FishhooksA documentary short about taxidermy artist Becca Barnet. If you want to see more of Becca's work, go to beccabar.net<br />
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Shot on the Ikonoskop A Cam DII.<br />
Color graded in Davinci Resolve.<br />
Edited in Premiere Pro.
AprilFaith Jackson’s smile obscures the pain of the past and her fear of bullets flying past her mother's apartment in the Soulsville neighborhood of Memphis. But Faith has a refuge: A magnolia tree that she has named April gives her comfort. She enters April through a hole in the trunk and waters her and checks her heartbeat. Nearby, Hattie Mae is a fading echo of the young girl. The ailing older woman looks back and dreams of youth and health. She places handwritten messages on a giant battered tree stump in her front yard telling those who pass to live now.
Holy God Holy Mighty Holy Immortal Have Mercy Upon UsFollow our new feature film currently in pre-production TEARS OF GOD:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/tearsofgodfilm<br />
and www.tearsofgod.com for our blog<br />
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or https://www.facebook.com/ahousebends for more information on BENDING HOUSE<br />
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A woman returns to a mountain town to pack up her recently deceased father's home. When she encounters a barefoot girl alone in the dark and snow-drifted forest behind the house, she discovers a chance to speak with the dead.<br />
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"Mysterious tone piece with razor sharp editing & gorgeous images." - Kentucker Audley of NoBudge<br />
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directed by Robert Hillyer Barnett<br />
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written and produced by Robert Hillyer Barnett & Diamando Proimos<br />
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NoBudge '13 www.nobudge.com<br />
Indie Grits '13<br />
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Starring Audrey Speicher<br />
Caroline Roth<br />
Robert Barnett<br />
Samantha Roth<br />
Trevor Brown<br />
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Director of Photography: Barrett Phillips<br />
Production Designer: Beth Hertzler<br />
Sound Recordist: Jamie Bibo & William Kyle Gerardi<br />
On-set Photography: William Kyle Gerardi
As I AmChris Dean’s heart stopped when he was two. He died but he came back. When Chris was five, his father was murdered, riddled by more than 20 bullets in a gang shootout. At age 18, Chris gained national attention when he introduced President Barack Obama at his high school graduation. Chris is an observer and philosopher who has always had a few things to say about life from his vantage point in South Memphis. He and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Alan Spearman walked the neighborhood for eight weeks observing and recording what became the script of As I Am. This film floats through this remarkable young man's landscape, revealing the lives that have shaped his world. Poetic and powerful imagery, captured by Spearman and cinematographer Mark Adams, combines with the young philosopher’s trenchant observations about life.
Jesus FishOpenlight Pictures presents JESUS FISH, a Southern short film about a would-be religious con artist and his adopted brother who are pitted against aquatic folklore incarnate.<br />
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Synopsis:<br />
On the shores of "Tennessee's only bio-luminescent lake," the line between myth and reality is blurred. Would-be con artist, Timothy West, will walk this line, improvising one elaborate scheme after another to keep the money he stole from the church and pass himself off as a repentant miracle worker. With his adopted brother, Light, reluctantly at his side, Timothy seems bound to make a clean getaway, unless a certain legend turns out to be real.<br />
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Cast:<br />
Timothy West—Tomas Pais<br />
Light West—Uland Cunningham<br />
Narrator—Cheyenne Walker<br />
Pastor—Tony McCuiston<br />
Caroline West—Lesley Warren<br />
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Crew:<br />
Writer/Director—Bryce James McGuire<br />
Producer/Cinematographer—Colton Davie<br />
Production Coordinator—Amy Stephenson<br />
Production Designer—Sophie Kosofsky<br />
Composer—Philip Charos<br />
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Complete credits available on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403734/fullcredits<br />
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For more info:<br />
Official Website: http://jesusfishthemovie.com<br />
