Events

SUNDAY SHORTS PROGRAM 2017

October 15, 2017 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Locations: Crest Theatre (1013 K Street Sacramento CA 95814)
Tickets: VIP All Festival Pass: $ 70.00 | Sunday Shorts Program Only: $ 10.00 | Film Only Festival Pass: $ 50.00 | Student Film Only Festival Pass: $ 10.00
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SUNDAY SHORTS PROGRAM 2017

Sunday, October 15; 3:30pm
Expected Guests:
Director, Florencia Manóvil (ENCUENTRO) and Director, Bobby Yan (MARZ),
Others TBA

Boys in the Street #pride
Director: Louisa Bertman
2016 | USA | 4 min

This gorgeous animated music video addresses growing up surrounded by homophobia.

Bootwmn
Directors: Paige Gratland & Sam McWilliams
2015 | USA, Canada, UK | 11 min

Deana McGuffin is a third-generation New Mexico bootmaker, hand-crafting wearable pieces of art. When she is approached by a Canadian artist and an SF tattoo artist to create a gay-themed cowboy boot, a story unravels of a unique collaboration that takes them to the heart of cowboy country in Texas.

Britney-Holics Anonymous – A Spear-itual Awakening
Director: Jerell Rosales
2015 | USA | 10 min

A delivery man stumbles upon an unusual support group where cheerful devotees addicted to a certain pop star meet in solidarity.

Etage X
Director: Francy Fabritz
2016 | Germany | 14 min

An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise. In German with English subtitles

Marz
Director: Bobby Yan
2016 | USA | 12 min

A childhood friendship is put to the test after a fleeting encounter stirs up uncomfortable feelings that neither is equipped to answer.

Dusk
Director: Jake Graf
2017 | UK | 15 min

Writer-Director Jake Graf (Dawn) returns with a beautiful rumination on self-perception and lasting love set in 1950s England.

Encuentro
Director: Florencia Manóvil
2016 | USA | 17 min

Claudia is in for a spark-filled evening when she encounters the captivating foreigner, Isabel, who challenges her perceptions of Latinos and of herself in this beautiful short. In Spanish and English, in partial subtitles

Little Potato
Directors: Wes “Potato” Hurley & Nathan Miller
2016 | USA | 14 min

This visually fascinating autobiographical short (a Jury Prize winner for Best Short Doc at SXSW) is about a gay boy growing up in the Soviet Union, his gutsy mail-order-bride mom, and their dream of escaping to America.