Come out for the opening ceremony of the 6th Annual Red Rock Film Festival. Meet members of the festival crew and some of the directors from the festival. Get an insider's look at clips and trailers from the films to come during the 10-day festival.

After the Opening Night film come out and meet filmmakers from the festival at party.

Cinematic, Industry, St. George Section and Opening Night Special Access pass holders are invited to this opening night dinner meet and greet Patron Event.

Awards night featuring winning films from the 2012 film festival. Come early for the anouncements mash-up of the Academy Awards.
6 pm – Pre-ceremonies
7 pm – Award-Winner screenings

The human contradiction of having to justify solving inequality by extreme methods will always remain a puzzling paradigm of our nature. This drama explores the contradiction well. It also demonstrates the deep level of personal abandonment people will feel when they are dedicated and impassio…>

Each section has a different flavor at the After Party. St. George is a meet and greet with food at Red Robin. Mesquite will attract a younger crowd with a no host bar and a DJ, and Springdale will be a more relaxing atmosphere with food.

A story of shipwrecks and love -- After a terrible ocean storm, Brendan finds himself on a Chilean island with Eloise, the girl of his secret dreams. Alo…>

This year's featured artist is Dustin Grella who won and Aglet Award for Best Animated Short, Aglet in 2010 for his film "Prayers for Peace". Each short animation is part of several Easter Eggs which are surprise screenings scheduled before other films throughout the festival. Th…>

A woman rents a house in a small town. Her memories of Afghanistan linger. She is not alone.

May I have the envelope please? This year the festival added the "Music Video" category and "Collegiate Shorts" to the several other categories. Join the filmmakers and other patrons as the Audience Choice awards are presented.

Cystic fibrosis is a disease passed down through families that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs, digestive tract, and other areas of the body. It is one of the most common chronic lung diseases in children and young adults. It is a life-threatening disorder.‰ In a wor…>

Colegas (Buddies) tells the story of three young people with Down Syndrome who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the film "Thelma & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener‚s old car…>

At dawn, 9-year-old Anzelma begins walking for miles in search of firewood. The journey gets longer each day in a land once covered by lush forest but now significantly denuded of trees. The rivers that provided clean water for generations are now contaminated. Many people in Anzelma s village…>

Two castaways separated by distance. All their hopes are pinned in the bottles that they just launch to the sea. A travel across the ocean looking for a hand to pick them up. Will they get someone to listen?

A diverse selection of shorts made by college students on topical subjects from foreclosure, gangs, teens, and longevity.

Shorts and featurettes include: Necking, Shoot the Moon, Teardrop and Us.Now! (Wir.Jetzt!).

A man drives his car across a lonely road. He meets a strange woman who wears a night-shirt, she asks him if he could take her to town. When she gets into the car, an incredible search will begin.

The stunning truth about our planets wildlife which we do not realise because we turn our backs to nature in search of our own species collective greed.

An absolutely beautiful film from the natural vistas to the water imagery, this documentary film is a breath of fresh air. The combination of stunning photography with the stream of consciousness becomes a visual poem. This multicultural project profiles three environmental activists.

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A dialog between women artists from different cultures settled down in Barcelona since a decade now. Independent electronic music, traditional African dance, photography and audiovisuals, are the activities of these women who give us their points of view on different issues. Focussing on the a…>

A Time of fellowship and getting to know the Film Makers more. Join filmmakers on one of several hikes in the parks or neighboring trails.

Last May California announced plans to close one quarter of their 278 parks, a devastating move that is intended to save the state a mere $22 million per year. The closure list includes thousands of acres of park land, recreation areas, wildlife reserves, and 50% of the state’s historic …>

When life repeats itself, we’ll do anything to change our destiny. We’ll toil and sacrifice for ourfamilies, without asking the cost on our children. To support his family in the Basque Country, Joaquin must herd sheep alone in America. Burning suns and blistering winds ha…>

The film follows two couples and the wrenching decisions they each must make on a wintry Vienna night. Milo and Biljana, illegal immigrants seeking opportunity, must acknowledge that they cannot raise their newborn and hope to achieve their own youthful dreams at the same time. Across town, Th…>

An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland. In rural Ireland old hand painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty and with a time many would rather forget. Because of this association much of the country’s furniture heritage lies rotting i…>

Join us for the After Party following the Focus Screening of "Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy".