IMDb Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403734/<br />
Production Company Facebook: http://facebook.com/openlightpictures/<br />
Download the Score: http://philipcharos.bandcamp.com/album/jesus-fish
Rachel Kate "Lost" Official VideoDirected by: Jenny Kleiman & Landon Phillips<br />
Edited by: Jenny Kleiman<br />
music & lyrics:<br />
Rachel kate Gillon<br />
“Lost” from the album <br />
Rachel Kate with Love & Hate <br />
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Starring: Rachel Kate Gillon & Michael Claisse<br />
Featuring: Sarah Bandy, Alex Trabolsky, Hunter Park<br />
Vagabonds: Charles Cormandy , Chad Patz, Megan Schaeffer, Sarah Frierson,<br />
Bobby Smyer, Jessie Parks, Breanna Leonard, Bob Sherrier,<br />
Andrew Price, Camela Guevera, Greg Colleton<br />
Director of Photography: Zac Breitengross<br />
2nd Camera: Justin Jay<br />
art department: Sarah Frierson & Breanna Leonard<br />
wardrobe & Stylist: Kate Scott Stewart<br />
wardrobe assistant: Camela Guevara<br />
hair & makeup: Lava Salon (http://www.lavasalon.com/)<br />
hair: Devin mcclure<br />
makeup: Spencer Barnhart<br />
makeup/hair asst. & Devil makeup: Stacy Finch<br />
graphic designer: Laura Bousman<br />
location provided by: Greg Colleton & Family<br />
catering: Buckshots Restaurant / Joe’s Catering<br />
art dept provided by: Ooh! Events & Out of Hand (http://www.oohevents.com/)<br />
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special thanks:<br />
kate scott stewart<br />
The colleton family<br />
david petitpane<br />
geoffrey michael richardson & lava salon<br />
adam boozer<br />
sully sullivan<br />
kate wilson & ooh! events<br />
cathy meyerson kleiman<br />
seth & carol rice<br />
jay lee<br />
hunter park<br />
breanna leonard<br />
andrea serrano<br />
justin schramm & kenneth Hyatt<br />
high output<br />
mike kadlubkiewicz<br />
palmetto brewery & larry lipov<br />
justin nathanson<br />
roti rolls
SenseiWhen Brenda Mayfield was betrayed by someone she trusted to protect her, she realized she needed to protect herself. This need later evolved into a passion for the martial arts. Today, Brenda is a martial arts teacher, or sensei, and has committed her life to passing on her art to children in the community.<br />
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video, sound + edit by ora
The OfferingsA poetic film looking at effigy burning for dead relatives and ancestors in Hong Kong.
Taxidermists
"Pen Up the Pigs" by Kelly GallagherWinner of the 2014 Helen Hill Award presented by Indie Grits, "Pen Up the Pigs" is a handcrafted collage animation that explores connections between slavery and present day institutionalized racism and mass incarceration. Through chromatic animated histories and futures of radical collective power, the strength of left revolutionary thought and action found in every frame embeds in the viewer visual understandings of the imperative militant resistance required to combat white supremacy and racism. Animated by Kelly Gallagher, 2014. /// www.purpleriot.com
Moira Angela DarlingDan is just trying to make it through the day.
Honor the FatherDiana Bright grasps for a means to escape her husband's transformation from insecure youth to domineering husband in this musical short about the 1950's South.<br />
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Winner of "Local Grit" at The 2014 Indie Grits Film Festival.<br />
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Get the full story! All seven songs, characters and events are on this one EP!<br />
http://www.therestoration.net/category/music/<br />
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The band's Facebook page:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/therestoration<br />
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IMDB:<br />
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3403850/?ref_=rvi_tt<br />
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Film Project's Facebook page:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/HonorTheFather
Searcy CountyA short doc about Searcy County's livestock auction by Noam Osband. Made in 2012 by noamosband@gmail.com
Surviving Cliffside TrailerA West Virginia family faces illness, addiction, and gun violence---while their daughter makes a run for Little Miss West Virginia.<br />
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Please support our Indiegogo campaign<br />
http://igg.me/at/survivingcliffside/x/3676236
ABOVE ALL ELSE Trailer
Quinn's New Video GameHeather D. Freeman (2012)<br />
A four-year-old boy and the director (his mother) discuss how they will create a video game. The animation combines both of their drawings.
