Shorts Competition Program 7: Student Shorts

Running time: 192 mins

The Student Shorts program showcases the diversity, talent, and creative vision of student filmmakers through a variety of styles, genres, and viewpoints. Contributions include shorts from Bay Area film schools such as Gordo (Academy of Art), in which a Mexican immigrant subverts the fast food taco restaurant business. There are also films from schools across the country. From Olyver Brody (Florida State University), there's a dark fairy tale about a man who must not fall asleep. International films like Tougher Yet (Munich Film School) look at a strained relationship that goes deeper than it seems. Through tales of love and war, of loneliness and obsession, of the real and the fantastic, each film takes a fresh approach to the art of storytelling and displays the kind of unique, raw style that only student filmmakers can.

Nathan Zanon

Note: Screening will include an intermission.

Binary City (San Jose State Univ.) - dir. Mark Tran
Colourbars (Ryerson Univ.) - dir. Timothy Moore
A Day in the City (UC, Berkeley) - dir. Paul Wie
Forgetting Betty (New School University) - dir. James Anderson and Robert Postrozny
Gordo (Academy of Art Univ.) - dir. Vince Navarro
Mirage (School of Visual Arts) - dir. Youngwoong Jang
Muzzle (Ohio University School of Film) - dir. Jeremy Moss
Namibia, Brasil (Columbia College, Chicago) - dir. Miguel Silveira
Olyver Brody (Florida State Univ.) - dir. Robert Muraskin
The Reason (De Anza) - dir. Michael Chance
Sadiq (Columbia Univ.) - dir. Sean Mullin
Sold As Is (San Jose State Univ.) - dir. Cynthia Gil
Stutter (New York Univ.) - dir. Janice Ahn
Tougher Yet (Munich Film School) - dir. Felice Goetze
Truth of the Matter (De Anza) - dir. Car Nazzal