Umphrey's McGee 360 VR "Puppet String"
Director: Pete Herzog, Reel FX VR
TRT: 12:30
Country: United States (Texas)
Logline: Digital studio Reel FX VR produced an experimental virtual-reality experience for Umphrey’s McGee spring tour filmed April 20th, 2016 at the House of Blues in Houston, Tex.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Ashes
Director: Jessica Kantor
TRT: 5:50
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Playing with movement, space and time, Ashes shares the tragic story of two lovers, told specifically for 360-headset environment.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Back to the Summer (VR Short)
Director: Jianbo Gao
TRT: 4:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A old man recalls his deceased wife from viewing the old photos and jumps back to that memorable summer.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Haunt
Director: Lilian Mehrel
TRT: 7:39
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: A short virtual reality film about presence, experienced through the eyes of a ghost.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
I, Phillip
Director: Pierre Zandrowicz
TRT: 14:00
Country: France
Logline: In early 2005, David Hanson is developing his first android human. His name is Phil and it is simply the copy of the famous science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Say It With Music
Director: Oliver Chen, Lubomir Kobomir Kocka
TRT: 5:15
Country: United States (Georgia)
Logline: Simone and Nathan work at the same restaurant, mostly unaware of each other. That is until Simone uses music as an instrument of change to bring the restaurant and its stuffy owner, Gustavo, out of their usual monotony.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Songs of the Vine
Director: Maira Clancy, Blake Montgomery
TRT: 17:56
Country: Peru/USA (California)
Logline: Shot over the span of two months in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, Songs of the Vine is a virtual reality documentary focusing on the healing modalities, cosmovision, and culture of the Shipibo, an indigenous group well-known for its rich tradition of plant spirit shamanism, including a mastery of the visionary ayahuasca brew.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly
The Rock Presents: "Escape From Calypso Island" - A 360 VR Adventure
Director: Scott Brown
TRT: 8:15
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Put on your VR headset and take your seat as a passenger on the Calypso Island Historical Tour of Magic and Wonder. Though the island is fabled for its magic, veteran tour guide Dylan explains to fresh-faced Tracy that he doesn't believe in any 'hocus pocus' anymore. Dylan is quickly proven wrong when explorer Duke Fontana (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) encounters our tour truck and enlists our help to fight an ancient evil that has returned to end the world.
Family Friendly
Tomorrow
Director: Nicolas Alcala¡
TRT: 6:38
Country: Spain
Logline: The experience allows the viewer to enjoy an immersive story that narrates the evolution of language, taking him on a journey from the ancient caves to the middle of the jungle where Amazon tribes struggle to understand the concept of "future" due to their lack of words to express it.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Virtual Reality Juried Competition
All virtual reality films are free to the public and on display February 16-19 at the Powerhouse from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There may be a queue to view each film but there are concessions and a full bar at the venue for your wait.
Ashes
Director: Jessica Kantor
TRT: 5:50
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Playing with movement, space and time, Ashes shares the tragic story of two lovers, told specifically for 360-headset environment.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Back to the Summer (VR Short)
Director: Jianbo Gao
TRT: 4:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A old man recalls his deceased wife from viewing the old photos and jumps back to that memorable summer.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Haunt
Director: Lilian Mehrel
TRT: 7:39
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: A short virtual reality film about presence, experienced through the eyes of a ghost.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
I, Phillip
Director: Pierre Zandrowicz
TRT: 14:00
Country: France
Logline: In early 2005, David Hanson is developing his first android human. His name is Phil and it is simply the copy of the famous science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Nobel's Nightmare
Director: Chamsy Sarkis
TRT: 5:08
Country: Syria
Logline: One of the world’s oldest cities and for many years the heart of the Syrian economy, Aleppo is now ravaged by war. This immersive footage was shot with the Syrian Civil Defense teams of Aleppo, the unarmed volunteers performing search and rescue, recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
Say It With Music
Director: Oliver Chen, Lubomir Kobomir Kocka
TRT: 5:15
Country: United States (Georgia)
Logline: Simone and Nathan work at the same restaurant, mostly unaware of each other. That is until Simone uses music as an instrument of change to bring the restaurant and its stuffy owner, Gustavo, out of their usual monotony.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Songs of the Vine
Director: Maira Clancy, Blake Montgomery
TRT: 17:56
Country: Peru/USA (California)
Logline: Shot over the span of two months in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, Songs of the Vine is a virtual reality documentary focusing on the healing modalities, cosmovision, and culture of the Shipibo, an indigenous group well-known for its rich tradition of plant spirit shamanism, including a mastery of the visionary ayahuasca brew.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly
The Rock Presents: "Escape From Calypso Island" - A 360 VR Adventure
Director: Scott Brown
TRT: 8:15
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Put on your VR headset and take your seat as a passenger on the Calypso Island Historical Tour of Magic and Wonder. Though the island is fabled for its magic, veteran tour guide Dylan explains to fresh-faced Tracy that he doesn't believe in any 'hocus pocus' anymore. Dylan is quickly proven wrong when explorer Duke Fontana (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) encounters our tour truck and enlists our help to fight an ancient evil that has returned to end the world.
Family Friendly
Tomorrow
Director: Nicolas Alcala¡
TRT: 6:38
Country: Spain
Logline: The experience allows the viewer to enjoy an immersive story that narrates the evolution of language, taking him on a journey from the ancient caves to the middle of the jungle where Amazon tribes struggle to understand the concept of "future" due to their lack of words to express it.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Umphrey's McGee 360 VR "Puppet String"
Director: Pete Herzog, Reel FX VR
TRT: 12:30
Country: United States (Texas)
Logline: Digital studio Reel FX VR produced an experimental virtual-reality experience for Umphrey’s McGee spring tour filmed April 20th, 2016 at the House of Blues in Houston, Tex.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
BIG HOUSE BOOKS: PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO READ
Director: Susan Liles, Lacy Ellinwood
Country: United States
TRT: 00:06:13
Documentary looks at Big House Books, a non-profit volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in Mississippi correctional facilities to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform in Mississippi.
World Premiere; Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient; Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Born in the Blues
Short Documentary
Director: Greg Earnest
TRT: 00:05:00
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: A short documentary about the hill country blues next generation.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
FireMax
Oxford Film Festival Community Film
Director: Rory Ledbetter
TRT: 12 minutes
Country: United States, Mississippi
LogLine: A fire-breathing superhero discovers there's more going on in Oxford, MS than meets the eye and teams up with an uncanny group of heroes to fight an entente of super villains.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
We Will Not go Away
Documentary Short
Director: Louis Bourgeois
TRT: 00:05:00
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: Residents of Riverside Housing have 120 days to find somewhere else to live, in a town where there is no affordable housing.
Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient.Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Family Friendly
I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit
Director: Pip Gilmour
TRT: 7:38
Country: United States (Washington, D.C)
Logline: Whiskey is the story of how the human spirit thrives when it has the freedom to connect and create.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
On Thursday:
Women, Whiskey & Beer
Thursday, Feb 16 starting at 4:00 pm
at The Growler.
Join us for whiskey & beer pairing flights with Brandalyn Tabor. Brandalyn will also lead a discussion on the role of women in the history of whiskey and craft beer production. We will also be showing the short documentary film, "I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit" in a partnership with Oxford Film Festival directed by Pip Gilmour.
OFF Badge wearers will receive $1 off on pints of beer during the festival.
Strange Weather
Narrative Feature, Opening Night Film
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
TRT: 1 hour and 32 minutes
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: A poignant, lyrical drama about a mother (Hunter), who, in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Buy tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-oxford-film-festival-tickets-28731287053
Soul City
Director: Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol, Gini Richards
TRT: 19:57
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: Soul City tells the story of a group of civil rights activists and city slickers who attempt to build a multiracial utopia in the heart of Klan country, North Carolina in the 1970s.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Carousel, The
Director: Jonathan Napolitano
TRT: 12:00
Country: United States (Connecticut)
Logline: In Binghamton, New York there spins a 1925 carousel that once inspired Rod Serling, and has since become a portal into...the Twilight Zone.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Lives Restarted
Sponsored by: Jewish Federation of Oxford
Director: Waheed AlQawasmi
TRT: 38:42
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: Lives Restarted is a documentary that traces the lives of Holocaust survivors after their release from the camps and their individual journeys to find freedom in the U.S.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Pickle
Director: Amy Nicholson
TRT: 15:20
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Let us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Although he could not swim, he was lovingly cared for by a couple that kept him propped up in a sponge.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Through The Wall
Director: Tim Nackashi
TRT: 6:20
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A short documentary about a family divided by the US/Mexico border.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
BIG HOUSE BOOKS: PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO READ
Director: Susan Liles, Lacy Ellinwood
Country: United States
TRT: 00:06:13
Documentary looks at Big House Books, a non-profit volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in Mississippi correctional facilities to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform in Mississippi.
