2019 Macon Film Festival

THE CHOP

Total Run Time: 1:12
Director: Jennifer Sheridan
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Terry’s done a bad thing, but why?

* Female Filmmaker

SAC DE MERDE

Total Run Time: 13:27
Director: Greg Chwerchak
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: Language, Adult Situations
Synopsis: Based on a true story, "Sac de Merde" tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.

GRACE

Total Run Time: 6:00
Director: Alexia Oldini & Steven Gray
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: GRACE is the story of the eviction of a young woman of color from her home. Her subsequent encounters reveal the callousness of a society built to exploit the precariousness of people like herself. In the end she confronts head-on a struggle far easier to identify than it is to overcome.

* Female Filmmaker

MOLLY

Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Phyllis Jackson
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: He’s just your average, middle-aged divorcee looking for his first fix. Today he meets Molly.

* Female Filmmaker

PEGGY

Total Run Time: 12:00
Director: Justin O'Neal Miller
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: Everything seems to work out perfectly for Peggy, but her social graces are put to the test when she is surrounded by admiring and covetous parents at a birthday party for her eight-year-old son. Chaos ensues.

ONLY A MOVIE!

Total Run Time: 17:18
Director: Teddy Cecil
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Guy realizes that life is a terrible movie and searches for a way to rewrite his own ending.

FUTURES

Total Run Time: 12:50
Director: Daniel Marc Janes
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Ratings: Language
Synopsis: A tense moral thriller about fast money and predatory behaviour. Leo (Craig Parkinson, FOUR LIONS, CONTROL), a swaggering trader in the City of London, is an unreconstructed alpha male. Recently promoted, he wants to pursue riskier trades and bullies his underlings into going along with him. But how far can he push Teddy (Luke Newberry, BAFTA-nominated for IN THE FLESH [BBC THREE]) and Rosie (Ria Zmitrowicz, THREE GIRLS [BBC ONE]) before they reach their moral limits? A gripping drama about ruthless profit, unbridled masculinity and urgent world events.

FIRST DISCO

Total Run Time: 18:00
Director: Helen O'Reilly
Country of Origin: Ireland
Ratings: None
Synopsis: It’s 1983, Culture Club are no. 1, everyone’s glued to Knight Rider, and Kelly Harrison is not only experiencing her first crush, she’s going to her first disco. The only problem is that she’s getting train tracks before her big night and becomes besieged by self consciousness. However with the help of her best friend, Kelly realises what’s really important in her life.

* Female Filmmaker