Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 3:00pm @ Smitty's Cinema
The Sanford International Student Film Festival
presented by
The Gerard and Gertrude Genest Charitable Fund

NOTE: Our rating system is only a suggestion made by SIFF staff to help families make the best decision about which films they should watch. All films are officially unrated. Please familiarize yourself with the programming before sending your children to the theater for SIFF2017.

3:00 PM
Work (5 minutes)
Australia (all ages)

Three precocious young people share their experience about their jobs and how they prepare for work.

Directed by Eli Rauchberger.

Nominated for Best Student Film (Primary).

3:05 PM
H.U.M.A.N.S. (10 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A comedic history of life over the past 70 million years that examines the ongoing competition between Evolution and Extinction  – as personified as hyperactive millennials. 

Directed by Johnathan Newport.

Nominated for Best Student Film (Primary).​

3:15 PM
Legerdemain (8 minutes)
United Kingdom (all ages)

When Oscar, a young aspiring magician, accidentally kills the star of his show, he ventures into a taxidermy store to seek another kind of closure for his pet rabbit. In doing so, he fills the gap of his loss with a crush on the taxidermist’s daughter. From then on, he begins working on a new kind of magic "trick" – stealing her heart. 

Directed by Hannah Gautrey.

Nominated for Best Student Film (Post-Secondary).

3:25 PM
I Have To Kill My Professor (10 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

The escalating pressure of a difficult college course launches Adam into an anxiety-fueled plot to kill his professor.

Directed by Jonathan Pickett.

​3:35 PM
When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny (4 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

A surrealist narrative, adapted from a slam poem, depicting a girl trapped inside of her own eating disorder, desperate to escape.

Directed by ​Abby Thompson.

Nominated for Best Student Film (Post-Secondary).

​3:40 PM
Bright and Early (6 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Two friends try to reconcile their previous encounter at a party.

Directed by Emma Siegel.

​Nominated for Best Student Film (Post-Secondary).

​3:45 PM
Tent (19 minutes)
United Kingdom (ages 13+)

After leaving his country in a time of anarchy and war, a young man creates a special Tent where he hopes to find shelter with the girl he loves. Their young love is soon disturbed when the Tent is discovered by the people from the town. 

Directed by ​Balázs Szövényi-Lux.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

​4:00 PM
Sanford Regional Technical Center block
United States - MAINE (all ages)

A selection of SRTC student films:
 Me and My Brain (3 min, directed by Allison Jarvis)
 Strangely Beautiful (2 min, directed by Allison Jarvis)
 Winter Winds (3 min, directed by Madison Edmunds + Connor Duncan)
 Ghost (5 min, directed by Allison Jarvis)
These films are followed by a Q&A with Sanford Regional Technical Center production students.

Me and My Brain is nominated for Best Editing.
Ghost is nominated for Best Music Video.
Me and My Brain, Strangely Beautiful, and Winter Winds are all nominated for Best Student Film (Secondary).

4:30 PM
Rocket (29 minutes)
United States (all ages)

An Academy Award-winning bittersweet fairy tale set in the world of 1950's dirt track racing. With a legacy traditionally passed down from father to son, Annie Pankratz strives to build a destiny all her own.

Directed by Brenna Malloy.

Nominated for Best Student Film (Post-Secondary).

​5:00 PM
Maine Mayhem Film Festival (2 hours)
United States - MAINE (ages 13+)

This encore screening of the 2017 Maine Mayhem Film Festival is produced in coordination with senior students in Southern Maine Community College’s Communications and New Media department. Now in its 7th year, the program features six films, ranging from a documentary to a neo-noir sci-fi western!

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

​7:00 PM
For a Price (26 minutes)
United States - MAINE (ages 13+)

Two high school girls discover the consequences of drug use. When one of their addictions starts to spiral out of control, will it be too late?

Directed by Eve Kruger.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

7:30 PM
Leon Must Die (88 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

In his mid-twenties and terminally ill, Leon invents a technology that allows him to digitize his mind and live forever. However, this technology will be the downfall of mankind, so freedom fighter Aqua travels back from the future to kill him. Will her feelings for Leon get in the way?

Directed by Lars Kokemüller.

Nominated for Best Feature Film and SIFF Audience Award.

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.​

​Join us for an ice cream social at
Shain's of Maine (1491 Main St.)
immediately following the screenings.

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