Monday, February 16, 2015

Bellevarado Film Studios

FOOTPRINTS (USA)

4:30 PM

Director: Bill Plympton

A surreal new film from animated filmmaking legend Bill Plympton, FOOTPRINTS is rumored to be on this years Oscar© short list for animated films. HRIFF is honored to again showcase this independent film legend.

Best Animation Film

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS 16A (USA)

6:15 PM

Director: Various

Crow and Eve

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

FLIPPING (USA)

6:15 PM

Director: Jin Kyu Ahn

FLIPPING is an automatic animation(action animating) created by applying ‘flipping’, a traditional hand-drawn animation technique. The spectrum of a soundless collision between cuts created by a collision of two different physical properties again collides with the sound made by playing two improvised scores folded after burnt. This work has a structure with the complex relationship that two planes are oppositely located in the light and dark space, two materials exist between the two planes, and two sounds permeate between the two materials. And it stays between the life(time) and sensibility of the artist himself.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

SPLIT (Singapore)

6:15 PM

Director: Brett Moody

This film's structure is unique: the first half of the story plays on the left hand side of the screen forwards, and the second half of the story plays on the right hand side of the screen backwards. In the film’s “middle", the two halves of the story collide in an unexpected manner.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

THE MAN BEHIND 55,000 DRESSES (USA)

6:30 PM

Director: Stacey Stone

Who is the man Behind 55,000 Dresses? Why did he collect dresses for 56 years? These are some of the questions explored by this film. Sometimes when you try to hide something about yourself, there are tells that give it away. Imperceptible nuances can bring the audience another viewpoint about the desire to collect. The hardships of his life as a child, and the horrors of the Second World War affected him, however there is a deeper need for his desire to buy dresses. Come in and follow the zany life full of contradictions. Remember everybody has a secret.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

ANATOMY OF 'ANATOMY' (USA)

6:30 PM

Director: David C. Jones

When legendary director Otto Preminger chose Michigan's rustic Upper Peninsula as the filming location for ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959), he forever altered a Midwestern community. The film ANATOMY OF 'ANATOMY' brings to life the memoir of Joan Hansen, who was an inn hostess at the time the motion picture ‘ANATOMY OF A MURDER’ was being made. Hansen was a friend and neighbor of the Voelker family and befriended many of the actors who took up residence at the Mather Inn during the 3-month filming, and formed a special bond with Duke Ellington, who in turn wrote the song ‘Flirtibird’ for the movie based on Hansen’s walk. Hansen’s words are woven with a combination of old photographs and recollections from those who took part in the magical film making of the courtroom classic in this stunning documentary

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

HAIR (USA)

7:45 PM

Director: Bryce Marrero

A comedic film following an obliviously dorky hair stylist being taken advantage of by her beauty-pageant obsessed younger sister. The film explores the theme of family trust, and how love can be exploited for manipulation.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

LICKING LEMONS (USA)

7:45 PM

Director: Rebecca Field

In the self-aggrandizing world of social media, everyone can control how they're perceived and a single girl can have a hard time keeping-up. Kate finds herself in the middle of post-breakup life and is not only disillusioned by the loss of her relationship, but by her life as a whole. As Kate confronts her devastating but often funny reality, we witness her struggles ultimately changing her for the better. Licking Lemons takes a snapshot of this particular place and time - Los Angeles in the mid 2010's - and how, through the chaos, one girl finds her way back to herself.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

MOTEL PROVIDENCE (USA)

7:45 PM

Director: Derek Frey

A cheating counselor working out of a sleazy motel room tests the boundaries of his own advice after a client's startling revelation. From the award winning filmmakers that brought you The Ballad of Sandeep and Sky Blue Collar: Written by and starring Philadelphia's premiere comedy troupe, The Minor Prophets and directed by Derek Frey (Producer at Tim Burton Productions).

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

THE DRESSER (USA)

7:45 PM

Director: Mary Neely

Sofia wants David. David wants to sell his dresser. Sofia learns you can't control where life takes you. Written, directed, produced, edited, and starring Mary Neely, "The Dresser" is a short film about a young woman navigating being a young woman in the LA film industry.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

WHITE FETISH (USA)

7:45 PM

Director: Sean Dacanay

An Asian girl with a white fetish hits on a white guy at a bar. A turning of the tables to reveal how silly racial fetishes are. Viral YouTube hit, featured on the Huffington Post, Upworthy, Angry Asian Man, Everyday Feminism, Policy Mic, Color Lines, and Drama Fever. Written by and starring Joy Regullano (SUPERNATURAL, RAISING HOPE, 90210, and GARFUNKEL & OATES).

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

BULLY (USA)

8:30 PM

Director: Robert Weiermair

A gritty realistic drama, BULLY follows 14-year-old Toby, a shy and sensitive teenager who retreats into his anime drawings in order to survive a brutal suburban existence. When a video of Toby being savagely bullied at school appears on the Internet, Toby’s high school and parents take control of the situation... with unexpected results. After a pathetic attempt to learn self-defense moves from his controlling father, Toby tries to redeem himself by delivering his father’s forgotten soccer cleats to the field for an evening game. Toby’s world is thrown upside down, however, when instead of finding the soccer game he discovers his father’s been keeping a deep dark secret. Armed with this troubling revelation, Toby realizes the world as he understood it does not exist. His perspective shifts... and so does his behavior. When Toby faces down the bullies again at school, he must decide whether to let his demons get the better of him or to break the cycle.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

JOE (USA)

8:30 PM

Director: Gino Gaetano

"Joe" explores a young man's final attempt to save himself from a life on the streets. Down on his luck and out of options, Joe winds up on Mike and Claire's doorstep, the last friends he has left. His return will throw all their lives into a whirlwind of hope, lies, doubts and revelations that may have been better left in the past.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

RAISE THE DEVIL (USA)

9:15 PM

Director: Zach Hines

Cosgrove is a washed-up card shark. After years of gambling and cheating at cards, his "luck" has finally run out, and is forced to give up the life. But when an opportunity arises to play in one ultimate winner-takes-all poker game that could potentially change his life forever, he can't resist. The only problem is that the buy-in to this game is his soul, and his opponent is The Devil. When you gamble with your soul... all bets are off.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

FUTURE PHONE (USA)

9:15 PM

Director: Henry Saine

When Stan receives a call from his future self, he realizes that his new phone can alter the space-time continuum but not without consequences. With the help of his best friend Leroy, Stan now has 11 minutes to save his own existence, his love life, and the world from an impending Apocalypse. Ninjas, robots, aliens and medieval knights fill this love letter to all things time travel.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

VIKING ANGEL (USA)

9:45 PM

Director: Actually Huizenga

Viking Angel superimposes a cornucopia of ancient mythological aesthetics and themes onto the surface of Los Angeles’ contemporary cultural landscape. This extended musical shows the fullfiment and destruction of dreams and the brutality presented and inflicted upon her, as a starlet is shocked into realizing her powerful, higher inner-self.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios

PINK ZONE (USA)

10:30 PM

Director: Benjamin Walter

Women are on the verge of extinction in 2026 as a deadly kissing virus, carried by men and transmitted to women, wiped out most of the female population on earth. As a safety, the US government initiated a project to deport all the remaining girls into closed ‘Zones’ to protect them. Emily is one of these girls, but she's allowed to live with her overprotective dad in a secured house. Her father is a legend, as the one who created the zone segregation project, and he rules over the zones as he rules over his daughter. While being bullied by her female classmates, until a group of juvenile delinquents coming from outside the "PINK ZONE" decides to cross the border, causing everything to change.

Official Selection

Feb 16, Bellevarado Studios