Phoenix Film Festival 2017

The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix, now in its 17th year.

I counted 131 films screening this year: 53 features (same as last year) and 72 short films (up from 67). There's also the Arizona Student Film Festival, screening short films made by local high school students, but films haven't yet been announced for that.

All that's excluding the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, which I still think of as a separate event even if it technically hasn't been since 2010. I maintain separate index pages for IHSFFF.

The event runs from 6th to 13th April in 2017.

Like last year, the scheduling for Monday to Thursday includes daytime slots, allowing many to see more films than would normally be possible.

New for this year are a number of things:

Each of the eight competition features are scheduled on each of the three main days of the event (Friday to Sunday). If that's been the case before, I've completely failed to notice.

The Home Grown Shorts set has vanished, replaced by a second Arizona Shorts set, which is a welcome simplification.

Most obviously, there's a Unified by Film program this year, which focuses on minority filmmakers. This program includes two features (HOME and The Land of Rock and Gold) and three sets of shorts, directed respectively by African Americans, Latino Americans and Native Americans.

Here are all the films scheduled to screen this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered on a separate page.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Arizona Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Dutchman	2016			Jeff Kimble	IMDb
IMperfect	2016			Ryan Thomas Andersen	IMDb
The Man Behind the Suit	2016			Victor Vargas	IMDb

Competition Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Brave New Jersey	2016	5	6	Jody Lambert	IMDb
Fallen	2017			Thomas Marchese	IMDb
Happy	2016			Michael McKinley	IMDb
The Happys	2016			Tom Gould & John Serpe	IMDb
The Long Way Back: The Story of Todd Z-Man Zalkins	2017			Richard Yelland	IMDb
The Midnighters	2016			Julian Fort	IMDb
Painless	2017	5	5	Jordan Horowitz	IMDb
Quaker Oaths	2016			Louisiana Kreutz	IMDb
Secondhand Hearts	2016			Austin Everett	IMDb
Unnerved	2017	6	5	Gary King	IMDb

Showcase Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Blue Ruin	2013			Jeremy Saulnier	IMDb
Born in China	2016			Chuan Lu	IMDb
The Commune	2016			Thomas Vinterberg	IMDb
Dean	2016			Demetri Martin	IMDb
The Devil's Mistress	2016			Filip Renč	IMDb
Different Flowers	2017			Morgan Dameron	IMDb
Gold Star	2016			Victoria Negri	IMDb
Graduation	2016			Cristian Mungiu	IMDb
Here's to Life: The Story of the Refreshments	2017			Taylor Morden	IMDb
The Hero	2017			Brett Haley	IMDb
How to Prepare for Prison	2016			Matt Gallagher	IMDb
I Heart Huckabees	2004			David O. Russell	IMDb
In America	2002			Jim Sheridan	IMDb
In Loco Parentis	2016			Neasa Gordon	IMDb
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters	2007			Seth Gordon	IMDb
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	2005			Shane Black	IMDb
The Lost City of Z	2016			James Gray	IMDb
Magnificent Burden	2016			Rob Nelson	IMDb
Menashe	2017			Joshua Z Weinstein	IMDb
A Million Happy Nows	2016			Albert Alarr	IMDb
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer	2016			Joseph Cedar	IMDb
Patti Cake$	2017			Geremy Jasper	IMDb
Pinch	2016			Jake Lloyd	IMDb
The Promise	2016			Terry George	IMDb
Punch-Drunk Love	2002			Paul Thomas Anderson	IMDb
Rosewood	1997			John Singleton	IMDb
Senna	2010			Asif Kapadia	IMDb
Step	2017			Amanda Lipitz	IMDb
That's Not Me	2017			Gregory Erdstein	IMDb
Tommy's Honour	2016			Jason Connery	IMDb

Unified by Film
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
HOME	2016			Daniel Maldonado	IMDb
The Land of Rock and Gold	2016			Daniel Redenbach & Janine Windolph	IMDb

World Cinema Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Fairy Tales for Emma	2016			Rudolf Havlik	IMDb
FUNNE: Sea Dreaming Girls	2017			Katia Bernardi	IMDb
The Good Goering	2016	5	5	Kai Christiansen	IMDb
The Islands and the Whales	2016			Mike Day	IMDb
Land of the Little People	2016			Yaniv Berman	IMDb
Property of the State	2016			Kit Ryan	IMDb
Undocument	2016			Amin Bakhshian & Kyla Simone Bruce	IMDb
Waking David	2016			Kevin Nash	IMDb

African American Directed Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Olde E	2016			Xavier Burgin	IMDb
Harvest: Quyurciq	2015			Andre Lewis & Michael Dempster	IMDb
Priyanath				Anietie Antie-Obong	n/a
Ori Inu: In Search of Self	2015			Chelsea Odufu	IMDb
Pinch	2014			Beresford Bennett	IMDb

