​Thursday, June 17
​​Film Screenings at the Artists' Exchange in Cranston

 Artists' Exchange Theatre 82
​82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

​4:45 pm   Documentary Shorts 1
6:30 pm   New England Shorts 1 & Music Films
8:30pm    Short Films 1

Artists' Exchange Black Box Theatre
​50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

​4:15 pm    Feature Film - Don't Read This on a Plane
6:15 pm    Feature Film - Dramarama
8:15 pm    Feature Film - Zoro's Solo

Narrative Feature
4:15 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Don't Read This on a Plane
(Australia, 2019, 90 mins)
Director: Stuart McBratney
Producers: Stuart McBratney, Laszlo Kun

Jovana Fey (Sophie Desmarais) is a novelist. Her first two books received positive reviews, but were a commercial failure. Her third, Don’t Read This on a Plane, has just been released – an amusing, risqué chronicle of a woman’s dalliances with a hundred women. Jovana hopes it will bring the success she craves.

As she attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless, resorting to hitchhiking and sleeping rough to meet her appointments across Europe, all the while attempting to project an image of success.
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Her book’s provocative premise, and her reluctance to deny or acknowledge its autobiographical nature, result in significant reader and media interest. Publicity is also generated by airline passengers ignoring the book’s title, and subsequently being apprehended by security.
Throughout Jovana’s rough and ragged travels around Europe, she meets a wide array of characters, and has her resilience tested daily. She’s forced to question her identity and values, and what she’s willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of her dreams.

Documentary Shorts 1
4:45 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

The Magicians .... of The Merlin Magical Society
(UK, 2019, 28 mins)
Director/Producer: Abdullai Adejumo
A snapshot in to the lives of a group of local magicians, exploring their passion for magic, showcasing some of their tricks and witnessing their annual close up magic competition of The Merlin Magical Society.

Dafa Metti (Difficult)
(UK, 2019, 15 mins)
Director/Producer: Tal Amiran
Under Paris' glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.

I Can't Die, Not Yet
(USA, 2020, 15 mins)
Director/Producer: Samantha Shelton
After my hospitalization at a psychiatric facility, I realized the only way to help my mental health is to open up about it. This is a personal film that focuses on myself and my difficult journey with depression, along with a week dedicated to forming healthy habits for the future. This is about healing, ending stigma, and learning that there is still so much to live for, so I can't die, not yet.

Tommy: The Portrait of A Sculptor
(UK, 2019, 12 mins)
Director/Producer: Chris Frazer Smith
Sculptor John Mills marks the anniversary of the end of WW1 and the impact of war by bringing to life "Tommy", a portrait of a British soldier who has survived and returns homeward bound.

THE NIGHTSIDE
(Australia, 2019, 11 mins)
Director/Producer: Sophie Hexter
What would you do if you inherited a cancer gene? Eight young women from around the globe talk about their experience inheriting the breast cancer (BRCA) gene.

Narrative Feature 
6:15 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Dramarama
(USA, 2020, 91 mins)
Director: Jonathan Wysocki
Producers: Yue Wang, Jonathan Wysocki
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In 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his 4 high school drama friends at their final murder mystery party before they leave for college.
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New England Shorts 1 & Music Films
6:30 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Hush
(USA, 2019, 9 mins)
Director/Producer: Tyler Chipman
Two young girls and their mother struggle to navigate the oppressive restrictions imposed upon them by a patriarch who's taken his faith too far.

On The Whistle
(USA, 2020, 20 mins)
Director TJ Noel-Sullivan in attendance
Producer: Erik Bloomquist
A suburban basketball star struggles to impress the uncompromising coach at his new inner-city school.

Mrs. Osbourne
(USA, 2020, 8 mins)
Director: Gregory Bergeron
Producers: René Zara, Christine Altan
Producer/Writer/Actor René Zara in attendance
Set in England in the early 1800's, a young English widow visits her best friend's country home only to face a trying encounter with her friend's wealthy older brother.

The Alpha's Bet
(USA, 2020, 5 mins)
Director Dan Ramm in attendance
A poem in motion, or visual love letter to...letters.

The Psychics' Network
(USA, 2020, 8 mins)
Directors/Producers Jenn Dlugos, amd Charlie Hatton in attendance
A man experiences technical difficulties when he calls a psychic hotline.

