Rhode Island International Film Festival
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Documentary | Rhode Island | |
Guitar #1711
Guitar #1711 is a beautifully filmed experience of one guitars construction. From raw materials to finished performance this film explores the tools, relationships and skills that go into building fine guitars.
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Donner Party: The Musical
In 1846, en route to California, the Donner Party became snowbound in the mountains for weeks without food. Amid hardship and escalating tensions, Eliza Donner seeks comfort from the handsome and mysterious James Reed, Jr., despite his appetite for secrecy. In time, the two sweethearts hunger for each other, but what is it they crave?
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Fallout
Fallout is a film about two brothers hiding for their lives in an old family fallout shelter.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Fight
A showdown between two motley characters.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
The Perfect Day for a Picnic
Howard, a factory worker, returns home each evening to find that his bed-ridden wife is changing.
2012 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Comedy | Connecticut | Watch Online Now |
It Is What It Is
A modern day contemporary movie musical with a completely original score, It Is What It Is explores the lives of seven young New Yorkers during a twenty-four hour period of near misses, tattered relationships and crumbling dreams.
2012 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
The Life Smugglers
Arnold is retired and nearly broke. In order to help pay for his sick wife’s health care costs he smuggles prescriptions across the Mexico border with his best friend Rocky. But things go from bad to worse one night when the shipment is not what they expected.
2011 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Comedy | Connecticut | Watch Online Now |
Alex’s Halloween
Alex gets ready for Halloween by dressing up as iconic characters and imagining that he actually becomes them. With the big night fast approaching, he must convince his older brother to take him trick-or-treating so the two of them can sneak tons of candy past their health-nut mom.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Inside the Outside: A Profile of the Top Drawer Art Center
Inside the Outside: A Profile of the Top Drawer Art Center takes a look at an innovative Rhode Island-based arts center serving the developmentally-disabled population. Understanding that the Top Drawer Art Center is a microcosm of the larger ‘outsider art’ movement, the film reflects on the artists’ place in society and in the art world at large. The immediacy of the artists’ work, their lack of self-consciousness around making it, and the experimental use of materials become a source of inspiration for the artists and the people around them. Three of the art center’s nationally-recognized artists Brian Lamora, Emmitt Estrada, and Katrina Cathcart are featured prominently. This film won 2nd place in the 2008 Providence Film Festival.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Insurgency of Ambition
Insurgency of Ambition was conceived in the wake of short-lived US military successes in Iraq. Using the classic icon of victory—a Triumphal Arch—as a visual metaphor, the film questions the relevance of “victory” memes at the time of globalization. Operating on a more intimate level, it ponders the cost of unrestrained personal ambition.
The short opens with Zeus’s allegorical transformation into a Triumphal Arch, during which Athena violently erupts from his head. Athena’s association with both wisdom and war is oxymoronic, for what kind of wisdom is armed with weapons? She is Zeus’s mind disease, a chimera of conquest, all too eagerly revered and induced by the mortals. Infected by the idea of outward success, the main character is lured toward the Triumphal Arch, only to face its true, frightening nature as he gets within reach.