NOT ANYMORE: A STORY OF A REVOLUTION
Total Run Time: 15:00
Director: Matthew VanDyke
Country of Origin: USA/ Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: A short film about the conflict in Syria as experienced by a 32 year old rebel commander, Mowya, and a 24 year old female journalist, Nour, in Aleppo, Syria. The film clearly and concisely shows why Syrians are fighting for their freedom, told through the emotional words of two powerful characters whose lives have been torn apart by war. Winner of over 80 awards and screened in more than 200 film festivals around the world.
THE BURDEN
Total Run Time: 40:00
Director: Roger Sorkin
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The Burden tells the story of fossil fuel dependence as our greatest long-term national security threat, and why the U.S. military is leading the fight for clean energy.
SNOW WARS
Total Run Time: 47:00
Director: Frank Mirbach
Country of Origin: Canada
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Year after year, there’s war going on in the Canadian Rockies. The war against nature in one of the most snowy places in the world: British Columbia. On land and in the air, Canadians do battle against massive amounts of snow, threatening the infrastructure and the lives of their people. A handful of men and women risking their lives to protect the streets, railways and public against mother nature´s forces. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
MY GIRL ROSE
Total Run Time: 14:00
Director: Jordan Lewis
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Racial tension runs high in 1969 Lakeland, Florida -- a small, close-minded southern town. Two high-school students, Rose and Jude, find themselves bonding over a common cause: having an integrated prom. As their interracial relationship grows closer, they soon discover that bringing the school together will be harder than they could have ever imagined. This story is inspired by the true events of integration in Lakeland, Florida's high school in the late 1960's. Separate is NEVER equal.
BOY WONDER
Total Run Time: 18:00
Director: Zack Brewer
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A young boy works to buy an action figure of his favorite superhero, but, after witnessing a classmate being bullied, he learns it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero.
O-STAR
Total Run Time: 27:00
Director: Dima Otvertchenko
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Rudy & Ava have 4 days to make sense of their broken relationship before the end of the world in this rock music video adventure told through 7 original songs.
SIN FRONTERA (WITHOUT BOUNDARY)
Total Run Time: 28:00
Director: Iz Gutierrez
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence
Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Monica (Brenda Romero) and Gabriel (Eduardo Enrikez) are an engaged couple on the verge of a relationship breakdown when they are unexpectedly torn apart by an unjust law and controversial government practice. After Gabriel is deported to a dangerous city, they both remember how they fell in love and make a vow to rekindle their romance in order to prevail over a corrupted and complex government policy. They discover a way to reunite through an unconventional method. Love will transcend any boundary.
EVERYONE HAS A PLACE
Total Run Time: 27:00
Director: Dennis Scholl & Marlon Johnson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Everyone Has A Place is a short musical documentary featuring a ground-breaking collaboration of jazz, gospel and vocals. This body of work is entitled, Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration. It was composed by the American musical treasure, Wynton Marsalis. This inspirational work of art was performed by a unique paring of the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and choir Chorale Le Chateau. The film features a series of in-depth interviews, moving concert footage and a candid peek backstage. Everyone Has A Place is a toe-tapping, hand-clapping, musical tapestry that will entertain, uplift and inspire.
DIVIDED TIME
Total Run Time: 56:00
Director: W. Feagins, Jr.
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: "Divided Time" captures the lives of nine fathers who share their experiences in parenthood and their pursuit of success in the music industry while being accountable to their families.
DAY RELEASE
Total Run Time: 81:00
Director: Geoffrey Cowper
Country of Origin: Spain
Ratings: Violence, Language, Sex, Drug Use
Synopsis: On his first weekend parole after 5 years in prison, Mark Rodriguez witnesses the armed robbery of a security van. His brother´s critical situation and his own feelings of remorse will lead him to take desperate measures. His only help will be a young and sexy stripper he met the night before.
PARADISE GARDEN
Total Run Time: 83:00
Director: Ava Leigh Stewart
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Paradise Garden is a documentary film starring Howard Finster, Johnny Carson, Chris Frantz (Talking Heads/TomTom Club), Mike Mills (REM), Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Cindy Wilson (B52s), and many more. The film shows the world that art thrives outside of museums in ordinary places and everyday objects. Howard Finster, the grandfather of Southern Folk Art, is remembered for creating the largest art installation in the United States. It continues to serve as inspiration to generations of iconic musicians and artists, as we capture his legacy through their stories.
I’VE JUST HAD A DREAM
Total Run Time: 7:30
Director: JAVI NAVARRO
Country of Origin: Spain
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Irene is eight and she just woke up from a horrible dream.
