DAY FOUR - HRIFF 2021

The Last Wolves (SPAIN)

Director: Iker Bilbao

The Last Wolves is a crude, dark and violent science fiction drama series, that is a criticism toward all humans. The narrator tells us a children’s tale, which speaks of human ambition and its consequences. The title of the project is inspired by Thomas Hobbes quote "Man is a Wolf to Man".

The story is set at a certain time in the future, when technology confronts nature, creation and destruction in equal parts, and where the abuse of power consumes us.

After all, we’re the creators of our own destruction.

BEST TRAILER

WORLD PREMIERE

G

Can I Enjoy This Clown Knowing It Could Be Gone In A Day? (USA)

Director: Ryan Coyle

The day before the Redondo Fun Factory closes forever, and Lindsey contemplates whether she can enjoy life while knowing that it too will eventually end.

In a nutshell, the theme of this experimental film asks "Is life worth living," with a decaying arcade being a stand-in for existence as a whole.

While philosophical and unconventional, the film maintains an original structure and consistent point of view and attempts to offer an actual answer to this question.

This film was shot on 16mm film using a Krasnogorsk-3 camera, with sound recorded on a Nagra IV tape recorder. The presence of the old-fashioned equipment drew a lot of attention during filming, and the film was written while driving down to the Rendono Beach Fun Factory and recorded with only single takes.

"The "Tilt-A-Whirl" shot towards the end of the movie made me very nauseous, but is also one of the best moments I've had making movies."

- Ryan Coyle (Director)

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WORLD PREMIERE

PG - 13

Back Alive (USA)

Director: Terry Taneie & Kei Kosugi

In a deadly place between earth and hell where hunters rule, those who have died before their time and want a second chance at life on earth must survive the hunters within a certain amount of time in this science-fiction, action film.

BEST ACTION FILM

WORLD PREMIERE

PG - 13

Satan's Seven (USA)

Director: Ryan Rosenblum

Pursued by the FBI, a team of the world's deadliest women models their vigilante crimes on the seven deadly sins.

WORLD PREMIERE

PG - 13

World Premiere Video (USA)

Director: Mike J. Nichols

Over 30 years ago, a young filmmaker embarked on a mission to make a low budget Music Video using Super-8 film.

Inspired he borrowed a guitar and wrote his first song entitled, I WANT TO BE ON MTV - and thereafter attempted to make a music video spoofing MTV favorites, and amazingly, MTV's own Dweezil Zappa did a cameo in that Music Video.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

WORLD PREMIERE

PG - 13