Animated Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
One Per Person	2016			Nasheet Zaman & Jacquelyn 'Jac' Piette	IMDb
Quitting Time	2017			Robert Dollase	IMDb
The Killer Buzz				Barry Jackson	n/a
The Past Inside the Present	2015			James Siewert	IMDb
Fox and the Whale	2016			Robin Joseph	IMDb
Hope	2016			Michael Scherrer	IMDb
Pearl	2016			Patrick Osborne	IMDb
White Tunnel	2016			Chien Lan-chi & Chang Chin-wei	IMDb

Arizona Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Disciple	2016			Bob Reynolds	IMDb
The Amazing Mortimer	2017			Phil Wilson	IMDb
Tobi & Matt	2015			Joe Gruberman	IMDb
Waiting for Goodbye	2016			Curt Apduhan	IMDb
Limelight				Killian Davies	n/a
MISSing				Marteen Cleary	n/a
The Listening Hour	2016			Kelcy Valletta	IMDb
Just Like Us	2016			Adam Benavides	IMDb

Arizona Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Broken	2016			Robin Egan	IMDb
LASER Pen				David Miller & Tyler Riggs	n/a
Finding Eugene	2015			Alfredo Enriquez	IMDb
Homeless to Home Owner				James Bustamante	n/a
One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts	2016			Peter Byck	IMDb
Contentment	2016			Alexandria Rose Rizik	IMDb
Path of a Luthier				Cliff Sarde	n/a

College Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Choices	2017			Rick Hamilton	IMDb
Stutter	2016			Ivo Huahua	IMDb
The Ashes	2016			Jacob Kirby	IMDb
A State of Emergency				Tarek Roehlinger	n/a
Bunee: The Boy from Constanța	2016			Bunee Tomlinson	IMDb
At Ease	2015			Jacob Kirby	IMDb
Jewish Blind Date	2015			Anaëlle Morf	IMDb

Documentary Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Milk & Honey				Justin Clifton	n/a
What's Eating Zack Turnquist	2016			Alexandra Kotcheff	IMDb
The Collection	2017			Adam Roffman	IMDb
Soy Cubana	2016			Jeremy Ungar & Ivaylo Getov	IMDb
Lost & Found	2016			Naomi Iwamoto	IMDb

Latino American Directed Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Treintañera	2016			Dieglo Londoño	IMDb
As Life Shifts	2016			Daniel Gras Pujalt	IMDb
Hummingbird & Crane	2016			Veronica Rodriguez	IMDb
Mysterious Ways	2016			Paul Sanchez	IMDb
Written Off	2016			Margie Shabazz & Antoine McKay	IMDb

Live Action Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Shy Guys	2016			Fredric Lehne	IMDb
A Beautiful Day	2016			Phedon Papamichael	IMDb
Swim	2016			Mari Walker	IMDb
The Retriever	2016			Nicholas Thurkettle	IMDb
Mine	2015			Nick Dixon	IMDb
Miriam's Balloons				Dan Czerwonka	IMDb
The Babysitter Murders	2015			Ryan Spindell	IMDb

Live Action Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
I Love New York	2016			Christian Vogeler	IMDb
4 Pounds of Flowers	2016			Rob Richert	IMDb
The Scarecrow	2015			Phillip Rhys	IMDb
Harper Shadow				Nik Kleverov	n/a
Off Track Betty	2016			Clayton Dean Smith	IMDb
Wig Shop	2016			Kat Coiro	IMDb
Toppled	2017			Paul DeNigris	IMDb

Medium-Length Documentaries
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Happy	2016			Mike Dorsey	IMDb
Symphony in D				Dennis Scholl & Marlon Johnson	n/a

Native American Directed Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Legacy				Mark Lewis	n/a
The Gift	2016			Sunny Moodie, Natalie Ulman, Joshua Indenbaum & Tom Blue Wolf	IMDb
Sweet Oil	2017			Chris Cowden	IMDb
The Lady and the Eagle				Brian Young	n/a
HAM	2016			Boise Esquerra	IMDb

World Cinema Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Under the Chinese Banyan				Ross Yau	n/a
Friday Night	2016			Alexis Michalik	IMDb
Mate	2016			Tom Connolly	IMDb
Child for Child	2017			Juan Avella	IMDb
Aarsa	2016			Kawa Hatef	IMDb
Minh Tam	2016			Vincent Maury	IMDb

Phoenix Film Festival 2016

The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix, now in its 16th year. I counted 131 films screening this year: 53 features (up from 47 last year) and 67 short films (down from 84). There's also the finals of the year's IFP Phoenix film challenges and the Arizona Student Film Festival, screening 15 short films made by local high school students.

