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2023 Schedule
Opening Night!
April 12
7:00PM
starlite
39 Hamilton Street
Southbridge, Massachusetts
Shorts Block
Best Buddies by McKegg Collins
An Occurrence by Dien Vo
Art of Pizza by Marcus Ricci
Candy Cakes by Joshua Gaestel
Movement by Catherine Vouvray
Crossing by David Leon
Miles of Summer by Samson Zilic & Michael Paul
Special Event!
April 15
2:30PM
Studio 50 at WICN
50 Portland Street
Worcester, Massachusetts
Discussion with Jose Rivera
Meet the Oscar nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera. His screenplay “The Motorcycle Diaries,” was nominated for 2005 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar (making him the first Puerto Rican writer so honored), BAFTA and WGA Awards.
This is a free event schedule for all who submitted screenplays to the festival. They are seated first. All other seats available on a first come first serve basis.
The Event is
Free!
Special Screening!
Three Documentaries Screened for Free at Clark University.
Friday April 14th at the Traina Center For the Arts at 7:00PM.
Slatersville: America's First Mill Village by Christian de Rezendes
Episode one of the Docuseries, "The Mental Smugglers"
I Am You by Noube Rateau & William Medero
A documentary that will take an objective look at all perspectives of immigration
With the short
The Boston Photograph by Clennon L. King
A 91-year-old woman remembers dating MLK and studying with Coretta before the two ever met in Boston.
35 Major Taylor Blvd, Worcester, MA 01608
April 13
2:00PM
Feature
True Believer by Alana Purcell
with the shorts
Red light, Green light by Béatrice Vernhes
Bloody Red by Hossein Abbasi Sharif Abadi
4:30PM
Shorts Block One
Sin Padre by Free Rodriguez
Heirloom by Miriam Grill
Amityville: The People of New York
vs Ronald J DeFeo Jr. by Rob Levinson
When We’re Thirty by Jonesy Moore & Tessa Zitter
Where You’ll Be by Sokhean Ouk
7:00PM
Shorts Block Two
Fortune Teller by Julia Tutko-Balena
Woodshedding by Viktor Herrmann
Trauma Bond by Jaina Cipriano
Blue Square by Tom Smith
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April 14
12:00PM
Feature
Poèmes (Spain) by Héctor Fáver
With June (New Zealand) by Dwayne Cameron
2:30PM
Feature
O! Melodious Movie: Side 1 by Melodious Zach & David Allen
With the shorts:Adam by Martin Balaguer
Amigos Tontos by Josh Kirk
Ebb and Flo by Grace Soriano
5:00PM
Feature
The Butterfly Queen by Liam O'Connor-Genereaux
With the short,
June 22nd by Michael T
7:30PM
Shorts Block Four
Good Girl by Melissa Kain
Stale Cereal by Steven Schloss & Deven Bussey
Plant Story by Kelly Polk
Hope Dies Last by John William Malesevic
Police Three by Jimmy Lucarz
Let Tomorrow Be by Peter Nogueira
Two Eggs, Scrambled by Melissa Dimetres
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April 15
12:00PM
Horror Shorts Block
Dungeon Cave by Tobin Cleary
The Pixiestick Incident by Mike Henry
H.P. Lovecraft's Celephaïs by Michael Neel
Stephen King's: All That You
Love Will Be Carried Away by Bolen Miller
Farmer Ed by Azwan Badruzaman
The Orb by Josh Kirk
You're It by Herb Cremer & Joe Cremer
Sanctify by Jesse Torres
2:30PM
Local Shorts Block
She Who Dared by Gabrielle Rosson
Guidance by Julia Tutko-Balena
The Gambler by David R. Anderson
Rabbit by Maggie Fox Talbot-Minkin
The Moon Made Me Do It by Amelia McCarthy
Earth Day by Samantha Rose Valletta & Shawn Gauvin
Waysland by Lyria Garcia
Piecing Together the Portraits
of You by Dominique Holliday & Javier Castillo
All You Want To Know by Laurel Kulow
5:00PM
Closing Block of Shorts
1st Memory by Chip Hackler
I Am the Same by Michael Cook
Through The Dust by Meghan McLyman
Cotton Fever by Daniel Blake Schwartz
Out, A Short Film by Seth Chitwood
Penny by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
Her Ghost by Jade Kerry
Subscribed by Diana Porter
Becoming Green by Farah Rose Smith
Petunia by Miriam Olken
The Civet by Jose Rivera
MarriageFit by Rob DiNinni & Jeffrey Palmer
Studio 50 at WICN
April 13
2:00PM
Feature
Everybody Wants To Be Loved (Germany) by Katharina Woll
Wth the short Death and Stanisa (Montenegro) by Filip Prelević
4:30PM
Experimental Feature
Teacher of the Year by Jim Dalglish
With Dancing with Rosa (Spain) by Robert Muñoz Rupérez
7:00PM
Feature
Bloom by Christopher Dolan
With the shorts,
Bulletproof Bandit by Madeleine Gleason Derveloy
Funny Business by Josh Kirk
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April 14
12:00PM
Short Documentaries
Encounters Behind a Grand Drape by Ruirui Zhang
Front Line by Gino Canella
Quiet Rooms by Cole Tatham
Love Without Parole by Greg Womble
2:30PM
Feature
Kill The Darling (Italy) by Christian Pfitscher
With the shorts The Dark Veil by Jefferson Thomas
Dig (Spain) by Isaac Cañizares
5:00PM
Feature
Lightkeepers by Dante D'Amore
With the short Memory Lane by Steven LaMorte
And the Documentary For Nick, From Dad by Nick Damore
7:30PM
Shorts Block Three
Projectionist by Deniz Akyurek & Noah Matalon
Rent a Neighbor by Jim Morrison
Lean Into The Darkness by Melanie Hayward
Jerkwater by Miles Benson
The Hitman by James Pandolfo
Map Heist by Teddy Pryor & Forest Quaglia
Witch on Bridge Street by Luke St. Germaine
PB&J by Marco Cadavieco
Wicks by Vadim Egoul
Self Help by Ellie Race-Moore
This is Not a Fugazi Doc by Jonathan Wolf Bradbury
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April 15
12:00PM
Experimental Shorts Block
Talking the Fire Out by Sam Witherow
Scollay Square Station by Niles Larson
Star Market by Elias Mallette & Zach Hoban
1979 by Mike Taylor
Petrykivka by Anne Ciecko
An Inertial Frame
of Reference by Damian Gonzalez & Jeremy Weinstein
Tyranny of the Unafflicted by Adam E Stone
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell –
a German Story by Henrik Langsdorf
Waterlover, Watercarrier by Sloane Stone
Heart by Allison Chaves
I, The Camera by Jimmy Jackson
4:00PM
Feature
The Making of a Deathbed by Lilly Dickinson
with the short Blossoming by Lauren Musgrove
All Locations
35 Major Taylor Boulevard
Worcester, Massachusetts 01608
Studio 50 @ WICN Public Radio
50 Portland Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01608
Starlite
39 Hamilton Street
Southbridge, Massachusetts 01550
92 Downing Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01610