PAST FESTIVALS >> 2009 LIST OF FILMS
Below is the program for the 2009 Festival. Due to the length of the program, the films will be split into two blocks with a ten minute intermission in between. Audience voting and awards ceremony will follow after the program. Below is the order in which the films will be screened.
Please note: Some of the films presented at the New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival may contain subject matter that may not be suitable for all audiences.
FILM BLOCK #1 [12:00-1:50 p.m.]
“36″ (9 min. 51 sec.; Drama)
Steven Urquhart
Nashua High School South, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: A friendship is starting to fade between Jack and Alan. They take a drive to fix things but the unexpected happens.
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“10 Minutes” (9 min. 20 sec.; Drama)
Paul Chavira
Keene High School, Keene
Filmmaker Synopsis: An 18 year-old high school boy becomes a victim of a deadly caller. Now he has to choose between killing a young boy or killing his family.
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“A New Tide” (9 min. 20 sec.; Documentary)
Amelia Wright
Cocheco Arts & Technology Academy, Dover
Filmmaker Synopsis: This film takes a look at the local environmental challenges we face.
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“Action City” (2 min. 35 sec.; Drama)
Joshua Davis
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: Josh is an action hero in a place called Action City.
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“Art Speaks” (9 min. 59 sec.; Documentary)
Kaleb Lounder, Matt Cheever, Dan Gilbert
Keene High School, Keene
Filmmaker Synopsis: “Art Speaks” is a short documentary diving into the culture and world of graffiti and its writers.
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“Billy Thunder’s Workout Plan” (5 min. 42 sec.; Comedy)
Ben Donahue
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: A misfit group of characters partake in a less-than-conventional workout.
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“Boy in the Snow” (9 min. 20 sec.; Drama)
Nick Kaschak
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Northwood
Filmmaker Synopsis: This is the story of one day in the life of a boy whose parents died in a fire.
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“Cirquet” (2 min. 33 sec.; Experimental)
Carson Lund
Nashua High School North, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: An enigmatic circus is staged involving two men with spiked hats ripping apart a fake baby before a raucous crowd of eccentrics.
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“Clay” (3 min. 47 sec.; Drama)
Alex Pickering
Concord High School, Concord
Filmmaker Synopsis: A child is exposed to various forms of media and their feelings become apparent in a Lego set.
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“dis*guise” (5 min. 06 sec.; Experimental)
Nick Deal
Concord High School, Concord
Filmmaker Synopsis: The story of a high school boy finding and losing the things that inspire his life. Very interpretive. Original score, composed by myself and the lead character, David Shore.
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“The Forgotten” (9 min. 56 sec.; Drama)
John Jarvis
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Northwood
Filmmaker Synopsis: A teenage girl named Kate wakes up in shock from a mysterious dream. As she continues throughout the day, she struggles to remember her past and is secretly stalked by a shadowy figure. A tragic encounter in her friend’s basement reveals all the answers.
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“The Free World” (9 min. 20 sec.; Drama)
Lucas San Juan
Dover High School, Dover
Filmmaker Synopsis: In the year 2086, the government controls its citizens with devices known as Freedom Chips. Beyond the border of the United States lies a loose confederation of nations known as the Free World. Many have attempted to cross the border to freedom. No one has ever made it.
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“gone water doesn’t mill anymore…” (7 min. 17 sec.; Experimental)
Niki Vanderpoel, Conner O’Brien
Keene High School, Keene
Filmmaker Synopsis: The film takes you through the water cycle, looking at how and where water comes from and how much we as humans use it. The film forces you to think about the process water goes through and how much we take it for granted.
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“In the Car… Off the Phone PSA” (1 min. 05 sec.; Drama)
Dylan Lovering
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: PSA encouraging viewers to stay off the phone when driving. Told through on pair of friends’ sad story. Produced as a Skills USA PSA entry.
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FILM BLOCK #2 [2:00-3:25 p.m.]
“The Incident” (4 min. 19 sec.; Comedy)
Emily Madison
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Northwood
Filmmaker Synopsis: A “horrible” incident happens during morning video announcements one day at a high school.
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“Insightful News, Episode 1” (9 min. 59 sec.; Comedy)
Dylan Rees
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: A fake news show that talks about fake drug busts, fake animals, and fake school epidemics.
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“The Interview” (10 min.; Comedy)
Christopher Lane
Lebanon High School, Lebanon
Filmmaker Synopsis: Three people are late for a very important interview. As they rush to make it on time, each character is held up by another applicant.
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“It’s All in Your Head” (5 min. 07 sec.; Comedy)
Jake Vekos
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: A story about a guy who is hallucinating and ends up in an insane asylum.
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“Just Another Conspiracy” (6 min. 10 sec.; Comedy)
Cam Steckler, Alex Petakov
Nashua High School South, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: In this improv comedy, an “assassin” sneaks around to eliminate his target in what may be a bigger conspiracy than Lee Harvey Oswald could ever pull off.
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“Just Like Us” (6 min. 19 sec.; Documentary)
Ryan DiEoreo
Pinkerton Academy, Derry
Filmmaker Synopsis: “Just Like Us” is a school club whose goal is to show Pinkerton Academy’s campus how students with disabilities are just like us. The club president, Eddie Zaremba, just won the Prudential Award for JLU and will go to Washington, D.C. to represent the club.
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“Kate” (3 min. 59 sec.; Drama)
William Donovan
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: Video about a girl trying to commit suicide and the boy who is trying to stop her.
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“Locker 166” (4 min. 10 sec.; Drama)
Theresa Shea
Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative High School, Wilton
Filmmaker Synopsis: A high school student gets locked inside a locker and is never rescued. Her ghost has haunted various people over the years, sucking them into her locker. It warns the viewer of what could happen if you are being haunted by her ghost.
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“The Package” (4 min. 30 sec.; Drama)
Louis Watt
Merrimack High School, Merrimack
Filmmaker Synopsis: A group of kids are trying to get something finished before it’s too late.
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“Parasi” (3 min. 17 sec.; Experimental)
Michael Basta
Nashua High School North, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: A surreal short that takes place in a forest where rotting wood and decrepit cabins lie.
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“Rival” (6 min. 30 sec.; Drama)
Maxwell McGee
Pinkerton Academy, Derry
Filmmaker Synopsis: “Rival” is a short action/drama about two teens with similar powers. They finally meet in a remote location to find out who is the best.
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“Shadow: Episode 1” (5 min. 21 sec.; Drama)
James Tomaszewski, Shannon Walden
Nashua High School North, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: “Shadow” is a weekly high school drama about a teenage boy who must deal with the ridicule of fellow students who blame him for his girlfriend’s death as well as the constant presence of the ghost of his girlfriend, Shadow. This is Episode 1 of the series.
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“Stupid Questions” (5 min. 27 sec.; Comedy)
Ben Casoni
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: Two friends turn enemies. One locks the other in a basement and forces him to answer questions.
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“Super Secret Project X” (4 min. 45 sec.; Experimental)
Michael Sanchez
Nashua High School North, Nashua
Filmmaker Synopsis: One man meets a strange character whose dreams and frustrations are deeply yet subtlely commoving.
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“WPD: Bridge Cops” (2 min. 29 sec.; Comedy)
Brendan Stackhouse
Kingswood Regional High School - Region 9 Vocational-Technical Center, Wolfeboro
Filmmaker Synopsis: Documents fictional arrests made at the No Swim Zone on Whitten Neck Road by the Wolfeboro Police Department.
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