INSIDE TRIP (dir. John Giura, NY, NY) 20 minutes, 16mm,
FESTIVAL PREMIERE
An Olympic wrestler in Pennsylvania arrives late for practice with an unread letter from France. During the workout he is hit with an inside trip and his head is slammed to the mat. The subsequent blackout takes him back to Paris and to Sophie, the author of the letter. Featuring real life Olympic wrestler, Cary Kolat, the only wrestler to have a Nike contract.

MEAN PEOPLE SUCK (dir. Matthew Cole Weiss, Langhorne, PA) 8 minutes, 16mm
Two men and one woman share stories about the worse thing they have ever done. Featuring James Franco, Eric Christian Olsen, and Dominique Swain.

SLITCH (dir. Diane Bellino, Baltimore, MD) 24 minutes, 16mm
A young girl is looking for love, and sets her sights on a disinterested surfer (played by musician Will Oldham, one of the Guest Hosts at last year's Maryland Film Festival).

SOULMATE (dir. Chel White, Portland, OR) 14 minutes, 16mm
A story by NPR's Joe Frank, in which a 55-year old landlady objects to the interests of her younger male tenant. A complex study of alienation and sexual obsession.

HERE AND THERE (dir. Josh Slates, Baltimore, MD) 7 minutes, 16mm
A document of displacement detailing the parallel lives that are led by five young folks who come to question their place within an increasingly unfamiliar world. Spanning over a thousand miles of Americana (and featuring the contributions of local musicians indigenous to each landscape, including Baltimore's Practice Finger), this short portrait evaluates what it means to be the right person in the wrong place at a weird time.

EPIPHANY (dir. Jim Hunter, Atlanta, GA) 12 minutes, BetaSP
What if cupid was a woman working in a computerized shipping department, sending love to those in need? What if something was wrong with her own computer file?

GIVEN FISH (dir. Tim Vasen & Melissa James Gibson, Baltimore, MD) 20 minutes, VHS,
WORLD PREMIERE
When a man saves a young girl from drowning, he's not prepared to accept the amount of thanks her family intends to give him.

(films are not necessarily listed in the order they will shown)