we like 'em short film festival

August 20 – 23, 20151809 First Street, Baker City

We Like ‘Em Short Films, Best of the 41st Northwest Filmaker’s Festival &

Awards Ceremony

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WelcomeThe 6th Annual We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival will be held August 20-23.

The We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival is aimed at celebrating the art of the short film, and to provide a platform for inde-pendent filmmakers to showcase their talent. This festival seeks original and entertaining animated and comedy shorts from around the world.

The WLES was started in 2009 as a very small local festival featuring local filmmakers. In 2012 we decided to seek entries online, which opened us up to becoming an international film festival. For the 2014 festival, it was decided to pare our fes-tival down a bit toward seeking only the films our staff and audiences find to consistently be the most entertaining, cre-ative and engaging: animated and comedy shorts.

The WLES film festival is a weekend festival that offers sever-al awards, including a $250 cash award for Best Picture and a $150 award for Best Student Film.

The We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival is aimed at celebrating the art of the short film, and to provide a platform for inde-pendent filmmakers to showcase their talent. This festival seeks original and entertaining animated and comedy shorts from around the world.

ABOUT THE FESTIVALThe We Like Em Short Film Festival allows aspiring and pro-fessional filmmakers from around the world the chance to show their films in beautiful Baker City, a small community known for embracing the arts.

The WLES was started in 2009 as a very small local festival featuring local filmmakers. In 2012 we decided to seek entries online, which opened us up to becoming an international film festival. For the 2014 festival, it was decided to pare our fes-tival down a bit toward seeking only the films our staff and audiences find to consistently be the most entertaining, cre-ative and engaging: animated and comedy shorts.

The WLES film festival is a weekend festival that offers sever-al awards, including a $250 cash award for Best Picture and a $150 award for Best Student Film.

ORGANIZERSBrian Vegter (Festival Director) and Derek Hosler (Co-Direc-tor)

GENERAL RULES1. All live action films must be comedies. Any other genre must be animated.2. Films must be less than 20 minutes in length.3. DVD copies of all films selected for the Official Selection must be received by June 1, 2014.4. Any materials submitted will not be returned.5. All fees are non-refundable.6. The We Like ‘Em Short & the Eltrym Theater, LLC are not responsible for lost or damaged submissions.

We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival Contact Information:Brian Vegter, Director • [email protected]

Festival mailing address:c/o We Like ‘Em Short2339 Auburn AveBaker City, OR 97814

Thursday August 20th 7 pm (82 min)

Indecisions (5m, USA)By Hope AlexanderStudent FilmPursuing that one dream girl can have its twists and twins. Better watch out.

The Urge 2 – It Lies Within (8m, Canada)By Christopher AngusDuring a bizarre series of events a vampire discovers that harmless forest creatures, and even his own body, have turned against him.

Gravity (2m, USA)By Colton AndersonStudent FilmBaker middle school film about the effects of gravity.

Daughter of an Ocean (3m, USA)dir by Kintan ChauhanStudent FilmBy remembering the story of a fish told by her mother, Daugh-ter realizes that the story was not just about little fish who wanted to live freely, but was meant for her to understand that she should live her life with freedom, as her mother never did.

The Sunburned (15m, Iran)dir. by Bahram ArkA narrative about a lonely and disgruntle man who takes care of sun flowers. due to his jeal-ous of sun he takes sun flowers to a dark place but under some circumstance he himself felt captive in darkness. Finally man comes back to the farm again, however this time he

conflicts with a mouse and tries put that mouse in cage.

Persistence Vs. Procrastina-tion (2m, USA)By Nathan GinterStudent FilmWith homework to be done, a brutal battle between Per-sistence and Procrastination ensues.

Separated (14, USA)dir by Benjamin FreiburgerWhen a wind-up toy’s best friend is thrown into a moving

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Hot Air (4m, USA)By Maggie Hughes and Kim DeJohnStudent FilmThe story of a cloud and a boy and a balloon

Vest (6m, USA)dir by Autumn WeidemanStudent FilmBaker high school Film Arts Club’s story of a vest with mys-terious powers.

