Genre: Drama (20 mins.) USA
Director/Writer: Todd Pringle
Producers: Brent Nelsen and Todd Pringle
Cast: Terri Bleam, Bill Dupont, Jeff Evans and Campbell Roark
           
Synopsis: One cold night, three people are forced to rethink their lives when they all come in contact with a wise old blues man at a deserted gas station.

Genre: Drama (18 mins.) USA                      
Director: Dan Olson
Writers: D.W. Johnson and Dan Olson
Producer: Antonia White
Cast: John Brickner, Roddy Jessup, Clay Strickland and Danny Hicks
Synopsis: Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century short story of the same name, The Pardoner’s Tale follows three friends as greed tears them apart. During the Great Depression, Jacob, Jeremiah, and Lucas leave behind lives of loss in Montana and set out to find work in Colorado. On their way, they must employ desperate and selfish measures to get by, often stealing from others in order to survive. When they stumble upon a resting place that should provide some relief, they instead find something that opens a door into the darkest part of who they are.

Genre: Family Drama (31 mins.) U.S.A.                   
Director/Writer: Brad Jayne
Producers: Quentin Baxter and Brad Jayne
Cast: Khari Lucas, Michael L. Nesbitt and Christopher Gay
Synopsis: Set in 1961, ten-old Pumpkin Brown is taken from his rural South Carolina home after the death of his preacher father.  Once he arrives at the real-life Jenkins Orphanage, the shy, lonely boy discovers the jazz trumpet as a way to deal with his growing grief.

Genre: Drama (25 mins.) USA
Director/Writer: Justin Lerner
Producer: Rebecca Brown
Cast: Travis Quentin Young and Matthew Fahey
Synopsis: After spending a year in a juvenile center for beating up his stepfather, Todd Turnbull returns to his backwoods hometown a repentant, deeply religious boy. When he finds his best friend, Michael, withering away without any medical attention due to the family's spiritual beliefs, Todd must make a choice: let his friend die; or break his oath of non-violence and take matters into his own hands...

Genre: Drama (13 min.) USA            
Director: Matthew Mebane
Writer: Matthew Mebane (Based on the Poem “Tackle Box” by Patti White)           
Producers: Matthew Mebane, Maria White Mebane and Peter Rotter     
Cast: Ann Owens-Pierce, Ed Grady, Jeremy DeCarlos, Brandon Roberts, Tim Parati, Brian Robinson, Maria White Mebane and Jonathon Nicholson
Synopsis: Even after death, love lingers, bringing a group of outcasts to redemption.

Sponsored by Boys and Girls Club of Trident Area
Genre: Documentary (85 mins.) USA                       
Director/Producer: Helen Hood Scheer
Writers: Helen Hood Scheer and Scott B. Morgan      
Synopsis: JUMP! is a feature-length character-driven documentary about competitive jump rope that follows five teams of kids from around the country who push physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Championship.  Part extreme sport, part art form, their moves are masterfully choreographed and bursting with rhythm, sweat and originality.  These teens sacrifice everything to get where they are and each has his or her own reason to be so driven.  After arduous drilling and mind-boggling performances, rivalry and collaboration have dramatic, unexpected results.

Genre: Drama (11 mins.) USA
Director: Frey Hoffman
Writers/Producers: Frey Hoffman and Malik Yusef
Cast: Malik Yusef, Shorty K, The Pope, Ronald L. Conner and Zanny Laird
Synopsis: A 14 year-old who is enthralled and bamboozled by pop-culture images of gang culture finds himself the focus of a police standoff. When his idea of himself collides with his circumstances he must decide which are stronger, his fantasies or his dreams. Told in a lyrical magic-realist visual style and built around the recitation of a narrative poem.

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