Director: Susan Johnson
Writers: Kara Holden (screenplay), Caren Lissner (based on the novel by)
Producers: Susan Cartsonis, Brent Emery, Suzanne McNeill Farwell, Susan Johnson, Lisa Wolofsky
Starring: Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Bayer, Jason Ritter
Hong Kong cinema giants Derek Yee and Tsui Hark join forces in this martial arts epic, about an elite swordsman who is haunted by his skill, and a challenger who aims to take his place at all costs.
108m/Hong Kong/2016
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Writers: Tin Nam Chun, Lung Ku ...(novel), Hark Tsui, Tung-Shing Yee
Producer: Hark Tsui
Starring: Kenny Lin, Peter Ho, Yiyan Jiang
Rising Sons
Rising Sons is a short documentary film about a radical and unique approach to end the rampant raping of women in The Democratic Republic of the Congo: by healing the wounds and beliefs of men. This intimate film provides an opportunity to witness the evolution of the masculine and address the root causes of a universal cycle of violence.
28m/Congo/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Erin Heidenreich
Producers: Susan Saltz, Erin Heidenreich
Starring: Esther Ntoto, Camille Ntoto
City of Joy
The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access precious minerals. Congo is often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” CITY OF JOY tells a different story of the region.
The film focuses on Jane, a student at a center where women who have suffered unimaginable abuse join together to become leaders. We also meet the founders of the center: a devout Congolese Doctor (Dr Denis Mukwege, 2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee) a Congolese activist (Christine Schuler-Deschryver) and a radical N.Y. playwright (Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues).
The film weaves between joy and pain as these individuals band together to demand hope in a place so often deemed hopeless.
75m/Congo, USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Writer: Madeleine Gavin
Producer: Allyson Luchak
Starring: Christine Schüler-Deschryver, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Eve Ensler, Jane Mukunilwa
A mysterious phone call gets a lonesome photographer involved with a seductive woman and her enigmatic husband.
25m/Netherlands/2016
Director: Sander van Dijk
Writer: Sarah Offringa
Producers: Emeline Bakker, Julia Notenboom, Jesper Olyve
Starring: Lykele Muus, Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Cees Heyne
Gardeners of the Forrest
For generations, Laos was known as the Land of a Million Elephants. Today, there are around 400 elephants left in Laos.
14m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Directors: Ceylan Carhoglu, Nicole Jordan-Webber
Producers: Ceylan Carhoglu, Nicole Jordan-Webber
Icarus
When a Mars colony's communication satellite is damaged, Emilia Riley embarks on a seemingly harmless repair excursion. A shuttle malfunction cuts connectivity to the ground and Chris, her son, makes the knee jerk decision to go after her.
20m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Tom Teller
Writers: Andrew Guastaferro & Tom Teller
Producer: Michelle Evans
Starring: Jason Tobias, Julia Farino, Thurston Hill
My Cousin Klara
Two young girls on the run, get a ride from a dangerous man.
8m/Sweden/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Aviva Neuman
Writers: Aviva Neuman and Eric Salmon
Producer: Jorge A. Alfaro
Starring: Freddie Mosten, Anastasia Leppist, Johan Jonason
Rocket
Rocket tells a bittersweet fairy tale set in the world of 1950's dirt track racing. With a legacy traditionally passed down from father to son, Annie Pankratz strives to build a destiny all her own.
29m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Brenna Malloy
Writers: Ian Hock & Brenna Malloy
Producer: Sarah Hulsman
Starring: Lizzie Clarke, Cameron Diskin
Still Sophie
Four and a half years ago, young talent Sophia Salveson’s life changed forever. Doctors said she may never walk again, may never talk again...may never perform again. They were wrong.
7m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Caroline Knight
Writers: Caroline Knight & Chad McClarnon
Producer: Chad McClarnon
Starring: Sophia Salveson
Visitors
A broken and divided family struggles to survive after a group of uninvited visitors invade their farm.
15m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Alon Juwal
Writer: Alon Juwal
Producers: Alon Juwal, Kseniya Yorsh
Starring: Nick Unger, Kei'la Ryan, Tim Juliano
In "Visions of Warriors," four veterans from the Vietnam War era to the Iraq War participate in the groundbreaking Veteran Photo Recovery Project at the VA Menlo Park and use innovative photography therapy to treat their mental illness.
93m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Ming Lai
Writer: Ming Lai
Producers: Ming Lai, Matt Steinauer
Starring: Mark Pinto, Homerina Bond, Ari Sonnenberg, Priscilla Bethel, Susan Quaglietti, Jeff Stader, Ryan Gardner, Kristin McDonald
Archery champion Lauren Pierce has just landed in Paradise Trails, a brutal juvenile correctional facility in the wilderness. When Lauren learns how deep corruption runs at Paradise Trails under the rule of warden and bow-hunter Bob Patrice, she makes her escape, traversing the wilderness with rebellious inmate Rebecca Rolinski. They fight to survive both the elements and a desperate Bob, who’s hunting his prey to make sure his secret stays buried… even if he has to bury them with it.
