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Paul Feine & Roger Richards Mississippi
Drug War Blues (24 Minutes) 'Mississippi Drug War Blues' is a story about the intersection of race; the war on drugs; the disturbing increase in the militarization of police tactics; and systemic flaws in the criminal justice and expert-testimony systems. It is a tragedy in which one man is dead and another may spend his life in prison. |
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Franzi Susan For Now (10 Minutes) A first person account of a woman who responds to a ten year celibacy and the empty nest syndrome by reclaiming her sexual freedom, Susan For Now follows a journey into the underground world of alternative lifestyles in an honest and revealing portrayal of today's shifting social conscience. |
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Doug Conant Sleeping (21 Minutes) Based on the short story by acclaimed author Katharine Weber, Sleeping is a coming-of-age tale about a young girl named Harriet who lives with her mom during her parents' divorce. Though her mother works tirelessly to maintain the illusion that little has changed, Harriet fails to recognize her struggle, and takes it for granted. She accepts a babysitting job, where the parents instruct her not to check on the baby - telling her in no uncertain terms that the baby is sleeping soundly and should not be disturbed. As the night unfolds, and Harriet fights her growing temptation to look in on the baby, she is brought to a cathartic moment of self-discovery, and finally begins to appreciate her mothers many sacrifices. Jon Schumacher Resolve (17 Minutes) Hector, a plainclothes Narcotics officer working in New York's Chinatown, is told by his lieutenant that a key witness in an ongoing investigation has gone missing. Worse, the rest of the squad thinks he is somehow involved. Disregarding the threat that his cover has been blown, Hector sets out to find the missing witness--but is he trying to preserve the case or something more sinister? Marcel Sawicki The Loneliness of the Short Order COOK (22 Min) Living in East Los Angeles and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young short-order cook (Shin) faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. After what seems to be a connection with a Mexican Bakery worker turns into a misunderstanding, Shin experiences a side of Los Angeles invisible to his social circle of Japanese expats. Subdued and restrained, the film offers an unsentimental and personal portrait of living in between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller. Natan Moss Odessa (19 Minutes) Two friends head out on the road from LA to Texas to retrieve something for their boss. They've got three days to get there and things are mostly under control until their car breaks down and they meet an old cowboy who just might be their black angel. |
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BOHICA takes place over 24 hours on a patch of desert in American-occupied Afghanistan, where four US Army Reservists are stuck on a meaningless mission guarding a radio tower. Dying of boredom rather than enemy fire, the monotony is broken when the US Air Force mistakenly air-drops a keg of beer and these Weekend Warriors embark upon an afternoon of booze, banter, and bonding. But as night falls, the reality of war interrupts the drunken respite, as an Afghani militia attacks their station.
BOHICA
is at once a recognition of the absurdity and futility of war and an
acknowledgement of the men and women who are compelled to fight it.
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