the Flatland Film Festival

August 12 - 13, 2005

A short film/video competition
and film invitational

at the Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts
in Lubbock, Texas

Shorts Program #1 from the Dallas Videofest

selections from "The Texas Show" 2005

Title: Candle
Submitted by: Arturo Barbera
Categories: Animation, Latino
Description: An updated Icarus tale of the impossible love
between a candle and a moth. High-tech CGI from Aldo
Faundez

Title: Weird-O-Torium
Submitted by: Nick Gibbons
Website: http://www.nickgibbons.com
Categories: Animation
Description: More animated parody from Nick Gibbons.
An ad for a very strange show, coming soon to a town
near you.

Title: Mondo Ford
Submitted by: scott calonico
Website: www.flojo.com
Categories: Comedy, Documentaries,
Politics/Activism/Environment
Description: Scott Calonico asks the big question -
Why did Gerald Ford assassinate JFK? As this recently
discovered documentary uncovers the unearthly truth of
aliens and Amway lurking behind the blinds of history.

Title: 38,000,000 words
Submitted by: James W. Johnson
Website: www.jameswjohnson.com
Categories: Art, Experimental/Avant Garde, Photography
Description: Lubbock-based James W. Johnson presents
a four-minute-and-twenty-second barrage of images to test
your processing ability. A satisfying visual assault,
if you can take it.

Title: the yellow bird
Submitted by: Dang Minh Hoang
Categories: Asian, Drama, Women's Issues
Description: After an arranged marriage to a man in the
United States, a young Vietnamese girl quietly struggles
to adjust to her new family in America in this short work
by Dang Minh Hoang.

Title: Cat Food & Bean Dip
Submitted by: Dusty Culbertson
Website: www.catfoodbeandip.com
Categories: Drama
Description: For Jason, it is a lonely thing being a grocery
store clerk and single on Valentines Day. A beautiful girl
catches his eye when she asks his help locating the
peculiar combination of cat food and bean dip, and
he decides too overcome his acute shyness and express
his interest towards her. A quirky love story by Eric Hyland
& Dusty Culbertson.

Title: Hope's War
By: Ya'Ke Smith
Categories: African-American titles, Drama,
Politics/Activism/Environment, Student Work
Description: After returning home from Iraq, a U.S. soldier
struggles to adapt back to every day life, but brutal visions
of war threaten to destroy him.

Title: The White Bunny
By: Katja Straub
Categories: Drama, Foreign
Description: As others join a woman in a booth in a train,
her dream becomes a nightmare, then real. Vivid use of color.


Title: Ana's House
By: Olivia Saldivar
Categories: Children/Family/Education, Drama, Latino,
Student Work, Women's Issues
Description: A young Mexican mother, imprisoned in an
abusive relationship, chooses her freedom over her children.

Title: My Life as the American West
By: Douglas Perkins
Categories: Experimental/Avant Garde, Student Work
Description: A personal journey through an inner landscape
that resembles the American West, a place of dreams and
the last great frontier.

Title: One Shot
By: Oliver Canales
Categories: Drama, Latino
Description: The outsider in a gang of bullies uses his
father’s pistol as a means of acceptance within the group,
but learns a lesson more valuable than popularity.

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