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Rattle

Ed Chen | 3:00 | Animation | 2003 | USA
"Rattle" is a shocking and haunting exploration of the emotional root and path of violence.
Ed Chen
After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Integrative Biology, Ed Chen decided he'd had enough science and began pursuing his interests in film and animation. He worked for one year as a production assistant at Pixar Animation Studios and applied to graduate school. Ed is currently working on his thesis film, "American Dreams," and finishing his MFA in animation at the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.
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Fricasse

Martin Krejci | 14:00 | Drama | 2003 | Czech Republic
A short film about food, vanity and what happens when a real gourmet has to have the last word at all costs.
Martin Krejci
Martin Krejci is currently completing his Master's Degree at the Film Academy of Musical Arts in the Czech Republic. He often works with the film and television production company Dawson Production, where he made "Fricassee" in addition to a number of shorts and commercials. Martin's script for his upcoming feature, THE SUBSTITUTE, won 3rd place for the Hartly Merrill Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Looking For Mr. Right

David M. Young | 4:00 | Comedy | 2003 | USA
Coming face to face with the quintessential man of his dreams is easier than our hero anticipated.
David M. Young
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor, David M.Young began his career in New York editing for the Children's Television Workshop's "Sesame Street" and "3-2-1 Contact." He went on to work with documentary and commercial filmmakers. A move to Boston in 1987 began a long association with WGBH-TV, where he created local and national programs for PBS (public television) including drama, dance, art, and photography specials, as well as educational programs on science, nature, ecology, and health.
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The Trumouse Show MATURE CONTENT

Julio Robledo | 5:30 | Animation | 2002 | Spain
A working class mouse discovers that he's not only being watched, he is the focus of a reality TV show.
Julio Robledo
Julio Robledo was born in the German colony of Mallorca, Spain. While working as a draughtsman, traditional animator and LSD-tester he earned a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology. His final presentation for the degree was a study on horror films. "The Trumouse Show" is his first 3-D film and has won a number of awards including the UIP Prize for Best European Short film at the 60th Venice Film Festival.
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Last Wish MATURE CONTENT

Petar Pasic | 9:35 | Experimental | 2003 | Slovenia
A slaughtered chicken's carcass is cleaned and processed, eventually winding up on the dinner plate of a doomed man.
Petar Pasic
Petar Pasic has been directing and writing for film, television commercials and videos for the past 4 years. In 2000 he won Best Directorial Debut from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for "Soliter," which he wrote and directed. He made "Last Wish" in March 2003 after his screenplay attracted financing from the Slovene Film Fund.
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Kitty

Patrick Gilles | 5:00 | Comedy | 2002 | New Zealand
The hair-raising "tail" of a skittish motorist's grave lapse in concentration.
Patrick Gilles
Patrick Gillies' first short film, "Lemi's Comic Strip Capers," was featured in the 1999 Christchurch Festival of Romance, and screened on television in his native New Zealand. His second short, "Admit One," was released in 1999 and played in Montreal and Palm Springs and is currently featured on Atom Films (www.atomfilms.com). Patrick has also completed a "no-budget" feature entitled OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR. "Kitty" is his third short film.
Children Short Shorts F7
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Maree(Tides)

James Pellerito | 14:30 | Drama | 2003 | Italy/USA
An Albanian father and son flee war-torn Macedonia for Italy, where the father makes the most painful decision of his life.
James Pellerito
James Pellerito was born an raised in Vicenza, Italy near Venice, and has divided his time between New York City and the Veneto since he was eighteen. He earned a B.A. in Film Studies from Columbia College, an M.A. in Humanities from NYU and expects to receive his M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University in 2004. James has written several screenplays, including the feature version of "Maree (Tides)," which is his first film.
Non-Dialogue Short Shorts F8
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Merci!
Special Thanks: Nathalie Meyer of La big family

Christine Rabette | 8:00 | Comedy | 2002 | Belgium
A large city, present day. A strange man boards the tram and offers his new vision of public transportation.
Christine Rabette
Christine Rabette was born in 1965. She started making short films on super-8 as a high school student and graduated from Diplôme d'université d'animation cinématographique in Aix en Province in 1986. She has worked on many short film and documentary productions as a 2nd assistant director, notably on the Jean-Pierre Jeunet production "25 Decembre 58, 10h36" which won the audience award at the Clermont-Ferrrand Short Film Festival in 1991. Christine works as a commercial assistant director and continues to direct short films.
Documentary Short Shorts F9
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Thomas and the Elephant MATURE CONTENT

Kenan Halilovic and Verena Kreamer | 1:30 | Documentary | 2003 | Germany
Historical footage of an experiment by Thomas Edison is recycled in this very short, subjective documentary.
Verena Kraemer
Verena Kraemer was born in Munich, Germany in 1970. She studied graphic design in Paris, Nuremberg and St. Petersburg. In 1998 she created a video installation, entitled "Cindy, oh Cindy" for a dance theatre production. "The Smiling Carcass," another installation, followed in 1999 for the Pocket Opera Company. She made her first short film, "Counterrevolution," in 1997. Verena is currently working on a new short film entitled "Sea World."
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How I Walked on the Moon

Samual Jadok | 12:00 | Comedy | 2002 | France
France wishes to send a French person to the moon to challenge the Americans... But who?
Samual Jadok
Samual Jadok was born in France in 1974. He made his first short film "La Main" in 1995. After studying Modern Literature in college, he began writing and directing short films with young people with learning disabilities. He has worked as a journalist covering the cinema for Le Monde and Cine Libre, and he has also written scripts for television. "How I Walked on the Moon" is the most recent of Samual's several short films. Samual is presently developing three feature-length films: FINGER IN THE NOSE, TIGHTROPE WALKER, and THE MOON LOVES THE EARTH.

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