Connecticut Film Festival 2008

They came from outer space. They have been among us for more than a year but we have yet to see them. Tonight, The Visitors will finally reveal themselves and their plans for humanity. With the planet's fate in the balance, all the people of Earth can do is watch and wait, and party.

Nathan Weller is an unapologetic germophobe. Aside from weekly group therapy, he lives in total isolation, spending his days in a sealed-off bubble of an apartment. That is, until a killer plague hits, the outside world succumbs, and a knock on his airtight window changes everything.

When 15 year old runaway Ana steals back home for her things, her twin sister Maria must either forfeit Ana's freedom or let her go, and Ana discovers what she really came back for.

The film follows the kids of Mith Samlanh/Friends International as they unflinchingly tell their simply stories. The film consists almost entirely of the children talking about themselves, their lives, their hopes and their dreams.The film also tracks the creation of life-sized self-portraits that the children painted in response the question, "What do you see when you close your eyes?".

Whirlygirl is the name of an exotic dancer hired to entertain at a party thrown by Raol and James, two prep school students. The party goes off without a hitch, but a family heirloom watch goes missing, and Whirley Girl is suspected. James tracks down Whirly Girl to her New York City apartment and the two forge an unusual friendship, wherein strait-laced James learns to take risks (skipping school, dodging police officers, etc) and wild Alice manages to reconnect with her family, end her scandalous relationships, and realize her dream of becoming a legitimate dancer.

THE WHOLE TRUTH is an animated work that analyzes certain aspects of human interaction by decontextualizing individual contributions to an 'overly polite' conversation. Three parts of a conversation between a husband, wife and unexpected visitor are edited in order obtain abstract, discrete monologues. Finally, all three parts are re-assembled to reveal the true implications of the discussion.