Films
Feature
| Alleged (Feature) Frederick Foote ALLEGED is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. |
| Frontier Boys (Feature) John Grooters The Frontier Boys is the story of four high school boys whose undefeated basketball season and their friendship is threatened after a drive-by shooting leaves one of them in a coma and one of them with a secret. |
| Last Summer of Youth (Feature) Scott Cerny This independent film is an intimate multi-character drama about loneliness and forgiveness. |
| Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers Story (Feature) Steven Crowley Andy Meyers, the subject of the film, has decided he wants to end his life in front of a camera for the world to see; much like his idol Bud Dwyer. His depression and array of ailments from his bout with diabetes have driven him to the edge. Ages 15+ |
| Separation Anxiety (Feature) John Klein Two childhood friends, Quinn and Jess come to terms with their once-innocent relationships as they grieve over the loss of their best friend Bailey and the emotional mystery surrounding his death. |
| The 5th Quarter (Feature) Rick Bieber In the spirit of The Blind Side, an emotional true story about family, inspiration, football and the gift of life. When a tragic car crash claims the life of fifteen year old Luke Abbate his older brother Jon considers ending his own college football career but instead decides to honor his brother’s memory and continue playing. |
Short Narrative
| Absaroka (Short Narrative) Patrick Mignano 'Absaroka' is a morality play set in the American Old West. Two cowboys are faced with a decision when circumstances present a deadly dilemma. They realize that 'The Right Thing Is The Only Thing To Do'. For 13+ |
| Choice (Short Narrative) Joseph Simpkins After receiving a mysterious gift, a man is led to a single, life-altering choice. |
| Coffee Shop: A Musical (Short Narrative) Rachel Kuyvenhoven A guy and a girl meet at a coffee shop, and it's clear that they are meant to be together. |
| Fragile Hearts (Short Narrative) Matthew Koppin Over a period of two years, a young couple struggles to get pregnant and finally start their family. |
| House Full of Thorns (Short Narrative) Roi Fernandez Crossing linguistic barriers to feel some semblance of home. |
| Kinship (Short Narrative) Chris Westfield Out of chances, two brothers are on the run from a posse of gunmen. |
| Public Museum (Short Narrative) George Bradshaw A smug and jaded curator, unceremoniously axed from a prestigious big city job, is forced to take a gig in a small town museum. Seeking to revive his career by revamping its thrillingly embarrassing collection, he must confront a bullheaded staff, as well as his pomposity and his fear of failure, to pull it off. |
| Rooz AZ No (Square One) (Short Narrative) Azad Navid Fariba, a 4 month pregnant woman, gets a feeling that her husband neither care for her nor their unborn baby. So, she decides to leave him, and raise the baby alone. |
| THE CURE (Short Narrative) Stacey Peretzki Will you accept the Cure? |
| The Forest (Short Narrative) Steve Summers Mystical exploration on the tension within the male psyche involving lust, fear, temptation and shame. |
| World of Art (Short Narrative) Michael Allore Arthur has not been a very inspired artist lately, and has no idea why. It takes being locked up in a jail cell with living famous art works where he finally discovers that he is more than just an artist, but art itself. |
Full Length Documentary
| Death By Medicine (Full Length Documentary) Jennifer Shagawat The film explores the dominant medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and a healthier, more holistic system. |
| Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Full Length Documentary) Chris Metzler Fishbone rose and became one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. Everyday Sunshine is about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one. For ages 17+ |
| Flight To The Wall (Full Length Documentary) William Matson Flight to The Wall is the story of a group of veterans and the Wings and Rotors Museum team who team up to fly from the California coast to Washington DC and back in Vietnam era helicopters in the hopes of flying over the Wall in Washington DC and helping Vietnam veterans everywhere get the recognition that they never got when they came home from the war. |
| Locked Out (Full Length Documentary) Joan Sekler LOCKED OUT is a David vs. Goliath story revealing how 560 unionized miners in the desert town of Boron, California faced off against their employer, Rio Tinto, a giant British-Australian multinational mining corporation, and won their rights to decent wages and benefits after being locked out of their jobs for 107 days and replaced by scabs. |
| Marian Anderson (Full Length Documentary) Fred Hollis Denied the opportunity to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race, Marian Anderson sang instead at the nearby Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939. In front of a crowd of more than 75,000, Marian's beautiful contralto voice filled the air - and gained her the level of recognition in the United States that she had already attained in Europe. |
