Welcome to STUFF 2016 South Texas Underground Film Festival (STUFF) is organized by South Texas Underground Film (STUF), the Art Center of Corpus Christi and the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE). It’s presented by the Texas Film Commission, the House of Rock, Movies Inc. and FilmFreeway. We provide a festival that showcases various works from filmmakers, visual artists and musicians while providing educational opportunities during the conference. STUFF 2016 will screen over 100 feature and short films from over 18 different countries. STUFF 2016 will also showcase 12 World Premieres, 9 US Premieres, 23 Texas Premieres and 22 Regional Premieres including some great showcases from Houston Film Commission 2016 Texas Filmmaker’s Showcase and Texas A&M Corpus Christi University Media Production Showcase. Show up and hang out with influential directors, actors, film personalities and more during the four day festival and release your inner movie geek. STUFF 2016 will take place November 10th – 13th, 2016 in Corpus Christi, Texas. STUFF is a four-day International Film Festival that will take place at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, the House of Rock, Movies Inc. and Del Mar College. We all hope you have a great time meeting great people while you watch great films.
– The staff of STUFF
Get more info at STUFtx.org
STUFF 2016 Schedule of Events Thursday . November 10
Short Film Series 11:59pm – 1:00am
The Venue @ House of Rock 511 Starr St. Corpus Christi
SHORTS 2: MIDNIGHT SHORTS Stained – Phil Haine – UK Mosaic Man - Tomohiko Iwasaki – Japan Japanese Legends: Slits - Pablo Absento - Japan Inferno – Dionne Copland – Canada Gwilliam – Brian Lonano – USA Monster Movie – Neil Ira Needleman – USA
Feature Presentation 6pm – 7pm Escalators Daniel C. Doran – France Entirely set on escalators, the film gives insight into the lives and stories of average people spending a fraction of each day on moving stairs.
Friday . November 11
Wolfe Recital Hall @ Del Mar College East Campus 101 Baldwin Blvd Corpus Christi
Feature Presentation 7pm – 8:30pm Under A Kaleidoscope Addison Heath – Australia
Short Film Series 6:30pm – 8:30pm
An agoraphobic who spends his days tripping and making amateur science-fiction films. After a vivid LSD dream he begins hearing a female, whom he strikes up a friendship setting in to motion a tale of redemption, revenge and friendship.
SHORTS 3: HECHO EN TEJAS I Blind Date - Sam Martinez - San Antonio #holidaygreeting - Erik Mauck – Austin You’re an Idiot - Marco Patino - Humble El Borracho - Juan Carlos Montalvo - San Antonio Fishing with Grenades - Phillip Abraham – Austin The Session - Isaac Rodriguez - San Antonio My Obituary - Vanessa Hoar - San Antonio Longinus - Grant Aymond & Matthew Merkl - Dallas Get the Hell Out - Regan Vrevalos, Jess Castro, Larry Garza – San Antonio
Feature Presentation 8:30pm – 9:30pm Strange Places Aaron Martwick – USA Based on true events about Natalie and Miles relationship of dependency evolving their addictions.
Also playing: Wood Man & Witchboard Isaac Rodriguez – USA
Short Film Series 9pm – 10:30pm SHORTS 10: TAMUCC MEDIA PRODUCTION A Testament - Edward Montez Kokua - Zach Aldridge Shirt - Taylor Romaguera The Mason Experiment - Vanessa Moreno Rebecca - Nich Veraldi Dancing in Space - Shaun Clarke UPB - Hector De Leon Sown - Jordan Cunningham Pitch - Ryan Chipman Milk Man - Alex Alaniz
Short Film Series 9:30pm – 10:30pm SHORTS 1: WELCOME TO STUFF Twenty-Five - Alex Cunningham – USA Film, Beyonder III - Pierre Feytis – France Burglars - Patrick McSherry - USA Retox - Elana Emer - Canada Normie - Daniel Ira Couchie – Canada Bourbon on the Guns - Tanner Matthews – USA Faceless, but Remembered - Shelby Baldock – USA Feature Presentation 10:30pm – 11:59pm Fugue Jorge Torres-Torres – USA A young woman finds herself stranded on an island among wild horses and drunken outcasts without any recollection of how she got there or who she is.
