A still from the film Liz featured in the 2015 Online New England Film Festival.

New England

2015 Online New England Festival Launched!

Watch 36 local films from festivals across New England online at NewEnglandFilm.com.

1 Sep , 2015   Posted by:

The 2015 Online New England Film Festival has launched with 36 local short films representing every New England state that have been screened at festivals across the region.

The 2015 Online New England Film Festival has launched with 36 local short films representing every New England state that have been screened at festivals across the region. The films will screen online from September 1 – October 15, 2015.

This year, NewEnglandFilm.com has also partnered with ITVFest to host a Awards/Festival Screening and an Industry Networking Event on September 26th. Mingle and connect with heads of talent, production executives and representatives from HBO, CBS, Starz, the WGA, the PGA, the Emmys and more. Meet fellow actors, directors, producers, writers and crew from around the globe. Get your passes at www.itvfest.com/passes (Use promo code NEF for 20% off)

Thank you to our festival sponsors: Hunt’s Photo & Video, Rule Boston Camera, Talamas, Adam Camera, ArtPayroll!

Animation

11 Paper Place
(Green Mountain Film Festival, Vermont International Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Daniel Houghton
11 Paper Place is a love story about two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning printer into a recycling bin.

Monocular Man: My Eye & Saturn V
(Providence Children’s Film Festival)
2015 | Directed by Jack Feldstein
An animated short about a teen’s triumphant, touching and often hilarious adjustment after losing his eye in a fireworks accident.

Comedy

A Bloodless Crime
(New Hampshire Film Festival, Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival 2015)
2014 | Directed by Ben Peirce
Produced for 48 Hour Film Project, NH in 2014, this dark comedy provides five-minute maelstrom of lust, betrayal and murder

Dark Roast
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Pete Yagmin
A supernatural horror-comedy about a Reaper seeking love in the mortal realm who’s disappointed to find Shaun is just like every other man she’s ever encountered.

Dear Family
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Sarah Lew
Annie, fed up with how she is treated at home, runs away. She does however, make sure to write to her family, providing explanation of her departure, and the grand visions of the life in front of her.

One Year Lease
(Camden International Film Festival, Collinsville Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Brian Bolster
One Year Lease documents the travails of Brian, Thomas and Casper as they endure a year-long sentence with Rita the cat-loving landlady.

The Part
(Boston Student Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Matthew Hacunda
Chance, an unsuccessful actor, embarks on a journey of self-discovery accompanied by a mysterious stranger.

Whaddya Gonna Do with All Those Zucchinis?
(Green Mountain Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Kenric Kite
Free zukes can often be found at the ends of people’s driveways. But what if all your neighbors have the same problem?

Documentary

America’s Forgotten Heroine: Ida Lewis, Keeper of the Light
(Rhode Island International Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Marian Gagnon
An historical documentary that focuses on the intriguing life story of this country’s most famous maritime heroine.

Among the Giants
(ReelAbilities Disability Film Festival)
2009 | Directed by Cory Tomascoff
A profile of Adaptive Design Association (ADA), an organization with the mission that all children (and eventually adults) with “disabilities” would get the customized equipment and adaptations they need to participate fully in the community and achieve their full developmental, social, and academic potential.

Anna
(Rhode Island International Film Festival)
2015 | Directed by Eric Latek
This short documentary film is the soul of Anna, a beautiful Native American mother, grandmother and wife who has fell victim to Alzheimer’s.

Birth of a Luthier
(Green Mountain Film Festival)
2015 | Directed by Thomas C. Webb
This is the story of two men who find friendship through building musical instruments.

Curley: A Historiophoty by Billy Palumbo
(Salem Film Fest)
2015 | Directed by Billy Palumbo
Through a series of looping, black and white shots, the life and legacy of Boston’s notorious James Michael Curley is interrogated, alongside the traditions of history-telling, utility of the past, and commodification of memory.

Demeter’s Spring
(Boston Jewish Film Festival)
2012 | Directed by Daphna Mero
The film draws a portrait of a secular Cemetery in an Israeli kibbutz as it follows a single life cycle observing the cemetery as it withers and blooms again.

The Last Taboo
(ReelAbilities Disability Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Alexander Freeman
The Last Taboo tells the gripping and heart-warming story of six people with various physical disabilities and an able-bodied partner who was in a relationship with one of them.

Liz
(Woods Hole Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Sharyn Paul Brusie
Liz’s journey through homelessness, despair and a fight for life changes when she surrenders to self-love, peace and amateur boxing.

Throwback Brewery
2014 | Directed by Bryant Naro and Meagan Frappiea
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
Throwback Brewery on the New Hampshire seacoast is a women-owned, locally-focused nanobrewery that brews farm fresh beers.

White Blaze
(Collinsville Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Brian Bolster
White Blaze follows Apple as he supports weary southbound thru-hikers along the Appalachian Trail by offering them food, water, and encouragement.

Zompost
(Providence Children’s Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Mike Bell/Beth Bell
A tongue-in-cheek approach to the traditional how-to-video, this short film teaches you the basics of composting with Zombies.

Drama

After Ella
(Boston International Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness
Using art as a tool for recovery, Hope begins to accept the fatality of death

AKT 2
(Boston International Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Robert Fritz
After years apart two people meet by accident, causing moments of truth and forever changing both of their lives.

Alatoni
(New Hampshire Film Festival)2014 | Directed by Christopher Goudreault
A man deals with his unfaithful wife.

The Convict
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Mark Battle
An escaped convict travels towards an unknown destination.

Girl’s Bike
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Jim Ford
A one minute silent short film told in just six words.

Journey to the American Cinema
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Evan Marsh, Whittaker Ingbretson
A poor family, having received tickets, must struggle through the gloomy, impoverished, sometimes surreal eastern European countryside to bring Grandma to the American Cinema.

Lomax
(Woods Hole Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Jesse Kreitzer
In 1941, folklorist Alan Lomax traveled from the Library of Congress to the Mississippi Delta to record an oral history of the blues.

Machsom
(Woods Hole Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Joel Novoa
A young soldier, disrupts his Israeli home life and confronts his pacifist beliefs when he takes in a Palestinian boy stranded after curfew.

The Nature of the Flame
(Rhode Island International Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Mike Messier
The Nature of the Flame burns softy as two young dreamers cross lives and paths in a supernatural landscape.

The North Star
(Vermont International Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Rob Koier
A haunting poetic recreation of a slave escaping form the south to New England in the 1830s. Based on fugitive slave memoirs.

Rocketship
(New Hampshire Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo
A lonely boy and an elderly man claiming to be a former astronaut transform a vintage vacuum cleaner into a rocketship for a surprising journey.

What Cheer?
(Rhode Island International Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Michael Slavens
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.

Music Video

Underwater
(WAM! Boston)
2012 | Directed by sam smiley
Underwater was shot in the waters of Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts as a collaboration between video artist sam smiley and musician and performer Zoe Lewis.

Thriller

Harvey’s Dream
(Maine International Film Festival)
2015 | Directed by Ryan Shelley
Adapted from a short story by Stephen King, Harvey’s Dream explores the blurred lines between perception and reality inherent to the rigors of Alzheimer’s disease.

The Road to Sainte-Mere-Eglise
(Boston International Film Festival)
2015 | Directed by Benjamin Kramer
1944 in France. Two lost, American soldiers search for the rest of their unit.

The Routine
(New Hampshire Film Festival)
2014 | Directed by Brian Groh
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.

Unidentified
(Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival)
2013 | Directed by Bradley Grenon
Amelia is forced to make a life or death decision.