Don’t Be Afraid of Bears (3m, USA)dir by Jill JohnstonTheriophobia is a fear of the beast. Naturalist Barry Lopez defines it as fear of the beast as an irrational, violent, insa-tiable creature. Reflection on childhood memories and fears induce impressions of the beast within and reciprocity of spe-cies.

The Fairy Tale of the Stolen Time (20m, Greece)dir by Sofia PapachristouOnce upon a time, the Time of the World had a problem. But no one took notice, because ev-erybody was part of the World, of Time and it’s problem...

Friday August 21st 4 pm (67 min)

Lovelorn Siluriform (2m, USA)by Anthony CluneKarl has his act together. He owns a nice apartment and keeps a good job. The only problem is that he’s a big stinky catfish. Is there nothing in store for lovelorn siluriform than pain and rejection?

Blank Spaces-parody (4m, USA)By Delany StoneStudent FilmBaker middle school film musi-cal paroday about science.

Junk Girl (15m, Iran)by Mohammad Zare“Junk Girl” is an open adapted of a Tim Burton’s short poem of the same name.

The Spooky House of Shady Lane (1m, USA)By Corrina StadlerStudent FilmBaker middle school film a scary film about electricity.


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Tuna (7m, USA)By Dawn Jones RedstoneDana’s due for the most intense therapy session of her life—coming to terms with a tuna fish sandwich. Dana suffers from icthyophobia—an irratio-nal fear of fish. She’s struggled with it her whole life, but in an attempt to rid herself of a stifling anxiety, she endures an intense exposure therapy session with her very patient therapist, the inauspicious sandwich, and a few surprises along the way. Based on a true story.

Humbug (1m, USA)dir by Rebekah Compos and Zech ComposStudent FilmBaker high school Film Arts Club tells the tale of how the holidays aren’t for everyone,

depending on what hat you wear.

Fumer Tue (6m, France)dir by Denise PowersAn American in Paris, trying to meet people in a city of notori-ously frosty inhabitants, adopts the ways of the locals and runs into unexpected problems.

Impasse (4m, New Zealand)dir by James HallStudent FilmA lone Drifter must overcome a standoff with a ragged Scum-bag to quench his dying thirst.

The Fallen Phoenix (5m, USA)By Gwendolyn Barriac and Heather Larkin‘The Fallen Phoenix’ is the story of an established com-poser who struggles to write a masterpiece that pleases both himself and his sponsor. Ulti-mately, he realizes he has to choose between staying true to his art and pleasing those around him.

La Realidad (2m, USA)dir by Jared JacobsenA computer programmer makes a date to meet a woman that he met online. Although

the data indicates that she is a perfect fit, he is unsure if the data will reflect reality...or if she really exists.

TICK TOCK (9m, Turkey)dir by Zeynep KocakAn old man wakes up to a routine day with his cat, who is his only friend. After making his breakfast, while drinking his coffee near a window, he watches the street, people, and life. He wants to be inside this life like he used to be. Then he comes up with an idea to break this routine circle, and end his loneliness.

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Ding Dong (13m, USA)dir by Darren CoyleRay and Bill are two men who are not supposed to be in this house. And they’ve got to figure out who’s leaving, and who’s never leaving.

Friday August 21st 7 pm (60 + min)

A Special Evening with filmmaker and editor Doug Lussenhop

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Friday August 21st 9 pm (77 min)

Laura Gets Adopted (12m, USA)dir by Laura KightlingerWhen a couple of swingers decide to fill the void in their lives by adopting a much older child, they’re in for a hellride of inexplicable magnitude.

One Voice (7m, USA)dir by Patrick CavanaughFour friends are sharing a fun, lively meal when things take a turn for the unexpected.

Around the World In 80 Days (5m, USA)By Lexie Trivundza and Nick TrivundzaThe brash, young Jules Verne Jr. has just decided to go around the world in 80 days in order to live up to the books, and their legacy, that have made his name world famous.