| Miss HIV (Full Length Documentary) Jim Hanon Conflicting ideologies clash with an indiscriminate enemy. Miss HIV is the award-winning documentary by director Jim Hanon and producer Mart Green that brings into the open the little-known struggle for dominance over AIDS education and prevention. |
| The Grandfathers (Full Length Documentary) Jim Hanon Set deep in the Amazon jungle, The Grandfathers explores a young man's decision to live under the guidance of the Waodani Indians - the very tribe who killed his grandfather. |
| Uncommon Vision: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin (Full Length Documentary) Morgan Atkinson This documentary examines the remarkable life of John Howard Griffin-writer, photographer, musicologist, the southerner who chemically changed his white skin black. |
| ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD (Full Length Documentary) PETER JOSEPH Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. |
Student Short Film
| Elysium (Student Short Film) J. Michael Vargas Amidst a post-apocalyptic invasion, Caleb must come to terms with leaving his wounded father for dead, with the knowledge that he will one day meet has dad, and late mother, under the lone tree in the field of Elysium. |
| Inside Out (Student Short Film) Taylor Rummell Harry Dengler must overcome his Agoraphobia (fear of going outside) in order to fall in love with the new girl who moves in across the street. |
| Tasnim (Student Short Film) Elite Zexer Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10-year-old, lives with her mother and siblings in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev. A surprise visit from her father in the village forces her, for the first time in her life, to confront the conservative norms of the family tribe and the fact that she is no longer daddy's-little-girl. |
Animation
| Spirit of the Bluebird (Animation) Xstine Cook Using spray paint on a garage where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered in 1999, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large scale animation of a bluebird in flight. |
Short Documentary
| 14 Days with Alzheimer's (Short Documentary) Lisa Cerasoli 14 DAYS with Alzheimer's is a humorous, heartbreaking, intimate and inspirational account of what it truly means to be a family caregiver and a person with Alzheimer's disease. |
| Challenging Impossibility (Short Documentary) Sanjay Rawal CHALLENGING IMPOSSIBILITY chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the late spiritual teacher and peace advocate Sri Chinmoy.Surprisingly, at the age of 53, this Indian-born mystic took up weightlifting. |
| Fanning The Fire (Short Documentary) Alan Tompkins Fanning the Fire shows us how a Texas teen overcame adversity and followed his dreams from being a fan of bluegrass music all the way to taking the stage to open for some of the greatest entertainers in the business - in less than three years. |
| Figure-Ground (Short Documentary) Scott Ligon Award winning director Scott Ligon documents the process of his father's death, eventually coming to terms with it not as a tragedy but as an inevitable part of life. |
| Leap Before You Look (Short Documentary) Stephane Goldsand Faced with his wife's desire to become a mother, a filmmaker goes on a quest to find out how people decide to have kids and identify the sources of his own hesitation. |
| Lost Harmony (Short Documentary) Takayuki Yamato Taka grew up in the countryside of Japan, always dreaming of living in America - the land of freedom and opportunities. But after living in the U.S. for more than a decade, he realizes Japan has its own unique qualities. |
| New Generation of Riders (Short Documentary) Nora Urbanski Detroit is known as the 'Motor City' but more and more people here are opting to use their bikes as their main form of transportation. |
| Odysseus' Gambit (Short Documentary) Alex Lora Homeless Cambodian man on the streets of New York and what he does to survive. |
| The Dancer (Short Documentary) Seth Stark The Dancer shows life through the eyes of an 11-year-old orphan boy, Satish Kumar, a non-actor portraying himself and giving us unrestricted access into his world. |
| The Kings of Flint (Short Documentary) Troy Hale 'The Kings of Flint' chronicles Flint farmers and residents as they revitalize their city, a place abandoned by the automobile industry. In what once served as vacant lots strewn with weeds and trash, grow vegetables and fruits that feed neighborhoods, schools and local restaurants. |
Student Documentary
| ArtPrize Experience (Student Documentary) Sam Klee 'The ArtPrize Experience' follows four local artists through the 2010 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Observe the creative process behind these great works of art, and see the impact of the world's largest arts competition. |
Student Music Video
| LipDub at Calvin College (Student Music Video) Rachel Kuyvenhoven A four-minute one shot video of students going about their regular activities, such as rock climbing, swimming, and working out, while also singing along with the song. |