THE CURSE AND THE SYMPHONY
Total Run Time: 20:00
Director: David Schulte
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The Curse and the Symphony is a short documentary about former punk musician Nathan Felix's eight-year effort to break into the elite world of classical music, in spite of having no formal musical training. Watch as director, David Schulte, chronicles Nathan's attempt to get his symphony performed by a full orchestra for the first time.
BUSKIN’ BLUES
Total Run Time: 61:00
Director: Erin Derham
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Oral historian Erin Derham discovers a subculture of artists sharing select spaces in downtown Asheville, North Carolina to awaken passersby to musical traditions across space and time. On one corner, a stride pianist bangs a chord out with his elbow to deliver the sounds of Prohibition-Era jazz. On another, a lady runs a pair of antique spoons down her fingers in a centuries-old fashion kept alive almost exclusively by her, setting the rhythm for an Irish Folk Quartet. Across the street, the sounds of ancient India are heard from a man hypnotizing crowds with a didgeridoo, hang drum, and throat singing. Buskers come from as far as Europe and Asia to play, learn, and receive the famous hospitality of the American South. Staying true to that reputation, these exceptional talents whose music is never ignored but whose faces are often forgotten, allow Derham a rare and intimate glimpse into their lives which will confront everything you've ever thought about the people who bring music to our streets.
OUR LIFE IN MACON BELIEVE
Total Run Time: 97:00
Director: Christopher James Lang
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Sex
Synopsis: Devon lives alone on the road, running from a past she wants to forget. When she get's pulled into Zander's haphazard journey to Boston, the two form an unlikely friendship. But as they travel on together, reality starts to catch up.
COMING BACK TO HOOP
Total Run Time: 84:00
Director: Jane Pittman
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: 43 years ago, Jane Pittman, a promising basketball star at her small town high school, ran off the court during a holiday tournament game never to return … until now. When Jane stumbles across the NOVA United Senior Women's Basketball Association, old passions are reignited. Vowing to get into the best shape of her life, she is determined to play competitive ball again. What she never expected to find on that journey was a passionate group of senior adults who had decided to “wear out, before we rust out”. Choosing basketball over Canasta and Bingo, these women come together for much more than sports. "Coming Back To The Hoop" is a film about the transformative power of basketball and the healing it brings when you connect with something larger than yourself and then give yourself over to the team.
BE BETTER THAN EQUAL
Total Run Time: 05:00
Director: Alston Jones
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: 'Be Better Than Equal' is an orientation film for Anfarm International, the world's first animal owned and operated company. You'll be introduced to the company, what it does, and how it does it, along side the company's latest employee. Follow along as an ordinary pig is brought from the feed trough to the corporate cafeteria.
‘CRAZY LONESOME’ – THE LAW BAND
Total Run Time: 05:00
Director: Cole Cassell
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: "Crazy Lonesome" is the featured single and first music video by The Law Band from Atlanta, Georgia off their debut album "Dust and Aether." "Crazy Lonesome" was filmed in Good Hope, Georgia by director Cole Cassell.
‘DON’T BE JUDGING ME’ – PLAYGROUND HERO
MICHAEL DES BARRES: WHO DO YOU WANT ME TO BE?
Total Run Time: 81:00
Director: J. Elvis Weinstein
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Nudity
Synopsis: The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies.
LEMONADE THEORY
Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Angus Bell Young
Country of Origin: Austrailia
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Young Mother Sophia (Kelly Robinson) wakes up to what she expects is a normal day, Only to have it quickly spiral out of normality. There is a strange man (Peter McAllum) in the house with her, and no matter where she looks, Sophia can't find her daughter.
TWO FOR TEA
Total Run Time: 8:00
Director: Ben Joyner
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When the law shows up to take a retired school teacher's grandson into custody, things take a turn for the worst. In this brooding tale about the darker side of unconditional love, an indomitable (and perhaps slightly unhinged) grandmother pits herself against the forces that could tear her family apart.
TIP TOE
Total Run Time: 9:00
Director: Raquel Bordin
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Tip Toe is a drama composted by two parallel stories. Daniel, a little boy that dreams of becoming a ballerina, but his father refuses to except it.Veronica, a transsexual, that faces complications with her sex-change along with the reality of the death of her childhood dream.
MADE TO PENETRATE
Total Run Time: 12:00
Director: Hila Perry
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence, Sex
Synopsis: Patty see's Dave at a bar, later that night she and her friends follow him to a remote location and mess him up.
EVERYTHING FOR THE MOVIES
Total Run Time: 20:00
Director: Lukas Buys
Country of Origin: Belgium
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: Lize, a young actress, makes her suitcases. She rereads the scenario. A driver from the film set picks her up, Olivier. During the long trip the two start getting along quite well. He talks about the set and how the previous days have been. She says she’s nervous for her first starring role. They arrive at the location, a secluded weekend cottage. The following days they'll both do everything for the movies..