World Premiere; Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient; Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Born in the Blues
Short Documentary
Director: Greg Earnest
TRT: 00:05:00
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: A short documentary about the hill country blues next generation.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
FireMax
Oxford Film Festival Community Film
Director: Rory Ledbetter
TRT: 12 minutes
Country: United States, Mississippi
LogLine: A fire-breathing superhero discovers there's more going on in Oxford, MS than meets the eye and teams up with an uncanny group of heroes to fight an entente of super villains.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
We Will Not go Away
Documentary Short
Director: Louis Bourgeois
TRT: 00:05:00
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: Residents of Riverside Housing have 120 days to find somewhere else to live, in a town where there is no affordable housing.
Magnifying Glass Fellowship Recipient.Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Family Friendly
Actors Taking Charge of their Career
Sponsored by Sag Indie
Friday, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Malco Commons
Not getting enough auditions? Not even getting an audition? Don’t have an agent? Completley scared of all of it? Your not alone. Learn how to be proactive in the ever changing industry of TV and Film. An inside look of the business side of Agents and Casting Directors and how the audition process really works. This panel will offer some insights of taking your career into your own hands and letting go of the fear of not being good enough.
Panelist: Gabriel Furman of Queens, NY is an actor, dancer, comedian and writer. Gabriel has studied and performed comedy at UCB and The Pit. His recent acting credits include Netflix’s Daredevil, NBC’s Forever, Taxi Brooklyn, USA’s White Collar, Judas in The Actors Studio Production of Pulitzer Prize winning author Stephen Adly Guirgis' 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot', directed by Academy Award Winner Estelle Parsons. He also starred opposite Ellen Burstyn as Yasha in The Actors Studio Production of The Cherry Orchard. Gabriel also wrote, produced and starred opposite Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo in 'Mother's Day'. The Award Winning Short Film was chosen as an Official Selection in over 50 Film Festivals including The Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Oxford Film Festival and HollyShorts, among others. He has previously worked as a special effects artist in TV and film, as well as a professional DJ and Breakdancer. Gabriel, a member of The Actor’s Studio, loves flea markets and is always searching for a story to capture.
Woman On Fire
Director: Julie Sokolow
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: As a third-generation firefighter, Brooke Guinan has a passion for heroism that runs in her blood. But when Brooke transitions from male to female in her father’s workplace, it poses not only a challenge to a macho profession, but also to the customs of the people she cares about the most - her traditional family.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly.
Friday 11 a.m./Malco
PACO
Director: Catalina Jordan Alvarez
TRT: 12:10
Country: United States
Logline: He wants you to bounce on his lap.
Description: A comic portrait of a catcaller choreographed with a non-professional cast and captured with disarmingly intimate 16mm photography.
Winner of Best Picture (Shorts with Legs) at Fantastic Fest 2016 and official selection at 2017 Narrative Shorts program at Slamdance Film Festival
Website: http://deliciosovideos.weebly.com/paco.html
Press: http://www.wearemovingstories.com/we-are-moving-stories-videos/2017/1/29/slamdance-paco
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
East Coast Grow
Director: Amy Tasillo
TRT: 29:59
Country: United States (Washington, D.C.)
Logline: In DC's developing marijuana industry, a group of budding professionals attempt to navigate the landscape of medical cultivation and recreational legalization with well-intentioned enthusiasm, which often results in more trouble than they expect.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
My Mechanical Friend
Director: Hollie Seidel, Charles Astuto
TRT: 22:00
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Ophelia is happy on her own, but the people around her don’t believe that a woman can ever be truly content by herself.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Petrol
Director: Ant Horasanli
TRT: 10:00
Country: Canada
Logline: Petrol is a high octane action series that follows five getaway drivers from all walks of life who work for a mysterious "Employer."
In Episode 3 "Crossing Over," we follow Ali, a refugee from Afghanistan who takes on a dangerous cross border mission.
USA Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Welcome to the Theater Company
Director: Kaihei
TRT: 26:52
Country: Japan
Logline: An actor puts out a call for members to form a new theatre group. But his plans get scrambled when someone with no interest in the theatre shows up at his meeting.
USA Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Crowdfunding to Build Independence
Presented by Seed & Spark
Malco Commons, Friday, Noon-130 p.m.
Crowdfunding to Build Independence is workshop designed to help you leverage the tools for great crowdfunding to build a direct relationship with your audience that will last your entire career. The only proven path to independence as an artist is a direct connection to your audience. Crowdfunding has become a fundamental piece of most financing plans for independent film. But most filmmakers miss the opportunity to leverage the power of crowdfunding for one film into an audience-building opportunity that can last an entire career – and provide the groundwork for effective distribution. In order to leverage this opportunity, it requires a new way of coming to work, and that’s what you’ll learn here. We’ve taught this class at over 100 film festivals, schools and organizations around the country, and gathered learning from the thousands of filmmakers we’ve met and hundreds of campaigns we’ve supported. Fun Fact: Filmmakers who have attended these classes have a Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign success rate of 100%!
Panelist: Julie Keck tends to media and communication strategy at Seed&Spark. She joined the team with 10 years of filmmaking experience and 5 of crowdfunding under her belt. Julie has run or consulted on crowdfunding projects that have raised over $300k total, and she’s spoken about social media for creatives, sustainable filmmaking, and audience engagement at SXSW, the University of Notre Dame, the Chicago International Film Festival, and more. Julie is co-author of Social Media Charm School, a social media guide for filmmakers, available for free on the Seed&Spark site. Play with her on Twitter as @KingIsAFink
Don't Come Around Here
Director: Navid Sanati
TRT: 1:35:21
Logline: When he learns that his father may not have much longer to live, Chuck goes back to the home he ran away from. There he must come to terms with his troubled brother Lenny, his own fears, and a secret he has been hiding for years.
Mississippi Premiere, FIlmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays Friday at 12:15 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Friday at 3 p.m./Malco
Monsters Anonymous
Director: Jeremy London
TRT: 20:43
Logline: A short film comedy about the classic monsters in a group therapy session coming to terms with the fact that they aren't scary anymore.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Shabati
Director: Inés Joris
TRT: 21:53
Logline: Shabati is a story about young love between two Computer Science students. It deals with the effect recent history and political events can have on an individual's fate whether they choose it or not, with a touch of science fiction and the struggle between reason and spirituality.
World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Tinker
Director: Glenn Payne
TRT: 18:26
Logline: Lenny Hale is a down on his luck inventor who just wants the world to run more smoothly and make a sale. He's prepared to take on overly enthusiastic security guards and cutthroat cookie peddlers, but when it comes to facing his own demons it sometimes feels like there are some things tools can't fix.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Bare Knuckle
Director: Wade Patterson
TRT: 16:00
Logline: The Boxer, a quiet man with a history of losing fights, comes to Mickey McDonnell begging to be put on a card, but the only thing he can offer the failed pugilist is an impossible match with Bruiser, an unbeaten brute twice the boxer's size, and if he loses then he owes Mickey twenty fights as payback.
Mississippi Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Prisma
Director: Coop Cooper
TRT: 9:13
Logline: A corporate promotional VHS tape from 1984 conceals a hidden signal which is said to grant increased health, longevity and psychic powers to those who watch it. View at your own risk.
World Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Telekinetic Tim
Director: Chris Floyd
TRT: 13:18
Logline: A college student struggles to live with his new roommates, one of which claims to have telekinesis, the other a silent but loyal sidekick.
Mississippi Premiere,Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
A Stones Throw Away
Director: Brian Ratigan
TRT: 3:15
Country: USA (New York)
Logline: Drowning in isolation, a lonely soul finds a machine that can render artificial nostalgia for a price.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Black River
Director: Andre Silva
TRT: 4:00
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that is home to the oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, OXFF Alum
Cup of Stars
Director: Betschart Bros.
