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FILMOGRAPHY AS WRITER-DIRECTOR
Comedy short The end is nigh. But until then, there's work to do. — Best Editing, California Indie Film Festival, 2018. Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2018. Nominated for Best Documentary/Mockumentary Short, Kapow Intergalactic Film Festival, 2017. Best Experimental Short, Chain NYC Film Festival, 2017. Best Mockumentary, End of Days Film Festival, 2017. Nominated for Best Lead Actor - Female in a Short, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2017. — • view the film:• Web site • |
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Comedy-drama short A comedy about finding grace and other things that get away. — Nominated for Best Comedy Domestic Short Film and Best Actress in a Short Film, Hollywood South Film Festival, 2019. Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2017. Nominated for Best Short: Family Issues, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2016. "Funny" — Ain't-It-Cool-News — • view the film:• Web site • |
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Written with Carolyn Siegel. |
Comedy-drama short Melody and Chase are dancers. They're young and beautiful. They're broke and starving. They're absolutely terrified. — Best Comedy Domestic Short Film, Hollywood South Film Festival, 2019. Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2015. "A healthy dose of humorous authenticity… honest and grounded" — Film Threat — • view the film:• Web site • |
Comedy short A film about truth, fiction, cinema, ambition, action, wisdom, karma, chaos, cash, control and winning big. — Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2014. "There's no denying that it's a well-shot film… intriguing" — Film Threat — • view the film:• Web site • |
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Romantic comedy short She's planning a big day with someone special. — • view the film: |
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Romantic short They may have gone a bridge too far. — In 2012, aired on "Reel 13 Shorts" on WNET-13, the biggest PBS station in America. Nominated for Best Comedy Micro Picture, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2011. Created for the 2010 online film festival at NP2K.com — won Best Film. — • view the film: |
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Comedy short An astonishingly profane tribute to our nation's greatest President. — Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2011. Comedy Award, Washington DC Independent Film Festival, 2010. Nominated for Best Actress, Houston Comedy Film Festival, 2009. Award-winner, Chicago REEL Shorts Fest, 2009. — • view the film: |
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Comedy short A look at the gentrification of Williamsburg through the eyes of disillusioned Star Wars fans. — Best-in-category, ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2009. — • view the film: |
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Animated comedy short A spinoff from The World of the End about the futility of summing up one's life in one page. • view the film: |
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Dramatic short The story of a girl getting halfway through her quarterlife crisis. • view the film: |
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Produced with Dana Silver, Northwestern University. |
Romantic comedy short A lonely young man adopts a cat and imagines it as human. — Best Student Picture, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2006. — • view the film: |
Produced with Elizabeth Petersen and Dana Silver, |
Romantic comedy short An experimental romantic comedy about the connections between love and filmmaking. Boy meets girl. Filmmaker makes movie about boy and girl. Stuff blows up. — "An audience pleaser… How can you not love a film with such spirit?… Love: The Movie gives us a promising director." — The Independent Critic Nominated for Best Experimental / Alternative Picture, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2005. Best Student Comedy, Fargo Film Festival, 2005. — • view the film: |
Produced by Li-Wei Chu, Stephen Deline and Arielle Singh, |
Documentary short A you-are-there, fly-on-the-wall look behind the scenes of a student film… specifically scene 4. — Nominated for Best Student Picture, Bare Bones Film Festival, 2005. — • view the film: |
Comedy short When a massive blackout tosses his slacker lifestyle into upheaval, Sparky Peterson is forced to amuse himself. — "Three stars… like a younger Woody Allen" — Film Threat (review) — • view the film: |
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Animated comedy short The Empire Strikes Back meets Run Lola Run: Princess Leia has twenty minutes to save Han Solo from being frozen in carbonite. — Best Animation, Star Walking sci-fi convention, 2005. Audience Award for Digital Animation, Downstream International Film Festival, 2003. Starring Academy Award nominee Will Butler of Arcade Fire. — • view the film: |
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Animated comedy short What two nice kids on a first date are really thinking. — Starring Academy Award nominee Will Butler of Arcade Fire. — • view the film: |
FILMOGRAPHY AS PRODUCER
Producer only. Written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Romantic horror feature A new employee at a historic hotel discovers a ghostly secret. — Best Live Action or Animated Feature Film, Paris Film Festival, 2021. Nominated for Best International Director, Montreal Independent Film Festival, 2020. — • Web site |
Producer and additional writer only. Produced with Jessica Roszko, Napoleon Productions; written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Romantic comedy-drama short Alex just needs one more night to tell Rachel what he should have told her all along. — • view the film: |
Producer only. Produced with Tavarius Eberhart; written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Horror feature Something dark is lurking in the cabin near this family's home. — • Web site• |
Producer only. Executive produced, written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Horror feature A man in midlife is plagued by a mysterious force that infects his mind. — • Web site• |
Producer only. Produced with F.C. Rabbath; written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Comedy feature A minor character grows tired of the lead getting all the attention. — • Web site• |
Producer only. Produced with Kimberly Cobb; written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Dramatic feature A lonely girl befriends a witch in the woods with ulterior motives. — "Five stars… multiple interpretations are not only possible, but highly plausible." — Film Threat (review) — • Web site• |
Producer only. Produced with Eric Branco, Stephen Hill and Johnny Marra, OneNine Films; written by Eric Branco & Brandon Taylor, directed by Eric Branco. |
Dramatic feature Unsatisfied with his comfortable life, Harley strikes out to experience the hardships of being homeless in New York City. — "A devastating, quietly ambitious collaborative drama." — Baltimore City Paper (review) "Beautifully shot and heart-wrenching… Show up with tissues." — IndieWire (review) Best Feature, Coney Island Film Festival, 2013. — • Web site• |
Producer only. Executive produced by Vanessa Vandy and F.C. Rabbath, MultiFrame Media; written and directed by F.C. Rabbath. |
Dramatic feature Everyone has a little music inside them. — "Provocative… I strongly recommend this superb film" — Film Threat (review) — • Web site• |
Producer only. Produced with Dave Holstein and David Cohen, Northwestern University; written and directed by Dave Holstein. |
Comedy short Philip's girlfriend is leaving him for his childhood bully and his two-bit job is going nowhere. Sometimes you gotta be yourself… sometimes you gotta go Hollywood. — Written and directed by Dave Holstein, future creator of Showtime's "Kidding" / co-writer of "Inside Out 2". — • view the film: |