10:00 pm | Block of 2 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Helen O Reilly
Genre: Short Comedy
Duration: 19min

Film Synopsis: Culture Club are no. 1, everyone’s glued to Knight Rider, and Kelly Harrison is not only experiencing her first crush, she’s going to her first disco. The only problem is that she’s getting train tracks before her big night and becomes besieged by self-consciousness. However, with the help of her best friend, Kelly realises what’s really important in her life.

10:00 pm | Block of 2 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Ashley Avis
Genre: Drama
Duration: 107min

Film Synopsis: When Adam, a teen from a dysfunctional family meets Alice -- an enigmatic runaway; his life is turned upside down. Spiraling out of control with her, it will take Adam’s support system to pull him toward the light again.
Note: Adult language & situations

8:45 pm | Block of 1 Film | THE SPEAKEASY THEATRE | 103 S. Harris St.
Director: Roger Nygard
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 82min

Film Synopsis: This documentary by filmmaker Roger Nygard (TREKKIES) follows three not-so-ordinary couples to see how things turned out several years after their weddings. The film presents challenging ideas about relationships, as it answers: Why is marriage so hard for human beings? Note: Adult language & situations
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7:30 pm | Block of 3 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Trisha LaFache
Genre: Short Comedy
Duration: 8min

Film Synopsis: Newlyweds, Abigail and Chris, attend a weekly family dinner when Abigail quickly finds out that honesty is not always the best policy.
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7:30 pm | Block of 3 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Michael Wohl
Genre: Short Comedy
Duration: 13min

Film Synopsis: A pregnant couple comes to terms with their fears and insecurities as their families descend upon their home during the final days of the pregnancy. Note: Adult situations

7:30 pm | Block of 3 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Jonathan Smith
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 81min

Film Synopsis: On April Fools’ Day, just before her wedding, a bride pranks her fiancé by saying that she thinks that they’ve lost that spark and that they should call off the wedding and break up, only to discover that he feels the exact same way.
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7:30 pm | RIVERWALK CENTER | 150 W. Adams Ave.
Director: Ben Masters
Genre: Adventure Documentary,
Duration: 100min

Film Synopsis: The River and the Wall follows five friends into the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands. Together they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico by way of horseback, mountain bikes and canoes.
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6:45 pm | Block of 2 Films | THE SPEAKEASY THEATRE | 103 S. Harris St.
Director: Margaret Cheatham Williams & Jocie Juritz
Genre: Human Spirit Animation,
Duration: 5min

Film Synopsis: Why I Won’t Teach My Son ‘Black Codes’: Debra’s son is just 1 year old, but she knows that soon he will be perceived as a “big black boy.” Can she overcome the “systems” she feels are in place to oppress him?

6:45 pm | Block of 2 Films | THE SPEAKEASY THEATRE | 103 S. Harris St.
Director: Kurt Neale
Genre: Human Spirit Animation,
Duration: 74min

Film Synopsis: As a young millennial woman seeks independence and intimacy, she grapples with the realities of living with Down syndrome. She embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she tries to understand what it means to be normal.
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6:00 pm | Block of 3 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Adva Reichman
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 18min

Film Synopsis: A pregnant Palestinian woman, whose husband died in the Israeli prison, uses Hamas to plan a terror attack and revenge his death. The premature birth of her baby makes her reconsider, but will Hamas let her off the hook? Note: Adult situations

6:00 pm | Block of 3 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Platan
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 39min

Film Synopsis: A young woman powerfully declares that her body is not a weapon. Another vows to bring joy to all she meets. An intergenerational collection of singers dance in the courtyard of a holistic healing center. Female police recruits march at attention in Bukavu. All of them, along with a team of surgeons led by Dr. Denis Mukwege, stand at the intersection of a wartime rape epidemic, survivors, and world leaders seeking a freer, more just path to peace.
Note: Adult situations

6:00 pm | Block of 3 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Bridgette Auger & Itab Azzam
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 75min

Film Synopsis: Four Syrian refugee women find the strength to face the greatest of tragedies by embracing an unlikely role model: the ancient rebel princess Antigone.
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5:00 pm | Block of 1 Film | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Darlene Naponse
Genre: Drama,
Duration: 95min

Film Synopsis: Tantoo Cardinal shines as a world-famous Anishinaabe musician who returns to the reserve to rest and recharge -- only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind, in writer-director Darlene Naponse’s riveting portrait of resilience set among a northern First Nation.