TRT: 3:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas. Using dream logic under their own bizarre terms, the Betschart Bros. subtly express, through a smearing of light and the telling of folk tales, ideas of growing up as siblings in Southern California.
Mississippi premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Deep in the Woods
Director: Soyeon Kim
TRT: 2:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Abstract impressions of imagery of the deep woods.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi Premiere
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
Étude 1a: Release (I)
Directors: Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith
TRT: 4:30
Country: USA (California)
LogLine: Exploring the musical concept of "release," this film is a haunting found-footage study in the plurality of visual and auditory meanings of the term.
OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Fall
Director: Bradley Rappa
TRT: 6:30
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Fall is a process-oriented, high definition experimental film that incorporates time-lapse digital photography, 16mm contact printing, HD video, and an elaborate sound design to allegorically portray the detrimental environmental costs of rampant and unsustainable technological development.
USA Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Holy Ghost
Director: Jeffrey Ruggles
TRT: 1:45
Country: USA (California)
Logline: An improvisational animation set to the minimalist guitar music of Taku Sugimoto.
OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
I of the Storm
Director: Thad Lee
TRT: 9:10
Country: United States (Louisiana)
Logline: New Orleans poet Bill Lavender narrates his experience of Hurricane Katrina. Accompanied by footage shot from his phone.
OXFF Alu, World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Lithics
Director: Edward Ramsay-Morin
TRT: 3:51
Country: United States (Texas)
Logline: Set in a timeless, ambiguous space populated with archetypal characters, Lithics references the themes and motifs of origin myths.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi PremiereOXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
News from the Sun
Director: Brendan & Jeremy Smyth
TRT: 3:30
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Now Appearing in Bucharest
Director: Robert Lawrence
TRT: 3:38
Country: United States/Romania
Logline: Bucharest may or may not be the Paris of the East, but it certainly is a daily dance between history and the present.
Periphery
Director: Kimberly Burleigh
TRT: 00:04:53
Country: United States, Ohio
Logline: Periphery is a 3D computer animation featuring an excerpt from Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s film Stage Fright projected through a shape-shifting crystalline screen.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
SWABS
Director: Christina Huff
TRT: 3:24
Country: United States (Mississippi)
Logline: A short experimental film that captures the feeling of an existential, macrocosm of the universe.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Trader, The
Director: Manuel Alvarez Diestro, Sergio Belinchon
TRT: 12:06
Country: Spain
Logline: A successful stock trader decides to start a journey far from the trading floor.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Underbelly Up
Director: Josh Yates
TRT: 4:27
Country: United States (South Carolina)
Logline: An audio-visual threnody that occupies a reflexive space between nonfictional portraiture and ethnographic dreamscape. Inspired by the personal and collective trauma stemming from last year's devastating flood in South Carolina (October 2016).
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
We R the World/Mold
Director: Dawn George
TRT: 6:45
Country: Canada
Logline:Close up, mold is an intricate mass of branching filaments and fruiting bodies creating a connected web. When viewed from a distance mold loses its complexities and a more destructive nature is realized.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly.
Fest Forward: Careers in New Media
Sponsored by Visit Mississippi
Join moderator Kim Voynar and New Media and Virtual Reality filmmakers discuss the growing industry of new media.
Friday, 11 a.m. Powerhouse
First Lady of the Revolution
Director: Andrea Kalin
TRT: 1:11:20
Country: Costa Rica, United States
Logline: While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young Southern belle from Alabama accepts a ride on the back of a motorcycle belonging to a charismatic local farmer—a ride that would propel her down narrow mountain roads and into history.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Refuge, Friday, 1:30 p.m./Malco
REFUGE
Director: Matthew Firpo
TRT: 20:00
Country: Greece
Logline: Refuge is a chronicle of human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope.
Plays with First Lady of the Revolution, Saturday, 1:30 p.m./Malco
Late Blossom Blues
Director: Wolfgang Pfoser-Almer, Stefan Wolner
TRT: 1:29:30
Logline: Born in 1932 in rural segregated Mississippi, Blues and Gospel singer Leo “Bud” Welch has been a poor man all his life, working hard in the cotton fields and the woods. In 2013, after decades of missed opportunities and gigs in local Juke Joints and churches, a Gulf War veteran management rookie teams up with him to take the Blues world by storm.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays with Sammy Long and Less Hell More Angel , Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
Less Hell, More Angel
Director: Christian D'Andrea
TRT: 11:20
Logline: In Mississippi, I came across black and white biker clubs doing something surprising... hugging. And blessing each other.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Plays with Sammy Long and Late Blossom Blues, Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
Sammy Long: Woodturner
Director: Roy A. Adkins
TRT: 3:19
Logline: A short documentary about Sammy Long's wood turnings and carvings.
Family Friendly
Plays with Less Hell, More Angel and Late Blossom Blues Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
Monsters Anonymous
Director: Jeremy London
TRT: 20:43
Logline: A short film comedy about the classic monsters in a group therapy session coming to terms with the fact that they aren't scary anymore.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Shabati
Director: Inés Joris
TRT: 21:53
Logline: Shabati is a story about young love between two Computer Science students. It deals with the effect recent history and political events can have on an individual's fate whether they choose it or not, with a touch of science fiction and the struggle between reason and spirituality.
World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Tinker
Director: Glenn Payne
TRT: 18:26
Logline: Lenny Hale is a down on his luck inventor who just wants the world to run more smoothly and make a sale. He's prepared to take on overly enthusiastic security guards and cutthroat cookie peddlers, but when it comes to facing his own demons it sometimes feels like there are some things tools can't fix.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Bare Knuckle
Director: Wade Patterson
TRT: 16:00
Logline: The Boxer, a quiet man with a history of losing fights, comes to Mickey McDonnell begging to be put on a card, but the only thing he can offer the failed pugilist is an impossible match with Bruiser, an unbeaten brute twice the boxer's size, and if he loses then he owes Mickey twenty fights as payback.
Mississippi Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Don't Come Around Here
Director: Navid Sanati
TRT: 1:35:21
Logline: When he learns that his father may not have much longer to live, Chuck goes back to the home he ran away from. There he must come to terms with his troubled brother Lenny, his own fears, and a secret he has been hiding for years.
Mississippi Premiere, FIlmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays Friday at 12:15 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Friday at 3 p.m./Malco
Prisma
Director: Coop Cooper
TRT: 9:13
Logline: A corporate promotional VHS tape from 1984 conceals a hidden signal which is said to grant increased health, longevity and psychic powers to those who watch it. View at your own risk.
World Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
Telekinetic Tim
Director: Chris Floyd
TRT: 13:18
Logline: A college student struggles to live with his new roommates, one of which claims to have telekinesis, the other a silent but loyal sidekick.
Mississippi Premiere,Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
A Little Love Goes a Long Clay
Director: Juliet Buckholdt
TRT: 3:20
Country: United States (Mississippi)
Logline: This video was made as a school project about stopping social media bullying.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly
Plays in LGBT Shorts on Friday, 3:30 p.m./Malco; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 p.m./Powerhouse
Breakfast
Director: Tyler Byrnes
TRT: 9:44
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: When a young man suffering from anorexia is pressured to eat breakfast by his boyfriend, the couple are thrust into an otherworld where their anxieties and frustrations are made horrifyingly real.
Best Film, Third Eye Film Festival 2016; Jury Prize, Queer Bits Fall Festival III; Best Screenplay, Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2016; Best Effects, Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival 2016.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
Dawn
Director: Joseph Longo
TRT: 22:02
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A young man returns from war after the death of his father to discover more has changed than he anticipated.
Regional Premiere
Plays in LGBTQ Shorts Block
Friday The 14th
Director: Lucas Omar
TRT: 6:27
Country: United States (Florida)
Logline: When a closeted nerd shows up to a psychotic girl's Valentine's Day party, he's trapped as the only guest for a night full of heart attacks.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
My Big Fat Lesbian Bat Mitzvah
Sponsored by: Jewish Federation of Oxford
Director: Elyssa Gershman
TRT: 18:04
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Fifty-eight year old Judy is having a bat mitzvah at her LGBT Jewish temple as a way to come out to her orthodox Jewish father, Joshua.
Mississippi Premiere.