After coming across a haunted old gramophone, Nick is transported into a world of skeleton puppets.

Michel lives alone with his daughter Marie. Today, their monotonous life turns to drama. The short film cleverly unfolds and plays with the audiences subconscious. It raises a simple, yet extremely desperate question: what if you discovered a secret in your family? The natural acting leaves no…>

In German, Czech, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles
The  Buchenwald concentration camp was a central camp in the Nazi slave labor empire, and prisoners were brought to it from camps throughout the Nazi system. In late 1944-early 1945, transports arrived …>

“Letting Go” is a short narrative student film about a tough-minded young girl who goes through several different stages of grief after the death of someone very important to her ? until she discovers it?s OK to go on just like the land around her will go on.  After the old fa…>

By the advancement of the technology and network, people believe that the field of their vision is broadened, but on the other hand, they might neglect the fact that their substantial living space is gradually shrinking. People spend more time sitting in front of their computers but less time …>

The life of Logan Williams, a teenager whose brother was killed in a car accident. Determined to see his brother again, an unexpected reply appears in his daily journal. Overtime, he becomes attached to this unknown person. Will Logan be able to reunite with his brother or remain depressed for…>

In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

Getting dumped always hurts. Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-year-old brother to break the news.

Winter has overshadowed the life of the child. The kid sacrifices all he has to bring the spring back to life.

This tender documentary is a meditation on love, dating, and the longevity of relationships from the perspective of those who know the subject better than anyone else—our elders. In this film, we’ll hear from three couples (all of whom have been married for over fifty years) and on…>

Retired Marine Colonel Eric Hastings remembers flight missions ‘high above the death and destruction’ in Vietnam. From the cockpit, he traced meandering ribbons that cut through the jungle. He recognized the shapes of the trout streams of home. Every night, he dreamed about fly-fis…>

An engaging panel-format discussion with some of the filmmakers of films featured this year at Red Rock Film Festival. The discussion will include a look at the style and creating mood to a film. How the director maintains a consistent look throughout the film and… how the director work…>

A lively panel-format discussion with actors featured this year at Red Rock Film Festival. 

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A lively panel-format discussion with directors of diverse documentaries featured this year at the Red Rock Film Festival. 

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An engaging panel-format discussion with directors of fiction films featured this year at Red Rock Film Festival.

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Work-in-progress screening which engage audiences in the documentary filmmaking process. An interactive workshop with focus on the documentary film.

 This presentation will focus on what you need to think about to plan for production in terms of developing an idea, fundraising, and putting together a production plan.  A useful seminar both for fiction …>

RRFF Patron Members, Cinematic Passholders and Section Passholders are treated to several private patron events at during the festival from receptions, dinner vouchers and other activities at the festival.

 In Burmese and English with English subtitles
‘A Place in the World’ is a feature documentary about a small charter school called  The International Community School’ (ICS) that takes on an issue that plagues many communities: what to do for the re…>

Additional screenings of films from the festival and surprise features.

There is no better way to demonstrate the ignorance of our societal sense of morality than to illustrate it with a story that an audience at large can relate to build sympathy and illustrate the absurdity of the prevalence of those perspectives. In this film, Ali a 9 to 5'er who is reserve…>

Nik Day is an up and coming singer songwriter with comparisons to Micheal Buble and John Mayer. His song "Sadder" is an anti-love song and the music video to go along with it is inspired by the absurd world of silent film, black and white photography and a creepy clown. Through a ser…>

A tragic yet timely story of a woman about to lose her house to foreclosure and how she deals with by applying to a gameshow. Her oldest daughter takes care of her younger brother, because the mother is too depressed to buy food or do anything other than apply to the gameshow. The lead actress…>

An entertaining thriller  - the overall direction, the music, and the acting was enough to throughly get into the story about an off kilter room renter who insinuates himself into a family. The film examines familial bonds, the human need to belong and the thin line between sanity and ins…>

Vicky, 13, her figure stuck between childhood and adolescence, secretly bears a heavy burden. When her mother discovers the nature of her troubles, Vicky takes an unsettling decision, in a desperate attempt to reclaim the childhood she has already lost...

