Abingdon Theatre: August 10th - 5:00 pm Package

Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018

Package includes screenings of the following short films: BLUE VICTORIA, DISTRAKTION ANIMAL BLESSINGS , BLIND LOVE, POLIS, MAYBE SHE DIES LIKE THIS…, VELVET ROAD

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Abingdon Theatre: August 10th - 7:00 pm Package

Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018

Package includes screenings of the following short films: OFF SEASON, GUNNER’S RIFT, ECHOES, WAITING FOR THE TURNING OF THE EARTH, THE AERIAL GIRL

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Abingdon Theatre: August 10th - 9:00 pm Package

Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018

Package includes screenings of the following short films: STILL LIFE, BURNED SOIL, 2-STAR, HEAVEN ON EARTH, ROOM SERVICE, PSYCHĒ, ZOMBIE SPEED DATING, RUNG, TUMBLEWEED!, ON THE SEVENTH DAY

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Abigndon 5:00pm Package

 

 

BLUE VICTORIA

 Directed by Bayou BENNETT and Daniel LIR

3 min – Aruba – Romance, Magic Realism - WORLD PREMIERE

It’s 3 A.M. and Jesse is at work, sweeping the parking lot. Alone, bored by the mundane routine and reflecting on the meaning of it all. Lifelessly swaying the broom back and forth, Jesse accidentally finds a rhythm which slowly grows into something musical and soon something magical.

 

DISTRAKTION

Directed by Celia AU & David HOROWITZ

5 min – USA – Drama – WORLD PREMIERE

This film expresses how the youth in our modern society is too connected to their devices, that they no longer pay attention to the ‘real world’. The older generation can be seen as antiquated, outdated not connected this new society. A new generation of 24/7 connected youths are now the common place. What we as a society need to ask is, is this the best way to live or should we disconnect and look up once in a while?

 

 

 

 

 

ANIMAL BLESSINGS

Directed by Claudia MEDINA

17 min – Canada/Italy – Drama - WORLD PREMIERE

 

It is 1948 on the day of the animal blessings in a small village in Friuli, Italy. Paoli, a writer and a teacher living in the village finds his whole understanding of the day and the local culture transformed by his encounter with a boy, his mother, and their cow, Stella.

 

 

 

 

 BLIND LOVE

Directed by Andrés FERRAND

8 min – Argentina – Comedy

WORLD PREMIERE

Nico and Luz tell, each from his point of view, the moment that their eyes met, and how despite some incidents that put some distance between each other, the fate finally reunited them.

 

 

 

 

 

POLIS

Directed by Thierry BERTINI

26 min – Italy – Drama - WORLD PREMIERE

The casual meeting among a Senegalese and a prostitute of the east will degenerate in a clash among subjects to the borders of an indifferent civilization that try to redeem and to find again their own dignity through their own strengths. Common denominator, the loneliness of each… Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence, because we live, as we dream…alone.

 

MAYBE SHE DIES LIKE THIS…

Directed by Jo HENRIQUEZ

18 min – USA – Drama, Crime - WORLD PREMIERE

On an unbearably sunlit Sunday morning, Johnny—a man who never saw meaning in life, only chaos, only absurdity—decides to rob a church, where he meets Judy. They immediately consume each other. A love based on laughing destruction.

 

 

 

 

 

VELVET ROAD

Directed by L. Gustavo COOPER

14 min – USA – Drama, Thriller - WORLD PREMIERE

In the racially charged South of the 1960′s the black population of a small town is blamed for the spread of a virulent plague. Bobby, a white mechanic, is racing through the countryside with his wife Carolyne. She was bitten by one of those infected and is fading fast. Awakening in a wrecked car with Carolyne missing, Bobby follows a trail of blood down the road towards a fateful encounter and an unthinkable choice.

 

 

 

 

 

Abingdon, 7:00 pm

OFF SEASON

Directed by Eugene IOANNOU

23 min – USA – Drama

A former cop is conflicted between the demands of a new relationship and his desire to be a competitive bodybuilder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUNNER’S RIFT

Directed by Dan PROVENZANO

17min – USA – Drama, Crime

WORLD PREMIERE

What makes a man tick and drives him to follow the life he leads? Gunner’s Rift is a glance at a man’s path to destruction through betrayal and desire while surviving the mire of crime and corruption.

