Shorts Program #1 – Relationships
Thursday Sept.20
5:15pm
The Barn
Saturday Sept. 22
3:30pm
The Nomad
$10.00 Seniors and Students tickets available at the box office or by calling 303.818.4645
“Barking Horse”
Shorts Program #1
Short Narrative
Director: Patrick Sheridan
Country: US
Barking Horse explores the struggle of a man who is trying to find meaning in the words for things after the woman he loves as gone away. This is based on a 1988 poem by the same name.
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“Birth of a White Boy”
Peace Shorts Program
Filmmaker Attending
Short Narrative
Director: J. Paul Preseault
Country: US
World Premiere
Peace Shorts Program
Birth of a White Boy follows a man by the name of Jonathon who is torn by thoughts of revenge or reconciliation as he prepares to give the best man toast at his father’s wedding reception. The film highlights important issues such as racism and forgiveness from childhood through adulthood. As we follow Jonathon on his short journey during his father’s wedding we learn that there is more than just meets the eye.
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“The Necklace”
Shorts Program #1
Filmmaker Attending
Short Narrative
Director: MaryLee Herrmann
Country: US (Colorado Filmmaker)
Awards: Best Short Drama from the SNOB Film Festival, American International’s Best Director, Myrtle Beach Film Festival’s Best Short Film, Taos Shortzfest, Audience Choice Award
The Necklace follows a woman who, feeling trapped, has spent her life being everything to everyone else, who reaches out to her free-spirited sister to find the courage to pursue her own dreams.
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“Statue”
Shorts Program #1
Short Narrative
Director: Andrew Bryan
Country: US
Colorado Premiere
Most of us would not choose to spend our afternoon in the French Quarter getting heckled by drunk tourists. But for a ‘living-statue’ street performer, it’s just another day at the office. Needless to say, distractions are welcome. And this particular day has brought the best distraction yet – a beautiful girl playing her guitar down the street. So just go talk to her, right? Unfortunately, it’s not so easy when you’re covered from head to toe in silver paint. Statue is a silent love story that explores the power of unspoken attraction between two people and how they interact despite limitations in communication.
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“When You Find Me “
Shorts Program #1
Short Narrative
Director: Bryce Howard
Country: US
When You Find Me tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to undersatnd. Alternating between past and present, this film is an emotional fable of two people coping with loss in very different ways.
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“Wolf Call”
Shorts Program #1
Short Narrative
Director: Rob Underhill
Country: US
Awards: Hollywood Black Film Festival – Best Short Film, Berlin Black International Cinema – Best Film, Appalachian Film Festival – Best Short Film, Gasparilla International Film Festival – Best Short, Carrboro Film Festival – Best Actor/Audience Choice, North Carolina Black Film Festival – Best Short Film, Magnolia Independent Film Festival – Best Written Film, Clare Valley Film Festival – Best International Actor/2nd Best International Short Film
It is 1956. Previous year, 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy’s mutilated body was found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine sits down with the two men acquitted for the boy’s murder, Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam, to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now…
Wolf Call is the true-story crafted from public record that became a lightning rod for moral outrage pivotal in inspiring a whole generation to commit to social change in the 1950s. ‘His death was a spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement in America,’ Ed Bradley, Emmy Award-winning journalist.
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