New Hampshire Film Festival 2008

In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Your children's well-being or your own own? WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?, a documentary by the producing team of BORN INTO BROTHELS, features five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can't even name a handful of female artists. Interviews with experts like Riane Eisler (“The Chalice and the Blade”), Maura Reilly (Sackler Center for Feminist Art-Brooklyn Museum) and the Guerrilla Girls add a cultural context for these women’s inspiring journeys. It is not accolades they seek but simply the radical opportunity to live whole.

An emotionless high school student spends every moment of every day being followed by his annoying shadow. Soon he finds out life without Jarod is not all it’s cracked up to be. A film by Dennis Fraser of Hopkinton High School. Audience Award Winner at the New Hampshire High School Film Festival. The New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival, an initiative presented by the New Hampshire Film and Television Office, was created in 2007 to give state high school filmmakers an opportunity to create and showcase short films on the big screen in a statewide competition, while fostering the educational benefits of cinematic storytelling.

'You Better Watch Out' is a wickedly dark comedy about a department store Santa Claus who is kidnapped by two disgruntled brothers who want to know why they never received the presents they wanted throughout their childhood. And now they want Santa to pay for all those disappointing Christmas mornings.At first, the man in the Santa suit thinks that they are just blaming him symbolically, but soon he realises these guys really do believe in Santa and that he is the real Santa!In a reversal of the Christmas time classic, 'The Miracle on 34th Street', here we have a department store Santa having to prove he isn't the real Santa.But as the brothers continue their interrogation, the man in the Santa suit is forced to remember things from his own past, things long since buried, of a time when he stopped believing in himself. It's only when he faces his own demons that he reaches enlightenment.However, enlightenment comes at a price and if he is who these two reprobates think he is, then he must face his own nightmarish conclusion.