Women Texas Film Festival Presented By Methodist Dallas Medical Center Announces Selections For 4th Edition

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Published on Saturday, 20 July 2019 21:43

Written by Hildy Johnson

SHORTS PROGRAM #1
(TRT: 85 min)
 
BLUE SUNDAY
Director: Allison Webster
Country: United States, Running Time: 9 minutes
A high school senior begins to question her church's teachings after a youth group celibacy talk.
 
DOG BITE
Director: Luvia Petersen
Country: Canada, Running Time: 12 minutes
A scared dog attacks Jen, a hyper-ambitious career woman, leaving her with an unsightly gash across her face. Jen hides away in a child-like fort, determined to start a “new life”. But in the process, she pushes everyone away. Her dysfunctional family and anxious boyfriend try to coax her back out into the world. But the only person who can get Jen to go outside is Jen.
 
THE OBLITERATION OF THE CHICKENS
Director: Izzy Lee
Country: USA, Running Time: 3 minutes
The universe does not care. The abyss is stupid. Narrated by author Bracken MacLeod, this Herzog-inspired fever dream uses 100% stock footage to reflect on the banality of existence.
 
POZOLE
Director: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros
Country: USA, Running Time: 10 minutes
La gringa killed her Nana.
 
SAC DE MERDE
Director: Greg Chwerchak
Screenwriters: Gabrielle Berberich, Greg Chwerchak
Country: USA, Running Time: 13 minutes
Based on a true story, SAC DE MERDE tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.
 
SIX WORDS
Director: Christine Chen
Country: USA, Running Time: 12 minutes
Betty has carefully planned her best friend's bachelorette party, only to have it crashed by some unexpected guests.
 
TEXAS ANNIE: THE LEGEND OF THE MOAN RANGER
Director: Jennifer Howd
Country: USA, Running Time: 2 minutes
TEXAS ANNIE: THE LEGEND OF THE MOAN RANGER tells the musical tale of a renegade dildo runner in Texas when sex toys are declared illegal.
 
WE ARE TOTALLY FINE
Director: Stefanie Abel Horowitz
Country: USA, Running Time: 10 minutes
Three Basic Bettys get together for a wellness retreat to cleanse and connect. But what they connect to is surprising, dark, and a little out of their control.
 
WHITE ROCK SKATE
Director: Mary Dauterman
Country: USA, Running Time: 8 minutes
A delusional woman desperately clings to an abandoned skating rink and her memories of it.
 
WHORE: TABLE #6
Director: Nino Mancuso
Screenwriter: Helen Kennedy
Country: USA, Running Time: 6 minutes
Eternally optimistic British actress Harriet has yet to find her feet in LA, despite a handful of minor TV roles usually involving baring her breasts, playing a vast array of dead prostitutes, and various combinations of both. But today, her agent has a special project, one which she hopes will buck the trend. Who knows, maybe she’ll find a better balance of nudity on set this time, and perhaps even enjoy the luxury of staying alive for the entire scene?
  
SHORT’S PROGRAM #2
(TRT: 92 min)
 
THE CUNNING MAN
Director: Zoë Dobson
Country: UK, Running Time: 13 minutes
THE CUNNING MAN is inspired by a real Cunning Man, John Harries (c.1785 - 1839). It's an enchanted tale of compassion in the face of callous greed.
 
GLORIA
Directors: Camille Schmoutz, Christine Chen
Country: USA, Running Time: 15 minutes
In 1966, a gender questioning teen from a conservative southern home accepts a secret invitation from a beautiful drag queen and resolves, despite the threat of arrest and familial rejection, to publicly cross-dress for the first time at an underground gay dance party.
 
I'D NEVER BOTHER ANOTHER CHICKEN AGAIN
Director: Helen Cho Anthos
Country: USA, Running Time: 4 minutes
A remorseful man relives an intense childhood memory illuminating his greatest regret.
 
LITTLE BIRD
Director: Nieves Perchin Garcia
Country: USA, Running Time: 11 minutes
Rupert and his daughter Lily decide to move to a new neighborhood after the passing of his wife. Rupert, being a new single parent, has to deal with Lily’s breathing problems and anxiety, which makes her extremely vulnerable in social situations. Rupert has found ways to calm her attacks. However, the neighbors see this and start to suspect that he might be abusing her, causing more trouble for the father and daughter.
 
PLANE PRETEND
Director: Sharon Arteaga
Country: USA, Running Time: 18 minutes
Pilar and her brothers are ecstatic to take their first flight, but they must hide their excitement or risk revealing their undocumented status and being deported.
 
SECOND SKIN
Director: Farah White
Country: USA, Running Time: 6 minutes
An introverted young girl discovers that she had more in common with her recently deceased grandmother than she ever could have imagined.
 
SEEPING BLUE
Director: Deja Gordon
Country: USA, Running Time: 13 minutes
A suicide prevention hotline worker ends up receiving help from the other end of the line.
 
STREET FLAME
Director: Katherine Propper
Country: USA, Running Time: 12 min
A crew of street teens and skaters commemorates their friend Jinx on their own terms.

SHORTS PROGRAM #3
(TRT: 88 min)
 
3 DAYS
Director: Julie Sharbutt
Country: USA, Running Time: 12 minutes
When three female friends sense danger on a camping trip, they keep each other laughing until a horrible twist makes them feel more alone than ever.
 
BULL MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT
Director: Vanessa Newell
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 minutes
A horror comedy about a Girl Scout troop leader who discovers the terrifying truth about the legend of Bull Mountain.
 
EPIGENETICS
Director: Diahnna Nicole Baxter
Country: USA, Running Time: 10 minutes
A daughter, prone to depression, learns a family secret and struggles to survive its trauma. When she turns to her mother for consolation, she realizes how this poisonous pattern has been carried down through generations.
 
FLICKER
Director: Julia Barnett
Country: USA, Running Time: 6 minutes
A young girl and her puritanical parents are wary of the evils outside their door, but it's what's inside that is truly terrifying.
 
HELLO MY NAME IS
Director: Iyin Landre
Country: USA, Running Time: 10 minutes
A kooky woman breaks into a stranger's apartment and plays Goldilocks.
 
HOPE
Directors: Cynthia Cano, Anna Cano
Country: USA, Running Time: 9 minutes
Following an overnight, global mass-extinction of the human female species, a man struggles to figure out how to care for what seems to be the sole survivor of this unexplained catastrophe: his 5-year-old daughter, Hope. Nobody knows she's alive and her dad and grandpa plan on keeping it that way.
 
LISTEN
Director: Jessica Graham
Country: USA, Running Time: 7 minutes
The deterioration of a relationship due to the horror and heartbreak of domestic violence.
 
PENTECOST
Director: Katherine Propper
Country: USA, Running Time: 6 minutes
Delilah, a snake handler’s daughter, seeks a spiritual gift of her own in her father's rattlesnake.
 
RING OF FIRE
Director: Tracy Kleeman
Country: USA, Running Time: 12 minutes
Callie puts on her best poker face while she goes on the run from Los Angeles through the desert, with nothing but her Toyota Solara and a pack of cigarettes. Seeking refuge from the open road, Callie finds herself in a small, local dive bar. Though only a few townie drunks populate the joint, a young woman named Mac mans the bar. Callie recognizes the signs of an abused woman, and the interaction they share forces her to ultimately come to terms with what or whom she is running from.