Jersey City,  NJ
JC PowerHouse Short Film Festival
Sept 30th - Oct 2nd, 2011
 

Title: O Relogio de Tomas (Thomas pocket watch)

Director:  Claudio Sa/Running Time: 8’/ Genre: Animation/Country: Portugal/Language: Portuguese (English Subtitles)

Plot:

The time does not go back, and right back there, are moments which we don't give the proper value. With the appearance of a magical watch, Tomas will have the privilege to 'have the time'. Does will teach him to live?

Title: Crown Prince of Heaven

Director:  Crystal Holt/ Running Time: 29’/ Genre: Action/Drama 

Country: US/ Language: English

Plot:

God wants to bring about the second coming of Jesus to absolve mans new sins. Jesus does not believe man is worth saving.

Watch Trailer: http://vimeo.com/14567676

Title: The Accident

Director:  Richard G Roberto/Running Time: 5’ 34”/Genre: Animation  

Country: USA/Language: Japanese (English Subtitles)

Plot:

Experimental machinima film about an accident and it's effect on the people involved.

Title: A cor et a cri

Director:  Brice Pancot/Running Time: 30’ 22”/ Genre: Fiction

Country: France/Language: French (English Subtitles)

Plot:

A young woman has a car accident on a desert road. She is taken in and looked after by a man and his son who live alone in an isolated village.

Title: This... is the Orange Line

Director: Nathan Maaulorico/Running Time: 9’/Genre: Drama/Documentary

Country: US /Language: English

Plot:

This... is the Orange Line' is a documentary nine minute film by Nathan Maulorico about the shapes and movement of the Chicago (CTA) Orange Line L Train from day to night. Featuring a Cello Concerto by Edward William Elgar.

Watch trailer: http://vimeo.com/17224221

Title: The Cleaning Lady

Director: Tom Brandau/Running Time: 9’ 59”/Genre: Drama

Country: USA/Language: English

Plot:

The Cleaning Lady' deals with the turmoil that took place in Baltimore shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. It's the story of an ordinary woman caught in the middle of an extraordinary historical event and made a prisoner of circumstances beyond her control..

Title: Home Made Food

Director:  David Casals Roma/Running Time: 14’/Genre: Drama 

Country: Spain/Language: Catalan (English Subtitles)

Plot:

A lonely man celebrates his birthday everyday in different restaurants. One night he meets a woman that does exactly the same thing. This encounter will make him realize about the worrying loneliness that people live in our current society

Watch Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLLJIwUsRs

Saturday October 01, 2011

Title: SOAKED

Director: Stephanie Daniels/Running Time: 9’ 11’’/Genre: Comedy  

Country: Jersey City, NJ US/ Language: English

Plot:

Sometimes you just have to take the plunge.

Title: Dans le Nez  (Ghost of the Laundromat)

Director:  Patrick Volve/Running Time: 29’/Genre: Drama 

Country: France /Language: French (English Subtitles)

Plot:

A story about love, disgust and volatile chemistry. A tale where mountains are bottles, armpits are sources and phantoms are perfumes

Title: Snowfall

Director: Juan Reinoso/Running Time: 12’ 54 Genre: Drama

Country: US/Language: English

Plot:

The story of a mother and young child fighting for their freedom from an abusive husband and father during the first snowfall of the year.

Radio Station

Director: Tomas Cheridan/ Running Time: 9’30/Genre: Doc

Country: Poland/Language: Polish (English subtitles)



Title: Take too long

Director:  Kwesi Davis/Running Time: 17’/Genre: Animation

Country: US/Language: English

Plot:

In New Orleans, should you survive the winds, the floods and the heat, you are welcome to wait...in the dark, on a carpet of shit; without food, drink or dignity.

Title: Lisa and Michael

Director:  Yosi Artzi/Running Time: 28’/Genre: Drama 

Country: Israel/Language: Hebrew (English Subtitles)

Plot:

After a strange meeting on the School bus, Lisa and Michael decide to run away to a near-by forest where hidden secrets are revealed. A bitter-sweet coming of age story.  

