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March 2-5
2017
Documentary Films
High School Films
Documentary Films
Screenplays
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Boomtown: An American Journey
41 min / Documentary / G
Bunee Tomlinson
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Historical retrospective focusing on the booms and
busts of Tulsa, Oklahoma; its cultural challenges &
the impact wealth from oil has had on the region.
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Brother Valentine
30 min / Documentary / PG-13
Tim Rundel
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On August 7, 1974, an Oklahoma City family is devastated after
their 15-year-old son brutally murders his older sister. This
documentary revisits the overwhelming effects on the Valentine
family some 40 years later. The film explores the controversial
justifications made by this teenage boy in regards to his
motives for killing his sister (via interviews with the
prosecutor, his defense attorney, neighbors and his mother).
A close-knit community is outraged when the Valentine family
hires a prominent defense attorney to keep their son out of jail.
Public records requested during the filming of the doc uncovers
stunning details and buried secrets about this preventable tragedy.
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Bunee: The Boy From Constanța
15 min / Documentary / PG
Bunee Tomlinson
After spending the first six years of his life in the
dreadful Romanian orphanage system of the 1980’s and
1990’s, a young boy searches for something to drive him
in his new world and discovers that filmmaking could be
the engine for his personal growth.
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Circus City, USA
30 min / Documentary / PG
Adam Wright
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Since the early 1940s, more than 20 circus companies
have made their home in Hugo, Oklahoma. It's unique
history has earned the town the nickname Circus City,
USA, and this film spends time with both the eccentric
circus characters of the road and the people back in
Hugo who keep it all going.
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Don’t Sell My Guitars
20 min / Documentary / G
Lynn Montgomery
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He picked Oklahoma cotton from the age of 5 and bought
his first guitar from the Sears Roebuck catalogue when
he was 7. By the time he was 10, preachers came from
all over Oklahoma to take him to tent revivals to play
his beloved Silvertone guitar. Over the years, he
collected and played Gibsons, Martins and Fenders and
when he wasn’t playing them they hung on the wall of
his music room. Now in the final days of his long life,
he has one last request, “Don’t sell my guitars.” This
is the story of my Dad, Kenny Montgomery, and the
surprising revelation of what happened to his most
beloved guitar of all – that old Sears Roebuck
Silvertone.
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Heartsick
25 min / Documentary / PG
Jerimy Sherin, Egan Galvin, Luke Spencer
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​In February of 2010, Angela Spencer received a heart
transplant after years of battling an unknown heart
disease. Months after the operation, she wrote a
letter to the donor's family where her new heart
came from.
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The letter was returned.
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Six years later, Jerimy Sherin, Egan Galvin and Luke
Spencer began a search to find the family of his
mother's heart donor.
Filming the entire process in real time, from family
interviews to researching the organ donation process,
Heartsick is a documentary about how the gift of new
life changes more than one.
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High Signs
13 min / Documentary / PG
Damien Patrik
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A docu-comedy that takes a look at one of America's
least coveted professions - costumed characters and
sign spinners.
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Le Quinze Mai à Paris (May 15th in Paris)
10 min / Documentary / G
Janek Ambros
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Barbara De Fina (Martin Scorsese's producer of 3
decades) presents a film of Paris on May 15, 2016
juxtapose with a Parisian narrator telling us the
story of May 15, 1848.
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Memories of Daehan
4 min / Documentary / G
Kwi Gun Kim
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1100km 63 villages and 15 provinces in three weeks with
backpack and limbs. Over the mountains and under the
water; this is a video montage of flashbacks of
lone-traveling with no money in south Korea; The sound
of leaves falling, the smell of a barn full of dust
and generosity of people who slid by along the journey
...All frozen in time.
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The Promise
74 min / Documentary / PG-13
Zeljko Mirkovic
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A century ago Rogljevo was incredibly prosperous for
a remote village in far eastern corners of Serbia.
