Saturday, October 15, Afternoon
​Film Screenings at the Artists' Exchange in Cranston
Tickets for all Saturday programs available at the door​

11:00 am   Bishop Hendricken HS Shorts *canceled*
1:00 pm    Animated Shorts - Artists' Exchange
1:00 pm    New England Short Films 2 - Theatre 82
2:50 pm    Documentary Shorts - Artists' Exchange
3:00 pm    Short Films 5 - Theatre 82

​Artists' Exchange
​50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Saturday Afternoon Film Programs
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1:00 pm    Animated Shorts
2:50 pm    Documentary Shorts

Saturday Evening Film Programs
5:00 pm    Short Films 6
7:00 pm    Short Films 7

Theatre 82
​82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910
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Saturday Afternoon Film Programs
11:00 am   Bishop Hendricken HS Shorts *canceled*
   1:00 pm   New England Short Films 2
   3:00 pm   Short Films 5

Saturday Evening Film Programs
 5:00 pm   Sci-Fi Shorts
 7:00 pm   Horror Shorts

Animated/Mixed Media/Experimental Shorts
1:00 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

It's Time For Bed
(Canada, 2020, 6 mins)
Directors: Ceporah Mearns, Jeremy Debicki
Producers: Neil Christopher, Nadia Mike
It's time for Siasi to go to bed, but she doesn't want to brush her teeth or put away her toys. It's so much more fun to play with all the animals of the Arctic! Wouldn't everyone rather dance with a polar bear, howl with the wolves, and swim with the fish than get ready for bed?

Treasure Treachery
(USA, 2021, 3 mins)
Director: Julian Brown
A young, imaginative girl by the name of Presley is a passionate wannabe pirate for this year's trick or treating season. After returning home from quite the successful run through the neighborhood as a wannabe pirate, she admires her newfound treasure. Until suddenly, her closest of allies take her treasure away before she can relish in her days hard work.

Gnawer of Rocks
(Canada, 2020, 13 mins)
Director: Andrea Flaherty
Producer: Neil Christopher
Two young women are trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks. The young women and their village use the teachings of the elders to try to defeat the monster.

How To Lose Weight and Look Great
(USA, 2021, 23 mins)
Director: Nolan Wang
Producer: Nolan Wang
An autobiographical animated short about being diagnosed with a life threatening case of brain cancer,  trying to make sense of a world where people don't seem to know how to communicate about illness, and the hilarity that ensues.

Recharged
(USA, 2021, 5 mins)
Director: Brence Platner
Producer: Brence Platner
A caring and prideful father builds a robot hoping for it to become a prominent doctor, but as the robot grows older, it pursues its dream of being in a rock and roll band, forcing the father to confront his pride before his relationship with the robot is destroyed entirely.

Coronaura
(USA, 2021, 6 mins)
Director: Sarah Kanouse
An essay meditating on the challenges of solidarity at a time when a pandemic, a collapsing climate, and an ongoing racial reckoning have revealed undeniable White complicity in violence, both fast and slow. The film is an intimate working through of the events of 2020, their long prehistory, and the possible futures just coming into view.

Grey
(USA, 2021, 6 mins)
Director: Vasilina Mikhaylova
Producers: Vasilina Mikhaylova,
​Anastasia Mikhaylova
In a snowy forest in medieval Germany, Börn and his horse Gunnar come across a slain mother wolf and her frightened pup, Grey. Börn adopts the pup and raises Grey as a companion. A few years later, Börn, Grey and Gunnar enjoy a summer day together in the forest, when a wild wolf pack attacks the trio, endangering them all.

The Tenement
(UK, 2021, 2 mins)
Director: Claire Fleming
Producer: Claire Fleming
A rainy spring evening catching a glimpse inside the red sandstone of a Glasgow Tenement.

Our America
(USA, 2021, 4 mins)
Directors: Dean M Winkler, Donald S Butler
Non-narrative film about the unfulfilled promises of internet technology.

Nightmares
(Canada, 2021, 1 mins)
Director: Deb Ethier
Producer: Deb Ethier
Ominous, terrifying and disorienting; this animated micro film is a study in the relentlessness of nightmares.

Friendship
(USA, 2022, 6 mins)
Director: Lin Tam
Producer: Lin Tam
Friendship is the story of two childhood friends who bond together despite their different personalities and ethnicities. The short film spans their lifelong journey and portrays how they sustain their connection through challenges, celebrations, and the test of time.

Strange Acts Of Love
(USA, 2022, 6 mins)
Director Masashi Yamamoto in attendance
Living For Love

New England Short Films 2
1:00 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Derrick & Boyd
(USA, 2021, 26 mins)
Director/Producer Chris Goodwin in attendance
Producers: James Harmon, Topher Hansson
Two small-time thieves have to dispose of a body after a robbery goes awry. While trying not to kill each other in the process.

Ye Wayward Knight
(USA, 2022, 21 mins)
Director Wyatt McCarthy and Producer Jackson Cusick in attendance
A knight hunts a witch of the forest that is suspected of spreading the plague to the kingdom.

