SATURDAY 9/10 | 6:00PM-8:15PM | MCC - SHEARER HALL
RED CARPET EVENT 5:30PM
Director: Yen Kuang Chen • Duration: 1:58:09
Year: 2021 • Country: Taiwan
Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make big money from a cocaine deal so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. But he soon realized that the whole thing is not that simple.
INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
FILM CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE, DRUG USE AND VIOLENCE.
FRIDAY 9/9 | 11:30AM-1:25PM | IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
SATURDAY 9/10 | 2:30PM-4:25PM | D'LANEYS ANNEX
Director: Michael Glover Smith • Duration: 1:37:00
Year: 2021 • Country: United States
A comedy/drama about three days in the life of a modern American family at a crossroads. How will the Frank family handle separations, new romances, and empty-nesting following the college graduation of the youngest member of their clan? Time, love, family reunions and online proclivities test all of the characters in this ensemble film.
FRIDAY 9/9 | 10:00AM-11:20AM | D'LANEY'S ANNEX
SATURDAY 9/10 | 2:00PM-3:20PM | NATIVE CEUTICALS
Director: John Alexander • Duration: 1:00:42
Year: 2021 • Country: United States
To the world, Louis Armstrong is iconic — a symbol of musical genius, unparalleled success, and unassailable character. Yet he was more than a caricature; he had desires, he had longings, and in private, he held tightly to the things he loved. Perhaps closest to his heart was a child whom he hid from the world: a daughter sworn to a life of secrecy until now.
FRIDAY 9/9 | 3:30PM-4:30PM | D'LANEY'S ANNEX
SATURDAY 9/10 | 10:45AM-11:45AM | NATIVE CEUTICALS
Director: Richard Kane • Duration: 0:58:06
Year: 2021 • Country: United States
A film about political artist Robert Shetterly's “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a project that explores our country’s ongoing struggle to live up to our democratic ideals with those who are not afraid to speak the truth nor challenge the status quo.
“As a child, I was afraid of the monsters on the outside. As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.”
- Anthony Liccione
FRIDAY 9/9 | 10:00AM-11:00AM
IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
SATURDAY 9/10 | 12:30PM-1:30PM
NATIVE CEUTICALS
THE GAME
0:25:22 | SHORT NARRATIVE
BACKYARD BLACKBIRD
0:15:20 | SHORT NARRATIVE
“I want to go back in time. Not to change anything, but to feel something again.”
- Mercer
FRIDAY 9/9 | 12:15PM-1:45PM
NATIVE CEUTICALS
SATURDAY 9/10 | 10:45AM-12:15PM
D'LANEY'S ANNEX
A GIFT FOR ALL AGES
0:35:51 | SHORT NARRATIVE
SPIRIT OF THE CINEMA
0:19:00 | SHORT NARRATIVE
GOT YOUR BACK
0:17:50 | SHORT NARRATIVE
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”
- Norman McLaren
FRIDAY 9/9 | 3:45PM-4:20PM
NATIVE CEUTICALS
SATURDAY 9/10 | 10:30AM-11:05AM
IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
RECORD PLAYER
0:02:34 | ANIMATION
QUINO'S DREAM
0:07:18 | ANIMATION
GREEN THUMB
0:04:24 | ANIMATION
IN BLUE
0:08:13 | ANIMATION
THE PANDA & THE RICE COOKER
0:07:00 | ANIMATION
SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL AGES
0:02:43 | ANIMATION
“Our response to cruelty, suffering and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty.”
- Anita Amierrezvani
FRIDAY 9/9 | 2:00PM-3:20PM
IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
SATURDAY 9/10 | 12:45PM-2:05PM
D'LANEYS ANNEX
PAM'S KITCHEN
0:20:20 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THE WALL THAT HEALS
0:29:18 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
HUNGER IS REAL: VOICES OF WESTERN NC
0:13:23 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
- Brene Brown
FRIDAY 9/9 | 10:00AM-11:40AM
NATIVE CEUTICALS
SATURDAY 9/10 | 1:45PM-3:25PM
IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
SHEER QORMA
0:30:21 | SHORT NARRATIVE
BLUE
0:14:37 | SHORT NARRATIVE
THE BLIND DATE
0:16:51 | SHORT NARRATIVE
WHEN THE RAIN SETS IN
0:16:42 | SHORT NARRATIVE
“You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul.”
