BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:AddEvent BEGIN:VEVENT UID:55e62f5c3ae64 DTSTAMP;TZID=UTC:20220121T175938 DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T180000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T200000Z LOCATION:United Artists Horton Plaza 8 SUMMARY:Student Shorts (Sat, Oct 7, 11:00am) DESCRIPTION:Student films from San Diego and around the world highlight topics and issues on everyone’s mind. \n86 min \nI Have to Kill my Professor \nDirector: Jonathan Pickett \nProducers: Analise Nelson, Brenna Ross, Riley McQuown, Margaret Mann \nCast: Gerardo Muñoz, Steve Froehlich, Andrew Benson \nSynopsis: The escalating pressure of a difficult college course launches Adam into an anxiety-fueled plot to kill his professor. \n \nDated \nDirector: Daniel Lachman \nProducer: Michael Price \nCast: Daniel Lachman, Summer Sorrenti, Samantha Westervelt \nSynopsis: Over the course of a first date, a man and woman in their mid-20s discuss the notion of romance in the 21st century and reminisce about an earlier time period, but their night takes an unexpected turn. \n \nHead Above Water \nDirector: Eric Shahinian \nProducer: Yimei Maya Huang \nCast: Chiz Schultz, Eileen Miller, Anne-Marie Agbodji, Alecia Hurst, Rose Hanish, Jose Ramos, Stephen Melton \nSynopsis: A devoted husband is forced to confront his doubts about remaining the caretaker of his wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease. \n \nChicken Beauty Peagent \nDirector: Nurul Amirah Haris \nProducer: Jessica Novia Sutrisno, Eunice Tan Hui En \nCast: Haji Yusof, Santo Prabowo, Abdul Hakim \nSynopsis: They have style, confidence, long legs, big boobs and...gleaming feathers? Enter the world of chicken beauty pageants in Indonesia and Malaysia where champion pint-sized Serama chickens can fetch up to tens of thousands of dollars. Meet owners cuckoo over their prized poultry, chicken beauticians, pageant judges and enter the wacky and bizarre world of chicken beauty pageants. \n \nUncle Tommy \nDirector: Tan Shi Ying \nProducer: Tan Shi Ying \nCast: Tommy Yu \nSynopsis: To certain cultures, methods of burial and last rites pose the only certainty in one's dealings with death. For isolated individuals, how their physical remains are managed poses a greater issue of dignity and respect. This short documentary brings us beyond the scene of death itself into the intricate processes that bring closure to the dead in the mortal world, through the work of undertaker Tommy Yu with the isolated elderly and deceased back in Singapore. \n \nSlide \n \nHurt People \nDirector: Gabriel Gaurano; Jayden Gillespie; Navin Bose \nProducer: Mark Raines; Brad Kester \nSynopsis: An exploration of the causes of bullying as seen through the eyes of Brandon, a young man unsure of his sexuality, after he is humiliated by his new friend. \n \nDibashram \nDirector: Weilee Yap \nProducer: Weilee Yap \nSynopsis: Our fiery red dot will not be where we are today if not for the migrant workers who tirelessly build our Home. Yet, they are, in many of our eyes, boorish workers who are to be shunned when we walk on the streets that they built. Here in Dibashram, a humble and cosy space tucked away in the busy streets of Rowell Road, these guys display their humanness that has been forgotten by the rest of us. It is where their souls come alive through the music that they play, the songs that they sing and the poems that they write. \n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR