Multi-Screening: Check In, Preservation, Isolation: A Quarantine Short Film, Breakfast Tea, The Mugging of Christian Brown, The Quiet, Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh

Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh

The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.

Director Bio: Saheer Abbas was a former dance choreographer having nineteen years of experience in choreography and direction. He is passionate about movies and dreams to be a well-known movie maker. He has worked as an associate director in many films. He has also made his signature in some short movies, musical albums and commercial ads too. Now he is moving close towards his dream of making his name in movie industry.

The Quiet

When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realization.

The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?

Director Bio: Radheya Jegatheva is a Perth based Australian filmmaker born in Johor, Malaysia to parents of South Korean, Japanese, Indian and Malaysian ancestry. He is a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts student at Curtin University in Western Australia. Radheya's films have been selected to 16 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals along with a nomination for the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts (AACTA) Award, often described as Australia's equivalent to the Oscars.

Radheya's films which collectively have more than 900 official selections and 340 awards worldwide have been played in all the worlds 7 continents with the most difficult bastion breached when "iRony" played at Antarctica's Davis Research Station.

Preservation

A young man returns to his hometown only to discover the reason for his brother's estrangement from the family.

Director by: Benjamin L. Connell

Breakfast Tea

What's not to love about being woken before dawn by your neighbor’s power saw?

A story about busy neighbors, early birds and worms.

Scripted, shot and edited in 24 hours during social lockdown.

Take care of your neighbors.

Directed by: Jennifer Piper.

The Mugging of Christian Brown

While cutting through a dark alley on his way home, Christian Brown is violently mugged. Fed up with feeling like a human doormat, he becomes obsessed with retrieving his phone and wallet. His conspiracy theorist drug dealer, The Flower Guy, and a shady hacker assist Christian in tracking down the buff assaulter, an old high school foe named Pat. After an unsuccessful attempt at recovering his stolen items, a mind altering experience gives Christian the confidence he needs to complete his mission.

Director Bio: Writer/Director Spencer Halverson, 26, grew up in the suburbs of Sacramento, California, first becoming interested in film when he saw his father as an extra in the John Travolta movie Phenomenon. Throughout college, Spencer had a hand in creating many short films and comedy sketches, ultimately graduating from Portland State University’s Film program in 2018. Upon graduation, he returned to the Sacramento area where he found work as D.P., editor and actor for local films and the web series, Animal Control. In 2019, Spencer launched a sketch comedy channel called “Pass the Soap”. Pre-production on his directorial debut, the short comedy film The Mugging of Christian Brown, began in early 2020. Currently, Spencer is in the final stages of post-production on the music video for Immediate Family’s new single and in the process of writing his next short film.

Mature Audience

Suggested content for mature audiences ahead.

Check In

Harris Mavros, 16 years old, is addicted to social media and digital media of communication. His mother is very worried about his situation and asks his teacher to help him. However, the unlucky young person has taken a non-return road with uncontrollable consequences for everyone.

A project on modern social isolation in an urban horror environment.

Written by Giorgos Kaltsas

Director Bio: Konstantinos Stragalinos, born in Athens, is an international filmmaker. He is interested in cinematic surrealism and psychological thriller genre. He is awarded a Master of Arts in Film and Media Production (England, Sheffield) with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (2011). He has directed several short films (with entries and distinctions in festivals), documentaries on national television, videoclips and commercials. He has worked as an editor and director on private television. He is currently in the preproduction of his feature film “Minefield” (a war psychological thriller) with the support of the Greek Film Center. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the "Vangelis Kotronis" Foundation, which organizes the short film festival of the same name and coordinator of filming and screenings at the Cinematographic Sector of the University of Athens. Moreover, he is a student of Athens School of Fine Arts, a graduate of Athens Law School and member of the Greek Directors Guild.

Isolation: A Quarantine Short Film

A young man lives his daily life through quarantine but starts to lose his sanity.

Director Bio: Dylan Ginez is an actor, director and writer in the Bay area and is currently enrolled in CSU Northridge. Ginez has created a few other local short films and won multiple film festivals/contests.