Shorts: Film Students on the Move

Screening: Sat. Sept 11 @ 2pm

Total Runtime: 82 mins

The South (20 mins – China – Student – Undergraduate – Media China)

Two high school friends, Qing and Song, plan their escape from the city they’re living in. However, Qing backs away from the decision and watches Song head toward their desired destination—a small southern town called Rivadavia. Ten years later, Qing receives a mysterious invitation to a funeral being held in Rivadavia. She musters the courage to head to the town she dared no to go to before. There, buried in the earth, she finds the dreams she was once too afraid to go after.

Park Pros (10 mins – USA – Student – NYU)

Jonathan is convinced he is destined for greatness, only to find that his job as a Parking Garage Attendant may not be the fastest way to get there.

Lucky Lotus (16 mins – USA – Student – AFI)

Cong owns and operates Lucky Lotus—a successful hostess bar where men come for flirtatious conversation and company. Cong’s only daughter (Lien) is her most popular hostess, but Lien has become jaded by the flashy lifestyle that Cong has forged for her since leaving Vietnam. When Cong discovers that Lien plans to leave Lucky Lotus for a life in New York City, the two struggle over the limits of sacrifice and family.

Some Boys Don’t Leave (14 mins -USA – AFI)

Some Boys Don’t Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. ‘Boy’ (Jesse Eisenberg of the films ‘Adventureland’ and ‘Squid and the Whale’) is forced to come to terms with the fact that ‘Girl’ (Eloise Mumford ‘Crash’) no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can’t seem to leave their once shared apartment. ‘Girl’ decides to keep living her life around him; while he remains in her hallway. Only after he has exhausted all other options does the Boy find that sometimes the greatest distance we are asked to travel is one within ourselves.

Guignol (22 mins – USA – Student -UCLA School of Theatre, Film & Television)

The line between love and violence is blurred when Renata, the magnetic doyenne of a Grand Guignol theater company, forces Mila, her disgruntled star, to participate in her own usurpation.

Me, Myself & Your Husband (8 mins – USA – Student – NYU)

Alone and desperate, Kat asks her sister’s husband to get her pregnant, which leads to a horrible mix-up she is forced to undo.