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
SWIRL
Director: Lance McDaniel
TRT: 6:16
Country: United States (Oklahoma)
Logline: SWIRL is the story of a boy's first crush told through dance, exploring the journey your mind takes the first time you touch someone you love.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
The Yoga Bridge
Director: Michael Orlando
TRT: 6:25
Country: Canada
Logline: Two friends - one white, one First Nations - fight over Vancouver's failed attempt to close a major bridge for citizens to do yoga on National Aboriginal Day.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
You Deserve Everything
Director: Goran Stolevski
TRT: 18:30
Country: Australia
Logline: A doctor's tentative romance with the hospital's Arabic interpreter is evolving into something deeper. But everything is not as it seems.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays in LGBT Shorts Block
Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World
Director: Nicholas Edwards
TRT: 1:19:42
Country: United States
Logline: The vessel is Infinity, a 120 ft hand-built gypsy boat, crewed by a band of miscreants. The journey, an 8,000 mile pacific crossing, from New Zealand to Patagonia, with a stop in Antarctica.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Boatman Friday 3:45 p.m./Malco
Boatman, The
Director: Zack Godshall
TRT: 13:25
Country: United States (Louisiana)
Logline:As Joseph and Selina Gonzales approach their 71st wedding anniversary, they reflect on endurance, love and fortitude after years of living outside the flood walls in Yscloskey Beach, Louisiana.
OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend
Plays with Sea Gypsies, Friday 3:45 p.m./Malco
Lives Restarted
Sponsored by: Jewish Federation of Oxford
Director: Waheed AlQawasmi
TRT: 38:42
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: Lives Restarted is a documentary that traces the lives of Holocaust survivors after their release from the camps and their individual journeys to find freedom in the U.S.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Pickle
Director: Amy Nicholson
TRT: 15:20
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Let us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Although he could not swim, he was lovingly cared for by a couple that kept him propped up in a sponge.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Soul City
Director: Monica Berra, SheRea DelSol, Gini Richards
TRT: 19:57
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: Soul City tells the story of a group of civil rights activists and city slickers who attempt to build a multiracial utopia in the heart of Klan country, North Carolina in the 1970s.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Carousel, The
Director: Jonathan Napolitano
TRT: 12:00
Country: United States (Connecticut)
Logline: In Binghamton, New York there spins a 1925 carousel that once inspired Rod Serling, and has since become a portal into...the Twilight Zone.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Through The Wall
Director: Tim Nackashi
TRT: 6:20
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A short documentary about a family divided by the US/Mexico border.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays in Documentary Shorts Block
Jackson
Director: Maisie Crow
TRT: 1:30:00
Logline: What does life look like in a place where the anti-abortion movement has made access to legal abortion nearly impossible?
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Joel Blass
Documentary Feature
Director: Meagan Harkins
TRT: 1:14:18
Country: United States (Mississippi)
Logline: Joel Blass was a public servant to Mississippi, and he inspired his fellow Mississippians to boldly carve out a new future for their state, despite being vilified by the press and threatened by forces of segregation. Joel Blass fought for justice, freedom, and equal rights for every citizen.
World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 5:30 p.m. Oxford Conference Center
Paco
Director: Catalina Jordan Alvarez
TRT: 12:10
Country: United States
Logline: He wants you to bounce on his lap.
Winner of Best Picture (Shorts with Legs) at Fantastic Fest 2016
Competing in 2017 Narrative Short program at Slamdance Film Festival
Website: http://deliciosovideos.weebly.com/paco.html
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
East Coast Grow
Director: Amy Tasillo
TRT: 29:59
Country: United States (Washington, D.C.)
Logline: In DC's developing marijuana industry, a group of budding professionals attempt to navigate the landscape of medical cultivation and recreational legalization with well-intentioned enthusiasm, which often results in more trouble than they expect.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
My Mechanical Friend
Director: Hollie Seidel, Charles Astuto
TRT: 22:00
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Ophelia is happy on her own, but the people around her don’t believe that a woman can ever be truly content by herself.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Petrol
Director: Ant Horasanli
TRT: 10:00
Country: Canada
Logline: Petrol is a high octane action series that follows five getaway drivers from all walks of life who work for a mysterious "Employer."
In Episode 3 "Crossing Over," we follow Ali, a refugee from Afghanistan who takes on a dangerous cross border mission.
USA Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Welcome to the Theater Company
Director: Kaihei
TRT: 26:52
Country: Japan
Logline: An actor puts out a call for members to form a new theatre group. But his plans get scrambled when someone with no interest in the theatre shows up at his meeting.
USA Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Small Town Gay Gar
Documentary Feature
Director: Malcolm Ingram
TRT: 1:16:00
Logline: The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.
Screening Time: Friday 5:30 p.m. Malco Commons
Panel discussion with director Malcolm Ingram and guests from the film to follow.
Panic Attack!
Director: Eileen O'Meara
TRT: 3:20
Country: United States (California)
Logline: This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Gold Star Friday, 6 p.m. Malco
I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit
Director: Pip Gilmour
TRT: 7:38
Country: United States (Washington, D.C)
Logline: Whiskey is the story of how the human spirit thrives when it has the freedom to connect and create.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
Cutting Chai
Documentary Feature
Director: Chai Pani (CP) restaurant team
TRT: 59:00
Country: India
Logline: Sit back and enjoy this captivating documentary covering one of the South's most notable Indian street food concepts as two-time James Beard Award-nominated chef Meherwan Irani and his Chai Pani crew of head chefs take on a fascinating culinary adventure through India.
Family Friendly, Filmmakers and Chefs scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
Ira Wallace: A Seed With A Story
Documentary Short
Director: Ava Lowrey
TRT: 9:57
Country: United States
Logline: Ira Wallace is a seed saver, an educator, and the essential intellectual and physical energy behind Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - one of the country’s best known and most respected sources for heirloom and open-pollinated seeds.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Time: Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
Little Kurdistan
Director: Ava Lowrey
TRT: 11:22
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: Just off of Nolensville Pike on the southern outskirts of Music City lies Little Kurdistan - a thriving community of Kurdish immigrants and new generations of Kurdish-Americans.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
Flavor Saver, The
Documentary Short
Director: Joe York
TRT: 7:12
Country: United States
Logline: David Shields is a historian and professor whose research into the history of Southern cuisine led him to the front of an effort to revitalize forgotten and overlooked Lowcountry produce and crops.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 6 p.m. Powerhouse, Part of the Food+FIlm Festival
Midnight Express (1978)
Narrative Feature
Director: Alan Parker
TRT: 2:01:00
Logline: Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Billy Hayes is scheduled to attend.
Friday, 6 p.m. Shelter on Van Buren
Gold Star
Director: Victoria Negri
TRT: 1:30:21
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: After dropping out of Juilliard, Vicki drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Panic Attack! Friday at 6 p.m./Malco
I Am Not Your Negro
Documentary Feature
Director: Raoul Peck
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States/France
Logline: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity
Time: Friday, 7 p.m. Malco Commons
I Am Not Your Negro
Documentary Feature
Director: Raoul Peck
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States/France
Logline: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity
Time: Friday, 7 p.m. Malco Commons and 7:45 pm Oxford Conference Center
Gunner Jackson
Director: Christian Strevy
TRT: 8:52
Country: United States (California)
Logline: My name is Jason Gunner Jackson, and I know without a doubt that I am a target of a multi-agency program that intends to surveil, track, and document my life.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Other Kids Friday at 7:45 p.m./Malco and Saturday, 6 p.m./Powerhouse
The Other Kids
Director: Chris Brown
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A raw, intimate look into the struggles of six small-town teens on the verge of high school graduation, The Other Kids is a groundbreaking hybrid of fiction & non-fiction in which real teenagers collaborated with award-winning director Chris Brown to tell their own gripping, personal stories.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Gunner Jackson Friday at 7:45 p.m./Malco and Saturday, 6 p.m./Powerhouse
Sonny Burgess and the Pacers are featured in short documentary, The Arkansas Wild Man, at this year's Oxford Film Festival. They will play live for the first time in Oxford since the 1940s!