In "La Source" (pronounced lah-soos), Haiti water does not come easily. Each day, villagers of this small, rural community must choose between enduring a long, treacherous walk to retrieve clean water or drink contaminated water from a nearby river. For over 30 years, the villagers h…>

Still Life follows the journey to work of a human statue called Norman. After waking up to discover his frozen alarm clock, Norman is blissfully unaware the same has happened to the city around him.

A powerful, exquisitely composed hand-held POV story about the tensions of a street gang. One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a gang in his neighborhood. The leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and thus officially earn his 'membership' into the crew…>

A a team of documentary filmmakers comprised of two students and a teacher traveled to Ghana during the summer of 2011. While there, they shot a documentary about the Kayayo: a group of teens from the rural northern regions of Ghana who travel to the larger southern cities to work as laborers …>

This fragile story of youth has many hallmarks of a true-to-life experience of a pair of teenage friends going through first relationships and navigating new friendships in the midst of emotional and hormonal upheaval. The young actors absolutely nail the insecurity and reactive behavior &ndas…>

In Spanish, Navajo, and English with English subtitles
Whiskey is for drinkin . Water is for fightin ,   says Jeff Ehlert, a fly fishing guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, recalling a well worn saying heard throughout the Colorado River Basin.  As t…>

A man receives a call from his wife while she is being kidnapped by a person they used to know.This mysterious man will make him come if he wants to get her back.

"My name is Lilly and I’m nine years old. I was born in the middle of the forest and I’ve lived there my whole life." That’s how Lilly opens the poetic film that director Sanne Rovers made about her. With her mother and brothers Robbin and Melvin, Lilly lives in a s…>

‘Without A Net’ begins with opening night.  The tent lights flash, the popcorn is popping, colorful portions of cotton candy adorn the tent poles.  People cheer in anticipation as the lights fade down for the show which is about to begin.Several months earlier, the area l…>

Part science fiction, part thriller and part cautionary fairytale, Worlds Apart encompasses the universal themes of innocence, friendship and the fate humanity might face if we continue to destroy the natural resources of our planet. Set in the not so distant future, Earth is visited by extra-…>

Four films on human rights with a common link in the medical and nursing world. Themes of Cystic Fibrosis, illegal immigration, parenting, visitation rights and child abuse take a front stand in this shorts program.

Shorts and featurettes include: Breathe Life, Hatch, It Is Nothing …>

This diverse program is the perfect introduction to the festival, especially for the hopeless romantic and the enchanted. This variety of films takes the viewer through several characters in their place in society.

Shorts and featurettes include: Castaways (Naufragos), Curves (Curva…>

Traumatic events are recalled by words, images and sounds in the stories of these films. The characters either make desperate measures, realize they are too close to home and their view of humanity is changed.

Shorts and featurettes include: At the Bottom of the Hill, Not Yet Begun …>

This documentary  examines the power of the contract in surrogate motherhood arrangements, and the implications of signing away rights to your body in order to bear a child for a stranger. The film follows Angel Patwell through the final weeks of her second surrogate pregnancy as she stru…>

Throughout the expanse of time, humanity has marveled at the majestic wonder of winged creatures who have inhabited the natural world. "Anela en Rouge" (The Angel in Red) is a captivating, experimental dance documentary, in which Nannette Rogers-Kennedy shares the story of losing her…>

Go behind the press conferences and backroom corridors of power during the historic 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arabs and Jews put their differences aside and embraced peace. Menachem Begin, Anwar El-Sadat and Jimmy Carter wer…>

Belle knows that she is different. The way she looks on the outside doesn t seem to match the way she feels on the inside. Raised by her strict, cold mother, and passive, silent father, Belle is kept inside, …>

