2023 Denton Black Film Festival

Heart & Heat Shorts: "A Stranger's Story B&W", "Close Calls", "Conflict", "Don't You Go NoWhere", "Flesh and Bone, "hollow", "It's Not You", "Leave A Message...", "Life Support", and " Sketches"

Expired February 6, 2023 6:00 AM
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10 films in package
A Stranger's Story B&W
A Stranger’s Story is based on one of the many intriguing, sometimes heartwarming and sometimes not, but always emotionally rich memories of John J.J. Batiste Sr.
Close Calls
It's all on the line.
Conflict
Conflict is a short poetic visual about the struggle of letting go of someone you love when it isn't working. Instead of releasing, our entities might ignore the signs of a declining relationship.
Don't You Go Nowhere
A jazz dynamo belts his way through his weekly set until he makes an unexpected connection with an audience member in this short film about the power of music over memory.
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Flesh and Bone
Thomas Wescott has survived poverty, segregation, wars and thirteen American presidents. He has been labeled a prophetic child of God and a Doubting Thomas. What he hasn't survived is the death of his daughter.
hollow
As a couple prepares to move out of their home and part ways, an unexpected occurrence forces them to confront the loss of their son and the grief that they feel, in dramatically different ways.
It's Not You
Breaking up is hard to do...with your BFF. Lexi Jones is on a mission to find a new best friend after breaking up with her toxic best friend of 20 years.
Leave A Message...
A young man isolates himself from his friends and family after the death of his close friend as told through a series of voicemails.
Life Support
With time and money in short supply, a son must make a choice between saving his father and keeping his morals intact.
Sketches
Anik is a teenage artist of Haitian origin struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose controlling father forbids her from creating her art
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A jazz dynamo belts his way through his weekly set until he makes an unexpected connection with an audience member in this short film about the power of music over memory.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    0:08:00
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Rating
    Adult Content
  • Note
    Website: http://bryanpoyser.com/
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  • Director
    Bryan Poyser
  • Screenwriter
    Bryan Poyser
  • Producer
    Jon Michael Simpson, V. Marc Fort, Cameron Malone, Dwayne Washington
  • Cast
    Mac Mcintosh, Tame'ca©ca Jones, Michael Hale, Jimmy Blazer, Dayne Reliford
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