Short Film Selection II:
"Shorts TWO" - Saturday, October 24, 7:00pm
Cut and Paste
UK 2009, 12 min
Director: Rupert Bryan
Producer: Chris Klockner
Starring: Dan Renton Skinner, Rufus Jones
Rod Cornish finally has everything he wants! The house, the car...the new sexual identity. His name used to be Debra, because he used to be woman. Cut and Paste tells the hilarious story of one person's attempts to put right what the good lord got wrong. With help from his over-excited surgeon Debra embarks on an extraordinary journey from woman to man...back to woman...and finally back to man again!
Nagelaten (Remains)
Netherlands 2009,14 min
Director: Aniëlle Webster
Producer: Jan Moeskops
Starring: Barry Atsma, Guus Dam, Joris Ebbers, and Roman Lodeizen Length: 14 min
Nagelaten (Remains) tells a bittersweet story about being young and growing up. An impatient careerist is forced to pick up the old family Volvo from the seventies he has inherited from his father. During the hasty drive back to his office he gets lost and is suddenly confronted with his past by someone very familiar to him. What has he done with his childhood dreams? Did he forget how much he loved his father?
El Encargado (The One In Charge)
Spain 2008, 9 min
Director: Sergio Barrejón
Producer: Nahikari Ipiña
Starring: Alejandra Lorenzo, Inigo Navares, Eduardo Uceda, and Enrique Villen
Martin (9), is put in charge of his class during the teacher's absence. He must write on the blackboard the names of those who speak. An easy job... until the class bully starts talking.
Maso
Canada and France 2009, 10 min
Director: Ariane Cordeau
Starring: Doris Streibl and Lionel Becimol
On the way to an important meeting, a woman's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. The man who comes to the rescue knows nothing about car mechanics but is willing to take her to her meeting... in exchange of a little something.
Non-Sequitur
US 2009, 13 min
Director: Gary Ravenscroft
Producer: Karen Lavender
Starring: Elena Lyons, Josh Robert Thompson, Wendy McColm and Eric Matheny
Several people are inexplicably drawn to a convenience store in an otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhood in this tale of unrequited love, homeless people and irritable bowel syndrome. There are times in life when everything seems to align and everything makes sense and all is right with the world. This is NOT one of those times.
Adam + Eve
France 2008, 27 min
Stephane Lionardo
Producer: Patrick Hernandez
Starring: Bruno Salomone, Arly Jover, Bruno Esposito, Dominique Bettenfeld, and Cartman
Chris Adam is a dog groomer and one of his biggest client is monsieur Marcus who think that his dog Aaron is a bit like the defended fruit of Eden's Garden. But listening too much to Eve, a young and too attractive woman, Chris will soon find himself crying his lost paradise sat on a dirty bathroom seat.