Audience Award Winner

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UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Liz Klein & Bob Pierce, LightStream Associates

UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center is a short film highlighting the work of a New Hampshire based non profit that provides physical, emotional and psychological equine therapy to children and adults.

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Encounter

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Michael O'Connor

A woman must fight off a mysterious force encroaching on her independent and isolated lifestyle.

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Somewhere In July

Sep 2019

2018 | Directed by Laina Barakat

Somewhere In July follows a 10-year-old girl, caught in the chasm of a family divided over her father’s recent transition into a woman. Filmed stylistically from the perspective of the child, our story captures the innocent and pure love of a child, at play with an at times harsh and confusing world. July is forced into an adult world of politics and morality and with all of these pressures and new, mostly negative social attention, she just wants her family back.

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The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop

Sep 2019

2018 | Directed by Jennifer Potts

Set in 1974 rural New England, this enchanting story moves through the days of Cecily, a seven-year-old girl who, after 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. Jennifer Potts wrote the feature film script The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop in 2014, and this short version is based on the first 15 pages of the feature film script. This short film will be produced as a proof of concept to raise funding for the feature film.

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Cure for Insomnia

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Jay Critchley

Ed Morgan and family go for a ride through the forest and meet Smokey the Bear. After Joanna Cassidy delivers a public service announcement, Ed starts a fire with his cigarette butt. The children plead in song for a country up in flames as the fire is engulfed by surging seas. Alfred Hitchcock provides the perfect antidote.

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The Party Boys

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Ben Mendillo

Stan and Wayne are just two guys on their way to a surprise party. They are professional partiers with years of experience under their belts, yet, they still find ways to make things go horribly wrong…

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A Visit

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Robert Fritz

A woman comes home after 18 years.

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Nobel Prize

Sep 2018

2018 | Directed by Anthony Ambrosino

An unsuspecting customer falls into a web of words when a clerk decides to make her day more interesting.

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Winter’s Watch

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Brian Bolster

Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to Alexandra de Steiguer – its winter caretaker who braves the colder, darker months of inclement weather by embracing the solitude and finding inspiration, and life, in what would otherwise be considered the ‘bones’ of winter.

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Alone

Sep 2018

Alone
2017 | Directed by Joe Guarneri

A carpenter boarding up an abandoned house for the winter must fight to survive when strange events begin to occur. But how do you fight what you can’t see?