2015 Official Selections
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 | Panel :: CONNECT For brewers and distillers, there is no single recipe for success, so pull up a seat for a spirited discussion and ... read more |
 | Director: Ty Parker / Choreographer: Kevin Lee-y Green Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Part of Dance-a-lorus ... read more |
 | Director: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe Documentary Feature :: Magnolia Saeed "Shariff" Torres, a counterterrorism informant for more than two decades, takes on what he swears is his las ... read more |
 | Director: Saman Hosseinpuor Short Film A boy is watching a soccer game on TV and gets so excited he forgets he’s in the middle of a haircut. Oops! read more |
 | Shorts Block :: CONNECT Filmmakers and local startups join together to make a video. An update on Norwood Cheek's groundbreaking filmmakin ... read more |
 | Director: Aaron Kutnick Short Film The origins of film scratches. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Adam Getz Short Film It is 1994. Grunge dominates the airwaves. Pop is out. Plaid is in. A new rock star emerges, commanding the scene. ... read more |
 | Director: Nick Westfall / Creative Director: Joel Vannfuller / Choreographer: Amber Patee Admas Installation / Performance :: Special Programs 2047 is part of a larger work entitled The Mermaid's Song that explores how the sea life or the lack of sea life w ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT It's the perfect time to celebrate female filmmakers! Even though they remain drastically under-represented in t ... read more |
 | Director: Moriah Thomason Short Film This dance film is composed of four solos inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem, A Golden Afternoon, and Don Miguel Rui ... read more |
 | Director: Valerie Weiss Narrative Feature :: Magnolia In this character-driven coming of age story, high school senior Beth Gerringson struggles to decide whether to st ... read more |
 | Director: Jamiel Laurence & Lewis Landini Short Film An intimate and highly personal depiction of dancer and choreographer Marc Brew. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Patrick Basquill Short Film Roommates deal with interpersonal conflict to overcome a sudden departure from normal everyday life. Sc ... read more |
 | Director: Nicolas Steiner Documentary Feature :: Vanguard Far, far away and out of sight, that's where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their ... read more |
 | Director: Noam Sharon & Tal Zagreba Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Israeli band, Acollective, matches their super catchy rock tune with Tal Zagreba and Noam Sharon’s video that expl ... read more |
 | Director: Marcus Mizelle Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Out of work and desperate to be seen, aspiring actor Jesse thinks he's not landing parts because he's bald. After ... read more |
 | Director: Timothy Vanderberg Short Film A turn of the century orphan girl is hired to bring food up to an elderly woman named Agatha who is locked away in ... read more |
 | Director: Ryan Walker Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Here's G'boro North Carolina band Ameriglow, with their haunting track that conjures lyrical imagery of lovers sep ... read more |
 | Director: Adam Bizanski Short Film A nostalgic lament about an ideal corrupted. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Dylan Patterson Short Film A modern fairy tale about a rich and famous CEO who has the perfect life, except for one thing: his daughter Anhed ... read more |
 | Director: Aitor Gutiérrez Short Film Luis, Dario and Peter, three retired friends, meet every night at their neighborhood pool to spy on women. But ton ... read more |
 | Director: Alek Kosinski Short Film A retired mountain climber triumphs over new challenges. A collaboration from the 2nd year animators at UNCSA-S ... read more |
 | Director: Onur Tukel Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites listeners to share their stories. When one night h ... read more |
 | Director: Sebastian Gimmel Short Film A curious woman, appropriately dressed for a rainy day, explores her environment at an empty car park. Around pudd ... read more |
 | Director: Christopher Chambers Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Suddenly uprooted from his home, 12 year-old Armenian boy, Aram, is sent to live with his Grandfather in America w ... read more |
 | Director: Kate Duhamel Short Film As Damian Smith ends his long and celebrated stage career, 'As Is' brings us up close to the raw masculinity and a ... read more |
 | Director: Joanna Arnow Short Film A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her mor ... read more |
 | Director: Raghad Al Khatib Short Film 18-year-old Raghad expresses her desire to reconnect with her father and family in this personal postcard from her ... read more |
 | Director: Kari Sulc Short Film In this observational dance film, the camera work and editing draw to the surface not only the beauty of the body ... read more |
 | Director: Sam Carroll Documentary Feature :: Voices For years before moving to Great Falls, Wiccan High Priestess Darla Wynn, was a celebrated spiritual figure in the ... read more |
 | Installation / Performance Kimi Maeda's solo performance tells the true story of two men held in a Japanese American internment camp during W ... read more |
 | Director: Marshall Johnson Short Film Bernerd, the controlled burn spokesman, is here to teach us about fire safety. Unfortunately he's lost his way and ... read more |
 | Director: Socrates Alafouzos Short Film The hero embarks on an inner journey to find his suppressed childhood self. Memory guides him to observe selected ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties A bowl of hearty cinematic soup. This block features local film making visionaries and their thoughtful exploratio ... read more |
 | Director: Spencer Parsons Short Film That thing where you had such a great time last night that you can't remember the murder. Inspired by actual event ... read more |
 | Director: Pete Chatmon Short Film It would be just another day for Leonard, except The Commission, a shadow organization tasked with keeping members ... read more |
 | Director: Rick Spears Short Film Alex discovers Alice trying to commit suicide. When she hesitates he offers another path. Using special effects ma ... read more |
 | Director: Alan Del Rio Ortiz Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Blood Orange performs his soulful song for the one person that must be most satisfied with what you create and put ... read more |
 | Director: Berndt Mader Narrative Feature :: Magnolia A hybrid narrative/documentary film that examines the convergence of memory, sexuality and the legal system throug ... read more |
 | Director: Matt Reynolds Short Film Divided by a barrier of fog, two disparate species fight to adapt and survive in a deliciously unsympathetic world ... read more |
 | Director: Véronique Vanblaere Short Film A Belgian woman seeks citizenship in the United States, and finds that her experiences are bottomless. read more |
 | Director: Grayson Moore & Aidan Shipley Short Film Returning to boxing class after a life-changing accident, Sheila has a tough time coping with a classmate's far-fr ... read more |
 | Director: Various Panel :: CONNECT Check out a selection of the most creative corporate videos and hear from the makers who are revolutionizing custo ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Chris Heivly offers a first-person extended metaphor for the earliest stages of starting a company, the curiosity- ... read more |
