Narrative Short Film Program
Friday, November 13, 2009
8:00 pm at Organico:


Dream
Directed by: James Brasic - 3 min. - USA
The artist is dreaming of creating art. He is ardently imagining his muse. He vividly dreams of her. She flees away. He chases her to catch her. They then enjoy each others company.

Grace
Dir. Alrick Brown - 8 min. - USA
A woman, a mother, an illegal immigrant with everything to lose finds hope.

The Hands
Directed by: Charise Studesville - 10 min. - USA
A daughter explores her relationship with her dying father and becomes fixated upon his hands as a representation of who he was as a man.

The Miracle
Directed by: Jeffrey Jon Smith - 29 min. - USA
In confession to her priest, Tekki Lomnicki, a little person, reveals how she dishonored her mother on a trip to Lourdes twenty-seven years before. In Tekki’s memory, her dramatic birth, her sometimes painful relationship with her mother, Sister Thecla, Saint Bernadette, her rambunctious family, little league baseball, high school musical comedy, the romantic Paris of her dreams, and the fateful trip to Lourdes, all live again. But it will take all Tekki’s courage, humor and imagination to face the truth about her life and what happened at Lourdes if she is to win a chance at redemption.

The Order
Dir. Paul Dalio - 10 min. - USA
Sam, a major driver behind economic policy, devises a plan to get the country out of a depression by harnessing the power behind people’s desires for conflict. In the process he unveils a hidden force that controls us all. This film strikes at the underbelly of the system that we call capitalism and that is behind the crisis that we are in today.

Promise Kept
Dir. Yasmine Temraz and Farah Andersen - 12 min. - USA
When a young Mina's habit jepordizes her mother's trust she finds herself with no way out and makes her first deal with God.

She's so Cold
Dir. Angel Connell - 13 min. - USA
A mysterious woman whose request to view the videotaped confession of a madman sets off fierce gossip among three office clerks over the nature of the woman's relationship with the madman and her deceased sister.