FREE ART 4 U
Total Run Time: 08:00
Director: Nicole Powell
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
URBAN CENTURY
Total Run Time: 68:00
Director: Ryan Jones & Shawn Willis
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: After decades of decline due to suburban sprawl, downtown communities all across the country are once again becoming vibrant, desirable destinations to live, work, and play, Examining this current rebirth of Main Street through the lens of several towns, including Flint, MI and Joplin, MO, Urban Century takes a refreshingly hopeful look at how these places from our past are becoming the key to our country's future. This isn't a story about saving Main Street, but about how Main Street just might save us. Whether it's economic downturn, climate change, or a glowingly unhealthy population, could the solutions to our biggest problems be as simple as returning to our urban roots?
THE DOLL DILEMMA
Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Jacob Rosdail
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Jo Maeder left a life and career in New York City to take care of her aging mother in rural North Carolina. Now, years after her mother has passed, Jo feels trapped by the enormous doll collection that was left behind.
I WILL NOT PULL OUT KELLY’S HAIR
Total Run Time: 12:00
Director: Josef Lorenzo
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A road trip with a local artist/historian that photographs rural abandoned homes. Kelly follows the back roads around railroad tracks to photograph the forgotten homes and dig up their history.
THE DISEASE
Total Run Time: 15:00
Director: Nathaniel Maddux
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: For the past 27 years, Dean Redbeard Mundhenke has returned to his sacred Georgia hunting ground in pursuit of a wild turkey. Over the years, his passion has become an obsession as he built a custom turkey call making business. For the first time ever, Redbeard lets a camera into his world as we venture to his remote hunting camp to pursuit wild game, reflecting on many years of turkey hunting and cigar smoking. Not only has he become consumed with the chase, but he reflects on how his life has changed by continuing to return to his haven in the wild.
SPEARHUNTER
Total Run Time: 14:00
Director: Adam Roffman & Luke Poling
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world's greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy.
RAISED IN THE SOUTH OF NORMAL
Total Run Time: 16:00
Director: Daniel Espeut
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Espeut interviews Lauretta Hannon about stories from her bestselling book, "The Cracker Queen--A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life." Even after writing her story about growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, Lauretta has yet to set foot on the grounds of her youth, until now. Plagued with a family history of attempted abortion, abandonment, alcoholism, and violence, Lauretta discovers a new affirmation to her life by returning to her childhood home. In "Raised in the South of Normal," we find out how Lauretta is able to confront the discord and deaths of her parents and realize her purpose as a writer.
YOU BELONG TO ME
Total Run Time: 88:00
Director: John Cork
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: The You Belong To Me Documentary tells the 1952 story of Ruby McCollum, an African American woman who killed a prominent white doctor in Live Oak, Florida and the remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration. Her case haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades. Ruby McCollum was the wealthiest black woman in Suwannee County, Florida. Her husband, Sam, ran the local Bolita numbers racket. Was Ruby insane or was the killing of Dr. Clifford Leroy Adams the last sane act of a woman whose wealth and status could not protect her from the blind indifference and humiliations of the Jim Crow South? The ghost of Ruby McCollum still roams the streets of Live Oak, Florida.
DAY RELEASE
Total Run Time: 81:00
Director: Geoffrey Cowper
Country of Origin: Spain
Ratings: Violence, Language, Sex, Drug Use
Synopsis: On his first weekend parole after 5 years in prison, Mark Rodriguez witnesses the armed robbery of a security van. His brother´s critical situation and his own feelings of remorse will lead him to take desperate measures. His only help will be a young and sexy stripper he met the night before.
WILDLIKE
Total Run Time: 98:00
Director: Frank Hall Green
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Sex
Synopsis: Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. She longs for her struggling, absent mother, but as her mom’s phone calls become less frequent and her uncle’s care is not what it seems, she must flee. Her only thoughts are to escape her uncle’s grasp and contact her mother somehow, but as she plunges deeper into the Alaskan interior she is suddenly helplessly alone. A chance connection with a loner backpacker, Rene Bartlett, proves to be her only lifeline. As Mackenzie shadows Bartlett across the last frontier, she thwarts his efforts to cut her loose until Bart has no choice but to help her survive in the wilderness. Against the backdrop of a spectacular Alaska landscape, they discover the redemptive power of friendship. Mackenzie and Bartlett prove to be the unlikely salve for each other’s scars, until the damage Mackenzie carries with her threatens to destroy her newfound sanctuary. Returning to civilization, Mackenzie is once again at risk of capture by her uncle as he hounds with manipulative calls and messages. When Bartlett finally discovers her alarming secret, he must make a bold choice to take real responsibility for Mackenzie and help her escape her traumatic past and return home.