- George Bernard Shaw
FRIDAY 9/9 | 1:30PM-3:00PM
D'LANEY'S ANNEX
SATURDAY 9/10 | 11:45AM-1:15PM
IREDELL ARTS COUNCIL
SHAPING SEAGROVE
0:08:51 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
SAM WANG: CENTRIPETAL PERSISTENCE
0:25:01 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE: THE LEGEND OF G.B. GRAYSON
0:39:19 | SHORT DOCUMENTARY
“Adversity shakes the foundation of our character to see if what we believe and value is really worth standing for.”
- Rae Smith
FRIDAY 9/9 | 11:45AM-12:55PM
D'LANEY'S ANNEX
SATURDAY 9/10 | 3:45PM-4:55PM
NATIVE CEUTICALS
QUANDO, QUANDO, QUANDO
0:10:13 | SHORT NARRATIVE
BLUE & WHITE
0:11:00 | SHORT NARRATIVE
SUGA BROWN
0:17:46 | SHORT NARRATIVE
RESILIENCE
0:09:24 | SHORT NARRATIVE
GREEN THUMB (0:04:24)
Director: Beau Shell
United States • 2022
When a young boy named Sprout turns to gardening to cope with his neglectful home life, his beloved garden takes on a hellish form as his plants grow into giant human body parts.
IN BLUE (0:08:13)
Director: Kasey Lewis
United States • 2022
Polo, a plucky leopard gecko, is excited to meet his brand-new family. However, the other lizards do not welcome him. He must travel to the highest shelf in the room, past an intimidating ball python, to earn the acceptance of his new family.
QUINO'S DREAM (0:07:18)
Director: Santiago Erlich
Spain • 2021
The arrival of the first child reveals the difference between loving and accepting how each one is.
RECORD PLAYER (0:02:34)
Director: Yuval Haker
United States • 2021
A surreal music video combining filmed footage and animation. Record Player is a song about our modern day demons, the masks we wear and the knees we scrape in our desire to fit in.
SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL AGES (0:02:43)
Director: Hannes Rall
Germany • 2022
A depiction of the poet's most famous plays in an immediately recognizable way with individual images that flow dynamically into one another.
THE PANDA & THE RICE COOKER (0:07:00)
Director: Christian Washington
United States • 2022
A lone girl forced to survive in the jungle has her world turned upside down when she meets a baby panda. The two must then learn to work together if they wish to survive the perils of the jungle.
LITTLE SATCHMO (1:00:42)
Director: John Alexander
United States • 2021
To the world, Louis Armstrong is iconic — a symbol of musical genius, unparalleled success, and unassailable character. Yet he was more than a caricature; he had desires, he had longings, and in private, he held tightly to the things he loved. Perhaps closest to his heart was a child whom he hid from the world: a daughter sworn to a life of secrecy until now.
TRUTH TELLERS (0:58:06)
Director: Richard Kane
United States • 2021
A film about political artist Robert Shetterly's “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a project that explores our country’s ongoing struggle to live up to our democratic ideals with those who are not afraid to speak the truth nor challenge the status quo.
HIDEOUT (1:58:09)
Director: Yen Kuang Chen
Taiwan • 2021
Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make big money from a cocaine deal so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. But he soon realized that the whole thing is not that simple.
RELATIVE (1:37:00)
Director: Michael Glover Smith
United States • 2021
A comedy/drama about three days in the life of a modern American family at a crossroads. How will the Frank family handle separations, new romances, and empty-nesting following the college graduation of the youngest member of their clan? Time, love, family reunions and online proclivities test all of the characters in this ensemble film.
DEFENDING THE DARK (0:35:32)
Directors: Tara Roberts Zabriskie
United States • 2022
The story of saving the dark sky areas of Maine and what we can do in our backyards to reduce the harmful effects of light pollution.
HUNGER IS REAL: VOICES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (0:13:23)
Director: Adams J. Wood
United States • 2022
A short documentary that gives a real look at the state of hunger in Western North Carolina, featuring four food relief organizations who are part of the MANNA Partner Network providing food to people in their community across the 16 western-most counties of North Carolina.
PAM'S KITCHEN (0:20:20)
Director: David Gwynn
United States • 2022
A Trinidadian restaurant owner in Seattle battles mounting anxiety, racial tension, and financial insolvency to try and keep her community-oriented restaurant alive during Covid’s rise.
RECAPTURE (0:09:29)
Director: David Kernodle
United States • 2022
Memories are fleeting. Here one day, gone the next. It's been said, photographs keep those memories from running away. Before her father passed away from Alzheimer's, Laurie R. Martin used her photos to reconnect and rekindle their relationship. Now she's using her acclaimed photos to RECAPTURE memories, while composing new ones.
