Join us for our 7th Annual Grand Finale Event at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Downtown Brooklyn where the Top 15 Finalists of 2018 will compete for over $10,000 in prizes.
In partnership with Everyone Matters and Rhino Films, the 2018 Grand Prize Winner will be awarded a one-on-one meeting with acclaimed Producer Stephen Nemeth from the Academy-Award nominated The Sessions and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, along with prizes from Canon USA, HiO, Spacious, and NYWIFT.
BLOCK 1
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUztx-xQ5-Y
A Halloween spoof that follows a group of cliche teens who sneak to the basement to play party games; but when one of the girls shows her true colors, things go terribly wrong.
GEEK LOUNGE – directed by Larry Ziegelman
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeeaSyAKwQc
Geek Lounge is a comedic series that follows a struggling Chicago bar, the outcasts who inhabit it, and their quest for love, liquor, and answers to the world’s nerdiest questions.
BROKEN WING– directed by Daniel Monico
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/285115274
The love line between a husband and wife is tested when Alice must decide whether to leave Patrick in the care of professionals, or take him home so they can spend their final days together.
DEAD LAYER – directed by Carter Winter & Aleksey Reznikov
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6334694/videoplayer/vi264026905?ref_=tt_ov_vi
Danny, a visionary graffiti artist with tremendous talent, gets caught up in a terrible crime when he goes out with his old pal James.
CAMPFIRE ALPHA – directed by Alex Breaux
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7526082/videoplayer/vi1704180249?ref_=tt_ov_vi
Competition between childhood friends fluctuates between amusement and menace.
LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL– directed by Elizabeth Beecherl & Carla Patullo
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/249195856#at=0
Once upon a time, long before Disney and the other animation giants, Lotte Reiniger ignited the screen with shadows, light, and a pair of magical scissors.
UNIFORM – directed by Ellie Foumbi & Michael Niederman
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN0OgXmkN0I
Parents are at odds with what to do when their 6-year old son is sent home from school for wearing a dress.
FEVAH – directed by Randall Dottin
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/272648761
A heartbroken single mom is about to plunge into a new relationship when her child’s missing father returns with a secret.
RUTA VIVA – directed by Courtney Baxter & Sebastian Rea
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/279375571
While visiting family in Ecuador, a father and son bond over an unexpected death.
BLOCK 2
STRANGERS AT NIGHT – directed by Ian Adelson
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/290496009
A young man with a mysterious past creates alternate, successful personalities for himself as a way into New York’s high society. A story about a generation built on deception for the sake of success. Inspired by real people and events.
KILL AL– directed by Walter Brandes & Renée Stork
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5W5lw5fdw
In an environment where androids are met with hostility and outrage by human beings, “Kill Al” tells the story of two female synthetic beings confined to work in a sub-basement of an auditing firm
IRONY – directed by Radheya Jegatheva
A film that explores the relationship between man and technology…told from the perspective of a phone.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tZUdUJdpuw
SINGULARITY – directed by Yiannis Biliris
During the era of technological singularity, machine learning algorithms will seek to learn from our data with exponential speed. A short experimental film and attempt to visualise the POV of a future artificial intelligence agent and its prime encounter with our world, its linear experience and the rapid absorption of all available information.
THE LEX REQUIEM – directed by Alexis Karl & Bruno Palma
Trailer: https://youtu.be/PvDEMbl0YPE
A dance of mourning is performed in an ancient town to the Lex Requiem- haunting and mysterious, the dancers are as specters, until they emerge from the shadows in a celebration of their immortality in the fading light of a summer sun.
POPPIES – directed by Myles Yaksich
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi1319942681
While on a long-haul flight from Shanghai to New York, a despondent, American lawyer becomes seduced by the enchanting stories of a wise, Chinese woman sitting beside him; unleashing feelings he had tried to bury deep inside.
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMAS
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 – 7pm-10pm
445 Albee Square 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Trains: B, D, N, Q, R, W, 2, 3
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