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  • SOO FILM FESTIVAL
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
  • Sept 12-17, 2017

Tunes & Toons

Shorts program, 60 min, Not rated

Protomartyr - A Private Understanding
Protomartyr - A Private Understanding
Sarah Lenore - If We Try
Sarah Lenore - If We Try
La Folía
La Folía
The Teacup
The Teacup
Pandas in the Mist
Pandas in the Mist
The Myth of a Standing Ovation
The Myth of a Standing Ovation
Journey
Journey
Radiophone
Radiophone
A Bolt from the Blue
A Bolt from the Blue
Panic Attack!
Panic Attack!
The Velvet Abstract
The Velvet Abstract

About This Shorts Program

This program is a mix of music videos and short animations from around the world.   Come downtown to the Soo Theatre and help us kick off Day 5 of the festival!

Protomartyr - A Private Understanding

Director: Tony Wolski, Trevor Naud

Music Video, United States, 2017, 5 min, English, Color

The music video for Protomartyrʼs "A Private Understanding".

Great Lakes Connection: Personnel and location.

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Sarah Lenore - If We Try

Audience Choice Award - Best Music Video

Director: Patrick Moug

Music Video, United States, 2015, 3 min, English, Color

The music video for Sarah Lenore's "If We Try."

Great Lakes Connection: Both singer Sarah Lenore and director Patrick Moug (as well as most of the crew) are Michigan natives.

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La Folía

Director: Adam Grannick

Narrative Short, United States, 2016, 13 min, English, Color

La Folía is a visual anthology of twenty-four short stories from the imaginations of over a dozen different people and all inspired by variations on the same ancient melody. The thematic story that links La Folíaʼs stories begins and ends the film, returning its protagonist full circle, yet changed.

The story follows the pain, loss, joy and redemption of a young ballet student whose body type excludes her from being considered for a role for which she is eminently qualified in skill and passion.

Great Lakes Connection: The director and producer, Adam Grannick, originally hails from Illinois.

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The Teacup

Director: Elif Boyacioglu

Animation, Ireland, 2015, 5 min, English, Color, Student Project (Irish School of Animation, BCFE)

Once there was a man who was afraid to go out...

Great Lakes Connection: None.

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Pandas in the Mist - Brochure

Director: Thierry Garance, Juan Rodriguez

Animation, France, 2016, 2 min, French, Color

The last 1600 surviving pandas are fighting, in their very own special way, for the perpetuation of their species.

Great Lakes Connection: None.

The Myth of a Standing Ovation

Director: Aaron Weinstein

Animation, United States, 2017, 2 min, English, Color

When you next hear of a standing ovation, donʼt just assume the show was a sensation.

Great Lakes Connection: We were born and raised in the Chicagoland area.

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Journey

Director: Radheya Jegatheva

Animation, Australia, 2016, 7 min, English, Color, Student Project (Perth Modern)

Alone in space, an astronaut drifts through the empty void, but then finds another astronaut in the same predicament. She gives him a Polaroid image of the Earth and they team up to go on an epic journey across the universe to return to their planet. Will these star-crossed lovers find home?

Great Lakes Connection: None

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Radiophone

Director: Panos Koutivas

Animation, Greece, 2016, 8 min, English, Black & White, Student Project (Ionian University)

This animated short film tells the story of an adult man who found himself in an awkward situation. The reason could be the radiophone, his mind, or something even stranger. The story is based on the live broadcast of the Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds" in October of 1938.

Great Lakes Connection: None.

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A Bolt from the Blue

Director: Deb Ethier

Animation, Canada, 2017, 10 min, English, Color

When a summons crash-lands on their ship, Yorick (a clever and inventive skull) and his unusual crew leap, roll, and spin into action to help a visitor from afar return home. Quirky, off-centre animated humour on a non-budget from one-person Seat of the Pants Film Lab. Find out if there really is a flag on the moon!

Great Lakes Connection: The film is entirely the work of one person living in Ontario near the Michigan border.

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Panic Attack!

Director: Eileen OʼMeara

Animation, United States, 2016, 3 min, English, Color

You know the nagging thoughts that start with "Did I leave the coffee on?" and turn in to "Am I pregnant with a devil-baby?" This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one womanʼs slippery hold on reality.

Great Lakes Connection: Iʼm originally from South Bend, IN.

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The Velvet Abstract

Director: James Hughes

Animation, United Kingdom, 2017, 7 min, English, Black & White and Color

A short film about the Environmental Age from a team spanning six continents.

Great Lakes Connection: The associate producer is from Illinois and one of the sequences was designed in Ohio.

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Screenings

Saturday, September 16, 10:15am
Soo Theatre

Tunes & Toons

Shorts program
Not rated
60 min

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