4:00pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea

Dir: Leslie Buchbinder

TICKET: Westermann 8-A

A documentary about the life and work of artist H.C. (“Cliff”) Westermann, voiceacted by four-time Academy-Award nominee Ed Harris, conceived and directed by Leslie Buchbinder, and featuring interviews with Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, and many others.

As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War who struggled with the ramifications of modern warfare, Westermann’s dramatic personal history can be traced through his beguiling, surreal artworks.

The film is executive produced by KAWS, and award-winning documentary producer Caryn Capotosto, whose projects include "Won’t You Be My Neighbor," and "Best of Enemies.". Featuring music by legendary artists Laurie Anderson, the Kronos Quartet, and Terry Allen, with an original score by Tomeka Reid.

WINNER: Best Director - Leslie Buchbinder

WINNER: Best Documentary

5:30pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Escape From Extinction: Rewilding

Dir: Matthew Brady

TICKET: Escape From Extinction 8-B

Meryl Streep takes us on a journey as global wildlife experts race to save Earth's most beloved animals from mass extinction and environmental collapse - armed with a radical new approach to conservation called ‘rewilding’ that restores entire ecosystems, from the cloud forests of Rwanda to the California coast.

WINNER: Best Documentary (Environmental)

7:15pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Paint Her Red

Dir: Bella Thorne

TICKET: Award Winner Program 8-C

This film, written and directed by Bella Thorne delivers an unapologetic narrative, both painful and beautiful, exploring the journey of women.With vulnerability and strength, Bella uses haunting visuals and an assembly of melancholic prose and poetry, allowing the audience a more intimate peek into a woman's pre-destined journey.

In a world ruled by men, women learn at a very young age what they can and can’t do. The simple freedom of a woman wanting the best future for herself is jeopardized by a man’s curse of the unthinkable circumstances women face in order to achieve it.

WINNER: Best Short Film

7:15pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Ask For It (UK)

Dir: Jordan Baseman

TICKET: Award Winner Program 8-C

Featuring the voice of under 11s football coach Mark Joyce who wore a microphone for a full match. Mark is represented by a simply drawn, found (semi)-smiley face. The animation is direct, basic, minimal, allowing for Mark's alternating rants of despair and (some) encouragement to be at the forefront of the work.

Ask For It seeks to question success, failure, masculinity, power and the form of our societal structure through this very simple, yet effective animation.

7:15pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Amaranth (Canada)

Dir: Justin Black

TICKET: Award Winner Program 8-C

Made in collaboration with composer Gayle Young and sculptor Reinhard Reitzenstein, Amaranth is a hybrid music and film work that transports the viewer beyond anthropocentric perspective into a continuum of experience in which all beings have equal value.

WINNER: Best Experimental Film

7:15pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Shadows of the Silver Screen

Dir: Ava Stapleton

TICKET: Award Winner Program 8-C

A trip to the theatre takes a shocking turn when the projector decides who's going to be tonights entertainment.

WINNER: Best Student Film

7:15pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Ramos Fizz

Dir: Morgan Lee

TICKET: Award Winner Program 8-C

A satirical comedy short about what happens when you rely too much on your partner to remember things.

WINNER: Best Comedy Film

8:00pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Ivania (Spain)

Dir: Luigi Abanto

TICKET: Horror Program 8-D

Michael is a camera repair technician. One day an old Voightländer camera comes into his hands to repair it. When he turns it on, he discovers that the camera captures the presence of a woman who lives in the same space and time as Miguel, ...although in another dimension.

8:00pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

The Scalpel

Dir: Richard Lyford

TICKET: Horror Program 8-D

A mad doctor transforms into a monstrous killer and creates mayhem in a medical institute.

The Scalpel is a 1936 never-released silent film by then 19-year-old filmmaker, Richard Lyford with a score by Ed Hartman.

8:00pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

The Harvester

Dir: Gavin Bradley & Andrew Allen

TICKET: Horror Program 8-D

In a desolate wasteland, a reclusive prospector uncovers a massive deposit of a rare substance. His only companion, a strange organism enslaved to filter the liquid, begins to resist the process, forcing him to reconsider his livelihood as he fights to protect his find against brutal marauders stalking him across an apocalyptic landscape.

WINNER: Best Horror Film

9:10pm - Tuesday, Oct 8th 2024

Welcome Space Brothers

Dir: Jodi Wille

TICKET: Welcome Space Brothers 8-E

Welcome Space Brothers is about The Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school and self-healing community established in the 1970s in El Cajon, California that became a wildly prolific filmmaking collective under the direction of outlandish spiritual leader and filmmaker Ruth E. Norman aka “Archangel Uriel.”

WINNER: Best Historical Documentary