Friday, October 14
​Film Screenings at the Artists' Exchange in Cranston
​Tickets for all Friday programs available at the door

4:15 pm   New England Shorts 1
​6:15 pm   Short Films 3 - Artists' Exchange
6:15 pm   LGBTQ Shorts - Theatre 82
​8:15 pm   Short Films 4 - Artists' Exchange
8:15 pm   Comedy Shorts - Theatre 82

Artists' Exchange
​50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910
4:15 pm    New England Shorts 1
​6:15 pm    Short Films 3
8:15 pm    Short Films 4

Theatre 82
​82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910
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6:15 pm   LGBTQ Shorts
8:15 pm   Comedy Shorts

New England Shorts 1 *ADDED - Repeat of Thursday Program*
4:15 PM | Friday, October 14 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Still Alive
(USA, 2022, 19 mins)
Director Jaehee Cheong
Producer Parinton Suwanpraipatana
After the death of her never-met senior colleague, Seol, Penelope visits her house for the first time with a special balloon made out of her breath. Going through the strange service provided by the strange funeral company Still Alive, Penelope, for the first time, feels Seol's existence more than ever after all these years of working together "remotely."

You Weren't Afraid at All
(USA, 2021, 17 mins)
Director Kristen Falso Capaldi in attendance
Producer: Cory Nicholas
A celestial bar, a raging party, a growling monster and a mysterious doppelganger contribute to one young woman's life-altering evening. 

The Way It Is - Stonenut
(USA, 2017, 13 mins)
Director/Producer Bobby Gaylor
Producer: Jason Crow
All Bobby and his friends want to do is observe their hilarious and entertaining tri-monthly ritual of "Stonenut"- a day when they get some good weed, some amazing NYC donuts, watch Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, and sing along with the Oompa Loompas. Everything's normal until the drug dealer's reluctant, overly cautious, and harebrained sister shows up with their weed.

Undertaker
(USA, 2021, 10 mins)
Director/Producer Chris Esper
Writer Kris Salvi
Actor Dustin Teuber
A man discovers his world is not all that it seems, and he discovers that he is not what he is.

The Session
(USA, 2021, 5 mins)
Director/Producer Connor Morley 
A therapy session takes a wrong turn.

La Maison de la Vanille
(USA, 2022, 16 mins)
Director: Nathaniel Sylvester
When a pastry chef's big day coincides with her son's release from rehab, mother and son are forced into a confrontation that will unveil the disappointments they harbour for each other.

Mob Ghost
(USA, 2021, 9 mins)
Director/Producer Jimmy Caputo
Producer: Anthony Silva
A divorced man hires a cheap paranormal investigator to remove a mobster spirit from his apartment.

Short Films 3
​6:15 PM | Friday, October 14 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Bainne
(UK, 2021, 18 mins)
Director: Jack Reynor
Producers: Lara Hickey, Emer O'Shea
In the last year of The Great Famine in Ireland, a stoic farmhand survives working for the local landlord. When he encounters a ghostly figure stealing milk his morality is questioned, and is beguiled on a journey of faith.

The Tale of Captain Fortyhands
(USA, 2022, 15 mins)
Director: Kyle Farmer
Producer: Nishaad Trivedi
When a washed-up pirate captain is threatened by a mysterious new recruit, he's forced to question his life of piracy.

Fireworks
(UK, 2021, 15 mins)
Director: Paul Franklin
Producer: Annalise Davis
A team of MI6 officers in London argue about the use of a drone strike to take out a terrorist target. One side of the room gives way, to reveal the real people and marketplace they are about to bomb.

Vine
(USA, 2021, 3 mins)
Director/Producer Robert Flowers and Writer Hank Pena in attendance
A nervous grifter is talked through a job after breaking into private property, but all isn't what it seems.

Hermanita
(USA, 2022, 12 mins)
Director/Producer Hisonni Mustafa and Producer Lizette Hunter in attendance
Producers: Justin Melson, Champ Robinson, Jessy Bermudez
After recently being released from prison, Daniella learns that her little sister has been abused at the hands of her stepfather and has to decide if her duty to protect her sister is more important than freedom.

