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Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

Alisha

The story of Alisha, an overweight, teenage girl struggling to deal with her body image issues while maintaining one of the few ‘relationships’ that exist in her life, her father. What truly limits her is her own self perception and self-loathing.

Daniel Citron is a fifteen year old student filmmaker. Over the summer, he attended the New York Film Academy in LA, California and made this film, Alisha.

At NYFA, Daniel was in the advanced filmmaking class with just 4 other students. He wrote, directed and edited the film. This is the second year Daniel has attended this program and the previous year, wrote and directed the short film “Out of the Water.” Daniel has been making shorts since age 8, with the films growing progressively more complex as his age increases. He has explored many genres of film including comedy, drama, documentary and music video. When Daniel was 12, he created a short documentary titled “Cheers” with the subject matter of teenage drinking and driving. Daniel recieved multiple awards for this film and to this day, “Cheers” is shown in schools as an educational film as part of the drug and alcohol program.

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

At The Core

Seattle students explain their core values in skateboarding and snowboarding that apply to the rest of life.

Sponsored by the Adobe Youth Voices project.

Checkpoint of Humanity

An Israeli and a Palestinian meet at a checkpoint. Flashbacks reveal the tragic circumstances in which they had met before and which now threaten both of their lives. Something changes for both of them when they are able to see the humanity in each other.

The film was produced by Peace it Together Society, which works to empower youth to promote peace through dialogue, filmmaking, and multimedia.

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

HOO

Boxes are lit and filmed, 16 mm filmstrips were scratched and digitized.  These visual elements were set to a soundscape that was composed first out of distorted everyday sounds.

Director  Jake Strickland is a 16 year old junior at Seattle Academy High School.

“As I worked, I slowly but surely destroyed every aspect of my originally clear vision, from the recording of the soundtrack to the editing of the footage.  Since the project was mine alone I was free to do whatever I liked, fearlessly integrating new ideas and eliminating the old,” said Strickland. “Whether or not these decisions were for the best, the final product is one of the few things that I’ve created that I don’t regard with utmost scorn, so I suppose that I can’t complain. Plus, it’s colorful! Everyone loves colorful things!”

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

I Just Am Who I Am

Beth is a teacher, mother, and wife who lives a life a lot like yours but… she can’t hear. Though Beth has the same capabilities as any other person, other people often perceive her as disabled.

Director Megan Baxter has been interested in making movies even before she started high school.

“I’ve always loved sign language and in making this video, I loved having the opportunity to work with my sign language teacher to tell a part of her story,” said Megan. “The most challenging part of making this short documentary was trying to remember enough sign language to be able to ask the right questions and direct Beth throughout the video. We had to work together to go slowly and do our best to communicate with each other.”

In the last 2 years, her has really grown into a career – she’ll be attending Chapman University and majoring in Television and Broadcast Journalism in the fall.

“I made this movie because I realized that we often make judgments about a person, before we know them,” said Megan. “I wanted to show that people we may have judged… are a lot more similar to us than we originally thought. Through the process of making this video, I’ve learned more about the transformation and evolution of the original idea as it become something different.”

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

Immersion Emergence

A tale of doomed love, the story of Sohni and Mahiwal is one of the world’s classic tragic love stories.

Told in cut-out animation and inspired by Arpana Caur’s painting “Immersion, Emergence”, the film was made by year 8 pupils at Titus Salt School, Bradford, UK.

Created by Year 4 pupils at Bricknell Primary School as part of the UK’s National Media Museum Anim8ed project with animator David Bunting, The Anim8ed project enables teachers and pupils in primary and secondary schools to make the most of the creativity, fun and empowerment of animation in the classroom whilst bringing museum collections to life.

Says David Bunting:

“Immersion Emergence” shows the both the wonderful creative talent of the young people who made it and the power of animation as an educational tool. Animation is movie magic!  It is one of the first cultural experiences children have and provides opportunities for people of all ages and all abilities.  Its potential for teaching, learning and inspiring a life-long love of the arts is vast. “Immersion Emergence” perfectly expresses the spirit of the Anim8ed, which enables teachers and pupils in primary and secondary schools to make the most of the creativity, fun and empowerment of animation in the classroom whilst bringing museum collections to life. For more information on Anim8ed and free teaching resources, visit us at www.anim8ed.org.uk

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

Montag

Montag is unhappy at his new job, but his depression stems from deeper than just boring work or a bad boss.

Director Reid Hildebrand made his first film at age 12, and has been filmmaking steadily since he was 14. Montag is his first independent feature and his first entirely hand-drawn film. He hopes for more success with his next upcoming project, The Balloonist.

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

One Man’s Walk

A window on the wonderful world of Kenneth Mitchell: his brother, friends and favorite things… A boy walks down a street. We do not see his face. He is the event but we don’t know why. He tells us his likes and dislikes as he passes through the streets of his town. Finally we see his face and understand.

The film was the idea of Kenneth’s brother, Nicholas. Kenneth has Down’s Syndrome and communication difficulties. Through the telling of his story, Kenneth’s apparent handicap was turned around and he became the star of his own film.

One Man’s Walk was a collaborative production between a group of 10 mixed ability young people from a variety of backgrounds.

First Light is the UK’s leading initiative enabling young people aged 5-19 to realize their potential via creative digital film and media projects. The films and media projects our young people create cover many topics and genres, and make use of today’s accessible digital technologies to tell their stories with them in control.

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

Remember

Anacortes High School students gave their all in a one-shot, all school music video. This is a video these students will remember and cherish forever.

The film was written and directed by student Scott Calvert, with help from Anders Rodin and Nik Massey.

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave

Every day for 14 days, IndieFlix will feature a blog post on each film in this year’s Seattle International Film Festival FutureWave Shorts online competition, presented by IndieFlix. Watch and vote for this and the other 13 films now at IndieFlix.com.

Shawn Harris: Personal Trainer

Personal trainer Shawn Harris discusses his fitness career, from starting out in pee-wee football to college football and NFL dreams. He talks about realizations that he learned along the way, and the importance of pursuing your dreams, but also finding other ways of achieving them. Shawn Harris realized he may not be a star NFL player, so he focused on his education and learned how to teach others how to be successful athletes.

Directors Tyler Silver and Simon Turkel are both high school seniors from Clarkstown High School North in Rockwell, NY. They continue to edit video for various companies, including PBS, MTV and BMW.