Each Spring, the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television proudly presents the First Run Festival to showcase over 120 advanced projects in film, video, and animation. This annual week-long festival begins with the Craft Awards Ceremony and Wasserman Finalists Announcement and culminates with the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards. Presented by the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television. The upcoming festival is scheduled from March 25-30, 2009. All festival screenings will be held at the Cantor Film Center located at 36 East 8th Street. Note that each film will be screened only once and all screenings are held in Room 200 of the Cantor Film Center.
Festival Awards are available under the "Downloads" link to the right or by clicking here.
Below is the schedule for the 2009 festival:
2009 First Run Festival Screening Schedule
Cantor Film Center
Room 200
Wednesday / March 25
3 pm
UNDERGRADUATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP PROJECTS
Dorian Carli-Jones
PICTURES OF YOU 15 minutes
Samantha McElhaney
THREE LITTLE PUPPETS 8 minutes
Emma Lundberg
FAMILIAR, MILWAUKEE 15 minutes
Daniel Gvozden
AN OLD HOPE 15 minutes
Tim Young
THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF JIMMY SWASH 15 minutes
Swati Kapila
THE UNDERTAKER 14:44 minutes
Wednesday / March 25
5 pm
GRADUATE THESIS PROJECTS
Michelle Chai
THE PICNIC 15 minutes
Jit Fong Oon
UNSPOKEN 12 minutes
Randy Wilkins
OSVALDO'S 18 minutes
Diego Lummis
ESPEJO DE AGUA (WATER MIRROR) 19 minutes
Stephen Dypiangco
ALL AMERICANA 11:45 minutes
Stephen Hutchinson
NIGHTS 18 minutes
Wednesday / March 25
7 pm
UNDERGRADUATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP, ANIMATION, AND ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS
Joey DePaolo
POST MORTEM 13:51 minutes
Gandja Monteiro
SHE'S A BLUR 15 minutes
Brian Hedden
HORSES EAT EACH OTHER 15 minutes
Richard Giannotti
THE NEWS SENSATION 12 minutes
Josh Sachs
SYNDICATE 5 minutes
Joy Smith
THE PIANIST 3 minutes
Dan Clifton
FOR ALL MANKIND 15 minutes
Kendra Elliott
THE BOOGEYMAN 4:01 minutes
Stephen Neary
CHICKEN COWBOY 6:21 minutes
Wednesday / March 25
9 pm
GRADUATE THESIS PROJECTS
Robert Alan Rackham
CHICKEN 19 minutes
Wing-Yee Wu
TIGER 15 minutes
Thomas Perry
ONLY YOU 15 minutes
Tanya Steele
SINK 14 minutes
John Nijhawan
DAN AND A VAN 25 minutes
Thursday / March 26
3 pm
GRADUATE 3RD YEAR COLLABORATIONS AND 2ND YEAR FILMS
Levi Abrino
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK IS NOT AN OPTION 10 minutes
Brooke Swaney
UNDERTOW 6:02 minutes
Marni Zelnick
DOE 13 minutes
Danielle Morgan
THE VISITED 10 minutes
Josiah Signor
SEQUOIA BLUE 11 minutes
Mikey Reyes
THE MISSING 9 minutes
Shelly Grizim
NO SUCH PLACE 15 minutes
Neil Orman
LOOBEY'S COCOON 6:20 minutes
Tamika Guishard
SOUL T' SOUL 11:30 minutes
Thursday / March 26
5 pm
UNDERGRADUATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP AND ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Candace Lee
MY DEAR ELIZABETH ROBINS 15 minutes
Michael Goldberg
BOO 12 minutes
Matthew Patches
MUDDER TONGUE 15 minutes
Sophia Lucchesi
SUBSTANDARD 15 minutes
Geoffrey Shrewsbury
A BIRD IN THE HAND 15 minutes
Joseph Pettinati
FAMILY MEETING 22 minutes
Thursday / March 26
7 pm
GRADUATE 2ND YEAR AND THESIS PROJECTS
Charalambos Mavromichalis
ANA LUCIA 15 minutes
Kim Spurlock
DOWN IN NUMBER 5 18 minutes
Joshua Hume
WILLIAM'S CHRISTENING 15:03 minutes
Carlo Mirabella Davis
KNIFE POINT 26:18 minutes
Imogen Thomas
MIXED BAG 15 minutes
Thursday / March 26
9 pm
UNDERGRADUATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP AND ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Alon Simcha
JUNE 12 minutes
Andrew Wonder
PARK 4 minutes
Eric Krausz
LAST CHAPTER 10 minutes
Andrew Wonder
SUGAR PARK TAVERN 8:15 minutes
Gillian Horvat
LIVE TILL YOU DIE 29:59 minutes
Joseph Lombardi
THE FAMILY GARDENER 15 minutes
Richard Joneleit
SWEET SENSATION 25 minutes
Friday / March 27
3 pm
UNDERGRADUATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP, ANIMATION, AND ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS
Tristian Goik
A CLIFFSIDE ROMANCE 2:30 minutes
Guenever Goik
FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT 4:30 minutes
Cordelia Siporin
THE DRAGON COLLECTION 3 minutes
Joy Smith
DEPTH PERCEPTION 3 minutes
Stephen Michael Simon
WHEN SHARKS DIE 14:30 minutes
