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Welcome to the online Shmoovies Showcase!

This year, in lieu of an in person screening, we at the Rochester Association for Film Arts and Sciences are pleased to present for 2021 a showcase of short films from past years.

We've gone through our archives and pulled some favorites from past screenings, including those from the 72 Hour Mind to Movie competition and the Rochester Movie Makers Summer Shorts series.

Special thanks to Blue Moon Films and RCTV to help make this festival possible.

A Brief Word About Fundraising

Rochester Association for Film Arts and Sciences, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. We are staffed and managed by a dedicated group of 100% volunteers. We offer events and programs to the community at low or no cost.

Like most businesses, we have been hit hard by COVID restrictions that have severely limited our ability to raise money.

In order to continue to offer programs like The Shmoovies, Scriptitude, the Rochester Writers Workshop, the Rochester Networking Workshop and others, we need to raise money to cover our operating expenses.

So if you have participated in a RAFAS event, attended one of our workshops or are a supporter of the Arts, please click the “DONATE” button below and contribute to RAFAS.

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No donation is too small.

In this way, we can continue to offer contests (low cost) and programs (free) to the community.

Thank you in advance,
Wayne, Mike, Derrick, Chris and Shawn

Dedication

Dedicated to the memory of Mike Russo and Carl Girard, active contributors to the Rochester film community.

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On with the show!

This is a NON-LINEAR selection of films. You, the viewer, get to choose your path! Watch them all in order, or pick and choose based on your own taste. We've given you the titles, some choice thumbnails, and genre info to help you decide...

TITLE: Night of the Living Shred
DIRECTED BY: Boris Sapozhnikov
GENTRE: Comedy/Horror
LENGTH: 5 minutes
YEAR: 2018

TITLE: Amerita
DIRECTED BY: James and Vince Coleman
GENTRE: Sci-Fi
LENGTH:22 minutes
YEAR: 2020

TITLE: Unmasked
DIRECTED BY: Mike Boas
GENTRE: Comedy/Crime
LENGTH:4 minutes
YEAR: 2011

TITLE: Sold On Time
DIRECTED BY: Scott W. Fitzgerald
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:5 minutes
YEAR: 2016

TITLE: The Lecture
DIRECTED BY: Nathan M. Scrivens
GENTRE: Drama
LENGTH:7 minutes
YEAR: 2020

TITLE: Requiem for a Beauty Queen
DIRECTED BY: Wayne coughlin
GENTRE: Drama
LENGTH:12 minutes
YEAR: 2013

TITLE: The Ride
DIRECTED BY: Mike McFadden
GENTRE: Supernatural
LENGTH:3 minutes
YEAR: 2010

TITLE: Death on a Davenport
DIRECTED BY: Mary Whiteside (Mary Willkens)
GENTRE: Comedy/Noir
LENGTH:4 minutes
YEAR: 2012

TITLE: Threads
DIRECTED BY: Stan Main
GENTRE: Drama
LENGTH:15 minutes
YEAR: 2010

TITLE: Faces in the Fog
DIRECTED BY: Ben Chatfield
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:4 minutes
YEAR: 2018

TITLE: Castrate Me
DIRECTED BY: Jason Ray
GENRE: Music Video
LENGTH: 2 minutes
YEAR: 2020

TITLE: Skins
(PW: evildead1971)
DIRECTED BY: Michael Del Rossa
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:15 minutes
YEAR: 2020

TITLE: A Couple of White Guys Sittin' Around Talkin'
DIRECTED BY: Wayne coughlin
GENTRE: Comedy
LENGTH:13 minutes
YEAR: 2012

TITLE: Sociopathy
DIRECTED BY: Shawn M. Essler
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:5 minutes
YEAR: 2017

TITLE: Step 9
DIRECTED BY: Scott W. Fitzgerald
GENTRE: Drama
LENGTH:19 minutes
YEAR: 2013

TITLE: Mirror Lake
DIRECTED BY: Will Graver
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:20 minutes
YEAR: 2013

TITLE: Taco Meat
DIRECTED BY: Derrick Petrush / Mike Russo
GENTRE: Comedy
LENGTH:3 minutes
YEAR: 2012

TITLE: Brief Vision
DIRECTED BY: Dan Petracca
GENTRE: Comedy/Mystery
LENGTH:6 minutes
2011

TITLE: The Gateway
DIRECTED BY: James and Vince Coleman
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:5 minutes
YEAR: 2018

TITLE: Hook Up My Son
DIRECTED BY: Will Graver
GENTRE: Comedy
LENGTH:5 minutes
YEAR: 2014

TITLE: Wing Man
DIRECTED BY: Derrick Petrush
GENTRE: Horror
LENGTH:14 minutes
YEAR: 2011

TITLE: Death and Taxes
DIRECTED BY: Stan Main
GENTRE: Noir
LENGTH:13 minutes
YEAR: 2009