 | Social :: Social Events Come hang out with the dancers from Dance-a-lorus and let the Groove Jet staff serve you bacon and mimosas...A pre ... read more |
 | Director: Natalie van den Dungen Short Film On her first day at a new school, a self conscious young girl learns that friendship can overcome difference. < ... read more |
 | Installation / Performance :: Special Programs A mind blowing immersion experiment in an artificial world where you may not feel entirely comfortable inspired by ... read more |
 | Director: Alan Del Rio Ortiz Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Buscabulla is so cool that it is quite possible that just watching their 3 minute music video will make you become ... read more |
 | Director: Christopher Everett Documentary Feature :: Voices The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with th ... read more |
| Director: Onur Tukel Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites listeners to share their stories. When one night h ... read more |
| Director: Mr. Scooter Short Film C-3P0 has found himself in trouble again! Can he stay calm in the face of danger or will he lose his head? read more |
 | Director: Peter Carolla Short Film In February of 2014 an Episcopal Church in the sleepy Southern town of Davidson, North Carolina installed a life-s ... read more |
 | Director: Johnny Gray & Cameron Smith Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Comedic rapper and southeastern NC native, Camboi Smif, loves him some Niykee Heaton, and he shows it by favoritin ... read more |
 | Director: Ryan Staake Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls V/S/W alumni Ryan Staake delivers this (seemingly) one take vid about a very recently widowed elderly woman as she ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties Echoing from the astute corners of human emotion, these films get the cinematic grit grinding in your bones, and t ... read more |
 | Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Cat Salad is a non-GMO, publicly crowdsourced screening event --a medley of sound-image ingredients being showcase ... read more |
 | Director: Zoë Dehmer Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Celestagramme has a good friend that happens to be a snake and that snake friend tells her how to build an alter t ... read more |
 | Director: Mor Loushy Documentary Feature :: Voices One week after the 1967 'Six-Day War', a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avr ... read more |
 | Director: Anna Jones Documentary Feature :: Voices Chairman Jones tells the story of the director’s father, James Henry Jones, a self-educated farmer who emerges as ... read more |
 | Director: Morton Wetherington Short Film A series of transgressional visions. Screening with read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties This gang of shorts will plop you onto their backs and whizz you around a forest of entertainment. The only rule o ... read more |
 | Social :: Social Events Are you a fabulous singer? Who cares! All that's required on closing night is passion, showmanship, and especially ... read more |
 | Director: Chris Toumazou Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Something bad went down between the people in this laundry mat. You can see it in the angry shake of the faces of ... read more |
 | Director: Tamsin Glasson and Samantha Storr Short Film :: CONNECT Vrse.works presents “Clouds Over Sidra”, a virtual reality film for the United Nations in partnership with Samsung ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT Kickstarter's Dan Schoenbrun is collaborating with five filmmakers to create a five-episode web series where each ... read more |
 | Director: Brian Lonano Short Film A husband gets more than he bargains for when he discovers a mysterious totem on the ground, much to his wife's ch ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT Crowdfunding is becoming a fundamental piece for financing independent film. However, many filmmakers miss the opp ... read more |
 | Director: Christopher McKee Short Film A dark comedy about a romantic encounter in the not-so-normal life of a girl named Sandra. The film explores the t ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT Herbal liqueurs are the mixologist's elixir. Sit, sip and learn about Amaros, digestifs and other key ingredients ... read more |
| Social :: CONNECT Try it straight and in a cocktail as you learn about bourbon's complex history and rich variations. With Curtis Hu ... read more |
| Director: Ian Murray Workshop :: CONNECT Check out the similarities and nuances of three iconic New Orleans drinks: Vieux Carré, Sazerac, and a la Louisian ... read more |
| Workshop :: CONNECT Learn the difference between these two techniques while enjoying samples of each. With Kyle Hankin from Fox Liquor ... read more |
| Workshop :: CONNECT What is barrel aging? How does one control its affects? Taste the flavors a barrel can add while learning about th ... read more |
| Short Film :: CONNECT Come learn about the fascinating history of a classic cocktail through modern-day experts and ancient folklore. Wi ... read more |
 | Director: Olympia Stone Documentary Feature :: Vanguard A largely undiscovered genius, David Beck is known to a select group of collectors and curators. During his early ... read more |
 | Director: André Silva Short Film A creatively crowdsourced, fantastical, animated journey that imagines a future creation myth, crafted by cyber co ... read more |
 | Social :: Social Events If you're hungry like the wolf, then dress in your finest 80s flair and dance your legwarmers off – the dance floo ... read more |
 | Installation / Performance :: Special Programs One of the festival's most popular traditions is a communion of dance and film. Filmmakers pair with choreographer ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties These shorts will fondle that red organ deep down in your chest, only to leave you foaming with fervor. The Offici ... read more |
 | Director: Dalton Price Short Film Jared escapes a dire situation by going on an adventure with an Italian dolphin named Danny. Screening ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Machine-learning, psychometrics and huge data sets are now providing computers with the "insight" to know you bett ... read more |
 | Director: Jonny Look Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls After birthing a cool guy glow worm out of his chest, former Wilmington resident and forever creative content crea ... read more |
 | Director: Paulina Dana Short Film One afternoon, six teenage friends gather around at a cemetery. They appear to be rambling: they film each other a ... read more |
 | Director: LJ Woodard Short Film A group of young Scientists and Reporters investigate the social and dangerous effects of our "selfie" culture. An ... read more |
 | Director: Michael Arcos, Marnie Ellen Short Film A biographical exploration of small freedoms, boyhood, and an unadulterated curiosity that has been suppressed for ... read more |
 | Director: Drew Cox and Antoine Marc Short Film A man crawls to his death. Spilling out the essence of life, he envisions vivid memories to accompany his decline. ... read more |
 | Director: Brian Lonano Shorts Block :: Shorties These films will kidnap your soul and make it swallow a gallon of blood, a scoop of raised-hair, a pinch of questi ... read more |
 | Director: Alice Waddington Short Film A weary hell minion is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not willing to return to her daily routin ... read more |
