Name: Narrative Shorts Block: Here for the Twist
Start: 2024-08-18T12:00:00-0400
End: 2024-08-18T13:30:00-0400

Sunday August 18, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

THE HEART OF TEXAS

Director: Gregory JM Kasunich
TRT: 14:45
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Janie May, an aspiring country singer stuck in the paycheck-to-paycheck grind, gets big news that she’s a radio contest finalist while finishing her overnight shift at a local diner in Waco, TX. She must race to the station to sing for hometown country music hero Harlan Thompson in hopes of winning the opening act spot on his upcoming tour. In a chaotic dash to the studio, she collides her car into Jesús, an undocumented worker who refuses medical care or police assistance out of fear of being discovered and deported. The two engage in a struggle, each in pursuit of their own American dreams. In the end, they do the only thing they know how to do: fend for themselves.
Ratings: Language

THE MASTERPIECE

Director: Àlex Lora
TRT: 20:00
Country of Origin: Spain
Synopsis: Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want.
Ratings: Language

PUSHOVER

Director: Brian Lederman
TRT: 7:27
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.
Ratings: None

GRIEVING

Director: Chris Chi
TRT: 17:58
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: Diane, an aspiring actress looking for work, finds herself in the office of psychiatrist Dr. Hiller. As part of a ground-breaking if controversial study, Dr. Hiller hires Diane to role play as the deceased partner of one of his clients. Desperate for work, Diane accepts the job and finds herself in a position where she must act out a scenario in which to bring emotional closure to someone else's pain. However, when Diane realizes the selfishness of her assigned client, she is thrust into a dilemma of continuing her usual behavior of people-pleasing or to finally stand up for herself.
Ratings: Language

FORTUNE

Director: Matthew Perkins
TRT: 27:32
Country of Origin: USA
Synopsis: In this Southern Gothic tale of greed, a blue-collar timber yard worker miraculously wins a massive lottery jackpot.
Ratings: Language, Violence

Sunday August 18, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Douglass Theatre 355 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Macon, GA 31201

2024 Macon Film Festival