86m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Valerie Weiss
Writer: Casey Schroen
Producer: Ruth Du
Starring: Bailey Noble, Bill Sage, Jeanine Mason, Michael Grant Terry
On a quiet Friday night, Calvin Davis joins his wife and kids in Southwest Washington, DC for a family gathering at his mother-in-law's home. When police follow his fifteen year-old son and prepare to frisk him, Calvin intervenes to ask ‘Why?'.
19m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Kelly Amis
Writer: Kelly Amis
Prodcuer: Kelly Amis
Starring: Calvin Davis and Carlet Harris
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which sent nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, to hastily built prison camps. Two of those camps were in Arkansas: at Rohwer and Jerome, both rural communities located in the Mississippi River Delta, a land of already deep racial divide. Relocation, Arkansas explores the events that forever altered the lives of American citizens imprisoned in the Deep South, the irony of prejudice, and the power of reconciliation.
78m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Vivienne Schiffer
Producer: Vivienne Schiffer
Perfect Roast Potatoes is a bittersweet comedy about grief and cooking, starring Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), six-time BAFTA nominee Catherine Tate (The Office, Doctor Who), Jonathan Cake (Doll & Em, Camping), and featuring the voice of Jessica Walter (Arrested Development, Archer).
18m/2016/USA/CO Premiere
Director: Nick Frew
Writer: Nick Frew
Producers: Vicky Petela, Martin Desmond Roe, Chris Uettwiller
Starring: Catherine Tate, Jonathan Cake, Tituss Burgess
Growing up in Wyoming, ten-year-old Rose is happily at home out hunting birds with her family. However, when she rises to her older brother’s dare and swallows the heart of a mourning dove while cleaning the day’s take, she begins to worry that the heart in her belly will sprout into a fully formed dove. The burgeoning conviction that she is carrying a bird around in her stomach alters the entire experience of the hunt, and drives her to confront her fears about growing older and shedding her tomboy skin.
26m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katrina Whalen
Writer: Katrina Whalen
Producers: Katrina Whalen, John Parlante
Starring: Georgie Charette, Charlie Koss, Sophie Cheroutes, Doug Hall
The Visit
During an encounter with his aging mother, a man must face the unimaginable consequences of his dubious past.
13m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Romina Schwedler
Writer: Romina Schwedler
Producers: Romina Schwedler, Alain J. Carmona, Ruben Rodas
Starring: June Squibb, Sean Maher
Hit & RunAn alcoholic desperate to end his life encounters a prostitute desperate to start hers. After an initial repulsion to each other they soon discover each has something to offer the other.
20m/UK/2016/World Premiere
Director: Hannah Pike
Writer: Hannah Pike
Producer: Hannah Pike
Starring: Jack Deam & Katie West
Extras struggle to get their big break in the film industry.
139m/Hong Kong, China/2015
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Writer: Tung-Shing Yee
Producers: Mandy Law, Peggy Lee Kam-Man
Producers: Mandy Law, Peggy Lee Kam-Man
Starring: Kai Shen, Guopeng Wan,Ting Wang
A young mother and her precocious teenage daughter, living out of their car, find an unlikely home and makeshift family in small town America. When their new life begins to unravel, they hold fast to each other to overcome their circumstances together.
98m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katie Holmes
Writers: Josh Boone (Screenplay), Jill Killington, Annie Weatherwax (Novel)
Producers: Katie Holmes, Katie Mustard, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh
Starring Katie Holmes, Stefania Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Eve Lindley, Judy Greer
A small-town nurse, Susette Kelo, emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation.
99m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Courtney Moorehead Balaker
Writer: Courtney Moorehead Balaker Based on the book by: Jeff Benedict
Producers: Ted Balaker, Joel Soisson, Courtney Moorehead Balaker, Arielle Boisvert
Starring: Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Callum Keith Rennie, Colin Cunningham, Aaron Douglas, Giacomo Baessato
Modern Houses is a psychological-thriller about the creative process. Following a breakdown, architecture’s celebrated young star is finally ready to unveil the model that will be her greatest design. With the client at the door and her face staring back at her from the cover of Architectural Digest, she hears a whisper.
17m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Matthew Dixon
Writer: Matthew Dixon
Producers: Kate Williams and Louise Williams
Starring: Lili Taylor
Jack and JillTwo best girlfriends take a small town by storm on what could be their last weekend together.
15m/USA/2017
Director: Nikhil Melnechuk
Writer: Nikhil Melnechuk
Producers: Nicole Cosgrove, Spencer Gillis, Ludovic Littee, Nikhil Melnechuk, Melissa Jackson, Kim Waltrip
Starring: Melissa Jackson, Ellen Hollman, Michelle Hendley, Damian Young, John Buffalo Mailer
Think FastA business woman on a tight deadline must choose to either hang up on a wrong-number caller in crisis -- or commit career suicide.