The band was formed in 1955 at Newport, Arkansas. They had five singles on SUN Records: "Red Headed Woman" b/ "We Wanna Boogie", "Thunderbird", "Ain't Got a Thing", "Buckets Got a Hole In It", and "Sadies Back In Town". They also had a hit in 1965 on Razorback Records with "The Short Squashed Texan". "Red Headed Woman and We Wanna Boogie" has been voted the wildest record ever recorded. Sonny and the Pacers played clubs, festivals, shows, and colleges all over the US and Canada. They were one of the pioneers of rock and roll and traveled with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Danny and the Juniors, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Ronnie Hawkins, Billy Lee Riley, Ace Cannon, Charlie Rich, Teddy Riedell, Narvel Felts, and many more.
Several years ago the band reformed to record "They Came From the South" and now have another great CD out called "Still Rockin' and Rollin". The CD has received rave reviews and in June of 2000 was voted best new album in the country and roots field in Europe. Both CD's feature Sonny Burgess, Bobby Crafford, Jim Aldridge, Fred Douglas, Kern Kennedy, and J.C. Caughron. Charles Watson II plays fiddle on the "Still Rockin' and Rollin'" album.
They have since recorded more CD's and Albums. 2012 had a release on Cleopatra Records "Live At Sun Studio", on LP. In 2013 had a CD released in Sweden on Teddy Records titled "Live In Sweden".
In April of 1999 the Pacers played for a world wide Rockabilly show in Las Vegas and stole the show. In May of 1999, Sonny Burgess was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of Europe. In May of 2000 they played for the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee along with Narvel Felts, Ace Cannon, The Crickets, The Comets, Brenda Lee, Stan Perkins, D.J. Fontana, Scotty Moore, W.S. Holland, and more.
They were inducted into the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame In Jackson, Tn in 2002. In 2007, they were inducted in the Walk Of Fame in Hot Springs, AR. , and also into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall Of Fame which is located in Pine Bluff, AR.
The Rock and Soul Museum in Memphis also opened in May of 2000 and features a section on the Pacers. In October of 2000 they were asked to play for a special show at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis honoring Sam Philips and his legacy at Sun Records.
They have played all over the world such as Japan, Australia, Europe, and Canada. They have played the Lincoln Center in New York, the Library Of Congress and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. They played the Montana Folk Festival, Bangor, Maine Folk Festival, Richmond VA Folk Festival, and appeared with the Million Dollar Quartet in Chicago, IL
The band has four songs in a movie released in 2013 about the 1969 Arkansas - Texas football game. In 2011 the band played the Dukes Of Hazard Reunion in Virginia.
In 2016 The Pacers won the Governor's award for Folklore with the Arkansas Arts Council.
2016 made the Pacers 61 years in the music business.
http://www.legendarypacers.com/
Witching Hour, The
Director: Riley Geis
TRT: 12:29
Country: United States (California)
Logline: On Halloween, a fearful young boy is taken by the spooky girl next door on a haunted night of mischief and adventure.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
The Quirky Side also replays on Sunday at 1 p.m. as part of Kid Film Fest/Powerhouse
Ctrl-Z
Director: James Kennedy
TRT: 24:00
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: Ed is a hopeless romantic who invents a device allowing him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams. hHowever, with each failed first impression he must kill himself before he can go back and try again.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
Death$ in a $mall Town
Director: Mark Jones
TRT: 6:52
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: A mayor has a unique way to revive the fortunes of his small town that had been losing citizens, businesses and tourist prior to his taking office.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
Goodbye Neenaw
Director: Donald Ian Black
TRT: 5:59
Country: United States (California)
Logline: David and Jennifer are a brother and sister dealing with the recent and sudden loss of their grandmother who raised them from a young age in the absence of their parents. They are traveling deep into the California mountains to scatter Neenaw's ashes when a mishap occurs.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
He Could've Gone Pro
Director: McGhee Monteith
TRT: 13:09
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: When Debbie comes home for Christmas, she and her mother Gayle are forced to confront the truth about their family's past over a tense holiday lunch.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
Shy Guys
Director: Fredric Lehne
TRT: 8:16
Country: United State ( New Jersey)
Logline: Two strangers (2016 Tony winner Reed Birney and newcomer Blake DeLong) bring the laughs as they confront and resolve one of the most insidious scourges afflicting mankind - while standing at public urinals with their willies out.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
Twinsburg
Director: Joe Garrity
TRT: 15:48
Country: United States (Ohio)
Logline: Jerry, sentimental about his fading twin identity, reunites with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry at the world’s largest congregation of twins.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
The Quirky Side
Kudzu Zombies
Narrative Feature
Director: Mark Newton
TRT: 1:30:00
Logline: After a mysterious chemical transforms the citizens of Charleston into zombies, a mismatched group must fight for survival against the cannibalistic hordes.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Screening Time: Friday, 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3:15 p.m. Malco Oxford Commons
Evocation of a Nightmare
Director: Wally Chung
TRT: 1:20
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Entering what seems to be a deserted building, a man explores and finds an unwanted guest.
World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Friday, 10:30 p.m. Malco
Killer Spacemen From Outer Planet X
Director: Peter Campbell, Thomas Campbell
TRT: 16:52
Country: United States, Maine
Logline: Three brave, intergalactic explorers find themselves in uncharted celestial territory when their ship runs critically low on their much needed fuel source: plutonium.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
On Sunday
Director: David Lea
TRT: 6:30
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of deepest Cornwall...but this time they're not alone.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
The After Dark Side
Teeth
Director: Melissa Sweazy
TRT: 9:55
Country: United States (Tennessee)
Logline: Maddie gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy who may be interested in more than just collecting her lost tooth.
OXFF Alum, Mississippi Premiere,Family Friendly Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
Quantified Self, The
Director: Gleb Osatinski
TRT: 15:30
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: When well-meaning parents turn the self-tracking into a family religion, the consequences fall outside the quantifiable.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
Empty Bed
Director: Brandt Shandera
TRT: 7:04
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: In the dark of night, a mother searches for her son after finding his bed empty.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
Feeding Time
Director: Matt Mercer
TRT: 13:00
Country: United States (California)
Logline: When a young woman fills in for her friend on a babysitting job, she begins to suspect things are not as they seem. She's right.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
From the Gut
Director: Jay Hollinsworth
TRT: 12:28
Country: United States (Texas)
Logline: From the Gut is a short film that tells the tale of Gerald Lindsay, an outwardly normal guy-next-door who possesses the mysterious ability to vomit objects out of thin air.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The After Dark Side
Escape, The
Director: Fabian Pinilla
TRT: 11:09
Country: Colombia
Logline: Eddie is a prisoner in a clandestine factory. He tries to escape at all costs in order to avoid being processed and sold to the public as pork meat.
USA Premiere
The After Dark Side
Fox And The Whale
Director: Robin Joseph
TRT: 12:03
Country: Canada
Logline: The tale of a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale. A journey of pursuit, longing and discovery.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly
Plays with To Keep The Light on Saturday, 1:15 p.m. Malco
To Keep The Light
Director: Erica Fae
TRT: 1:28:00
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine. When a mysterious stranger washes up on shore, secrets buried in deep waters come to light, and she is forced to confront both her past and her future.
Regional Premiere.
Plays with Fox and the Whale, Saturday at 1:15 p.m./Malco
Acoustic Ninja
Director: Robert Bevis
TRT: 7:30
Country: United States
Logline: Trace Bundy, the fan-dubbed "Acoustic Ninja," has never been interested in the fame and glamour offered by the mainstream music industry.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays with Stronger than Bullets Saturday 11:15 a.m./Malco
Stronger than Bullets
Director: Matthew Millan
TRT: 01:27:58
Country: United States/Libya
Logline: Libya, 2011:Amidst the bloody revolution to overthrow the tyrant Moammar Gaddafi, a defiant music scene emerges from the dust of war.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly although does have some violence depicted in news footage.
Plays with Acoustic Ninja Saturday 11:15 a.m./Malco
Late Blossom Blues
Director: Wolfgang Pfoser-Almer, Stefan Wolner
TRT: 1:29:30
Logline: Born in 1932 in rural segregated Mississippi, Blues and Gospel singer Leo “Bud” Welch has been a poor man all his life, working hard in the cotton fields and the woods. In 2013, after decades of missed opportunities and gigs in local Juke Joints and churches, a Gulf War veteran management rookie teams up with him to take the Blues world by storm.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays with Sammy Long and Less Hell More Angel , Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
Less Hell, More Angel
Director: Christian D'Andrea
TRT: 11:20
Logline: In Mississippi, I came across black and white biker clubs doing something surprising... hugging. And blessing each other.