.jpg) | Director: John Goldschmidt Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Curmudgeonly widow Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce) obstinately clings to his way of life and his livelihood as a Kosher ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT The move toward Pay-for-Performance in healthcare is driving the need for tech solutions that achieve better engag ... read more |
 | Short Film You are in a room that has hosted numerous tenants. This room is a collector of aggression, love, lust, and pain. ... read more |
 | Director: Andrej Kolencik, Peter Skala Short Film When souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness, noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this eart ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties This block is bubbling over with Grade-A wisdom, spirited gestures, and humbling adolescence. read more |
.jpg) | Director: Deborah Kelly and Christian J Heinrich Short Film Video artwork that was made to be sent into deep space as a message to our future friends. Screening w ... read more |
 | Director: Max Esposito Short Film The story of Jon "Chino" Wong, a New England native expected to grow up and take over his family’s business, Bosto ... read more |
| Installation / Performance :: Special Programs A new variety show featuring performances from all of Cuc' 21's emcees. You are encouraged to bring a spare pair o ... read more |
 | Director: HELMI Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls One of two mind blowing videos from master music video maker, Helmi, who takes us on a journey into the night. Fro ... read more |
 | Director: Maciej Wiktor Short Film Simon and his father coexist in a complex relationship, tangled up in a secret of their past. This stasis begins t ... read more |
 | Director: Sarah Kinlaw Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Part of Dance-a-lorus ... read more |
 | Social :: CONNECT The Wilmington Female Filmmakers Collective hosts a CONNECT Social Hour to celebrate female filmmakers at Cucaloru ... read more |
 | Director: Jiyoung Lee Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Phoebe is a lonely video game designer seeking a true connection in the modern world. Unfortunately, she doesn't r ... read more |
 | Director: Veit Helmer Narrative Feature :: Kidsalorus The children of Bollersville knock out their parents and start out to set a new world record. The result is... t ... read more |
 | Director: Derege Harding Short Film Sara and Michael are on their first date when all hell breaks loose. One would think they would be terrified as it ... read more |
 | Director: APLUSFilmz, PierPictures Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Get a new perspective on this world, visually and lyrically with The Flatbush Zombies x Trash Talk dudes and their ... read more |
 | Director: Zinhle Essamuah, Quinn Myers, Josh Strupp Short Film Ahmad Zaghal is a 32-year-old resident of Germantown, Maryland, right outside Washington, DC. A punk and experimen ... read more |
 | Director: Marquette Jones Short Film A dark comedy that follows the follies of a group of stylish girlfriends who hope to heal their battered hearts in ... read more |
 | Director: GJ Echternkamp Narrative Feature :: Magnolia In 1983, Cindy married a rock star, Frank. She imagined a life of glitz and glamor. But as life happened, Frank lo ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT How does one identify the problem worth fixing, the opportunity worth pursuing? And, then deliver quick but susta ... read more |
 | Director: Nate Wilson Short Film Platonic room-mates Joseph and Ellie try to 'keep it casual' when they find themselves manipulated by an otherworl ... read more |
 | Director: Alison Bagnall Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally arrested 19-ye ... read more |
 | Director: Dave Merson Hess Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Made entirely by hand and animated without digital effects, "Greyhound Blues" explores themes of traveling and chi ... read more |
 | Director: Liam Saint-Pierre Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls “Off Peak Dreams” highlights the modern day money squeeze by showing the economical rat race on the ground level. ... read more |
 | Director: adam avilla Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls "Tell Me" chronicles the story of four dogs that long for the benefits that life as a human would bring them and p ... read more |
 | Director: Christina Vestey Short Film South Africa stands beneath the shadows of overwhelming statistics of rape, abuse, violence and substance abuse, t ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT Though DIY artists have their work cut out for them to make a career in the entertainment industry, their independ ... read more |
 | Director: Justin Mitchener Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls A heartfelt journey through Wilmington, North Carolina with the best intergalactic rap supergroup you've probably ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT These industry leaders are building successful and innovative businesses -- that, by the way, also help reduce our ... read more |
 | Director: Marceia Patterson Short Film In a gloomy castle, a scientist, a vampire, and a giant fight over the possession of a beautiful flower. read more |
 | Director: Zachary Davenport Short Film Waiting for an early flight, Lance and Melanie waste time wandering around campus. All the while, their hidden con ... read more |
| Director: Harper Piver Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Grounding is a physical exploration of the inner workings of the seeking mind; be it the monkey mind of meditation ... read more |
 | Director: Sophie Koko Gate Short Film We are all born as wet as a banana, 75% water. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Zinhle Essamuah Short Film A capturing of the spirit of the #BlackLivesMatter movement as it transcends state boundaries and into the hearts ... read more |
 | Director: Kira Bursky Short Film While on a bike trip with her best friend, Hattie travels between reality and her day dream world where she and he ... read more |
 | Director: Chloe Domont Short Film A well-intentioned young man struggles to explain last night. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Byron Hurt Documentary Feature :: Works-in-Progress Hazing continues to be widely seen as a meaningful and legitimate rite of passage, despite fraternity and sorority ... read more |
 | Director: Ingrid Veninger Narrative Feature :: Vanguard A young man (Pedro Fontaine) is pushed to the borders of sexuality, sanity, and to the edge of the earth, where he ... read more |
 | Director: Stephen Cone Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Over the course of 24 hours, a journey of the 17th birthday pool party of preacher's kid Henry Gamble. As Henry tr ... read more |
 | Director: Anji Crain Short Film An animated urban fairytale told through movement. A young urban dreamer and a restless architect are brought toge ... read more |
 | Director: Jillian Mayer Short Film A girl takes a walk outside. Another provocative digital doodle from Borscht Film Festival organizer and media cha ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties These shorts were forged by the slayers of social combat, the pioneers of fair-play, and the units of undeniable s ... read more |
 | Director: David Gwaltney Short Film David shows you how to make a vision board and fulfill your dreams in this spoof of YouTube How-To videos. ... read more |
 | Director: Corey Howard Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Hungry Girl rocks the suburbs and provides neighborhood jogger/director of this video, Corey Horward, enough rock ... read more |
