2013 Online New England Film Festival
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Vermont International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Mongolia – Mining Challenges a Civilization
Mongolia is at the cusp of incredible growth, as its enormous mineral wealth is suddenly discovered and exploited by the western world. It has been called the Kuwait of East Asia. Billions of dollars are pouring into this land of less than three million people, whose population until recently was largely nomad. Can this traditional rural civilization, with a love for the land, withstand the muscle of the mining industry, as it tears up the countryside in a helter-skelter effort to maximize its sales, largely to China? Is Mongolia selling its birthright and future to the Chinese market? Greed, graft and corruption are lurking dangers — and yet, no one can deny that, if properly managed, Mongolia’s future has much to gain.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | KahBang Film Festival | Animation | Maine | |
Back Around: An Animated Ode to Portland, Maine
Back Around is an animated music video created by Shamus Alley. A graduate of the Maine College of Art, Shamus has always been looking for a way to marry his two loves: music and art. Portland, Maine landmarks and characters serve as the backdrop of the video with an animated version of the artist meandering through the non-linear landscape. Shamus spent the better part of a year drawing, digitizing, syncing and editing his video using Flash, After Effects and ProTools. The finished product retains a home-made feel with Shamus’ distinctive drawing style.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Boston Student Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Raising Emma
Raising Emma examines the life of Emma, an adopted Asian American college student. Her story leads us from her experiences in an orphanage in China to growing up with her American family in Chicago.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Camden International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Constraints
Constraints is the story of a former nude model whose portrait is used to explore notions of exploitation vs. empowerment. While visualizing the tenuous line between “art” and “pornography,” the film extrapolates the details of the model’s former lifestyle: why it started, what happened at shoots, and why it ultimately wasn’t for her. Through aesthetic mystery and underlying tension, the documentary illuminates certain paradoxes of representation — the difference between intent and viewership. Told through the words of a former model, this tale of personal regret is made even more urgent because “what goes on the Internet, stays there forever.”
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Maine | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Selina Trieff Will Not Stop
Artist Selina Trieff haltingly makes her way to her easel and gets ready to paint. And insists she will keep painting and drawing until her brush or pen drops from her hand.
Selina Trieff Will Not Stop is a humorous and touching portrait of a fearless American artist. Trieff has been called an American original by New York Times art critic John Russell.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | WAM! Boston | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
Cotton Candy
Laundromat. A woman is sitting and looking at spinning laundry drum while she eats a cotton candy. Her hands become sticky and she becomes dirty, a violent encounter with a stranger resurfaces. Her action of eating in the present merges with the past memory; the Laundromat becomes both an interior and exterior space filled with cotton candy. The machine’s repetitive noise fills the Laundromat and dictates the movement inside it. The sweetness becomes too sweet, sticky and soiling. And she is spinning. This non-genre film combines elements from Video-art, Video-dance and fictional-cinema.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Maine International Film Festival | Documentary | Maine | Watch Online Now |
Something Different: A Working Gristmill
Over the past half-century, water-powered grain mills in Pennsylvania either converted to electric or shut down completely. In Union County, only one remains. Miller Curt Falck is doing something different — he turns grain into flour and animal feed using water power. This beautifully shot short documentary offers a glimpse into the past through the day-to-day operations of Grove’s Mill on Buffalo Creek. Something Different offers a glimpse into a world that many people will never see in their lifetimes — a working gristmill running on water power.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival | Comedy | New Hamsphire | |
Date?
Mark tries to figure out if the time he spent with his friend-who-is-a-girl was a date or not.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Vermont International Film Festival | Drama | Maine | Watch Online Now |
Steel Rendezvous
A private eye is hired to investigate a cheating husband, and nearly becomes ensnared in a trap. This film was made as part of the Cohase Chamber of Commerce 48 Hour Film Slam, and it was conceived, shot, and finished in 48 hours.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Day By Day
Two boys on a road trip by foot looking for their family after the January 12, 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti. Every day is a struggle to keep life going. Starring Jouvens Lauture, Dave-Hirry Bellgarde, Rosevelt Prevot and written, directed and produced by Patrick Jerome.