First Run Film Festival | Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Dana Hammond and Family
Waiting for Rusty - Matt Firpo
13:45 min
A classic noir about three brash bankrobbers on the run, about long hours spent in bars, and about young love lost.
Wedding Cake Dance - Luke Howard
13:00 min
When a pill-popping young man unwillingly visits a wedding cake store with his fiancé, he realizes the pill he took may not be the drug he thought it was...
The Wind Is Blowing On My Street - Saba Riazi
15:00 min
A young girl in Tehran/Iran accidentally gets left on the street with no head scarf. She is forced to interact with a neighbor who keeps her company in an environment where her mishap could equal trouble.
Winter's Bone - Debra Granik
1:40:00 min
17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Words - Max Strebel
1:43 min
A silhouetted figure struggles against a violent environment composed solely of written text. The faceless character can't escape the attacks and must consume the words in order to create an ideal world. "Words" is an experimental animation made up of over 800 paintings done directly on pages of text.
WWJD - Marc Parees
12:30 min
George, a struggling pitchman for a religious pyramid scheme, stumbles upon an amazing opportunity to capitalize on a money laundering hand off. Now he must decide whether Jesus would take the money. His capacity for rationalization might be endless, causing as much trouble as it solves.