SIDEWALK TRAFFIC
Total Run Time: 97:00
Director: Anthony L. Fisher
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: When Declan, a 30 year old husband and new father is squeezed out of a promotion, he finds himself wracked by internal crises, including career envy, bitterness over bad breaks and the still-lingering fallout from the suicide of his former creative partner. Searching for salvation, Declan surrenders to the role of stay-at-home dad, and is forced to face his demons while pushing strollers, changing diapers and heating up bottles all the while working to resurrect his dreams.
THE BURDEN
Total Run Time: 40:00
Director: Roger Sorkin
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The Burden tells the story of fossil fuel dependence as our greatest long-term national security threat, and why the U.S. military is leading the fight for clean energy.
SNOW WARS
Total Run Time: 47:00
Director: Frank Mirbach
Country of Origin: Canada
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Year after year, there’s war going on in the Canadian Rockies. The war against nature in one of the most snowy places in the world: British Columbia. On land and in the air, Canadians do battle against massive amounts of snow, threatening the infrastructure and the lives of their people. A handful of men and women risking their lives to protect the streets, railways and public against mother nature´s forces. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
MUSICKLAND
Total Run Time: 33:00
Director: Cameron Bargerstock & Jacob Rosdail
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Virginia hog farmer Adam Musick left behind a life as a rock and roll musician to revive his family's farmland. Six years of full-time farming has taken a toll and Adam now struggles to return to music and finish the album he left behind.
KOENTOPP
Total Run Time: 45:00
Director: Paul Hamilton & Caleb Vinson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: When Dan meets someone, the first thing they typically say is, "a guitar maker? You make guitars? Wow. How'd you get into that?" Following suit, Paul Hamilton and Caleb Vinson asked the same questions. After three years, they've put the answer into this film: Koentopp. Follow Dan as he creates a masterpiece, through construction of a fine archtop guitar and the emotional telling of his life story that has brought him to the only place he could be.
SOUTHERN DOC SPOTLIGHT - WESTERN
Total Run Time: 92:00
Director: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, TX, from Piedras Negras, MX, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life.
ALL KINDS
Total Run Time: 08:00
Director: Starina Johnson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When ALEX, a comic artist, finds out her wife SYLVIA is unable to have a baby the couple must figure out exactly how far they are willing to go in order to make one another happy.
FORCED CONTACT
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
Total Run Time: 95:00
Director: Martin Shore
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: 'Take Me to the River' is a documentary about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records and Memphis mentoring and passing on their musical magic to stars and artists of today.
BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND
Total Run Time: 100:00
Director: William J. Saunders
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A uniquely talented collective of musicians emerged, quite unsuspectingly, from Bakersfield, California in the 1950s and 60s. They birthed a genre that lyrically and sonically indexed their particular life experience, challenged the established tastes of the Nashville scene, and permanently altered the landscape of Country music. They called it the Bakersfield Sound.
OLD SOUTH
Total Run Time: 54:00
Director: Danielle Beverly
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Hope is 30 years old and fighting to save her historic African American neighborhood from encroachment by an elite white fraternity, one known to fly a Confederate flag and hold an annual antebellum parade. Since the post-racial glow of the election of Obama, and now in the aftermath of Ferguson, everyone’s talking about race. But is it really so easy to speak openly and honestly? Or to change? On one block in Athens GA two communities steeped in history - one black, one white - strive to keep their respective legacies relevant in a changing American South. "Old South" provides, through a 3+ year unfolding story, a window into the underlying dynamics of race relations that influence so many American communities.
DAD IN MUM
Total Run Time: 6:00
Director: FABRICE BRACQ
Country of Origin: France
Ratings: Sex
Synopsis: The middle of the night. Moans are heard behind the parents' door. Two young sisters are asking questions..
GRANNY SMITH
Total Run Time: 7:00
Director: Julian Lucas
Country of Origin: Australia
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The Grandmother Of All Excuses
THE GUNFIGHTER
Total Run Time: 9:00
Director: Eric Kissack
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence
Synopsis: A weary gunfighter walks into a bar, looking for a drink. What he finds instead is a building full of raunchy people, and an audible, bloodthirsty narrator.
BINGO NIGHT
Total Run Time: 14:00
Director: Jordan Liebowitz
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A financially-strapped senior citizen finds a creative (and legally dubious) means of getting some quick cash in this sly and high-spirited comic caper.
