Slamdance 2017: Documentary Shorts
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- DirectorLauren DeFilippoEvery Sunday morning a congregation tunes in at the Daytona Beach Drive-In Church.
- DirectorSasha GransjeanStarsSasha GransjeanAnimals are used to express the dislocation, helplessness, and anger, while nature illustrates the lack of control that we have on events that come to pass.
- DirectorJessica KingdonYiwu International Trade City is the world's largest market, selling cheap goods wholesale in a city south of Shanghai. The fake flowers, toys, pens and alarm clocks traded in Yiwu eventually end up in dollar stores across the planet, but I focus on the people who sell these goods that we take for granted. As a character study of the market itself, the film peers into the lives of those who run this global trade. The sellers, full of life and individuality, live against the uniformly oppressive backdrop of their livelihood. A somber man painstakingly counts tiny metal parts on his desk in a pen shop. A business lady sweet talks one of her customers, peppering him with insults and compliments, but in between the buying and selling, vendors all find different ways to pass the time in this gigantic mall. A mother yells at a group of young boys, berating them for losing a toy. A man in a suit hums along to a haunting song waiting for a customer as the clocks he is selling tick away. Two young siblings play a video game while lazily eating KFC from the bucket, licking their fingers. While these stories seem small and insignificant, in the context of the film, the dialogue and actions take on new weight and meaning, elevating the quotidian to a realm of discovery.
- DirectorMark BorchardtStarsMark BorchardtU.F.O. BobSheldonMark Borchardt turns his camera on the UFO Daze gathering in Dundee, Wisconsin, where he finds an abundance of fascinating characters, a mystic landscape, and the paradox between empirical evidence and extraterrestrial longing. Featuring luminaries who claim to be in direct contact with the aliens themselves, this film offers an objective vantage point for its subjects to outlay their beliefs unhindered by censorious reasoning. If anything, this documentary will keep you on your toes and your eyes to the skies.
- DirectorChris StanfordMason Massey dreams of one day making it to the top level of racing but with a lack of big money sponsorship he knows that it is going to be a long, hard road.
- DirectorPaul SzynolUganda's most surprising boxer enters the ring one more time.
- DirectorFabio PalmieriStarsCyrille KaboreEach year 40.000 people from Africa, Asia and Middle East, try to enter Europe. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. Since the ways by land have been interrupted, they board overloaded vessels and face a dangerous and often deadly voyage across the Mediterranean.
- DirectorCyrus TabarAs a man digs deep into his family history for answers to questions that have shaped his life, he finds that there are some things that might be better off left in the past.
- DirectorMark OlexaFrancesca ScalisiSummer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. When the tragedy happens, Moriom becomes a flower-angel to destroy all the bad things in the world. And to rescue herself.
- DirectorJulia Kim SmithStarsJames NastyTT the ArtistFeaturing the genre-busting talent of James Nasty and TT the Artist, The Real Wi-Fi Of Baltimore offers a punny and nuanced view of Baltimore neighborhoods in a short film edited from iPhone screenshots of Wi-Fi network names.
- DirectorMatthew SaltonStarsRichard AtkinsRichard Atkins, the singer and songwriter of the early 70's California Pop Duo, 'Richard Twice' was on his way to stardom and a huge career in the music business when he mysteriously walked away from it all.
- DirectorZuki Juno TobgyeA migrant worker from South India, who's customs says he is not allowed to marry at an even age, tries to find a wife before his 32nd birthday whilst working as a lorry driver in Singapore.
- DirectorPierce CravensStarsPaul WinerSweet Pie: family, music and freedom.
- DirectorJoshua YatesAn exercise in catharsis, this fragmented visual autobiography interweaves decades of serene and violent home movies in an attempt to confront coming-of-age anxieties, delayed grieving processes, and living in a world that is not one's home.
- DirectorMarinah JanelloAn eccentric musician/filmmaker navigates self expression based on his experiences living and growing up in the South.