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STUFF 2016 Schedule of Events Saturday . November 12
Short Film Series 12pm – 2pm White Library Fifth Floor Room 530
Feature Films: Wolfe Recital Hall Short Films: White Library Fifth Floor Room 530 @ Del Mar College East Campus 101 Baldwin Blvd Corpus Christi Feature Presentation 9:30am – 11am Wolfe Recital Hall Cloud of Skin Maximilian Le Cain – Ireland Haunted by the memory of a blind woman with visionary powers, a man revisits the sites of their love affair.
Short Film Series 10am – 12pm White Library Fifth Floor Room 530 SHORTS 4: STUDENT SHORTS Denego - Darin Chapin & James Rain – USA The Struggle - Nick Coker – USA Coldstream - Nicholas Chia, Yang Sishuo, Yeo Shiyun, Goh Peng Fong – Singapore The Closeted Fear - Kaylee Holland – USA mono. - Yudji Oliveira – Brazil Kuchipudi: A Journey of a Tradition with Guru Padma Sonti – Sunil Kilaru – USA Alucinari - Loh Li Wei & Chen Huitian – Singapore Leftovers - Peter Howie – Canada STAY - Andrés Gallegos – Chile Sleepwalkers - Altea Claveras – UK One Too Many - Sinead Stoddart – UK Lineage - Olga van den Brandt – Netherlands Koots - Jake Roseman – USA The Treatment - Marvin Meiendresch – Germany the last dream of sinister and dexter - Emma Penaz Eisner – USA Operation Grabenzeit - Stefan Bürkner – Germany Scent of Geranium - Naghmeh Farzaneh – USA Mr. Rodriguez - Salvador S. Molina – Spain
SHORTS 5: ANIMATION/EXPERIMENTAL Dracula in Summer - Davide Benvenuti – Singapore Building 108 - Ari A Cohen & Rick Trembles – Canada Gold Fang - Cooper Roberts – USA Boy Bear and Robot - Joe Loftus – Ireland The Neighbors - Janelle VanderKelen – USA S.C.A.N. - Searching Alternative Nature - Dénes Ruzsa & Fruzsina Spitzer – Hungary We R the World/Mold - Dawn George – Canada The Overdose - James Brittain – USA Filament, Filament, Filament - Brandon Doherty – USA Slumbereel - Ida Ayu Lestari – Indonesia The Beach Boy - Hannes Rall – Germany January Hymn - Katherine Canty – UK Chulyen, a crow’s tale - Cerise Lopez & Agnès Patron – France Feature Presentation 12:15pm – 2:15pm Wolfe Recital Hall Upstairs Inferno Robert L. Camina – USA On June, 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to a gay bar in New Orleans called the Up Stairs Lounge. For 43 years, it was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. History. Despite the staggering historical significance, few people know about the tragedy. Thirty-two people were killed and some bodies were never identified because they were ashamed that the victims were gay. The prime suspect was never charged with the crime. The tragedy did not stop at the loss of lives. There were also the delay injuries: lost jobs, fear, public ridicule and utter lack of concern by the general public, government and religious leaders. The fire permanently altered lives and was the root of many lifelong struggles.
Feature Presentation 11am – 12pm Wolfe Recital Hall
Short Film Series 2pm – 3:30pm White Library Fifth Floor Room 530
In Search of the Exile Clara Pais & Daniel Fawcett – Europe
SHORTS 6: HORROR/SUSPENSE/SCI-FI Crush – Christopher McKee – USA Return of MIZUNO - Hikaru Tsukuda – Japan Conibear - Pablo Saravanja & Jay Bulckaert – Canada Furia (Fury) – Arturo Morales – Mexico Exposure – Ignacio F. Rodó – Spain Empty Bed - Brandt Shandera – USA
a visionary cinematic experience, a doorway into a dreamworld where reality morphs and transforms before our eyes.