12m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Bridget Stokes
Writer: Jan Stanton
Producers: Bridget Stokes, Bo Bilstrup
Starring: Molly Stanton, T.J. Power, Jaz Sinclair
SafeZoneFatima, a twelve year-old Syrian girl, tells her harrowing story of escape from war as she tries to rebuild her life and pursue her dream of music and school. As she deals with PTSD, Fatima illustrates the compassionate bond of family as she struggles with becoming a young woman in a refugee camp.
9m/Australia, Egypt, USA/2017
Directors: Marco Bollinger, Jodie Livingston
Producers: Marco Bollinger, Marjon Javadi Jodie Livingston, Josh Ludmir, David Tarleton
Boycott Band: The Return of OneA washed-up boyband in North Carolina rides House Bill 2 to fame and fortune.
22m/USA/2016
Director: Habib Yazdi
Writers: Will Chambliss, Owen Tingle, David McClay, Habib Yazdi
Producers: Frank Sun, Chau Mui, Regina Brizzolara
Starring: Arya Ghavamian, Owen Fitzgerald, Alex Maiolo, Andy Becker, Jon Gartner
From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, LITTLE STONES follows four women from around the world who use art to empower women and girls.
87m/Brazil, Germany, India, Kenya, Senegal, USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Sophia Kruz
Writer: Sophia Kruz
Producers: Sophia Kruz (producer), Meena Singh (co-producer)
Starring: Sohini Chakraborty, Panmela Castro, Anna Taylor, Sister Fa
Legal proceedings and intimate family dynamics dovetail in Custody. Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law-school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno plays the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill-timed argument.
104m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: James Lapine
Writer: James Lapine
Producers: Katie Mustard, Lauren Versel
Starring: Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ellen Burstyn
A one-eyed boy and a plus-size girl begin a charming romance during their senior year of high school. However, when college arrives and these two outsiders are separated, they both choose to radically alter their appearances, forcing them to confront whether their relationship will survive these drastic changes.
97m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
Writer: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
Producers: Lovell Holder, Mia Chang, Tim Harms, and Ryan Smith
Starring: Thomas Mann, Lily Mae Harrington, Ely Henry, Lachlan Buchanan, and Marin Ireland
In a culture that values beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission as the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, marriage, young Muslim women in Kiddirpur, Kolkata challenge stereotypes, learning boxing with Razia Shabnam one of the first Indian women to become a boxing coach and an international referee. Burqa boxers is the story of Ajmira Khatoon, Taslima Khatoon and Parveen Sajda as the pursue their dreams while negotiating poverty and tradition.
85m/India, France, USA/2016/U.S. Premiere
Director: Alka Raghuram
Writer: Alka Raghuram
Producers: Farid Rezkallah, 24 Images; Alka Raghuram, Junoon Pictures; Deann Borshay Liem, Mu Films; Premalatha Durham
Starring: Razia Shabnam, Ajmira Khatoon, Taslima Khatoon, Parveen Sajda
A young mother and her precocious teenage daughter, living out of their car, find an unlikely home and makeshift family in small town America. When their new life begins to unravel, they hold fast to each other to overcome their circumstances together.
98m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katie Holmes
Writers: Josh Boone (Screenplay), Jill Killington, Annie Weatherwax (Novel)
Producers: Katie Holmes, Katie Mustard, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh
Starring Katie Holmes, Stefania Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Eve Lindley, Judy Greer
The story of an inspired painter, Brian Peterson, whose journey of love started with the befriending of a homeless man in his neighborhood of Santa Ana but grew into something greater than he had imagined.
13m/USA/2015/CO Premiere
Director: Daud Sani
Producers: Wendy Campbell, Daud Sani
Starring: Brian and Vanessa Peterson
The Gateway Bug
Following the rise and dramatic fall of edible insect start-ups in America, this film exposes America’s disconnect with food as climate catastrophe, uncovering daily habits individuals can alter to fix the broken food system, one meal at a time. From the front lines of climate-affected communities, the film converts viewers into activists, igniting social change. From commercial cricket farms to bug eating festivals and lawmakers on capitol hill it includes interviews with the UN, USDA, Climate Foundation and TV chef Andrew Zimmern. Recent studies show a global shift to an ento/plant-based diet would reduce mortality 10% and cut up to 70% of Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050, The Gateway Bug shares the key towards a brighter future from an intimate insider’s journey.
82m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Johanna B Kelly
Writers: Johanna B Kelly & Cameron Marshad
Producers: Johanna B Kelly & Cameron Marshad
Starring: Andrew Zimmern, Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Kevin Bachhuber, Pat Crowley, Tyler Isaac
Out of the limelight, under the streetlight, enter the world of NYC’s transgender underclass. One church opens its doors to provide meals, clothing and sometimes, a little drag show magic.
30m/USA/2016
Director: Sasha Pezenik
Producer: Sasha Pezenik
WasteRoger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate and foodie, Olive. But as the meals become increasingly strange, and push the limits of curiousity, Roger must ask himself how far he will go for love?
