INDIE SHORT FEST

Too Far, Too Far

Sufang works in the city, she goes back home village to visit her son and mom after a year, then she just knows that her son was drowned in the river along the village few months ago….
Directed by Xuwen Andy Yan (China)

Honor

Torn between her family and her future, a woman must decide if life is more valuable than loyalty. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, “Her” is tasked with taking the life of her child’s father. “He” tries to seduce his way out of the mess he’s created for everyone after stealing money from their crime boss (her Father). Based on the oath he took, he knows his punishment is death and eventually, chooses to take his own life so that she doesn’t have to live with that. But being the woman of “Honor” that she is, she does her job. After the deed is done, she’s a wreck but falling apart is not an option.
Directed by Toni Thai Sterrett (USA)

Box

They were BFFs, now they hardly speak. Can a cat cremation road trip save a friendship? A comedy short film about life, death and kitties.
Directed by Rob Duffield (UK)

The Hat

The sudden and inexplicable appearance of a hat pits two friends against each other with irreversible consequences.
Directed by Peter Ambrosio (USA)

A Concerned Citizen: Civics in Action

Dr. Riki Ott, is a whistleblower who predicted the Exxon Valdez oil spill hours before it happened. A toxicologist, author, and activist, Riki organized the Gulf coast communities to recover from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. She is also helping to spearhead the campaign with Ultimate Civics, one that will introduce a Constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and to reform campaign finance and contributions. The film also follows how other citizens have also taken her example–to change and strengthen efforts at curbing oil pollution of America’s lands, rivers, and coastal waters.
Directed by Bo Boudart (USA)

Don’t Tell Father

A dramatic short film about Moses, an 12-year-old boy who has autism, and his widowed father, Father Clark. Reverend Clark, better known as Father Clark, is the preacher of a small church in rural Louisiana. The turning point arises when Father Clark makes the decision to send off his son to live with his aunt in Washington, in order to save his son from rumors, prejudice, and discrimination.

Moses, however, overhears the conversation and becomes concerned: he is willing to do anything to prevent that from happening. The boy, pushed by the strong yet incommunicable need to feel loved and to be with his father and questioning his own existence, embarks on a quest to find Jolene, his (late) mother…

The Story of Moses.
Directed by Jimmy J. Carter (USA)