SHOTGUN
Total Run Time: 12:15
Director: Maverick Moore
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence
Synopsis: Three girls burn rubber and leave no survivors on an inexplicably wild ride.
SPARK
Total Run Time: 11:00
Director: Stephen Stanley
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A robot from the future travels back in time to 1983 in order to kill the young boy who will grow up to invent the Internet.
SCHNITZEL
Total Run Time: 22:00
Director: Asaf Epstein
Country of Origin: Israel
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The story of a boy, a girl, a space-alien and... fried chicken.
COMING BACK TO HOOP
Total Run Time: 84:00
Director: Jane Pittman
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: 43 years ago, Jane Pittman, a promising basketball star at her small town high school, ran off the court during a holiday tournament game never to return … until now. When Jane stumbles across the NOVA United Senior Women's Basketball Association, old passions are reignited. Vowing to get into the best shape of her life, she is determined to play competitive ball again. What she never expected to find on that journey was a passionate group of senior adults who had decided to “wear out, before we rust out”. Choosing basketball over Canasta and Bingo, these women come together for much more than sports. "Coming Back To The Hoop" is a film about the transformative power of basketball and the healing it brings when you connect with something larger than yourself and then give yourself over to the team.
FRAME BY FRAME
Total Run Time: 90:00
Director: Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli
Country of Origin: USA/ Afghanistan
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: After the repeal of a devastating media blackout enforced by the Taliban, four local photojournalists face the realities of building Afghanistan's first free press.
OUR LIFE IN MACON BELIEVE
Total Run Time: 97:00
Director: Christopher James Lang
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Sex
Synopsis: Devon lives alone on the road, running from a past she wants to forget. When she get's pulled into Zander's haphazard journey to Boston, the two form an unlikely friendship. But as they travel on together, reality starts to catch up.
MY GIRL ROSE
Total Run Time: 14:00
Director: Jordan Lewis
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Racial tension runs high in 1969 Lakeland, Florida -- a small, close-minded southern town. Two high-school students, Rose and Jude, find themselves bonding over a common cause: having an integrated prom. As their interracial relationship grows closer, they soon discover that bringing the school together will be harder than they could have ever imagined. This story is inspired by the true events of integration in Lakeland, Florida's high school in the late 1960's. Separate is NEVER equal.
BOY WONDER
Total Run Time: 18:00
Director: Zack Brewer
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A young boy works to buy an action figure of his favorite superhero, but, after witnessing a classmate being bullied, he learns it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero.
O-STAR
Total Run Time: 27:00
Director: Dima Otvertchenko
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Rudy & Ava have 4 days to make sense of their broken relationship before the end of the world in this rock music video adventure told through 7 original songs.
SIN FRONTERA (WITHOUT BOUNDARY)
Total Run Time: 28:00
Director: Iz Gutierrez
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence
Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Monica (Brenda Romero) and Gabriel (Eduardo Enrikez) are an engaged couple on the verge of a relationship breakdown when they are unexpectedly torn apart by an unjust law and controversial government practice. After Gabriel is deported to a dangerous city, they both remember how they fell in love and make a vow to rekindle their romance in order to prevail over a corrupted and complex government policy. They discover a way to reunite through an unconventional method. Love will transcend any boundary.
BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND
Total Run Time: 100:00
Director: William J. Saunders
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A uniquely talented collective of musicians emerged, quite unsuspectingly, from Bakersfield, California in the 1950s and 60s. They birthed a genre that lyrically and sonically indexed their particular life experience, challenged the established tastes of the Nashville scene, and permanently altered the landscape of Country music. They called it the Bakersfield Sound.
I’VE JUST HAD A DREAM
Total Run Time: 7:30
Director: JAVI NAVARRO
Country of Origin: Spain
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Irene is eight and she just woke up from a horrible dream.
BE BETTER THAN EQUAL
Total Run Time: 05:00
Director: Alston Jones
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: 'Be Better Than Equal' is an orientation film for Anfarm International, the world's first animal owned and operated company. You'll be introduced to the company, what it does, and how it does it, along side the company's latest employee. Follow along as an ordinary pig is brought from the feed trough to the corporate cafeteria.
THE DOLL DILEMMA
Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Jacob Rosdail
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Jo Maeder left a life and career in New York City to take care of her aging mother in rural North Carolina. Now, years after her mother has passed, Jo feels trapped by the enormous doll collection that was left behind.
I WILL NOT PULL OUT KELLY’S HAIR
Total Run Time: 12:00
Director: Josef Lorenzo
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: A road trip with a local artist/historian that photographs rural abandoned homes. Kelly follows the back roads around railroad tracks to photograph the forgotten homes and dig up their history.
