2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
What Cheer?
After the sudden passing of his wife, Stan (played by Richard Kind of Spin City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pixar’s Inside Out), ignores his overwhelming grief only to be faced with the unavoidable What Cheer? Brigade, a 20-piece punk marching band that floods his world with boisterous, interminable song.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | New Hampshire Film Festival | Thriller | New Hamsphire | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
The Routine
Capturing the unsettling essence of a Twilight Zone episode and the sci-fi tone of a Ray Bradbury story, this reflective short film casts a bleak look at how technology can backfire at bringing us closer together, unintentionally creating more isolation and loneliness than ever before, sometimes leading to harrowing and tragic results.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Boston International Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
After Ella
Hope is a successful photographer. Introverted and quiet, her demeanor plays in stark contrast to her glamorous work environment. When she learns that her sister Ella has passed away, Hope is stunned… until she begins to receive text messages from her. Are they for real? Using art as a tool for recovery, Hope begins to accept the fatality of death. She will evoke her sister’s presence – alive and in memoriam.
2014 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Providence Children's Film Festival | Comedy | Vermont | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
the Scared is scared
I asked a six year old boy what my movie should be about. This is what he told me.
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.
2012 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Camden International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Sanjiban
After his diagnosis with terminal cancer, eccentric filmmaker Sanjiban Sellew spent his final days at home with family and friends. Choosing to be as open with death as he was with life, he narrated on camera the extraordinary changes happening to him: “I feel myself becoming less of a human being daily, by the cancer in my brain that’s still chomping away at my electronics, my circuit boards.” After two and a half months, he died at home in rural Massachusetts. This short documentary takes place in the space and time between the end of one journey, and the beginning of another. With his twin brother John as our guide, we ferry Sanjiban’s body from home—a makeshift shrine in the dining room—to the furnace that will consume his earthly remains. “Sanjiban” is an intense, life-affirming story about the profoundly human experience of saying goodbye.
2012 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | WAM! Boston | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
BirthMarkings
Twelve women explore how their bodies have been transformed by giving birth. We see body images and hear their voices. They talk to us from their bodies. We hear and see their ambivalence, humor and love. The film began when I learned that one of the fastest growing plastic surgeries was the post-birth tummy tuck. I thought about what it meant that we want to erase the signs that we have delivered children. I was driven to create a film that reframes and destabilizes our reactions to a woman’s body after she has given birth. The film builds on the tradition of body artists like Carolee Schneeman and Ana Mendieta, who used the transgressive presentation of violence and eroticism to shock and challenge. In “BirthMarkings” we chose to explore what one of the women in the film called the “public reaction of disgust and horror” to images of her post birth belly. In a nip-tuck driven culture that is inured to violence and erotica; a culture in which babies are often seen as the latest accessory, what is transgressive is the image of a woman’s abdomen that is not taut, and unmarked by birth. “Birthmarkings” challenges the static, commodified images that are everywhere in our public culture and define what is beautiful and visually acceptable. We refocus on the beauty, dynamism and lived experiences of the marks of birth. We become engaged in the tension between the dynamic and the static and the natural world and the commodity.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Green Mountain Film Festival | Comedy | Vermont | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Respect for Acting
A frustrated acting teacher struggles to spark passion in his inexperienced students.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Jelly Fishers
A family of hungry mole-creatures is saved by the generosity of jellyfish.