All that's excluding the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, which I still think of as a separate event even if it technically hasn't been since 2010. I maintain separate index pages for IHSFFF.

The event runs from 7th to 14th April in 2016 and the big change this year is that, after the bulk of the festival is over and awards have been handed out on the Sunday, the following four days will include daytime screenings as well as evening ones, allowing many of us to see more films than would normally be possible.

Here are all the films scheduled to screen this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered on a separate page.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Competition Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Beyond Glory	2015			Larry Brand	IMDb
Coming Through the Rye	2015			James Steven Sadwith	IMDb
Dating Daisy	2015			Neel Upadhye	IMDb
Jessica	2015			Scott K Foley	IMDb
A Light Beneath Their Feet	2015			Valerie Weiss	IMDb
No Greater Love	2015			Justin Roberts	IMDb
Operator	2016			Logan Kibens	IMDb
Rwanda & Juliet	2016			Ben Proudfoot	IMDb
Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103	2015			Phil Furey	IMDb
Welcome to Happiness	2015			Oliver Thompson	IMDb

World Cinema Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Children of the Arctic	2014			Nick Brandestini	IMDb
Creditors	2015			Ben Cura	IMDb
Freedom or Death!	2015			Damian Kolodiy	IMDb
Home Care	2015			Slávek Horák	IMDb
Jackie Boy	2015			Cody Campanale	IMDb
Kollwein's Day of Truth	2015			Anna Justice	IMDb
We Will Be the World Champions	2015			Darko Bajic	IMDb
Yoani's Trip	2015			Peppe Siffredi & Raphael Bottino	IMDb

Arizona Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon				Jeremy Simmons & Carrie Whitten-Simmons	n/a
Lucky U Ranch	2015			Steve Anderson	IMDb
Patagonia Treasure Trail	2016			Michele Gisser	IMDb

Showcase Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
City of God	2002	7	7	Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund	IMDb
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life	2015			Aaron Faulls & Nate Gowtham	IMDb
Cut to the Chase	2016			Blayne Weaver	IMDb
The Dark Horse	2014			James Napier Robertson	IMDb
Exit Through the Gift Shop	2010			Banksy	IMDb
The Final Resolution	2016			Brian Ronalds	IMDb
Five Nights in Maine	2015			Maris Curran	IMDb
The Girlfriend Experience	2016			Amy Seimetz	IMDb
Here Come the Videofreex	2015			Jenny Raskin & Jon Nealon	IMDb
I am What I Play	2015			Roger King	IMDb
In Bruges	2008			Martin McDonagh	IMDb
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?	2016			Matt Cooper	IMDb
Little Men	2016			Ira Sachs	IMDb
Love and Friendship	2016			Whit Stillman	IMDb
The Man Who Knew Infinity	2015			Matt Brown	IMDb
The Meddler	2015			Lorene Scafaria	IMDb
A Monster with a Thousand Heads	2015			Rodrigo Plá	IMDb
Morris from America	2016			Chad Hartigan	IMDb
Postmarked	2016			Gene Ganssle	IMDb
Presenting Princess Shaw	2015			Ido Haar	IMDb
Remittance	2015			Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman	IMDb
Safety Not Guaranteed	2012			Colin Trevorrow	IMDb
The Seeker	2016			Jeff D Johnson	IMDb
Shaun the Sheep Movie	2015			Mark Burton & Richard Starzak	IMDb
Short Term 12	2013			Destin Daniel Cretton	IMDb
Sing Street	2016			John Carney	IMDb
Stereotypically You	2015			Benjamin Cox	IMDb
Tab Hunter Confidential	2015			Jeffrey Scwarz	IMDb
Victor Young Perez	2013			Jacques Ouaniche	IMDb
Viva	2015			Paddy Breathnach	IMDb
Weiner	2016			Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg	IMDb

Animated Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Bear Me	2012			Kasia Wilk	IMDb
Hooked	2015			Sofia Moreira	IMDb
Tiny Town	2015			Howard Cook & Stephen Baker	IMDb
Entrance Exam	2013			Boqing Tang	IMDb
Burnt	2015			Devin Bell	IMDb
Bottomless	2015			Véronique Vanblaere	IMDb
Olilo	2015			Ao Li	IMDb
The Loneliest Stoplight	2015			Bill Plympton	IMDb
Golden Shot				Gökalp Gönen	n/a
Borrowed Time	2015			Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj	IMDb
The Apple Tree	2015			Scott Storm	IMDb

