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SOO FILM FESTIVAL
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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
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Sept 12-16, 2018
Shorts program, 97 min, Not rated
This program presents a mixed group of short films, from animations and music videos to narratives and a short documentary.
Audience Choice Award - Best Foreign Narrative Short
Narrative Short, Turkey, 2017, 10 min, Color
An old woman who lives alone wakes up to breakfast one Sunday.
Narrative Short, United States, 2017, 4 min, Color
Play time turns into uncontrolled shenanigans when a child discovers rag dolls in an antique chest.
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Documentary Short, United States, 2017, 34 min, Color
Clark Park is the story of the Southwest Detroit community that saved an outdoor ice rink, helped stabilize a neighborhood, and gives inner city youth the opportunity to play the game of hockey.
Great Lakes Connection: The film is about Detroit's last outdoor ice rink and a non-profit organization that gives inner-city youth access to the game of hockey.
Animation, China, 2018, 7 min, Color, Student Project (Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan)
Lion Nanny rides a train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around it.
Animation, United States, 2018, 5 min, Color
Five hundred years of world art in five minutes, featuring three dozen iconic works rendered with nylon-tip pen and animated old school style.
Ronnie Cramer returns to the Soo Film Festival this year. We previously screened his September Sketch Book animation in our For the Family shorts program in 2015.
Audience Choice Award - Best Animation
Animation, Germany, 2018, 4 min, Color, Student Project (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, Germany)
One day an old fisherwoman forgets her bait and uses a small fish she caught to catch a bigger one. She catches fish after fish, each one bigger than the last, until her greed gets out of control.
Animation, United States, 2018, 3 min, Color, Student Project (Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, US)
A shy boy wizard-in-training is forced into a play date with a witch girl who is unpredictable with her magic.
Audience Choice Award - Best Student Animation
Animation, United States, 2018, 2 min, Color, Student Project (Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, US)
Seeing a beautiful girl, a man gets "butterflies in his stomach," which seem to increase his anxiety throughout the film. Fending off the butterflies, he unknowingly demonstrates his persistence and strength to the girl in his quest to talk to her.
Animation, United Kingdom, 2018, 2 min, Color
A family holiday in a VW campervan abruptly enters a world of fantasy when the Spaghetti Police arrive.
Audience Choice Award - Best Student Music Video
Music Video, United States, 2017, 3 min, Color, Student Project (Troy Athens High School, Troy, MI, US)
A music video for "See the Sun" by Oblivion.
Great Lakes Connection: The film was created at Troy Athens High School in Troy, Michigan.
Animation, Canada, 2017, 1 min, Color
An animated dusk-to-dawn meditation on the crossroads between the seen and the unseen, inspired by a postcard and many summers at a remote Northern Ontario lake.
Great Lakes Connection: The filmmaker lives in southern Ontario on the Detroit River and a stone's throw from Lake Erie. The film itself is a meditation on long past summers spent on a lake in northern Ontario about three hours from Sault Ste. Marie and north of Georgian Bay.
Deb Ethier returns to the Soo Film Festival this year. We screened her animated short A Bolt from the Blue in last year's Tunes and 'Toons program.
Animation, United States, 2018, 2 min, Color, Student Project (SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, US)
A house cat escapes his owner to find a place to sleep in peace.
Great Lakes Connection: The filmmakers are students at the State University of New York in Oswego, NY.
Narrative Short, Ireland, 2017, 14 min, Color, Student Project (National Film School at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland)
An idiosyncratic lollipop man lives a rigid lifestyle. When he befriends a free-spirit substitute teacher, his life is turned upside down.
Animation, France, 2018, 2 min, Color, Student Project (Supinfocom Rubika, Valenciennes, France)
A grandfather who lived in a spaceship for a long time makes a weird and metaphysical trip.
Music Video, Spain, 2018, 5 min, Color
A brief reunion with lost youth.
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