A family friendly lineup of thoughtful and fun, youth made shorts. (54 minutes total runtime) 


__Featuring:__

__Claudette Colvin: The Girl Who Started a Revolution__, Gabrielle Fanti, Natalie Lane, Greta Lee, Sophia Steckler-Ludavicius & Connor Wyckoff (Dirs.), 9.5 minutes, USA, 2017

This documentary tells the story of Claudette Colvin, who, at age 15 and before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger while riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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__Tomorrow's Voice__, Patrick Bululu (Dir.), 11.2 minutes, USA, 2018

This documentary voices the need for Self Advocacy in communities with disabilities and
the struggles they face getting equitable treatment.
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__Dream Poems__, Buffalo Youth Media Institute with Just Buffalo Writing Center (Dirs.), 5.5 minutes, USA, 2018

These visual poems are creative collaborations with creative writers and media makers of
youth in Buffalo NY.
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__World Peace__, Soundioulou Cissoko - 1.1 minutes, USA, 2018

This experimental short work explores the anxieties and absurdity of current policial climate. 
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__Dead Bodies__, Gabrielle Wallace - 2 minutes, USA, 2018

Using found footage and collage techniques, this filmmaker explores the current state of
black bodies in media and in the streets.
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__Skin I'm In__, Buffalo Youth Media Institute (Dirs.), 2.3 minutes, USA, 2018

This short experimental documentary questions what skin means to young people and 
how it affects them.
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__The Rake-ening__, Jolie Criscione (Dir.) , 1.4 minutes, USA, 2017

In a suburban nightmare, never forget to do your yard work.
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__A Long, Long Now__, Buffalo Youth Media Institute (Dirs.) 23 minutes, USA, 2018

n this ScFi/Documentary short, we are displaced from our present and sent to the future
to ask about the equity and purpose of technology.
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*Event still from: __A Long, Long Now__, Buffalo Youth Media Institute (Dirs.), 23 minutes, USA, 2018*

BIFF Shorts: Youth Program

A family friendly lineup of fun, youth made shorts.

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Squeaky Wheel


Come find out why episodic is all the rage! Meet episodic filmmakers [Stacey Maltin (Linked)](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-episodic-comedies/) and [Bill Caco (F#cking 40)](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-episodic-comedies/) for a panel discussion focusing on pre-production, production, and distribution platforms for long-form storytelling. Whether you’re a first time or a veteran media maker, this intimate panel with face-to-face Q&A is an opportunity not to be missed!

Episodic

A panel discussion focusing on episodic production.

Panel

__My Tourette’s__, Alessandro Molatore (Dir.), 75 minutes, USA, 2018

BIFF USA: Domestic Documentaries

NY Premiere

Five brave individuals (including a Buffalonian) with severe Tourette’s Syndrome take part in an experimental case study that transforms their lives.

Festivals: Cinequest, Vail, Newport Beach



My Tourette’s

Five brave individuals with severe Tourette’s Syndrome take part in an experimental case study that transforms their lives.

Screening

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

__Anote’s Ark__, Mathieu Rytz (Dir.), 77 minutes, Canada, 2018

BIFF Global: International Documentaries

NY Premiere

Director Jeremy Courneya in attendance.

As sea levels rise, the island nation of Kiribati makes preparations to permanently move to its entire population to higher ground. Mathieu Rytz’s stunning documentary examines the personal and political effects of an impending climate change refugee crisis.

Festivals: Sundance

__Screening with__: 

__Aware__, Jeremy Courneya (Dir.), 12 minutes, USA, 2018 

Aware offers a brief, intimate look into the AWARE wildlife shelter, an Atlanta based organization that cares for orphaned Georgia wildlife.

Director Jeremy Courneya in attendance. 

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__Wonders of the Deep Blue__, Kate Quesada (Dir.), 3 minutes, USA, 2018

Wonders of the Deep Blue is a mystical, animated essay about all the fascinating creatures in our oceans.



Anote’s Ark (w/ Aware & Wonders of the Deep Blue)

As sea levels rise, the island nation of Kiribati makes preparations to permanently move to its entire population to higher ground.

North Park Theatre

Join the female identifying filmmakers helping to create parity in the industry one film at a time in BIFF's fourth annual panel discussion about closing the gender gap. Guests include [Christina Kallas (The Rainbow Experiment)](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/the-rainbow-experiment-w-see-it-through-buffalo/) and [Ginny Mohler (Radium Girls).](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/radium-girls/)

Women in Film

A panel discussion with the female identifying filmmakers helping to create parity in the industry one film at a time!

__The Providers__, Anna Moot-Levin & Laura Green (Dirs.), 85 minutes, USA, 2018

BIFF USA: Domestic Documentaries

NY Premiere

Director Anna Moot-Levin and consulting editor Ben Sozanski in attendance.

Set against the backdrop of a rural physician shortage in northern New Mexico, Anna Moot-Levin’s intimate documentary chronicles the multiple challenges faced by three rural healthcare providers as an innovative pilot program is set to expire.

Festivals: Full Frame, AFI Docs


The Providers

Three rural  healthcare providers in New Mexico face multiple challenges as an innovative pilot program is set to expire.

Meet producers across media and distribution platforms at this panel discussion about developing your project from script to screen - large or small. Guests include [Mark Myers (Mexman)](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/mexman-w-lotte-that-silhouette-girl/) and [Stavroula Toska (In The Vice).](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-shorts-new-york-states/)

Script to Screen

Producers across media and distribution platforms discuss developing your project from script to screen - large or small. 

