Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of FAN FICTION Shorts Festival
Hawkeye: The Broken Arrow, 15min., USA
Directed by Thomas Howe Meehan
This short film is an experimental 3-part story that explores a younger, teenage version of Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) before he joined The Avengers, honing his archery skills, whilst learning to fend for himself as an orphan in southern Iowa during the late 80s.
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Max Payne: Broken Promises, 13min,. Canada
Directed by Logan Wilson, Phillip Wilson
Loosely based on the popular Video Game Franchise; Max Payne, a former detective retired in body but not in torment, numbs his pain with pills, cigarettes, and alcohol. His shattered peace is violently interrupted by Santos, a criminal from his past who made a deal for his family's safety—a deal Max failed to honor. After a brutal, fatal confrontation in a car, 3 years later Max is kidnapped and beaten in an abandoned house where he learns Santos survived and that his family was killed as retribution. Fueled by a toxic cocktail of painkillers and survival instinct, Max unleashes his signature slow-motion fury to fight his way through Santos' thugs where a final desperate shootout pushes both him and Santos to their absolute limits, forcing Max to confront the inescapable, violent cycle his actions have created.