Park City, Utah – Five titles featured at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival have signed with IndieFlix for film distribution.
The short documentary “Thompson,” directed by Jason Tippet, tells the story of best friends Matt and Ryan and the bonds they share over things like dirt bikes, speech impediments and weapons. The film captures the two men at life’s crossroad – Matt is working hard to become a commercial fisherman and finish high school; Ryan has been expelled during his senior year for calling in a bomb threat. The film captures the two life-long friends at a difficult point in their relationship, where go-carts and RC cars can’t outrun adulthood.
“Junko’s Shamisen,” written and directed by Solomon Friedman, blends the aesthetic traditions of Japanese kabuki, contemporary Manga illustration and stop-motion animation in this beautifully produced animated short. Junko is a young orphan who returns to her home in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan to find her grandfather brutally murdered. She inadvertently encounters the evil samurai lord responsible for her grandfather’s murder, and avenges his death through gruesome acts of poetic justice.
“Meatwaffle” is a fascinating short animated film written and directed by Leah Shore. It features an old man who reflects back on his bizarre memories in jumbled tangents of clocks, conversations and strange patches of skin-cloth. The film is told with a combination of stop-motion, pixelation and 2D hand-drawn animation.
Comedic short film and English import “Can We Talk?” focuses on that dreaded–usually final—relationship conversation. Vince gets dumped by his girlfriend, again. This time, he gets more than he bargained for. The film was written, directed and edited by Jim Owen.
“His and Hers,” directed by Ken Wardrop, is a cinematic mosaic that tells a 90-year-old love story through the lives and voices of 70 Irish women at different points in their lives. The film celebrates the ordinary moments that make the extraordinary, creating a graceful portrait of love across generations.
Stay tuned for release dates through IndieFlix.com.
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