The wines of Rogljevo were to be found at exhibitions
in Bordeaux and Paris. But today this region is poor
and deserted. Suddenly a French family moved in to
grow grapes and produce wine. They believe they have
discovered a promised land, one of the top five wine
regions in Europe. Their arrival sparked high hopes
with some villagers - and great resistance and
mistrust with others. Can Rogljevo yet again live
out of its wine?
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The Resurrection Club
25 min / Documentary / PG-13
Álvaro Corcuera and Guillermo Abril
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With exclusive access to their most intimate meetings and their daily life, we
follow four death row exonerates in their effort to continue normally with
their lives. We follow them in their struggle to find other exonerates to join
the club and on their tour to speak out against the death penalty and the
celebration of Life.
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Shiloh
32 min / Documentary / PG
Mark Williams
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A documentary that follows Native American female
boxer Shiloh LeBeau as she competes for the 2016
Ringside World Championship. We see her journey
as her toughest battles take place outside of the
ring.
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Still Sophie
7 min / Documentary / G
Caroline Knight
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Four and a half years ago, young talent Sophia
Salveson’s life changed forever. Doctors said
she may never walk again, may never talk again...
may never perform again. They were wrong.
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HIGH-SCHOOL FILMS
14,508 9 min / Documentary / G
Dylan Reiss
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Mount Whitney, 14,508 feet tall. This tells the story
of an ascent of the highest mountain in the lower
forty-eight states and an 83 mile trip, over 8 days.
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Cycle
10 min / Drama / G
Caleb Wild
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A teen aging out of the foster care system, scrambling
to determine his future, is suddenly interrupted by
the appearance of his biological father.
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For Your Sins
3 min / Action Drama / PG
Noah Cassidy
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A teenage girl is abducted into the slave trade.
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Georgian Dance
30 min / Documentary / G
Salome Tkebuchava
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"Georgian Dance" describes the journey of discovering
the choreography, cultural context, and music in
Georgian dance. Teeming with epic stage fencing and
interviews with scholars and archaeologists, "Georgian
Dance" translates into film the passion and energy
found in the dance.
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Idée Fixe
12 min / Drama / PG
Liezl Bitas
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After an argument on the road, Sam loses herself
through a strange forest and into an even stranger
old French chateau where she bears witness to a
forgotten love
story.
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Just Like Today
2 min / Heartfelt Drama / G
Isabella Olaguera
A young woman prepares for a fancy occasion.
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A Pirate's Life
4 min / Heartwarming Comedy / G
Isabella Olaguera
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After reading about pirates, a young boy devises a
series of steps to become just like the swashbucklers
in his book.
Taking a Beating
10 min / Action Drama / PG
Alec Douglas
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This short film is centered on a troubled teenager
who's addiction to fighting in underground boxing
matches for money sets him on the path of losing
the things that matter most to him.
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23 Hours
Wynn Reichert
Feature Screenplay
Dead Sprint
Jason Tostevin
Short Screenplay
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The Devil's Gun
Twitchy Dolphin Flix
Feature Screenplay
Everyone's Gone
to the Moon
Lana Casperson
Feature Screenplay
Six-Legged Couch
Kate Longoria
Short Screenplay
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SCREENPLAYS
A middle-aged, stand-up comedian finishes a show and has 23 hours to kill before he gets back on stage. The situation becomes difficult when his less than supportive wife shows up and he’s saddled with a loose cannon opening act.
The last surviving members of a rescue team must outrace a horrifying plague of monsters -- and outlast treachery in their own ranks -- to give humanity one last chance at a cure.
In the West Texas town of Diablo, the portal for the US/Mexican drug and sex trade, an entire population lives in terror. When a covert FBI agent, his cover blown and on the run, stumbles into the town, he must choose between looking the other way and waging a war to protect people he's never met.
A teenage flower child and her four brothers struggle with conflicting issues of love, peace, and the draft as they come of age during the Vietnam War era, under the guidance of a young man who isn't much older than they are.
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Holly and Fiona are moving into their first apartment after college. They think the worst has happened when they buy a second-hand couch that is infested with roaches. The roaches should be the least of their worries.
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