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These are the films  for the Blue Wire Film Festival- Summer Splash!

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24 Frames Per Day (7 Minutes)
Director: Sonali Gulati
24 frames per day was conceived by combining 24 photographs captured each day over a period of 9 months. Yes, that's what makes this baby! And it's the same photograph each day, or rather the same frame each day. A daily meditation by the filmmaker photographing the front door of her "home" makes this a very personal
and political film that raises important questions around immigration, cultural stereotypes, and diasporic identity.

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The 4th Dimension
Director: Tom Mattera

After a woman brings a damaged clock into an antique shop; where a reclusive repairman named Jack (Louis Morabito) has been toiling for years, a series of unexplainable events ensues that seem to break all rules of space and time. With the help of a convenient discovery -- Albert Einstein's journal outlining the tenets of Unified Field Theory -- Jack begins to see his life in a different light. But what is real and what merely in the mind?

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A Lot of Nerve (3 Minutes)
Music Video Featuring LoKee
Directed by Ashi Toledano and Lakeisha Blackwell
Writers: Lakeisha Blackwell (Rap)  Square Biz (Chorus)

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Bitch (15 Minutes)
Director Lilah Vandenburgh

Bitch- is a pop-culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes, your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will find you and she will make you pay.

Love is for losers, and PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. That is until she meets a guy as antisocial as she is. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first.

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Box (1 Minute)
Itchey Pictures Animation
Director: Simon Cornish

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Closure (5 minutes)
Director: Julio Nieves
A mysterious figure reminisces about the tragic loss of his love. Trying to recreate the object of his affection, and the days they shared together. The mysterious figure learns that love lost is never love wasted, and moving on is a natural part of life.

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DriftWood (19 Minutes)
Director: Michelle Steffes

Blaire Farrow has grown tired of her job as a client liaison for a wish granting foundation. She and her coworker Jimmy bicker every day, and she hasn’t had a date in what feels like centuries. When Blaire decides to take in a handsome amnesiac, she thinks she’s found everything she’s ever wanted. But there may be strings
While Jimmy meets with a blind client and Blaire with the bitter mother of a dying child, the amnesiac tries to put together clues that have come to him through vivid dreams. When he comes close to discovering his identity, Blaire realizes that she has to make a choice between her own happiness and another's.

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Eating Alone (10 Minutes)
Director: Ron Moon
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Nobody likes to eat alone . . .

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Fly (1 Minute)
Itchey Pictures Animation
Simon Cornish

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Immaculate Deception (19 Minutes)
Director: Grigor Maksudyan

Paige and Vincent are kidnapped by Ace to be let go after they help Ace get back his briefcase full of money from an old friend that betrayed him named Drago. Following an ambush in which Ace kills Drago and takes his briefcase, he realizes that the briefcase isn’t his, and returns back to investigate, only to find that Drago and his vehicle are gone.

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Look At Me (14 Minutes)
Director: James Avelar
Becky who is a little overweight and has been on many dates, feels that to be successful in the dating game she has to get liposuction. On the day of the operation, while in the waiting room Becky meets a delivery man who is quite taken with her, so much that stays and talks to her for a while. Does she go or stay for the operation?

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Love Thy Neighbor (28 minutes)
Michael Cordoni Productions
Documentary

Love Thy Neighbor-paints a portrait of American and Mexican confrontation at its most gracious and its most repulsive.  From the slums of Tijuana, Mexico to the bustling streets of Los Angeles, young journalists gather opinions, fears, perceptions, and stories from those most affected by Mexican immigration in America.

Through interviews with Victor Hanson, author of Mexifornia, Atlantic Monthly’s own Christoher Hitchens, The Minutemen, and La Raza, filmmaker Michael Cordoni presents a thought provoking insight into the complex nature of immigration in America.

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Mamochka: A Russian Folk Tale Retold (25 Minutes)
Director: Jodi Lee Olhava
The story of a young peasant girl who becomes separated from her family and village during the last day of the harvest. She sets off on an adventure in turn of the century Russia in search of her mother. She wanders lost through forests and fields encountering the Mushroom people and others who will help her find her way home. Her innocent love for her mother proves that she is wise beyond her years.

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Pom Bom ( 1 Minute)
Itchey Pictures Animation
Simon Cornish

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The Price (2 minutes)
Director: Gavin Andazola
A talentless aspiring dancer mysteriously receives something that will make all his dreams come true.

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Scenic Highway
Director: Evan Mather
Due to the recent unpleasantness, Baton Rouge has eclipsed New Orleans as the largest city in Louisiana. Is the city destined for greatness? Scenic Highway is the name of US Highway 61 as it passes through Northern Baton Rouge. It is also a trip to the city – and such landmarks as Huey Long’s Art Deco State Capitol building and Buckminster Fuller’s hidden geodesic dome. This darkly affectionate memoir is also an exposé of the city’s colorful history – told through the use of animated motion graphics, archival Super 8 footage, and re-created & faux-created elements.

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Shell (16 Minutes)
Director: Yelena Demikovsky
Sea. Sand Sun. Two children meet on a beach. The boy is black, the girl white. At eight, life is beautiful and simple. But not for their parents, who had a past liaison. They reignite their relationship, but their reunion inadvertently destroys the children's paradise — washing it into the sea.

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So What?
Director: Evan Mather
A landscape architectural firm shreds three months worth of its waste paper and creates a provocative art installation about sustainability.

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Today's Special (14 Minutes)
Director Jordan Dupper
Stranded in the desert, three young men find shelter at an old rest stop run by a strange couple. Broken down they find themselves without a car, without their phones, and without a prayer . . . but at least they get something to eat.

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Troubled Life (Feature 135 Minutes)
Director: Dawn M. Reid

A young girl’s life path is altered by a tragic chain of events when she is brought to live with distant relatives.

From a young age all Sarah wanted was to be a part of a loving family. Instead when she is brought to live with distant relatives she finds her life altered, experiencing disappointment, sadness, joy, love, hardship, anger and despair. As Sarah experiences troubles in her life she struggles to protect her daughter from abandoned hope that leads down a destructive road.

 

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The Spider Experiment (13 Minutes)
Directors Scott and Paula Merrow

Ten year-old Ginny has a crush on her classmate, Sam, and to get his attention she creates a unique science project, using a spider and a cupful of yellow goo. It’s amazing what some people will believe.  

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The Wishing Well (12 minutes)
Director Rod Maxwell
Computer Generated/CGI/Mixed Media

The Wishing Well—is a ground breaking short film by special-effects artist and actor Rod Maxwell. Maxwell shot the entire film by himself from a small 4x4 foot space in front of a homemade greenscreen in his livingroom. There was no crew, no one else behind or in front of the camera.

Prior to shooting, he spent a year sculpting and molding all of the prosthetics and fat-suits that he would eventually use to become the 26 men, women, and children that appear in the film.

In the spirit of Charlie Chaplin, Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati, Maxwell breathes life into a world of characters without uttering a single word.

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