Trap Fishing
Director: David Helfer Wells
Runtime: 7 minutes
Get up close and personal with one of the last remaining trap fishing families in Rhode Island. Meet Corey Wheeler Forrest, her father Alan Wheeler and brother Luke Wheeler. Learn the art of trap fishing and what it takes to make a living on the water.
Old Man’s Heavy Sleep
Director: Mostafa Rostampou
Runtime: 15 minutes
This film is about the modern human family where loneliness is bold and dominant. We show the life of an old man who’s left alone after his children leave. He desires death because of this deadly loneliness. His only companion is a man who lives downstairs.
Drum Taps
Director: H. Paul Moon
Runtime: 11:32 minutes
A Union soldier awakens in a southern battlefield. Is the war over?
(A cinematic setting of Civil War poems from Walt Whitman’s “Drum-Taps” in “Leaves in Grass.” 2019 is the bicentennial year of the poet’s birth.)
You Went On With Your Dying
Director: Amin Ghashghaiyan Raz
Runtime: 20 minutes
Today my mother died. Maybe I did not know yesterday. I had a phone call from the nursing home. For the first time, after a long time, I thought to my mother, at this moment and at the end of the day will I be survived?
The Angel and The Stockbroker
Director: Kevin Hejna
Runtime: 11:21 minutes
A thief breaks into a Stockbroker’s apartment. She finds her mark about to jump from the roof. Can the most unlikely person talk him down from the ledge?
Punishment
Director: Jalal Veisi
Runtime: 11 minutes
A soldier who is in love with a girl in the archives of the garrison who…
Intermedium
Director: Erik Bloomquist
Runtime: 20 minutes
An obsessive-compulsive teenager struggles to learn the value of compromise while adjusting to her new home (and butting heads with the ghost of the boy who haunts it).
Leaps and Bounds
Director: Jessie Garcia
Runtime: 16 minutes
The athlete and his coach from the University of Pennsylvania who revolutionized track and field by inventing two key techniques in the late 1800’s, and the controversial Olympics that followed.
Screening Info
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10