16m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Justine Raczkiewicz
Writers: Justine Raczkiewicz, Amelia Gray
Producers: Justine Raczkiewicz, Domenica Castro
Starring: Sarah Bartholomew, Luke Baines
ValenciaWhile driving to the reading of her father’s will, Catherine is faced with an anomaly on the side of the road.
7m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Logan George
Writer: Celine Held, Logan George
Producers: Celine Held, Logan George
Starring: Celine Held, Mia Vallet
Free to LaughFree to Laugh is about the power of comedy after prison.
15m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Lara Everlyn
Producer: Elease Lui Stemp
The Fixxers
Agents from the future are sent back in time to find a hidden genome placed in unsuspecting Los Angeles residents by the Russian Government.
7m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Directors: Caitlin Norton and Geoff McClelland
Writer: Caitlin Norton
Producers: Caitlin Norton, Geoff McKellen, Maxfield Lund
Starring: Caitlin Norton, Maxfield Lund, Jeff Elam, Tyler Wolfe, Jamen Spitzer, and Kim Estes
Schmoolie the Deathwatcher
A Jewish teen spends his first night alone guarding a body awaiting burial, and ends up fighting for his own life.
10m/USA/2015/CO Premiere
Director: Michael Ray Escamilla
Writer: Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
Producers: Theresa Burkhart Gallagher, Diana C. Zollicoffer, Michael Ray Escamilla, Bo Bilstrup (Co-Producers Najeeb Khuda and Andrew Joustra)
Starring: Jesse Heiman, David Barrera, Mark Kelly, Barry Neikrug, Caitlin Geier, Caleb Thomas
The Julie Stories
Staten Island, New York, 1993. Big Julie has been a bus driver for 25 years and wants his piece of the American Dream. When he sees an infomercial for a new franchise business, he quits his job and sets out to get rich! But door-to-door is not his thing, and his family must step in to help him avoid utter failure.
15m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Julio Vincent Gambuto
Writer: Julio Vincent Gambuto
Producers: Amanda Milius, Thembi L. Banks
Starring: Joseph Callari, Andrea Helene, Judith Scarpone, Dylan Naber
In a culture that values beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission as the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, marriage, young Muslim women in Kiddirpur, Kolkata challenge stereotypes, learning boxing with Razia Shabnam one of the first Indian women to become a boxing coach and an international referee. Burqa boxers is the story of Ajmira Khatoon, Taslima Khatoon and Parveen Sajda as the pursue their dreams while negotiating poverty and tradition.
85m/India, France, USA/2016/U.S. Premiere
Director: Alka Raghuram
Writer: Alka Raghuram
Producers: Farid Rezkallah, 24 Images; Alka Raghuram, Junoon Pictures; Deann Borshay Liem, Mu Films; Premalatha Durham
Starring: Razia Shabnam, Ajmira Khatoon, Taslima Khatoon, Parveen Sajda
Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend, 'The Tree' is a poignant, heart-warming story about an 88 year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend. Along the way, Dorothy meets hurting individuals from several walks of life, and imparts the wisdom of long years and the comfort of her beautiful spirit to one and all.
94m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Writers: Mary Settle Pruitt and Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Producers: Mary Settle Pruitt and Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Starring: Joicie Appell
THE RIDE (Presented by Reebok)
The story of one inspiring woman's journey as she attempts to run the Reebok Ragnar 200-mile race with her five friends.
11m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Sarah Cordial
Writers: Sarah Cordial
Producers: Sarah Cordial and Blair Hammond
Starring: Laura Ingalls
BE RELENTLESS
On May 4, 2014, Norma Bastidas, a single mother and fearless survivor of human trafficking, sexual violence, abuse and addiction, shattered the Guinness World Record for longest triathlon by running, biking, and swimming 3,762 miles (6,054 km) from Cancún, Mexico to Washington D.C. as her stand against human trafficking. Norma’s mission is to educate and empower, demonstrating to the world that one’s past does not dictate one’s future, and prove that everyday people are capable of making extraordinary strides in the fight against the problems facing the world today.
Be Relentless is the binational, bilingual, feature-length documentary that captured every grueling step of Norma’s record-breaking expedition across two countries. Through Norma’s persistence, Be Relentless proves that everyday people can make an extraordinary impact in seemingly unchallengeable issues.
Be Relentless will capture conversation about the realities of child trafficking, inspire the world to address this issue, prevent what happened to Norma from happening to others, and prove to survivors and the to world that one’s past doesn’t dictate one’s future.
90m/Mexico, USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Brad Riley
Writers: Norma Bastidas, Alexis Rhyner, Jessie Marek, Brad Riley
Producers: Jessie Marek and Brad Riley
Starring: Norma Bastidas
A brother and sister become consumed with investigating a mysterious woman they suspect has stolen their winning lottery ticket, endangering their summer party plans.
