(Films listed in alphabetical order - click on program listing below to expand)
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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Director: Gabriel Gutierrez
Synopsis: After missing a late night
subway train, Patrick meets a mysterious and disorientating woman who
entices him to share a dance.
Director: Alfonso M. Rodriguez
Synopsis: In the days leading
to his championship race, a troubled high school track runner must
choose between his gut instincts and the influence of his misguided
older brother.
Director: Cihangir Duman
Synopsis: A group of strangers is reminded of the value of life.
Director: Cristobal Vivar
Synopsis: This is a 12 hour time lapse of Young Jee’s land art in Inwood Hill Park; which graced the park for three years. His ephemeral circles were made with snow, leaves, sticks, mulch, and anything he could find.
Director: Shawn Regruto
Synopsis: Adam is a roommate short. Lisa really needs a room. Apartment hunting in New York City can be tough.
Director: Be’ Garrett
Synopsis: In a rural town in southern Idaho a Japanese-American family opens and operates a small motel. The year is 1965, the height of the Civil Rights Era. One
night a stranger sporting ‘city’ clothes checks in, the first
African-American man that Toru Suzuki’s children have ever see. Yoshiko
Toru’s precocious 13-year-old daughter, takes it upon herself to solve
the mystery of this man, especially after two detectives come knocking
on their door in the middle of the night.
Director: Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller
Synopsis: Berth, at the party, loosing her mind. Musa, in the country, looking for hers. A romance without romance, the space between two people.
Director: Isaac Benelli
Synopsis: A separated couple walks through the memory of their relationship to find a way to move on.
Director: Dan Chen
Synopsis: A young woman learns a lesson in humanity when the mentally disabled man she cares for tries to take flight.
Director: Mozell Miley-Bailey
Synopsis: A dancer makes it into a renowned dance company only to have her chance suddenly taken away. A drummer, who’s living on the streets, struggles to keep his music alive. Their
bodies of music and motion and the weight of desires and dreams become
exerted by forces unbeknownst and around them that unravel in an NY
moment.
Director: Ela Thier
Synopsis: When a jobless fuck-up loses his girlfriend, he recruits his friend to help get her back.
Director: Iesh Thapar
Synopsis: A dispirited young
musician struggles between fulfilling his dreams of playing in a band,
and carrying out the criminal activities set out for him by this
oppressive older brother.
Director: q mackey
Synopsis: A woman trying to cope.
Director: Jacob Okada
Synopsis: Soon after his
parents divorce, James, a pleasantly plump African American teen, spends
the weekend dealing with his exercise obsessed dad.
Director: Davis Hall
Synopsis: A duck blind is a
place for concealment, but for two estranged brothers confronting their
father’s apparent suicide, emotional truth is revealed.
Director: Jenny Hagel
Synopsis: In this
man-on-the-street style comedy, comedian Jenny Hagel hits the streets of
Inwood, Manhattan to find out if everything really is better with
bacon.
Director: Kelli King
Synopsis: Despite the bad weather conditions Professor Boneapart goes for a walk in Inwood.
Director: Nabil Viñas & Alexis Holloway
Synopsis: When his mother calls
to make him take in his aunt, the man on the bench must decide whether
to turn his home and life upside down or say no.
Director: Kelly Adams
Synopsis: In an East Harlem garage sits the unusual museum: Treasures in the Trash. Nelson
Molina, a 34-year veteran of the New York City Department of Sanitation
and a collector of discarded ephemera of interest. The film follows Molina on his route as he plucks gems from what others have thrown away.
Director: Tony Dec
Synopsis: A common man encounters the mysterious powers of poetry.
Director: Austin Julian
Synopsis: About swimming in the rivers and the things you may meet in the river in the 60’s and 70’s.
Director: Turhan Caylak
Synopsis: A local resident of Upper Manhattan is out of money, and looking for Citibank with the help of Siri.
Director: Paul Riccio
Synopsis: The Timmy Brothers:
Water Makers is a quick, funny look at Bail and Terry Timmy,
Brooklyn-based makers of artisanal drinking water. They’re
introducing handcrafted water to the world with an almost pathological
attention to craftsmanship and a thirst for helping people become less
thirsty.
Director: Davis Hall
Synopsis: Some journeys begin at the end of the line.
Director: Ben Nager Sadoff & Yuby Hernandez
Synopsis: This documentary
presents a cultural geography of the game of dominoes and what it means
to four groups of mostly Dominican men who play in Inwood, NYC.
Director: Eva Nikolova
Synopsis: A frame-by-frame camera-less animation constructed of scanned ink and charcoal drawings. It
is a humorous if pessimistic meditation on geopolitics that eschews
didacticism and an univocal reading through the use of a wordless,
free-associative narrative and a highly individual visual aesthetic.
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AWARD CEREMONY
Thursday, March 3 at 10:15pm
Join us following the final screening of Program A for the announcement of the festival's Woody Awards for Best "Short Short" Film by an Inwood Filmmaker, Best "Short Short" Film Made in Inwood, and special Le Prince Founders Awards. Ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Red Carpet Lounge.
RED CARPET LOUNGE
Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 3
Open at 6:00pm and after each screening.
Exclusive use to all Short Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening. The Red Carpet Lounge is a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences. In
the spirit of our monthly Film Forums, come have a beverage before the
show, stay to discuss the films afterwards, meet like-minded folk, and
hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers.
IFF INAUGURAL CELEBRATION
Wednesday, March 2 at 10:15pm
Come celebrate the inaugural year of the Inwood Film Festival with the founders of the festival. There will be complimentary food from some of Inwood’s local favorites, a cash bar, and great company. This is a free event and all are invited to attend.
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