ABOUT FILM FESTIVALS Director: jim jacob - USA - 7 minutes This film is intended to offer useful advice on attending film festivals. It deals with issues such as: how do you learn about film festivals, how do you decide what to see, what are the protocols and rules of ettiquette at film festivals, and what sort of unpredictable events are possible during the fest. * THE ADVENTURE Director: Mike Brune - USA - 22 minutes A retired couple’s quiet picnic in the park is violated by a silent intruder whose story exposes the troubling mysteries of existence. * HEAVEN IS A COLOURFUL PLACE Director: A. Jonathan Benny - Canada - 8 minutes A mother, a daughter and grandma's comforting voice. A brief look at trans-generational racism. MY NAME IS POCHSY: AN INDUSTRIAL FILM Director: Karen Hines - Canada - 7 minutes Pochsy works at Mercury Packers ... where she packs mercury. This is Pochsy's film: a mercury-addled meditation on life, death, karmic reckoning and the future of the human soul. THE OUTHOUSE Director: Jack Truman - USA - 5 minutes The story of a 60-something woman and her backyard outhouse THE PHONE BOOK Director: Kurt Kuenne - USA - 23 minutes The first ever film adaptation of perhaps the most widely owned book in creation, the telephone directory. To preserve the artistic integrity of the source material, all dialogue has been reproduced exactly as it appears in the original work. PINK SHORTS Director: Jeffrey Huston - USA - 9 minutes After a girl purchases a pair of pink shorts that God Himself instructed her to buy, they become her most prized possession. She wears them always...until one day when God has a change of plans. THE RAPTURE OF THE ATHLETE ASSUMED INTO HEAVEN Director: Keith Bogart - USA - 6 minutes A reporter interviews a tennis player who achieves his greatest thrill as an athlete on the last day of his life. SLOW Director: Kurt Kuenne - USA - 9 minutes The story of a traffic safety worker who is accidentally caught in the background of a published newspaper photo -- and his life is changed forever. SWEDISH BLUEBALLS Director: Kent Osborne, Joe Swanberg – USA – 5 minutes An American finds out whether Swedish girls really will do anything.