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STUFF 2016 Schedule of Events Short Film Series 2:15pm – 3:15 pm Wolfe Recital Hall
Feature Presentation 8pm – 10pm Wolfe Recital Hall
SHORTS 7: Documentary Project Mone’t – James Fite – USA The Well Driller – Matthew McCoy - USA Methane Ghosts – William Randall - USA The Texas Sun – Ted Fisher – USA
The Last Beautiful Girl James Christopher – Austin Jason falls in love with Jules. And he falls hard. But when things start to fall apart, Jason finds letting go to be easier said than done. Texas Premiere
Feature Presentation 3:15pm – 5:15pm Wolfe Recital Hall
Also playing: Sketches – Savannah Rodgers – USA
Guys Reading Poems Hunter Lee Hughes – USA
Sunday . November 13
Bayview Room @ Art Center of Corpus Christi 100 n. Shoreline Blvd. Corpus Christi
Combining poetry, traditional film narrative and a neo-noir aesthetic, GUYS READING POEMS follows a creative boy who uses poetry to survive after his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and creates an art installation around his imprisonment.
Short Film Series 12pm –2pm
Short Film Series 3:30pm – 5pm White Library Fifth Floor Room 530 SHORTS 8: MORE STUFF Less Would Do - Louis Brousseau - Canada The Test -Lorís Simón Salum - Mexico The Proposed - Joe Gonzales- USA The Big Pistachio - Karma Gava - Spain Worldlines - Karlos Alastruey – Spain Simply the Worst - Franz Mueller & Johannes Kuerschner – Germany Short Film Series 6pm – 8pm Wolfe Recital Hall
SHORTS 11: 2016 TEXAS FILMMAKER SHOWCASE Breakfast in Bed - Payton Thropp - Conroe Hit & Run - Jason Neulander - Austin Jackdaw - Travis Champagne - The Woodlands Jenny & Tom - Ford Gunter - Houston Minor Setback - Augustine Frizzell - Dallas More Than Four Hours - Bryan Poyser - Austin Peor Es Nada (Nothings Worse) - Gabriel Duran Arlington Sound and Time - Angela & Mark Walley - San Antonio Closing Night Film @Movies Inc 4222 Wildcat Dr, Corpus Christi, TX 78410 Feature Presentation 3:30pm - TBA Deviant Behavior - Jacob Grim - Corpus Christi A slasher-thriller centering around Charlie Reese, a sleazy private detective who discovers a world of murder, torture and depravity. World Premiere
SHORTS 9: HECHO EN TEJAS II Ashes - Samuel Boyd - Denton The Bitters Truth - Trey Huguley & Andrew Porter – TX Requiem for a Shallow Heart - Nicholas Zebrun - Fort Worth A Frank Conversation - Ian Roe - Corpus Christi Her Unlikely Kin - Kenneth J. Raimondi - Schertz The Example - Wyatt Cagle - Cleveland FREE - Miguel Romero - San Antonio Fostered - Rick Medina - San Antonio The In-Between Place – Jimmy Willden – Corpus Christi
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MSFF 2016 Schedule of Events Saturday, December 3 Del Mar College East Campus 101 Baldwin Blvd Corpus Christi
Feature Presentation 10am – 11am @ Wolfe Recital Hall Film Panel 12pm – 1pm @ The 4th White Library Redemption: Between the Lines with Marie J. Magdaleno
Obsolescencia Hugo Chávez Carvajal - Mexico
"Redemption: Between the Lines" is a prison documentary that explores a jail facility in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This documentary provides an inside glimpse of the facility that is near the border between Mexico and The United States of America.
Objects that go unused and go from hand to hand every day, conquered by a diverse number of trades that give them new a new value to what is no longer usable for many people; until finally reaching a place where only fragments of each camera and television have their last chance.
