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Michigan Made Student Short Films

  • Opperman Auditorium in Park Library, CMU 250 East Preston Mount Pleasant, MI, 48859 United States (map)

A collection of short films made by students across the state of Michigan. Including:

SONGS FROM THE SKY (Director: Patrice Scott Jr. Grand Valley State University) After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that reading is a pathway to their freedom. Runtime: 12:30

HAVE A NICE DAY (Director: Remee Morse. Writer: Aidan McPartlin, Central Michigan University) Two friends begin butting heads after one of them lets in a bumbling vacuum salesman. Runtime: 30 minutes

SCATTERBRAIN (Director: Kincaid D. Hopkins, Motion Picture Institute) An unorganized writer named Levi convinces himself that there is a mysterious man living inside of his home, watching him. An unhealthy obsession begins as the man manifests into Levi’s work, all the while Levi struggles to prove that this stranger is real. 11 minutes

FEAST YOUR EYES (Director: Danielle Pollak, Michigan State University) An amateur producer of a reality TV show is drawn in by his subject's repressed hunger for human flesh. 25 minutes

PROTEUS (Director: Tanner Hamilton, Grand Valley State University) Two stranded astronauts descend into paranoia and madness after a mysterious deep-space accident. 12 minutes

THERE GOES STACY (Director: Gabriel Del Rosario, Wayne State University). In suburban Detroit in 1988, high schooler Bryan is the type of kid who stays out of trouble but has his eyes set on Stacy, his childhood friend. However, her overprotective boyfriend, Ted, forbids him from talking to her. Despite warnings against making a move even from his best friend Fraser, Bryan must trust his instincts and overcome the pressures of social hierarchy to reconnect with Stacy. Runtime: 18 min

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