Massachusetts
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Art Is A Verb
It has always been my goal to live a creative life. In this short documentary I ask for advice from three of the most inspirational people I know: Steve Connor (luthier & owner of Connor Guitars), Martin Keen (Founder & CEO of Focal Upright Furniture), and Mike Fink (RISD Professor, Author).
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Camden International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Constraints
Constraints is the story of a former nude model whose portrait is used to explore notions of exploitation vs. empowerment. While visualizing the tenuous line between “art” and “pornography,” the film extrapolates the details of the model’s former lifestyle: why it started, what happened at shoots, and why it ultimately wasn’t for her. Through aesthetic mystery and underlying tension, the documentary illuminates certain paradoxes of representation — the difference between intent and viewership. Told through the words of a former model, this tale of personal regret is made even more urgent because “what goes on the Internet, stays there forever.”
2013 Online New England Film Festival | WAM! Boston | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
Cotton Candy
Laundromat. A woman is sitting and looking at spinning laundry drum while she eats a cotton candy. Her hands become sticky and she becomes dirty, a violent encounter with a stranger resurfaces. Her action of eating in the present merges with the past memory; the Laundromat becomes both an interior and exterior space filled with cotton candy. The machine’s repetitive noise fills the Laundromat and dictates the movement inside it. The sweetness becomes too sweet, sticky and soiling. And she is spinning. This non-genre film combines elements from Video-art, Video-dance and fictional-cinema.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Day By Day
Two boys on a road trip by foot looking for their family after the January 12, 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti. Every day is a struggle to keep life going. Starring Jouvens Lauture, Dave-Hirry Bellgarde, Rosevelt Prevot and written, directed and produced by Patrick Jerome.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Demi Pointe
This is a short fictional narrative about a young girl who struggles to speak. As a selectively mute child, Sydney retreats to her vivid imagination during class and other situations where she may be expected to verbally communicate, as a way to escape her anxiety. Sydney begins to see a Speech Therapist, who decides to take an empathetic approach in therapy. As therapy progresses, Sydney discovers her love for ballet, and uses that as an outlet for communication.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Woods Hole Film Festival | Comedy | Connecticut | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Filmmaking
Two filmmakers discuss the principal understanding of filmmaking and find themselves questioning their own understanding of the subject.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Boston Student Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Good Taste
A dark comedy about two hungry neighbors who meet for a dinner date, only to discover that they have more in common than they thought.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Boston Student Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Le Blue Stella
Captain Eric Summers and Ambassador to Alien Life Forms Alex Tucker-Greene are the crew of Le Blue Stella, the most amazing vessel to drift above the earth’s atmosphere since the Apollo missions. What seems to be a simple adventure on the surface shows it has a deeper and more heartfelt connection to the real world. Above all, this is about their friendship.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | New Hampshire Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Love and Germophobia
If your girlfriend had the flu, would you still kiss her? What about if she might have viral Meningitis? For David, the answer is simple. Absolutely not. Unfortunately, David’s girlfriend doesn’t see it this way.
2013 Online New England Film Festival | Vermont International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Mongolia – Mining Challenges a Civilization
Mongolia is at the cusp of incredible growth, as its enormous mineral wealth is suddenly discovered and exploited by the western world. It has been called the Kuwait of East Asia. Billions of dollars are pouring into this land of less than three million people, whose population until recently was largely nomad. Can this traditional rural civilization, with a love for the land, withstand the muscle of the mining industry, as it tears up the countryside in a helter-skelter effort to maximize its sales, largely to China? Is Mongolia selling its birthright and future to the Chinese market? Greed, graft and corruption are lurking dangers — and yet, no one can deny that, if properly managed, Mongolia’s future has much to gain.