4:30 pm | Block of 1 Film | THE SPEAKEASY THEATRE | 103 S. Harris St.
Director: Bill Gallagher
Genre: Human Spirit Documentary
Duration: 88min

Film Synopsis: Marathoner, Guor Maker’s difficult and triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete, told in intimate interviews with gorgeously animated flashbacks. His story is a distinctly inspirational one in which the indomitable human spirit emerges against all odds.
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3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Meghann Artes
Genre: Animation
Duration: 9min

Film Synopsis: Miracle, science and luck all play a part in this vibrant and fantastic imagining of how life begins.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Margaret Cheatham Williams & Jocie Juritz
Genre: Human Spirit Animation,
Duration: 5min

Film Synopsis: Why I Won’t Teach My Son ‘Black Codes’: Debra’s son is just 1 year old, but she knows that soon he will be perceived as a “big black boy.” Can she overcome the “systems” she feels are in place to oppress him?
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3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Raúl Koler and Emiliano Sette
Genre: Animation,
Duration: 15min

Film Synopsis: Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil, without any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test humanity’s happiness in a struggle that, in short, has each of us as winners and losers.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Neil Affleck
Genre: Animation,
Duration: 5min

Film Synopsis: Wawatay is an indigenous-led animated short film that explores the relationship between the living stories of the Anishnnabe people and the journey of connecting to them. In creating a story that offers an introduction to their culture and teachings, the filmmakers encourage people to partake of the Annishnaabe experience.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Jalil Sadool & Adam Meyer
Genre: Animation
Duration: 9min

Film Synopsis: Over a century has passed since the destruction of Earth. Without a home planet, humans now live among the thirty-eight known alien species. Kent Williams, a struggling chef, leads a disparate band of adventurers aboard their ship, The Serrano. Eager to discover the culinary secrets of his ancestors, Kent and his cyborg companion, traverse the cosmos in search of rare Earth spices.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Patrick Smith
Genre: Animation
Duration: 2min

Film Synopsis: There are currently 393 million firearms in the US. This film shows 2328 of them. “Gun Shop” juxtaposes the frightening visual power of guns with a whimsy of Jazz percussion, and a dose of cultural irony.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Aubry Mintz
Genre: Animation
Duration: 10min

Film Synopsis: A turtle challenges the zookeeper and other animals by not speaking on command to receive food. An allegorical film expressing themes of exile and displacement of family and culture. Various animation styles uncover the emotional quality of the turtle’s experience.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Eric Kunzendorf
Genre: Animation
Duration: 6min

Film Synopsis: datastreamimagination fuses data and imagination finding its expression through the streaming medium of animation. The narrative interrogates ideas of building complexity from simplicity, destruction being necessary for creation, imagination overcoming even death and opposites giving form to each other.
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3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Mark Smith
Genre: Animation
Duration: 9min

Film Synopsis: Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.

3:30 pm | Block of 10 Films | COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | 107 Denison Placer Rd.
Director: Hannah Olson, Isley Verbonitz
Genre: Animation - World Premiere, Student Film
Duration: 8min

Film Synopsis: Amongst the forgotten treasures of an old attic, an otherworldly encounter tests a boy’s limits in what he will do to mend a new bond, creating the chance for an unlikely friendship to be made.
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2:30 pm | Block of 5 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Jay K Raja
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 15min

Film Synopsis: Jackie and Terry Bumbry are a mixed race couple who have a paranormal encounter with a bright light in the sky while driving near Mount Shasta. They report their experience to local law enforcement, who bring in a psychologist to assess the situation. But as Jackie tells her story to the doctor she comes to realize that there may be ulterior motives at play.
Note: Adult language

2:30 pm | Block of 5 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Siddhartha Dutt
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 13min

Film Synopsis: Two young men, reconciling with their respective baggage of rivalry, prepare to settle the final conflict of their lives with a game in which one of them has to die. Who will win this game of life and death for the one love of their lives?

2:30 pm | Block of 5 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Dan Dobi
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 24min

Film Synopsis: When a couple having an affair with one another decides to pursue their relationship to the next level, breaking up with their partners poses to be harder than expected. Note: Adult language & situations
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2:30 pm | Block of 5 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: James Brown
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 27min

Film Synopsis: A routine traffic stop finds a New York State Trooper face to face with a storied stranger from his past. The chance encounter powerfully alters their fates... again. Note: Adult situations
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2:30 pm | Block of 5 Films | BRECKENRIDGE THEATER | 121 S. Ridge St.
Director: Ashley Avis
Genre: Short Drama
Duration: 31min

Film Synopsis: When sixteen-year-old Lola is forced to relocate to Wyoming with her anxiety riddled mother, she fears nothing will ever happen to her there. Arriving on her grandmother Ivy’s farm, she falls into a dangerous lust with Ivy’s ranch hand Cody. Note: Adult language & situations

2:15 | Block of 2 Films | THE SPEAKEASY THEATRE | 103 S. Harris St.
Director: Marielle Woods
Genre: Short Comedy
Duration: 15min

Film Synopsis:When an optimistic color guard captain can’t land a post-college job, she must take a gig as a sign spinner. Ending up in a turf battle with a drug dealer, she’s forced to discover her inner badass to prevail.
Note: Adult language
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