World Premiere, Family Friendly
Plays with Sammy Long and Late Blossom Blues, Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
Sammy Long: Woodturner
Director: Roy A. Adkins
TRT: 3:19
Logline: A short documentary about Sammy Long's wood turnings and carvings.
Family Friendly
Plays with Less Hell, More Angel and Late Blossom Blues Friday at 2:15 p.m./Malco and Saturday at 11:45 a.m./Oxford Conference Center
How Love Won: The Fight For Marriage Equality
Director: Michael McIntee
TRT: 1:21:58
Country: United States (Minnesota)
Logline: A brilliant and emotionally powerful documentary about the moment that changed everything in the battle for same-sex marriage. Go behind the scenes and discover the secret psychological weapon Minnesota LGBT activists deployed in this ‘unwinnable’ campaign that had failed in 30 other states.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Chance, Saturday at noon/Malco
Chance
Director: Jake Graf
TRT: 16:11
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: Trevor's life has become a void following the passing of his wife and long term companion, Doris. A chance encounter in the park with a mysterious stranger equally troubled by his own dark past jarringly reawakens him, and forces both men to once again start to live.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
Plays with How Love Won Saturday at noon/Malco
All the Birds Have Flown South
Director: Josh and Miles Miller
TRT: 1:38:00
Country: United States (Arkansas)
Logline: After the death of his overbearing Mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and abusive husband. Soon all three lives begin to unravel as obsession and disease consume them all.
Mississippi Premiere, OXFF Alum, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Rabbit Blood Saturday 12:15 p.m./Malco
Rabbit Blood
Director: Yagmur Altan
TRT: 4:36
Country: Turkey
Logline: Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea.
Mississippi Premiere
Plays with All the Birds Have Flown South Saturday, 12:15 p.m./Malco
misbitsJunior: Stop Motion Animation Workshop
age range: 8 - 16
12:30 - 3:15 p.m., Powerhouse
Sponsored by OxFilm Society
Participants will use available materials to create a collaborative stop motion animation piece by choosing which materials to use and how. Each participant will have an opportunity to arrange a scene and/or shot during the workshop. The final animation will be compiled and shared with the families of participants as well as featured on the misbits: a new media art space website at www.misbitsnma.com.
Girl Unbound
Director: Erin Heidenreich
TRT: 1:20:00
Country: Canada
Logline: Waziristan “one of the most dangerous places on earth”, where sports are forbidden to women, a female athlete becomes a rising star despite death threats.
Plays Saturday, 11:00 am./Malco
Ode to the Port
Director: Desiree Dawn Kapler
TRT: 4:37
Country: United States (Virginia)
Logline: A filmmaker poetically recalls her experience with childhood cancer.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
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Otha Turner
Director: Ava Lowrey
TRT: 6:02
Logline: In the late 1950’s, fife and drum legend Otha Turner began hosting annual Labor Day picnics at his property in Gravel Springs, Mississippi. This short documentary film digs into the archives to take us back in time to Labor Day 1978.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker Scheduled to attend.
Plays with Music videos and Shake Em On Down, Saturday at 1:30 p.m./Malco
Shake 'Em On Down
Director: Joe York
TRT: 00:56:40
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: "Shake 'Em On Down" tells the story of Mississippi Fred McDowell, the godfather of the North Mississippi style of blues.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Plays with Otha Turner and Music Videos Saturday 1:30 p.m./Malco
Broken Paths
Director: J.B Lawrence
TRT: 4:44
Logline: Debut music video filmed in Brandon, Miss. Created by Stace and Cassie and J. B. Lawrence.
Family Friendly, Filmmakers scheduled to attend.
Catching Hell, The Great Dying
Director: Alex Thiel
TRT: 5:00
Logline: Music video filmed at The Local Voice studios in Oxford, Miss. featuring The Great Dying (Will “Billy Shakes” Griffith and Kell “Falcon Kell” Kellum).
EMISORA
Director: Philip Scarborough and Tom Beck
TRT: 5:20
Logline: A song that makes you feel like anything is possible.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
MAGIC8
Director: Deja Samuel
TRT: 3:19
Mississippi Premiere
Me & My Gal/ Tate Moore
Director: Tate Moore
TRT: 4:01
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
She's Got Such a Lovely Pair
Director: Coop Cooper
TRT: 3:08
Logline: A music video performed in Clarksdale, Mississippi by Gary Vincent.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Wayward Wind / Jimbo Mathus
Director: Rick Guy
TRT: 2:57
Logline: “Wayward Wind” by Mississippi artist Jimbo Mathus
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Atoning, The
Director: Michael Williams
TRT: 1:31:00
Logline: Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they’re thrust into a horror worse than anything they’ve ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.
World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Two Birds Saturday at 1:45 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Saturday, 5 p.m./Malco
Two Birds
Director: Miles Doleac
TRT: 16:43
Logline: In post-World War II America, a young woman, hiding from her abusive husband in a flophouse, receives an unexpected visitor, and proves herself far more than a victim.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Atoning Saturday at 1:45 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Saturday, 5 p.m./Malco
Invisible
Director: Michael Trikosko, Andrew Wilson
TRT: 3:14
Country: United States (New Jersey)
Logline: Set deep in the rainforest during a school dance, a shy chameleon seeks the attention of his crush. Unfortunately he is so nervous that he can’t help but turn invisible.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Some Freaks Saturday, 2:30 p.m./Malco; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 p.m. Powerhouse
A Doll's Eyes
Director: Jonathan Wysocki
TRT: 12:10
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Haunted by the movie Jaws since childhood, a filmmaker discovers why the movie affected him so deeply.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
Plays with The Happys on Saturday, 2:30 p.m./Malco
The Happys
Director: Tom Gould, John Serpe
TRT: 1:27:17
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Twenty-one year old Tracy walks in on her newly minted 'movie star' boyfriend having sex with a man. After assessing her limited options, she returns to Mark with a deal if he agrees to marry her, she’ll forget the whole thing ever happened. The cast includes Janeane Garofalo and The Walking Dead's Melissa McBride, with an original score by Patrick Sansone (Wilco).
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with A Doll’s Eyes on Saturday, 2:30 p.m./Malco
Some Freaks
Director: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States (California)
Logline: When one-eyed high school senior Matt meets 250 lb Jill, he falls more in love than he ever thought possible. However, when graduation comes and Jill moves cross-country to go to college, she then loses over 50 lbs - much to Matt's surprise when he arrives to visit her. While Matt struggles to accept Jill's new body, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she wants to date. As the distance widens between them, the characters are propelled onto a collision course with brutality and loss, forcing them to confront who they are, who they were, and who everyone thinks they're supposed to be.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Invisible Saturday at 2:30 p.m./Malco
Beyond The Rocks (1922)
Director: Sam Wood
TRT: 80 minutes
Logline: Beyond the Rocks (1922), directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. Long considered lost, a nitrate print was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003. Not only a great film, Beyond the Rocks raises important questions about film preservation and restoration.
Time: Saturday 3 p.m.
TEENS: DEMISTIFYING THE BUSINESS OF ACTING
age range: 8 - 15
3:30 - 5:15 p.m., Powerhouse
Sponsored by SagIndie
You need to network! No, you need a headshot first! No, blah, blah, blah. Learn how the acting business really works and the insights demystifying the he said / she said of how it’s done. This panel will offer some insights for younger actors on how to stand out in the business by utilizing the best weapon an actor can have, their true selves. CAUTION: You might learn that this whole thing called acting is about playing and having fun.
Perfectly Normal
Director: Joris Debeij
TRT: 11:57
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A man who often seems lost in an imaginary world works hard to keep his feet on the ground, proving that one can make deliberate choices to maintain stability.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Swim Team, Saturday, 3:30 p.m./Malco
Swim Team
Director: Lara Stolman
TRT: 1:30:00
Country: United States
Logline: Swim Team chronicles the extraordinary rise of the Jersey Hammerheads, a team comprised of diverse autistic teenagers, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels winning.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Perfectly Normal, Saturday, 1:30 p.m./Malco
A Stones Throw Away
Director: Brian Ratigan
TRT: 3:15
Country: USA (New York)
Logline: Drowning in isolation, a lonely soul finds a machine that can render artificial nostalgia for a price.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Black River
Director: Andre Silva
TRT: 4:00
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that is home to the oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, OXFF Alum
Cup of Stars
Director: Betschart Bros.