| Director: Lindsay Keys in collaboration with WooJae Chung / Choreographers: Sophie Sotsky in collaboration with Greta Hartenstein Installation / Performance :: Special Programs An ethereal dancer traverses expansive landscapes unceasingly propelled onwards by an internal motor. Softness be ... read more |
 | Director: Wally Chung Short Film A man has to relieve himself. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Alex Zhuraviov Short Film Ayoung woman finds herself lost in a deep forest. She is blindfolded and unable to see as she walks towards ... read more |
 | Director: Hannah Black Short Film A night in the life of a disconnected couple. What if they had one conversation? Could it change the course of the ... read more |
 | Director: Christopher Zaluski Short Film Ron Killian has big art dreams. On the brink of 50 years old, however, he's worried that time may be running out. ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT Cinc3D founder Dominic Cincotti joins Ryan Staake, Norwood Cheek, Jessica Kantor and others to shed light on the e ... read more |
 | Director: Craig Thiemam / Choreographer: Brittany Patterson Installation / Performance An exploration of the ways in which the mundane landscape of life can become stunningly beautiful when looked at f ... read more |
_CUC.jpg) | Director: Matthew Brown Narrative Feature :: Vanguard William, Alissa, Gary, and Eric are close friends at different stages in their high school careers, but the social ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT The InnovateHER Challenge is a national prize competition through the Small Business Administration aimed at unear ... read more |
 | Director: Simon Milner Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls If you look at Is Tropical’s catalog of music videos you may notice they share a common theme of genre defiance. ... read more |
 | Director: Tom Schroeder Short Film Sunday on the long curve of Campese, Isola del Giglio. An impressionistic sketchbook film about the Italian island ... read more |
 | Director: Sasha Gordon Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Sonia is a neurotic jingle writer who's always dreamt of a big and exciting life. Surprised by a sudden proposal a ... read more |
 | Director: Jim Haverkamp, Ellen Hemphill Short Film A widow, alone at home, sees something heavenly and wounded fall into her backyard. The old woman, coffee mug in h ... read more |
 | Director: Ryan Staake Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Two teenage dogs lose their virginity to the sweet soul sounds of J. Cole rapping about losing his virginity. ... read more |
 | Director: Joshua Yates Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Born into this world in the town of Fayetville, NC, director of film, Yates, takes us on a back road, back of the ... read more |
 | Director: Jack LeMasters Short Film Even though Jack has just begun third grade, this has not stopped him on his desire to become one of the new up an ... read more |
 | Director: Childish Gambino, Calmatic Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls read more |
 | Director: Leslie Cunningham Documentary Feature :: Works-in-Progress Step Right Up, Folks! The stories of one of America’s most successful traveling shows that helped launch the caree ... read more |
 | Director: Thomas Wortham Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls ILM rapper, Jones, and director Thomas Wortham, are the same person, and in this video, Jones provides the soundtr ... read more |
 | Director: Adrienne Subia Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Emma is an aspiring sound designer in LA stuck paying the bills by creating sound effects for pornos. Barkley has ... read more |
 | Director: Harry Rossi Short Film When her late fiancé requests her virginity from beyond the grave, a young lass must decide between love and diamo ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties This block is sure to stimulate all of the snickers living inside of your giggle-box. Snorts will become the most ... read more |
 | Director: Roger Allers Narrative Feature :: Kidsalorus The Prophet, by celebrated Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran, is among the most popular volumes of poetry eve ... read more |
 | Director: Loong Wah Short Film In a night club disco bar, there is fabulous veteran Drag Queens Performer. At the same time, there will be many n ... read more |
 | Director: Sam Kretchmar Narrative Feature :: Magnolia After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his "first love," only to discover she was killed many years ag ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Cultural equity, diversity, inclusion, creative placemaking, and innovation have long been buzzwords in the artist ... read more |
| Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT With entrepreneurs increasingly seen as critical to the nation's economy, Joan Siefert Rose has emerged as a leadi ... read more | |
 | Director: Gillian Wallace Horvat Short Film A nice guy discovers a darker side of his personality when his girlfriend reveals her hidden weakness. ... read more |
 | Director: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley Short Film In June 1987, the day after director Michael Galinsky's high school graduation, he photographed a Klan rally in hi ... read more |
 | Director: Aly Migliori Short Film In returning home to celebrate a Catholic feast, Sara faces a family that now feels foreign and a culture she no l ... read more |
 | Director: Trey Edward Shults Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Following a prolonged battle with addiction and self-destruction, Krisha, the black sheep of the family she abando ... read more |
 | Director: Harrison Atkins Narrative Feature :: Vanguard An awkward twenty something (Lindsay Burdge) begins to undergo some strange physical changes after a weekend tryst ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT Cape Fear Women in Tech and Tech Talent South team up to offer a workshop on building webpages, hacks, and tricks ... read more |
 | Director: Aslak Danbolt Short Film Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time, but first he goes on one last adventu ... read more |
 | Director: Wilkie Branson Short Film An independent dance animation about dreams, fears and aspirations. Made with over 4000 hand-cut characters Little ... read more |
 | Director: Christopher Holmes Narrative Feature :: Vanguard While navigating life with his hyper-protective mother along the enigmatic Outer Banks of North Carolina's coast-- ... read more |
 | Director: Zach Bailey & Louis Celano Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls I think we all have those reflect-on-the-past kind of nights where you just want to be alone and drink a light blu ... read more |
 | Director: Matthew Lessner Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls There’s a theme of three women that look alike and share a similar goal of hypnotizing and controlling those that ... read more |
 | Director: Fred Ireland Short Film Life imitating art...in the not-so-nice sense. Drawing upon a little film noir, a little dark comedy, and a lot of ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties This hearty batch of films is swollen with sincerity: A well-spent moment of surging nourishment to your eyeballs. ... read more |
 | Director: KOSTR Short Film When his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Mr D finds himself more lost than ever. He finds a shabby hotel ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT Media makers discuss the creative. communication, and commercial potentials of integrating video and audio into tr ... read more |
