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The SENE Film Festival is presented
​by Southeast New England Film, Music and Arts

a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation

Reasons to Submit Your Film to SENE (pronounced like Scene):

Film Selection
• SENE has been selected 4 years in a row as one of MovieMaker Magazine's Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.
 • SENE has been recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as one of 20 Great Film Festivals for First-Time Moviemakers
• 98% of selected films came from official submissions last year
• Festival programmers (Phil Capobres & Don Farias) personally review every film submission. 
• Documentaries, animation and genre films are also reviewed by separate programming committees. 
• Films are eligible for over 50 jury awards (including honorable mentions) and 20 audience awards.   
• SENE has no requirements that we are the premiere for your film, but please be advised that selection and/or scheduling of your film may be affected by public screenings of your film in Rhode Island and/or surrounding communities prior to the festival and also by online distribution of your film.


Film Scheduling
• Screening times are scheduled with an emphasis on avoiding conflicting programs which means a stronger audience for your film. 
• No more than two film programs are scheduled to screen at the same time.
• SENE accepts all film genres and categories and creates screenings to showcase them. 
• In addition to our international and American films, SENE is proud to promote local New England films.

Festival Benefits for the October 2022 Festival (subject to change)
• Travel stipends are offered to filmmakers attending from outside of New England.
• Selected Films receive 3 Filmmaker Badges which allow free access to all films and parties at the October Festival
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• Selected Films may also receive additional tickets to their individual screening (subject to venue capacity)
• Every paid film submission to the SENE Film Festival receives a free SENE Pass (good for all films screenings) if the submitted film is not selected
• All films will be introduced by a Festival Director or SENE staff.
• Dedicated Q&A time for filmmakers at their screening.
• Ample opportunities to network
• Parties (with complimentary food and drink) include Friday After Party, Saturday Networking Lunch and Saturday Closing Party
• Private Filmmaker Lounge with complimentary snacks available throughout the festival
​• As an incentive to attend the festival, Jury Award winners who attend the festival receive a personalized trophy at the Jury Awards ceremony.
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Additional Screening Opportunities 
• Films are eligible for multiple screenings as part of our traveling Limelight Series programming.  

Ethical Code of Conduct
Films must be completed after December 31, 2018.
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MovieMaker Magazine's 20 Great Festivals for First-Time Moviemakers
Features 30+ mins     |     Shorts 6 mins to 29 mins     |     Short Shorts under 360 seconds
Reduced Late submission fees:
Local ​Features $55
Shorts                   $45 ($40 Student)
Short Shorts     $35
Local Features  $45
Shorts                    $35 ($30 Student)
Short Shorts      $30

Screenplay Submissions are now open for 2023
Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 14th annual SENE Film Festival. And thank you for making our 14 festival such a success!

SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival
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14th Annual
​SENE Film Festival

Rhode Island

​October 13 - 15
In-person festival​

 
115 Films
Artists' Exchange
& Theatre 82

Cranston, RI

Narrative Feature
2:45 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02921
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EDUARDO AND MONICA
(Brazil, 2019, 109 mins)
Director: René Sampaio
Producer: Bianca de Felippes


Can the romance between a sophisticated medical student and a run-of-the-mill high schooler work out? Alice Braga and Gabriel Leone bring to life a couple that must overcome their significant differences to live a great love in 1980's Brasilia. Mixing drama, playfulness and poetry, the film is inspired by the homonymous and successful song by Renato Russo, the great poet that charmed an entire generation with his band Legião Urbana.
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Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper
3:15 PM | Friday, June 18 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02921
Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper
(USA, 2018, 57 mins)
Director: Steven Gaddis
Producer: Todd Clearwater

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Alice Cooper reunites with the surviving members of the original lineup of the band to perform a blistering set on a small stage of pink astroturf at independent music store Good Records in Dallas, TX, 40 years after the band parted ways. Store owner Chris Penn pulls off the near insurmountable task of organizing the event and keeping Alice's appearance a secret until the original shock-rocker hits the stage.
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Life in Synchro
(USA, 2020, 54 mins)
Director: Angela Pinaglia
Producers: Angela Pinaglia, Nicole Davies
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If a single figure skater is a marvel, a team of figure skaters is practically a miracle. Welcome to the beautiful, cold, hard world of synchronized ice skating - the toughest sport you've never heard of. 

