AzFilmFest presents ARIZONA SHORTS

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

25 April, 2023

Description

Choice-At the beach during her summer vacation before college, Rebecca faces an impossible choice. (Dick Fisher, USA, 2023, 6 min) Dear Ancestors-A powerful lyrical performance by artist Chezale pays homage to historical women figures. (Freddy Jay Walker, USA, 2023, 3 min) Revenge of Dakota: a restored scene from "The Trail to Yesterday" (1918)-A scene digitally restored from the last surviving nitrate copy discovered at a film archive in Amsterdam. (Bart Santello and Edwin Carewe, USA, 2023, 10 min) Prayer Run for the Santa Ritas-Tohono O'odham runner Marlinda Francisco begins her run to protest the threat of an open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains of Southern Arizona (Leslie Ann Epperson, United USA, 2022, 6 min) Summerhaven: The Series-A strange small town where murder victims get another chance at life... and can communicate with those who killed them. (Stacey Cochran, USA, 2023, 11 min) Recipient-This documentary shadows the process of a living donor offering his kidney to save his friend's life... both are Tucson filmmakers. (Gerren Ard, USA, 2023, 15 min) The Last Wild River-Two companions paddle the entirety of the Verde River in an attempt to capture its beauty, its threats and challenges. (Isaac Dudley, USA, 2022, 12 min)