Boys will be boys. While a father takes advantage of North Dakota’s oil boom, his son is left to his own devices in Solitary Plains (USA, 10 min., J. Christian Jensen). In For the Love of Dogs (USA, 26 min., Tim O’Donnell), Asperger’s Syndrome has enabled Cory to connect to fellow dog-show attendees. Basement Metal […]
WORLD PREMIERE Becoming Billy Name is a short film about the artist Billy Name, born William Linich. Billy is the photographer who most extensively and richly documented the “Silver Age” of Andy Warhol’s The Factory, from 1960-1971. However, this is a film about Billy and not about Warhol or The Factory. It is the intimate […]
NYC PREMIERE From Emmy-nominated In The Family filmmaker Joanna Rudnick, On Beauty follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew tired of the industry’s rigid standards. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to […]
WORLD PREMIERE BlindSight examines the photographic imagination of the members of the Seeing with Photography Collective through their photography. While all the members were sighted at one time, they are all now blind or visually impaired. Many came to photography after their blindness, and photography has given them a new voice, a way to express […]
NYC PREMIERE Sebastiano’s passion is documenting war. But at what cost? His award-winning photographs from Syria and Afghanistan are widely published. His girlfriend, Gessica, who is proud of him, fears for his life constantly and struggles to understand Sebastiano’s drive to work in combat zones. This short documentary is a mixture of compelling verite and […]
Views through the photographic lens. A collective of visually impaired New York photographers express their creativity in BlindSight (USA, 16 min., Bob Sacha), while a former fashion photographer celebrates unconventionally beautiful subjects in On Beauty (USA, 30 min., Joanna Rudnick). Becoming Billy Name (USA, 13 min., Alexa Karolinski) profiles the life of the reclusive man […]
NYC PREMIERE Buffalo are a powerful symbol of American culture, roaming through plains and imaginations. They certainly made a lifelong impression on Scott Shand, owner of Scotland’s only commercial buffalo farm. But making his bold experiment a reality has not been easy. He is almost three years behind on his rent and about to be […]
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR
WORLD PREMIERE This is an intimate film about Emilio a 90 year old cobbler living in Barcelona. He reflects on his life, the history of his country and introduces us to his craft. When the crisis hit Spain his son Daniel decides to come and work for him. This is a story about a father and a […]
NYC PREMIERE A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR