LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
The wife of a fisherman lost at sea struggles with denial, loss, grieving and acceptance. This is a poetic story with minimal dialogue that acknowledges the pain and difficulty of a woman and her enlightenment. Filmed against the backdrop of the North Shore with music by Max Richter and Chris Decato.
Directed by Ron Wyman and Scott Caron (USA)
During summer vacation, a teenage girl secretly escapes her obsession with electronic devices to delight in the great outdoors.
Directed by Carl Miller (USA)
A man does a favor for his buddy, giving him a ride to class, when something on the radio spurs a discussion about the music and pop culture of their generation. The conversation takes an unexpected turn and shows how in today’s world a simple chat between friends can go so incredibly wrong.
Directed by S. L. Morales (USA)
An overly protective mother with an abusive past communicates to her mute son through a childhood doll when she is no longer around.
Directed by Mike Egbert (USA)
A jaded accountant receives an unwelcome and unexpected promotion.
Directed by Martin Calvo (Canada)
A successful yet unfaithful writer gets what he deserves after his wife discovers his recent affair.
Directed by Duncan Peake (Australia)
Indie Short Fest is pleased to announce the award winners of August 2019. These projects were shortlisted from a 100:46:05 pool of submissions from 29 countries. Thank you for sharing your projects. And congratulations to everyone!
Indie Short Fest is pleased to announce the nominations of August 2019. These finalists, competing in 62 different categories, were shortlisted from a 35% acceptance rate official selection pool, based on submissions from 29 countries. These nominees represent 17,6% of all submitted works with a total runtime of 100:46:05.
The world wide web is a powerful leveller: content that was once produced and controlled by publishers, industries and institutions is often freely available to be conjured, shared, and re-shared in a variety of non-hierarchal ways. This is perhaps especially true of pornography, long known to be one of the central drivers of web-based technological change and commerce. Rollerbabies (of Paradise) is a montage that exhausts all promises of the exotic and the erotic found in the original films: Bird of Paradise (1951), Rollerball (1975) and Rollerbabies (1976). As a work of satire, this piece embodies its suspicions and questions many of the voyeuristic gazes found in these earlier sources. Designed as an anti-spectacle, the visuals emphasize the juxtapositions of roughly cut transitions upon the repeated movements of the bored skaters. With its sugary violins, the soundtrack is reminiscent of the kind of sentimental music used in iconic love stories. It offers a counter-narrative of a dreamy yet saccharine world.
Directed by David Bergeron and Julie Sando (Canada)
In the middle of the night, a man with unnerving ticks stalks a waitress desperate to save her unborn child.
Directed by Grégoire Vaillant and Charles-Edouard Dangelser (France)