Short films, animation, music and photography from all over the world! #finlitfilmfest

                       FINANCIAL LITERACY 

                        FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Total Run Time:
45 minutes 50 seconds

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Total Run Time: 8 minutes 30 seconds
DREAM

About the Filmmaker:

Majid Sabri was born in 1982 in Tehran, Iran. Director, animation supervisor, generalist and animator. Diploma and post-diploma in graphics and bachelor's degree in animation directing. I started my professional animation career in 2000 and produced my first international short animation called "Dream" in August 2021. And I have won international awards.

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Future Payments

An older sister explains to her younger sister how mortgage payments work, with a little twist.

Total Run Time: 1 minutes 41 seconds

Director - Phoebe Isla - Age 14 - Female

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Silver and cryptocurrency cold storage wallets are on display in a Texas river. Silver and cryptocurrency are simple to trade for fiat and are therefore considered liquid assets.

Photography by: 
Katrina Shmidl
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Total Run Time: 2 minutes 40 seconds
Save it Up

Music by: 

The Diligent Ant - G. Buckshon


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Given Up

The story of a young girl suffering from cancer and her family is unable to afford her treatment.

Total Run Time: 8 minutes 30 seconds

About the Filmmaker:

I am Hamid Reza Mahmoodi, 43 years old, who started my artistic activity in high school with the encouragement of a teacher. During high school, I was one of the members of the theater group and began writing different stories. After the end of high school, I began and completed filmmaking classes with the attendance of well-known masters of the artist, called Masoud Kimiai and Hamid Samandrian. After that, I started to filmmaking….

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The Pot - India

Total Run Time: 4 minutes 08 seconds

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A man finds a pot in a forest which speaks. 
The pot promises him multiple treasures but nothing easy is worth having.

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Dungeon 
Total Run Time: 7 minutes 09 seconds

Dungeon is an animation made from photographs of photographs. The elements that make up the film come from prints found in magazines, books, and posters. These images, degraded or even torn, are marked by materiality. They were photographed before being reworked and animated.

Short Film Trailer

The proposal deals with an eminently characteristic feature of our current society, the desire to be famous, or to put it differently, the desire to come out of the shadows and into the light, sometimes even hoping to become that «light». 

This desire for celebrity seems to be gaining more and more individuals today; and this phenomenon has greatly increased by the multiplication of information, reality TV, the multiplication of screens, and specifically via social networks. with all the strategies put in place by the entertainment society. 

In 1968, in the catalog of an exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Warhol wrote: «In the future, everyone will be entitled to 15 minutes of world fame.

 «Indeed, from now on, everyone can claim a form of celebrity if they wish. 
But what kind of celebrity is it? 
Why is it so? 
And with what consequences?

Director Biography
Jérémy Griffaud

 Jérémy GRIFFAUD is a young French artist working between Nice and Nantes. He makes short films from watercolors that he digitizes and animates. His works are also declined in video installations, some of which are immersive. His films have been screened more than a hundred times in 30 countries.  

His works question the problems of our time, they put in parallel the preservation of bio-diversity and the staging of the bodybuilder self as in the creations Against Nature and Landstrength. His animated films are bewitching, hypnotic, staging characters" evolving in "landscapes universe" singular and fantastic.  

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I Loved Her First - short film

Total Run Time: 6 minutes 51 seconds

Director Statement - Braydon Langford

I loved her first is a beautiful story about growing up. When Jenny (Emily Giannozio ) has second thoughts about her wedding , Her father Kevin (Alex Zahara) gives her some last words of inspiration about not only how she has grown , but how they have grown together.

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Fuera del Ring - stop motion animation

Total Run Time: 5 minutes

Romeo was a successful wrestler until an accident ruined his professional life. Now he has to win his most personal battle yet to find success again.

Director Statement - Mario Durán Araujo

Outside the ring is a feel-good short film that showcases a real-life case of a Mexican wrestler that had an accident and became paralytic. He fought for a place on the Paralympics, with great success, but also with great endeavor.  

This is a great story for a short film, and because of the pandemic situation, this live-action idea evolved into a stop motion project.  With this animation style, I managed to make a better composition, now I could take off walls effortlessly, move my characters the way I wanted and take the camera movements to another level.  

Early on I took the decision to change aspect ratios and color-grading depending on the mood of the scene, something that makes this 4-minute film a lot richer.  

The original score is also fundamental to make this project work, taking an epic and uplifting approach.  In the end, this short film was made to tell the viewers that they can accomplish a lot of things when they take their time and learn from their mistakes, and if they lose something in the way, it´s still possible.

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Dopamine - short film

Writer: Justin Wilder Neese

Director: Brandin Stringer

Total Run Time: 2 minutes 18 seconds

Why do we all get a little "rush" when we open our doors 
to see a shiny new package on our door step? 

Dopamine, and we're all addicted. 

So what happens when they cut our supply?

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The Painterist - short film

"Soul is not for sale."

Total Run Time: 2 minutes

The word,' Painterist' was coined for this short film; its title is often mistaken as "Paint" although it is "Pain". This fictional biopic story is about the life of a fine artist, whose name was Shahid. Being an unknown painter, he had been selling his artwork to a dilettante lady, Tanya, for a fistful of money. 

One day he comes to know, he was selling his soul! 

Intellectual piracy is motif of this avant-garde movie. "The Painterist" acknowledges and appreciates the artistic ardour of those creators who have been ripped off by art-stealing, credit-hijackers in this bandit territory, but their passion is unpoachable.

Director Statement - Khalid Hasan Khan

The Painterist is a short experimental film dealing with a theme, which is an unfortunate reality in today's world; of depriving an author, artist or broadly speaking, the creator from his or her credit and compensation or both, by stealing his or her work.

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Supercilious - Cartoon

Executive Producer - Aurora L. Threats

Director - Cedric L. Williams

Total Run Time: 8 minutes 44 seconds

Belle, A young girl does not let other people discourage her from becoming a success in life.

Behind the Scenes on YouTube

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Screenplay / Script Submissions:

Piggy Bank Blues, USA  - Olivia Grey     
The Final Round, USA  - William Brower      
Not Albatrosses, USA  - JoAnne Myers   
Birthday Money, USA  - Penda James  
High Day the Thirteenth, USA  - Brian Keith Walker   

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