CrushOne woman's quest to find the perfect chair.<br />
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A short film written, directed and produced by Rebecca Pugh and Jen West.<br />
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www.crushshortfilm.com
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project TRAILERInterweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice over narration, the piece adopts the form of a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance.<br />
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musicians (in order of appearance): Mark Gallay, Alex Inglizian, Eric Ostrowski, Brad Smith, Ali Mattek, Philip Hermans, Ryan Maguire, Kent Lambert, Jon Satrom, and experimental metal girl group T.I.T.S. (Wendy Farina, Abby Kerins, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, and Kim West)
13 Pieces of the Universe TeaserThank you to my pals Bellows who let me use their song "See Bright, Be Fine" <br />
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www.bellows.bandcamp.com
Skanks The Movie - Trailer
Confusion Through Sand teasernow screening at film festivals<br />
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keep up:<br />
www.ornana.com<br />
facebook.com/ornanafilms<br />
www.twitter.com/OrnanaFilms
Mipso in Japan - TrailerA young bluegrass band is well loved in their home state of North Carolina. <br />
Where do they go on their first tour? <br />
Japan.<br />
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On a journey that blurs the cultural divide between East and West, three young musicians travel across the world to discover that the twang of the banjo needs no translation.<br />
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While performing at a bluegrass festival, jamming with fiddle virtuosos, and touring by bullet train, the band finds that the traditions rooted in their home state have far-reaching branches.<br />
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http://www.mipsomusic.com
Happy Memories TrailerA cupcake is born to a loving mustachioed mother. As it embarks on its journey, it is exploited and tortured by a series of terrifying beings. It is torn from the prenatal pastry world, eviscerated by 12-dimensional Mathuloxes, and experimented on by a doctor of unknown powers. Will the cupcake be destroyed by torment, or metamorphose into something greater?<br />
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Happy Memories is a short puppet film created in Orlando, Florida by Jack Fields. It was funded by a grant from the United Arts of Central Florida.
Rice for Sale (Trailer)31:17, 16mm, 2013<br />
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An experimental tale distorting Bali's modern world into a historical account depicting the demise of its former cultural motto, "Rice is Life." Ten wordless vignettes, all in-camera edits, are strung together to compose a two-part mythological venture down the heavenly mountain toward the demonic sea, culminating at the site of the 2002 terrorist bombing.<br />
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UPCOMING SCREENINGS:<br />
Chicago Underground Film Festival: April 5, 2014 @10pm [Logan Theater]<br />
Indie Grits Film Festival: April 18, 2014 @5pm [Tapps Art Center]<br />
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Background:<br />
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The Indonesian island of Bali managed a system of rice agriculture that was perfect. Developed over millennia, the entire fabric of the island's culture was interwoven with the very essence of the crop. From religious ceremonies to societal organization to economic activities, a rice culture dominated. Rice wasn't essential to life; it was life.<br />
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In the 1970s, the sprawling country of Indonesia, made up of nearly 17,000 islands, struggled to keep up with its population growth. To feed its people, the government brought the Green Revolution to Bali in hopes to increase rice production. This worldwide initiative was meant to help farmers by providing them with various strains of "new rice" and modernized techniques to produce high-yielding crops.<br />
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Within the decade, the Green Revolution destroyed Bali. A quarter of the island was burned to rid the pests that overran the never-lay-fallow land. Paper money replaced a barn full of rice as currency which led to an influx of gambling, cockfighting, and prostitution. By bureaucratically taking control of the farming methods, ignoring the cultural significance, and transforming the natural practice into a mechanical operation, the Green Revolution shattered the structure of Balinese life indefinitely.<br />
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Tourism began to flourish. In the 90s, the reign of mass tourism replaced cultural tourism, inviting a new wave of economic imperialism to take hold. It has continued to squeeze its mighty grip, inducing hatred from radical Islamic groups perceiving this small island as a haven for all that is unholy with Western culture. In a direct response to the United States' War on Terror, Osama bin Laden attacked Bali in 2002, cementing into place the distorted reality Bali has chosen for itself. The "Island of the Gods" mutated into the epitome of capitalistic vanity.<br />
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It comes naturally to think that the southern seas, where Bali's mythological demons dwell, harnessed the beginnings of the tourist destination and fueled it up and beyond, ultimately tampering the holiest mountain on the island: Gunung Agung--the Great Mountain--where a unique spatial orientation still exists in the natives' minds, forever situating them between the mountain and the sea. Barong, the God of good, lives on this mountain. It seems as if Barong has left the island in defeat, abandoning his people he once watched over.
