Teeth is a short “last laugh” tale of two old friends, their
teeth and a series of events that leaves them lost for words.
Best
Short: Galway Film Festival
Best
Short: Sapporo Festival Japan
Grand
Prix Cocette Minute: Brest Film Festival
Snakebite
Matt Pinder
9 min.| Comedy | Scotland
Seven year-old Sammy is convinced that he has been bitten by
a poisonous snake. He spends the afternoon diagnosing what he believes to be the first signs of
his impending death. Can his father come to his rescue?
Heart
of Gold International Film Festival*
1st
prize, children’s jury: Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Best
film: Heart of Gold Int’l. Film Festival
Full Disclosure
Douglas Horn
18 min. | Comedy | USA
Everett decides to reveal every terrible habit, attitude and
hang up on the first date. Shockingly, women don’t respond as he’d hoped...
until he meets Brinn, who’s willing to play his game and try for FULL
DISCLOSURE.
Winner,
Best Short Film: Seattle International Film Festival, Stony Brook Film
Festival, Sedona International Film Festival, and numerous others.
The Choir
Angela M. Murray
12 min. | Drama | UK
For as long as he can remember Leslie has wanted to be one
of the hard guys. Today he starts a new school and this time he might just make
it. If only he can resist the lure of joining - THE CHOIR.
Best
Director & Best Craft: BAFTA Scotland New Talent
Live-Action
Short Film-1st prize: Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Best
Editor: Broadcast Young talent Awards
The Day of the Grackle
Michael Berry
15 min. | Comedy | USA
A mild-mannered man‘s world is invaded by a ferocious, territorial bird, thrusting him into an action-filled battle that transforms his life into something far beyond his dreams.
Winner: Dances With Films
Best Comedic Short and Best Overall Short: Staten Island Film Festival
Finalist: Hollywood‘s Very Short Movies Festival
Dentist
Signe Baumane
10 min. | Animation | USA
An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient, and a strange
picture on the wall.
Heart
of Gold International Film Festival*
Best
Animation (Audience Award): Red Shift Film Festival
Winner:
Tribeca Underground Film Festival
Best
Short Animation: Wreck Beach International Film Festival
Dutch Bird
Kirk Weddell
19 min. | Comedy | UK
A touching comedic tale about an Irish Pigeon Racer, Seamus
Kerrigan, who gets embroiled in an International drug trafficking plot to smuggle drugs over
to Ireland from Holland using carrier pigeons.
Best
Short International Comedy (Jury Award): Garden State Film Festival
Best
Short Foreign Film: Long Island International Film Expo
International
Competition (Short Film Competition Prize): Wine Country Film Festival
Fetch
Dana Dorian
1:30 | Animation | UK
Colin takes his dog Cumberland to the park for a game of
fetch but Cumberland has other ideas. What happens when man’s best friend
refuses to cooperate?
Heart
of Gold International Film Festival*
Best
Animation: BAFTA Scotland
Audience
Award for Best International Film: Krakow International Film Festival
Children
Jury Special Mention: Auburn International Children’s Festival
Agricultural Report
Melina Sydney Padua
3 min. | Animation | Ireland
A new strain of a disease that could be dangerous to
livestock herds is being discussed on the radio. A cow listening to the show
naturally gets a bit worried about the topic.
Annie
Awards
Irish
Film and Television Awards
Le Cheval
Alex Kirkland & Stephen Scott-Hayward
2 min. | Comedy | UK
A man in a suit dreams of being a horse.
Brief Encounters 2002
Depict! 2002 winner
Supershorts 2003 winner
The Wednesdays
Conor Ferguson
13 min. | Drama | Ireland
Sometimes, when you’re in the autumn of your days, you’ll
try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this tale we
meet two pensioners who manage to reignite the love they’d almost forgotten
about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door.
Best
Short: Galway Film Festival
Irish
Film and Television Awards
Disc 2
The Confession
Thomas Hefferon
13 min. | Comedy | Ireland
An innocent local boy confesses to a priest who is more interested in gossiping about the local women‘s nightlife than in absolving the boys sins. But all is not as it seems.
Kookman
Tony Mason
81 min. | Comedy | Australia
A tragic comedy that looks at the surf culture and the ways in which peer pressure can lead us from our true identity.
Expiration Date
Rick Stevenson
94 min. | Comedy | USA
Charlie Silvercloud III has a problem. His father and
grandfather were both killed by milk trucks on their 25th birthdays and Charlie
is about to turn 25. He has accepted his fate and is going about shopping for
caskets and returning his library books when he meets a girl who won’t let him
die in peace.
Winner
of 33 film festival awards over six continents
Notes
[L] [V] [S]
Some of these films contain adult-oriented material—some language [L], violence
[V] and sexual content [S]. Please use descretion when viewing around children
12 and under.
*With special thanks to the Heart of Gold International Film
Festival for guiding us to some truly heartwarming films. Heart of Gold films
are marked with a heart.