CUFF 2014: Program F
Columbia University Film Festival 2014
May 2 - 6, 2014
A program comprising four short films: Rattlefly (Director: Min Ding, Producer: Layla Zhuqing Ji, 20m), Scheherazade (Director: Mehrnoush Aliaghaei, Producer: Jamar Banks, 15m), Old Bay (Director: Lena Rudnick, Producer: Reka Posta, 19m), and Devil’s Work (Director: Miguel Silveira, Producer: Jamar Banks, 22m).
Rattlefly
Director: Min Ding, Producer: Layla Zhuqing Ji, USA, 2014, DCP, 20m
A small-town teenage girl with a dead-end existence finds short-lived hope when she falls in love with the new pastor’s luminous daughter.
Scheherazade
Director: Mehrnoush Aliaghaei, Producer: Jamar Banks, USA, 2014, DCP, 15m
He pushes them for their personal stories. How far are they willing to go?
Old Bay
Director: Lena Rudnick, Producer: Reka Posta, USA, 2014, DCP, 19m
In this romantic supernatural thriller, David ventures to Maxine’s lake house in Maryland after her mother’s untimely passing.
Devil’s Work
Director: Miguel Silveira, Producer: Jamar Banks, USA, 2014, DCP, 22m
A 14-year-old boy obsesses over the circumstances surrounding his father's suicide and the state of the unborn child in his mother's belly.
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