*AFFILIATED EVENT: 15th ANNUAL SHORT SHORT STORY FILM FESTIVAL AT GREENWOOD FEATURES (BETHEL): The Short Short Story Film Festival celebrates brevity in filmmaking, featuring films from across the globe, lovingly harvested by the folks at MergingArts Productions. The competitive international film festival includes both live-action and animated films, all of which tell a story in under six minutes. The festival will screen films from nearly twenty countries, culled from hundreds of submissions from around the world.

Audiences can enjoy two distinct programs, each in less than the time of a typical feature film.

The Heartstrings Program, which leans more towards live action, highlights films of a more emotional nature – comedic, bittersweet, or (as the name implies) tugging at the heart strings.

The Headtrip Program, which is more evenly split between animation and live action, presents forays into bizarre or unsettling territory, including biting satire, chilling imagery, and absurdist tales.

Audiences at each screening will vote for their favorite three films of the program (with over 15 films in each, it’s not always easy to narrow it down), and these votes are later tallied and the winner of each program receives a custom art object award, created by a winner from a previous edition of the festival.

The festival separately has a jury made of interviewees from the MergingArts produced Spoiler Alert Radio syndicated program, which talks with film professionals in a variety of fields from cinematography to production design to editing to sound design. MergingArts Productions is an organization dedicated to cultural programming encompassing film, music, visual arts, technology and media.

More information is available at http://www.mergingarts.org and http://www.spoileralertradio.com.

Tickets are available day of the event at the door and online here. https://www.greenwoodfeatures.com/short-short-story-film-festival