2009 AFI Dallas Film Festival - Shorts Program 1

Program Running Time is 104 min

Rip and the Preacher
Directed By: Michael Lennox
UK, Ireland, 2008, 7 min
A street preacher is challenged to put his faith in God to the ultimate test by an angry, young atheist.

The Island
Directed By: Trevor Anderson
Canada, 2008, 6 min
The filmmaker considers, with the help of animation, a piece of fan mail he received.

Danzak
Directed By: Gabriela Yepes
USA, Peru, 2008, 20 min
The life of a 10-year old girl, Nina, changes dramatically when her father and Master Dancer asks her to fulfill his last wish.

Grande Drip
Directed By: Angelo Restaino
USA, 2009, 20 min
Unable to woo the barista behind the counter, Eric finds help from an unlikely friend, an eccentric homeless man with a heart of gold and a special knack for mending things.

Ella and the Astronaut
Directed By: Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian
USA, 2008, 8 min
A film about one girls journey to her secret hiding spot, where her and Astronaut Henry can travel to the stars.

Short Term 12
Directed By: Destin Daniel Cretton
USA, 2008, 22 min
A film about kids and the grown-ups who hit them.

Small Collection
Directed By: Jeremiah Crowell
USA, 2008, 6 min
A love story caught in the corridors of memory: Through conversation fragments echoing in now-empty places, we piece together the record of a relationship cut short.

Acting for the Camera
Directed By: Justin Nowell
USA, 2009, 15 min
An acting class. First up: the orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally.

Information from the festival's website