 | Director: Robert L. Goodman Short Film Anna Phylaxis comes to America and dances to the music of the streets. Screening in read more |
 | Director: James M. Johnston Short Film Marcus is dealing with some shit. He wanders through his day distracted and quiet, acting out at strangers, withdr ... read more |
 | Director: Emily Kaitlyn Hunter Short Film A series of unrelated interviews find connection through the power of human emotion. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Narrative Feature :: Magnolia When brothers Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias (a near-unrecognizable Mads Mikkelsen, sporting an outlandishly fak ... read more |
 | Social :: Special Programs All the fun and fellowship that Midnite Brunch brings plus the brain popping performances of VJ’s & DJ’s BF’s 4 EV ... read more |
 | Director: Dayton Payne Short Film A killer stalks his victim, only to become the victim himself. Screening with read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties These shorts will jab into your cavities of curiosity, ooze satisfaction into your senses, and bolt lightning into ... read more |
 | Director: SeungHee Kim Short Film A woman looks into her mind. Chasing her ideals on a tightrope. Every imperfect piece of her mind completes hersel ... read more |
 | Director: Edward Tyndall Short Film In this off-kilter comedy a failing missionary seizes an opportunity to save a girl's soul but soon realizes he's ... read more |
 | Director: Ken Wardrop Documentary Feature :: Magnolia Oklahoma has recently been voted the manliest state in the US. With Mother's Day coming soon, radio show host Joe ... read more |
 | Director: Bryan Poyser Short Film A high school algebra teacher mixes up his medications on his first day on the job, to disastrous results. ... read more |
 | Director: Babacar Ndiaye Short Film At a time when Hip Hop seems to be headed in a disappointing direction, there exists an underexposed community of ... read more |
 | Director: Evan Mann Short Film Screening with Waffle Street ... read more |
 | Director: FLEUR & MANU Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Music Video making duo dynamos Fleur & Manu have created a fascinating and delicate piece about love, intimacy, an ... read more |
 | Director: Jamie Hawkins-Gaar Short Film What if we lived here? And hired movers...(this escalated quickly) Screening with read more |
 | Director: Bruce Smolanoff Short Film Mel, a 20 something open mic comedian with a family of unfulfilled hopes and dreams, looking for acceptance in all ... read more |
 | Director: Jordan Ray Allen Short Film In this 80s comedy, a high school student must return his principal's porn rental by four o'clock in order to grad ... read more |
 | Installation / Performance :: Special Programs NAKED LADIES-a new solo show written and performed by Thea Fitz-James-is that moment when someone tells you that w ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT The Internet of Things (IoT) is touching every industry and bringing profitability with it. If you have more quest ... read more |
 | Director: Lauren Knapp Short Film An observational documentary of four women, all in their 80s and all living in the same senior citizen apartment c ... read more |
 | Director: Dent De Cuir Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls A cleaver spoof on toy commercials of the 1980’s from master cleaver concept creator Dent De Cuir, in “Planet Onli ... read more |
 | Director: Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine Narrative Feature :: Convulsions HOLLY wants to save ROB, has fallen in love with him. She is training to be a paramedic and works a dead end job i ... read more |
 | Director: Toby Cregan Narrative Feature :: Vanguard The year is 2879 due to pollution the ocean has dried up, the only way to surf is by time travel using a cybotacti ... read more |
 | Director: Christene Hurley Short Film When a couple of wannabe hit-men botch a job, the fury of the mafia forces one of them to hit the road and sacrifi ... read more |
 | Director: Alex Moratto Short Film Matt Smith, an openly gay young man in conservative South Carolina, reflects on his first relationship with a man ... read more |
 | Director: Sarah Salovaara Short Film A weight conscious shut-in has a pesky neighbor who needs a lift to the locksmith. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Deborah Riley Draper Documentary Feature :: Works-in-Progress In 1936, 18 African-American Olympians sail to Berlin and defy Jim Crow segregation and Nazi racism to compete in ... read more |
 | Director: Ya’Ke Smith Short Film A boy, who has never had to suffer the consequences for his actions, becomes severely addicted to Internet violenc ... read more |
 | Director: Eva Stotz Short Film A tap dancer performs, while elsewhere people run from the tear gas of the police. Two worlds apart ̶ if it w ... read more |
 | Director: Ron Fallica Short Film On any given day, at any moment, anything can change. Screening in read more |
 | Social :: Visual/Sound/Walls A curated collection of mind-blowing music videos from around this planet that we call home. Each video seamlessly ... read more |
 | Director: Mohit Jaswal Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Oulipo performs on a public access program, and along with the editing and visual FX provided by director, Mohit J ... read more |
 | Director: Jordan Vogt Short Film After a virus wipes out most of humanity, Outlast depicts how a small confrontation can quickly turn violent when ... read more |
 | Director: Brad Lambert Short Film When Joseph Palmer chose to defy social norms and grow a robust beard in 1830s Massachusetts, he became a social p ... read more |
 | Director: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Love Songs For Robots is an attempt to create the sort of film Martians might make for humans. The film is inspire ... read more |
| Director: Adam Getz / Choreographers: Daniel Smith and Philip McGee
Installation / Performance :: Special Programs This piece takes the audience on a wild adventure through two distinct dreamscapes from their point of view. Dance ... read more |
 | Director: MENZ Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Watching a video like this makes one admire the skill of a good editor and baffle at the time it takes to create a ... read more |
 | Director: Mike Mohan Short Film A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go a ... read more |
 | Director: Zige Zhang Short Film The story of a woman in shadow who tries to find her true reflection in a mysterious hall of mirrors. As she dance ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT On Saturday, November 14, Princess Street will be closed between Front and Second Streets for a PlaceMakers Fair, ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties An interactive package of shorts for toe tapping and shoe shuffling. Just dance. read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT The future of life event prediction is here. Lapetus creates science and technology-based solutions for lifecycle ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Founded in 2013, EasyVote Solutions provides election officials with state-of-the-art software to reduce the time ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT With a soft, life-like nipple and skin-like tone and texture, our bottles minimize nipple confusion and bottle ref ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Next Glass is science for the love of drinking. You rate drinks you’ve had before. Next Glass analyzes your rating ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Performance Culture is a web-based performance management platform that helps managers and employees improve throu ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT ServiceWhale promises the best deal for home improvement projects in minutes. Homeowners select what service is ne ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT TacLace is the most innovative way to secure your laces and allows you to make those critical seconds count when l ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT The winner of Port City Pitch, determined by crowd feedback and possibly earned funding, will take the stage a sec ... read more |