David Yim
REBECCA AND THE FISH 13 minutes
Emily Keslar
BEAR 15 minutes
Jack McDonald
JAGUAR HUNTER 30 minutes
Friday / March 27
5 pm
GRADUATE 3RD YEAR COLLABORATIONS AND 2ND YEAR PROJECTS
Charalambos Mavromichalis
FINLEY 12 minutes
Shang-Sing Guo
TRANSLUCENT 16:10 minutes
Marc Parees
SAVETA'S GIFT 13:30 minutes
Katy Scoggin
SLAVENKA 9:25 minutes
Jason (JSOK) Sokoloff
MR. BROOKLYN 14 minutes
Michael Rossetti
SCION 12 minutes
Isaac Brody
THE RAFFLE 10:30 minutes
Friday / March 27
7 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Jonathan Sanden
EXTROPY 15:30 minutes
John de Menil
THERE WILL BE PEACE WHEN YOU ARE DONE 20 minutes
Razan El-Ghalayini
NOOR 24 minutes
Adriano Valentini
CLUBSCENE 30 minutes
Friday / March 27
9 pm
GRADUATE 2ND YEAR FILMS
Shang-Sing Guo
UNACCOMPANIED 9 minutes
Marie Dvorakova
LOW TIDE 14 minutes
Vincent Ma
THE RED ROPE 10 minutes
Micah Schaffer
REV 13 minutes
Julius Onah
THE BOUNDARY 12 minutes
Zelmira Gainza-Bemberg
THE ROAD TO AULIS 13 minutes
Genjiro Mizuhashi
UMAMI 12 minutes
Spencer Kiernan
THE CHEETAH 9 minutes
Saturday / March 28
11 am
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCE PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Jed Rosenberg
FOUR LITTLE PIGGIES 25 minutes
Jason Baum
ROCK BOTTOM 22 minutes
Daniel Fitch
BLACK GOLD 2051 31:05 minutes
Micaela Works
LIPSTICK KILLERS 20 minutes
Saturday / March 28
1 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Stuart Shapiro
EMPTY NESTERS 16 minutes
Max Nova
THE SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE 17 minutes
Yaron Kaver
TIME AND PLACE 17:30 minutes
Nicholas Wong
HOUSE OF WONG 17:11 minutes
Brendan Ferrer
NUMBER NINE 25 minutes
Saturday / March 28
3 pm
GRADUATE FEATURE PROJECT
Rania Ajami
ASYLUM SEEKERS 85 minutes
Saturday / March 28
5 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION AND ANIMATION PROJECTS
Brian Rolling
FATHER'S DAY 21 minutes
Derek Dabkoski
NEW MORNING 14 minutes
David Heiman
WHAT THEY WANT 17:10 minutes
Stephen Mackenzie
MEA SCULPTA 3 minutes
Giancarlo Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEYMOUR 30 minutes
Saturday / March 28
7 pm
GRADUATE 2ND YEAR PROJECTS
Jeremy Brunjes
BIRTHDATE 11 minutes
Lee Manansala
BELGIUM BEN 12 minutes
Jamal Caesar
IN 'THE WAITING ROOM' 13 minutes
Han Lee
WALKING WHILE SLEEPING 10 minutes
Rashaad Ernesto Green
PREMATURE 15 minutes
Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
ADELAIDE 12:30 minutes
Kai Orion
COPPER ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK 15 minutes
Saturday / March 28
9 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ANIMATION, NARRATIVE WORKSHOP AND ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Catherine Min
BILLO 4 minutes
Becca Friedman
SHELTERED 15 minutes
Matthew Morgenthaler
LOVE LESSONS FOR MILES 15 minutes
Augustine Downes
HANGOVERS AND TRYPTOPHAN 15 minutes
Nick Koenig
STRAWBERRY-BANANA 17 minutes
Scott Rashap
CHARITABLE CAUSES 26 minutes
Nikki Ramey
DRESS UP 16 minutes
Sunday / March 29
11 am
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Greg Stees
ZACK ROGERS: PIZZA DELIVERY 15:40 minutes
Nathaniel Rovit
THE WHITE WEDDING 23 minutes
Zachary Wigon
DON'T WALK AWAY IN SILENCE 17 minutes
Jeff Chan
SUCKERPUNCH 30 minutes
Sunday / March 29
1 pm
GRADUATE FEATURE PROJECT
Paolo Marinou-Blanco
GOODNIGHT IRENE 98 minutes
Graduate Feature, 35mm
Sunday / March 29
3 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Steven Turnwall
THE RED BALL 22 minutes
J.J. Oracz
A LONG AWAITED TEA PARTY 20 minutes
Gabriel Frye-Behar
CLEAN KILL 16:38 minutes
Bornila Chatterjee
DIDA REEMA ANJANA 13:06 minutes
Nardeep Khurmi
IN SEARCH OF AZTEC GOLD 22 minutes
Sunday / March 29
5 pm
GRADUATE THESIS FILMS
Christopher Ciancimino
THE EDGE OF TOWN 28 minutes
Nicolas Calzada
GLORIA & ERIC 16:50 minutes
Alrick Brown
US: A LOVE STORY 30 minutes
Joseph Saito
A LONE STAR STATE 22 minutes
Sunday / March 29
7 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTION PROJECTS
Richard Bates, Jr.
EXCISION 18:15 minutes
Suraj Das
ARRANGED 27 minutes
Brendan Bellomo
BOHEMIBOT 25 minutes
Andrew Simkiss
SANE JULES BLAINE 20 minutes
Sunday / March 29
9 pm
UNDERGRADUATE ADVANCED PRODUCTIONS
Zack Akers
GO DOWN TO JORDAN 20 minutes
Patrick Steward
THE HOLLOW TREE 28 minutes
Danny Turken
AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS ALEX 24 minutes
Shal Ngo
THE GLOW OF A WARM AQUARIUM 28 minutes
