Massachusetts

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The Watershed

Sep 2014

2014 | Directed by Elise Hugus

For decades, nutrients from human waste have been seeping out of septic systems and into the groundwater. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus now threaten a majority of Cape Cod’s estuaries, endangering critical ecosystems, the shellfish industry, and tourism-reliant economies.

In revealing portraits of the people affected by nutrient pollution, THE WATERSHED brings this mostly-invisible problem into sharp focus. For shellfisherman John Perry, algae has choked out the once-abundant quahog habitat in his backyard estuary, putting his livelihood at risk. Emma Jo Mills is a Wampanoag artist who grew up eating fish from Santuit Pond. Thirty years later, the algae pollution is so bad she no longer can eat the fish and rarely ventures out to kayak.

With input from scientists, aquaculture experts, and local oyster farmers, this short documentary offers the natural filtering capacity of shellfish as a partial solution to the problem. But despite the promises of aquaculture, is it too much to ask Mother Nature to solve the problems of over-development?

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Citizen’s Band

Sep 2014

2014 | Directed by Wro Stephens

For Haven, the world is flat, empty, but her colorless daily routine is instantaneously flooded with life when she mistakenly intercepts an earnest broadcast on the CB, delivered by a passionate woman known only as Cobalt. During the message the mesmerized young Haven learns of an extraterrestrial threat, as yet secret, which has integrated itself into our world. Cobalt is the leader of The Resistance, the only force standing in the way of total annihilation of the human race.

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Candles in Paradise

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Rob Azevedo

Candles in Paradise tells the story of a young girl’s journey to the other side where she meets two friends from her family’s distant past on her first day in Paradise.

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Bent

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Amy Jo Johnson

Growing up in a religious cult, Jackie and Amelia, now in their late 30s, meet up once a year at Amelia’s mother’s grave to reconnect and talk about life. ‘Are we broken?’ they ask themselves, only to decide after a topless escapade through their old sect, that they are only bent. Bent is a short film about those life long friendships that thankfully keep us feeling normal.

This film is no longer available to watch online.

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The Art of Being Hurt

Sep 2014

2014 | Directed by Xavery Robin

The young couple Jacob and Nina are caught in the drab monotony of everyday life. Little shortcomings of the partner grow into something huge. She craves more attention from him. He suspects her to have an affair with his friend. To make matters worse, Jacob and Nina have very different ways of dealing with their issues. Finally, Jacob loses his nerve. And suddenly there seems to be a chance for them to find the way back to each other…

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Another Grace & Johnny Adventure: Zombie Island!

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Peter Soby, Jr.

An homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. Newlyweds Grace and Johnny survive a plane crash on an mysterious island only to discover the entire place has been taken over by zombies!

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Donner Party: The Musical

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Andrew Migliori

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?

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DUÆL: Lee + Man

Sep 2014

2014 | Directed by Anthony Sherin & Tabitha Vevers

The dynamics of the stormy love affair between legendary artists Man Ray and Lee Miller are expressed through the varying rhythms of two metronomes bearing images of their eyes. When in sync the dual eyes appear as those of a single face—at other times the pendulums become swords sparring with each other. Drawing on Man Ray’s Object to be Destroyed and photographs they took of each other, DUÆL: Lee + Man captures Man Ray’s lifelong obsession with Lee Miller as it was expressed through the dozens of metronomes he created of her.

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Here and Now

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Julian Higgins

Over the course of a summer weekend, a young married couple contemplate the future of their strained relationship, reflecting back on the times when they were most in love. Starring Abigail Spencer (Rectify, Mad Men, Suits) and Josh Pence (The Social Network, The Dark Knight Rises, Draft Day), Here and Now was selected by Ron Howard as the winner of Canon’s “Project Imaginat1on” Contest.

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Regret

Sep 2014

2013 | Directed by Sanja Zdjelar

War-separated lovers from Bosnia Herzegovina meet again years later – she a hardened war correspondent, he a seemingly comfortable intellectual – when a fictional account of their story leads both to discover the true secrets and regrets that still bind them together.