Arizona Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Best Day Ever				Angel Ruiz	n/a
Fathers	2015	6	6	Jamie Rivera	IMDb
Dino Park	2015			Adolpho Navarro	IMDb
Malparido				William Edgmon	n/a
Have a Nice Flight	2014	4	4	Keenan Murray	IMDb
Up Route	2015			Jordan Wippell	IMDb
Blind Date	2015			Darren Rudy	IMDb
Reverie				Dana Bruhn & Kayla Windsor	n/a
Saying Goodbye	2015			Laurie A Bell	IMDb
Firework				Steve Hubbs	n/a
JFK's Last Interview	2015			Bob Reynolds	IMDb

Arizona Student Film Festival
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Hope & Jackson				Alyssa Bartlett	n/a
Seriously				Casey Likes	n/a
The Gymnast				Jourdyn Dinbokow	n/a
Band Together				Max Lerner	n/a
Maybe a Monster				Natasha Loving	n/a
Graham				Grant Roberts	n/a
The Devil's Odds				Addison Gilbard	n/a
A Different Kind of Always				Roger Groleau	n/a
Cat Eyes				Holly Milosevich	n/a
Just Another High School Fight				Angela Houston	n/a
The Banjo Man				Troy Lucia	n/a
An Idea for Tomorrow				Alexis Rainery	n/a
Birthday Static				Holly Milosevich	n/a
Fuera de la sombra				Martha Pacheco	n/a
Beautiful Words				Holly Milosevich	n/a

Documentary Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
High Signs	2015			Damien Patrik	IMDb
Binkley's				Andrew Gooi	n/a
Native Evolution				Kyle Bell	n/a
Keep It Grand	2015			Daniel Ferrera	IMDb
In Memory	2015			72u	IMDb

Home Grown Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Reading Out Loud				Bud Bennett	n/a
Little Donkeys				Chris Vena	n/a
Reality	2015	5	4	Chris Wilembrecht	n/a
In the Blink	2015			Damien Patrik	IMDb
A Proper Pint	2015	5	5	Keven Siegert	IMDb
The Composer	2016			Gwyneth Christoffel & Darien Marion	IMDb
The Simplicity of Chaos	2015			Miguel Gonzalez	IMDb
Closing Doors	2015			Sam Santana	IMDb

Live Action Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Ronnie BoDean	2015			Steven Paul Judd	IMDb
Fragile Storm	2015			Dawn Fields	IMDb
A Way Out	2015			Jason Tostevin	IMDb
Big Boy	2014			Bryan Campbell	IMDb
American Dancer	2015			Steven Espinosa	IMDb
A King's Betrayal	2015			David Bornstein	IMDb
Burned	2015			Jaime Valdueza	IMDb
My Luchador	2015			Shea Sizemore	IMDb

Live Action Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
What if My Wife Died in Yoga Class?	2014	6	6	Jeffrey Williams	IMDb
The Walk	2015			Alonso Alvarez	IMDb
Brix and the Bitch	2015			Nico Raineau	IMDb
Last Winter	2015			Daniel Wyland	IMDb
Wild West Fan Co	2015			Matt Thompson	IMDb
The Decision	2015			Mike Scalisi	IMDb
The Mountain King	2015			Peter Brambl	IMDb

Medium-Length Documentaries
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Gayrouth				Charbel Raad	n/a
Play the Documentary	2015			Matty Steinkamp	IMDb

Student Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Fantastic Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl	2015			Clemens Roth	IMDb
Girl in the Chair	2015			M Louis Gordon	IMDb
The Bench	2016			Cameron Burnett	IMDb
Small Displays of Chaos	2015			Nick Meunier	IMDb
Man Under the Moon	2015			Maria Sevilla	IMDb
The Life and Times of Thomas Thumb Jr	2015			Ryan Fox	IMDb
Miracle Polish	2015			Eduardo Cohn	IMDb
Isa and the Frog Prince				Yingxiang Huang	IMDb

World Cinema Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Foot in Mouth	2015			Ella Jones	IMDb
Rumble	2015			Matthew Hopper	IMDb
Violet	2015			Maurice Joyce	IMDb
Dreaming of Peggy Lee	2015			James Everett	IMDb
Colours	2015			Peter Lee Scott	IMDb
Run, Ran, Run				Sanna Ekman	n/a
The Visit	2014			Leandro Corinto	IMDb

Phoenix Film Festival 2015

The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix, now celebrating its 15th anniversary. I counted 131 films screening this year: 47 features and 84 short films. In addition to the regular finals of the year's IFP Phoenix film challenges, this year also incorporates the Arizona Student Film Festival, screening 20 short films made by high school students.

All that's excluding the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, which I still think of as a separate event even if it technically hasn't been since 2010. I maintain separate index pages for IHSFFF.

