2023 Short Films
FFF is proud to announce the Shorts for 2023.
MANY OF THE FILMMAKERS WILL ATTEND FOR Q&A’s AFTER THE SHORTS BLOCKS AND THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS SATURDAY
Each year we are proud to present a selection of short films submitted to our festival, juried by a panel of jurors. We greatly appreciate their contribution to this year’s festival.
Alchemy
USA | 3 min | Experimental
Bill Richardson
Some loves are bigger than the ocean. A beautiful story about the power of love.
Baggage
USA | 7 min | Drama
James M Meyers
An OCD Health Inspector must face his nemesis while inspecting an Axe Throwing Bar.
Blue Hour
USA | 16 min | Drama
J.D. Shields
Two personal journeys intersect when a struggling young photographer is hired for a cheap last minute portrait gig. The unfolding photo session, while transient, leaves an indelible mark on both women.
Don’t You Go Nowhere
USA | 8 min | Drama
Bryan Poyser
A jazz dynamo belts his way through his weekly set until he makes an unexpected connection with an audience member.
Freedom Swimmer
UK | 15 min | Doc/Animation
Olivia Martin McGuire
The tale of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution parallels escaping Hong Kong as new National Security Laws set in.
Getting A Yes
USA | 4 min | Comedy
Matt Webb
Bing is nervous about making his big call, but his manager Matt is there to pump him up.
Goodbye For Now
USA | 5 min | Drama
Clayton Habecker, Eric Mitro
A man is faced with one of the hardest decisions of his life, pushing him to second guess the sad truth that lies on the table in front of him.
Loveshake
USA | 6 min | Comedy
Caleb Suggs
If it’s love you’re makin’, then you better start shakin’!
Running
AL | 5 min | Comedy
Rusty Enger
Sometimes the best intentions can be the worst ideas.
Miracle
USA | 13 min | Drama
Monique Barsh, Vallon Holcomb
A single mother raising a black son can be one of the hardest things to do. With dodging the streets and the ones in blue one wrong move can end in blood shed.
Trashy Waters
AL | 13 min | Documentary
Randal Crow
Alabama is not a dumpster.
Litter washing into our waterways is a problem not only affecting our pocketbooks and well-being, but it also spoils our enjoyment of Alabama’s great outdoors.
Join a passionate group of watershed guardians as they address the enormous issue of litter accumulating in our creeks, streams and rivers
Tropical Mind
USA | 6 min | Comedy
Bryce Mackie
One man’s dream for a tropical paradise.
Lenore
USA | 6 min | Comedy
Stephen Savage & Kevin Zhou
When faced with some of life’s more difficult questions, often the answer lies within.
And sometimes a mermaid stops by.
THE FAIRHOPE 48 FOR FUTURE FILMMAKERS
The 2023 Fairhope Film Festival will be featuring a new category of programming this year.
The Fairhope Film Festival’s Fairhope 48 for Future Filmmakers’, or ‘Fairhope 48‘ for short, will be a special competition, open exclusively to high schoolers in Baldwin and Mobile counties in Alabama, and will run concurrently with other festival programming during the week of November 9-12, 2023.
The program will follow the standard structure of the 48-hour film challenges that have gained popularity in recent years: participants receive an intermutual script, along with a list of ‘Fairhope elements’ which must be depicted somewhere throughout the completed short. After a shotgun start, a time limit of 48 hours is allotted to produce, record, edit and deliver the finished piece. The completed shorts will be judged and exhibited at a dedicated awards function at the end of the weekend.
Daphne High School film studies teacher, Griffin Hood, a professional actor, writer and director, is partnering with the FFF in organizing the students’ participation and mentoring throughout