Liability (6m, USA)By Travis AltkenLiability is a comedy thriller about Dr. John Spooks, a pup-

pet, who returns home to discover that his lovely wife, Karen, has been brutally at-tacked. The film savors the couple’s last moments together, and exposes the inescapable and unsavory past of their masters.

Hypothetical 2 (4m, Austra-lia)By Jackson TozerThe sequel to the award win-ning micro short ‘Hypotheti-cal’, Hypothetical 2 is about Two friends trash talking their roommate through a series of ‘Would you rathers...’

Culinary Choral (3m, Austra-

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lia)By Matthew SpasaroStudent FilmA sordid love triangle reveals the transgressions of one man’s eating habits.

All Time Full Time (6m, USA)dir by Blake LinzeyDuring a bickering holiday get together, a young man reveals a deep, dark secret to his fam-ily.

The Meisner Epiphany (6m, USA)By Eliaz RodriguezAn eccentric acting instruc-tor guides his pupils through a crash course on the famed Meisner Technique. When he calls upon two of his students to perform an exercise, one actor haphazardly finds the dramatic breakthrough which may lead him to the final act of his unfulfilled career.

Online U (5m, USA)dir by James HilderbrandtYou can have the full college experience now without leaving your bedroom.

FIXED (7m, Australia)dir by Codey Wilson and Bur-liegh SmithJemimah wants Tilly to have puppies. At any cost.

Bottleneck (m, USA)dir by Joanna PriestlyBottle Neck is a luminous crush of still life silhouettes, abstract shapes and complex, interlocking patterns that ren-ovate the commonplace objects of a classical painting genre in a modern setting.

Femto Management: A Mi-cromentary (12m, USA)dir by Martin Sweeney“Can I really do every job at this company better than anyone else? All the people I’ve hired specifically to do those jobs? Of course. Of course, I can. But that’s not the point. That doesn’t scale.” — Michael


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My Kingdom (4m, USA)dir by Debra SolomonInspired by a poem by W.H. Auden, ‘My Kingdom’ is a mu-sical, not-so-meditative medita-tion on personal space, done in hand drawn, frame-by-frame animation.

Saturday, August 22nd 4 pm (86 min)

A Man Wakes Up (14m, USA)dir by Voki KalfayanThe story of a man immersed in a life of habit and routine who, though lonely to the outside eye, seems content to live his stark existence. One morning he awakes to discover an unexplained change in his routine, his apartment, his life!

Jumping Out of A Moving Vehicle for An Appropriate Reason (1m, USA)By Steve StarkJohnny just can’t help himself

Love^2 (2m, USA)dir by Aria CarpenterStudent FilmBaker high school Film Arts

Club tells the tale of two stu-dents smitten with each other end up in detention.

Totentanz (Dance of the Dead) (15m, USA)dir by Whit DeschnerHeld hostage in his own house by a degenerative back for over a year, Whit Deschner spent his captivity piecing together a visual journey of his journeys picked from 50,000 pictures and 40 countries. His unique music-driven style combines the romance of stills with the movement of a movie. This fast-paced picture pilgrimage is 16 minutes long, 10 minutes wide and has no depth whatsoever.

Deliberation (2m, USA)dir by Pat Yaney

Cel shaded animated weird-ness. Goatoodles debate that which can’t be argued or re-solved with words, and come to the only possible conclusion.

One Drink (2m, USA)By Jacob GreenawaltEveryone’s least favorite Uncle gets drunk at the yearly holi-day party.

One Foot In (9m, USA)By Alexis PrestonStudentTwo men discuss life, death, aliens and Cheetos while on their way to a funeral.

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The Intervention (5m, Cana-da)dir by Kimberly HuieKei’s friends stage an inter-vention and find things have gotten even worse than they feared, but the experience draws them closer together - curiously close.

Cooler (2m, UK)dir by Paul MoxonTragic tale of a love affair between a Water cooler and a photocopier.

