Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Why is it hip to stitch? This short documentary explores the reinvention of needlecraft over the last decade, and a renewed passion with young people interested in its fine art applications.

Nominated for Best Narrative Short: A 1950s shirt safety inspector approves several un-safe shirts to meet a quota and impress a girl. When the shirts cause a series of horrific disasters, Inspector 42 must decide if he is willing to come clean and face the consequences of his actions.

This gorgeously made fable is an engaging fantasy about gardeners in Los Angeles, who use their leaf blowers in surprising and magical ways.

A man and a boy ask the same question from different perspectives with fated results:  Do you want to learn to fly?

My Name Is Belle is a snapshot of one immigrant's experience through the eyes of a 7-year-old child. Belle Yang, artist and writer, uses herself as the model for the fictional pig-tailed girl in her book HANNAH IS MY NAME.  Belle, as Hannah, arrives from Taiwan and faces change and loneliness - the difficulty of learning a new language, a new culture, even a new name, and of living with tension while waiting for green cards, longing to be citizens.  The film dips into past and present using Belle's storytelling and bright paintings to tell her story.

Nominated for Best Student Film: The 2010 Oscar® nominated short film, Kavi, is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.