At 85, Tom Hertog has no choice but to move into a nursing home. He is highly skeptical of his new bingo-playing, flower-arranging, communal-dining world. All he wants is to be left alone in his room with his music, books and computer. Every friendly overture he rejects. Until one day, when th…>

This dramatic short follows a young woman as she helps her employer reconnect with her brother and how that takes her further on her personal journey for self improvement.  Sam leads a rather isolated existence, cleaning the house of an eccentric elderly woman and making lists about how t…>

America’s biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression began in March of 2008 with the demise of an 85 year old investment bank known as Bear Stearns.  With a long history of litigation and fines on its resume, the firm was known as a bare-knuckled Wall Street powerhouse that…>

Recently uncoupled couple, Libbie London and Sheridan Crane, recount the ups and downs of their relationship as they battle over possession of their beloved couch. When life under one roof turns out to be more difficult than imagined, the young couple quickly call it quits, both choosing to mo…>

Two brothers from a rural West Australian town, are caught poaching a lamb from a neighbouring property. When Beau refuses to go quietly his younger brother becomes a pawn in a violent showdown.

Kentucky, 1864  -- A young carpenter decides to hang himself. The despair and heartache of living alone after his beautiful wife passes away, taking with her their unborn child, is far too great for him to bear any longer.The empty hours begin wearing down on him. His mind slowly grows in…>

Franck is a hustler from  the Bronx, New York. He has a partner, Andre. One of Franck’s jobs is to smuggle clandestin people  to New York. Franck is going through midlife crises of a crime officer, he wants to change his lifestyle. His next job will get him into a complicated s…>

35 million Americans have Dyslexia. Dyslexia is NOT a condition that causes a person to see letters and numbers backwards. It IS a condition that causes some people to have extreme difficulty learning to read. Our movie follows dyslexic filmmaker, Harvey Hubbell, as he goes on a journey to und…>

The film is telling the life story of the famous Czech explorer and traveler Dr.Emil Holub. Holub was the first explorer who mapped out the Victoria falls. Our main hero,as the old man,is reminiscing about his adventurous journeys through the South Africa. He remembers his triumphs and his dow…>

In the desert during Christmas time, three tumbleweeds overhear a young girl telling her father that she wished there was snow in the desert so that she could build a snowman. After the young girl and her father leave to go get a Christmas tree, the tumbleweeds quickly assemble themselves in t…>

Elli and Richard, a couple in their mid 60s, get into a loud argument in a fancy restaurant. Richard is asked to leave and Elli is left behind, desperate. It`s not long before she is surrounded by women offer…>

‘We are Generation Unlimited. To us, anything is possible: we want it all and we want it now. The perfect life can be achieved, if only we make the right choices. Still something is bothering us... how to find happiness?’Contemporary young adults are trying to find their way throug…>

This is a story about dream and determination. Where faith can take you to new heights of inspiration. Following 2 Nepali adventures on an Expedition of a life time. From training on the famous Khumbu Ice Fall, to setting a free flight altitude record as they become the third group to ever fly…>

This comedy follows Damien as he attempts to use voodoo dolls to alter the lives of his three best friends.

In a small residential town by the Trondheim’s fjord Anna and Anton are starting to enter into adolescence.They live in a place where nature is as spectacular as it is isolating: a micro cosmos that forced them to build a strong bond during their childhood and that, now, are trying to fi…>

Jascha is a young deaf art student who doesn’t much care about the hearing world. But he can’t escape it if he wants to fulfill his ambitions. This makes him rebellious and uncertain. Armed with a camera, he visits Europe s only home for elderly deaf people and tries to find out ho…>

Daniel has finally stopped gambling and his girlfriend Christiane manages their money issues. After being sober for over one year, Daniel regains his independence: He receives some pocket money from his girlfriend. Out of this he wants to buy her a birthday present. Soon Christiane begins to d…>

A historical take on irrigation in California. A professional endeavor on all levels – an interesting look at the growth of the water system in California with some magnificent photography. The story begins along the Tuolumne River. It is a story of great ambitions and hard work that tra…>

Based on the work of Irvine Welsh, this twisted tale that explores the euphoric highs and the devastating lows of a chemical romance.  Lloyd (Adam Sinclair) is on top of the world – beautiful girls, great club sounds, and a never ending supply of the love drug, sustained by a smuggl…>

A young man waiting for a sex change operation is confronted by his masculine conscience, which tries desperately to convince him not to do it.

