Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 1:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: Along the Road, QUIET, BATTLEFIELD, Appetite, and DSLR
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PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE VALID ONLY FOR THE PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 1:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: Along the Road, QUIET, BATTLEFIELD, Appetite, and DSLR
Scroll down for Short Film Descriptions and Poster
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 3:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: YADEL, BEARHUG, A HOUSE, A HOME, THAT’S WHAT SHE TOLD ME, DEPARTURES, and THE CONTRACT.
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PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE VALID ONLY FOR THE PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 3:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: YADEL, BEARHUG, A HOUSE, A HOME, THAT’S WHAT SHE TOLD ME, DEPARTURES, and THE CONTRACT.
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 5:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: BRIDESMAID #3, HENRY, TIME OF THE PLUMS, BACK OF FORT RUSSELL, and MASQUE
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PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE VALID ONLY FOR THE PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 5:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: BRIDESMAID #3, HENRY, TIME OF THE PLUMS, BACK OF FORT RUSSELL, and MASQUE
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 7:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, DEERSKIN LAKE, PAY FIRST, MY PROFIT, ONE LAST SHOT, I LOVE YOU, and THE LEARNING CURVE
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PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE VALID ONLY FOR THE PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 7:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, DEERSKIN LAKE, PAY FIRST, MY PROFIT, ONE LAST SHOT, I LOVE YOU, and THE LEARNING CURVE
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 9:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: BLACKOUT, OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER, IMPETUOUS, CARNATIONS MISSING, and OTHERWISE
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PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE VALID ONLY FOR THE PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
Abingdon Theatre: August 13th - 9:00 PM Package
Location: ABINGDON THEATER : 312 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018
Package includes screenings of the following short films: BLACKOUT, OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER, IMPETUOUS, CARNATIONS MISSING, and OTHERWISE
NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
The Fence - August 13th at 8:00 pm at Magno Theatre
August 13th – 10:00 pm at Magno Theatre
MAGNO, 729 Seventh Avenue, 2nd, Floor, Bet 48 & 49 Street, NY
Non – Refundable
The Fence - August 13th at 8:00 pm at Magno Theatre
Home - August 13th at 9:00 pm at Magno Theatre
Home
MAGNO, 729 Seventh Avenue, 2nd, Floor, Bet 48 & 49 Street, NY
Non – Refundable
Home - August 13th at 9:00 pm at Magno Theatre
Farewell Exile - August 13th at 9:30pm at Magno Theatre
Farewell Exile – August 13th at 9:30pm at Magno Theatre
MAGNO, 729 Seventh Avenue, 2nd, Floor, Bet 48 & 49 Street, NY
Non – Refundable
Farewell Exile - August 13th at 9:30pm at Magno Theatre
Abingdon, 1:00 PM
Along the Road
Directed by Jerry CARLSSON, Anette GUNNARSSON
7 min – Sweden – Gay/Lesbian, Drama, Romance
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Two truck drivers have a secret relationship. They meet up at a rest area along the road, but both of them are longing for something more. One single shot portrays the men s struggle to keep their relationship from falling apart, and at the same time their struggle to keep it invisible to others.
QUIET
Directed by Lauren FASH
31 min – USA – Gay/Lesbian, Drama
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Quiet’ is the story of Ali, who must lie and say she is her wife Sam’s sister in order to be with her in the hospital. Through Ali’s memories, we see the women’s relationship develop in the past as Ali faces the truth in the present.
BATTLEFIELD
Directed by Tim MARSHALL
9 min – Australia – Gay/Lesbian, Narrative Short
WORLD PREMIERE
The emotional negotiation of a one-night stand between two men bound by habit and idiosyncrasy. A contemporary snapshot of where Aussie gay men are on the issue of single-serve love and their desire for more.
Appetite
Directed by Colby DAY
3 min – USA – Gay/Lesbian, Comedy
NY PREMIERE
Two women on a romantic date quickly realize that words are not enough to express theirlove for one another. Before they have time to order dinner they erupt into a breathless, shameless fight.
DSLR
Directed by Yang HUA HU
16 min – USA – Gay/Lesbian, Dramedy
WORLD PREMIERE
A love triangle turns sinister for a young photographer who falls for his playful new companion and becomes the target of an underground operation.
