S.C.U.F.F.
2021 Schedule
Friday, November 5, 2021
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11:00 AM – South Carolina Shorts Block 1
The Ghostly Lovers of Fripp Island (3 mins) - The tale of the lovers of Fripp Island- a ghost story from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Directed by Jim Sidletsky
Finding Solace (7 mins) - The internal struggle of Tom as he comes to terms with the loss of his wife and son. Directed by J. Franz
Unblocked (7 mins) - Two Aliens bargain with a human after a malfunction allows him to see past their cloaking technology. Directed by Anil Dhokai
Womb (10 mins) - During her third trimester, a soon-to-be single mother is forced to face her anxiety and fears in her own personal hot pink hellscape. Directed by Brittany Brock
Love Bomb (12 mins) - A story of love. A story of betrayal. Directed by Felicia Rivers
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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12:30 PM - Feature Film
Navigating THRU (1 hr 28 mins) - Navigating THRU follows the journey of several women as they hike 2,200 miles along the Appalachian Trail. Directed by Lindsay Taylor Jackson
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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3:00 PM - Documentary Shorts Block
Death Rides on Every Passing Breeze: A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Wesley United Methodist Church (19 mins) - The history of Wesley United Methodist Church located in Beaufort, South Carolina and the research to try and better understand their 200 year old cemetery. Directed by George Wingard
Betwixt & Between (8 mins) - A short documentary about the creation of sculptor Patrick Dougherty's exhibit at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Directed by David Walton Smith
ORANGEBURG: A Town, A Team, An American Tragedy (20 mins) - This film retells the relatively unknown story of the Orangeburg Massacre from the point of view of several members of the college football squad who survived the slaughter and shines a light on athlete activism and police violence toward young black men, some 50 years after the events in Orangeburg. Directed by Jim Fabio
Giant: The World of Filmmaker Jeff Leroy (15 mins) - On the rooftop of his apartment in Long Beach, CA, we enter the world of one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Jeff Leroy where giant women and monster Kaiju fight it out in a miniature city made from discarded trash. Explosions, mayhem and madness ensue. Directed by Jason Kartalian
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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5:00 PM - Feature Film
Itchy Fingers (1 hr 46 mins) - An aspiring teenage comedian joins a community theater and is cast to play a school shooter. Directed by Anna Nilles and Anna Nilles.
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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7:30 PM - LGBT Cinema Shorts Block
From Russia with Motive 101 "Aeroport: 2020" (9 mins) - Two sisters, Natasha and Svetlana, flee their small Russian village in order to find freedom and rich husbands in Los Angeles. Rich men are a girl's best friend. Directed by Colin Costello
Bitch & Slut: Lesbian Maniac Heterosexual Killers! (20 mins) - An animated, LGBT+ sci-fi, comedy-horror, disaster movie told through savage political satire...and takes no prisoners. Two evil, intergalactic sisters are reincarnated as caring, sensitive lesbians in1980’s America to get a harsh lesson in a homophobic, violent society. But the karma backfires with cataclysmic consequences for humanity. Directed by Max Barber
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
End Day 1
Saturday, November 6, 2021
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11:00 AM - South Carolina Shorts Block 2
Deeper Than Dentistry "Saving Grace" (15 mins) - A young group of friends ends up fighting for their lives after a brief encounter with two women. Directed by Vinnis Parnell III
The Treaty of COVID-19 (18 mins) - Indians have been at war with the White Man for 500 years. Now the Great Sky Spirit has given the descendant of Chief Sitting Bull a weapon to fight back and reclaim what has been taken. Directed by Andy Winstead
Peter deVries Concert Violinist (7 mins) - Recovering from two mid-career shoulder surgeries, violinist Peter deVries is reestablishing his career. Peter plays Mozart, Kreisler and talks about his life passions. Directed by Rick FItts
Godfrey's Light (10 mins) - A gas station attendant discovers a strange connection between herself and a criminal scheduled for execution on live television. Directed by Darian O'Neil
Cry or Die or Do Better: A John Jenrette Story (9 mins) - In this whimsical study of ambition gone awry, a disgraced South Carolina congressman surveys the wreckage of a once promising political career from his palatial seaside home in Myrtle Beach. Directed by Luke Hodges
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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1:00 PM - Feature Film
Nuts! The Musical (1 hr 30 mins) - Two brothers, Sam and Isaac Piper, manage their dying father's pest control company. When spraying the home of former child star, Zack Thompson, they unwittingly stumble into an outrageous conspiracy. Coincidentally, Sam's newly-invented pest control chemical is in popular demand. Depending on who gains control of this chemical, it could bring fame and fortune, jeopardize the conspiracy, or simply provide a sensational high. Directed by Benjamin Dean Wilson
