Love, race, sexual identity and the pursuit of dreams are seen through the eyes of high school filmmakers in these revealing, timely and poignant explorations.
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Knit-Picky
Directed By: Bobby Jorgenson USA, 2011, 1 min
One sock gets off on the wrong foot and takes steps towards finding love.
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The Landlady
Directed By: Katherine Maxwell USA, 2011, 9 min
Billy Weaver needs a place to stay for the night, and finds a quaint bed-and-breakfast run by an eccentric landlady.
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Playing Pirates
Directed By: Hanna Peterson USA, 2011, 3 min
This experimental video poem represents a young girl remembering a terrible experience and looking at it in a positive way.
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Learn the Difference
Directed By: Rebecca Hutman, India Wilson, Adam Yaron USA, 2011, 1 min
Learn the Difference is a public service announcement produced by Righteous Conversations Project to encourage viewers to be conscious consumers.
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Binary
Directed By: Hunter Peterson USA, 2012, 5 min
A young boy finds a mechanical box that spits out messages written in binary code. He learns to communicate with it and forges a friendship with the box.
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Connecting the Dots
Directed By: Marissa Dodds USA, 2011, 7 min
A biracial teenager reflects on her experiences growing up with two cultures.
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Secret Club
Directed By: Ben Kadie USA, 2011, 4 min
Kyle is bored of boring high school and its equally boring clubs until listening to the morning announcements when he hears about the mysterious Secret Club.
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Sunday
Directed By: Mallory McDaniel USA, 2011, 6 min
Sunday follows a young refugee from Africa who came to the United States with his family after fleeing war-torn Sudan.
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This PSA Is Gay
Directed By: Patric Verrone, George Khabbaz, Miranda Kasher USA, 2011, 2 min
When a girl wears a rainbow button to school, she discovers that words can sting.
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Unplugged: A 14 Day Challenge
Directed By: Kaylor Myers USA, 2011, 10 min
Unplugged documents an entertaining two weeks in the lives of two friends as they brave a challenge to refrain from using electronics for a full 14 days.
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Dr. Funkenstein
Directed By: Joe Kitaj, Roz Naimi USA, 2012, 3 min
Dr. Funkenstein creates a monster whose only desire is to find a dance partner.
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Self Deterioration
Directed By: Madeline Spanier USA, 2011, 2 min
This stop motion animation expresses the thoughts and feelings of society's expectations of women.
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Maestro
Directed By: Neeraj Jain USA, 2011, 15 min
Mario Miragliotta, a Brazilian born conductor, talks about his life as a musician and his thoughts on music's importance in today's world.
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The Girl Who Lived in Her Nightmare
Directed By: Juan Gerardo Hernández Santiz, Víctor Díaz Gómez, Patricia López Hernández Mexico, 2011, 3 min
A young girl faces many obstacles on her morning journey to work at her parents’ fruit station.
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Full Out
Directed By: Camille Wilson USA, 2011, 6 min
Maddy Miller, a 17-year-old boy, struggles to move to LA in order to pursue a professional dance career.
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Bully
Directed By: Harry G. Barnes III, Greg Nachmanovitch USA, 2011, 2 min
A bully finally gets what's coming to him in this comedic story.
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Need Gas
Directed By: Alex Herz USA, 2011, 9 min
A stranded motorist finds that sometimes the most unlikely people can be the most helpful.
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