In 2015 it starts on my birthday, 26th March, with an opening night party and screening of Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino. It will fill six screens at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 for all of Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday, with a few films playing on a seventh, the historic Cine Capri: Manglehorn, another Pacino movie, My and Earl and the Dying Girl on Saturday and Sleeping with Other People on Sunday evening.

Of course, it isn't over with the weekend, even if many filmmakers fly home after the awards ceremony. The festival continues in the evenings until 2nd April, with repeat screenings of all the winners, showcase features from the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival and selected others. The last screening will be of While We're Young, the 2014 film by Noah Baumbach, who is honoured with a mini-retrospective this year of four of his films.

Of course, nobody should miss the stunning performance of my left arm in a couple of background shots in the IFP challenge film, Flight Fright, screening in the IFP Finals set. My left arm has now been in two movies and it's interesting to note that both of them screened at the Phoenix Film Festival.

Here are all the films scheduled to screen this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered on a separate page.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Competition Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Angel of Nanjing	2015	5	5	Jordan Horowitz & Frank Ferendo	IMDb
Bad Exorcists	2015	5	5	Kyle Steinbach	IMDb
Bread and Butter	2014	5	5	Liz Manashil	IMDb
A Dog Named Gucci	2015			Gorman Bechard	IMDb
Far from Home	2014	5	5	Galen Knowles	IMDb
Half Brother	2014			Anthony Grippa	IMDb
Listening	2014	6	6	Khalil Sullins	IMDb
The Strongest Man	2015			Kenny Riches	IMDb
The Surface	2014	6	5	Gil Cates	IMDb
WildLike	2014	6	6	Frank Hall Green	IMDb

Arizona Feature Films
1/10 of a Second	2014			Kurt Kubicek	IMDb
Seven Hours in Heaven	2015	6	6	Kyle Gerkin	IMDb
Unsound	2013			Darious Britt	IMDb

World Cinema Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
All My Tomorrows	2014			Rudolf Havlik	IMDb
Burden of Peace	2014			Joey Boink	IMDb
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang	2015	5	4	Colin Offland	n/a
Glories of Tango	2014	5	5	Hernán Findling	IMDb
In Silence	2014	5	5	Zdenek Jirasky	IMDb
Journey to the Mother	2014			Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov	IMDb
Of the Land	2014			Bryan Law	IMDb
WAX: We are the X	2015	5	5	Lorenzo Corvino	IMDb

Showcase Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Best of Enemies	2015			Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville	IMDb
The Business of Recovery	2015			Adam Finberg	n/a
Car Dogs	2015			Adam Collis	IMDb
Danny Collins	2015			Dan Fogelman	IMDb
Desert Dancer	2014			Richard Raymond	IMDb
F(l)ag Football	2015			Seth Greenleaf	IMDb
Frances Ha	2012			Noah Baumbach	IMDb
Going Bongo	2014			Dean Mathew Ronalds	IMDb
Havana Curveball	2014			Ken Schneider & Marcia Jarmal	IMDb
Kicking and Screaming	1995			Noah Baumbach	IMDb
Kill Me Three Times	2014	5	5	Kriv Stenders	IMDb
Makin' Wookiee	2014			Heidi Burkey & Tim Larson	IMDb
Manglehorn	2014			David Gordon Green	IMDb
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	2015			Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	IMDb
Miss India America	2015			Ravi Kapoor	IMDb
Monkey Kingdom	2015			Mark Linfield	IMDb
Results	2015			Andrew Bujalski	IMDb
Sleeping with Other People	2015	6	6	Leslye Headland	IMDb
Slow West	2015			John Maclean	IMDb
The Squid and the Whale	2005	6	6	Noah Baumbach	IMDb
Sunshine Superman	2014			Marah Strauch	IMDb
Tangerines	2013			Zaza Urashadze	IMDb
Where Hope Grows	2014			Chris Dowing	IMDb
While We're Young	2014			Noah Baumbach	IMDb
White God	2014	5	5	Kornél Mundruczó	IMDb
X+Y	2014			Morgan Matthews	IMDb

Animated Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Sumer	2014			Alvaro Garcia	IMDb
My Big Brother	2014			Jason Rayner	IMDb
The Present	2014			Jacob Frey	IMDb
Speed Dating	2014			Meghann Artes	IMDb
Love Bugs	2014			Teresa Hooper	IMDb
Love in the Time of March Madness	2014			Melissa Johnson & Robertino Zambrano	IMDb
Hold My Handle	2013			Ethan Barrett	IMDb
In Capricious Hands	2014			Stephan Larson	IMDb
Monstro!	2014			Christopher Romano	IMDb
The OceanMaker	2014			Lucas Martell	IMDb

