The Silk Road of Pop
Assorted| 53 min | Doc, Music
Aug. 11 | 12:15 PM | Mecalf Auditorium
v Sleight of Hand
Aug. 8 | 5:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium
Director: Sameer Farooq, Ursula Engel Producer: Stijn Deklerck
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. A unique portrait of the explosive pop music scene among the Uyghur Muslim minority in north-west China.
v Sit With Me
Singapore | 8 min | Drama
Aug. 9 | 5:30 PM | Paff Theatre Director: Melvin Chan Producer: Nur ‘Atiqah Abdul Samad Writer: Delight Ng Starring: Darrell Britt, Beatrice Chien
Alone in a foreign land, a down-on-his-luck Caucasian businessman, finds his trust in humanity once more through the most unlikely of meetings.
Director: Michael Cusack
A man yearns to know his place in the world and how he fits in, when sometimes it’s better not to know.
Snack Attack
USA| 13 min | Drama
Director: Andrew Cadelago Writer: Andrew Cadelago
An old lady just wants to eat her snack in peace, but a skater dude seems hell-bent on preventing her.
RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 49
Director: Hilary Audus Producer: Ruth Fielding Writer: Hilary Audus, Joanna Harrison
Director: Jordana Spiro
A young boy finds a box under the floorboards containing a snowman making kit! He builds a Snowman and a Snowdog thatcome to life and take him on a wonderful adventure.
Social Butterfly
Sky Color
USA | 7 min | Children, Animation
Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium
UK | 24 min | Animation
Aug. 9 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium
Aug. 8 | 3:15 PM | Paff Theatre
Skin is the story of a child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town. He is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful, but just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.
USA | 5 min | Animation
Aug. 11 | 5:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium
The Snowman and the Snowdog
Skin
Australia| 10 min | Animaiton
France | 14 min |Drama
Aug. 9 | 8:15 PM | Bell Street Chapel Theatre Director: Lauren Wolkstein
Director: Peter H. Reynolds, John Lechner, Gary Goldberger
When Marisol is asked to paint a mural for the school wall, she begins to tune in to the rich array of colours that surround her, both in her daily life and in the magical realm of her dreams.
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.