Mila Caos

2011. Cuba/Germany. Directed by Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau. 18 min.
Screening with El Velador

A son acts out his fantasy; does his mother mind?

Paetau was born in 1986 in Bonn, Germany, to a German father and a Colombian mother. He currently studies at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany.

Night Hunter

2011. USA. Directed by Stacey Steers. 16 min.
Screening with Summer of Goliath

An animated film about solitude and a bird in hand.

Steers lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado. Steers is a recipient of an AFI Independent Filmmaker’s Grant.

Miyuki

2010. USA. Directed by Will McCord. 9 min.
Screening with Hospitalité

Appearances can be deceiving.

A graduate of Columbia’s MFA program, McCord has made several short films that have been screened at festivals internationally.

Match

2010. USA. Directed by Kate Barker-Froyland. 11 min.
Screening with Attenberg

Matchsticks may be destiny for two sisters.

Barker-Froyland is a Brooklyn-based writer-director. Her previous short film, Snapshots, premiered at South by Southwest in 2010 and screened at numerous festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

Fwd: Update on My Life

2010. USA. Directed by Nicky Tavares. 28 min.
Screening with Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Part animation, part documentary—a portrait of a bipolar friend.

Tavares is a Boston-based multimedia artist who works primarily in film and video. Fwd: Update on My Life is her first documentary.

One

2010. Afghanistan. Directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat. 10 min.
Screening with Winter Vacation

An Afghan girl builds a symbolic “voting” system by collecting everyday objects from her neighbors.

Sadat is a graduate of Ateliers Varan, Kabul, where she made her first short film, Smile for Life. In 2010 she was selected for the Cinéfondation–Festival de Cannes as a resident filmmaker.

Bukowski

2010. Netherlands. Directed by Daan Bakker. 10 min.
Screening with Copacabana

Charles Bukowski and apple juice.

Bakker graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2009 with a degree in directing.