Small World: A Soliloquy
(USA, 2021, 8 mins)
Director/Producer Sandor Bodo in attendance
Soliloquy Poem And Visuals musing about Life, Death and Civilization

Shadowed Reflections
(USA, 2021, 15 mins)
Director/Producer Emma MacKenzie in attendance
Producers: Sean Carmichael, Damien Gaudet
The image we project to others is not always the reality we live.  Mark is a traditionalist who immigrated to the USA from Ireland with his wife Aoife to achieve the Perfect American Dream.  Aoife yearns to pursue her career but gave it up to support her husband and raise their daughter. The discovery of a lie changes everything.

Tulip
(USA, 2022, 13 mins)
Director: Greg Romein
Producer: Patrick Kirschner
A cryptocurrency YouTuber gets caught up in the euphoria of the market before it comes crashing down.​

Documentary Shorts
2:50 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Mr. Ashley Lived Here
(USA, 2021, 27 mins)
Director/Producer Hannah Timmons and Producer Paige Harris in attendance
Through interviews and hand drawn animation, Mr. Ashley Lived Here looks back at the lives of six individuals that grew up in the sharecropping community on the filmmaker's family farm and former plantation in the heart of central Louisiana.

Bull Rider
(USA, 2022, 2 mins)
Directors: Alexia Oldini, Steven Gray
Producers: Alexia Oldini, Steven Gray
This experimental documentary short merges meditations on dance from choreographer Martha Graham with music by composer Philip Glass and video featuring Professional Bull Rider, Texan Ouncie Mitchell, at the 2022 Oakley Rodeo in Oakley, UT.

Lydia Emily's Last Mural
(USA, 2021, 21 mins)
Directors: Christoph Johannes Superstar Green
Lydia Emily, an LA based mural artist who is living with progressive Multiple Sclerosis, paints her last mural in downtown LA.

Last Race
(USA, 2021, 19 mins)
Director: John Haley
In the midst of a whirlwind electoral campaign in America's heartland, a political novice navigates the contours of newfound love.

A Very Fragile Thing
(Ethiopia/USA, 2022, 14 mins)
Directors: Selah Eshetu, Ryan De Franco
Producer: Andrew Beck
As civil war threatens to tear his country apart, a fading hero of Ethiopia's pro-democracy movement faces questions from a disillusioned supporter and confronts the divisions threatening democracy worldwide.

Small Hours
(USA, 2022, 7 mins)
Director Charlie Weber in attendance
Summer in New England shown by the seasonal workers who come back year after year. Through first impressions and personal moments the viewer gets a sense of the feeling of summer when it's contained. A time that is at once very concentrated with possibility and excitement is contrasted with the growing pains of first time jobs and what happens when you truly let go of life off the island.

The Essence of Essaouiria
(USA, 2021, 4 mins)
Director: David Helfer Wells
Walk the spice-scented lanes, tour the markets in the medina (old town) and watch fishermen at work in the busy commercial fishing port of Essaouira, (essa-weera, or es-sweera in Arabic) a city on Morocco's Atlantic coast protected by 18th-century seafront ramparts.

Still Plays With Trucks
(USA, 2022, 5 mins)
Director/Producer Stephen C Szydlowski and Billy Clarke in attendance
By 2015 Billy Clarke, 82, of Seekonk, MA., had been racing cars and trucks for over 60 years. Clark spent his life working as a machinist and when he was not working he could be found in his garage building race cars and racing at Seekonk Speedway in Seekonk, MA.​

Short Films 5
​3:00 PM | Saturday, October 15 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

You're Now Beyond Hope, Arizona
(USA, 2021, 22 mins)
Director Nick Dugan in attendance
Producers: Ethan Lazar, Wade Cicierski
When a viciously traumatized alcoholic is ordered to kill an AA sponsor whose gambling debts are worse than his own, he must learn the art of self-forgiveness or succumb to a perpetual cycle of moral decay.

Becoming Green
(USA, 2022, 16 mins)
Director: Farah Rose Smith
Producers: Andrea Wolanin, Farah Rose Smith
A teenage girl must face the stigma of acquiring a mysterious affliction that claimed her father's life.

Spin
(USA, 2021, 10 mins)
Directors: Brandi Nicole, Jen West
Producers: Brandi Nicole, Anthony J. Davis,
​Wayne Hawkins, Valarie Patterson, David Rizzo
A happy-go-lucky baker is thrown for a loop after an unexpected run-in at work.

To Be Honest
(USA, 2022, 6 mins)
Director/Producer John Robert Hammerer and
Producers Daniel Kirby and Liana Sonenclar in attendance
Two exes attempt to reconnect, unaware they each have something to hide.​

Zero Refills
(USA, 2022, 10 mins)
Director/Producer Eli Lederberg and Producer Leoder Sanchez in attendance
Lee tries to pick up a routine prescription, but an unexpected problem leaves him with a difficult and potentially dangerous decision.​

The Candy Tin
(USA, 2022, 15 mins)
Director/Producer Shane Butler in attendance
A candy tin travels through the generations of a family in modern America.

Dotting the "I"
(USA, 2022, 11 mins)
Director: Doug Tompos
Producers: Doug Tompos, Risa Bramon Garcia,
​Steve Braun
In the shadows of an empty office, the poetry of an unlikely kiss helps two men - a modern-day Cyrano and a mid-life cynic - discover a love lost and a love never found.

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