THE DISEASE
Total Run Time: 15:00
Director: Nathaniel Maddux
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: For the past 27 years, Dean Redbeard Mundhenke has returned to his sacred Georgia hunting ground in pursuit of a wild turkey. Over the years, his passion has become an obsession as he built a custom turkey call making business. For the first time ever, Redbeard lets a camera into his world as we venture to his remote hunting camp to pursuit wild game, reflecting on many years of turkey hunting and cigar smoking. Not only has he become consumed with the chase, but he reflects on how his life has changed by continuing to return to his haven in the wild.
SPEARHUNTER
Total Run Time: 14:00
Director: Adam Roffman & Luke Poling
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world's greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy.
RAISED IN THE SOUTH OF NORMAL
Total Run Time: 16:00
Director: Daniel Espeut
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Espeut interviews Lauretta Hannon about stories from her bestselling book, "The Cracker Queen--A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life." Even after writing her story about growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, Lauretta has yet to set foot on the grounds of her youth, until now. Plagued with a family history of attempted abortion, abandonment, alcoholism, and violence, Lauretta discovers a new affirmation to her life by returning to her childhood home. In "Raised in the South of Normal," we find out how Lauretta is able to confront the discord and deaths of her parents and realize her purpose as a writer.
MICHAEL DES BARRES: WHO DO YOU WANT ME TO BE?
Total Run Time: 81:00
Director: J. Elvis Weinstein
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Nudity
Synopsis: The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies.
THE CURSE AND THE SYMPHONY
Total Run Time: 20:00
Director: David Schulte
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: The Curse and the Symphony is a short documentary about former punk musician Nathan Felix's eight-year effort to break into the elite world of classical music, in spite of having no formal musical training. Watch as director, David Schulte, chronicles Nathan's attempt to get his symphony performed by a full orchestra for the first time.
BUSKIN’ BLUES
Total Run Time: 61:00
Director: Erin Derham
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Oral historian Erin Derham discovers a subculture of artists sharing select spaces in downtown Asheville, North Carolina to awaken passersby to musical traditions across space and time. On one corner, a stride pianist bangs a chord out with his elbow to deliver the sounds of Prohibition-Era jazz. On another, a lady runs a pair of antique spoons down her fingers in a centuries-old fashion kept alive almost exclusively by her, setting the rhythm for an Irish Folk Quartet. Across the street, the sounds of ancient India are heard from a man hypnotizing crowds with a didgeridoo, hang drum, and throat singing. Buskers come from as far as Europe and Asia to play, learn, and receive the famous hospitality of the American South. Staying true to that reputation, these exceptional talents whose music is never ignored but whose faces are often forgotten, allow Derham a rare and intimate glimpse into their lives which will confront everything you've ever thought about the people who bring music to our streets.
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
Total Run Time: 95:00
Director: Martin Shore
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: 'Take Me to the River' is a documentary about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records and Memphis mentoring and passing on their musical magic to stars and artists of today.
‘CRAZY LONESOME’ – THE LAW BAND
Total Run Time: 05:00
Director: Cole Cassell
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: "Crazy Lonesome" is the featured single and first music video by The Law Band from Atlanta, Georgia off their debut album "Dust and Aether." "Crazy Lonesome" was filmed in Good Hope, Georgia by director Cole Cassell.
‘DON’T BE JUDGING ME’ – PLAYGROUND HERO
OLD SOUTH
Total Run Time: 54:00
Director: Danielle Beverly
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Hope is 30 years old and fighting to save her historic African American neighborhood from encroachment by an elite white fraternity, one known to fly a Confederate flag and hold an annual antebellum parade. Since the post-racial glow of the election of Obama, and now in the aftermath of Ferguson, everyone’s talking about race. But is it really so easy to speak openly and honestly? Or to change? On one block in Athens GA two communities steeped in history - one black, one white - strive to keep their respective legacies relevant in a changing American South. "Old South" provides, through a 3+ year unfolding story, a window into the underlying dynamics of race relations that influence so many American communities.
WILDLIKE
Total Run Time: 98:00
Director: Frank Hall Green
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Sex
Synopsis: Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. She longs for her struggling, absent mother, but as her mom’s phone calls become less frequent and her uncle’s care is not what it seems, she must flee. Her only thoughts are to escape her uncle’s grasp and contact her mother somehow, but as she plunges deeper into the Alaskan interior she is suddenly helplessly alone. A chance connection with a loner backpacker, Rene Bartlett, proves to be her only lifeline. As Mackenzie shadows Bartlett across the last frontier, she thwarts his efforts to cut her loose until Bart has no choice but to help her survive in the wilderness. Against the backdrop of a spectacular Alaska landscape, they discover the redemptive power of friendship. Mackenzie and Bartlett prove to be the unlikely salve for each other’s scars, until the damage Mackenzie carries with her threatens to destroy her newfound sanctuary. Returning to civilization, Mackenzie is once again at risk of capture by her uncle as he hounds with manipulative calls and messages. When Bartlett finally discovers her alarming secret, he must make a bold choice to take real responsibility for Mackenzie and help her escape her traumatic past and return home.
