BIFF Shorts: New York States

BIFF Shorts: New York States

Films from “upstate” and “downstate”... stories that could only happen in New York. (93 minutes total runtime)

Regular, Dan Mecca (Dir.), 7 minutes, USA, 2018

A bartender confronts a regular customer of hers in the wake of a polarizing event.

Director Dan Mecca in attendance.

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Uniform, Ellie Foumbi & Michael Niederman (Dirs.), 8 minutes, USA, 2018

A lesbian couple find themselves at odds with what to do when their 6-year old son is sent home from school for wearing a dress.

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In The Vice, Stavroula Toska (Dir.), 8 minutes, USA, 2018

A Wall Street business woman turns to an unlikely source for performance enhancing drugs.

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Old Habits, Sophie Ellsberg (Dir.), 14 minutes, USA, 2018

Two women are reunited at the scene of a hunting accident that left one of them disabled.

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Phantom Sugar, Grace Phillips (Dir.), 15 minutes, USA, 2018

Over the course of a workweek, a young woman takes cues from the universe to make serious life changes.

Director Grace Phillips in attendance.

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Butterflies, Cady McClain (Dir.), 13 minutes, USA, 2018

Abandoned by her childhood best friend, a teenager is inspired to fight back by contemplating the life cycle of a butterfly.

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Every Other Weekend, Josh Rothstein (Dir.), 19 minutes, USA, 2018

A day in the life story of a strong willed 10-year-old girl and her misguided alcoholic mother.

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Writer’s Block, Alex Mendez Giner (Dir.), 9 minutes, USA, 2018

A writer in the middle of her creative process, receives a series of anonymous packages with morbidly disturbing content.