Rural Shorts

A whimsical story about a couple fighting to stay together and the mountain hideaway that provides them refuge.

SHORT | 5:48 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

Born in Iran and raised in Texas, Moh moved to New York and to pursue his filmmaking dreams. His first short, TRAPPEDINFREEDOM, premiered at Sundance and things just took off. This Time We'll Stay is his first collaboration with musical genius, Leon Gruenbaum, and is informed by every difficult relationship ever.

Filmed in Callicoon NY, at Rafter's Tavern, the Baer Road hillside, and Wynsum Equestrian (Damascus PA), it features Rafter's thriving music community dancing to Elizabeth Rose's happiness song, inspired during the pandemic.

SHORT | 5:48 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

Canadian-born artist and NYC resident, Patrick Sasso enjoys a colorful career as a musician, producer, photographer, filmmaker and composer for film and TV. His work has alternated between producing, editing, photography, film scoring, and design. He has written, scored, and produced short films and has created public service announcements for various non-profit organizations. Sasso continues to produce music, short films, promos, artist demos, jingles and voice-overs. Most recently, he has produced the debut album "Days Outstanding" for Pongo Face-a group he created in order to experiment with new sounds and compositional techniques. 

DIRECTOR
Patrick Sasso

A widower and his son reunite in the Catskill mountains, but are driven apart again by the patriarch’s all consuming quest for the elusive Silverfish.

SHORT | 13:19 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

Joseph Dudley was born and raised in the East Village in New York. He began working in the art department of small-budget films and television while still in high school, before heading to the Midwest to earn a degree in English from Grinnell College. Now, he works as a lighting technician for film, television, and live events. Silverfish is the first project Joseph has directed.

WRITER-DIRECTOR
Joseph J. Dudley

Elizabeth Ennis' films reflect a fascination with nature and its repellent and fantastical aspects. They include Anxiety and Flora and Fauna and reflect the duality in nature — creepy, crawly, slithery, but beautiful too. 

SHORT | 5:48 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

Elizabeth Ennis is a photographer, filmmaker, curator, and mixed media artist who lives in Roscoe, NY. Her films have been shown at the Catskill Art Space, the Callicoon Theater, the Big Eddy Film Festival and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance. 

On the Winter Solstice, a depressed woman is going to be visited by a dead loved one… and it isn’t who she’s suspecting. 

SHORT | 18:40 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

Joshua Conkel is a Los Angeles-based tv writer and filmmaker. His short film, Curmudgeons (dir. Danny DeVito) premiered at TriBeCa in 2015. His queer horror short, He Watches, premiered at Inside Out in Toronto in 2022. He’s been a writer for A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Dead Boy Detectives, all for Netflix. He is pleased to be screening at Big Eddy, especially because he filmed Spoons in Highland Lake with the cooperation of the North American Cultural Laboratory.

The Lift is a short documentary about life in Narrowsburg, NY, presented by the nonprofit group Tusten Social and celebrating its mission of working together for the common good. Through real conversations and small moments, The Lift highlights how the town’s local businesses and tight-knit community foster connections—whether it’s teens trying out new skills, older folks sharing stories, or kids being kids. Shot in summer 2024, this is a fun, heartwarming look at small-town life, where everyone’s part of the story and growing up and growing old happen side by side.

Funding for this project was made possible in part by a Community Development Grant from Sullivan 180.

SHORT | 9:45 min | US | 2024

Director’s Bio:

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