Shorts program, 85 min, Not rated
This program presents a mixed group of short narratives and music videos, all of which have a Michigan connection.
Director: Thomas Butcher
Narrative Short, USA, 2019, 5 min, Color
The hottest new app on the market will let you kidnap annoying people and teach them a lesson.
Great Lakes connection: The film was produced in Michigan with a 100% Michigan cast & crew.
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Directors: George ve Gänæaard, Horia Cucută
Narrative Short, Romania, 2019, 2 min, Color
Frederik’s attempts to create the safest place possible, where he is protected by his lovely walls in a room filled with guns. A story of uNRAveling.
Great Lakes connection: The film was written and produced by Ron Riekki, who hails from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Director: Scott A. Magie
Narrative Short, USA, 2017, 13 min, Color
A pardoned ex-con reluctantly returns to prison as a visitor because an inmate keeps sending him postcards. “The hardest prison to escape is a hateful heart.”
Great Lakes connection: The film was 100% made in Michigan.
Director: Michael McCallum
Narrative Short, USA, 2017, 8 min, Color
A famous author who struggles to finish his next novel discovers a postcard that he has mailed to himself from the future that warns of an upcoming danger.
Great Lakes connection: The film was 100% created and made in Michigan.
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Director: Carlyle Stewart
Narrative Short, USA, 2019, 3 min, Black & White
In this recently discovered silent film, lost for many years, a defeated old man wanders the beach, ranting and raving at the waves, cursing his fate.
Great Lakes connection: The director lives in Traverse City, Michigan. The film was shot on Lake Michigan at the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.
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Director: Jackie Jorgenson
Narrative Short, USA, 2018, 1 min, Color
A comedic take on Shakespeare's classic line, “To be or not to be.”
Great Lakes connection: The film was shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan with Grand Rapids locals.
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Director: Jeff Kapp
Narrative Short, USA, 2018, 13 min, Color
As Jacob is about to enter into fatherhood, he revisits his past and tries to make things right before taking on this new responsibility.
Great Lakes connection: From the director: “Everyone involved with the film is native to Michigan. The film was shot at Nancy Moore Park, east of Lansing, Michigan. Every year since I was in 6th grade my family has traveled to Mackinaw City for four days and always on the second day we’d go to the Soo Locks. It has been a tradition in the family for a long time so being able to take my family up to see my film in this festival would be an honor. Thank you!”
Directors: Joseph Victor, Ryan Steele
Narrative Short, USA, 2017, 11 min, Color
Jack has a chance encounter at the grocery store with Amanda, his Tinder match from the night before.
Great Lakes connection: The cast and crew are from Michigan and the film was shot in Michigan.
Director: Graham Hall
Narrative Short, USA, 2019, 7 min, Color
An engaged couple's love is questioned while they are being robbed at an Airbnb.
Great Lakes connection: All cast and crew members live in or around Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Director: Annie Engman
Music Video, USA, 2018, 6 min, Color
A dramatization of a fictitious murder ballad written by Daniel “DK” Kwiatkowski about the undying love between his grandparents, Jack & Violet Perry. Performed by Kwitatowski's band The Hollows.
Great Lakes connection: From the director: “Daniel Kwiatkowski is from Cheboygan, Michigan, his band The Hollows regularly tours in Michigan, and he has the Great Lakes tattooed on his arm. He has quite the following in the state!”
Director: Ben Friedman
Narrative Short, USA, 2018, 5 min, Color, Student Project (Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, US)
When they come across a lost wallet, Sam and his reluctant friend Steven go on a journey to return the item to its rightful owner. Some clues along the way point them in unexpected directions.
Great Lakes connection: The film was made by students of Grand Valley State University in Allendale and shot in Grand Rapids, both in Michigan. All cast and crew members live in either Michigan or Wisconsin.
Director: Michael McCallum
Music Video, USA, 2018, 2 min, Color
A music video for singer/songwriter, Jen Sygit, by award-winning writer/actor/director Michael McCallum about the different faces of love.
Great Lakes connection: The film was 100% created and made in Michigan.
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Director: Thomas Butcher
Narrative Short, USA, 2019, 9 min, Color
A Bunny wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting neighborhood.
Great Lakes connection: The film was shot in Michigan with a 100% Michigan cast & crew.
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