TRT: 3:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas. Using dream logic under their own bizarre terms, the Betschart Bros. subtly express, through a smearing of light and the telling of folk tales, ideas of growing up as siblings in Southern California.
Mississippi premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Deep in the Woods
Director: Soyeon Kim
TRT: 2:30
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Abstract impressions of imagery of the deep woods.
OXFF Alum; Mississippi Premiere
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi Premiere
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
Étude 1a: Release (I)
Directors: Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith
TRT: 4:30
Country: USA (California)
LogLine: Exploring the musical concept of "release," this film is a haunting found-footage study in the plurality of visual and auditory meanings of the term.
OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Fall
Director: Bradley Rappa
TRT: 6:30
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: Fall is a process-oriented, high definition experimental film that incorporates time-lapse digital photography, 16mm contact printing, HD video, and an elaborate sound design to allegorically portray the detrimental environmental costs of rampant and unsustainable technological development.
USA Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Holy Ghost
Director: Jeffrey Ruggles
TRT: 1:45
Country: USA (California)
Logline: An improvisational animation set to the minimalist guitar music of Taku Sugimoto.
OXFF Alum, World Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.I of the Storm
Director: Thad Lee
TRT: 9:10
Country: United States (Louisiana)
Logline: New Orleans poet Bill Lavender narrates his experience of Hurricane Katrina. Accompanied by footage shot from his phone.
OXFF Alu, World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Lithics
Director: Edward Ramsay-Morin
TRT: 3:51
Country: United States (Texas)
Logline: Set in a timeless, ambiguous space populated with archetypal characters, Lithics references the themes and motifs of origin myths.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi PremiereOXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
News from the Sun
Director: Brendan & Jeremy Smyth
TRT: 3:30
Country: United States (North Carolina)
Logline: An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Now Appearing in Bucharest
Director: Robert Lawrence
TRT: 3:38
Country: United States/Romania
Logline: Bucharest may or may not be the Paris of the East, but it certainly is a daily dance between history and the present.
Ode to the Port
Director: Desiree Dawn Kapler
TRT: 4:37
Country: United States (Virginia)
Logline: A filmmaker poetically recalls her experience with childhood cancer.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
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Periphery
Director: Kimberly Burleigh
TRT: 00:04:53
Country: United States, Ohio
Logline: Periphery is a 3D computer animation featuring an excerpt from Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s film Stage Fright projected through a shape-shifting crystalline screen.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Regional Premiere
SWABS
Director: Christina Huff
TRT: 3:24
Country: United States (Mississippi)
Logline: A short experimental film that captures the feeling of an existential, macrocosm of the universe.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Trader, The
Director: Manuel Alvarez Diestro, Sergio Belinchon
TRT: 12:06
Country: Spain
Logline: A successful stock trader decides to start a journey far from the trading floor.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly, Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Underbelly Up
Director: Josh Yates
TRT: 4:27
Country: United States (South Carolina)
Logline: An audio-visual threnody that occupies a reflexive space between nonfictional portraiture and ethnographic dreamscape. Inspired by the personal and collective trauma stemming from last year's devastating flood in South Carolina (October 2016).
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
We R the World/Mold
Director: Dawn George
TRT: 6:45
Country: Canada
Logline:Close up, mold is an intricate mass of branching filaments and fruiting bodies creating a connected web. When viewed from a distance mold loses its complexities and a more destructive nature is realized.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly.
Arkansas Wild Man, The
Director: Nathan Willis
TRT: 00:18:38
Country: United States, Arkansas
Logline: An 87-year-old rock and roll pioneer who lives a life of obscurity in his small Arkansas hometown travels overseas to England to play one final concert for his passionate and loyal fanbase there.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Two Trains Runnin Saturday 3:45 p.m./Malco
Two Trains Runnin’
Director: Sam Pollard
TRT: 01:22:00
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: Two Trains Runnin' is about the search for two forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Arkansas Wild Man Saturday 3:45 p.m./Malco
Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey
Documentary Feature
Director: Sally Sussman
TRT: 1:39:00
Logline: Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey explores the emotional and political power of film, as seen through the lens of the blockbuster hit Midnight Express, a movie that turned the real Billy Hayes into an international celebrity and made him the enemy of Turkey. Join Hayes on a daring journey back to Turkey as he faces the country still haunted by Midnight Express.
Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Time: Friday, 4 p.m. Oxford Conference Center
All Are Welcome Here
Director: Vincenzo Mistretta
TRT: 28:00
Country: United State (Mississippi)
Logline: A short documentary on the Mississippi Coast's reaction to House Bill 1523 approved by Governor Bryant that gives people the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on their religious beliefs.
World Premiere
Plays with Horizon Saturday 4:45 p.m./Malco
HORIZON
Director: Stephan Elliott
TRT: 55:00
Country: Australia
Logline: Queer as Folk meets Sydney’s Oxford Street in an explosion of color and drama. In life, love and sex, what we crave is often at odds with who we are.
USA Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with All Are Welcome Here, Saturday 4:45 p.m./Malco
Atoning, The
Director: Michael Williams
TRT: 1:31:00
Logline: Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they’re thrust into a horror worse than anything they’ve ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.
World Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Two Birds Saturday at 1:45 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Saturday, 5 p.m./Malco
Two Birds
Director: Miles Doleac
TRT: 16:43
Logline: In post-World War II America, a young woman, hiding from her abusive husband in a flophouse, receives an unexpected visitor, and proves herself far more than a victim.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Atoning Saturday at 1:45 p.m./Oxford Conference Center; Saturday, 5 p.m./Malco
Disturbing the Peace
Director: Stephen Apkon, Andrew Young
TRT: 1:26:00
Country: United States
Logline: The film follows everyday people who took extraordinary actions by standing for what they believe in, just like those who came before them.
Regional Premiere
Plays Saturday, 5:45 p.m./Malco
Dreamkeeper
Director: Whitney Stephenson
TRT: 9:50
Country: United States
Logline: Tom is a Dream Watchman who is content with a routine life of watching and observing. When seven year old Julie escapes her dream, Tom's routine structure comes crashing down.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly although deals with the subject of death.
The Life Happens Side
Gunner Jackson
Director: Christian Strevy
TRT: 8:52
Country: United States (California)
Logline: My name is Jason Gunner Jackson, and I know without a doubt that I am a target of a multi-agency program that intends to surveil, track, and document my life.
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with The Other Kids Friday at 7:45 p.m./Malco and Saturday, 6 p.m./Powerhouse
Set Adrift
Director: Jennifer Sheridan
TRT: 8:05
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: When Patch's beloved owner goes missing, he is forced to work out what is real and what is just a memory.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly although deals with death as a subject, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Life Happens Side
The Other Kids
Director: Chris Brown
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A raw, intimate look into the struggles of six small-town teens on the verge of high school graduation, The Other Kids is a groundbreaking hybrid of fiction & non-fiction in which real teenagers collaborated with award-winning director Chris Brown to tell their own gripping, personal stories.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Plays with Gunner Jackson Friday at 7:45 p.m./Malco and Saturday, 6 p.m./Powerhouse
Arrow of Light
Director: Christian Walker
TRT: 19:53
Country: United States (Louisiana)
Logline: Following the suicide of his best friend, a father takes his two young boys to pay a grisly but sweet homage.
OXFF Alum, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Life Happens Side
Big City
Director: Jordan Bond, Lachlan Ryan
TRT: 9:00
Country: Australia
Logline: Vijay, a lonely taxi driver who recently moved to Melbourne, picks up a stray drunk, Chris. Over the course of the night Chris experiences some of Vijay's nightly troubles, and Vijay learns to see the city in a new light.
Regional Premiere
The Life Happens Side
Move Me
Director: Gabe Crate
TRT: 22:22
Country: United States (California)
Logline: While hiking in a forest, a couple find an inexplicably immobile stranger with an antique plaque chained around his neck that reads ‘Human Contact Moves Me.’
Mississippi Premiere, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
The Life Happens Side
STAY
Director: Ben Hyland
TRT: 20:28
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: Julian is struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. One day, whilst sitting in his Chesterfield chair looking out of his window, he sees a dog and upon following is transported through memories from his life that spans all four seasons.