 | Director: Dylan Ebbs Short Film Russell, the plumber, is sent to repair a broken toilet. Upon fixing the toilet, Russell discovers that when flush ... read more |
 | Director: Bryce Flint-Somerville / Choreographer: Mirla Criste Installation / Performance :: Special Programs A prince and a ghost share a space between limbo and beyond. Part of read more |
 | Director: Tali Shalmon Ezer Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Adar, an androgynous 12-year-old girl, lives in a small apartment with her mother, Alma, and her young stepfather, ... read more |
 | Director: Evan Mann Short Film A short film created in the span of two weeks as a commission for Denver Digerati — the program that brings digita ... read more |
 | Director: Brittany "B.Monét" Fennell Short Film A teenage girl with a troubled past who uses her gift of rapping to transform herself. Screening in ... read more |
 | Director: RIck Dillwood, Carrie Hart Short Film A southern summer camp, for 12-17 youth, that builds queer community through music. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Jonny Look Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls The whole health food craze can really drive a person nuts, and in “Night Club”, finally, one man takes a stand ag ... read more |
 | Director: Margaret Byrne Documentary Feature :: Works-in-Progress In the fields of Bertie County opportunities are scarce. Like many rural areas across the country, Bertie struggle ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Every growth–oriented startup needs cash at some point. Friends and family? Banks? Angels? VC? This panel of exper ... read more |
 | Director: Andrei Crețulescu Short Film One girl. One car. One night. No coincidence. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Ian Delano Short Film An aging hamster reflects upon her existence. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Rajko Ristanović Short Film A chance encounter between two men with a shared point in the past. A game of destiny or cosmic justice? This time ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT Wilmington is robust and ready to support companies at all stages of development: from idea, through boot camp, in ... read more |
 | Director: Mike Olenick Short Film Anonymous notes, a jump rope, tin foil, a baseball bat, and a drill are just some of the that dangerous objects wa ... read more |
 | Director: Kate Herron Short Film Everything changes one night for Meredith, a young backpacker desperate to find meaning in her life, when she meet ... read more |
 | Director: Crishon Jerome Short Film A coming-of-age video that captures a young woman’s intimate struggles and consequences with decision-making from ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties These films take you to the streets of distinguished story-telling. Who wouldn't want to watch movies that make th ... read more |
 | Director: Brigitta Wagner Narrative Feature :: Vanguard After receiving some bad news, a New York actress escapes to the American Midwest to visit her old friend, a frust ... read more |
 | Director: Dylan Patterson / Choreographer: Anne Firmender Installation / Performance :: Special Programs This pas de deux utilizes home movies and ephemeral films from the 40s and 50s to explore how difficult marriage c ... read more |
 | Director: Gianfranco Bianchi Short Film Jane dreams of a different life. A life represented by the primal need to be free to roam the land. To discover wh ... read more |
 | Director: Olivia Wyatt Documentary Feature :: Voices Almost every single Moken survived the Tsunami of 2004, thanks to premonitions from their shamans and ancestral wi ... read more |
 | Director: Chris Rogy Short Film SajakThor engages with a polarized and oftentimes violent, political landscape that has remained challenging in Ca ... read more |
 | Director: Jamal Joseph Jr. Short Film Samantha Newkirk is a quadruple threat. A black belt, an actress, an academic and a surfer. This vignette explores ... read more |
 | Director: Fons Schiedon Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls As Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig points out in the vocals on this track, his girl is running the city of New York, ... read more |
 | Director: Ally Gold Short Film Why make a film in our chaotic world? Screening in read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties Watching this block is like swallowing a cake topped with world-class sprinkles, and licking a spoonful of intelle ... read more |
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 | Director: Kenneth Price Short Film In the past 100 years we have lost 93% of our planet's seed diversity. John Coykendall, master gardener of Blackbe ... read more |
 | Director: Ava Lowrey / Choreography: Grace Ojeda Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Part of Dance-a-lorus ... read more |
 | Director: Ashley Sabin Short Film A woman awakes from a dream and explores life. Her life is embodied in these images and sounds. A poem from lost f ... read more |
 | Director: Rob Tiffin, Ben Lamm, Mitchell Hardage Short Film A man puts it all on the line for the woman of his dreams. Screening with read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties An interactive package of shorts for toe tapping and shoe shuffling. Just dance. read more |
 | Director: Edwin Tovar, Fredo Tovar & Shad Robinson Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties What do you say to a selection of shorts that dares you to take a peek at them in a dark room? I'll be watching yo ... read more |
 | Short Film :: CONNECT SightLine: The Chair, is a surreal experience designed as a demoing tool. Crafted to throw users into the world of ... read more |
 | Director: Babette Siobhan Short Film A cinematic companion piece to Ana Dee's 'Sisters of the Black Sky: MoonCult Look Book 2015. Screening ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT This Site Specific Movement Workshop focuses on creating movement rooted in the environment seen on screen. Draw ... read more |
 | Director: Zach Weintraub Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Rob and his friend Austyn apply to become human guinea pigs at the local medical testing facility of a vaguely int ... read more |
 | Director: Sarah Kinlaw Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Director of this video and front woman of Softspot, Sarah Kinlaw, steps in front of the camera to instruct the pro ... read more |
 | Director: Mary C. Taylor Short Film Poor Junebug. She's having another one of those days, a bug day. Screening in read more |
 | Director: David Kreutzer Short Film A young boy fantasizes about being an ancient samurai warrior to help him deal with a playground bully. read more |
 | Director: Steve Clarke Short Film Dancer approaches and confronts barriers, employing mirror and shadow images. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Patrick Ogelvie / Choreographer: Linda Ann Webb Installation / Performance :: Special Programs Five shy guys attend a show featuring a bevy of saucy dames. Drawn into their monochrome world, the guys are trans ... read more |