Abingdon, 3:00 PM
YADEL
Directed by Kenan GÖRGÜN
21 min – Belgium – Drama, Surreal
WORLD PREMIERE
Yadel is the last son born to a Turkish family living in Belgium. Three years before him, almost the same day, died a first Yadel. To be named after this deceased brother he never knew haunts Yadel. He is unable to find his place in his family. Today, on his birthday, he decides to struggle once and for all with the ghost of his brother. It will be him or him.
BEARHUG
Directed by J. Adam BROWN
15 min – Canada – Drama, Comedy
WORLD PREMIERE
BearHug is a fairytale for adults that reveal the sinister origin story behind our most innocent toy: the Teddy Bear.
A HOUSE, A HOME
Directed by Daniel FICKLE
7 min – USA – Romance, Musical
WORLD PREMIERE
A love, a death, another death are reconciled in a subterranean world.
THAT’S WHAT SHE TOLD ME
Directed by Kim CUMMINGS
17 min – USA – Drama, Comedy
WORLD PREMIERE
Struggling New York City artist, Carly North is having an existential crisis when she accidentally summons the Ghost of Johnny Cash, who propels her on a mind-bending road trip throughout the wilds of upstate NY to find the father she has never met…
DEPARTURES
Directed by Ali Y. AKORCESME
12 min – USA – Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
After ten years of legal red tape, a Turkish woman in her mid-40s finally realizes her dream of migrating to the states and being reunited with her husband. Little does she know that the 13 hour flight is only the beginning of her ordeal as she faces a series of escalating challenges from customs to her ride through the wilds of New Jersey to at last reach her husband.
THE CONTRACT
Directed by Ryan Goldstein
19 min – USA – Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
Ethan, a single father caring for his newborn son Michael, is fatally wounded in a convenience store robbery. On the verge of dying, he is approached by a mysterious customer who offers him a second chance. Left with no other choice, Ethan enters into an agreement. He has life back, but something is definitely wrong. He will soon learn his fate; that even though he will be there to raise his son, everything comes with a price….
Abingdon, 5:00 PM
BRIDESMAID #3
Directed by Alli STEINBERG
13 min – USA – Comedy, Romance
NEW YORK PREMIERE
At the wedding of an old friend, Rebecca finds herself questioning, for the umpteenth time in her young adult life… is marriage really the mark of success for a single woman? Somehow she’s managed to be a bridesmaid this summer more times than she can count and always remains the object of everyone’s pity, when was she getting married was the topic of the day. She has seen the cookie-cutter marriages of her friends, desperate to not be alone, and wants nothing to do with that life. She doesn’t understand why everyone can’t see how antiquated this idea of marriage has become.
HENRY
Directed by Michael BERNARD
15 min – USA – Drama, Comedy
NEW YORK PREMIERE
A little boy’s love of books and quotes brings out his flair for the dramatic. Laura a single mother decides to start dating , her son’ Henry has different ideas… chaos ensues. Henry is a mini version of Laura. even though Henry is dramatic, Laura is proud of his inventiveness. the film takes us through a series of Laura’s dates , seeing what Henry comes up with and the reactions of Laura’s dates. a film that every ‘single parent’ can relate to and not help but smile.
TIME OF THE PLUMS
Directed by Sezen KAYHAN
10 min – Turkey – Drama, Reality
NEW YORK PREMIERE
It’s the time of the plums. Yasemin(10) lives in her own world of fantasy with the notes she feels and sounds she sees. She takes refuge in the colors of her own world whenever her life coincides with reality. On a day she spends with her mother and her grandfather, who desperately try to embrace her, the polyphony of her fantasy world hinders her first encounter with death.
BACK OF FORT RUSSELL
Directed by R.D. WOMACK II
13 min – USA – Drama, Action
WORLD PREMIERE
In 1870’s Wyoming, Marshal Foster tracks down a young woman accused of murder. On the journey home he learns the details surrounding her crime and finds himself conflicted with the idea of justice vs. self-defense. The stakes are raised as he confronts his own personal demons and must make a decision that will effect both of their lives.
MASQUE
Directed by Robert HATCH
40 min – USA – Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
Defying a fate of destruction and despair, a scarred and evil prizefighter, henchman, and gambler conscripts the artful skills of a gifted benefactor who proffers the hope of a mythical journey of…
Abingdon, 7:00 PM
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Directed by Yili LI
16 min – USA – Comedy, Sci-Fi
WORLD PREMIERE
A Heartwarming Fantasy about Jay, a young scientist with a desire to change the world through the power of invention. Yet, his obsession pushes away his once supportive and loving wife Melody, whose struggle to keep the family afloat becomes a burden she can no longer lift. With their relationship hanging by a thread, will Jay come to realize that it is he, not the world, which needs changing…Or is it already too late to win back the woman that he loves?
