• Little Horses

    Little Horses

  • Dashbord Animals(The Slide Series)

    Dashbord Animals(The Slide Series)

  • Prima Donna

    Prima Donna

  • Reinaldo Arenas

    Reinaldo Arenas

  • And Winter Slow

    And Winter Slow

  • Pass the Salt, Please

    Pass the Salt, Please

  • After-School Special

    After-School Special

  • Stuck

    Stuck


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Competition Narrative Shorts

Shorts Program 3: Got to Give It Up

Total Running Time: 94 MIN

Little Horses

DIRECTED BY LEVI ABRINO
USA, 2011, 17.5 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE

A divorced dad tries to win back his family by buying a pony for his son’s 8th birthday in this bittersweet comedy from Levi Abrino (“The Lonely Bliss of the Cannonball Luke,” FFF 2008) that was co-written by Oscar-winning director Luke Matheny (“God of Love,” FFF 2011).

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Dashbord Animals (The Slide Series)

DIRECTED BY JARL OLSEN
USA, 2011, 1.5 MIN
WORLD PREMIERE

What’s up with all the plush toys people display on their dashboards? FFF veteran Jarl Olsen (“Devil Doll” & “Cry Radio,” FFF 1999) explores the subject of his photographic obsession in this charmingly narrated slideshow.

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Prima Donna

DIRECTED BY LAURIE THOMAS
USA, 2011, 12 MIN
WORLD PREMIERE

A talented 13-year-old girl, driven to a singing audition by her father, has a surprise pit stop that changes everything. This powerful, unflinching drama was shot in Orlando and Tampa using local cast and crew.

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Reinaldo Arenas

DIRECTED BY LUCAS LEYVA
USA, 2011, 4 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE

Narrated by a dying shark, this film metaphorically explores the Cuban American exile experience using captivating black-and-white imagery and snippets of Cuban film and literature.

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And Winter Slow

DIRECTED BY BRIAN LANNIN
USA, 2011, 16.5 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE/2ND US SHOWING

Jez lives in a remote cabin on a frozen lake in the Adirondacks, where she cares for her bedridden husband. She’s ready to escape.

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Pass the Salt, Please

DIRECTED BY TATJANA NAJDANOVIC
USA, 2011, 13 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE

Fionnula Flanagan (Waking Ned Devine, TV’s Lost) and longtime friend of the Festival Seymour Cassel (Faces, The Royal Tenenbaums) play a senior couple engaged in some extremely—ahem—stimulating dinner conversation.

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After-School Special

DIRECTED BY JACOB CHASE
USA, 2010, 9 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE

Sarah Paulson (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Wes Bentley (American Beauty, The Hunger Games) have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground in this cringe-inducer, written by master misanthrope Neil LaBute (“Sexting,” FFF 2011).

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Stuck

DIRECTED BY MARTIN ANDERSEN
USA, 2011, 20 MIN
WORLD PREMIERE

In this taut thriller, a man wakes up in an abandoned warehouse, buried up to his waist in cement. The only person who hears his cries for help is a man accusing him of an unspeakable crime.

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