81m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Directors: Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell
Writers: Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell
Producers: Ali Levin, Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell, Lily Meyer
Starring: Lily Meyer, Dan Erickson, Keith Bethea, Becky Abrams, Michele Hierholzer, Jess Magee, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Arthur Meyer, John Haskell
From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, LITTLE STONES follows four women from around the world who use art to empower women and girls.
87m/Brazil, Germany, India, Kenya, Senegal, USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Sophia Kruz
Writer: Sophia Kruz
Producers: Sophia Kruz (producer), Meena Singh (co-producer)
Starring: Sohini Chakraborty, Panmela Castro, Anna Taylor, Sister Fa
On a quiet Friday night, Calvin Davis joins his wife and kids in Southwest Washington, DC for a family gathering at his mother-in-law's home. When police follow his fifteen year-old son and prepare to frisk him, Calvin intervenes to ask ‘Why?'.
19m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Kelly Amis
Writer: Kelly Amis
Prodcuer: Kelly Amis
Starring: Calvin Davis and Carlet Harris
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which sent nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, to hastily built prison camps. Two of those camps were in Arkansas: at Rohwer and Jerome, both rural communities located in the Mississippi River Delta, a land of already deep racial divide. Relocation, Arkansas explores the events that forever altered the lives of American citizens imprisoned in the Deep South, the irony of prejudice, and the power of reconciliation.
78m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Vivienne Schiffer
Producer: Vivienne Schiffer
A one-eyed boy and a plus-size girl begin a charming romance during their senior year of high school. However, when college arrives and these two outsiders are separated, they both choose to radically alter their appearances, forcing them to confront whether their relationship will survive these drastic changes.
97m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
Writer: Ian MacAllister-McDonald
Producers: Lovell Holder, Mia Chang, Tim Harms, and Ryan Smith
Starring: Thomas Mann, Lily Mae Harrington, Ely Henry, Lachlan Buchanan, and Marin Ireland
STICKY NOTES is a heart-wrenching journey of growing up told with ample moments of humor and levity, candidly illuminating father-daughter relationships and the role reversals that take place between parents and their children.
94m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Amanda Sharp
Writer: Amanda Sharp
Producer: Katie Mustard
Starring: Rose Leslie, Ray Liotta, Justin Bartha, Gina Rodriguez
In "Visions of Warriors," four veterans from the Vietnam War era to the Iraq War participate in the groundbreaking Veteran Photo Recovery Project at the VA Menlo Park and use innovative photography therapy to treat their mental illness.
93m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Ming Lai
Writer: Ming Lai
Producers: Ming Lai, Matt Steinauer
Starring: Mark Pinto, Homerina Bond, Ari Sonnenberg, Priscilla Bethel, Susan Quaglietti, Jeff Stader, Ryan Gardner, Kristin McDonald
Rising Sons
Rising Sons is a short documentary film about a radical and unique approach to end the rampant raping of women in The Democratic Republic of the Congo: by healing the wounds and beliefs of men. This intimate film provides an opportunity to witness the evolution of the masculine and address the root causes of a universal cycle of violence.
28m/Congo/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Erin Heidenreich
Producers: Susan Saltz, Erin Heidenreich
Starring: Esther Ntoto, Camille Ntoto
City of Joy
The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access precious minerals. Congo is often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” CITY OF JOY tells a different story of the region.
The film focuses on Jane, a student at a center where women who have suffered unimaginable abuse join together to become leaders. We also meet the founders of the center: a devout Congolese Doctor (Dr Denis Mukwege, 2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee) a Congolese activist (Christine Schuler-Deschryver) and a radical N.Y. playwright (Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues).
The film weaves between joy and pain as these individuals band together to demand hope in a place so often deemed hopeless.
75m/Congo, USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Writer: Madeleine Gavin
Producer: Allyson Luchak
Starring: Christine Schüler-Deschryver, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Eve Ensler, Jane Mukunilwa
Archery champion Lauren Pierce has just landed in Paradise Trails, a brutal juvenile correctional facility in the wilderness. When Lauren learns how deep corruption runs at Paradise Trails under the rule of warden and bow-hunter Bob Patrice, she makes her escape, traversing the wilderness with rebellious inmate Rebecca Rolinski. They fight to survive both the elements and a desperate Bob, who’s hunting his prey to make sure his secret stays buried… even if he has to bury them with it.
86m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Valerie Weiss
Writer: Casey Schroen
Producer: Ruth Du
Starring: Bailey Noble, Bill Sage, Jeanine Mason, Michael Grant Terry
A young mother and her precocious teenage daughter, living out of their car, find an unlikely home and makeshift family in small town America. When their new life begins to unravel, they hold fast to each other to overcome their circumstances together.
98m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katie Holmes
Writers: Josh Boone (Screenplay), Jill Killington, Annie Weatherwax (Novel)
Producers: Katie Holmes, Katie Mustard, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh
Starring Katie Holmes, Stefania Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Eve Lindley, Judy Greer
THE RIDE (Presented by Reebok)
The story of one inspiring woman's journey as she attempts to run the Reebok Ragnar 200-mile race with her five friends.