Watch Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9arqwE0Yg

Title: Ivan’s House
Director:  Peter Paul Basier/Running Time: 23’ 48”/Genre: Drama/Country: US/Language: English
Program 3  2pm-4pm
Program 4    4pm-6 pm
Title: Striking a Chord
Director: Susan Cohn Rockefeller/Running Time: 40’ Genre: Documentary/
Country: USA/Language:English
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Title: Raymond & Lina
Director:  Mark Paan/Running Time: 11”/Genre: Drama  
Country: US/ Language: English

Plot: 
Raymond Johnson, 63 and tired. Lina Overton, eight and troubled. One summer day, their lives will be closer than they expected
Title: The Violinist
Director:  Carlo Besasie/Running Time: 20’/Genre: Comedy/ Horror/Country: US/Language: English

Plot: 
When a charming, world famous concert violinist comes to town for a concert series, a lonely bag boy attempts to impersonate him in an attempt to improve his love life.
Title: Distractions
Director:  Michalina Almindo/Running Time: 6’/Genre: Drama/Country: US/Language: English
Plot:
Do you text while driving? As technology expands, so goes ones focus. When tragedy strikes, how does one react? Whether good or bad - karma rules.
Title: Mexican Cuisine
Director:  Francisco Guijarro/Running Time: 4’
Genre: Documentary  
Country: US/Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)

Title: Siamrosed

Director:  Aurelien Heraud/Running Time: 29’23”/Genre: Fiction

Country: France/Language: French (English subtitles)


Plot:

It's summer. Philip is on holiday with his friend in his father's house. Something besides heat torments him… As he can’t express this discontent and share his feelings, she leaves him. Later, a stranger arrives… That old man will make him aware that nothing lasts forever..

Title: Reconciliacion (Reconciliation)

Director:  Adel Khader/Running Time: 17’/Genre: Comedy/ Drama

Country: Spain/Language: Spain (English Subtitles)


Plot:

Two Neighbors, an old Communist who has returned from exile, and a young businessman leader of “Fuerza nueva” (Far Right political party in Post-Franco era) get trapped inside an elevator the night of February 23rd 1981. Inside that elevator they will release all the anger that has been bottled up for years. However, eventually, they realize that they have more in common than they would have ever imagined.


Title: The Martyr

Director:  Dan Karlok ( Two time Emmy Winner)/Running Time: 21’ 38”/ Genre: Drama/Country: US/Language: English


Plot: Ruben, the most illustrious painter, is deeply in love with his model Isabel, who in turn is romantically attached to a rival artist whose name is of no importance.

Title: Crossing Salween

Director:  Brian O’Malley/Running Time: 20’/Genre: Adventure

Country: Ireland/Language: Karen (English subtitles)

Filming Location: Thailand


Plot:

Having survived the massacre of her family, a young girl must make the long journey through the horrors of the Burmese jungle to the Salween river, beyond which lies the freedom of Thailand.

Title: Le Piano

Director:  Levon Minasian/Running Time: 26’/Genre: Comedy

Country: Armenia/Language: Arminian (English subtitles)


Plot:

A strong earthquake destroyed a major part of Armenia... A girl was born this day. Twelve years after, this young orphan is a talented pianist. To prepare for an international contest, the Ministry of Culture lends her a beautiful piano. But once it's delivered, the young girl and her grandfather realize the trailer where they live is not large enough to hold the instrument...

Title: WolfCall

Director: Rob Underhill/Running Time: 13’/Genre: Crime

Country: USA/Language: English


Plot:

It is 1956. The previous year, 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy's mutilated body was found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine sits down with the two men acquitted for the boy's murder, Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam, to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now... WOLF CALL, the true-story crafted from public record, transports us back to this historic drama that became a lightning rod for moral outrage and pivotal in inspiring a whole generation of young people to commit to social change in the 1950s.

Program 5 cont:  6pm-8 pm

Title: “Rain” A Love Story?

Director:  Anthony P Brooks/Running Time: 26’ 06”

Genre: Drama/Country: US/Language: English


Plot:

A Graduate student creates a wall around himself to cope with the death of his mother and the secret legacy she has left him. When an attractive and ambitious classmate enters his life, his dilemma becomes...if he's honest will he find acceptance and love?


Title: Lo que hacen las novias (What Girlfriends do)

Director:  Jota Linares/Running Time: 15’ 43”/Genre: Drama 

Country: Spain/Language: Spanish (English subtitles)


Plot:

Ale and Marian are about to execute an old sexual fantasy. An unknown guy is the key of a desire, a love triangle where nothing come out as they thought.

Title: Business is.... Dead

Director: Vito LaBruno/Running Time: 13’/Genre: Comedy

Country: Jersey City, NJ USA/Language: English


Plot: A down and out funeral director resorts to selling body parts to pay his debt.

Program 5   6pm-8pm
Program 2   12pm-2pm
Program 1   10am-12pm
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