Synchro has been empowering generations of women since 1956 when it was founded by a father who saw the need for team sports for girls. Today these skaters lift, leap, and spin together in ways the rink has never seen before, but this innovative sport is still somehow overlooked by mainstream media. 

Journey alongside incredible women around the country as they push their teams and themselves beyond the routine and up towards greatness. The stars of today, the newcomers, the passionate amateurs and the founders of the sport all have something to prove. They're chasing Olympic dreams not just for themselves, but for their beloved sport. Together these skaters are out to prove the staying power of synchro.

SENE 12 Accepted Films

Narrative Shorts

Narrative Shorts

​A Slight Inconvenience (directed by Alan Moutal)
A Strange Calm (directed by Austin Rourke)
Adult A.D.R. (directed by Topher Hansson & Chris Goodwin)
ALINA (directed by Rami Kodeih)
ALL BOYS DIE (directed by Julio C. Vargas)
Alternative Therapy  (directed by Roberto Raad)
American Quartet (directed by Jesca Prudencio)
Attorneys at Love (directed by Daniel Findlay)
Ava in the End (directed by Ursula Ellis)
BALLOON (directed by Jeremy Merrifield)
Big Touch (directed by Christopher Tenzis)
Blocks (directed by Bridget Moloney)
Bunker Burger (directed by Adam Yorke)
Butterfly (directed by Bonnie Foster)
Carry My Heart to the Yellow River (directed by Alexis Van Hurkman)
Casiopea (directed by Fernando Manso)
Coffee Shop Names (directed by Deepak Sethi)
Colors by Black Pumas (directed by Kristian Mercado)
Dear Eloise (directed by Bryan E. Murphy)
Do you also feel a tingle? (directed by Lucía Valverde)
Doesn't Fall Far (directed by Joshua Michael Payne)
Drinking for Two (directed by Kyle Trainor)
For Hemingway (directed by Peter Zachwieja)
FOUR (directed by Jennifer Sheridan)
Freeze (directed by Maya Albanese)
Friends Like That (directed by Francesca de Fusco)
Furthest From (directed by Kyung Sok Kim)
Glitches (directed by Annie Chen)
Highland Home (directed by Dan Schaefer)
Home Movies (directed by Keagan Karnes)
Honor Among Thieves (directed by Justin Eugene Evans)
Hush (directed by Tyler Chipman)
In This Body  (directed by Caroline Aylward)
Interview (directed by Christopher Guyon)
Jane (directed by Kathryn Prescott)
Jeff Drives You (directed by Aidan Brezonick)
Jezebel (directed by Violet Vanderslice)
Kama'āina (Child of the Land (directed by Kimi Howl Lee)
Kino Ratten (directed by Peter McCully)
La Guarida (The Den) (directed by Iago de Soto)
Late Shift (directed by Laurel Pehmoeller)
Leave 'em Laughing (directed by Chris Cashman)
M1das (directed by Razan Takash)
Method (directed by Robert Grabow)
Momma, Don't Go (directed by Rafael De Leon Jr.)
Motherhood (directed by David Tyson Lam)
Mrs. Osbourne (directed by Gregory Bergeron)
Ms. Rossi (directed by Pat Battistini)
Muzzle (directed by Adam Etheridge)
My Dinner With Werner (directed by Maverick Moore)
Nailed (directed by Nickolas Gilbert)
netuser (directed by Eric Rosen)
Night and Day (directed by Peter Anthony)
No Returns (directed by Sam Park)
Office Hours and hours and hours (directed by Jonason Pauley)
On The Whistle (directed by TJ Noel-Sullivan)
PAWNS (directed by Elizabeth Gowan Berliner (Jaane Doe))
Pepper (directed by Jayil Pak)
Play Along  (directed by Brian Hogan & Connor Rog)
Pledge It  (directed by Rachael Sonnenberg)
Plunge (directed by David James Holloway & Samuel Lawrence)
POSSESSIONS (directed by Zeke Farrow)
Qafas  (directed by Dayna Li )
Reshaping Beauty: Round In All The Right Places (directed by Tom Goss)
Rhoads Rising by Dean Cascione (directed by Dean Cascione)
Ride or Die (directed by Josalynn Smith)
Rope-A-Dope (directed by Luke Jarvis)
Roseline Like in the Movies (directed by Sara Bourdeau)
Seasons (directed by Joe Chen)
Sensor (directed by Brian L Tan "BLT")
Shadow At The Door (directed by Roshni "Rush"  Bhatia)
She Had It Coming (directed by Gedde Watanabe)
SHK (directed by Bill Wetherill)
Shut Eye (directed by Robert Gregson)
Side Effects May Include (directed by Jonathan Kiefer)
SIGNS (directed by Jason Satterlund)
Silence Undone (directed by Kristjan Knigge)
Smiles (directed by Javier Chavanel)
Soon Comes Night (directed by Austin Rourke)
Stickup Kid (directed by Daniel Yen Tu)
Stuck (directed by Steve Blackwood)
Summer Vacation (directed by Matthew Brennan)
Sunset Park, Warehouse (directed by Dazhi Huang)
SWEET SOLACE (directed by Nicolas Durand)
Talk Radio (directed by Ben S. Hyland)
TarGay (directed by Rachel Garlin)
The 11th Order (directed by Joshua DeFour)
The Alpha's Bet (directed by Dan Ramm)
The Baker (directed by Austin Everett)
The Book of Ruth (directed by Becca Roth )
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​The Cunning Man (directed by Zoë Dobson)
The Dinner Guest (directed by Dale Griffiths Stamos)
The Fucking Shade (directed by Dave Kost)
The Hour After Westerly (directed by Nate Bell & Andrew Morehouse)
The Last Oak (directed by Annabel Vine)
The Mushroom Huntress (directed by Jim Picariello)
The Other Side of Night (directed by Jaclyn Noel)
The Power Agent (directed by Mark Atkinson)
The Priest (directed by Michael Vukadinovich)
The Prince Of Val-Bé (directed by Jean-François Leblanc)
The Psychics' Network (directed by Jenn Dlugos & Charlie Hatton)
The Red Ball (directed by Jussi Rautaniemi)
The Simple Path (directed by Charles Moore)
The Toyman  (directed by Rachael Sonnenberg)
THERAPY (directed by Nelson Kim)
They Don't Like Sandals (directed by Bocong 'Limbo' Lin)
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS (directed by Lisa Gold)
Through the Wall (directed by Larissa Corriveau)
Ticking Boxes (directed by Robert Metson)
Tough (directed by Kieran Wheeler)
Tumult (directed by Marta Renzi)
US MX (directed by Joseph O Hooten)
WAITING GAME (directed by Jon Bloch)
What Goes Up (directed by Christopher O'Reilly)
White Guys Solve Sexism (directed by Christopher Guerrero)

