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ST. LOUIS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE Continues Friday With Two Shorts Programs
The 19th Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, a presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis residents or films with strong local ties. The Festival continues this Friday, July 19th. Narrative Shorts: Drama 3 is at 7pm and Narrative Shorts: Sci-Fi/Thriller plays at 9:15
The 19 film programs that screen at Washington University’s Brown Hall from July 12-14 & 19-21 serve as the Showcase’s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. There are 106 films in this year’s event.
Tickets for film programs from July 12-21 at Brown Hall are $13 each; $10 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards. No phone sales, but tickets can be purchased online at brownpapertickets.com. Direct ticketing links will be on the Cinema St. Louis website, or search for “St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase” on Brown Paper Tickets. There is a small service charge per ticket for online sales, which are limited to full-price tickets only. The closing-night awards party is free and does not require tickets.
Narrative Shorts: Drama 3 is at 7pm. Ticket information can be found HERE
Camellia
Leonardo Panziera, 12 min.
Strange dreams of flowers inspire Milton to fulfill the ambition of his girlfriend to open a café.
Epicaste
Ryan Matthew Kneezle, 10 min.
An immortal mother raises a mortal child until it grows old in an Eden surrounded by the River Styx.
Give Me a Reason
Carleeka Kimmins, 9 min.
After overdosing, Giselle encounters her father, who committed suicide, in a realm between life and death.
Unwritten
Justin May, 14 min.
Two young lovers explore closure and personal growth through their passion for music.
The Wagon
Stacey Nation, 15 min.
Armed with only a small metal wagon and a heart full of hope, a woman ventures to overcome the past to find her future.
Who’s Paisley? (An Expression of Love)
Richard Ulrich, 17 min.
A young manic songwriter must confront her conscience-stricken veteran father.
Narrative Shorts: Sci-Fi/Thriller plays at 9:15 .
Ticket information can be found HERE
Abducted Anonymous
Nathan Karimi, 23 min.
The rich and powerful exploit the temptations of seven men.
Breaking Cycles
Brent Butler, 10 min.
A robotics engineer re-creates his late wife only to realize he has made a huge mistake.
The Exchange Student
Nathan Bowman, 5 min.
In this third-place winner of the Cinema at Citygarden Competition, a middle-school student embarks on a journey that leads to self-reflection and a newfound appreciation of nature.
George
Jess Stamper, 2 min.
George is called into human resources, and all is revealed.
The Lines We Cross
Jake Thebeau, 13 min.
Three survivors must navigate a barren world.
Rabbit’s Foot
Dustin Carter, 16 min.
A man’s dependency on a future device causes him to lose sight of reality.
The Shine
Tristian Montgomery, 4 min.
In this winner of the 2019 St. Louis Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Film Festival — based on a poem by Kendra Allen — a light shines brightly inside of black men, but certain forces fight hard to extinguish it.
Shipslog
Richard Taylor, 5 min.
Mitch Majors uses his spaceship’s video log to chronicle a 28-year voyage to the distant Proxima Centauri system.
The Stranger
Damon Davis, 17 min.
In this surrealist allegory to the American Diaspora’s return to the African continent, a stranger falls from the sky one day, in search of a castle and a queen that was shown to him in his dream.
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