FILM BLOCK ONE
DAY ONE / THURSDAY JUNE 4 7PM - 10PM
STUDENT
The Spaghetti Monster 12min 56s
Joshua M. Thomas
Trespassing can be deadly.
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SHORT
Viewing 13min 46s
Finn Szumlas
In the week between a former fashion model's suicide and her burial, everyone has his own way of apprehending the image of her lifeless body.
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COMEDY
Shiny Shiny 6min 32s
Jeff Sanders
Captured young woman is forced to endure an uncomfortable encounter with a serial killer.
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FEATURE
Highline 1hr 57min
Chris Smead
Ten days, five friends, one trek across Utah's Uinta Highline Trail.
Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.
FILM BLOCK TWO
DAY TWO / FRIDAY JUNE 5 11AM - 1PM
SHORT
Boon Dee Regains Her Freedom 5min 42s
Felix Fang
An elephant rescue in Thailand following Boon Dee's journey from a trekking camp to freedom at a large sanctuary.
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STUDENT
There She Was 4min 24s
Kyle Plummer
The internal ramblings of a boy who has a crush on a girl as he tries to gather the courage to talk to her.
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SHORT
She Makes Me Feel 4min
Colin Cunningham
Music video in NYC.
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STUDENT
Uber Excited 5min 15s
Jordan Palmer
A young girl has to make a life or death decision when she thinks she is being kidnapped.
ANIMATION
Rhino N' Bird 5min 09s
Bradley Oliver & Wilkinson-Vega
A symbiotic relationship between a parasitic bird and a grumpy rhino, stuck together on the open plains of Africa. Their family kinships goes back generations, bringing them to modern day. Discussing topics like family, grooming, disease, and survival.
FEATURE
Precious Guru- Journey into the Wild Heart of the Second Buddha 1hr 09m
Marc Wennberg
Precious Guru follows the arc of Guru Rinpoche’s sacred biography and journey, from his immaculate birth on a lotus in northwest Pakistan; to his taming and subduing of Tibet’s demons in the 8th Century in order to establish Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau; to the central role of his Tibetan consort and main disciple, Princess Yeshe Tsogyal; and finally, his departure for the Land of the Rakshas, where he continues to subdue and tame the demons.
Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.
FILM BLOCK THREE
DAY TWO / FRIDAY JUNE 5 2PM - 4PM
SHORT
Badlands 3min
James Cawley
Badlands is an inspirational story of the process of creation through exploration and self reflection. What does it mean to "create" and how do we translate our feelings, emotions and ideas through shutter, brush or spoken word.
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ANIMATION
The End Of The Horizon 4min 09s
Nan Noaker
A stop-motion animation with handmade puppets. This short film is about the mysterious disappearance of a young Utah artist in the 1930s.
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COMEDY
Sidepiece 9min 58s
Teddy Tenenbaum
Dating is hard. Especially when you’re married. Nothing is what appears to be in this short romantic-comedy about two people who find each other on a very special dating app. You just can’t trust what you read anymore.
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UTAH
Heart of A Lion 4min 26s
Jake Clayson
A music video on the subject of suicide awareness and finding strength through music.
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FEATURE
Ape Canyon 1hr 13min
Joshua Land
In the midst of a quarter-life crisis, Cal Piker drags his big sister Samantha along on a Bigfoot-hunting expedition. And nothing - not the adventure turning out to be a scam, not being abandoned in the woods to die, not a confrontation with an uncommonly large nuclear physicist, not a police pursuit, and certainly not Samantha's protests - will stop Cal from making his way to Ape Canyon.
Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.
KANAB GETS DARK
DAY TWO / FRIDAY JUNE 5 730PM - 10PM
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MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
SHORT
Manifest Destiny 13min 44s
Benjamin Eck & Brandon Kessel
A young man struggles with his addiction to meth in a small LA apartment.
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SHORT
Lost 18min
Ali Navaeian
A college dropout's love of movies and mental state confuse his reality.
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feature
Dog Valley
David Lindsay 1hr 32s
In 1988, two ex-convicts kidnapped, beat, raped, tortured and murdered Gordon Church, a gay college student from a rural Mormon community in southern Utah. Dog Valley explores the horrific events of his death, the lives and minds of his killers, and how it has helped shape modern hate crimes legislation in Utah.
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Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.
FILM BLOCK FOUR
DAY THREE / SATURDAY JUNE 6 1230PM - 2PM
Short
A Non Binary Story: Reencuentro 5min 34s
Chelsea Eng
Co-directed by Max Masri and Chelsea Eng this short was filmed in Manhattan in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall. Themes of LGBTQIA+ pride, liberated tango partnering and transformation play out against the humid pulse of a New York City Summer day. A butterfly tango cameo is a nod to Las Mariposas - symbol of the international movement to eradicate violence against women.
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Short
Ouroboros 8min
Emma Keehan
One masked dancer threatens the cycle of pursued acceptance met by authoritative rejection when part of her facade falls away and she can truly see.
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STUDENT
Man and Kin 17min 19s
Colby Barrios
Quiet, gruff Cody takes solace in his new job- the night guard of an eccentric hobbyist’s mannequin village. But he can only live in this fantasy for so long before reality catches up to him.
SHORT
Sueños 13min 56s
Caleb Hatton
Rapheal awakes in a cemetary, not knowing how he arrived, he searches for Roberta, though unsure who she is.
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SHORT
The Boy I Left Behind 10min 09s
Kody Newton
A man finds a box from his childhood, and inside it, his childhood fears.
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'Rona Shorts
This newly added category was intended to spur creativity during Covid-19.
Shorts in this category must have been created during March 1-May 20th about literally anything, and must not be longer than 5min 19s.
Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.
FILM BLOCK FIVE
DAY THREE /SATURDAY JUNE 6 5PM - 8PM
Student
Haunted 5min 27s
Carlos Plummer
A music video of the Tracy G Group's latest single.
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Animation
Square Guy 2min 32s
Collin Mapp
Our friendly hero's world is turned upside down when a surprise throws him for change and adventure!
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Short
Showan 13min
Bijan Zarin
"Kolbari" is defined as smuggling goods on foot between the border of Iran and Iraq. Due to financial struggles and unemployment in the Kurdistan region of Iran, the habitats of this land have come to this mean to meet their ends and to support their lives. Young and old, man and woman, risk their lives for a bare minimum to survive. Often, in the dangerous paths of this journey and through different hazards of crossing this border they lose their lives to attacks of the border patrols, falling through the valley, or freezing to death.
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Feature
The Good Wolf 1 hr 15min
Wilfred H Shipley
The Good Wolf is a coming of age story about a fugitive (James) with an unknown past hiding in the woods. There, he comes across a tree house, where he meets Sam, a 12 year old boy. The two become an unlikely pair of friends, and spend the summer together surviving, and learning from one another. As the summer comes to an end, police begin to get closer to finding James's whereabouts, leaving James with limited options for survival....
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Each film will be followed by a Q&A if the filmmaker is present.