The Accelerators: Brains, Braids, & Bots
Director: Leah X Rathe
Documentary Shorts
23 min.
United States
The Accelerators, an all girls First Robotics team from Cass Lake-Bena High School in Cass Lake, MN, compete in their 10th season, striving to make it to State for the first time in their school's history.
The Curmudgeon Factory
Director: Joshua M Thomas
Comedy Shorts
17 min.
United States
An old-timer asks himself if he has anything left to give. He finds the answer…in The Curmudgeon Factory.
Dwight in Denmark
Director: Cris Anderson
Documentary Shorts
27 min.
United States
Dwight in Denmark: Saving Tunes from Extinction is a film about an easy-to-ignore old man from rural Iowa who is a culture hero. Dwight Lamb has been an important and influential old time folk fiddler and Danish button accordion player in the American midwest for decades, but now he is significant in Denmark, also. The film is a feel-good story about music, dance, friendship, community, history, and the power of memory. Featuring stellar folk musicians. Filmed in Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., and Denmark.
Friendly Faces (Pilot)
Director: Keaton Marshall Fuller
Comedy Shorts
10 min.
United States
A pair of unlikely friends set out to launch a rent-a-friend service and tackle their first client, which sends them on a shopping trip for the perfect coffin!
Meeting Michael vol2
Directors: Frank Boyd, Brittany Benedict
Dramatic Shorts
14 min.
United States
The stranger returns to instill hope in a small midwestern town.
Through the Lens of Mourning
Director: Sarah Gaudoin
Dramatic Shorts
14 min.
United States
Seasoned wedding photographer Glen grew tired of the over-saturated wedding photography market, and found a new niche in "the moments that truly matter...the last." A curious documentary crew follows him over the course of several funeral photography gigs, witnessing him handle newcomer rivals and difficult employee conversations with the graciousness and diplomacy that only a wizened portrait photographer possesses.