SHORTS #1
Film Shorts

Performance Schedule

Fri, Jun 4 - 2:00PM @ Triplex #3
Sat, Jun 5 - 11:30AM @ Triplex #3
Sat, Jun 5 - 2:30PM @ Beacon Cinema

Description

120 min.

 

With Anchovies..Without Mama

Writer/Director: Thomas Justino

Cast: Andy Scarimboto, Johnny Tammao Jr., Zach Lombardo, Jodi Tribuzio, Bob Markel, Elias, Matt Trieste

USA (2010) 25 min.

An anchovy inexplicably makes its way onto a pizza, triggering a series of bizarre consequences. MAMA is an investigative look at love, loss, pizza and the depth of circumstance.

New England premiere 

Filmmaker in attendance

 

Wasting Daylight

Writer/Director: J. Wallace Parker

Cast: Michael Salconi, Michael Leicht, Kate Volpe, Lee Parker, Carl Stevens, Jeff Del Vecchio

USA (2010) 19 min.

A man named Carl creates a non-profit group to fight daylight saving time. The semi-annual custom of “changing the clocks” is not only wasteful and impractical, it also ruined his childhood. Follow Carl as he battles apathy, group infighting and government opposition to spread his message: “Don’t change your clocks!”

New England Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

 

Milestone

Writer/Director: Julie Tortorici

Cast: Brian Patacca, Rebecca White

USA (2010) 8.5 min.

When tubs of ice cream, drinking with friends and sad movies don’t get you past your heartbreak... it’s time to pull out the big guns. 

MILESTONE is a short comedy with a big gun. 

New England premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

 

Nothing Happened

Writer: Jessica Provenz

Director: Julia Kots

Cast: Sandra M. Bloom, Maurice Farber, Jessica Henson, Sarah Louise Lilley, Emily Mitchell, Marcus Keithlum Moss

USA (2010) 10 min.

On her lunch hour, Barb shows up at her best friend’s gallery bearing sushi and a smile. But Liza senses she also has a secret. In a gallery of erotic art and curious patrons, Barb wants to confide in Liza, but she’s scared this is the one secret girlfriends shouldn’t share.

East Coast Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

 

The Tree

Writer/Director: Paul Starkman

Cast: Jose Zuniega

USA (2009) 8 min.

It’s a hot, steamy summer day in Brooklyn, and Spano gets an idea to plant a tree for some relief. Shaded and relaxed, he reads his newspaper in peace. Now the entire neighborhood wants in, driving Spano out of his shade and over the edge.

MA Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

 

The Jacket

Writer/Director: Matt Roshkow

Cast: Maddie Corman, Alysia Reiner, Maria Soccor

USA (2010) 10 min.

THE JACKET centers on an upper middle class family in Westchester whose members are in various stages of denial concerning the father’s, Mark, recent unemployment from his longstanding position on Wall Street. In a frantic attempt to keep up appearances and ward off neighborly gossip, Mark’s wife, Wendy buys her daughter an expensive jacket at a local store. When her daughter turns her nose up at it, Wendy offers it to her cleaning woman, whose husband has also suffered from the economy. Yet after Mark informs Wendy that the job offer he was hoping for has fallen through, Wendy is forced to question not only her act of charity but the emotional moorings quickly giving way in her privileged world.

Berkshire Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

Breaking Boundaries: The Art of Alex Masket

Director: Dennis Connors

USA (2009) 19 min.

BREAKING BOUNDARIES: THE ART OF ALEX MASKET was completed in December, and since then has received a Director’s Choice award at the 29th Black Maria Film Festival, which is currently touring. It will also screen at the Sixth NYC Downtown Short Film Festival on May 1, having been selected by audience vote at screenings earlier this month. 

Berkshire Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

Price

$10