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Something Restless

1 May , 2016 | Posted by:

Three vignettes of collegic personal growth

(2015) Directed by Ethan Hendrick

Three vignette stories, each featuring a unique set of actors, thematically meld together into a single story of two college students’ fleeting but impactful time together before they graduate and part ways.

The first explores the negative effects of self-isolation in response to a broken friendship.

The second illustrates the finding of a healing common ground between two individuals with contrasting emotional and physical needs.

The final vignette involves two college students exploring the forest together, knowing that soon one will graduate and move home while facing the finality of their friendship.

2015 Ethan Hendrick

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No Longer – Dorian Pistilli (Music Video)

25 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

An original song from Tufts University Television's feature film "Affection"

(2016) Directed by Phoebe Cavise

A young student navigates through her high school alongside performer Dorian Pistilli, confronting doubts and personal demons along the way.

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BEYOND EMPIRES

15 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

Why India celebrates an 18th Century German whom the west wants to forget

(2014) Directed by Christopher Gilbert

Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg is an unlikely hero for a culture so far removed from Halle in Germany. Overcoming his orphan status, chronic illness, the opposition of the Danish church, the Danish East India Company, the Brahmins of the Malabar Coast, and racist colleagues, he restores the Tamil language and its cultural treasures to the lower castes of Tamils, through provision of schools including girls for the first time in South Asia, a script for the vernacular language, the Bible translated. He becomes acknowledged by Indians as an expert in their religions. He defends the Tamil slave population and his mission from the hostilities of the East India company and his CFO back in Copenhagen but within 13 years he dies, age 36 when stress induces the return of his illness. But 300 years later in July 2006 we see the Federal government of India join with the State of Tamil Nadu in promulgating a week of remembrance of all his achievements for Tamil life and culture and issuing a Federal postage stamp in his honour. But why is the west embarrassed to give him the same honour?

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One Foot In The Grave

13 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

Who lives and who dies is the question when an aging man, with nothing left to lose after the death of his wife, sets out to get the justice his famil

(2015) Directed by Dave Borges

What lengths would you go to for family? For your child? Would you kill? Would you endanger the lives of others you love? Or would they stop you, hold you back?

And when you are old and gray and all those you loved are gone, buried. What then? Would you take up arms and seek justice; vengeance?

And what of the unintended consequences? What happens when in your quest for blood you take the life of a loved one of another? What of their pain? Their justice?

This is the place where Angelo Morello finds himself. A man, whose daughter was brutally taken from him and his wife 25 years ago. Now, with the passing of his beloved wife Rose; Angelo has no one left to fear for. To protect. To hold him back. He finally sets out to confront those responsible and exact his justice.

Who will live? Who will die?

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Mafia Therapist

7 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

Sometimes it takes a bit of "strong-arming" to connect a psychotherapy client to face his fear... Too far?

(2014) Directed by Tom Babbitt

A mafia therapist gets his client to make a breakthrough - through questionable means? "...nice job, Paulie..."

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Robot Caller

7 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

She really should not always pick up the phone. A cautionary tale.

(2014) Directed by Tom Babbitt

Simple animated short where a "robot" caller gets an elderly woman to submit to his will.

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The Something

7 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

7.5 minute, award-winning animated short of a Natalie Babbitt ("Tuck Everlasting") children's story about a monster boy who's afraid of the dark.

(2015) Directed by Tom Babbitt

Mylo, an odd little monster boy, lies awake at night, worrying that "something" will come through his window. His befuddled but well-meaning mother buys him some clay, and he sets about trying to make a stature of this "something" he's afraid of. Finally, he has a dream encounter and confronts his fear.

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The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop

4 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

Following the death of her baby sister, 7- year old Cecily creates an imaginary friend to help her save her family from their grief.

(2018) Directed by Jennifer Potts

Set in 1974 rural New England, this engaging story moves through the days of Cecily, a 7-year old girl who, following the death of her baby sister, lives in a world with no music, no color, no laughter, no love—that is, until a magical imaginary friend shows up and joins Cecily on the quest to save her family from the grief that is destroying them.

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Affection

31 Mar , 2016 | Posted by:

(2016) Directed by Phoebe Cavise

“Affection” is a narrative featurette heading to TUTV’s Youtube channel on April 29, 2016.

"Affection" follows Ibby as she befriends a teacher at her school. As their relationship develops online and her teacher divulges more information about himself, she starts to lose faith in the friendship in which she's invested her whole senior year.

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House Of Dreams

21 Mar , 2016 | Posted by:

Sometimes a man's mind can become a House Of Dreams...

(2017) Directed by Dennis Colligan

Sometimes a man's mind can become a House of Dreams...

As Henry’s dream world and waking world collide, he is haunted by his dark side as he longs for a sense of goodness in the world.

House of Dreams is a short film that explores the inner workings of a man’s mind - a man who feels lost, whose inner self wants answers to questions that the outward self he projects to the world can't quite get a grip on. The film asks questions about consciousness, about existence, and what it means to be a human being in these times without presuming to provide answers for the viewer.
 
The film delves into the mind of a man, played by Jeff Hansen, whose waking world is colliding and overlapping with his dream world. Dream sequences mesh with reality as our main character, haunted by his dark side, longs for a sense of goodness in the world.
 
As we explore his thoughts and dreams we witness his struggle and come to recognize the increasingly thin line between his dream world and his reality.