Set in 1967 Eastern Texas,  a time when women and African Americans were still struggling for social justice, a throwaway fourteen year-old girl is thrust into a Home for troubled girls when accused of murder.  No one believes her plea of self defense.  Her bleak situation is wo…>

What started as a lovely picnic in the park for the love birds ‘Frank’and ‘Liz’ is turning into something quite different. A mysterious gentleman appears from the bushes and begins to protocoltheir every word, takes pictures and investigates into their privatelife. With…>

This documentary explores the lives of three individuals living with schizophrenia. The film tells stories about living with schizophrenia that do not make the headlines - stories of hope and promise. It is a film that ultimately aims to reduce the fear and stigma associated with the disease.S…>

Told through the voice of the filmmaker this documentary has a wonderful voice that relate her own experience of finding her cultural identity as it is happening on camera. We all discover it together. What happens when a woman goes in search of her identity and discovers that the cycle of vio…>

Last year they were medics, mechanics, vehicle transporters, and infantrymen.?This year they are military rock stars. Entertainment for the Soldier, by the Soldier. It’s a Cinderella story for those who want to get their shine on, but at a hefty price.It all starts with a simpl…>

This documentary is a gripping story of 20 teachers at Mitchell Elementary in Phoenix, AZ banding together to improve the one thing they control, the quality of their teachingˇIn 2008, one teacher recruited 20 teachers at Mitchell to go through National Board Certification, a grueling profess…>

It is the late 1980s.  Anh (7) lives in the countryside with her mother Hang (27) and her little sister Qui (4).  Their father passed away a few years before.   They spend their days harvesting corn, and enjoy the fruit from the vu sua tree in their small yard.   This littl…>

It was a contest between communities, machines, and men to race over a mountain and back.  It was 1911, and America s first adventure marathon was about to begin. No other race was like it. Contestants rode in modified model T s or by a speeding train to the trailheads.  Then they ra…>

The grandfather of a curious young boy tells the stories when he was young.

A rather persistent and self-indulgent beaver is not a very good neighbor. That is, until he meets a precocious no-nonsense turtle.  Four Directions Productions, producers of the award winning animated short story Raccoon and Crayfish brings another Oneida Nation legend, to life in this 3…>

This short documentary showcases the achievements of Olga Murray and the Nepal Youth Foundation.  Since Olga founded this organization, it has rescued tens of thousands of children from disease, malnutrition, homelessness, illiteracy, and severe oppression.  The most dramatic example…>

Since childhood, Samuel has always been fat. However, at age 23, his fantasies, like all man his age, turned to the pretty, thin girls. Faced with the indifference of his inaccessible desires, he try to fall back on Emily, a young woman in the same situation he is.

23-year-old Maggie Doyne, a young American from suburban New Jersey, stands ankle deep in sewage and medical waste. She is outside the children s home in Surkhet, Nepal, where she lives with her 30 children. She was 19 when she built their home using her life s savings. Maggie is upset because…>

On Sept. 6, 2010 in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado, a wildfire swept through a 6,000 acre area, burning 169 structures. Most of these structures were homes, and over 3,500 people were evacuated durin…>

In the wake of freak climate disasters in the Himalayas, seven hundred people venture across the perilous mountain range on foot to educate villages on global warming and environmental preservation. While fraught with extreme danger, emergency rescues, and starvation, the result of the journey…>

A mother and son face eviction from their Brooklyn home.  Mysteriously, they begin receiving note cards that carry messages of hope - and a new home.  The son believes a benevolent motive is behind the messages, but the mom - always the realist - believes otherwise.  As eviction…>

Classical literature is sacred! - insist some. Classical literature is the living substance of the arts and it revives each time the contemporary audience discerns in it its own image, getting aware of itself – argue others. Film “Pechorin”, which was made after Lermontov&rsq…>

An aspiring pacifist must thwart a sadistic military general and an empty gas tank in order to beat his rival and become the newest star of peace movement.