Mr. March
(Canada, 2021, 13 mins)
Director/Producer Nick Pusic in attendance
A man hires a world famous organization to assassinate his adulteress wife legally, and goes through an extensive assessment by one of the Calendar Men.

​The Bottom
(USA, 2021, 9 mins)
Directors: Morgan Ruaidhrí O'Sullivan, James Kautz        Producer: Valentina Cimino
At the edge of a mysterious lake, a reckoning between friends becomes a fight for life - as one man's mind games threatens the other's grip on reality.

UPYA
(France, 2021, 3 mins)
Director: Maxence Cazorla
Producer: Maxence Cazorla
In life, we only regret what we haven't done...

LGBTQ Shorts
6:15 PM | Friday, October 14 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Spin
(USA, 2021, 17 mins)
Director: Lisa Marie Tedesco
Producer: R.A. Johnson
When the curtain descends on their final performance of Romeo and Juliet in drama club, high school seniors Abigail and Sky bid a fair adieu to the stage they loved while letting their most deepest desires for one another surface at the cast party.

Make Me A King
(UK, 2021, 16 mins)
Director: Sofia Olins
Producer: Martina Russo
Ari performs as a Jewish Drag King, much to the confusion of their family.  Idolising real-life hero, Pepi Littman, who carved out a space for Drag Kings over 100 years ago, they use this history to open up a space for acceptance in the present. 

Hear My Voice
(UK, 2021, 12 mins)
Director: Daniele Guerra
Producer: Charles Meunier
Mike moved to London hoping to find love and the dream part that would launch his opera career. Four years later, he is stuck – his journal is now his best friend. One night, during yet another hook-up, he sees the apparition of his grandmother, who Mike used to travel the world with – she is not impressed. Her repeat visits push Mike to come to terms with himself and allow him to make an unexpected connection.

Picture Yourself
(Canada, 2022, 7 mins)
Director: Tracey Lavigne
Producers: Tracey Lavigne, Alison Taylor
An agoraphobic woman resists going with her partner to a family funeral, triggering a crisis point in their relationship.

Moving Out
(USA, 2021, 12 mins)
Director: Rachel Earnest
Producer: Ashley Monti
In love with her best friend who has just married someone else, a young college student, still living at home, becomes confounded by faith and ultimately must risk telling her parents who she really is in order to save herself.

S1NGULAR
(USA, 2022, 8 mins)
Director/Producer Ramon J. Goni in attendance
Producer: Carolina Takagi
S1NGULAR is a retro-psycho thriller about our sometimes narcissistic / sometimes solipsistic relationship to technology, ourselves and how we can evolve with it or succumb to its overreaching power. A scientist creates a companion in the image of a man he's falling out of love with, failing to reach perfection, and falling in love with fiction.

The Clinic
(Canada, 2021, 6 mins)
Director: Jonathan Lajoie
Producers: Jennifer Dark, Jonathan Lajoie,
Will Bodak
Highlights the need for more inclusive healthcare in Canada and provide resources and tips for medical professionals seeking to make their offices and clinics more inclusive for 2SLGBTQ+ patients.

Last Call
(USA, 2022, 14 mins)
Director/Producer Ryan Czerwonko and Cinematographer Rosie Soko in attendance
An NYC hustler with a James Dean obsession goes on an escort call with a much older man, forcing him to confront his daddy issues.

Short Films 4
8:15 PM | Friday, October 14 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Skeletons
(Colombia, 2022, 4 mins)
Director: Sebastián Vargas Flor
Producers: Laura Moreno, Laura Rueda, Gabe Silva
Skeletons is a tragic romance between a young woman and a skeleton set to an epic ballad by the band No Stories about wasted time and missed opportunities.