Arizona Shorts
The Tent	2013	5	5	Marcus Stricklin	IMDb
Kitty	2014	5	4	Josh Kasselman & Stephanie Lucas	IMDb
Keep Running	2015	5	5	Sean Oliver	IMDb
Project Daisy	2014	4	5	Adolpho Navarro	IMDb
Ouroboros	2014	5	5	Alexander Broderick	IMDb
The Most Important Meal of the Day	2014	4	4	Randy Murray	IMDb
Blue Copper	2014	5	5	Diane M Dresback	IMDb

Arizona Student Film Festival
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Herbert the Killer Kitten	2015			Alyssa Bartlett	n/a
Kids with Autism Can	2015			Hans Kuyper	n/a
The Candy Dealer	2015			Isaiahs Rivera	n/a
The Attack of Scorpazilla	2015			Sarah Jordan	n/a
Lucky Pin	2015			Holly Milosevich	n/a
Determination	2015			Bryan Hanlon	n/a
Just Listen	2015			Devany Dellis	n/a
Split	2015			Lucas Garvey	n/a
Someday in California	2015			Shelly Ortiz	n/a
Ruth Daemon	2015			Daniela Mock-Zubia	n/a
Kids with Autism Can	2015			Sydney Dang	n/a
Too Young to Drink	2015			Sierra Vaught	n/a
Now He is Praying	2015			Daniela Mock-Zubia	n/a
Late for Work	2015			Eric Nakamoto	n/a
Paranoid	2015			Angela Houston	n/a
Pining	2015			Nina Nandin	n/a
Final Exit Trailer	2015			Dominic LaRovere	n/a
PTSD	2015			Chance Roberts	n/a
And So You Saw	2015			Sydney Burdick	n/a
Top of the World	2015			Dominic LaRovere	n/a

College Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Cootie Contagion	2012			Joshua Smooha	IMDb
OstrichLand	2013			David McCracken	IMDb
Lambing Season	2013			Jeannie Donohoe	IMDb
Drone	2015			Justin S Lee	IMDb
Liv	2014			Gwyneth Christoffel	IMDb
Miracle Maker	2014			Kate Marks	IMDb
Grange to Garage	2014			William Johnston-Carter	IMDb

Documentary Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Tomgirl	2014			Jeremy Asher Lynch	IMDb
Sugar Coated	2014			Chris Parson	IMDb
Half Sour	2013			Mary Anne Rothberg & Sean McGing	IMDb
Dockery & Son	2014			Jack Truman	IMDb
Sandorkraut	2014			Emily Lobsenz & Ann Husaini	IMDb
Anna	2014			Eric Latek	IMDb

Home Grown Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Grace of a Stranger	2014	6	6	Troy Hollar	IMDb
Stolen Afternoon	2014	5	5	Aaron Kes	IMDb
The Class Analysis	2014	6	6	Webb Pickersgill	IMDb
Fighters Move Forward	2014	4	4	Jake Lee	IMDb
Duty	2014	4	4	Rob Burson & Victoria Rincon	IMDb
Fish Hook	2014	6	5	Nickolas Duarte	IMDb
Logan Must Make Star Wars	2014	5	5	Nathan Blackwell	IMDb
Thrasherland	2015	5	5	Joshua J Provost	IMDb

IFP Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Keep Running	2015	5	5	Sean Oliver	IMDb
Split Three Ways	2014			Adam Dub, Jose Meza & Jonathan Baden	n/a
Playtime Strikes Back	2015	4	5	Adolpho Navarro	IMDb
Amor de las Chicas	2014			Travio Molinos, Santiago Alirez & Genoveva Nesbito	n/a
Flight Fright	2015	5	5	Jim Politano	IMDb
Alienated	2014			Sean Oliver	n/a
Project Daisy	2014	4	5	Adolpho Navarro	IMDb
Petey	2014			Sean Oliver	IMDb
Kitty	2014	5	4	Josh Kasselman & Stephanie Lucas	IMDb
Criminal	2014			Darien Marion	n/a

Live Action Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Contrapelo	2014			Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer	IMDb
Protocol	2014			Elliot Feld	IMDb
Muse	2014			Christopher Leps	IMDb
Daddy's Little Girl	2015			Chad McClarnon	IMDb
Lucid	2015			Kevin Shah	IMDb
Truckin'	2014			Diane Newman	IMDb
Wild & Precious	2013			Cusi Cram	IMDb

Live Action Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Isolation	2014			Kristin Skye Hoffmann	IMDb
Une Libération	2015			Brian Crewe	IMDb
The Listing Agent	2014			Jared Hillman & Matthew Helfgott	IMDb
The Little Violinist	2014			Yang Wang	IMDb
Catching Fireflies	2014			Lee Whittaker	IMDb
Birthday	2015			Chris King	IMDb