Short Film Series 10am – 12pm @ White Library 5th Floor Room 530 SHORTS 1: STUDENT SHORTS Tereza - Natalie Camou – United States Nubia - Marina Zolke – Cuba Para Ellos (For Them) – Christian Contreras & Victoria De La Torre - United States Lunes de Cosecha - María Laura Reina – Venezuela Ana con Elisio - Lizette Barrera – United States The Barber Guitarist - André Almeida Rodrigues – Portugal Operación Caguama: Mariachi Quinto Sol de UW Ramon J. Resendiz – United States Wings and Neons - Julián Camilo Sánchez – Colombia Creator’s Labyrinth - Thiago Beckenkamp – Brazil Feature Presentation @ Wolfe Recital Hall Spilling Salt Natalia Armienta Oikawa – Mexico Bolivia holds a sea of salt, the heart of the spirit of the earth "pachamama" called Salar de Uyuni, the world larges reserve of lithium, at the time that protects us from UV rays. On the eve of a change of energy the entire planet, will share their future and destiny again.
Film Panel 1pm – 2pm @ The 4th White Library Get The Hell Out with Regan Arevalos, Jess Castro & Larry Garza A dark comedy following a group of cunning men who travel around the country performing exorcisms for money on behalf of any religion.
Short Film Series 1pm – 3pm @ White Library 5th Floor Room 530 SHORTS 2: SHORTS BLOCK 1 My Story/Mi Historia - Juan Pablo Urbina Rodríguez – Mexico The Light of My Eyes/La Luz De Mis Ojos - Carmen Rosa Vargas – Peru We are born with Wings/Nacimos Con Alas - Waldo Roman Martinez – Argentina Travel by Feet - Khris Cembe – Spain They Will All Die in Space - Javier Chillon – Spain Leona - Davek Carrizosa – Mexico Giant Wheel - Abigail Huerta – Mexico A Little Journey - Lisset Mendoza – United States
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MSFF 2016 Schedule of Events Short Film Series 2pm – 4pm @ Wolfe Recital Hall
Feature Presentation 8pm – 10pm @Fine Arts Room 164
SHORTS 3: DOCUMENTARY An Appreciation: The Work of Juan Quezada - Alexander Roman – Mexico Galapagos, más allá de las islas - Manuel Mateo Lajarín – Spain Solari, the origin of ceviche or the original ceviche Sergio García Locatelli – Peru California Drying - Albert Sabaté – United States Garbanzos con Azúcar - Antonio Aguilar Garcia – Spain Philosopher - Mario Orozco – Mexico Entre Mundo/Worlds on Edge - Thiago B. Mendonça – Brazil Feature Presentation 3pm – 5pm @ White Library 5th Floor Room 530
Gringo Jose Luis Solis - Mexico Omar and Esperanza return to Monterrey after a doctoral stay in Quebec, while making economic and emotional efforts to stay in Mexico, a job offer comes up in San Antonio, Texas. Standing before unsecure and terror conditions that rein upon the highways in the north of Mexico, Omar will have to drive through the frontier paths and face his rough past, his violent present and the helpless future of his family and country.
Zoe Ander Duque - Spain Gemma is in unemployment. Her daughter Zoe dreams of having wings. Gemma wants to fly with her, to go out of this place that asphyxiates, that feeds the fear. Both imagine an identical house painted of red, far away from the noise, close to themselves. Screening Room Fine Arts Building @ Del Mar College East Campus 101 Baldwin Blvd Corpus Christi Short Film Series 6pm – 8pm @Fine Arts Room 164 SHORTS 4: SHORTS BLOCK 2 400 Miles - Felix Martiz – United States Get the Hell Out - Regan Arevalos, Jess Castro, Larry Garza – United States Paco - Catalina Jordan Alvarez – United States Orpheize - Pedro Jaen R. – Spain ALMA - Alycya Magaña – United States Hamburgo - Sergio Alvarez – Spain Man of Light - Rafael Pedro Bermudez – United States Murrieta - Juan José Avelar – United States -2-