ATLANTA
shortsFEST
AUG 27 - 29, 2020
A Good Man is Hard to Find Shorts Program
Saturday, July 16 at 6:00 pm - TRT: 100 min.
City Boy
dir. by Jonathan Downing - USA - 5 min. - film website
Official Music Video created by husband and wife team Jonathan Downing and Tiffany Sewell of Screaming Shih-Tzu Productions for the band Shotgun Wedding and their song 'City Boy' off of their debut album South of Somewhere.
Finding Santa
dir. by Dean Ginsburg - Australia - 7 min.
When Santa Claus mysteriously disappears and the rest of the world gives up the search, a lone elf scours the globe trying to find him.
Test Drive
dir. by Jim Ford - Ireland - 1 min.
A stuntman shocks a salesman with his unusual way of test driving a car.
Almost Home
dir. by BJ Golnick - USA - 15 min. - film website
After years of battle on the front lines of Afghanistan, an American Marine returns home to mend a broken relationship with his dying father.
An Apprentice
dir. by Jacob Patrick - USA - 7 min. - film website
An Apprentice is a story about a young man with autism, Andrew, who has a deeply seeded love for the art of tattooing. When Mike, the shop owner, invites Andrew into his shop he learns of his interest and invites him to sit in on a tattoo session. In a controversial moment those skills are revealed and Mike has a choice to scold Andrew, or take him in.
Oh Em Gee
dir. by Jonathan Chase - USA - 8 min. - film website
Sometimes you have to get offline to get connected.
In This World
dir. by Kelly Creedon - USA - 15 min. - film website
A short documentary about 15-year-old Courvosier Cox who knows he is destined to be a star. Struggling to find his place in the complex world of inner-city Durham, NC, he undertakes a relentless quest to escape into the spotlight.
The Double Cross
dir. by Mark Brocking - United Kingdom - 17 min.
The Double Cross is a silent black and white comedy short set in the 1920s, where our hero is a young waiter for hire who gets caught up in a murder plot during a party and eventually rescues the damsel in distress.
Chateau Sauvignon : Terroir
dir. by David E. Munz-Maire - USA - 13 min. - film website
'Chateau Sauvignon: terroir' follows the isolated adolescent son of a storied vintner family who finds himself torn between obeying his father’s callous restrictions and preventing his ailing mother from deteriorating further.
The Tenor
dir. by Damon Crump - USA - 12 min. - film website
A whimsical comedy about a Prima Donna Tenor sent to participate in an experiment conducted by an overbearing Military Scientist who is testing the powers of the human voice.