It is a meaningful glance at a man’s path to destruction, through betrayal and desire while surviving the mire of crime and destruction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECHOES

Directed by Andrea LA MENDOLA

16 min – Italy – Drama, Thriller

NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE

Narciso is a man with a personality disorder. He’s talking in front of a mirror with his alter-ego about his girlfriend Sara, brutally murdered under mysterious circumstances. He’s in the bathroom next to the crime scene where a police inspector is investigating about it. The dialog between Narciso and his reflection turns into a challenge between the two personalities and many confusing memories comes back from his subconscious like flashbacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAITING FOR THE TURNING OF THE EARTH

Directed by David Evan GILES

23 min – Australia – Family, Drama

NEW YORK PREMIERE

It is not everyday that you meet a man on the beach in his pajamas. It is even less often that you find he has brought his bed with him. A gentle film about life, death and forgiveness, starring two of Australia’s best loved actors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE AERIAL GIRL

Directed by Ana Simone SCOTT

13 min – USA – Drama, Romance

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Urban cool teen Taylor’s life is uprooted when her father dies and she moves to her grandfather’s ranch in Wyoming with her mother. There Taylor meets a ranch hand who turns her life upside down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abingdon, 9:00 pm

STILL LIFE

Directed by Lloyd HANDLEY

2 min – United Kingdom – Comedy

WORLD PREMIERE

Still Life follows the journey to work of a human statue called Norman. After waking up to discover his frozen alarm clock, Norman is blissfully unaware the same has happened to the city around him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BURNED SOIL

Directed by Michael HOELLERER & Valentin RIEDL

13 min – Germany – Family, Drama

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Three generations live on this strictly paternalistic run farm in rural Bavaria, close to the former Eastern Bloc border. There is the rude senior farmer with his demented wife and their son who farms the property together with his two daughters Elisabeth and Ingrid. In isolation of such a sparse countryside, this authoritarian arrangement remains stable until grandfather’s will turns the family’s hierarchy upside down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2-STAR

Directed by Jacob HALAJIAN

10 min – USA – Comedy

WORLD PREMIERE

Living in Los Angeles can be very lonely. Sara and Derek find each other through an on-line dating website and agree to meet at a hotel for an adult, uninhibited rendezvous. They uncover a strange secret and reveal they share far more in common than just knowing about the pitfalls of dating in a big city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEAVEN ON EARTH

Directed by Matthew CLYDE

6 min – United Kingdom – Drama

WORLD PREMIERE

“Heaven on Earth” is a film about regret and the search for absolution, the words that we wished we had said to our loved ones, and those private yearnings that we could never admit without the benefit and distance of hindsight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROOM SERVICE

Directed by Tariq NASIR

17 min – United Kingdom – Drama

NEW YORK PREMIERE

In a hotel room, Chris Campbell waits for a call girl to arrive, he is need of a fix of intimacy. But when Grace shows up, she is not at all whom he expected, and what was meant to be a simple affair is suddenly fraught with complications. How far is Chris willing to go to have all his needs met?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSYCHĒ

Directed by Ricky ROSE

14 min – USA – Drama, Thriller

WORLD PREMIERE

Roslyn wants what other women have and Devlin steals it for her. Though their insidious alliance has kept them together since childhood, Devlin discovers that his love for Roslyn is her greatest weapon against him as their addiction to each other is overpowered by her obsession with beautiful things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZOMBIE SPEED DATING

Directed by Sean YOUNG

10 min – Canada – Comedy

WORLD PREMIERE

In a post-apocalyptic world where humans and zombies coexist, Lester the Zombie sets out on a series of speed dates in hopes of finding true love. After many unsuccessful and humorous dates, he finds a like-minded zombie named Carla. But a shotgun wielding lunatic wants Lester all to herself and sets out to remove the competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RUNG

Directed by Chris HANRATTY

9 min – Canada – Comedy

WORLD PREMIERE

After a Cathedral bell ringer passes away, his spot on the bell ringing choir is up for grabs. Bruce, the bell master, is going to hold auditions, with the winner joining the bell choir for the upcoming funeral. Nancy believes she is the favourite and the only real choice to take his spot, but Leanne has other ideas. As the competition heats up, the women find themselves vying for the spot in ways they never thought they would…

 

 

 

 

 

TUMBLEWEED!

Directed by Jared VARAVA

7 min – USA – Comedy

OUT OF COMPETITION

The true and historically accurate tale of one tumbleweed that did not tumble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ON THE SEVENTH DAY

Directed by Judith G. LEVY

5 min – USA – Drama

WORLD PREMIERE

A humorous and provocative short film that follows a woman’s daily make-up routine. Inspired by an old motion picture, she puts aside the social constraints on her day of rest to reveal her true identity.