INDIE GRITS 2017
A selection of short films played at the 2017 Indie Grits Film Festival
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- DirectorRoberto CollíoAn impressionist portrait of a landscape marked by tragedy, Muerte blanca depicts a ghostly walk among the place where 44 young soldiers and one sergeant were thrown to their deaths in the mountainous region of Antuco, Chile.
- DirectorWarren Lewis AllenStarsMichael David Johnson Jr.Four working class friends mourn the imminent end of the Earth.
- DirectorCarlo NasisseSteve Scheiman was one of the early South Texas punk rockers who threw DIY shows along the U.S.-Mexico border. Now in his 50's, Steve struggles with sobriety and the burden of taking care of his mother while trying to maintain his standing in the hardcore punk scene.
- DirectorLance LarsonStarsGia ElliotMicah FitzgeraldStephen P. Sweeney'It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head'
- DirectorAngela TuresStarsHector DezMoy HinojosRoberto LastraJulieta, age 19 and recently deceased, experiences the afterlife for the first time at a Day of the Dead celebration.
- DirectorIlana LapidStarsPriscilla GarciaCristobal RiveraGrieving her husband's death, a farm worker becomes La Catrina, the Dia De Los Muertos figure of death, and journeys towards him through the landscape of the harvest.
- DirectorCarolina Charry QuinteroStarsJosé Adam ArriolaMargarita Luisa QuinteroRafa RojasWhat do we see when we really look at an animal? Certainly, not just what meets the eye.
- DirectorPatrick BresnanStarsTa'Questa BrowningChristopher Burgess Jr.Crystal BurgessEvery weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades.
- DirectorEsteban Arrangoiz JulienStarsJulio César Cú Cámara
- DirectorCaitlyn GreeneStarsKaelyn CharbonnetSanita C. IrvinReg RobDeep in Louisiana's swampland, a woman wakes from a fever dream where it has been August for 16 years.
- DirectorTerence NanceStarsRylee NykholJontille GerardCrystal CottonIn a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
- DirectorTim GrantStarsChase BrownMatt HardyDeon JohnsonAn independent professional wrestler philosophizes on the craft, narrative, and possible meaning found in what some consider a fake sport.
- DirectorPatrick ShanahanRodney Hines, the No Hand King, is an inspirational legend out of North Carolina that sets out against all odds and a criminal past to set the world record for the longest no handed wheelie.
- DirectorAlejandro PeñaStarsHenry MacLeanWill StrykerAfter a bizarre ceremony, two lovers are condemned to live in a cave inhabited by flying creatures in this surreal tale about repressed love.
- DirectorIshan ShuklaStarsKira BucklandIn the city of bag-heads, a senate member faces a tough choice between political career, brothels and love for a mysterious woman. A choice that will transform his life and the city in unimaginable ways.
- DirectorNicolai Berg HanssonErik Ivar SætherStarsHans Petter NilsenTrine WiggenTyra JoarsdottirA family dinner is brutally interrupted when the father announces that he wants a divorce.
- DirectorHillary R. HeathNicole KemperStarsJackie CostelloHillary R. HeathSarah Alison HodgesTrue love is just a phone call away!
- DirectorHaley Elizabeth AndersonStarsTori Wolsefer
- DirectorEmily L. HarroldIn Elloree, South Carolina, a group of African American men pass the time, and put aside worries about the economy, by playing checkers together every afternoon.
- DirectorAnna Spence"Wave Iteration" is a visual poem which gains meaning through repetition. Informed by Structural Film, the mounting dissonance between the ocean and the visual effect created by glitch techniques creates an intriguing dichotomy, a visual reminder of its degraded materiality, and its impending collapse.
- DirectorAdrián GeyerStarsDaniel IsaacThe film was created from an artistic inspiration, with the charm of the landscapes, whish shaped the experience, of traveling to the Tisure and Potrero, (places for the creation of Juan Félix Sánchez), where the real, and magical coexist, and the immensity of the world overwhelms us.
- DirectorHarry BartleStarsBaron AmatoVeronica MoonhillA quarrel over an unusual party-guest culminates in a dramatic confession. The ensuing love ritual leaves one party out of the equation.
- DirectorÉva Katinka BognárAn alien boy on a small, distant planet receives a pet human as a present.
- DirectorStephen CromptonStarsAlvin BojarFrom the comfort of a sprawling Florida retirement community, entertainment producer Alvin Bojar recounts his brief foray into softcore porn production in the early 1970's.
- DirectorMatthew McFarlingShot entirely on 16mm film. Become immersed in the abandoned Barns of a simpler time.
- DirectorNicole TricheNear the southern tip of Topsail Island, NC you'll find a typical small town post office. But, if you climb the stairs the second floor, you'll find a roller skating rink that is over 50 years old. Behind the counter of both the post office and the rink you'll find Miss Doris. 'All Skate, Everybody Skate' is a portrait of a woman in her late seventies who has known hard times and met them with head-on with grit and an extraordinary work ethic that has kept her climbing that wooden staircase each evening to rent and repair skates, spin vintage 45s, and weave smoothly in-between the tourists in her white skates with the red wheels.
- DirectorVashti HarrisonField Notes is a portrait of folklore and ghost stories from the island nation of Trinidad.
- DirectorKelly GallagherStarsZb HurstA colorful experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.