Short Films Block B | Friday 11am-12:30pm
TUKTUIT: CARIBOU. Directed by Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre. Colorado Premiere. An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions. Watch the trailer.
TRIPTRAP. Directed by Jack Dorfman. Colorado Premiere. A lonely woman takes desperate measures to make new friends. Filmmakers in attendance. Watch the trailer.
BORN SECRET. Directed by Riley Fitchpatrick. Colorado Premiere. A filmmaker returns to his hometown that built the atomic bomb. There he meets the workers who created humanity's greatest weapon that now wrestle with their legacy, while their grandchildren inherit a world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe. Filmmakers in attendance. Watch the trailer.
I’M SORRY. Directed by William Lancaster. World Premiere. A massively popular YouTuber records an apology video to his dwindling number of fans, but is it a sincere admission of guilt or only the first step in a darker, premeditated plot to claw back his online popularity? Filmmaker in attendance. Watch the trailer.
A NEW INFERNO. Directed by Nita Blum & Jonathan Pickett. Filmed during the hottest days of Phoenix, Arizona’s summer heatwave, A NEW INFERNO follows paramedics as they race to save the lives of heatstroke victims using a radical new treatment: ice immersion therapy. Filmmakers in attendance. Watch the trailer.
CANDY BAR. Directed by Nash Edgerton. A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad. Watch the teaser.