Vail Film Festival

Trip’s Duplage      (USA, 2019 15 minutes)
Director: Spencer Squire
After years spent relegated to the shadows, Trip Parker decides to take action and murder his lover, aging actress Diana Duplage. Post kill, Trip steps into the sun, finally able to flourish via the assumption of his ex-lover's identity.
Starring: Stephanie Beacham, Carolyn Hennesy, Colleen Camp, Spencer Squire, Jayson Blair
Premiere: Colorado

Pozole
Director: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros (USA, 2019, 10 minutes)
La gringa killed her Nana.
Starring: Ana Isabel Dow, Monica Sanchez, Mike Salazar, Peter Quintana, Jessica Hinojos

Hula Girl
Director: Chris Riess and Amy Hill (USA, 2018, 10 minutes)
Hula Girl is the untold story of one of the biggest fads in modern American history. At 94, Joan Anderson has waited 60 years to prove that “a gentleman’s handshake” was hardly a deal and it’s time to set the record straight.
Starring: Joan Anderson

Long Time Listener, First Time Caller      
Director: Nora Kirkpatrick (USA, 2019, 17 minutes)
After accidentally tuning to a mysterious late night radio show, small-town and sexually repressed woman, NAN, calls in to get some answers about existence, marriage, and her purpose.
Starring: Breeda Wool, Demorge Brown, Dominic Bogart, Jen Tullock, Sam Carson, Juliet Mills

My Dinner with Werner
Director: Maverick Moore (USA, 2019, 17 minutes)
Inspired by the real-life, insane 'friendship’ between madman German filmmaker Werner Herzog and maniac German actor Klaus Kinski, this is a wildly bizarre and wacky comedy about a dinner date with a murder plot as the main dish.
Starring: Chynna Walker, Matthew Sanders, Andrew Perez, Grant Virtue
Premiere: Colorado