Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2008

If there's one thing the Superkiiids! love more than 'The Back To The Future Trilogy' its HI-5's! And if there's one thing they love more than hi-5's its BUSTIN' OUT OF STUFF!!!!!!!!!! But don't take our word for it...

In her search for a new life, Jane heads west in search of a new life and an old house to fix up. She becomes stranded in a small town when her car breaks down, and the tow truck company won't arrive for hours. Lillian, a friendly waitress in a diner where Jane has taken refuge, offers the help of a fellow diner patron, Lyle. The unfriendly but seemingly easily coerced Lyle drives Jane out to her appointment with a real estate agent while on the way he becomes friendlier and increasingly inquisitive as to Jane?s intentions for her move. Lyle warns Jane that this town is not where she wants to be, and if it is peace and quiet she is looking for, she should look somewhere else. Once at the house, Jane realizes the real estate agent has stood her up, but Lyle has disappeared inside the house. Jane searches the dark house and finds Lyle hiding in the darkness. Lyle has turned from a shy local into a killer, and ties Jane up. Lillian arrives later that night in an old limousine and in a different state of mind where she enters the house where Jane is now taped to a chair. Lillian reveals her role in the grand scheme of the town, and Lillian beckons a strange supernatural occurrence, where her true identity is revealed.

A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS is a narrative short film about a young girl with an unusual affinity for dead things. Her perspective on mortality changes, however, when she makes an unsettling discovery in her backyard.

An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. We have adapted and brought it to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The look was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set.

'Chickamauga' is inspired by the events at Tri-State Crematory in Noble, GA, where in the winter of 2002 over 300 bodies were discovered rotting in the woods, piled in tool sheds and stacked in burial vaults. This discovery launched a local scandal that made international news, as families of the deceased learned that they were given concrete powder and dirt instead of the cremains of their loved ones. This short film is an effort to give people in the community a platform to express their grief, anger and confusion over the event. Through working with youth group leaders at churches, drama teachers from area high schools and the Chattanooga community theatre, I cast all locals, none of whom had any experience in front of the camera and many of whom had a direct connection to the crematory scandal, a process that resulted in a variety of connections from the mundane to the profound. For instance, Charles Patterson, who plays the crematory operator in the film, worked out at the gym with Brent Marsh, the actual crematory operator. Sharon Huey, who plays the mother, had her own mother sent to Tri-State only to learn that the body was never cremated. With the participation of the victim’s families and the county officials who worked on the “clean-up,” I have written a feature on which 'Chickamauga' is based, entitled 'Dirty South', to explore the line between fiction and nonfiction, performance and experience.

When a pair of adolescent girls end their friendship over a “dumb” boy, one of them turns to a middle-aged suburbanite for comfort.

Mother whips up an old holiday treat but with a new ingredient.