These seven student shorts-both documentary and narrative-may well represent the next generation of up-and-coming filmmakers. “The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist” is a hilarious and offbeat profile of the director’s smooth jazz-loving father, and in “Stepsister,” a woman goes to great lengths to torment her stepbrother’s fiancée. “A World for Raul” finds two boys in a dangerous power struggle in Mexico; and the bittersweet “When the Song Dies” captures some of the last members in line in a long tradition of song and superstition in Scotland.
The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist Mark Columbus | USA, Fiji | 2012 | 8 min.
Cultivation Joshua Comeau | USA | 2013 | 10 min.
Flash Point Colin Campbell | USA | 2013 | 9 min.
Life Doesn't Frighten Me Stephen Dunn | Canada | 2012 | 13 min.
Stepsister Joey Izzo | USA | 2013 | 18 min.
When the Song Dies Jamie Chambers | Scotland | 2012 | 15 min.
A World for Raul Mauro Mueller | Mexico, Switzerland, USA | 2012 | 15 min.