Home Program Saturday - April 9, 2011Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

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

The Test

Film Type: Documentary Feature
Runtime: 51 min
Director: Gary Strieker
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Best of Show, Screening Twenty-Six | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Documentary, Ethnic, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Knowing changes everything if it’s an HIV test in Kenya. Nearly 50,000 came forward to be tested for HIV in Kakamega, Kenya in a ground-breaking campaign aimed to combat the area’s three biggest public health threats at once: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrheal disease. Watch how a whole community’s stigma towards HIV positive people changes for good.
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Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 19 min
Director: Eric Day
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Drama, Mature Subjects, Science Fiction
Jeremiah Sloane works for a company that grows genetically engineered humans and sells them to the upper echelon of society. When the human product deviates from designed behavior, Jeremiah Sloane is called in to "retire" the product. His first appointment of the day -- a male cross-dressing J-9 unit that he promptly euthanizes. His second appointment is with a lawyer and her J-3 unit. He discovers as he suspected; they're engaged in sexual relations.
Language, Some Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Ori Guendelman
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Action, Drama, Fantasy, Student Film, Supernatural
On their rite of passage journey, two life-long friends enter the jungle unaware of an ancient being that awaits them.
Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 24 min
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show, Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Diversity, Drama, Foreign Film, Science Fiction
Nominated for Best Narrative Short: Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which water scarcity has extinguished life above ground, this sci fi short follows one museum curator's quest to investigate the possibility of germinating seeds beyond the confines of her repressive subterranean culture.
Some Violence