SHORTS PROGRAM ONE
Intl Shorts Competition
Program Running Time is 94 min
Gather the whole family around to watch buildings being destroyed and young love blossom. Also the kids will love a complex thesis about archiving in the Internet age or a Spanish animated mobeius storyline. Just kidding, this show is NOT safe for kids.

DEAR BILL GATES DIR: Sarah J. Christman USA, 2006, 17 min A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, DEAR BILL GATES draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.

GOD PROVIDES DIR: Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy Canada, USA, 2006, 9 min Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.

KIDS + MONEY DIR: Lauren Greenfield USA, 2007, 32 min Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it. kids + money is an original short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield.

NAKED DIR: Albert Jan van Rees, Diederik Ebbinge Holland, 2006, 7 min Eric is 8 years old. For the first time he visits a sauna with his mother. In the sauna he cannot believe his eyes. As he leaves he encounters a beautiful young woman...

TEARGAS & PLATEGLASS 'ONE DAY ACROSS THE VALLEY' DIR: Andrea Giacomini USA, 2007, 6 min Teargas & Plateglass' experimental soundtrack and video re-imagines the horror of war and genocide in kaleidoscopic vision.

OUSMANE DIR: Gaye Dyana France, Senegal, 2006, 15 min Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 years old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

ROCK POCKETS DIR: Trevor Anderson, Steven Hope Canada, 2007, 6 min A movng musical portrait of PDA.

SURGERY DIR: Alberto Gonzalez Vazquez SPAIN, 2006, 2 min Do not pay attention to this tremor.

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