World Cinema Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Live	2014			Wenceslao Scyzoryk	IMDb
Dead Hearts	2014	5	5	Stephen W Martin	IMDb
Sunflowers	2014			Shio Chuan Quek	IMDb
HTM	2015			Sachi Ediriweera	IMDb
In the Clouds	2014			Marcelo Mitnik	IMDb

Phoenix Film Festival 2014

The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix (as Jason Carney pointed out after I posted last year's index page; The Harkins Scottsdale 101, as its name suggests, is almost literally a stone's throw from Scottsdale, but it's still in Phoenix). 2014 is its 14th year, which will see more than a hundred films screened between from 3rd to 10th April.

2013 was a stellar year for the Phoenix Film Festival, led by an excellent set of competition features, and it's going to take some real effort to outdo it. Clearly that's exactly what they're aiming to do and some of the selections certainly seem to suggest that, beginning with the opening night movie, Tom Hardy's Locke.

I don't know who the special guests are yet, but there will surely be some. I'm already starting to see filmmakers announce that they'll be there in person, always one of the biggest reasons to go to any festival, especially this one.

Here are all the films scheduled to screen this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered on a separate page.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Competition Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
45RPM	2012	5	4	Juli Jackson	IMDb
The Frontier	2014			Oren Shai	IMDb
The House That Jack Built	2013	6	5	Henry Barrial	IMDb
Jake Squared	2013	6	6	Howard Goldberg	IMDb
The Joe Show	2013			Randy Murray	IMDb
King of Herrings	2013	6	5	Eddie Jemison & Sean Richardson	IMDb
Life Inside Out	2013			Jill D'Agnenica	IMDb
Little Hope Was Arson	2013			Theo Love	IMDb
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery	2013			Whitney Ransick	IMDb
Teddy Bears	2013	5	5	Thomas Beatty & Rebecca Fishman	IMDb

World Cinema Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Another World	2014			Thomas Torelli	IMDb
The Aryans	2014			Mo Asumang	IMDb
Godfather's Story	2013			Petr Nikolaev	IMDb
It's Only Make Believe	2013			Arild Østin Ommundsen	IMDb
Mad Ship	2012			David Mortin	IMDb
Seven Lucky Gods	2013			Jamil Dehlavi	IMDb
When I Saw You	2012			Annemarie Jacir	IMDb
Young Man Afraid	2012			Christer Fasmer	IMDb

Showcase Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Bears	2014			Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey	IMDb
Belle	2013			Amma Asante	IMDb
Boyhood	2014	6	6	Richard Linklater	IMDb
Broken Leg	2014			Kieran Thompson	IMDb
Clueless	1995	5	-	Amy Heckerling	IMDb
Dom Hemingway	2013	3	4	Richard Shepard	IMDb
Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart	2013			Gorman Bechard	IMDb
For No Good Reason	2012			Charlie Paul	IMDb
Frontera	2014			Michael Berry	IMDb
Gabrielle	2013			Louise Archambault	IMDb
GMO OMG	2013			Jeremy Seifert	IMDb
God's Pocket	2014			John Slattery	IMDb
The Grand Seduction	2013			Don McKellar	IMDb
Joe	2013			David Gordon Green	IMDb
Kidnapped for Christ	2014			Kate Logan	IMDb
Life's a Breeze	2013	5	5	Lance Daly	IMDb
Lilting	2014	6	5	Hong Khaou	IMDb
Locke	2013			Steven Knight	IMDb
The Longest Game	2013			Camille Thoman	IMDb
Lousy Bastards	2014			Roman Kasparovsky	IMDb
Mutual Friends	2013			Matthew Watts	IMDb
Obvious Child	2014			Gillian Robespierre	IMDb
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	2012			Stephen Chbosky	IMDb
The Pirate Fairy	2014			Peggy Holmes	IMDb
The Trouble with the Truth	2011			Jim Hemphill	IMDb
Trust Me	2013			Clark Gregg	IMDb
Water & Power	2012	5	-	Richard Montoya	IMDb
Words and Pictures	2013			Fred Schepisi	IMDb

Animated Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Chasm	2013			Megan Lloyd	IMDb
A Clean Break	2013			Richard Cunningham III	IMDb
Creamen	2013			Esther Casas	IMDb
Curious Cat's Christmas	2013			Jiyoon Lee	IMDb
Estefan	2012			Jeff Call	IMDb
The Grim: Episode One	2013			Hasani Walker	n/a
The Illusion	2013			Mohammed Reza Hanafi	IMDb
The Missing Scarf	2013			Eoin Duffy	IMDb
Sausage	2013			Robert Grieves	IMDb
Snowdysseus	2013			Evan Curtis	IMDb
Woody	2013			Stuart Bowen	IMDb

