11am Films
"LEAVE THE CANNOLI"
Directed by Frank Vespe. PSA. 1 minute. New York.
A warning from the other side about obesity.
"AMBER ALERT"
Directed by Gina Roussell. Drama. 15 minutes. North Carolina. A couple deals with the struggles of separation in front of their daughter. In the end there are no winners or losers, just the pain of a missing loved one.
"SWEETEST TOOTH"
Directed by Ryan Gordan and James Harris. Documentary. 7 minutes. Canada. Sweetest Tooth is a documentary covering the story of chocolate from beans and beginnings to product and palette. With this farm-to-table storytelling, the characters of Sweetest Tooth will help support the story with firsthand accounts and personal experiences of the magic of chocolate and what it has meant for them. This is the story of Chocolate's journey and how it brings people together.
"THE CONSULTANT"
Directed by Mehmet Kanadli & Halil Ibrahim Kaplan. Drama. 10 minutes. Turkey. In the near future, each family is assigned advisors responsible for them in order to balance the population and resource consumption and maintain order. According to the law, the Consultant is the only person in the family who will make all decisions.
"MOD3RN TIM3Z"
Directed by Richard Thompson. Animation. 1 minute. New Jersey. A machine comes to life in a 3D animation short inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
"THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF JACOB A. RIIS"
Directed by Marcus Mandal. Documentary. 3 minutes. Denmark. A very short film about the legendary Danish-American Jacob A. Riis who was one of the 19th century’s most innovative journalists and the father of modern documentary photography.
Tormented by unrequited love, Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1870 and ended up as the very definition of the American dream. His good friend and President at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, called him ‘an ideal American’.
But before that, Riis had to work his way up from scratch as a drifter, a shipwright, an iron salesman and more.
He went on to become recognized as one of America’s most significant social revolutionaries, and in his book ‘How the Other Half Lives’, he documented, through photographs and text, the plight of immigrants living in New York’s slums.
This little film is wrapped in an incredible love story.
"DUALITY"
Directed by Tom L. Westgate. Thriller. 7 minutes. Florida. A woman thinks she's being stalked. But her husband doesn't believe her. Who's right?