Narrative Features

​12 Days of Christmas (directed by Michael Boyle)
Don't Read This on a Plane (directed by Stuart McBratney)
Dramarama (directed by Jonathan Wysocki)
EDUARDO AND MONICA (directed by René Sampaio)
Zoro's Solo (directed by Martin Busker)

Animated Shorts

​A Little Blue (directed by Tony Senatore)
Alienated (directed by Nicole Yoshinaga)
Apology of the Fly (directed by Justin Jinsoo Kim)
Con Fuerza (directed by Andrés Eduardo)
Curtis (directed by Alex Salsberg)
Dragonfly (directed by Sarah McLean)
Duino (directed by Austin T Vincent)
GRAB MY HAND: A Letter To My Dad (directed by Camrus Johnson, Pedro Piccinini)
Grace (directed by Peter Kimball)
If Anything Happens I Love You (directed by Will McCormack & Michael Govier)
M to M (directed by Lucy Lee)
Quartz (directed by Drew Danburry)
Stick To Manual (directed by Christian Antonini & Tanice Arnold)
Temps de glace (Ice Time)  (directed by Rachel Samson)
The Unusual Suspects (directed by Jackie Gorman)
Waste Away (directed by Elly Stern)
Welcome To War-Whack! Pilot Episode (directed by Morley)
Wurlitzer (directed by Balázs Simon)

