Jacksonville Film Festival 2009

A special "friends and family pre-view screening," starring Jacksonville's own Linden Ashby, Hunger is an exploration into the breakdown of humanity. How far would you go to survive in the most extreme of circumstances? Five strangers awake to find themselves trapped in an underground dungeon. They soon realize they are the subjects of one man’s sadistic experiment to test the depths of a human being’s will to survive. As the days go by with no means of escape, their hunger increases as their humanity fades away.

Pablo and Sara visit an apartment up for rent. When Paula, the girl from the real estate agency, arrives the situation becomes uncomfortable. Strangely enough, Pablo and her seem to be hiding something.

They were called race movies: films produced during the first half of the 20th century as a direct response to Hollywood’s negative portrayal of Blacks in cinema. Race movies starred all-Black casts, were intended for all-Black audiences and were often the work of pioneer Black filmmakers, like Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams. Unfortunately, all but a fraction of the 500 race movies made were lost. Now the era of early Black cinema has been resurrected in this haunting new documentary. Featuring footage of recently rediscovered race movies, “In the Shadow of Hollywood” captures the sounds and images of a bygone era, profiles the fascinating lives and careers of Black filmmaking pioneers and screen stars, and explores the lasting legacy of this misunderstood and nearly forgotten film genre.

Taking inspiration from Charlie Chaplin, a young boy gives his hospitalized grandfather a last gift. Douglas Anderson School of Cinematic Arts

On the fringes of Dublin, two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Kylie lives with five other siblings and her overworked mother. Next door, Dylan lives in the shadow of an alcoholic father and the memory of an elder brother who ran away from home two years earlier. After a violent altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie decides to run away with him. Together they make their way to the magical nighttime lights of inner city Dublin, to search for Dylan’s brother, and in the hope of finding, through him, the possibility of a new life.

LAST MEAL is the tale of a diner serving last rights chow. You might order the Dahmer or Gacy, depending on your mood for breakfast or lunch. Perhaps you only want coffee, black: Aileen Wournos. Maybe you crave dessert: Timothy McVeigh had ice cream.Noah and Claire are tourists, come to see the infamous locale where legend spins even the owner / chef escaped from death row. Enamored with fantasy, the couple fails to take note of a mysterious man lurking nearby, ordering off the menu: two steaks, rare, and a bowl of Fruit O's. The son of the owner’s victim has arrived for vengeance. As fantasy becomes reality, Noah and Claire will learn revenge is a dish best served rare, federal prisoners have a twenty dollar limit, and killers never... ever... eat salad.

A tortured author struggles to overcome writer's block and is propelled into a bizarre series of events. Dodge College at Chapman University - California Best of USA Student Shorts