11m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Sarah Cordial
Writers: Sarah Cordial
Producers: Sarah Cordial and Blair Hammond
Starring: Laura Ingalls
BE RELENTLESS
On May 4, 2014, Norma Bastidas, a single mother and fearless survivor of human trafficking, sexual violence, abuse and addiction, shattered the Guinness World Record for longest triathlon by running, biking, and swimming 3,762 miles (6,054 km) from Cancún, Mexico to Washington D.C. as her stand against human trafficking. Norma’s mission is to educate and empower, demonstrating to the world that one’s past does not dictate one’s future, and prove that everyday people are capable of making extraordinary strides in the fight against the problems facing the world today.
Be Relentless is the binational, bilingual, feature-length documentary that captured every grueling step of Norma’s record-breaking expedition across two countries. Through Norma’s persistence, Be Relentless proves that everyday people can make an extraordinary impact in seemingly unchallengeable issues.
Be Relentless will capture conversation about the realities of child trafficking, inspire the world to address this issue, prevent what happened to Norma from happening to others, and prove to survivors and the to world that one’s past doesn’t dictate one’s future.
90m/Mexico, USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Brad Riley
Writers: Norma Bastidas, Alexis Rhyner, Jessie Marek, Brad Riley
Producers: Jessie Marek and Brad Riley
Starring: Norma Bastidas
STICKY NOTES is a heart-wrenching journey of growing up told with ample moments of humor and levity, candidly illuminating father-daughter relationships and the role reversals that take place between parents and their children.
94m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Amanda Sharp
Writer: Amanda Sharp
Producer: Katie Mustard
Starring: Rose Leslie, Ray Liotta, Justin Bartha, Gina Rodriguez
Director: Nick Frew
Writer: Nick Frew
Producers: Vicky Petela, Martin Desmond Roe, Chris Uettwiller
Starring: Catherine Tate, Jonathan Cake, Tituss Burgess
Quick FixGrowing up in Wyoming, ten-year-old Rose is happily at home out hunting birds with her family. However, when she rises to her older brother’s dare and swallows the heart of a mourning dove while cleaning the day’s take, she begins to worry that the heart in her belly will sprout into a fully formed dove. The burgeoning conviction that she is carrying a bird around in her stomach alters the entire experience of the hunt, and drives her to confront her fears about growing older and shedding her tomboy skin.
26m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katrina Whalen
Writer: Katrina Whalen
Producers: Katrina Whalen, John Parlante
Starring: Georgie Charette, Charlie Koss, Sophie Cheroutes, Doug Hall
The Visit
During an encounter with his aging mother, a man must face the unimaginable consequences of his dubious past.
13m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Romina Schwedler
Writer: Romina Schwedler
Producers: Romina Schwedler, Alain J. Carmona, Ruben Rodas
Starring: June Squibb, Sean Maher
Hit & RunAn alcoholic desperate to end his life encounters a prostitute desperate to start hers. After an initial repulsion to each other they soon discover each has something to offer the other.
20m/UK/2016/World Premiere
Director: Hannah Pike
Writer: Hannah Pike
Producer: Hannah Pike
Starring: Jack Deam & Katie West
Legal proceedings and intimate family dynamics dovetail in Custody. Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law-school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno plays the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill-timed argument.
104m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: James Lapine
Writer: James Lapine
Producers: Katie Mustard, Lauren Versel
Starring: Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ellen Burstyn
ROCKET:
Rocket tells a bittersweet fairy tale set in the world of 1950's dirt track racing. With a legacy traditionally passed down from father to son, Annie Pankratz strives to build a destiny all her own.
29m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Brenna Malloy
Writers: Ian Hock & Brenna Malloy
Producer: Sarah Hulsman
Starring: Lizzie Clarke, Cameron Diskin
LITTLE STONES:
From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, LITTLE STONES follows four women from around the world who use art to empower women and girls.
87m/Brazil, Germany, India, Kenya, Senegal, USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Sophia Kruz
Writer: Sophia Kruz
Producers: Sophia Kruz (producer), Meena Singh (co-producer)
Starring: Sohini Chakraborty, Panmela Castro, Anna Taylor, Sister Fa
The story of an inspired painter, Brian Peterson, whose journey of love started with the befriending of a homeless man in his neighborhood of Santa Ana but grew into something greater than he had imagined.
13m/USA/2015/CO Premiere
Director: Daud Sani
Producers: Wendy Campbell, Daud Sani
Starring: Brian and Vanessa Peterson
The Gateway Bug
Following the rise and dramatic fall of edible insect start-ups in America, this film exposes America’s disconnect with food as climate catastrophe, uncovering daily habits individuals can alter to fix the broken food system, one meal at a time. From the front lines of climate-affected communities, the film converts viewers into activists, igniting social change. From commercial cricket farms to bug eating festivals and lawmakers on capitol hill it includes interviews with the UN, USDA, Climate Foundation and TV chef Andrew Zimmern. Recent studies show a global shift to an ento/plant-based diet would reduce mortality 10% and cut up to 70% of Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050, The Gateway Bug shares the key towards a brighter future from an intimate insider’s journey.
