Santa Fe Film Festival 2008

Collection of 12 provocative new shorts by emerging filmmakers, the majority of them women. The selections include:

AND THEN SHE WAS GONE (7 minutes) Two women share a mystical experience on a park bench after three years of seeing each other at the same park but never speaking. Directors: Jacqueline Pennewill and Pete Konzcal

CHAD VADER (5 minutes) Life is hard for Chad Vader, the younger, less charismatic brother of Darth Vader, who is the day shift manager of a grocery store. Directors: Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda

DIRTY GIRL (5 minutes) An animated, darkly humorous chronicle of breast cancer surgery from a patient’s perspective. Director: Jennifer Clary

DOWN A DARK ROAD (6 minutes) One man seeks revenge, the other justice – but the lines between them start to blur. Director: Greg Thompson

THE DRUMMER (19 minutes) A jobless drummer finally gets a gig subbing at a snooty wedding; when the rest of the band doesn’t show, his salvation is up to him. Director: Bill Block

GEORGE AND KARL (4 minutes) Two homeless men who resort to sharing everything out of desperation share a last supper, of sorts. Director: David Grainger

HAVDALAH (13 minutes) An observant Jewish woman, stifled by her critical husband, finds an unexpected way to carve out a small slice of happiness and personal freedom. Director: Alyson Silverman

IN VIVID DETAIL (18 minutes) A couple tries to decide whether they can stay together in spite of a grave neurological disorder. Director: Dara Bratt

ISABEL (4 minutes) A father scolds his little girl for making noise when he’s trying to work. She disturbs him again, late that night – but does she even exist? Director: Shawna Baca

MISSING PIECES (16 minutes) Young David Ostermann has himself castrated to end his obsessive worries about testicular cancer – only to discover that his quest has just begun. Director: Samah Tokmachi

SEXY CLOWN BITCH (7 minutes) An unhappy clown fails to cheer up patients in a hospital children’s ward, but a chance meeting on an elevator renews and redeems her career. Director: Laura Newman

SPANISH BOOTS (7 minutes) A bar-room flirtation, with the bartender as jealous witness, leads a woman to rethink her life-defining habits. Director: Domenica Cameron-Scorsese