An Encounter
(Ireland, 2021, 20 mins)
Director: Kelly Campbell
Producer: Claire Mc Cabe
Freely adapted from the James Joyce short story, follows Stephen and Jay as they take a day mitching from School. Nervous of being detected, the pair stick to the margins until the afternoon finds them on the grassy banks of the Irishtown shore. As they lay hidden in the grass, a strange man approaches. What unfolds with this man terrifies Stephen and will never be erased from his memory.

Vigilant
(UK, 2022, 7 mins)
Director: Sarah Day
Producer: Sarah Day
When a woman is forced to walk home after car trouble at night, the inherent fear of being female raises confusing questions that spills into her world.​

Therefore, Socrates is Mortal
(Canada, 2021, 13 mins)
Director: Alexandre Isabelle
Producer: Alexandre Isabelle
Facing the climate crisis, Louise, a philosophy teacher, turns words into action.

The Farewell
(USA, 2021, 5 mins)
Director: Kitty McNamee
Producer: Kitty McNamee
Star crossed lovers torn apart by racial divides and the call to war rendezvous for what will be their final dance.

Cartwheel
(UK, 2021, 13 mins)
Director: Jane Marlow
Producers: Virginia Orr, Jane Marlow
Deena is an academic in her late 40s, desk-bound and devoted to her cerebral work, she's become disconnected from the world around her. But when a chance encounter with nine-year-old Thelma forces her out into the world, she's reminded of the spontaneity of movement that she took for granted in her youth.

Babatoura
(Canada, 2021, 11 mins)
Director: Guillaume Collin
Producer: Katerine Lefrançois
Benoit and Catherine, a couple in their late twenties, go to his parents' house for dinner. It is with surprise and apprehension that they learn that the whole family is invited for supper and that the evening may not go as planned!

Anirudh
(USA, 2022, 12 mins)
Director: Raghav Puri
Producer: Rajeev Colton
An anxious Indian man desires to get up on stage but must first overcome his own insecurity about his identity.

Comedy Shorts
8:15 PM | Friday, October 14 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

A Special Dinner
(USA, 2021, 15 mins)
Director: Haley Pine
Director Brendan Egan in attendance
Producer: Seth Chitwood
A girl accidentally eats a "special" cookie moments before meeting her boyfriend's judgmental parents for the first time.

American't
(UK, 2021, 10 mins)
Director: Joe Zalias
Producer: Joe Zalias
Two actors risk it all mastering the American accent.

Eat the Pasta
(USA, 2021, 8 mins)
Director: Sean Carmichael
Producers: Sean Carmichael, Jaelle Menard
A freak accident brings the threat of a murder charge, and the necessity for a creative solution.

Weather Or Not
(USA, 2022, 9 mins)
Director/Producers Eddie Grey and Alyssa Carter and Producer Travis Leland in attendance
When a snobby author lands in a small town, his vow to talk about more than just the weather is thwarted by a local woman who outwits him. Based on a diary entry by David Sedaris, this slice-of-life comedy short reflects the divide between self-proclaimed urban élites and the “regular” American.

Or, The Whale
(USA, 2021, 7 mins)
Director/Producer Mark Kiefer and Actor Eddie Nason in attendance
The not entirely true story of how the American edition of Herman Melville's famous epic got its unusually awkward, and ridiculously over punctuated, full title.

Pulp Friction
(USA, 2021, 14 mins)
Directors: Tony Olmos, Mark Atkinson
Producer: Mark Atkinson
The lives of two roommates and a mysterious man intertwine in a tale of conflict and clashing within close quarters.

Hooving In
(UK, 2021, 15 mins)
Director: Daniel Ward Garber
Producers: Daniel Ward Garber, Alexandra Anderson, Eden Bokrezion
As lockdown strikes, Simon and his new girlfriend Zoe decide to move in together for the pandemic. But when Simon's existing 'housemate', a video camera taped to his robot hoover, starts to get jealous, a 'tug of war' for Simon's attentions ensues.

Dick Heist
(USA, 2022, 8 mins)
Director: Aiden Glikmann
Producer: John Peet
A newlyweds' marriage is put to the test when the groom locks his private parts up in an electronic chastity cage that's hijacked by a hacker.

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