2024 43rd Season of the Thomas Edison Film Festival Program

JURY’S
CITATION AWARDS
Inventor Crazybrains and the Girl called Bird – Experimental
13 min. by Jefferson Everest Crawford, Strafford, VT, USA
The objects found inside a house seem of little historical importance –
two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so
a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing the
impossible.
JURY’S
CITATION AWARDS
Lotus-Eyed Girl – Experimental
6 min. by Rajee Samarasinghe, CA, USA
“Lotus-Eyed Girl” is loosely based on the erotic poem “Caurapañcāśikā” by
Bilhana, written in prison upon discovery of his clandestine affair with Princess
Yaminipurnatilaka. The verses were written while Bilhana awaited judgment,
not knowing if he was to be executed or exiled. His fate is unknown.
Lightbreak – Animation
3 min. by Luke Shannon, Princeton, NJ, USA
A generative light algorithm studying reflection, refraction, and materiality.
Man-Made – Narrative
15 min. by Plum Stupple-Harris, UK
Funerals can be true male environments where men want to cry but refuse to
while their past rides up to hit them. Eddie Holgate is caught in this exact situation.
His father has built him up all his life to be tough, but as a tumultuous and
charged service at his team’s football pitch sparks unwanted memories, Eddie
is forced to examine the man he idolized his father to be, against the husband
and caregiver
he was not.
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