Podcast Episode 9: Phoenix Film Festival

                            Tomgirl                                                                    Sugar Coated                                                    The Looking Planet

Out of the shorts we watched, these three were our favorites. You can follow the links to learn more about the them. You can also click here to listen to the podcast. Don't forget to leave you comments here too, we would love to hear from you.

Documentary Shorts
Tomgirl
Directed by Jeremy Asher Lynch
Synopsis: Jake, a gender non-conforming seven year-old, invites us into his world to explore the transforming power of love and support on our children.
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Sugar Coated
Directed by Chris Parson
Synopsis: Lolita, a fashion movement from Harajuku, Tokyo, has a thriving group of followers in Los Angeles. We follow four Lolitas and investigate their motivations for taking on the extreme style; from self-expression, to the questioning of identity and body image.
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Sci-fi Shorts
The Looking Planet
Directed by Eric Law Anderson
Synopsis: In the beginning, not everything went quite entirely according to plan. A rambunctious alien kid changes the course of history by playing with the moon. 
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These are the other shorts we watched, but didn't talk about in the podcast. They are still worth a look.


Doc Shorts
Half Sour
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Directed by Mary Anne Rothberg and Sean McGing
Synopsis: A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business.

Dockery & Son
Directed by Jack Truman
Synopsis: Dockery & Son is a documentary following a Mother and Son’s junk store and revealing an eye-opening slice of life at their real-life thrift store in the ghost town of Milford, Missouri: population 26.

SandorKraut
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Directed by Emily Lobsenz and Ann Husaini 
Synopsis: A portrait of the acclaimed food writer and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death.

Anna
Directed by Eric Latek
Synopsis: Anna is an intimate portrait through the eyes of Anna who is a wife, mother, grandmother and Native American activist who endures the final stage of Alzheimer's.  This film is only through her eyes.

Sci-Fi Shorts
Japanese Doctor Who
Directed by Joshua Kahan
Synopsis: One day a video tape fell from the sky into a young man's lap. On it was a video clip from a parallel universe wherein the Japanese had licensed Doctor Who and made it their own. This is that video clip. 

The Temporal Party
Directed by Ignacio J Reveco
Synopsis: Two grad students do a theoretical time traveling experiment; they organize a party for future time travelers, by sending the invitations after the party is finish. Their belief is struck when someone shows up claiming he is from the future. 

M-Theory
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Directed by TL Westgate
Synopsis:  Two scientists come up with a revolutionary way to make moving and shipping a breeze. Except such a discovery comes unintended consequences. 

Nostalgic
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Directed by Ronald Eltanal
Synopsis: An aging scientist must decide whether to give in to early-onset dementia, or to take an experimental drug which locks him into his memories, unable to form new ones. 

Super therapy!
Directed by Stig Morten Waage
Synopsis: A therapy-session for a seemingly normal couple. Every relationship has got problems, and she likes to face problems head on. Only this time, she can't. 

Valiant
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Directed by Robin Phillips
Synopsis: Set in a distant nuclear war-torn future, the Valiant Three set out on dangerous quest after finding a lost child princess who may hold the ticket to their freedom. However, they soon find themselves facing a choice between sacrificing the girl or living up to their reputation.