OXFF Alum, Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
The Life Happens Side
Step 9
Director: Leonora Pitts
TRT: 13:33
Country: United States (California)
Logline: Two friends, one in recovery and one decidedly not, set off on a road trip to make amends.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
The Life Happens Side
Anti Matter
Director: Keir Burrows
TRT: 1:14:00
Country: United Kingdom
Logline: Anti-Matter is a sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale. Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.
International Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Saturday at 7:15 p.m. Malco
Chasing Amy
Narrative feature
Director: Kevin Smith
TRT: 1 hour and 43 minutes
Country: United States
Logline: Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's gay.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. at Gertrude Ford Performing Arts Center with panel discussion following.
Itching, The
Director: Dianne Bellino
TRT: 15:00
Country: United States (New York)
Logline: In this handmade collaboration, a shy wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving bunnies, but finds her body in revolt.
Mississippi Premiere
Plays with She’s Allergic to Cats on Saturday, 10 p.m. Malco Commons
She's Allergic To Cats
After Dark Narrative Feature
Director: Michael Reich
TRT: 1:14:00
Country: United States (California)
Logline: A lonely dog groomer searches for love but his true passion is making weird video art that nobody understands.
Regional Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Paired with Itching, The
Time: Saturday, 10 p.m./Location: Malco Commons
Rating: For Mature Audiences
I Was a Space Refugee
Director: Deborah Freeland
TRT: 00:15:00
Logline: “I Was a Space Refugee” is a fun retro sic-fi “B” movie. The action takes place during a moonlit night in the studio of Oxford artist Glennray Tutor.
Premiere status: Mississippi PremiereSunday, noon with Secret Screening
misbits: Pixilation Animation and Animated GIFs Workshop
age range: 16 - 99
Sponsored by OxFilm Society
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Malco
Creating appropriate lighting for stop motion animation as well as frame by frame animation topics will be discussed. Participants will create a collaborative pixilation animation, which is frame by frame animation involving human subjects. Images captured will be turned into an animated GIF, an easy to store and share animation file. Various techniques for creating animated GIFs will be covered. The final animation will be compiled and shared with the participants as well as featured on the misbits: a new media art space website at www.misbitsnma.com
Kudzu Zombies
Narrative Feature
Director: Mark Newton
TRT: 1:30:00
Logline: After a mysterious chemical transforms the citizens of Charleston into zombies, a mismatched group must fight for survival against the cannibalistic hordes.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Screening Time: Friday, 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3:15 p.m. Malco Oxford Commons
I Was a Space Refugee
Director: Deborah Freeland
TRT: 00:15:00
Logline: “I Was a Space Refugee” is a fun retro sic-fi “B” movie. The action takes place during a moonlit night in the studio of Oxford artist Glennray Tutor.
Premiere status: Mississippi PremiereSunday, noon with Secret Screening
Memoir
Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening
Director: Alexander Jeffrey
TRT: 16:00
Logline: Memories can either fuel our existence or eat away at us like a disease. In the not-too-distant future, Dr. Theodore Maine is on the cusp of losing his job at Janus Labs where he is developing research for Alzheimers treatment. That is, until a mysterious visitor named Obee changes his life forever.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday 12:45 p.m. Malco Commons
Native
Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening
Director: Travis Champagne and Stephen Kinigopoulos
TRT: 15:00
Logline: While on a ceremonial walkabout a young boy must defend his tribe against a mysterious force.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday, 12:45 p.m. Malco Commons
The Man From Mars
Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening
Director: Jonnie Stapleton
TRT: 15:00
Logline: A cynical podcast host hellbent on making fools of small town celebrities has just met his match: A charming woman who has her entire community believing she’s the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday, 12:45 p.m. Malco Commons
Rating: For 14+
The Stand
Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening
Director: Eva Contis
TRT: 15:00
Logline: Islamic extremists ambush a bus in Africa. When the Christian and Muslim passengers refuse to separate, the terrorists are faced with a dilemma.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday 12:45 p.m. Malco Commons
Rating: For 17+
Ya Albi (My Heart)
Louisiana Film Prize Special Screening
Director: Christine Chen
TRT: 26:00
Logline: A Syrian refugee adapts to life in an unfamiliar country after her husband’s immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday 12:45 p.m. Malco Commons
A Little Love Goes a Long Clay
Director: Juliet Buckholdt
TRT: 3:20
Country: United States (Mississippi)
Logline: This video was made as a school project about stopping social media bullying.
OXFF Alum, Family Friendly
Plays in LGBT Shorts on Friday, 3:30 p.m./Malco; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 p.m./Powerhouse
Invisible
Director: Michael Trikosko, Andrew Wilson
TRT: 3:14
Country: United States (New Jersey)
Logline: Set deep in the rainforest during a school dance, a shy chameleon seeks the attention of his crush. Unfortunately he is so nervous that he can’t help but turn invisible.
Mississippi Premiere, Family Friendly, Filmmaker is scheduled to attend.
Plays with Some Freaks Saturday, 2:30 p.m./Malco; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 p.m./Powerhouse
Keepin’ It Weird TV
TRT: 16:00
Country: USA
Logline: Meet our Keepin' It Weird Youth from Austin, TX with a collection of sketches where they poke fun at the world around them!
Family Friendly
Part of the Kid Film Fest, Sunday, 1 p.m. Powerhouse
Rating: For 8+
Science: A Film by Horizons Rising 5th Graders
Documentary Short, Part of the Kid Film Festival
Director: Erica Avent
TRT: 00:09:42
Country: United States, Mississippi
Logline: 5th graders with the Horizons program set out to learn about science by filming a documentary. See their interactions with North Mississippi scientists and how much they learned over the summer.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend. Family Friendly
Part of the Kid Film Fest: Sunday 1 p.m.; Location: Powerhouse
G Rating
Sonic Boom: Eggman The Auteur
Produced by Sega of America
TRT: 11:00
Country: United States
Logline: Sonic Boom is the funny bone of the iconic Sonic the Hedgehog universe, which began as a Sega video game 25 years ago. This 52 x 11" TV series follows team Sonic, including the Blue Blur himself, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, and Sticks, as they cleverly battle nefarious genius Dr. Eggman and his hench bots.
Family Friendly
Time: Sunday, 1 p.m./Powerhouse
Stamped
Director: Sharmaine Urbiztondo
TRT: 2:37
Country: New Zealand
Logline: In a grand library, the tiny gnome librarian, Giles, stamps the few books he has left to get through the night.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
Friday 8:15 p.m./Malco; Plays in Kid Film Fest on Sunday, 1 p.m./Powerhouse
Witching Hour, The
Director: Riley Geis
TRT: 12:29
Country: United States (California)
Logline: On Halloween, a fearful young boy is taken by the spooky girl next door on a haunted night of mischief and adventure.
Regional Premiere, Family Friendly
The Quirky Side also replays on Sunday at 1 p.m. as part of Kid Film Fest/Powerhouse
Tinker
Director: Glenn Payne
TRT: 18:26
Logline: Lenny Hale is a down on his luck inventor who just wants the world to run more smoothly and make a sale. He's prepared to take on overly enthusiastic security guards and cutthroat cookie peddlers, but when it comes to facing his own demons it sometimes feels like there are some things tools can't fix.
Family Friendly, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Narrative Short Block
The Hybrids Family
Kid Film Festival
Director: Tony Randel
TRT: 1:35:00
Country: United States
Logline: Teenagers Blaz and his sister Velana come from a very different kind of mixed marriage. Todor, their father is a vampire and Valantina, their mother is a witch. Longing to be like normal other teenagers, they flee their cold and dreary castle for the warm tropics.
Rated PG, Family Friendly
Part of the Kid Film Festival, Sunday 3:15 p.m./Powerhouse
Kudzu Zombies
Narrative Feature
Director: Mark Newton
TRT: 1:30:00
Logline: After a mysterious chemical transforms the citizens of Charleston into zombies, a mismatched group must fight for survival against the cannibalistic hordes.
World Premiere, Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Screening Time: Friday, 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3:15 p.m. Malco Oxford Commons
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Narrative Feature, Closing Night Film
Director: Jeff Grace
TRT: 1:28:00
Country: United States
Logline: A successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend's struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Time: Sunday, 6 p.m. Malco Commons