LOMAX - TeaserIn 1941, folklorist Alan Lomax was sent from the Library of Congress to the Mississippi Delta to record an oral history of the Blues. Hauling 500 pounds of audio equipment powered by his car battery, he ventured across nameless roads to discover the most beautiful and harrowing songs ever sung.<br />
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Presented by the Association for Cultural Equity, Alan Lomax’s founding organization, this spirited folktale reimagines his meeting with Bill Henley, an elderly recluse living in the backwoods of Lula, Mississippi.<br />
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Starring Chicago bluesman James "Tail Dragger" Jones, protégé of Howlin' Wolf and Georg Koszulinski as Alan Lomax, the film honors a fearless crusader and the countless people he gave voice to, in both their human and mythic capacities.<br />
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2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION:<br />
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Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR) (Finalist, Best Short Film)<br />
Crossroads Film Festival (Jackson, MS)<br />
IndieGrits (Columbia, SC)<br />
Independent Film Festival Boston (Boston, MA)<br />
Little Rock Film Festival (Little Rock, AR)<br />
Chicago International Movie & Music Festival (Chicago, IL)<br />
Berkshire International Film Festival (Great Barrington, MA)<br />
Biografilm Festival (Bologna, Italy)<br />
Woods Hole Film Festival (Woods Hole, MA)
Cataloguing My DreamsOur friend, Matt Smithson is an artist/animator/director in Charleston, South Carolina. Matt works downstairs from us and he has a lot of cool stuff in his office, so we thought it would be interesting to interview him and figure him out. In the process we discovered some interesting stuff about our friend and where his inspiration comes from. Turns out Matt's even quirkier than he looks. To see some of the loveable Matt Smithson's work visit http://www.manvsmagnet.com<br />
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Music:<br />
"Lay Down in the Tall Grass"<br />
Timber Timbre<br />
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Shot on: Sony F5 using old Nikon Nikkor primes<br />
Edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and After Effects
INGRAINEDINGRAINED is a short documentary in which Larry Reaves explains how skateboarding has shaped every aspect of his life, from childhood, helping his wife fight cancer, and his unique approach to woodworking.<br />
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Director//Dorian Warneck<br />
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Star//Larry Reaves<br />
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Executive Producer//Ryan Cockrell<br />
Executive Producer//Ethan Jackson<br />
Production Company//Lunch & Recess<br />
Lunchandrecess.com<br />
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Music:<br />
"Unfeelable Feeling"<br />
Braindead<br />
http://branedead.bandcamp.com/<br />
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"In Hundreds"<br />
Karate<br />
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Reaveswoodworks.com
Ethan and Eli (Trailer)Trailer for 'Ethan and Eli,' a short film written and directed by Katrina Albright. Music by Trappers Cabin. <br />
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Two teenage boys break curfew the night before one of them deploys to Afghanistan. <br />
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2nd Place Short, 2012 Slamdance Screenplay Competition. <br />
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Honorable Mention, "Short Grit Award," Indie Grits Film Festival, 2014.<br />
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www.facebook.com/EthanAndEliFilm