82m/USA/2017/CO Premiere
Director: Johanna B Kelly
Writers: Johanna B Kelly & Cameron Marshad
Producers: Johanna B Kelly & Cameron Marshad
Starring: Andrew Zimmern, Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Kevin Bachhuber, Pat Crowley, Tyler Isaac
A mysterious phone call gets a lonesome photographer involved with a seductive woman and her enigmatic husband.
25m/Netherlands/2016
Director: Sander van Dijk
Writer: Sarah Offringa
Producers: Emeline Bakker, Julia Notenboom, Jesper Olyve
Starring: Lykele Muus, Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Cees Heyne
Gardeners of the Forrest
For generations, Laos was known as the Land of a Million Elephants. Today, there are around 400 elephants left in Laos.
14m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Directors: Ceylan Carhoglu, Nicole Jordan-Webber
Producers: Ceylan Carhoglu, Nicole Jordan-Webber
Icarus
When a Mars colony's communication satellite is damaged, Emilia Riley embarks on a seemingly harmless repair excursion. A shuttle malfunction cuts connectivity to the ground and Chris, her son, makes the knee jerk decision to go after her.
20m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Tom Teller
Writers: Andrew Guastaferro & Tom Teller
Producer: Michelle Evans
Starring: Jason Tobias, Julia Farino, Thurston Hill
My Cousin Klara
Two young girls on the run, get a ride from a dangerous man.
8m/Sweden/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Aviva Neuman
Writers: Aviva Neuman and Eric Salmon
Producer: Jorge A. Alfaro
Starring: Freddie Mosten, Anastasia Leppist, Johan Jonason
Rocket
Rocket tells a bittersweet fairy tale set in the world of 1950's dirt track racing. With a legacy traditionally passed down from father to son, Annie Pankratz strives to build a destiny all her own.
29m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Brenna Malloy
Writers: Ian Hock & Brenna Malloy
Producer: Sarah Hulsman
Starring: Lizzie Clarke, Cameron Diskin
Still Sophie
Four and a half years ago, young talent Sophia Salveson’s life changed forever. Doctors said she may never walk again, may never talk again...may never perform again. They were wrong.
7m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Caroline Knight
Writers: Caroline Knight & Chad McClarnon
Producer: Chad McClarnon
Starring: Sophia Salveson
Visitors
A broken and divided family struggles to survive after a group of uninvited visitors invade their farm.
15m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Alon Juwal
Writer: Alon Juwal
Producers: Alon Juwal, Kseniya Yorsh
Starring: Nick Unger, Kei'la Ryan, Tim Juliano
A brother and sister become consumed with investigating a mysterious woman they suspect has stolen their winning lottery ticket, endangering their summer party plans.
81m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Directors: Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell
Writers: Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell
Producers: Ali Levin, Dan Erickson, Rachel Wortell, Lily Meyer
Starring: Lily Meyer, Dan Erickson, Keith Bethea, Becky Abrams, Michele Hierholzer, Jess Magee, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Arthur Meyer, John Haskell
104m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: James Lapine
Writer: James Lapine
Producers: Katie Mustard, Lauren Versel
Starring: Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ellen Burstyn
Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend, 'The Tree' is a poignant, heart-warming story about an 88 year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend. Along the way, Dorothy meets hurting individuals from several walks of life, and imparts the wisdom of long years and the comfort of her beautiful spirit to one and all.
94m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Writers: Mary Settle Pruitt and Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Producers: Mary Settle Pruitt and Stephen Wallace Pruitt
Starring: Joicie Appell
Modern Houses is a psychological-thriller about the creative process. Following a breakdown, architecture’s celebrated young star is finally ready to unveil the model that will be her greatest design. With the client at the door and her face staring back at her from the cover of Architectural Digest, she hears a whisper.
17m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Matthew Dixon
Writer: Matthew Dixon
Producers: Kate Williams and Louise Williams
Starring: Lili Taylor
Jack and JillTwo best girlfriends take a small town by storm on what could be their last weekend together.
15m/USA/2017
Director: Nikhil Melnechuk
Writer: Nikhil Melnechuk
Producers: Nicole Cosgrove, Spencer Gillis, Ludovic Littee, Nikhil Melnechuk, Melissa Jackson, Kim Waltrip
Starring: Melissa Jackson, Ellen Hollman, Michelle Hendley, Damian Young, John Buffalo Mailer
Think FastA business woman on a tight deadline must choose to either hang up on a wrong-number caller in crisis -- or commit career suicide.
12m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Bridget Stokes
Writer: Jan Stanton
Producers: Bridget Stokes, Bo Bilstrup
Starring: Molly Stanton, T.J. Power, Jaz Sinclair
SafeZoneFatima, a twelve year-old Syrian girl, tells her harrowing story of escape from war as she tries to rebuild her life and pursue her dream of music and school. As she deals with PTSD, Fatima illustrates the compassionate bond of family as she struggles with becoming a young woman in a refugee camp.