 | Director: Mtume Gant Short Film The story of Jeremiah Monk One Sinclair, a NYC Hip Hop artist who has never reached any real success, has thus rea ... read more |
 | Workshop :: CONNECT This panel will explore what's in place and what's needed to build and sustain Wilmington's tech, entrepreneurial ... read more |
| Panel :: CONNECT Are you really ready to start a business? Not just any business, but one that grows, hires, expands, and has a cha ... read more |
 | Director: Jonathan Guggenheim Short Film Neil, a graphic designer, is under extreme pressure to create a logo for a new men's shampoo. Screening ... read more |
 | Director: Issac King Short Film An animated story about a boy exploring his world, mediated by technology and social media. Are we a part of natur ... read more |
 | Director: Nathan Silver Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Married couple Jim and Lucy (Keith Poulson, Deragh Campbell) run a commune for sober living out of their suburban ... read more |
 | Director: Roman De Giuli Short Film One of the first evidences to show the beauty and colorfulness of fluids and particles in tiny areas, only have an ... read more |
 | Director: Emily Carmichael Short Film Stryka is an awesome reptile woman from another planet who does heists and odd jobs with her partner in crime, Cal ... read more |
 | Director: Iva Gocheva Short Film Guided by an off screen interviewer, Sunday follows a young Bulgarian woman in New York dealing with the harsh rea ... read more |
| Director: Mr. Scooter Short Film KABLAM! The Super Hero Squad is in full force as they battle their arch-nemisis Harley Quinn! Screenin ... read more |
 | Director: Mark Jenkins Short Film Reflection and reincarnation. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Joseph Frank, Zachary Reed Narrative Feature :: Vanguard In a cramped row house on the border of Washington D.C., two stories of big dreams take place. Floyd and his famil ... read more |
 | Director: Chris McKee & Lowe McKee Short Film In a new relationship and falling for each other, Peter and Alice walk home after a date. Alice invites him in, bu ... read more |
 | Director: Liam Hall, Matias Breuer Short Film The friendship between two boys is tested during a day in the park. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Sion Sono Narrative Feature :: Convulsions A bus full of high school girls are on their way to a school trip. A sudden gust of wind slices the bus in half, l ... read more |
 | Director: Mitchell Rose Short Film A sci-fi aerial dance-film glimpsing a dark future when spambot drones chase a fleeing populace blasting ads for V ... read more |
 | Director: Madeleine Tangney Short Film What if love isn't the end goal, but the obstacle? High School senior Janie Jones joins a team sports league at he ... read more |
 | Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT George Taylor (Next Glass, Likeli, and National Speed) considers entrepreneurs and the creative class, how they ar ... read more |
| Keynotes & Speakers :: CONNECT Fred Meyers, President and Founder of Queensboro.com. "I Have a Dream. Everything We Understand About Leadership ... read more |
 | Director: Yara Travieso Short Film An absurdist black-comedy short film depicting the catastrophe of lost expectations by satirizing cinema and demys ... read more |
 | Director: Elizabeth Fletcher Short Film A couple tries to reason with enforcers in this case of mistaken identity. Screening in read more |
 | Social :: Social Events Celebrate Cuc' 21 with a 21-Minute Bash! Studio doors will open for the fest's most potent party — featuring drink ... read more |
 | Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger Documentary Feature :: Voices Margaret Mead is the best-known anthropologist of all time. She was fascinated by how remote cultures, locked for ... read more |
 | Director: Jessica Kantor Short Film :: CONNECT A man visits a female archer, and chaos ensues. Created by Jessica Kantor, Matt Sundin, and Henrik Christoffersson ... read more |
.jpg) | Director: Ryan Spindell Short Film A dark and stormy night. An innocent babysitter all alone. An escaped psychopath out for blood. You know how this ... read more |
 | Director: Bryan Storkel Short Film Pete Weber is the self-declared "bad boy of bowling" and first rock star of the sport. This ESPN '30 for 30' short ... read more |
 | Director: Jackson Anthony, Theo Anthony Short Film Follow the sounds and stories of Appalachian musicians through a modern landscape in the throes of environmental t ... read more |
 | Director: Stanley Nelson Documentary Feature :: Magnolia Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored-cities were burning, Vietnam was explo ... read more |
 | Director: Ava Lowrey Short Film Dalton Stevens is a folk artist from Bishopville, South Carolina. An insomniac, he stumbled on his art by accident ... read more |
 | Director: Davy Force, Nick DenBoer Short Film The first of its kind in remixed, augmented cinema. A theatrical trailer for a fictional film in which Stanley Kub ... read more |
 | Director: Sean Byrne Narrative Feature :: Convulsions Jesse, a struggling artist, and his young wife Astrid and daughter Zooey buy the house of their dreams after the p ... read more |
 | Director: Grainger David Short Film About a girl who lives on a farm, and the strange little monster that lives in her attic. Screening in ... read more |
 | Director: Michelle Marquez Short Film This experimental film provides an emotional roller coaster experience that was musically and visually designed ba ... read more |
 | Director: Kenneth Price Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls NC R&B outfit, The Foreign Exchange, teams up once again, as they’ve done so many times before, with director Kenn ... read more |
 | Director: Oren Shai Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Laine, a young woman on the run from the law, turns up at the Frontier, an isolated desert diner and motel. She is ... read more |
 | Director: Jonny Look Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls Drive through Suburbia with post punk duo The Garden as their night out turns into a noodle floating nightmare. B ... read more |
 | Director: Kai Stänicke Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls What if the emotional wounds that occur when being rejected by a potential or present romantic partner, could mani ... read more |
 | Director: Martha J Moore Short Film An inspiring portrait documenting 81-year-old North Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird's courageous fight again ... read more |
 | Director: Karyn Kusama Narrative Feature :: Convulsions Will and Eden were once a loving couple. After a tragedy took their son, Eden disappeared. Two years later, out of ... read more |
 | Director: Gabrielle Despaigne Short Film Kiara is an undefeated street boxer who will never lose a fight in her life. But Darius is determined to beat her, ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT The Last Mile is a tech incubator inside San Quentin prison. Inmates are taught entrepreneur skills with the goal ... read more |
 | Director: Tess Martin Short Film An animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a H ... read more |
 | Director: Rodrigo Dorfman Short Film Deep in the Smokies lives Susan Morgan Leveille, a third generation weaver deeply rooted in a sense of place and t ... read more |
 | Director: A.D. Calvo Narrative Feature :: Magnolia The story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive, ... read more |
 | Director: Alma Llerena Short Film What happens if you decide to observe yourself as you go through a range of emotional chemicals in an emotional st ... read more |
