More than 325 short films were submitted to the ninth annual Tallgrass Film Festival. Of those, 58 came from Kansas filmmakers and 48 from high school filmmakers from around the globe. This year's festival will showcase 63 short films - adding up to a total of more than 12 hours of programming.
SHORTS PROGRAMS (In Competition)
Get Together: Twists and turns of love and attraction
- First Dates, Dir. Sam Wasserman (USA)
- Missed Connections, Dir. Mary Robertson (USA)
- My Other Half (Mi Otra Mitad), Dir. Beatriz Sanchis (Spain)
- Ready to Pop, Dir. Michelle Davidson (USA)
- Buon Giorno Sayonara, Dir. Karen Hope (UK)
- 51st and Baltimore, Dir. Philip Collins (USA-KS)
- With Love, from Bangkok, Dir. James Choi (USA)
- The Doll Factory (Fabrica de Munecas), Dir. Ainhoa Menedex Goyoaga (Spain)
- The Miss, Dir. Corbett Lundford (USA)
- Worker Leaving the Factory (Arbeiter Verlassen die Fabrik), Dir. Anna Linke (Germany)
- Time and Love, Dir. Bo Price (USA)
Get Real: Reality intertwined with the twisted drama
- Paper Flower, Dir. Brent Green (Japan/USA)
- The Lucky One, Dir. Ann Prim (USA)
- Port of Tangier (Cuando Corres), Dir. Mikel Rueda (Spain)
- Thief, Dir. Julian Higgins (USA)
- The Stopover, Dir. Robert Fearon (Australia)
- The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, Dir. Robin Fryday (USA)
Don't Get Lost: Especially twisted - things are not always what they appear
- Mother's House, Dir. Davis Hall (USA)
- The Foal, Dir. Josh Tanner (Australia)
- Tick Tock, Dir. Len Chi (USA)
- Oscar Bones, Dir. Tara Tusher (USA)
- Captain Fork, Dir. GJ Echternkamp (USA)
- Get Off My Porch, Dir. Patrick Rea (USA-KS)
- Highway 9, Dir. Parke Metzer (USA)
Shorts Before Features
- Triple Standard, Dir. Branden Blinn (USA) (Out For the Long Run)
- American Homes, Dir. Bernard Friedman (USA) (Clean Bin Project)
- Refresh, Dir. Sean Cruse (USA) (Bhopali)
- Holy Crap, Dir. Jennifer Benorden (USA) (Freedom)
- The Tailor, Dir. Gordon Grinberg (USA) (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
- Bip Bip (Beep, Beep), Dir. Phillippe Gregoire (Canada) (Happy, Happy)
- It Was Like That, Dir. Morgan Dameron (USA) (Face to Face)
- The Order of Things (El Orden de la Cosas), Dir. Cesar and Jose Estban Alenda (Spain) (Cartography of Loneliness)
- Tell Me You Love Me, Dir. Gary Warren, Sharon Wright (USA) (Joint Body)
- Hell Week, Dir. Patrick Rea (USA)
- I Am Soccer, Dir. Erich Rumback (USA) (Mangus!)
Kansas Film Commission Presents the Timothy Gruver Spotlight on Kansas Filmmakers
- Nanny Goat, Dir. Kai Winikka (Lawrence)
- The Long Walk, Dir. Titus Jackson/Writer, Producer Mike Furches (Park City)
- Critical Mass: 719, Dir. Devin Schwyhart (Lawrence)
- Tell Me You Love Me, Dir. Gary Warren, Sharon Wright (Johnson County)
- As A Puzzle, Dir. Tyler Dohring, Kitty Jewel (Wichita)
- Adrift, Dir. Nicholas Vedros (Shawnee)
- The Playdate, Dir. Shaun Cloud (Shawnee)
- Get Off My Porch, Dir. Patrick Rea (Shawnee)
- 51st and Baltimore, Dir. Philip Collins (Overland Park)
Spirit Aerosystems Presents the Joel Fein High School Filmmakers
- Deep Blue Breath, Dir. Clay Beabout (Wichita, KS)
- The 36, Dir. Nic Weinfeld (Silver Springs, MD)
- Hunger Pains, Dir. Oliver Lauder (Canada)
- The Balloonist, Dir. Reid Hildebrand (Keswick, VA)
- Benny's Day, Dir. Caroline Friend (Colorado Springs, CO)
- A Block from Home, Dir. Brandon Ragnot (Brooklyn, NY)
- Alone, Dir. Ethan Seneker (Fall City, WA)
- Tracks, Dir. Megan Flemming (Lawrence, KS)
- Blank Canvas, Dir. Hannah Sullivan (Westminister, CA)
- Highway 9, Dir. Parke Metzer (Edmund, OK)
Shorts Screening exclusively in the Filmmakers Lounge (Non-Competition)
- The Blonde from Pinos Puente (La Rubia de Pinos Puente) Dir. Vicente Villanuevea (Spain)
- It's Natural to be Afraid, Dir. Justin Doherty (UK)
- Mish Mush (Apricots), Dir. Amar Chebib (Canada/Syrian Arab Republic)
- The Love Police, Dir. Richard Ballard (USA)
- The Life Smugglers, Dir. David Wells (USA)
- All Day Yeah, Dir. Charles Anderson (USA)
- Freak, Dir. Eric Casaccio (USA)
- In Her Eyes, Dir. Robert and Chris Smellin (Australia)
- The Order of Things (El Orden de la Cosas), Dir. Cesar and Jose Estban Alenda (Spain)
