Last Thursday was the closing night for the first annual New York Short Film Festival held at the Cinema Village theatre in Greenwich Village.
The festival ran from November 4th through the 10th and presented three programs a night with various international and indie films. The festival director, Noël Day Bishop has produced large-scale projects with clients including Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, A&E, Vimeo and EMI Music.
The finale’s lineup included Sultan Al Saud’s Tradition about a boy who discovers his family’s darker and sinister secrets after receiving a crossbow as a Christmas present; Nick Ronan and Carlos Ibarra’s Vinyl Underground in which a homicide detective confides a recurring dream to his new therapist; Shal Ngo and Carmelle Kendall’s Loose Threads which follows an alcoholic who struggles to forget his past but finds a doll that brings back tortured memories of a lost loved one; Brad Rego’s Boundaries about a woman haunted by a creature under her bed that impedes upon her taking her relationship with her boyfriend to the next level; Aiden Devaney’s Night Terrors where a teenaged girl video records herself chronicling her troubled thoughts of a mysterious force that drives her to insanity; and Chateau Sauvignon: terroir by David Munz-Maire, a gruesome short about a vintner son’s disobedience and desire to care for his ailing mother.