​Thursday, October 13
​​Film Screenings at the Artists' Exchange in Cranston

6:15 pm   Opening Night Feature - Stay With Me - Artists' Exchange
6:15 pm   Short Films 1 - Theatre 82
8:15 pm   Short Films 2 - Artists' Exchange
8:15 pm   New England Shorts 1 - Theatre 82​

Artists' Exchange
​50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910
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6:15 pm   Opening Night Feature - Stay With Me
8:15 pm    Short Films 2

Theatre 82
​82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910
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​6:15 pm    Short Films 1
8:15 pm   New England Shorts 1

Short Films1
6:15 PM | Thursday, October 13 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 02910

Georgia
(Republic of Korea, 2020, 30 mins)
Director: Jayil Pak
Producer: Boram Kang
When the police refuse to investigate their daughter's alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on the infamous Miryang case in South Korea which shocked the nation in 2004 and continues to fuel public outrage even today.

When She Was Good
(UK, 2021, 20 mins)
Director: Margarita Milne
Producer: Emma Hanson
When a young girl discovers that Santa is not real, she questions the lies told by adults and the terrible secret that she has been forced to keep.

My Border, By Forest
(Italy, 2020, 18 mins)
Director: Giorgio Milocco
Producer: Fabiana Balsamo
Ivan is a sixty-year-old worker born in former Yugoslavia. He lives with his wife in a small village in Friuli called Torviscosa. One day he decides that the time has come to undertake a journey that will take him back to the places of his childhood, trying to solve the sense of guilt that he feels since he was a child.

Break Any Spell
(Canada, 2021, 13 mins)
Director: Anton Jøsef
Producers: Lisi Purr, Pierre Campbell
In this collision of reality and fantasy, a teenage girl uses Live- Action-Role-Playing (LARPing) to cope and escape from her mother, who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer's.

Jill and Jack
(UK, 2021, 10 mins)
Director: Nick Calori
Producer: Aaron Singer-Lee
A love story that never was in a city that does not know how to talk. When Jill dares to chat with stranger Jack, a spark ignites and he rises to the challenge. But is the city ready to converse?

Opening Night Feature - Stay With Me
6:15 PM | Thursday, October 13 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Stay With Me
(USA, 2021, 80 mins)
Director/Producer Marty Lang in attendance
Producers: Leaf Maiman, Sarah de Leon
​Cast: Lara Fox, Addison Turner, James Neal, Taylor Preminger, Marty Lang

​As a young woman struggles through an unspecified mental illness, her best friend and new boyfriend also struggle as they learn to be her mental health advocates.

Short Films 2
8:15 PM | Thursday, October 13 | Artists' Exchange | 50 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291

Il Vespista
(Estonia, 2021, 25 mins)
Director: Francesco Crivaro
Producer: Francesco Crivaro
An unruled Italian writer living in Bali has his life changed when he receives a very unusual gift.

The Cathar
(UK, 2021, 20 mins)
Director Liam Hendrix Heath in attendance
Producer: India Whitty
A fraying, washed-up musician meets a charismatic psychic and becomes convinced that he's receiving messages from a past life, guiding him to long-lost treasure.

JUNE
(New Zealand, 2021, 15 mins)
Director: Dwayne Cameron
Producers: Dwayne Cameron, Sarah James
Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life.

DATELEAP
(UK, 2022, 14 mins)
Director: Jack Evans
Producers; Jack Evans, Hannah Boyce
Amidst media controversy, a virtual reality dating app whisks Callum and Rachel back to the 1930s. But when their swinging fling takes an unexpected turn, any hope of a future together hangs in the balance.

I Wanted To Be Vittorio Gassman
(Italy, 2021, 16 mins)
Director: Cristian Scardigno
1962. Aldo Marianecci, a 40-year-old actor seeking his big break, returns to his hometown, Cisterna di Latina. He will spend the weekend with his lifetime buddies and with a young American woman met on a movie set in Rome. His days will go by waiting for a call that might finally change his life.

New England Shorts 1 *SOLD OUT*
8:15 PM | Thursday, October 13 | Theatre 82 | 82 Rolfe Square, Cranston RI 0291
​Please bring a sweater or light jacket as Theatre 82​ can sometimes be chilly.

Still Alive
(USA, 2022, 19 mins)
Director Jaehee Cheong and Producer Parinton Suwanpraipatana in attendance
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 in attendance
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 and Actor Dustin Teuber in attendance
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 in attendance
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 in attendance
Producer: Anthony Silva
A divorced man hires a cheap paranormal investigator to remove a mobster spirit from his apartment.

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