EVERYONE HAS A PLACE
Total Run Time: 27:00
Director: Dennis Scholl & Marlon Johnson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Everyone Has A Place is a short musical documentary featuring a ground-breaking collaboration of jazz, gospel and vocals. This body of work is entitled, Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration. It was composed by the American musical treasure, Wynton Marsalis. This inspirational work of art was performed by a unique paring of the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and choir Chorale Le Chateau. The film features a series of in-depth interviews, moving concert footage and a candid peek backstage. Everyone Has A Place is a toe-tapping, hand-clapping, musical tapestry that will entertain, uplift and inspire.
DIVIDED TIME
Total Run Time: 56:00
Director: W. Feagins, Jr.
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: "Divided Time" captures the lives of nine fathers who share their experiences in parenthood and their pursuit of success in the music industry while being accountable to their families.
LEMONADE THEORY
Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Angus Bell Young
Country of Origin: Austrailia
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Young Mother Sophia (Kelly Robinson) wakes up to what she expects is a normal day, Only to have it quickly spiral out of normality. There is a strange man (Peter McAllum) in the house with her, and no matter where she looks, Sophia can't find her daughter.
TWO FOR TEA
Total Run Time: 8:00
Director: Ben Joyner
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When the law shows up to take a retired school teacher's grandson into custody, things take a turn for the worst. In this brooding tale about the darker side of unconditional love, an indomitable (and perhaps slightly unhinged) grandmother pits herself against the forces that could tear her family apart.
TIP TOE
Total Run Time: 9:00
Director: Raquel Bordin
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Tip Toe is a drama composted by two parallel stories. Daniel, a little boy that dreams of becoming a ballerina, but his father refuses to except it.Veronica, a transsexual, that faces complications with her sex-change along with the reality of the death of her childhood dream.
MADE TO PENETRATE
Total Run Time: 12:00
Director: Hila Perry
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language, Violence, Sex
Synopsis: Patty see's Dave at a bar, later that night she and her friends follow him to a remote location and mess him up.
EVERYTHING FOR THE MOVIES
Total Run Time: 20:00
Director: Lukas Buys
Country of Origin: Belgium
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: Lize, a young actress, makes her suitcases. She rereads the scenario. A driver from the film set picks her up, Olivier. During the long trip the two start getting along quite well. He talks about the set and how the previous days have been. She says she’s nervous for her first starring role. They arrive at the location, a secluded weekend cottage. The following days they'll both do everything for the movies..
PARADISE GARDEN
Total Run Time: 83:00
Director: Ava Leigh Stewart
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Paradise Garden is a documentary film starring Howard Finster, Johnny Carson, Chris Frantz (Talking Heads/TomTom Club), Mike Mills (REM), Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Cindy Wilson (B52s), and many more. The film shows the world that art thrives outside of museums in ordinary places and everyday objects. Howard Finster, the grandfather of Southern Folk Art, is remembered for creating the largest art installation in the United States. It continues to serve as inspiration to generations of iconic musicians and artists, as we capture his legacy through their stories.
FESTIE BESTIE SPOTLIGHT:
HOW SWEET THE SOUND - BLIND BOYS FROM ALABAMA
5 WAYS 2 DIE
Total Run Time: 15:00
Director: Daina Papadaki
Country of Origin: Cyprus
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: Makis explores different ways of death, struggling to achieve the most ideal result.
CHANCE
Total Run Time: 16:00
Director: Jake Graf
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Trevor's life has become a void, following the passing of his wife and long term companion, Doris. Days run into weeks, as Trevor slowly finds himself isolated and alone, and unconcernedly slipping towards death. A chance encounter in the park with a mysterious stranger equally troubled by his own dark past jarringly reawakens him, and forces both men to once again start to live.
BECCA AND MOLLY
Total Run Time: 17:00
Director: Fabienne Bouville
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: It's Mom's birthday. Forget about the present. It's all about the past.
ELECTRIC INDIGO
Total Run Time: 24:00
Director: Jean-Julien Collette
Country of Origin: Belguim
Ratings: Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence
Synopsis: It is sometimes complicated for a little girl to face peer pressure and becoming aware of her own identity, especially that she never knew her mother and that the only reference is the love of two heterosexual fathers united by the bonds of a “non-carnal” marriage.
