Tyler Film Festival in September

BY SANTIAGO NUNES/Multimedia Editor

The Tyler Film Festival is returning. The three-day event is set to take place Sept. 12-Sept. 14. The festival will be held at Liberty Hall in downtown Tyler. The events for the first two days begin at 7 p.m. while the events for the third and final day begin at 6 p.m. 

The festival is a showcase of short films no longer than 15 minutes which are made by students and independent parties alike. This festival will feature filmmakers from Texas and across the world.

Each day will feature a new set of short films. Certain productions will have cast and crew members available for Q&A sessions after the airing of the film. After all the films have been showcased, there will be an awards ceremony on Sept. 14.  

Tickets are on sale at the official websites for the Tyler Film Festival and Liberty Hall. Individual day passes are $10 and the three-day pass is $25. College students can present a valid student ID each night they attend the festival and will be admitted free.  

The schedule for each night is as follows: 

 Night 1 

• “My Pencils Death” – Directer: Diego Rotmistrovsky  
• “THE SPRAYER” – Director: Farnoosh Abedi  
• “Ofrenda” – Director: Tyler Garcia  
• “HOPE” – Director: Volkan Girgin 
• “Queen of Death” – Directors: Elise and Emily Holder  
• “Curiosity” – Director: Tito Contreras  
• “Larry McMurtry’s All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers – Chapter 1” – Director: Stephen Purvis  
• “Pitage” – Director: Ali Khaledi  
• “From Stone to Stone” – Director: Louie Clive Norman  

Night 2 

• “The Word” – Director: Rob M. Neilson  
• “Take me to Hawkins, Texas” – Director: Ben Fenton  
• “Not According to Plan” – Director: Anna Makeeva  
• “I Used to Play Piano” – Director: Grayson Lackey  
• Life is Like a Play – Director: Olivia Carter  
• “Duvar Duvar / Wall, the Wall” – Director: Yusuf Ölmez  
• “5/3/0” – Director: Danilo Stanimirović  
• “Bed Bugs” – Directors: Christopher Greening and Conner Baudier  
• Audience Favorite from Night 1 

Night 3

• “A Summer’s End Poem” – Director: Lam Can-zhao 
• “5:01” – Director: Seth Sonnier
• “The Sunset of Green Snails” – Director: Mohammad Hasani
• “Victim” – Director: Sina Abhari
• “Ink” – Director: Ashley Worley
• “Titty Boy” – Director: Austin Ford Franklin Culp
• “Almost Perfect: The 99th Pitch” – Director: John Benjamin Terrell 
• “First and Last” – Director: DeAnda Mechelle Frost
• Audience Favorites from Night 2