2009 Online New England Film Festival
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | Maine | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
The Other Way Out
The Other Way Out is the story of how one woman escaped a 15-year addiction to opiates. Narrated by herself, she recalls the experience of her addiction and the use of a controversial method of recovery called Ibogaine, which is illegal in the United States. Her tale is illustrated through stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography.
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 | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
A Work In Progress
A Work In Progress is a short experimental film that illustrates one way of understanding how life works, through knitting. In this film, the needles never stop knitting, motions never cease, and the most important people never truly leave. Scenes and sounds from a classic French film put you in a state of nostalgia no matter what year you were born. Yet it’s the unmistakable scratch of super 8 home movies fused with intimate and far away views of the knitter that stitch together the idea that our lives begin way before we know and will always be “a work in progress.”
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | | |
The Wing
When your dreams come true, what happens next? In this film an average circus performer realizes his dream of growing wings — what happens next?
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Carapace
A bug enters an apartment window on a summer afternoon and discovers Beth and Davey – two young lovers on the brink of change.
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.
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 | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
White Elephants
White Elephants is a sensitive, slice-of-life story involving a young couple going through the normal course of their day, while coming to terms with an unexpected medical diagnosis. The film is a reflection on the unfortunate hardships that can befall any couple, the decisions we are sometimes forced to make, and the ability to support one another as best as one knows how.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Connecticut | |
December Thaw
A wintry dawn edges out the blizzard of the night. A tired, frantic father on the phone, searching everywhere, fearing the worst. Headlights. A car pulls up. A girl emerges. She weaves her way to the door. In December Thaw, a fight between a single dad and his teen daughter threatens the seasonal quest that represents their close bond.
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?