Twisted Oyster Film Festival Short Films Program for December 2

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Short Films Program for December 2

Twisted Oyster Film Festival is a Kinetic Art Projects LLC.

Screenings 7:30 – 9:45 pm

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The Leap (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Yale Yang (USA) 0:19:44

Synopsis: Hector's last memory is working in a physics lab (1987) when something goes wrong. In his aHempt to save himself and his wife, he wakes up to a strange reality (2013). A doctor tells tells him that he has Alzheimer's and the vivid ﬂashback may be due to the new treatment.

Hector meets a young lady claiming to be his grown-up daughter, but he dismisses her and is convinced that something bigger is behind all this.

ARer failed aHempts to gain informaSon about his wife, Hector meets another paSent who is a Sme traveler from the future. The paSent oﬀers to help only if Hector can assist him in ﬁxing a stowed-away Sme device.

Will he take a leap of faith and grasp the chance?

Bio: Yale was born in Taiwan, and grew up in a small town in Mississippi.

His early interests in ﬁlm dates back to his childhood while watching the Back to the Future movies. Before shiRing his career to ﬁlmmaking, Yale received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, served in the military, and worked at a publishing company as an editor. His interest in all walks of life has inspired him to create touching stories and hear]elt characters.

Yale graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in DirecSng from the University of Miami, and has directed and produced several short ﬁlms, commercials, and documentaries up to date. Yale is currently a freelance director in China.

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Survival (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Masoud Hatami (Iran) 00:08:00

Program Note: In the midst of the chaos of war, there is a quiet and sSll body of water. Soon a person falls out of the sky and into the water screaming. Survival is a masterpiece depicts the chaos in the Middle East with brilliant imaginaSon.

“Power never lasts forever.” – M. Hatami

Bio: Masuod Hatami was raised in a family of art lovers. He was introduced to ﬁne art and music in an early age and followed both paths as a professional by taking part in several concerts and exhibiSons Sll he was a teenager.

At the age of 12, he acted in a movie. Since then he has been acSve in cinema. Mas’ood leR his hometown Rasht aRer school in order to start cinema studies in Teheran Film School, Karnameh AssociaSon, and Youth Cinema Society.

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JANO (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Vadir SoHelo (Mexico) 00:03:00

Synopsis: A robot rebels against his family for considering it to be useless.

Bio: He born in Guadalajara , Mexico . Vadir studied a degree in Audiovisual Media and also completed his Master degree in MarkeSng in the city of Puebla, Mexico . He has exhibited his work in internaSonal ﬁlm fesSvals in countries like Canada, Germany, United States , México , Colombia, Venezuela, India and Spain

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Cheers, Maestro! (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Andrew Kanivchenko (Russia) 00:25:00

Synopsis: An ordinary village guy Jacob meets a stranger - a man with a gramophone who is standing in the ﬁelds and just playing music.

At ﬁrst Jacob takes the stranger for a madman. But then he realizes that a stranger is far from being crazy. He knows way too many details about Jacob's life...

Bio: Andrew was born in 1972.

He shot more than 10 feature-length ﬁlms and tv-series. He has fesSval Awards. A Theatre Director as well.

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AbducCon (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Jose Antonio Ayala Galindo (Mexico) 0:15:23 Synopsis: Alex discovers that his mother has been abducted by aliens.

Because of the evilness that he perceives in the world, Alex wants to be abducted too and follows the purple rabbit's trail.

Bio: José Antonio Ayala Galindo. In 2013 He entered Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográﬁcos (CUEC) where he's now in preproducSon oh his last student documentary shor]ilm "Las nubes" ("The Clouds"). In 2014 he parScipated in "DiagnósSco", winner of the Rally Universitario of Guanajuato InternaSonal Film FesSval (Giﬀ). He has experience as director of photography in many shor]ilms.

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The Border (LGBT) Lukas Väth (Germany) 00:13:00

Synopsis: A nameless woman can't remember who she is.

Lost in the subway she meets Sally who seems to be her girlfriend. But can she trust her without any memory about what happened?

The Border is a ﬁlm of few words, long takes, red walls underground and dark woods on top.

Bio: Lukas Väth was born in 1993 in Dachau.

Since autumn 2013 he's studying in the direcSng class at Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film Munich (HFF Munich).

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Let You Help You (Comedy/SaSre) IveHe Dumeng (USA) 00:08:25

Synopsis: Dr. Goldfarb is the world's worst therapist. Or is he?

Bio: IveHe Dumeng is the founder and arSsSc director of Nylon Fusion Theatre Co. in New York City. She has worked extensively with Paul Haggis, John Patrick Shanley, Stephen Adley Guirgus, and more as both a director and actress.

The System Which We Accepted (Comedy/SaSre) Manickam G. (India) 00:11:30

Synopsis: This silent ﬁlm is a spoof tale about the relaSonship

between a worker and his boss, a man who owns everything and pays very liHle. It is a commentary on how the capital system rapes a man’s life.

Bio: MANICKAM.G Lives and works in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He studied Visual CommunicaSon and Cinematography at Mindscreen Film InsStute, Chennai.

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The Disposal (Comedy/Satire) Austin Lewis (USA) 00:21:39

Synopsis: Two guys who dispose of bodies for a living drive around doing their nightly rouSne unSl they encounter an unwanted guest who creates an unusual problem for them.

Bio: AusSn Lewis is the director of a Nashville based producSon company called A Studio 518.

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