who has been his and his wife's best friend since childhood will try to bring him back to the living, and if she can, to her.
Once Upon a Train, Paul Hugins
this animated short is a dark comedy about a train ride attempt at female bonding that ends in hilariously perverse disaster.
Coke Head Dive, Victor Miller and Tim Watson
The drama tells the story of two men who get caught up in a world of drugs and murder on their way to a bar.