Documentary Shorts

​All the Possibilities... (directed by Marsha Gordon & Louis Cherry)
Dafa Metti (Difficult) (directed by Tal Amiran)
Eworth (directed by Christopher Romano)
For Ismet (directed by Christian Del Rio)
I Can't Die, Not Yet (directed by Samantha Shelton)
John Van Hamersveld CRAZY WORLD AIN’T IT (directed by Dave Tourjé & Christopher Sibley )
La Plume & Le Papier  (directed by Jacob Patrick)
Les Deux  (directed by Mara Bresnahan & Ellie Pierce)
New LIves (directed by David Helfer Wells)
Scalpers (directed by Eric Gheorghe)
The Magicians .... of The Merlin Magical Society (directed by Abdullai Adejumo)
THE NIGHTSIDE  (directed by Sophie Hexter)
The Worcester 6: Heroes Remembered (directed by David Shilale)
Tommy: The Portrait of A Sculptor (directed by Chris Frazer Smith)
Xylem, the Heart of the Tree  (directed by Emily Rund)

Documentary Features

​Life in Synchro (directed by Angela Pinaglia)
Live from the Astroturf, Alice Cooper (directed by Steven Gaddis)
Southeast New England Film, Music & Arts Festival
​2019 Schedule of Events

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​May
15
Wed
Warwick Museum of Art
6:00p Doors open for "Abstracts" Juried Art Exhibit 
6:30p Music by Ava Callery   
​7:00p Short Film Program

Brooklyn Coffee Tea and Guest House - Providence
7:00p Art & Music Documentary Feature - Coalesce: A City Composed

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view programs

May
16
 Thu
Jamestown Arts Center
6:00p Art Exhibit & Reception
6:45p Music by Grant Maloy Smith    
​7:00p Short Film Program
​​view program

May
17
  Fri
Brooklyn Coffee Tea and Guest House - Providence
​6:00p Music Documentary Feature -  Boom
7:45p Documentary Short Program
​​view program

 Columbus Theatre - Providence
​ Main Auditorium

​​​​view programs
​4:45p    Feature Film - Dark Sense (free adm)
6:30p    Feature Film - Guest Artist
8:00p    Sci-Fi Short Films
10:00p Horror Feature - Tear Us Apart
Columbus Theatre - Providence
​ Upstairs
(not wheelchair accessible)
3:45p    Shorts Program 1 (free admission)
5:00p    Shorts Program 2 (free admission)
6:30p    Shorts Program 3
8:30p    LGBT Short Films
​10:30p After Party

May
18
  Sat
Columbus Theatre - Providence
Main Auditorium

Saturday  Afternoon Film Screenings
11:00a Hendricken HS Short Films (free)
12:45p New England Films 1
2:15p    New England Films 2
4:00p    Short Films Program 5
​Saturday Evening Film Screenings
​6:00p    Feature Film - Oildale
8:00p    Feature Film - The Wrong Todd
Columbus Theatre - Providence
Upstairs
 (not wheelchair accessible)
Saturday  Afternoon Film Screenings
​11:00a Private Filmmaker Event (invitation only)
​12:15p Animated Short Films
2:00p    Short Films Program 4
4:00p    Short Films Program 6
​Saturday Evening Film Screenings
​​6:00p    Short Films Program 7
8:00p     Horror Short Films
10:00p  Jury Awards Ceremony (free, everyone welcome)
​10:30p  Closing Party $10 (free for badgeholders)

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Wed 6:00 pm
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Fri 4:45 pm
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Fri 6:00 pm
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Fri 6:30 pm
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Fri 10:00 pm
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Sat 6:00 pm
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Sat 8:00 pm
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