Saturday, October 16, Afternoon
​Film Screenings at the Artists' Exchange in Cranston

Theatre 82
​82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Saturday Afternoon Film Programs
12:00 pm   Hendricken HS Shorts (free)
 2:00 pm     Short Films 4
 4:00 pm     Documentary Shorts 2

Saturday Evening Film Programs
  6:00 pm   LGBTQ Shorts
  8:00pm    Horror Shorts

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

Saturday Afternoon Film Programs

2:15 pm    Animated Shorts
4:00 pm    Short Films 5

Saturday Evening Film Programs
  6:00 pm    Short Films 6
  8:00 pm    Short Films 7

Hendricken High School Shorts (free admission)
​12:00 Noon | Saturday, October 16 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291
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Short Films 4
​2:00 PM | Saturday, October 16 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Call Me Back: The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch
(Comedy, USA, 2020, 20 mins)
Director/Producer: Aaron Weinstein
Infamous NYC talent agent, Yvette Slosch (LINDA LAVIN), is determined to make a star out of her newest client, jazz violinist, Aaron Weinstein (HIMSELF). She refuses to let Aaron's lack of name recognition, jazz's dwindling fan base, or the global pandemic get in her way. As the pandemic rages, Yvette's schemes to keep Aaron's career afloat become increasingly convoluted, testing her abilities as an agent and her friendship with Aaron.

Tumult
(USA, 2019, 9 mins)
Director Marta Renzi and Producer Angelica Vessella in attendance
In a school auditorium, two groups of students move, meet, and part: innocence and experience on seemingly parallel paths.

Yellow Balloon
(USA, 2021, 9 mins)
Directors/Producers Jack Smith, Kirby Gamel in attendance
A young man finds himself lost in his thoughts, fantasizing about ways he wish he could have said goodbye to his friend.

Cricket
(USA, 2020, 17 mins)
Director: Chris Suchorsky
Producer: Kevin Burns
A man wakes from a nightmare, only to be haunted by the sounds that inhabit his dreams.

THERAPY
(USA, 2019, 3 mins)
Director/Producer: Nelson Kim
After an argument with her boyfriend, a woman vents to her therapist.

In This Body
(USA, 2020, 4 mins)
Director Caroline Aylward in attendance
Producers: Caroline Aylward, Ingrid Adamow
A short film dedicated to womxn's body image and self worth. Shot with an all female cast and crew in Boston, MA, this film feature womxn from the community moving from a place of fear to empowerment, using movement as a channel for transformation.

GoGo!Typhoooon
(Romance, Japan, 2020, 16 mins)
Director: Takahiro Kawabe
A middle-age man who lost his wife is reluctant to date again. He is helped thanks to the unnecessary interference of some older women.

Animated/Mixed Media Shorts
2:15 PM | Saturday, October 16 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

 #After Lockdown: Very Short Stories About Enduring a Global Pandemic
(USA, 2020, 16 mins)
Directors Daniel Salgado, Mohamad Saleh in attendance
Producers: Professor William Granara, Lauren Montague, Sihem Lamine
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world ordered mandatory quarantines, forcing schools, universities, and businesses to shutter and public spaces to close. During the summer of 2020, the global offices of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Hellenic Studies collected testimonials from individuals reflecting on their time in quarantine and what they hoped for the future.

E=MC3
(USA, 2020, 12 mins)
Director/Producer Victor Stabin in attendance
In this surrealist dreamscape based on actual events, "E=MC³" is Victor Stabin's bizarre tale of Albert Einstein's invention and patenting of the perpetual motion refrigerator that brings peace to the Middle East. The animation combines fantastic imagery with tongue-in-cheek storytelling and plenty of schtick.

Arrival/Departure
(USA, 2020, 6 mins)
Director: Scott Duce
An animated short on how visual perception can be twisted with dyslexia.

May the World Not Carry You
(Poland, 2019, 4 mins)
Director: Rozalia Ogonowska (Manna, Las)
Producer: University of the Arts Poznan
Cel animation, each frame is painted by hand, using acrylic paint. Sad love story inspired by polish folk song. The betrayed girl decides to commit suicide during the wedding of his love.

Once There Was a Girl
(Canada, 2020, 4 mins)
Director/Producer: Deb Ethier
Why do stories we read as children stay with us through our lives and become broken bits of dreams, jumbled images from fairy tales that are always in the back of our minds?

Quartz
(USA, 2018, 4 mins)
Director Drew Danburry in attendance
A multimedia existential exploration into the creative process.

Piece by Piece: Ari's Story of Recovery
(USA, 2019, 3 mins)
Directors/Producers: Michael Skinner, ​  Jon Michael Shink
Numerous parents have been impacted by the opioid crisis in America. Struggles with substance abuse can lead to family turmoil and instability for young children. This is an animated short story about one mother's journey to recovery and empowerment.

No More Dead Friends
(UK, 2020, 3 mins)
Director: Laura Robinson
An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.

Reflection
(USA, 2020, 3 mins)
Director: Naph Despres
The harsh reality of climate change told through the bodies of those left behind. Set in an eerily quiet but somehow beautiful world, the viewer travels through our decimated Earth. An Earth that will move on with or without us.

