A Senior Moment
A older woman texts for the first time and learns you’re never to old to lol. Plays before Love & Other Anxieties
Filmmaker:
Michelle Davidson
Michelle has garnered acclaim working on both sides of the camera as a filmmaker and journalist. Michelle can be seen in national commercials, industrials, print campaigns, web series and films, including Lucky, Nailbiter and Last Ounce of Courage. She is a host of the daily talk show on KC Live, which airs on the NBC affiliate in Kansas City. She is also the host and executive producer of CINEMAKC, a weekly television program showcasing the works and words of Kansas City area filmmakers. She won a regional Emmy Award for writing, producing and starring in the web series “Unreal Housewives.” Michelle is the President of Kansas City Women in Film & TV and on the board of the Film Commission of Greater Kansas City.
Hellion
All hell breaks loose when little Petey Wilson and his two hell-raising brothers are left home alone. But can the boys suffer the consequences of their reckless behavior? Hellion takes us through the eyes of a seven-year old dreading the ultimate fear– punishment.
PLAYS BEFORE The Playroom.
Filmmaker:
Kat Candler
Kat Candler’s award winning films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, San Francisco International Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, The National Institutes of Health and on PBS. She’s been a participant in the Tribeca All Access and IFP Emerging Narratives, No Borders and Rough Cuts Lab. Candler’s screenplay Love Me was produced by Dolphin Entertainment and Anchor Bay Films for a 2013 release. She’s in development on two features, Nikki is a Punk Rocker and the Sundance Creative Producer’s Lab Participant, Hellion. Candler is a film Lecturer at the University of Texas and founded the Women in Cinema student organization at UT in 2011.
I Am Your Grandma (1 min)
I Am Your Grandma is an autobiographical video diary log (vlog) that Jillian Mayer records for her unborn grandchildren. Envisioned as an authentic solution to fleshing out the detached model of the family tree, Mayer hearkens to bygone times when ancestors could glimpse one
another through a locket or lock of hair. However, by placing the video in a public forum she conducts a phenomenological study of why people ultimately share their personal feelings with anonymous strangers, and whether this sharing effects the actual emotional significance of the piece. The work challenges notions of self-perception of mortality, celebrity, even the universal impetus for creation and legacy. At the same time, the packaging of the work
as a viral-friendly video, complete with a young female protagonist, catchy song, and short duration creates metaphysical questions of artifice and reality–annie hollingsworth, Art Papers
Filmmaker:
Jillian Mayer
Jillian Mayer is a Cuban-American artist living in Miami, FL. In 2010, her work was selected for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Her video works have premiered at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. Mayer was recently featured on the cover of Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity, internet and her artistic practices. She is a recent recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship 2011. She was recently named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. Later this year, Mayer will produce an artist book which will be released by [Name] Publications.
Remote Area Medical
Over three days in April 2012, Remote Area Medical provided free healthcare to nearly 2000 patients on the infield of Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR Speedway.
Plays before Birth Story
Filmmaker:
Farihah Zaman & Jeff Reichert
The Wing Eater (10 min)
Reality and the veiled land of fantasy meld, in this exploration of a woman’s post trauma consciousness. Submerged in an isolated state, Saorsa is unsure if anything she sees is real. It is her burning desire to rejoin all the disconnected parts of her fragmented self, and thus reconcile her past with her present. She is beckoned into a mysterious and terrifying inner world, where women are birds who must fight to keep their wings.
Plays before Existence
Filmmaker:
Nicole Emmons
Nicole Emmons is a stop motion animator and filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles, California. She was raised on Oklahoma and Austin, Texas. She received her BA in film and animation from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in Experimental Animation from Calarts as a Jacob Javits Fellow in 2010. Her films combine elements of folklore, myth, and the fairytale structure within a pop surrealist aesthetic. In addition to directing and producing her own films, she enjoys bringing the projects of others to life through her freelance stop motion production work. She also creates animation related installations, puppeteers, and teaches stop motion animation and puppet building.
You Bring Something Back (8 min)
On her return from active duty in Afghanistan, CMT Sarah Simpson is unaware that an incident whilst on duty, has left her with much more than physical scars.
Plays before The List
Filmmaker:
Michelle Arbon
In 2008, Michelle completed her Master of Arts Degree in Screenwriting at the Northern Film School, Leeds. Here she was formally trained in the art of scriptwriting and developed several short and feature length scripts. Michelle is an award winning writer and director, whose short films have been shown at both National and International film festivals. Michelle is a versatile director who works with both live action and animation. Her first animation ‘Above as Below’ won the prestigious DepicT! ’11 British Special Mention Award at the Encounters Film Festival 2011.