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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3:00 - Horror Shorts Block
Ghost Note (5 mins) - A man does whatever he can to see his wife. Directed by C. Michael Whaley
The Fuzzies (8 mins) - A man wakes up locked in a strange bathroom where something is lurking behind the walls. Directed by Josh Funk
The Dark Room (22 mins) - When adventurous strangers at a psychic party unexpectedly contact the spirit of a young murdered girl, they discover their host's intentions are much darker than anyone first believed. Directed by Adrienne Lovette
PKD9000 (12 mins) - Throughout the course of a day a suburban family's life turns into a nightmare when their new "smart" microwave, the PKD9000, takes on a life of its own in this dark comedy thriller. Directed by Brandon Boudreaux
Siren (16 mins) - Driving on a highway late at night, distracted driver April and her combative lover Brooke are pulled over for speeding by two sinister police officers. During a strange and increasingly frightening interrogation, the two women find themselves under the power of a supernatural force that changes everything they ever knew about themselves... and each other. Directed by Christopher Beaubien
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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5:00 PM - Animation Shorts Block
Spacation (2 mins) -A thousand-year-old couple from the planet Curia spends their yearly vacation traveling through the classic Milky Way galaxy in their vintage space car. After making stops at tourist favorites like Pluto Slurp and Spinning Saturn, disaster hits causing the couple to quickly decide the outcome of their trip. Directed by Jessica Ecarma
The Dark Odyssey (9 mins) - A brave captain and his faithful mate transport a captive warrior, who holds The Inventory of The Mind, across the interstellar line. When their ship is forced to navigate an asteroid field, their mission is jeopardized. Directed by Michael Lavine
The Farmer and the Lightning Storm (5 mins) - Burdened by frustration and fear, the Goddess of Lightning cannot find meaning in what she does and suppresses her abilities. Can a nearby Farmer help Lightning regain confidence in her powers, and by extension, in herself? Directed by Danielle Browne
Creatures in My House (10 mins) - The exquisitely handcrafted world in this stop motion animated short, follows a house full of peculiar monsters waking up amuck in this askew home. This quirky and tactile household is full of frenetic energy set off by the morning alarm. Discover what the ruckus in the kitchen is really about in this colorful nod to film noir and German expressionism. It’s horrifyingly delightful. Directed by Ilena Finocchi
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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7:00 PM - Feature Film
Bad Girls (1 hr 37 mins) - After robbing a strip club, three desperate teenage girls lead a misogynistic Federal Agent on a lysergic cross-country chase, scoring a duffle bag full of money, drugs, and a crew of willing kidnapees along the way. Directed by Christopher Bickel
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
End Day 2
Sunday, November 7, 2021
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11:00 AM - Feature Film
The History of Metal and Horror (1 hr 40 mins) - A documentary that explores the history of heavy metal and horror, and how the two genres merged over time. Hosted by Michael Berryman, and featuring Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Kirk Hammett, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, Dave Mustaine, Jonathan Davis, Corey Taylor, and many more. Directed by Mike Schiff
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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1:30 PM - Foreign Shorts Block
El Triste (Mexico/14 mins) - A Drama that takes place on the backstage of a marionette show. This short film follows "El Triste", an old used ragdoll-like marionette, and his journey of self- acceptance and discovery as he decides to do all it takes to prove to himself and his fellow puppets that he is valuable and worthy of admiration. Directed by Manuel Del Valle
Bob (Germany/14 mins) - A painter in a creative crisis gets help from a monster behind a door in her studio. Directed by Johannes Schmidt
Golem (Australia/5 mins) - Nazi-occupied Prague, 1939. A group of German soldiers search for a fugitive Rabbi in the basement of an abandoned synagogue - unaware of the horror awaiting them. Directed by Ryan Cauchi
Can’t Go Home Again (United Kingdom/11 mins) - Temporal Enforcement Agent Elliott Young breaks protocol and returns to her own past. There she comes face to face with her 8-year-old past self and her seemingly kind father. During their encounter Elliott explosively confronts her father in an effort to prevent a tragedy that will occur in only a few hours' time. Directed by Anthony J. Cook
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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3:00 - Feature Film
Emmageddon (1 hr 30 mins) - Emily is a struggling screenwriter who works in an ice cream shop. Emma, the lead character in Emily's screenplay, is a struggling screenwriter who is also secretly “Emmageddon” - a superheroine with the impeccable social graces of a Jane Austen protagonist. Now, Emmageddon must confront Darius, gelato shop owner and art-destroying supervillain, to save all struggling artists everywhere in the universe. Directed by Ryan M. Moore
Q&A to follow with filmmakers in attendance.
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5:30 PM - SCUFFY Awards