Lines
(UK, 2020, 10 mins)
Director: Claire Fleming
Producer: Letitia Wright
Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.  Read by Letitia Wright, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jodie Turner-Smith, Adepero Oduye and
Riz Ahmed

Curtis
(USA, 2020, 3 mins)
Director: Alex Salsberg
In May 2020, English teacher Curtis Fountain describes his experiences in Beijing during the Covid-19 lockdown, four months after they began.

Nonna
(USA, 2021, 3 mins)
Director Abby Cali in attendance
An animated stop motion short that explores the magic of grandmothers and the company to be found in the act of cooking.

The Rotation
(Iran, 2020, 7 mins)     Director/Producer: Hazhir As'adi
There is a war between two tribes on claiming the sun in the sky. As a result to that war, sun annihilates and the volcano erupts. Those two tribes now are dead and a new sun is made, both by that lava. Several century will pass and the humans are still in a war to claim the sun in the sky

Documentary Shorts 2
4:00 PM | Saturday, October 16 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Strawberry Forever
(USA, 2020, 24 mins)
Directors: Jacob Koestler, Michael McDermit
Fifty years ago, Tim McDermit fell 40 feet from his college dorm roof. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder which left him unable to speak. Over the past five decades, Tim has struggled with relearning how to communicate all over again, navigating the social stigmas that come with broken speech, and finally letting go of the life that was snatched away from him.

Nanmin
(USA, 2021, 19 mins)
Director/Producer: Adam Shaw
Each year, thousands of refugees from around the world seek asylum in Japan, but only 0.1% of applicants are accepted. Nanmin portrays life as an asylum seeker in Japan, focusing on the secretive migrant detention centers and harsh parole system in interviews with activists, lawyers, and refugees.

New Lives
(USA, 2019, 6 mins)
Director/Producer: David Helfer Wells in attendance
New Lives introduces former Rhode Island synagogues, zooming in on them, pinpointing them on a Google map and naming them. The camera lands at, for example, Congregation Beth Israel in Providence and highlights the building's journey from a synagogue to its current use as the city-owned Elmwood Community Center, serving Providence's latest generation of immigrants, echoing the immigrant journey of the Jews who once worshipped there.

All the Possibilities...
(USA, 2019, 16 mins)
Directors/Producers: Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry
A documentary meditation on artist Vernon Pratt’s 1,450 square foot systematic abstraction painting, ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF FILLING IN SIXTEENTHS (65,536), which was completed in 1982 but only recently exhibited posthumously and for the first time.  With a percussive score composed by Rich Holly, the film immerses viewers in Pratt’s world of systematic abstraction, a symphony in black and white.

I'm Gonna Sing Granada for You
(USA, 2020, 19 mins)
Director/Producer Jodi Carol Harrison , Producer Sarah L Taylor, and Dolores Perry in attendance
At 89 years old, sassy soprano Dolores Perry reminisces about her cabaret days, including singing with Liberace and meeting President Nixon. She didn't let the gender norm of the time, being barefoot and pregnant, get in the way of her ambition. Through her anecdotes she gives credit to the women who supported her journey, from her childhood neighbor to her mother telling her “you’re gonna sing Dolores, you’re gonna sing.”

Short Films 5
4:00 PM | Saturday, October 16 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

The Dinner Guest
(USA, 2017, 14 mins)
Director Dale Griffiths Stamos in attendance
Producer: Venice Sky Productions
Margaret is having a little dinner party and the guest of honor is her husband's mistress. If her sly plans works, she may just save her marriage.

Lineage
(USA, 2021, 20 mins)
Director/Producer Trevor McGhie in attendance
A spiritual journey to the past where a troubled young man experiences first hand the struggles his ancestors endured, challenging him to change his ways and better his community... instead of destroy it.

Christmas Eve Eve Or: the Things I Can't Remember
(USA, 2020, 14 mins)
Directors Suzanne Lenz, Tom Bean in attendance
Producer: Suzanne Lenz
A woman goes home for the holidays to Kentucky, where she's forced to confront an unresolved family trauma.

Bloom
(USA, 2020, 14 mins)
Directors: Dawson Doupé, Ryder Doupé, Todd Tapper
Producers: Nathan Hendrickson, Luka Kloser, Tony Doupé, Brian Pamintuan
Identical twin sisters who haven't spoken in years reunite for a road trip after one of them tries to take her own life.

2 weeks
(USA, 2020, 9 mins)
Director: Victoria Negri
Producers: Margarita Zhitnikova, Stacey Maltin, Carrie Radigan, Jackie Schwartz
When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she's asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

Soaked Earth
(USA, 2019, 2 mins)
Director/Producer Nancy Wylie in attendance
A fertile field in heavy rain yields a harvest of grief and loss

Plan Beautiful
(Comedy, USA, 2020, 4 mins)
Director Amy Vorpahl and Cinematographer Shiloh Strong in attendance
A woman has to make a difficult decision alone in her car, but she finds an unexpected connection that makes her crisis a little more bearable.

SHK
(USA, 2019, 6 mins)
Director: Bill Wetherill
Producers: Bill Wetherill, Julie Van Lith
Clyde is down and out on the streets when he meets the girl of his dreams... who just happens to be a hockey stick.