SHORTS PACKAGE: PORTRAITS

Shorts screened:

DANCE OF THE BOOTLEGGER

13 minutes United States (Documentary)

A down on his luck film projectionist becomes an underground dealer of Hollywood movies, until he finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI and Motion Picture Association of America.

DIMINISHING RETURNS

14 minutes United States (Documentary)

$80 due today. Out of time and out of options, Ernesto keeps a positive outlook while he hunts the streets and dumpsters of LA in the hope of finding enough recyclables to pay for his daughter’s chemo treatment back home in the Philippines.

WE'RE FINE

24 minutes Ukraine, United States (Art / Documentary / War)

Two and a half years after the start of the full scale invasion of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian artists and volunteers arrive at Burning Man to create a larger than life art installation.

OLD GIRL IN A TUTU: SUSAN RENNIE DISRUPTS ART HISTORY

8 minutes United States (Documentary / Women Director)

Feminist scholar, Susan Rennie, seizes her iPhone and sneaks her queer, octogenarian body into master works of art, disrupting the narrative of the male gaze.

HYODO'S PARADISE

22 minutes United States (Documentary)

Hyodo lives near Tokyo in a vibrant house filled with hundreds of sex dolls.

LIAM & FRIENDS

14 minutes Canada (Documentary)

The story of Liam Gill, an Indigenous Olympic snowboarder from Calgary, as he carves a new path—this time as a mentor.

ICE COWBOY

14 minutes Canada (Biography / Documentary / Sport / Women Director)

Tommy Cowboy Anderson was an NHL phenomenon from the 1940s and is the only skater to have won the Hart trophy and not be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.