Beverly (4m, USA)By Eliaz RodriguezBeverly is wrapped up in her thoughts as she strives to land the man she deserves.

Beard (6m, UK)By Phil HaineTwo men discuss the social, religious and sartorial effects of growing a beard.

Am I Awake (3m, USA)By Alex Italics

Narcoleptic existentialism meets broadcast journalism and the assassination of an American president, all set to the toe-tappin’ rock stylings of Grammy Award-winning duo They Might Be Giants.

MAKEOVER (7m, Australia)dir by Don PercySpring is in the air and it’s time for a change! Horrie, a lonely widower, misses his wife (and dog) and decides it’s time to start dating again. He finds the perfect woman (complete with pooch) via a singles maga-zine.

Mr. Invisible (14m, UK)dir by Greg AshA solitary old man seems al-most invisible to the world around him. But on a journey up to London we find that the old man’s “invisibility” may actually be the his greatest weapon.

Saturday, August 22nd 7 pm (80 min)

Outlines (4m, UK)By Daisy Gould99.9999% of the universe is empty space, simply nothing at all. But still Oliver struggles to cope with his overwhelmingly chaotic life.

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All Im Saying - James (4m, Hungary)By Péter VáczA man goes on a quest to find the spirit of a woman to whom he could never say goodbye. A touching music video about loss and grief.

Palmer’s Beard (8m, USA)dir by Brad LambertFrom the time of the Ameri-can Revolution until the Civil War, it was inconceivable that a respectable American man would grow facial hair. When Joseph Palmer chose to defy social norms and grow a robust beard in 1830s Massachusetts, he became a social pariah and a martyr for civil liberties. PALMER’S BEARD tells his true story through animation inspired by 1950s studios like

UPA and Playhouse Pictures.

Love Happened (3m, USA)dir by Sean Michael SmithJohn is a seemingly average young man going through the breakup of an average rela-tionship. Little does he know that he is part of a mainstream romantic-comedy screenplay being made by a stubborn and talentless writer. Not wanting to take part in the story pre-sented to him, John tries to live his own life despite the writer’s attempts to get his characters back into the original plot.

Zombie Zealot (3m, USA)dir by Michael T. ScottIn a post-apocalyptic world,

zombies roam the earth in search of delicious brains from human survivors. One zombie, in particular, is in search of something larger.

Do Gooder (5m, USA)dir by Ryan DarstThere is only so much time to do good in the world and young Melissa Calhoun is going to make the most of it...unfortu-nately, you don’t always know when that time will run out!

The Proposal (8m, United Kingdom)dir by Simeon LumgairRich and handsome. Tall and stylish. Smart and charming. The Man with Everything... except a wife to grow old with. Because after years of dating, Scott Anderson knows that even the most Special Someone wouldn’t be enough to fill the hole in his heart. Then Scott has a brainwave. The light bulb flickers on.

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For My Youth the Bell Tolls (3m, USA)dir by Tony EstradaA melodramatic boy recounts the ups and downs of his life at his 10th birthday party.

Mirror in the Mind (2m, South Korea)dir by SeungHee KimA woman looks into her mind and chases her ideals on a tightrope.

May Flower (8m, USA)

dir by Grant MuellerA blooming young man falls in love with a flowery woman. But will things wilt when he finds out she owes some seedy people money?

THE DIRDY BIRDY REDUX (8m, USA)dir by John R. DilworthThe Dirdy Birdy Redux is a story about a dysfunctional relationship between a cat and a bird.

A SPLENDID AFFAIR (9m, France)dir by Laurent Ardoint and Stéphane DupratA new affair for a private in-vestigator.

The Distant Touch (5m, USA)dir by Jun Chen and Yang YangStudent FilmThe Distant Touch is a 2D ani-mation about a baby fox’s quest to find his mother. It shows the inner world of an animal that has been destroyed by human beings.