ROUBADO
Total Run Time: 18:00
Director: Erica Watson
Country of Origin: France/USA
Ratings: Language, Violence, Sex
Synopsis: A teen photographer in the south of France develops a tense relationship with his mother's new boyfriend.
ALL KINDS
Total Run Time: 08:00
Director: Starina Johnson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When ALEX, a comic artist, finds out her wife SYLVIA is unable to have a baby the couple must figure out exactly how far they are willing to go in order to make one another happy.
FORCED CONTACT
YOU BELONG TO ME
Total Run Time: 88:00
Director: John Cork
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: The You Belong To Me Documentary tells the 1952 story of Ruby McCollum, an African American woman who killed a prominent white doctor in Live Oak, Florida and the remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration. Her case haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades. Ruby McCollum was the wealthiest black woman in Suwannee County, Florida. Her husband, Sam, ran the local Bolita numbers racket. Was Ruby insane or was the killing of Dr. Clifford Leroy Adams the last sane act of a woman whose wealth and status could not protect her from the blind indifference and humiliations of the Jim Crow South? The ghost of Ruby McCollum still roams the streets of Live Oak, Florida.
PROGRAMMER’S CHOICE SPOTLIGHT - LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
Total Run Time: 90:00
Director: Bao Nguyen
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: "Saturday Night Live" has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for 40 years. Live From New York! goes deep inside this cultural phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy and popular culture.
FREE ART 4 U
Total Run Time: 08:00
Director: Nicole Powell
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
URBAN CENTURY
Total Run Time: 68:00
Director: Ryan Jones & Shawn Willis
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: None
Synopsis: After decades of decline due to suburban sprawl, downtown communities all across the country are once again becoming vibrant, desirable destinations to live, work, and play, Examining this current rebirth of Main Street through the lens of several towns, including Flint, MI and Joplin, MO, Urban Century takes a refreshingly hopeful look at how these places from our past are becoming the key to our country's future. This isn't a story about saving Main Street, but about how Main Street just might save us. Whether it's economic downturn, climate change, or a glowingly unhealthy population, could the solutions to our biggest problems be as simple as returning to our urban roots?
MUSICKLAND
Total Run Time: 33:00
Director: Cameron Bargerstock & Jacob Rosdail
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Virginia hog farmer Adam Musick left behind a life as a rock and roll musician to revive his family's farmland. Six years of full-time farming has taken a toll and Adam now struggles to return to music and finish the album he left behind.
KOENTOPP
Total Run Time: 45:00
Director: Paul Hamilton & Caleb Vinson
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: When Dan meets someone, the first thing they typically say is, "a guitar maker? You make guitars? Wow. How'd you get into that?" Following suit, Paul Hamilton and Caleb Vinson asked the same questions. After three years, they've put the answer into this film: Koentopp. Follow Dan as he creates a masterpiece, through construction of a fine archtop guitar and the emotional telling of his life story that has brought him to the only place he could be.
NOT ANYMORE: A STORY OF A REVOLUTION
Total Run Time: 15:00
Director: Matthew VanDyke
Country of Origin: USA/ Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: A short film about the conflict in Syria as experienced by a 32 year old rebel commander, Mowya, and a 24 year old female journalist, Nour, in Aleppo, Syria. The film clearly and concisely shows why Syrians are fighting for their freedom, told through the emotional words of two powerful characters whose lives have been torn apart by war. Winner of over 80 awards and screened in more than 200 film festivals around the world.
SIDEWALK TRAFFIC
Total Run Time: 97:00
Director: Anthony L. Fisher
Country of Origin: USA
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: When Declan, a 30 year old husband and new father is squeezed out of a promotion, he finds himself wracked by internal crises, including career envy, bitterness over bad breaks and the still-lingering fallout from the suicide of his former creative partner. Searching for salvation, Declan surrenders to the role of stay-at-home dad, and is forced to face his demons while pushing strollers, changing diapers and heating up bottles all the while working to resurrect his dreams.
FRAME BY FRAME
Total Run Time: 90:00
Director: Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli
Country of Origin: USA/ Afghanistan
Ratings: Violence
Synopsis: After the repeal of a devastating media blackout enforced by the Taliban, four local photojournalists face the realities of building Afghanistan's first free press.
ZOMBIE CRUSH
Total Run Time: 30:00
Director: Tendal Mann
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: In this coming of age, PG zomedy-romance, Bobby Green, a 13 year-old boy, gets his first case of puppy love when Sarah, an attractive 16 year old girl, wakes him from a coma. To make things worse, he has awakened into a world where adults are nowhere in sight and kids are open-armed walking zombies.
