Audience Award Winner
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Unmoored
James is dead. Sarah stole his ashes. They’re both gonna have a long day.
Unmoored is the story of a couple with one afternoon left to get things right.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Maine International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams)
Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams) examines the systems of our culture, of which we are all participants; we dump unfathomable amounts of pollutants and DNA altering chemicals into our streams and rivers which eventually end in the ocean. It was once believed that waters were so vast, that whatever was dumped into it was somehow absorbed and made inert, or cleansed by the water. However, what goes around – comes back around, either by drinking water, consumption of contaminated foods, or loss of marine habitats’ ability to sustain life. Baker says, “Water is our lifeblood.” This eerie short in the style of flowing painterly public-service-announcement examines a need to restructure our water, waste, and energy systems – but first our way of thinking. Maine Ecological Artist and Film Director, Krisanne Baker makes a case for the changing of our cumulative consumerist practices in this experimental documentary short.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
The Five:Fifteen
Inspired by director Chris Chiusano’s countless hours commuting on the train, this film began as a series of opposite-hand drawings. The animation created is a compilation of individual hand-drawn images that have been brought to life through the computer.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Clam Pie
After gorging on a classic old-fashioned seaside delicacy a curious woman finds herself launched into a radical encounter with heaven. Clam Pie was shot at the Great Island Bakery in South Yarmouth, and at other Cape locations including Chapin Beach in Dennis.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
The Reality Behind Closed Doors
Nine young gay men are interviewed in this unconventional documentary short. All nine men come from various areas across the country (Massachusetts, California, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Michigan, & New Jersey). However, none of the men are seen on screen, instead nine straight actors portray and lip-sync their appearances. The majority supports the minority in this film, as topics range from stereotypes to coming out, civil rights, and personal opinions.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner
Did You…
Did You… is the story of a day in the life of a high school student who seems to have everything going for him. But is everything as it seems?
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner
Virginia Lee Burton—A Sense of Place
Virginia Lee Burton—A Sense of Place explores the life and art of Virginia Lee Burton [1909-1968], considered to be one of the most significant children’s book author and illustrators of the 20th century. For 70 years, her classic books, including the beloved Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Caldecott Award-winning, The Little House, have engaged generations of readers young and old. Burton was also a talented textile designer and established a highly successful textile collective known as The Folly Cove Designers, in the Folly Cove area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. These handcrafted designs with motifs from nature rendered in bright colors were sold nationwide. Through never-before-seen archival materials, location footage and interviews with family, friends and scholars, this film reveals that Burton was a true Renaissance woman whose art and literature remain an enduring part of America’s cultural heritage.