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Wednesday, 4-10 6:45 pm -
Regal Winter Park Village A
Friday, 4-12 9:45 pm
Competition Animated Shorts
Shorts Program 5: Animated Shorts
Total Running Time: 92 MIN
Sponsored by LURE DESIGN
Una Furtiva Lagrima
DIRECTED BY CARLO VOGELE
USA, 2012, 3 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
The fresh catch of the day, set to a stirring Enrico Caruso song from 1904.
Giraffe Danger
DIRECTED BY RANDALL HOPKINS
USA, 2011, 3 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A giraffe with personal space anxiety has a bad day.
Daisy
DIRECTED BY RENAE SU
USA, 2012, 5.5 MIN
US PREMIERE
Narrated like a children’s storybook, this twisted fairytale is about a mysterious girl named Daisy who bewitches all men.
Solipsist
DIRECTED BY ANDREW HUANG
USA, 2011, 10 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE/2ND US SHOWING
Extreme egocentrism is explored in this stunningly surreal experimental work set underwater and at the beach.
Facundo the Great
DIRECTED BY THE RAUCH BROTHERS
USA, 2012, 2 MIN
In this new StoryCorps work from the directors of “Miss Devine” and “No More Questions!” (FFF 2012), Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez tells the story of how the new kid at school became a hero.
The Hungry Boy
DIRECTED BY CEM KURTULUS AND JAKE NELSON
USA, 2011, 5 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE
A universe of brushstrokes defines this experimental work depicting a dream disturbed by a growling stomach and a voracious mosquito.
Marcel, King of Tervuren
DIRECTED BY TOM SCHROEDER
USA, 2012, 6 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills, and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.
Choreography for Plastic Army Men
DIRECTED BY DAVID B. FAIN
USA, 2011, 5 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE
Shot in the filmmaker’s garage during various bouts of unemployment, this stop-motion work stars a variety of plastic army men as they strut their stuff to the instrumental track “Ohayoo Ohio” by Pink Martini.
In Hanford
DIRECTED BY CHRIS MARS
USA, 2012, 4.5 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
The visionary director of “Flowers for Jupiter” (FFF 2012) returns with this haunting exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of Cold War-era nuclear arms manufacturing.
The Duke
DIRECTED BY JONATHAN CAMPO
USA, 2012, 1.5 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE/2ND US SHOWING
A storeowner questions another man about his chicken parm sandwich in this hilariously bizarre mixed-media work.
Thank You
DIRECTED BY PENDLETON WARD
USA, 2011, 11 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE
The creator of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time presents a funny and strange tale of a snow golem whose solitary life is thrown into chaos when he tries to take care of an abandoned firewolf cub—his mortal enemy.
The Event
DIRECTED BY JULIA POTT
USA/UK, 2012, 3 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Surreal and mysterious. Love and a severed foot at the end of the world.
Drunker Than a Skunk
DIRECTED BY BILL PLYMPTON
USA, 2013, 3.5 MIN
WORLD PREMIERE
FFF favorite Bill Plympton adapts a poem by Walt Curtis about a cowboy town that torments the local drunk. The results are gloriously Plympton-esque!
Old Man
DIRECTED BY LEAH SHORE
USA, 2012, 5.5 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
For more than 20 years, Charles Manson has refused to communicate with the outside world. Until now.
Backyard Jam
DIRECTED BY RANDALL CHRISTOPHER
USA, 2012, 6 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE/2ND US SHOWING
Kleeman and Mike are back! In this new adventure, the boys have to figure out a way to get their skateboards back from the vicious dog next door.
Retrocognition
DIRECTED BY ERIC PATRICK
USA, 2012, 18 MIN
FLORIDA PREMIERE
A stunningly animated collage of photographs and audio fragments from WWII-era radio dramas combine to critique the classic American television nuclear family found in ‘50s sitcoms.