Meet the "Providers of Joy and Solace":  the longtime bartenders at Santa Anita racetrack. Directed, and music performed by, Brock Mullins

A genuine project to make something relatively honest and inspired, this film doesn't seem concerned with appearing cool or commercial, which makes it just right for Red Rock. Refreshingly unfussy, the film is a revelation of a new auteur. With traces of French new wave this modern comedy …>

An embittered photographer earns his living by spying on the personal lives of celebrities for a local tabloid. While shadowing a soap opera star, he witnesses a private scene that makes him choose between his job and his conscience.

In the late 1930s, following the ferocious anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht, a determined group of young German Jews left behind everything that was dear and familiar and immigrated to Chicago. Here, these refugees set out to create a supportive community for themselves and others fleeing…>

This feature documentary film explores why roughly 20% of Americans have said they would not support a Mormon (a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for President of the United States. It attempts to inform viewers about perceptions and misconceptions regarding Mormon fa…>

Ana Nogueira is a white South African and Eron Davidson a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the producers take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their film will break down the rhetorical analogy …>

A dramatic film with philosophical kernels in the script, and an overall humanistic and intelligent qualities that the lead characters possess. The story demonstrates a basic conundrum to the human condition because we have such a natural propensity to question our decisions and choices, our d…>

Beautiful characters with such emotional depth, this dramatic feature captures the intricacies and complexities of familial relationships well, demonstrating the capacity for love, tenderness, dysfunction, resentment, regret, and all the often conflicting qualities that characterize the comple…>

The likeable but lonesome man is on his way to lunch. Awaiting him, the outside world lurks menacingly: in his imagination it swarms with would-be crooks, hussies and criminals. What should have been a routine stroll develops into a dark odyssey, triggering a troubled conflict against himself …>

Every so often a place comes along that is a crossroads   a crossroads of culture, experience and socio-economic status. The Stagecoach Bar is just such a place. Opened during World War II, this humble roadhouse continues to welcome an eclectic and evolving cocktail of characters from cow…>

Rich Cahill is a tattoo artist, painter, musician, and protester. After starting a successful chain of tattoo shops, Immortal Ink, Rich has sold his business to start a fresh art studio and tattoo shop in Frenchtown, New Jersey where he can express himself in his own unique way. The Tattoo Lif…>

After stumbling across a sea turtle conservation program while on a trip in Costa Rica, I was inspired to embark on my own environmental adventure. In 2009, I set off on a volunteering voyage to two conservation programs on opposite sides of the world. One program focused on endangered and thr…>

After attending the funeral and exhibition of his mother’s urn, Samuel 7 years old, returns home with his father Mario. Life must resume and Mario decides to show his son to use the washing machine. At the same time, Mario tells a secret to his son. The washing machine is special. Everyt…>

In the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Kenyan runner Kip Keino burst onto the world stage with a jaw dropping performance in the 1500 meters.  Kenya’s early success was written off as a fluke due to the …>

In remembrance of the Lumiere Brothers: Karin works in a metal factory where she spends day after day, performing the same monotonous tasks. When a new worker begins his job in the factory, it seems to be the end of this drab life. He not only likes Karin but also the strange metal figurines s…>

Four films on the questions that develop as the people mature and the difficulty these characters encounter. From a socially inept outcast and themes sexual identity to Boomer-bouncer angst and senior communal living these short films dive into generational subjects that cater themselves for d…>

These quirky international shorts have varying degrees of fantasy that spark the imagination. From Shakespearean spirits to inanimate objects the characters challenge their perceptions of how the world works.

Shorts and featurettes include: Blue Dragon (Modrý Drak), Dumblewee…>