NORTHWEST EMERGING SHORTS

Your vote counts! Winners of both the NW Emerging Artist Feature Competition and the NW Emerging Artist Shorts Competition will be determined by a combined vote of our Special Jury and by the Film Festival audience. The winners will be honored in a special Closing Day event at our festival at 6:30pm on Friday, October 22nd at High Street Cinema.

There are twelve competing shorts; six of them have been bundled in a package and the other six will play once each in front of each of the six competing NW Emerging Feature Films.

Six Shorts Package:
SAT OCT 16 @ 3:00pm | The Grand Theater

In addition, six shorts will play, one in front of each NW Emerging Feature:

SAT OCT 16 @ 9:00pm | High Street Cinema SUN OCT 17 @ 7:00pm | High Street Cinema
MON OCT 18 @ 7:00pm | High Street Cinema
TUES OCT 19 @ 7:00pm | High Street Cinema
WEDS OCT 20 @ 7:00pm | High Street Cinema
THURS OCT 21 @ 7:00pm | High Street Cinema

 

Competing films in the shorts package are:

ABSOLUTION
Oregon Premiere!
Directed by Brandon Reed. (38 mins.)

Jake is struggling, can't hold a job and his relationship is on the rocks. When he goes to collect an old debt, he comes to find more than he expected, a dead body and a substantial amount of drugs. In an attempt to get out of the slump he is in, he ends up losing more than he could have ever gained.

A COUNTRY WEDDING
Directed by David Baker & Justin Smith. (25 mins.)

Infatuated with his cousin Charity since childhood, Jake is an emotional wreck as he's forced to not only attend her shotgun wedding to the town loser, but to also serve as the best man. It's a sad, funny, small town tale of love gone wrong.

A HERO'S GIFT
Directed by Phil Vaira. (10 mins.)

Two unlikely heroes cross paths on Christmas morning, a Vietnam veteran and a little boy.

MUTATE
Directed by Sven Bonnichsen. (4 mins.)

Strange clay creatures revolve, dissolve and evolve in this delightfully quirky stop-motion animation.

THERAPEUTIC LABYRINTH
U.S. Premiere!
Directed by Tinh Mahoney. (10 mins.)

The Therapeutic Labyrinth is about psychotherapist Joan Williamson, whose labyrinth journey led to discovery and forgiveness.

TROUT ON THE WIND: The Hemlock Dam Removal Story
Pacific NW Premiere!
Directed by Ralph Bloemers & Sam Drevo. (23 mins.)

Highlighting the successful removal of Hemlock Dam and the restoration of Trout Creek in the lower Columbia River Gorge, this lovely film bears witness to the coming together of a local community and how they provided the heart to a modern day river restoration.

Click the link for film descriptions for:

THE COWARD
FINAL NOTICE
JOKE
PERFECT COMPANION
RECEPTION
RESUSCITATE