Satellite Beach (26m, USA)By Luke Wilson and Andrew WilsonSatellite Beach follows the unique journey of the Endeav-our space shuttle as it travels through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Sci-ence Center and the final move of the Atlantis space shuttle to the Kennedy Space Center. Watch as Warren Flowers, a devoted and unlikely shuttle

manager navigates the mis-sions on his own accord while the citizens, reporters, and officials are perplexed by his involvement.

Sunday August 23rd 11 AM (85 mins)

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MAIKARU (7 mins.)Amanda Harryman / Edmonds, WA(DOC) With inspirational opti-mism, Maikaru doesn’tlet a childhood filled with vio-lence and human trafficking dictate his future.

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silently in fields fordecades, still holding secret conversations within theirbodies. An all-native cast, Tan-too Cardinal (danceswith Wolves) and Gary Farmer (dead Man) areunseen ghosts breathing life into pivotal moments ofsex, birth, and death.

THE BEAST INSIDE (4 mins.)Amy Enser, Drew Christie / Seattle, WA(ANI) Told through spoken word rap and illustratedwith hand-drawn animations, a teen in a homelessfamily describes his challenges and celebrates thetriumph of his creative self.

THE BEAR’S PROGRESS (9 mins.)Malia Jensen / Portland, OR(EXP) An inhabited bear cos-tume wanders in thelandscape doing what bears do and do not do.

ANXIOUS OSWALD GREENE (15 mins.)Marshall Axani / Vancouver, BC(NAR) Oswald Greene visits a fantastical clinic to

address his crippling anxiety and his fate falls into thehands of a blind nurse, a talk-ing fly, and an eccentricdoctor with a knack for rhym-ing.

PROXIMITY (4 mins.)Joshua Cox / Portland, OR(ANI) A Victorian gentlemen and a sixties cowgirlexplore the kitschy depths of love and betrayal.

COOPED (9 mins.)Mike A. Smith / Portland, OR(ANI) Only a doorknob and a non-opposable thumbstand in the way of a house-bound dog. (9 mins.)

TACO NIGHT (16 mins.)Kyle Eaton / Portland, OR(NAR) Two old friends who haven’t kept in touch dropby a party where they encoun-ter a combative couple. DAVE’S BEARD (4 mins.)Evangeline LaRoque / Eugene, OR(ANI) A catchy song elucidates the nocturnal secretlife of Dave’s adventurous beard.

Sunday August 23rd 1:30 PM (60 mins)

The 6th Annual We Like ‘Em Shorts Awards Ceremony

Nominated films are as follows

Best Picture

Satellite Beach - by Luke Wil-son and Andrew WilsonThe Distant Touch - by Jun Chen and Yang YangAll I’m Saying – by Péter VáczTick Tock – by Zeynep KocakFor My Youth the Bell Tolls – by Tony Estrada

Best Director

Luke Wilson and Andrew Wil-son for – Satellite BeachGreg Ash for – Mr. InvisibleJun Chen and Yang Yang for – The Distant TouchLaurent Ardoint and Stéphane Duprat for – A Splendid AffairTony Estrada for – For My Youth the Bell Tolls

Best Student Film

Hot Air – by Maggie Hughes and Kim DeJohnThe Distant Touch – by Jun Chen and Yang YangOne Foot In – by Alexis PrestonIndecisions – by Hope Alexan-der

Culinary Choral – by Matthew Spasaro

Best Cinematography

Cooper James - for One Foot InBud Kremp - for Satellite BeachOliver Loncrane - for Mr. Invis-ibleHamid Mehrafrouz - for The SunburnedJulien Gueraud - for A Splen-did Affair

Best Actress

Laura Kightlinger – in Laura Gets AdoptedBrooklyn Revell - in Do GooderKimberly Huie - in The Inter-ventionAmara Harnisch - in FixedJane Curtin - in My Kingdom

Best Actor

Luke Wilson – in Satellite BeachJulian Glover – in Mr. InvisibleDaniel Higgins – in Am I AwakeDominic Luevano – in For My Youth the Bell TollsStéphane Duprat – in A Splen-did AffairTom Travers – in Makeover

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