9m/Australia, Egypt, USA/2017
Directors: Marco Bollinger, Jodie Livingston
Producers: Marco Bollinger, Marjon Javadi Jodie Livingston, Josh Ludmir, David Tarlet
Boycott Band: The Return of OneA washed-up boyband in North Carolina rides House Bill 2 to fame and fortune.
22m/USA/2016
Director: Habib Yazdi
Writers: Will Chambliss, Owen Tingle, David McClay, Habib Yazdi
Producers: Frank Sun, Chau Mui, Regina Brizzolara
Starring: Arya Ghavamian, Owen Fitzgerald, Alex Maiolo, Andy Becker, Jon Gartner
99m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Courtney Moorehead Balaker
Writer: Courtney Moorehead Balaker Based on the book by: Jeff Benedict
Producers: Ted Balaker, Joel Soisson, Courtney Moorehead Balaker, Arielle Boisvert
Starring: Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Callum Keith Rennie, Colin Cunningham, Aaron Douglas, Giacomo Baessato
When a police sting goes bad, a master criminal (Wallace Chung, Drug War) makes a desperate choice: he forces the cops to shoot him. Once there, he refuses treatment, instead waiting for his cohorts to break him out. Caught between an obsessed cop (Louis Koo, Triad Election) and the troubled surgeon assigned to save his life (Zhao Wei, RED CLIFF), the hospital is now a taught-and-tense situation that could turn into a bloody battleground at any moment.
88m/Hong Kong/2016
Director: Johnnie To
Writers: Yau Nai Hoi, Lau Ho Leung, Mak Tin Shu
Producers: Johnnie To, Nai-Hoi Yau
Starring: Vicki Zhao, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung
Out of the limelight, under the streetlight, enter the world of NYC’s transgender underclass. One church opens its doors to provide meals, clothing and sometimes, a little drag show magic.
30m/USA/2016
Director: Sasha Pezenik
Producer: Sasha Pezenik
WasteRoger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate and foodie, Olive. But as the meals become increasingly strange, and push the limits of curiousity, Roger must ask himself how far he will go for love?
16m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Justine Raczkiewicz
Writers: Justine Raczkiewicz, Amelia Gray
Producers: Justine Raczkiewicz, Domenica Castro
Starring: Sarah Bartholomew, Luke Baines
ValenciaWhile driving to the reading of her father’s will, Catherine is faced with an anomaly on the side of the road.
7m/USA/2016/World Premiere
Director: Logan George
Writer: Celine Held, Logan George
Producers: Celine Held, Logan George
Starring: Celine Held, Mia Vallet
Free to LaughFree to Laugh is about the power of comedy after prison.
15m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Lara Everlyn
Producer: Elease Lui Stemp
The Fixxers
Agents from the future are sent back in time to find a hidden genome placed in unsuspecting Los Angeles residents by the Russian Government.
7m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Directors: Caitlin Norton and Geoff McClelland
Writer: Caitlin Norton
Producers: Caitlin Norton, Geoff McKellen, Maxfield Lund
Starring: Caitlin Norton, Maxfield Lund, Jeff Elam, Tyler Wolfe, Jamen Spitzer, and Kim Estes
Schmoolie the Deathwatcher
A Jewish teen spends his first night alone guarding a body awaiting burial, and ends up fighting for his own life.
10m/USA/2015/CO Premiere
Director: Michael Ray Escamilla
Writer: Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
Producers: Theresa Burkhart Gallagher, Diana C. Zollicoffer, Michael Ray Escamilla, Bo Bilstrup (Co-Producers Najeeb Khuda and Andrew Joustra)
Starring: Jesse Heiman, David Barrera, Mark Kelly, Barry Neikrug, Caitlin Geier, Caleb Thomas
The Julie Stories
Staten Island, New York, 1993. Big Julie has been a bus driver for 25 years and wants his piece of the American Dream. When he sees an infomercial for a new franchise business, he quits his job and sets out to get rich! But door-to-door is not his thing, and his family must step in to help him avoid utter failure.
15m/USA/2017/World Premiere
Director: Julio Vincent Gambuto
Writer: Julio Vincent Gambuto
Producers: Amanda Milius, Thembi L. Banks
Starring: Joseph Callari, Andrea Helene, Judith Scarpone, Dylan Naber
A young mother and her precocious teenage daughter, living out of their car, find an unlikely home and makeshift family in small town America. When their new life begins to unravel, they hold fast to each other to overcome their circumstances together.
98m/USA/2016/CO Premiere
Director: Katie Holmes
Writers: Josh Boone (Screenplay), Jill Killington, Annie Weatherwax (Novel)
Producers: Katie Holmes, Katie Mustard, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh
Starring Katie Holmes, Stefania Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Eve Lindley, Judy Greer