 | Director: Jen Guy Metcalf Short Film A young woman and young man meet during the early morning on the beach. Their love begins and continues through th ... read more |
 | Director: Jordan Vogt Short Film @ThatJakeSteward wrote the perfect tweet, and it ruined his life. His meteoric rise to fame brings him everything ... read more |
 | Director: Adetoro Makinde Short Film Born at just 23 weeks and weighing 1 pound, Tyrese's head was the size of an egg. If he survived the night, the do ... read more |
 | Director: Adam R Brown Short Film A father and son have a close encounter with some ramen on a weekend hunting trip. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Dan Schoenbrun Short Film Hello, Bear River High School. These are our morning announcements for Tuesday, April 19th 1994. Screen ... read more |
 | Director: Alexei Dmitriev Short Film The shadow of your smile, when you are gone A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I Screening wit ... read more |
 | Director: Alex Wu (Zhen Wu) Short Film One video from a series called "The Song of GuQin". It shows the beauty of a hand dance. The guqin is the modern n ... read more |
 | Director: Bennett Pellington Short Film Two men discuss the murder of a loved one in a prison psych ward. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Travis Bogosian, Henry Chaisson Short Film Theodora, a young girl left to her own devices, spends the afternoon gathering seemingly random ingredients for an ... read more |
 | Director: Don Hardy Documentary Feature :: Vanguard Theory of Obscurity tells the story of the renegade sound and video collective known a The Residents...a story tha ... read more |
 | Director: Carol Nguyen Short Film A chilling experimental meditation on the lies in which we tell ourselves. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Rob Underhill Short Film Chicago-born Mamie Till tells the world what a culture of racial hatred had done to her only son, Emmett Till. ... read more |
 | Director: Paul D. Hart Short Film A young female Marine war Veteran navigates her disintegrating life until there is nothing left but to make a choi ... read more |
 | Director: HELMI Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls This visual feast by Helmi merges aestheticism and humor into a stylized assault of images that sync with the hot ... read more |
 | Director: Marshall Johnson Short Film Aaron finds out that there are worse things than shopping with your girlfriend when his online tip show spins out ... read more |
 | Director: Britni West Narrative Feature :: Vanguard Combustible dreams fail to ignite as lonely, middle-aged, Dawn is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop ... read more |
 | Director: Matt Hulse Short Film Matt Hulse’s charming short is the outcome of a year long artist's residency coordinated by ACES (Aberdeen Centre ... read more |
 | Director: Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari Documentary Feature :: Magnolia T-Rex is an intimate story about a new kind of American heroine. For the first time, women's boxing is included in ... read more |
 | Director: Jillian Corsie Documentary Feature :: Voices Trichster follows seven individuals, ranging from eight years old to late twenties, as they navigate the complicat ... read more |
 | Shorts Block :: Shorties A selection of shorts to supply an endless picnic of pleasure. Gotta chomp it. read more |
 | Director: Derrick Belcham Short Film A tripartite fugue consisting of two dancers and a violinist weaving in and out of a singular form towards an unce ... read more |
 | Director: Stephanie Winter Music Video :: Visual/Sound/Walls It’s a tale as old as time. A white space robot verses a black, giant octopus hell-bent on ruling the Universe alo ... read more |
 | Director: Jerry Pyle Short Film Two roommates engage in an escalating game of trust exercises. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Charlie Ball Short Film A couple's old arguments threaten to drown Shelly until she finds the courage to breathe. Gil is left in his world ... read more |
 | Director: Stuart Bowen Short Film School reunions are strange for anyone, but especially our socially awkward hero. When the girl of his Middle Scho ... read more |
.jpg) | Panel :: CONNECT In a world where startups raise millions of dollars, the Untappd team of two has been able to build a wildly succe ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT Many tech startups and entrepreneurs seek urban spaces as a place to work and live -- even if it sometimes require ... read more |
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 | Director: Karola Lüttringhaus Installation / Performance :: Special Programs In a flip-flop relationship where reality becomes animation and vice versa, ”vita 3” speaks of a gap between felt ... read more |
 | Director: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Former Wilmington resident, and One Tree Hill star, James Lafferty stars as an ex-billionaire hedge fund manager w ... read more |
 | Director: Paige Blankenship Short Film An account of Walker World: a hidden realm on the Castle Hayne River built by the ever eccentric Allen Walker. Thi ... read more |
 | Director: Michael Premo Documentary Feature :: Works-in-Progress In the small coastal province of New Brunswick, Canada, an unlikely alliance between an indigenous community and n ... read more |
 | Director: Tamsin Glasson and Samantha Storr Short Film :: CONNECT The movie is the result of collaboration between the UN Millennium Campaign, VRSE.works and Vice Media, and was cr ... read more |
 | Director: Oliver Thompson Narrative Feature :: Magnolia A children's book author, Woody Ward, is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certai ... read more |
 | Director: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker Documentary Feature :: Magnolia In September 2012, the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, saw its population of 24 grow by one. Trouble had ... read more |
 | Director: Will Martin Short Film A musical artist feels rapped within the historic prejudices that exist in his world. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Casey Gooden Short Film A couple struggles to choose a restaurant while visiting New York City. Screening in read more |
 | Director: Anderson Boyd Narrative Feature :: Magnolia Having lost his job on a coin toss a man pursues fortune and enlightenment by harvesting coins from wishing founta ... read more |
| Short Film We all wonder, what if we could change something for the better wether it be something simple like our eating habi ... read more |
 | Director: Cable Hardin Short Film A lone pilot is faced with isolation on a cold dark world. Screening with read more |
 | Director: Jen Ray Short Film A celebration of the magic of dance films, Willa & the Willis is an allegory about the bittersweet ephemeral natur ... read more |
| Director: Christopher Everett Documentary Feature :: Voices The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with th ... read more |
 | Director: Allison Cook Short Film On a visit to Los Angeles, Rachel has an encounter with a celebrity that reminds her she is right where she belong ... read more |
 | Panel :: CONNECT A recent NPR story revealed that women are less likely than men to become entrepreneurs. Why is that? This panel o ... read more |
 | Director: Mandi Edwards Short Film Adolescent Gina Tron was a suspected school-shooter after the infamous Columbine massacre. Being a victim of bully ... read more |
 | Director: Alex Pachón Short Film The door is closed. A bunch of keys are on the floor. Someone is sleeping in a wheelchair. And a crack is beginnin ... read more |