Stuck
(USA, 2020, 14 mins)
Director/Producer: Steve Blackwood
Producer Bob Tourangeau in attendance
George and Helen Simon are a NY advertising couple who buy a sex machine to spice up their lives but it comes with a crazed delivery boy who gets stuck in it on the night of their dinner with George's clients.

Wurlitzer
(Hungary, 2019, 4 mins)
Director: Balázs Simon
Producers: Umbrella, Airplan
A music video by Balázs Simon created for Leifur James's 'Wulitzer'.

Highland Home
(USA, 2019, 5 mins)
Director: Dan Schaefer
Producers: Dan Schaefer, Brent Rogers, Zach Stevens
A poignant tale of longing and loss is revealed when a timeworn journal transports a young girl to a place of enchanting wonders

Jezebel
(USA, 2019, 5 mins)
Director/Producer: Violet Vanderslice
"Jezebel" is a modern Eleanor Rigby story of "unrequited love for a mannequin who wants more" by Blackletter, an apocalyptic rock band in the vein of Bowie and Queen.Blackletter is regularly featured internationally on German and Australian radio. The acoustic duo of Vic Foley and Dave Laros in "Jezebel" is only one mysterious face in Blackletter's cabinet of curiosities.

PAWNS
(USA, 2020, 8 mins)
Director/Producer Elizabeth Gowan-Berliner (Jaane Doe) and Producer Harry J Alpert in attendance
Singer/Songwriter Jaane Doe stars in her Directorial Debut of the Anthemic Folk/Rock Music Video PAWNS. Jaane Doe's alter ego Elizabeth Gowan - Berliner conceived and gave birth to this project in the Berkshire Mountains  of Western Massachusetts. The piece incorporates the natural beauty of the the Berkshires with creative musicians and actors of the region.

​Colors - Black Pumas
USA, 2019, 4 mins)
Director: Kristian Mercado
Producer: Andrew Nisinson
Colors explores the bonds of a young family living in the Bronx. They are displaced after unforeseen circumstances takes the family to unexpected places. Despite the challenges facing them, they find joy, hope, and each other. The landscape of the Bronx is celebrated as a beautiful place. Eric Burton's evocative movements and dance explore the emotions and the shifts we experience in life.

Short Films 1
8:15 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

​Carry My Heart to the Yellow River
(China, 2019, 21 mins)
Director: Alexis Van Hurkman
Producer: Wang Zunzheng
Taking her hospitalized friend's place on a bike tour to the Yellow River, a high school graduate travels to faraway Gannan and races the clock to share pictures of the journey.

Through the Wall
(Canada, 2019, 20 mins)
Director: Larissa Corriveau
Producer: Estelle Champoux
Edmond, the only child of Jacques and Marie, lives in a world without words, a situation which slowly creates a breach in the heart of the family home.  Diving into the depths of her despair, Marie discovers the surprising universe hidden in her son's silence.

The Prince Of Val-Bé
(Canada, 2019, 19 mins)
Director: Jean-François Leblanc
Producer: Colonelle Films
Ex-ATV champion, Martin spent the last six years in prison. Back in his hometown, he founds out that he is no longer welcome in Val-Bélair. His sister and his niece are gonna help him proving to everybody that the Prince is not dead.

BALLOON
(USA, 2019, 17 mins)
Director: Jeremy Merrifield
Producers: Kate Chamuris, Christina Cha
Exploring gender through the lens of the superhero myth, BALLOON questions how we raise boys when our concept of masculinity has become narrow. For fourteen-year-old Sam, surviving junior high means staying below radar. But that becomes impossible after he becomes the target of the school's next viral video. He's pressured to "hit back", but Sam isn't so sure, even if he does have super powers.

SWEET SOLACE
(France, 2019, 10 mins)
Director: Nicolas Durand
Producers: Clara Meyer, Nicolas Durand
Boïko, a penniless, whimsical street musician, smiles again when Christelle and Joseph, two blind passersby, make a striking encounter... Captivated by the series of misunderstandings, Boïko catapults the two blind fellows into his imaginary world made of movies and music...

Narrative Feature 
8:15 PM | Thursday, June 17 | Artists' Exchange| 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Zoro's Solo
(Germany, 2019, 90 mins)
Director: Martin Busker
Producer: Kathrin Tabler

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master.
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Friday, June 18 Films
​Saturday, June 19 Afternoon Films
Saturday, June 19 Evening Films