__BIFF Shorts: The Past is Present__

Comedies, dramas and thrillers, including several films by BIFF alumni, where on and off screen, past and present clash. (104 minutes total runtime)

__Friends to the End__, Ryan Monolopolus (Dir.), 30 minutes, USA, 2018

Bobby (Bob Bozek) is a middle-age underachiever stuck in a dead-end job whose imaginary puppet friend Max returns to offer him guidance in Ryan Monolopolus’ twisted dark comedy.
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__War on Love__, Aron Safranyos (Dir.),  10 minutes, Canada, 2018

A seasoned warrior battles not only enemies on the front lines but also his inner demons in Aron Safranyos’ immersive World War II drama.
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__Weeping Willow__, Krystel El Koussa (Dir.), 16 minutes, Lebanon, 2018

A passionate young photographer is moved to action by her mother’s painful past.

Director Krystel El Koussa in attendance
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__Smell of Oak__, Mark Datuin (Dir.),  3 minutes, Canada, 2018

Mark Datuin crafts a confessional drama about denial and conformity in the wake of an assault.
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__I See Everything, I See Nothing At All__, Jenna Roscoe (Dir.), 17 minutes, USA, 2018

BIFF award winner Jenna Roscoe returns to the festival with a quirky and tender drama following three friends on a camping trip haunted by the memory of a childhood friend.
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__By Day and Again__, Hunter Whaley, (Dir.),  15 minutes, USA, 2018

A solitary woodsman ages an entire lifetime over the course of a day in Hunter Whaley’s moving drama.
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__Self Portrait__, Corrie Legge (Dir.), 13 minutes, USA, 2018

A young woman (writer and co-director Corrie Legge) reflects on the authenticity of marriage by watching a staged reenactment of the same family dinner told from three individual perspectives.


BIFF Shorts: The Past is Present

Comedies, dramas and thrillers where on and off screen, past and present clash.

__Geometries of Desire__, David Williams (Dir.), 92 minutes, USA, 2018

BIFF USA: Domestic Narratives

NY Premiere

Director David Williams in attendance.

Buffalo-based filmmaker David Williams returns to the festival with an emotionally rich experimental drama that investigates the complexities of truth, the distortions of memory, and the illusions of love.

__Screening with__:

__The Girls Were Doing Nothing__, Dekel Berenson (Dir.), 17 minutes, Israel/UK, 2018 

A study into the conflicting nature of love and the nature fooling a 30 something couple grappling with intimacy and the obligations of their lives.

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__Aftercare__, Andrea Carvalho (Dir.), 6 minutes, USA, 2018



Geometries of Desire (w/ The Girls Were Doing Nothing Wrong & Aftercare)

The complexities of truth, the distortions of memory, and the illusions of love...

__BIFF Episodic: Workplaces__

Multi-arc storytelling goes to work in this collection of independently produced drama and science fiction episodes. (77 minutes total runtime)

__Public Writer__, Eric Piccoli (Dir.), 20 minutes, Canada, 2018

Inspired by actual events, this acclaimed series follows the day in the life of a writer working to serve the public in a Montreal community center.

Director Eric Piccoli in attendance.
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__Pushing Skills__, Michael A. Krehan (Dir.),  17 minutes, USA, 2018

A street-smart hustler uses his invention to give people extraordinary skills for few hours, but finds himself in trouble when the wrong people want in on his venture.
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__The Big Nothing__, Lucy Campball & Peter Ninos (Dirs.), 40 minutes, Australia, 2018

A detective is sent to an isolated mining station near Saturn to investigate the murder of its captain in a thrilling nonlinear sci-fi mystery from Australia. 




BIFF Episodic: Workplaces

Multi-arc storytelling goes to work in this collection of independently produced drama and science fiction episodes.

__Caretakers__, George Loomis (Dir.), USA, 2019

BIFF USA: Domestic Narratives

Special Preview

Director George Loomis in attendance.

George Loomis stars as a young medical student who finds himself entrenched in a web of intrigue when he’s sent to care for the former US Ambassador to Syria. Christopher Cousins, Vivica A. Fox and Missi Pyle co-star in Loomis’ thrilling drama.

Screening with:

__Headless Swans__, Jordan Klaja (Dir.), 25 minutes, USA, 2018

A private detective whose primary business is exposing extramarital affairs, finds himself in over his head.


Caretakers (w/ Headless Swans)

A young medical student is sent to care for the former US Ambassador to Syria.

The Manhattan Front, Cathy Lee Crane (Dir.), 89 minutes, USA, 2018

BIFF USA: Domestic Narratives

East Coast Premiere

Director Cathy Lee Crane in attendance.

Women, anarchists, and spies conjure the fantastically true story of how America entered WWI in a Cathy Lee Crane’s handsomely crafted historical drama employing found footage of the era.


The Manhattan Front

Women, anarchists, and spies conjure the fantastically true story of how America entered WWI.

Archive

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BIFF Shorts: Youth Program

10:00 AM Saturday October 6, 2018

Squeaky Wheel

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Episodic

11:00 AM Saturday October 6, 2018

Squeaky Wheel

Panel

My Tourette’s

11:00 AM Saturday October 6, 2018

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Screening

Anote’s Ark (w/ Aware & Wonders of the Deep Blue)

11:30 AM Saturday October 6, 2018

North Park Theatre

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Women in Film

12:15 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Squeaky Wheel

Panel

The Providers

1:15 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Screening

Script to Screen

1:30 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Squeaky Wheel

Panel

BIFF Shorts: The Past is Present

2:00 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

North Park Theatre

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Geometries of Desire (w/ The Girls Were Doing Nothing Wrong & Aftercare)

3:00 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Squeaky Wheel

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

BIFF Episodic: Workplaces

3:15 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Caretakers (w/ Headless Swans)

4:30 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

North Park Theatre

Screening

The Manhattan Front

5:00 PM Saturday October 6, 2018

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

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