Featured Event: Minnesota Music Videos

8:00 PM, Saturday, 10/7
Venue: UMFO Lounge at Blacklist
*Minnesota Made
*Multiple Directors in attendance
World Premiere: “Nighthawk” by Justin Courtney Pierre
Free Performance by Hastings 3000

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Featuring Directors Patrick Pierson (in attendance), Justin Staggs (in attendance), Shane Nelson (in attendance), Cody Lee Brown, Effy Kawira, Bo Hakala, Philip and Otto Harder, and additional Directors TBA.

Featuring music by Hastings 3000, Justin Courtney Pierre, Foo Fighters, Melismatics, Shippee, Volk, and more…

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Short Film BlockTrey Wodele
Crisitunity

7:00 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Spirit of the North Theatre
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

Extraction - Directed by Moira (Meery) Villiard
Literacy for Freedom: Empowering Black Boys in Minnesota - Directed by Deacon Warner (in attendance)
object permanence - Directed by Kayla Schiltgen (in attendance)
Down For The Count - Directed by Penn Pauletich (in attendance)
Happy Hour - Directed by Gene Halverson (in attendance)
The Bus Ride - Directed by Nathan Block
Growing Up Absurd - Directed by Ben Balcom
The Freaks Game - Directed by Adam Khelah
Resurrectionists - Let Me Talk You Through This One - Directed by Eric Arsnow

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Short Film BlockTrey Wodele
This Absurd Life

7:00 PM, Friday 10/6, Spirit of the North Theatre
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

Seed of Perfection, Directed by Dan S (in attendance)
Everything I Learned When My House Burned Down, Directed by Joe Pickett
Pendulum, Directed by Britt Falardeau
Tiny Thing, Directed by Joshua Giuliano
Gifts Are My Love Language, Directed by Jonathan De Guzman II
Pickup, Directed by Christine Delp (in attendance)
The Alkonost, Directed by Christianne Hedtke (in attendance)

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Short Film BlockTrey Wodele
It's In the Water

6:30 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

Swimming Through - Directed by Samantha Sanders
Staying Afloat - Directed by Robert Enriquez (Writer Amber Nolen, in attendance)
Chuckle-fish - Directed by Giles Timms
Mani En Ise (Water Is Alive) - Directed by Joshua Duane Clark (in attendance)
Damp Moss - Directed by Christopher Thompson
Tiny Titanic - Directed by Mike Scholtz (in attendance)
House of Mischievous Spirits - Directed by Tommy Higgins (in attendance, Jay Stoneburner, AC / actor in attendance)

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Short Film BlockTrey Wodele
EDU Film Festival Presents: A Horror High Film Camp Production

4:15, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
Directors and youth crew in attendance

2019: Spare Change - Directed by Andrew Hunt
2021: Slur - Directed by Jeremy Bandow
2022: Shadow Puppet - Directed by Penn Pauletich (in attendance)
2022: Behind-the-Scenes at Horror High ‘23- Directed by Dante Davison
2022: Music Video: The World Premiere of Justin Courtney Pierre's,Firehawk” - Directed by Justin Staggs (in attendance)

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International Shorts

7:00 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 2

Warsha - Directed by Dania Bdeir (France)
Nest - Directed by Hlynur Pálmason (Denmark)
Nothing Holier Than A Dolphin - Directed by Isabella Margara (Greece)
Ecce - Directed by Margherita Premuroso (Italy)
A Dead Marriage - Directed by Michał Toczek (Poland)

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Short Film BlockTrey Wodele
If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula: A Michigan Shorts Program

8:00 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

Unemployees - Directed by Joel Potrykus
The Plant Boy
- Directed by Dylan Mitchell (in attendance)
Nature Bear Exxxtreme
- Directed by Toko Shiiki
Powerful Solutions by DarrenCorp: Crisis Resolution - Directed by Darren Herczeg
Trouble With Johnny
- Directed by Paul Echeverria
You Have Been Lied To
 
- Directed by Mitch McCabe (in attendance)
Island
- Directed by Jack Cronin

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EDU FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: 2023 FESTIVAL STANDOUTS

5:00 PM, Friday 10/6, Spirit of the North Theatre

Kisses! - Directed by Alicia Moore and Maddie Tatum, MN USA
The Lacquer Cowboy - Directed by Otis King, MN USA (in attendance)
Pino's Fresh -
Directed by Franklin Weaver, MN USA
Backyard Dogs -
Directed and Animated by Erin O’Daniel, MN USA
Distress -
Directed and Animated by Aden George, CA USA
Hindering Comparison -
Directed by Nicholas Long, MN USA
Hear Me Now -
Directed by Jamie M Davis, MN USA
The Return of Major Tom - Directed by Alexsys Giraud and Matthew Wilson, MI USA
Full Circle -
Directed by ECO the Kid, MN USA (in attendance)

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EDU FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: YOUTH SHORTS

3:00 PM, Friday 10/6, Spirit of the North Theatre

Water, Star Medicine - Directed by Middle School Students from Turquoise Trail Charter/ MESA w/ Mentor Llysa Spencer, NM USA / New Zealand
Me. My eleven years. War. -
Directed by Marusya Shuvalova, Brovary/Kyiv Ukraine
My Dinner with Dean -
Directed by Nico Rivera, MN USA
Savitri
- Directed by Crestwood 4th & 5th Graders w/ mentor Luke Bassuener, WI USA
The Power of Water-
Directed by Marusya Shuvalova, Brovary/Kyiv Ukraine
What is wrong with us? -
Directed by Marusya Shuvalova, Brovary/Kyiv Ukraine
The Girl Next Door -
Directed by Danna Gilbertson and Jocelyn Rose Sanchez, MN USA

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