2020 Online New England Film Festival

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Soul Candy

Sep 2020

2017 | Directed by John Stimpson

Siri, a shy bookworm, can’t muster the courage to apply for a job in a used bookstore because she has a crush on the cute clerk. Her sister, Kaya, offers to break the ice and begins a conversation with Guy who works at the counter, while Siri tells her what to say via text messages. They discuss the philosophically challenging author David Foster Wallace and Guy is intrigued by Kaya, but the ruse is quickly discovered. When Siri and Guy finally meet and the true person behind the provocative ideas is revealed, friendship and possibly love bloom.

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The College FKA Calhoun

Sep 2020

2020 | Directed by Robert Menefee

Calhoun Residential College at Yale University was named for John C Calhoun, a leading proponent of slavery. On June 13, 2016, Corey Menafee, an African American kitchen worker at Calhoun Dining Hall, smashed a racist stained glass window depicting slaves in a cotton field. Mr Menafee’s act led to New Haven community protests which started out small, but over time grew to marches of hundreds of people. After more than thirty demonstrations, over eight months, on Feb.11, 2017, Yale University renamed Calhoun College. The name is now Grace Hopper College. The university held a name change celebration, but the New Haven activists were not invited or acknowledged.

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Downhill

Sep 2020

2018 | Directed by Erica Moriconi

Four plagued neighbors resort to self destruction when their decaying apartment intends to drag its residents down with it.

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INCANDESCENT

Sep 2020

2019 | Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo

When a nomadic alien race blots out the sun, an anguished young teacher tries to hold on to her humanity in a withering world. An apocalyptic sci-fi drama with an ultimately hopeful message.

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Black Canaries

Sep 2020

2016 | Directed by Jesse Kreitzer

A turn-of-the-century coalmining folktale inspired by filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer’s maternal ancestry.

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Tea Time

Sep 2020

2020 | Directed by Tara Price

In this horror/comedy, featuring pro-wrestler Rob Van Dam (WWE Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion.), ​a little girl loses her temper and things get bloody during her tea party.

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My Black Is…

Sep 2020

2018 | Directed by Miguel Valdez and Eunice Beato

In this short film by Miguel Valdez and Eunice Beato, young women of color set out to redefine what black is to them.

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BOY EATS GIRL: A Zombie Love Story

Sep 2020

BOY EATS GIRL: A Zombie Love Story
2019 | Directed by Sarah Gurfield

A short romantic comedy about two zombies who meet-cute while fighting over a dead woman’s intestines. Their brains have died…but not their hearts.

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The Mountain Dogs

Sep 2020

2020 | Directed by Aynsley Floyd

The Mountain Dogs is a documentary short that follows Sampson and Baylor, two elderly golden retrievers, on their daily climb to the top of the Pinnacle Trail in Stowe, Vermont. The pair have made the climb every day for the past decade, and do so unaccompanied by their owners. The film explores themes of human/animal relationships, non-human agency, and mortality.

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Pen Island

Sep 2020

2020 | Directed by Ryan Sheehy

Tom Delancey is inches away from ending his life when he receives a call from Howard, a life assurance agent at Pen Island. After a free trial of their service, Tom finds friendship and regains his will to live.