SATURDAY, MAY 4 - BLOCK 2 - 3:30PM
Trivial Pursuits
With the help of her supportive boyfriend, a young woman must pick up the pieces of her life to graduate from NYU after the sudden loss of her best friend, until a letter postmarked before her friend’s death arrives, potentially changing everything. A grounded mental health drama that explores the many perspectives that grief touches.
Director: Kaitlin Kemp
Runtime:07:06
Category: Narrative Short
Art of Survival
Art of Survival tells the story of the Kensington Storefront, an open arts studio that grew up in the heart of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis. The film brings viewers into the remarkable community that flourished at the Storefront and provides a hopeful contrast to the many bleak portrayals of those who struggle with addiction.
Director: Tony Heriza, Valerie Keller, James Wasserman
Runtime: 28:00
Category: Documentary Short
The Weight We Carry
Successful poet and professor Dr. Michelle Nichols, pushes her daughter Jordan, a star athlete and A student, to a place of no return.
Director: Brittney Brackett
Runtime: 18:10
Category: Narrative Shorts
Lonely Girl's Love Song
Carter is a young adult, desperate to escape the loneliness of her home, filled with her emotionally unavailable, artistic aunt, and thirty-year old deadbeat cousin. She attempts to achieve this through the writings of Sylvia Plath and the fantasy of her girlfriend, Olive, who, in the words of Plath, she “fears she made up inside her head.” By the end, Carter finds solace in the acceptance that being alone, doesn’t have to be lonely, and that she is enough.
Director: Giuliana Cenatiempo
Runtime: 17:04
Category: Narrative Short
I Was Not Who I Was
A man slowly loses his grip on reality following the onset of a single psychotic thought. We witness his descent into madness, as ordinary objects in his apartment take on divine significance. He races against time to learn as much as he can from The Voice before his wife returns from a weekend away.
Director: Tim Kail
Runtime:14:11
Category: Narrative Short