SAM WANG: CENTRIPETAL PERSISTENCE (0:25:01)
Director: John Rash
United States • 2021
A documentary follows pioneering Chinese-American photographer Sam Wang from his birthplace in Beijing, China to Clemson, South Carolina on a journey of shifting cultural identity and constant visual creation. Sam's mastery of hand-crafted processes and dedication to creative curiosity has inspired four decades of students in the United States and continues to excite an emerging class of Chinese photographers today.
SHAPING SEAGROVE (0:08:51)
Director: Students at Randolph Community College
United States • 2021
The Randolph Community College Photojournalism Class of 2022 presents "Shaping Seagrove" a documentary on the Pottery Capital of the USA, Seagrove, North Carolina.
SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE: THE LEGEND OF G.B. GRAYSON (0:39:19)
Director: E. Kelley St. Germain
United States • 2021
From Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee, Gilliam Banmon Grayson (1887-1930) was a blind fiddler from one of the most isolated regions on the East Coast. Largely unknown, he may be one of the most influential musicians in the history of bluegrass and country music. In this film, we explore G.B. Grayson's life and tragic death and how his musical legacy lives on today.
THE WALL THAT HEALS (0:29:18)
Director: Chuck Fishbein
United States • 2021
The traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is coming to Garner, NC. Over 1600 North Carolinians died in the Vietnam War and this film is an attempt to honor some of those men and women who bravely sacrificed their lives for their country.
A GIFT FOR ALL AGES (0:35:51)
Directors: Russell Webb & Alicia Wszelaki
United States • 2022
A brand new “Golden Age of Hollywood” classic film about life, love, and, Christmas! A cheerful stranger invades the home of a frustrated author and his wife. The odd fellow heartens a timeless gift for generations.
BACKYARD BLACKBIRD (0:15:20)
Director: Andrew Huggins
United States • 2022
A mother and father confront strange behaviors manifesting in their eleven year old son.
BLUE (0:14:37)
Directors: Elec McCready & Isaac McCready
United States • 2021
A relationship in three parts, intertwined with the music that came from it.
BLUE & WHITE (0:11:00)
Director: Chris Fudge
Canada • 2022
A man suffering with ADHD struggles to get through his daily routine.
GOT YOUR BACK (0:17:50)
Director: Mitch Hudson
United States • 2021
In the 1960s, a group of high school buddies decide to climb their local water tower. Based on a true memoir, and produced in loving memory of Steve Cruea and Jim "Turd" Swanson.
QUANDO, QUANDO, QUANDO (0:10:13)
Director: Kuan Cao
United States • 2021
Ben wakes up in the morning and explores his house. A self-taped video on a laptop found by Ben in a dishwasher reminds him of what happened to him and who he is. Later, a phone call from Ben's son who is in great danger helps Ben to connect himself with who he is, and his family again.
RESILIENCE (0:09:24)
Director: Jerod Wood
United States • 2022
James finds it impossible to trust anyone after two different families choose themselves over him, leaving him abandoned to the system.
SHEER QORMA (0:30:21)
Director: Faraz Arif Ansari
India • 2021
A story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family, and how it comes together under one roof, as resilient, queer Muslim women and non-binary characters of color, choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities.
SPIRIT OF THE CINEMA (0:19:00)
Director: Zack Fox
United States • 2021
A family-owned movie theater struggles with letting go of the past and switching from 35mm film to digital cinema to keep the theater open. . . A love letter to 35mm film, movies, and theaters... which desperately need our love and help right now.
SUGA BROWN (0:17:46)
Director: Clarke Phillips
United States • 2022
In a world where free health care requires genetic alterations, a pregnant woman, Eden, must go to extreme lengths to ensure her child is born free of mandated modification.
THE BLIND DATE (0:16:51)
Director: Mihir Dhirajlal Upadhyay
India • 2022
While it's said that eyes are the windows to the soul, The Blind Date is a story of how blindness sometimes bares that soul. A heartwarming story of love and sacrifice, through the eyes in blindness.
THE GAME (0:25:22)
Director: Brynn Chamblee
United States • 2022
With her daughter about to leave for college, Jennifer Hansen decides to foster two seemingly sweet sisters. But there's something strange about these two girls.
WHEN THE RAIN SETS IN (0:16:42)
Director: James Hughes
United Kingdom • 2021
Kenzie and Treyden, a couple who’ve been swept up in a whirlwind six-month romance, find themselves confronting a painful question: Has their love story come to an end?
