8MM PROJECTS
These projects were shot with a 8mm camera.  The students were asked to visually tell a story within two minutes, focusing on the unique quality of 8mm film.
        CHALLENGE JAPANESE BREAKFAST
        Cast: Kirsten Amaro, Michiko Suzuki
        (1min 52sec)
        DOPPEL GANGER
        Cast: Yoichi Hosono
       (1min 54sec)

  

JACK & JANE   (9min 54sec)
In this project, the students were put into groups of four and given one scene from a script to shoot.  Each scene has its own theme and the students were to focus on creating a mood.
     DOUBT
     Director: Samito Oguchi, DP:Yasuko Usui
     PERCEPTION
     Director: Yoshitoshi Miyahara, DP:Yoshito Hosoi
     GUILT
     Director: Mac Kondo, DP:Kane Kanematsu
     GRIEF
     Director:Noboru Iikusa, DP:Hiroshi Matsuzaki
Cast: Peggy Sue Scott, Jeremy Woodland, Erin Laurence, Michael Trudeau, Lucus Allen
Jane has one more thing to do before she tells her family that she is dying of cancer.
    

LAUGHTER  (10min 22sec)
Director: Yasuko Usui
Cast: Lilli Shoen, Luree Scott, Simon Antony

Sarah has difficulty going out and interacting with people.  Her only connection to the outside world isAngela, her nine-year-old friend. 

CRASH  (9min 10sec)
Director: Yoshitoshi Miyahara
Cast: Jason Caleb Wool, Ronald Remis, Brenda Lamberty    Josiah Lawrence Payan

Alex’s father left him when he was a child.  Alex feels only hatred for him, until one day…

BILL & ROSE (9min 53sec)
Director: Mamoru Kondo
Cast: Jane Noseworthy, Michael Mossei

Bill is a successful businessman with an empty life.  One Christmas day, he realizes there is someone who cares him.

TETSU (10min 29sec) 
Director: Noboru Iikusa
Cast: Won Yee, Aki Umemoto, Hidekun Hah, Cyrus Camden
Midori Okada, David Chan, Takahiro Miki, Vito Razi
Jefferson Kao

Tetsu needs to find a way to save his son.  He is ready to risk his own life for that purpose.

PURSUER (10min)
Director: Yoshito Hosoi
Cast: Anthony Wemyss, Melissa Macedo, Troy Daniel Smith
AJ Trexler, Paulina Giraldo

Stanley is a spy from a cybernet company.  He‘s just succeeded in stealing some secret data, or so he thought…

ANOTHER FRIDAY NIGHT (10min 10sec)
Director: Hiroshi Matsuzaki
Cast: Adam Roa, Lukas Roberts, Adam Dunlap, Adrian Elizondo
Carissa Castro

It’s Friday night again.  Mike and his friends are having their weekly poker night when Mike receives a call from his girlfriend.

ALICE (13min 45sec)
Director: Shigeru Kanematsu
Cast: Lucas Allen, Amy Kline, Paggy Sue Scott, Troy Daniel Smith, Robert Krisst

In Los Angeles in the near future, Lucas is a typical young boy who has no interest in anything but computer gaming.  But one day he meets Alice.

 

WAKE UP!  (50 seconds)
Cast: Leona Lesseos, Akira Haga

This project was shot with a 8mm camera. The students were asked to visually tell a story within one minutes.

 

 

JACK & JANE  (15 minutes)
LIBRARY - Director: Yuichi Shiotani
CAFE - Director: Noriyuki Tanaka
MOTEL 8 - Director: Akira Haga
Cast: Olev Aleksander, Hanelle Miklavicic, Nicole Cannis, Louise Allen, Vivian Matito

In this project, the students were asked to create three different genre short films, while using the same main characters, location and opening scene.

THE MOON ON THE SOUND (15 minutes)
Director: Akira Haga
Cast: Stephanie O'Neill, David Columbo, Jaremy Woodland

Hannna realizes her unhappy marriage only when she spends time with her husband's brother, Joshua.

　

HAWTHORN BLVD. (10 minutes)
Director: Yuichi Shiotani
Cast: April Maxey, Tony Calle, Louie Olivos

Maria lives in a disfunctional family. When she finds love, she makes a decision.

 

DISPOSITION  (18 minutes)
Director: Noriyuki Tanaka
Cast: John Swift, Stephanie O'Neill, Rachel Miles, David Rice

Eric, an unsuccessful mistery writer, finds himself in a well planned murder plot.

 

THE LEGEND OF SIREN  (5 minutes)
Director: Yoichi Hosono
Cast: Clifford Kravit, Amy Granados

DEATH  (6 minutes)
Director: Jumpei Shinozaki
Cast: Amy Granados, Troy Smith, Naïna Barnett

 

A CUP OF COFFEE (5 minutes)
Director: Keisuke Takeda
Cast: Troy Smith, Vito Razi, Bruce Byall

 

LA Short Festival 入選作品！ 　

VERMILLION  (6 minutes)
Director: Keisuke Takeda
Cast: Maureen Brostoff, Sam P. Whitehead

 

WASABI  (5 minutes)
Director: Tsuyoshi Ito
Cast: Dennis Harrigan, Archie Arenas

 

UTSUTSU  (5 minutes)
Director: Tsuyoshi Ito
Cast: Amy Granados, Vito Razi

 

ROSE  (6 minutes)
Director: Keiko Sudo
Cast: Naïna Barnett, Clifford Kravit, Michael Trudeau

 

LA Short Festival 入選作品！

THE SPEAR OF MILLVATUS  (16 minutes)
Director: Yoichi Hosono
Cast: Troy Smith, Naïna Barnett, David Case, Vito Razi