Category: Best Micro Film – 2024 WSXA BARCELONA

Original Film Title: Velours Rouge

Director’s Name: Frankie Bee Price, Thomas Joseph Pilling

Writer’s Name: Frankie Bee Price, Thomas Joseph Pilling

Producer: Frankie Bee Price, Thomas Joseph Pilling

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime:6 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

Set in the tranquil French town of Leers. We watch as a woman bakes red velvet cakes in a remote countryside studio. All is calm until she notices a figure watching her through the window. This, paired with news broadcasts of a local murderer is sure to cook things up.

Original Film Title: OCD

Director’s Name: Madonna Gonzalez

Writer’s Name: Kallie Hu

Producer: Kallie Hu, Micah Kelpin, Katrina Teitz

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute

Film Description:

“Amanda, a girl with a debilitating “tick” fights to survive the war raging within her terrifying psyche – all while stuck sitting in a Psych 101 lecture.

Original Film Title: Back to the Kings of Israel Square

Director’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Writer’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Producer: Yuri Riklis

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language:

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

When the Angel of Death arrives 30 years later at the scene of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he witnesses a routine of life in the place – the Kings of Israel Square – where an event occurred that shocked the country and the entire world.

Original Film Title: Salut

Director’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Writer’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Producer: Yuri Riklis

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language:

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is – his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel’s death in a terrorist attack at the “Dolphinarium” Dicko, his life ends also.

Original Film Title: Temperaturas Ardientes (La Otra Historia del COVID)

Director’s Name: Robert Marshall Tartell

Writer’s Name: Robert Marshall Tartell

Producer: Robert Marshall Tartell

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 3 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

A hostess’ COVID precautions threaten to spoil dinner for her guests- and a friendship.

Original Film Title: Mariposas

Director’s Name: Adrian Carey

Writer’s Name: Samanta Schweblin

Producer: David Eli Munz Maire

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.