The kids are ALRIGHT
Student Shorts
SPONSORED BY: Brick and beam
SATURDAY, April 13 @ 10:30 AM
Location: Jessie Ball duPont Center - Lecture Hall
Block will conclude with a Q&A with some of the filmmakers after the screening!
Tied Up!
Tallahassee, Florida, US - Director: Liam Fineout
Patrick Lake, a bumbling, asthmatic employee at B&D Accounting, has a big job interview for a promotion - the only thing in the way is his off-putting, egghead boss, a knife, and himself.
A New Year’s Dance
US - Director: Szu-Wei Chen
After two-decades away from home, a Chinese woman in New York considers taking a chance on a married dance enthusiast in the hopes of rediscovering her missing sense of family and belonging during the Lunar New Year.
Forgotten Flame
US - Director: Rachel Linsky
Inspired by the work and story of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Jewish-Polish composer, who was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust when he was 20 years old and later dealt with arrest during the rise of antisemitism. Students bring to life Movement II of Weinberg’s Cello Concertino, which was once put in a drawer and only discovered two decades after his death.
Asphyxia
Coral Springs, Florida, US - Director: Luciano Alzate
A failed writer and his son are stuck in their home after an apocalypse. Tensions rise as the son vies for freedom while the father forces him to write.
Singing in the Lifeboat
US - Director: Grace Wijaya
Jin seeks solace in the woods of Pennsylvania amidst the Covid pandemic. Surrounded only by trees, her thoughts become increasingly fraught with desperation and danger.
Millennium Project
China - Director: Yifan Zhang
On the day before the turn of the millennium, junior high school student Guo Hao discovered the secrets of his family members while preparing to go skating at the rink…
Mis-Alignment
US - Director: Pablo Riesgo Almonacid
When an engineer who destroys malfunctioning androids encounters a shocking abnormality in a rebellious patient, she risks everything to save her new friend and herself.