A mother and daughter create memories under the Chestnut Tree.

A teenager in rural Georgia rashly throws out his sister’s kitten, then experiences the spark of first love at a funeral. What these two events share in common is revealed in the deep of the woods as his experiences of love and death become forever tangled.

Semu Fatutoa drives a taxi in Honolulu, Hawaii. Once he was a village Chief in Samoa, but tragedy compelled him to cover his tattoos and flee his home. Now he drives in circles, slowly forgetting his old life.

A divorced couple visit the home of their recently deceased daughter, Claire, to look through the things that their son-in-law has gathered for them. His sister is there to oversee things, and an argument erupts.

AQUARIUM Director: Rob Meyer - USA - 17 minutes At fifteen, David and his two buddies are the youngest members of the Boston Aquarium Society. The three make their way to a monthly meeting, but David harbors a secret he is reluctant to share. CLAIRE Director: Liz Tuccillo - USA - 15 minutes A divorced couple visit the home of their recently deceased daughter, Claire, to look through the things that their son-in-law has gathered for them. His sister is there to oversee things, and an argument erupts. THE DIAGNOSIS Director: Coleman Hough - USA - 13 minutes From Coleman Hough, screenwriter of Full Frontal and Bubble, comes a dark comedy about what we want to know from doctors and what they are willing to tell us. HIRSUTE Director: A.J. Bond - Canada - 14 minutes Kyle, a young scientist, is struggling to build a time machine when he is confronted by an arrogant future version of himself. Shocked to discover that his future holds a preoccupation with body-hair removal and boiled eggs, Kyle vows to change the course of his life. MAKING THE MAN Director: John Susman - USA - 12 minutes A crucial interview hangs on the brink of disaster as one man stumbles through a minefield of questions with comic and potentially life-changing consequences. PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY Director: Bo Price - USA - 14 minutes A group of misfits believe the Modern World has made people lazy and boring. So they make inventions out of old crap they find to test their creativity. But when a new member joins the ranks, his invention is so great it threatens to destroy the movement. STRUCK Director: Taron Lexton - USA - 7 minutes Struck by an arrow that won't come out, Joel resolves to live with his unusual affliction, despite the torments from life. VACUUM Director: Trey Hock - USA - 9 minutes After the death of the planet below them, two stranded astronauts must decide how to spend their final days. WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMON Director: Chuck Moore - USA - 7 minutes A deadpan, post-modern screwball comedy. Larry Lemon is a simple man whose home and extensive lemon-related art collection are invaded by an emotionally unhinged FBI Agent.

BLUE DRESS Director: Katie Stern - USA - 20 minutes Blue Dress is the story of twelve-year-old Hadley, who is devastated when her older brother goes away to camp, leaving her to endure an endless summer alone with her parents. But when the bookmobile rumbles into town one dusty morning, Hadley discovers a new source of companionship and begins to crave independence. CHICKAMAUGA Director: John Henry Summerour - USA - 15 minutes A teenager in rural Georgia rashly throws out his sister’s kitten, then experiences the spark of first love at a funeral. What these two events share in common is revealed in the deep of the woods as his experiences of love and death become forever tangled. SMALL AVALANCHES Director: Gillian Munro - USA - 16 minutes Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen-year-old Nancy encounters her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues her on her way home. THE STATE OF SUNSHINE Director: Z. Eric Yang - USA - 23 minutes In Chinese with English subtitles Two young immigrant siblings, who engage in prostitution to work off the enormous debt they owe their smugglers, are torn by a glimpse of hope that suddenly enters their lives. THE TRUTH ABOUT FACES Director: Lindsey Shockley - USA - 15 minutes Overprotective super-mom Patricia Whitfield appears to be keeping it all together despite the fact that the center of her universe, her only daughter Jules, is moving away to Africa. But beneath her upbeat exterior lurks a painful secret.

'Before I could come out to anyone else, I had to come out to God--and that was probably the hardest thing,' says Steve, a middle-aged white Christian. 'I went to a church where there was still that fire-and-brimstone type of sermon, but I needed the spiritual part so badly I was willing to sit there and hear that,' says Jeffrey, an African-American who was raised in the Baptist Church.This 30-minute documentary gives voice to gay and lesbian Christians who have struggled to reconcile faith and sexual orientation. Personal stories, from dedicated Christians of all ages and many walks of life, take viewers beyond the current debate in churches to reveal the everyday efforts of faithful people. Coming Out~Coming In was recorded in North Carolina and offers a way to start new and meaningful conversations among people who do not always agree. Produced by Wildacres Leadership Initiative in association with Minnow Media.

DEVIL GOES DOWN Director: John Petrini – USA - 6 minutes A young man shooting hoops gets offered an intriguing wager for a game of one-on-one against a mysterious stranger. MEXICAN IN THE CLOSET Director: Charles Moore – USA - 25 minutes Lloosely based on a true life crime, a volatile Anglo wife brings Umberto, an illegal immigrant, into her home in hopes he will kill her cop husband. But days pass. The husband lives. Umberto stalls. He's grown accustomed to the unlikely comfort of living in Hannah's guest room closet. RACE Director: Peter Coyote – USA - 22 minutes Kira, an Asian-American woman, and Luke, an African-American man, work together like a machine as Vice Presidents of a Research Firm. When their Caucasian boss, Jack, announces to them that one of them will be promoted to become Senior Vice President based on the presentation that needs to take place the next day, they suddenly become at odds with each other. VEILS Director: Dan Susman - United Kingdom - 13 minutes In English, Arabic, and Hebrew with English subtitles A Jewish woman and a Palestinian man prepare on their wedding day, but not everyone iin their families is happy about the impending nuptials. WOMAN IN BURKA Director: Jonathan Lisecki – USA - 21 minutes A darkly comic look at the life of an actress and the types of Middle Eastern roles available to her in a post 9/11 culture.

This film is comprised of four chapters, telling four separate stories that make up a meta-narrative. The works are the result of imagining the visual track to the story of someone else's memories. They focus on the small, mundanemoments that surround the dramatic (or traumatic) moments.