Arizona Short Documentaries
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Be with Me	2013	5	5	Michael Terrill	IMDb
Zoom! Tucson's Late '50s Rock 'n' Roll Record Label	2013	6	-	Dan Kruse	IMDb
For the Love of Dogs	2014	5	-	Tim Odonnell	IMDb

Arizona Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Penelope Fortesque: Romance Novelist	2014	5	5	Aaron Seever	IMDb
Long Way	2013	4	5	Josh Kasselman	IMDb
Unchained	2013	5	4	Andrew & Elise Gooi	n/a
Our Own Devices	2013	5	5	Josh Kasselman & Stephanie Lucas	IMDb
Star Babies	2013	6	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
Schism	2011	5	5	Charles Peterson	IMDb
Blue	2014	6	6	Jae Staats & Jason Francois	IMDb
After the Beep	2013	6	6	Kyle Gerkin	IMDb
Technically Grounded	2013	5	5	Darrin Moore	IMDb
Present Tense	2013	5	5	Jaz Garewal	IMDb
The Matchstick House	2013	5	5	Sean Kyte	IMDb

College Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Anniversary	2013			Janice Duncan	IMDb
Clean	2013			Seo-Young Jun	n/a
Dollop	2012	6	6	Greg Porper	IMDb
For the Birds	2013			Tara Atashgah	IMDb
Sheltered Love	2014			Alex Italics	IMDb
'Til Death	2013			Connor Gaston	IMDb
Ultramarine	2013			Matthew Earl	IMDb
We are Enemies	2014			Ilya Rozhkov	IMDb

Documentary Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Dancing Outside the Box	2012			David Block	n/a
Eugene	2013			Jason Stanfield & Jordan Olshansky	IMDb
Families are Forever	2013			Vivian Kleiman	IMDb
Flyelyfe NYC	2013			Jack Stannard	IMDb
Three Counties Out: Guns and the Heartland	2013			Zach Toombs	IMDb
White Manor	2012			Ashkan Soltani	IMDb

High School Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
As Always	2013	5	-	Rodolfo Lissia	IMDb
Black Rock Creek	2013			Malone Lumarda	IMDb
The Brother	2012	5	-	Michael Stevantoni	IMDb
The Farm	2013	4	-	Malone Lumarda	IMDb
Life's a Dive	2013			John Taschner	IMDb
Progress/Run	2012			Melvin Cheng	n/a
The Talk	2013			Hadley Hillel	IMDb
Versus	2012	4	-	Shannon MacIntyre, Danae Fishman & Hannah Christman	IMDb

Home Grown Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Terminus	2014	5	5	Angel Ruiz	n/a
Vermillion	2013	5	6	Doug Bell	n/a
De' Lune	2013	4	5	Austin Moede	IMDb
Perorities	2013	5	5	Colleen Hartnett	IMDb
A Day on Bleaker Street	2012	5	5	Bill Wetherill	IMDb
Final Flight	2013	5	5	David Jorgensen	IMDb
The Mutable Life of Oscar Clark	2013	5	5	Alexander Michael Thomas	IMDb

IFP Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Star Babies	2013	6	5	Travis Mills	IMDb
Eva's Light	2013	5	5	Glen A Hines	IMDb
After the Beep	2013	6	6	Kyle Gerkin	IMDb
Long Way	2013	4	5	Josh Kasselman	IMDb
Rigged	2014	4	4	Shawn Esplin	n/a
Blue	2014	6	6	Jae Staats & Jason Francois	IMDb

Live Action Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Architect	2013			Doug Dearth	IMDb
The Best Friend	2013			Melissa Sadoff Oren	IMDb
Missing Piece	2013			Jennifer Honn	IMDb
Next Life	2012			Casimir Nozkowski	IMDb
The Sidekick	2013			Michael J Weithorn	IMDb
This is Normal	2013			Justin Giddings & Ryan Welsh	IMDb

Live Action Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
113 Degrees	2013			Sabrina Doyle	IMDb
The Heebie-Jeebies	2013			Todd Slawsby	IMDb
The Hero Pose	2013			Mischa Jakupcak	IMDb
Ice	2013			Anthony Tarsitano	IMDb
Seasick Sailor	2013			Torre Catalano	IMDb

World Cinema Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Boy and the Bus	2013			Simon Pitts	IMDb
Mousse	2012			John Hellberg	IMDb
Mr Invisible	2013			Greg Ash	IMDb
Roland	2013			Trevor Cornish	IMDb
The Uncles	2013			Gerard Monaco	IMDb