Yesterday evening, I headed down to the Holiday Inn at Folly Beach for the 5th Annual Felder Film Festival. I had stumbled upon this event last year, and it turned out to be one of my favorites, so it was one of the of the first things to get on my Piccolo schedule this year.
According to the creators, the festival’s mission is the following:
…to help train, develop, and promote South Carolinian motion picture directors, producers, writers, and actors, and to create a forum for them to compete in the national market.
The film shorts, most clocked in at 12 minutes or less, ranged from the deeply moving The Last One Standing to the comedic Cupcake, The Killer Kitten.
My favorites were Fear A Following, a treatise on paranoia, and Lost and Found, a thoughtful work on how guilt can block us. The retro exhibition film, Living Dolls, was creepy fun and reminiscient of the 70s TV thriller Night Gallery.
Since I’m a NFL fan, the most intriguing short was Laura Kissel’s documentary Unfettering the Falcon. It is about a woman’s quest to get the Atlanta Falcons to change their name to the Atlanta Tercels since she maintains that a falcon is a female bird and a tercel is a male bird.
I did check the dictionary, and saw falcon listed as “the female gyrfalcon” and a tercel as “the male of a hawk, esp. of a gyrfalcon or peregrine.” Even so, I’m not an ornithologist, so I’m not at all certain how her theory holds up.
Besides, what’s wrong with a team being named for a female bird in the first place?
The Felder Film Festival also runs tonight at the Holiday Inn at Folly Beach from 7-9 pm. If you love film short, catch it if you can.
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