DEERSKIN LAKE
Directed by Joshua CLARK
7 min – USA – Comedy, Independent
NEW YORK PREMIERE
A short form comedic narrative that explores the difficulties Dan Redding must face in his first session at group therapy.
PAY FIRST
Directed by Dave FULTON
10 min – United Kingdom – Comedy, Crime
WORLD PREMIERE
Short of funds a desperate man attempts to rob a petrol station but after his obvious incompetents at it is pointed out by the station attendant on duty he convinces the attendant, who has been robbed before, to show him how to do it correctly. They switch rolls and the attendant ends up robbing the man who tried to rob him and leave him behind to take over his job.
MY PROFIT
Directed by Hakan UN
39 min – Turkey – Drama
NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
A married young father who has been discharged from his job in the period of crisis, looks for a job, but couldn’t find. As a solution, he opens up a counter for observing the city view with binoculars remaining from the wealthier times of his currently sick father that he has taken care of. He rents these binoculars for 50 kurus per 5 minutes
ONE LAST SHOT
Directed by Lauren NADLER
9 min – USA – Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
A teenage boy tries to reverse the bullying incidents that haunt him at school before it’s too late.
I LOVE YOU
Directed by John GALLAGHER
6 min – USA – Comedy, Romance
WORLD PREMIERE
Different people’s different ways of saying the intimate three-word sentence.
THE LEARNING CURVE
Directed by Scott ERIKSSON
10 min – USA – Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
School teacher Grace Leonard finds her former student Lenny, now 22, at her front door seven years after being in her middle school German class. Lenny’s plan is to confront Grace about her sexual advances towards him as a young teenager so he can forgive and move on with his life, however, his well thought out plan goes horribly wrong when Grace doesn’t react as he expects.
Abingdon, 9:00 PM
BLACKOUT
Directed by Francisco LUPINI
24 min – USA – Comedy, Romance
WORLD PREMIERE
Pepa, a Spanish spitfire hairdresser and aspiring mystery writer, must put her amateur detective skills to work in order to discover the true father of her unborn baby.
OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER
Directed by Charles ROGERS
12 min – USA – Drama, Comedy
WORLD PREMIERE
Gibbon, raised by his overprotective mother and aunt, wants desperately to know what it means to be a man and see the world outside. On the anniversary of his grandfather’s death, he meets Lucy, and begins to wonder what lies on the other side of the front door.
IMPETUOUS
Directed by Michael TANNER CUSUMANO
15 min – USA – Drama, Culture
WORLD PREMIERE
The compelling story about a boy named Alexander, a socially awkward teenager and his impractical crush on a popular teenage girl.
CARNATIONS
Directed by Spencer & Lloyd HARVEY
6 min – Australia – Drama
NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
A woman in pursuit of silence finds that a small flower speaks louder than words.
MISSING
Directed by Chris MILLER
16 min – USA – Drama, Comedy
WORLD PREMIERE
A father’s sudden unemployment ignites a chain of bizarre and far-reaching consequences.
OTHERWISE
Directed by Pedro ROMERO
20 min – Canada – Comedy, Fantasy
WORLD PREMIERE
A man who’s unhappy with how his life is going gets hit by a car only to find out that there is a richer and more successful version of himself.
The Fence
Directed by Jim CANTY
35 min – USA – Drama
For Arty Cooper, the unthinkable has happened… he has lost his only son in the Iraq War. While he grieves and tries to heal, an Iraqi family moves in next door, dredging up his anger and prejudice. He reacts by shunning them and starts building a fence around his property, blocking them out… and his emotions in. But when his neighbor’s young daughter goes missing and the community comes together, Arty Cooper is forced to confront his pain and fear… and finds that his salvation and her rescue comes from an unexpected source.
8:00 pm – $12
Home
Directed by Seimi KIM
14 min – South Korea/USA – Drama
A Korean girl, Sam, came to New York to make her dreams come true. She experiences the gap between her expectations and her reality. She cannot express her genuine feelings or act out the way she wants to. However, she soon realizes the only space that allows her to be her true self.
9:00 pm – $12
FAREWELL EXILE
Directed by Iamia ALAMI
15 min – Morocco/Switzerland/USA – Drama
In an impoverished neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco, Fatima awaits impatiently for news from her husband in exile. Will she finally receive the immigration papers that will potentially secure a brighter future for her and her son Mohammed?
