Local Shorts Program
Run Time: 75 min.
GlobeDocs Presents
GEORGE’S YARD SALE
2025, US, 9 minutes
Directed by Ray Feinleib
Winner of The Boston Globe’s 2025 Emerging Filmmaker contest, GEORGE’S YARD SALE captures the sights, sounds, and stories from an ongoing yard sale in a changing Somerville neighborhood, as told by the customers who frequent it and the man on a mission to rehome other people’s discards.
MASSISSIPPI
2025, US, 21 minutes
Directed and Produced by Mac Hudson
Through the words of three formerly incarcerated Black Bostonians and their experiences of harm in the Massachusetts Department of Correction, MASSISSIPPI tells a story of poverty, drugs, addiction, crime, incarceration… plus change and hope.
BUZZ
2025, US, 5 minutes
Directed and Produced by Nina Ruggero
A 70-year-old retiree in Florida, affectionately known as “Buzz,” finds ways to distract himself from the persistent noise in his ears in this observational documentary about the filmmaker’s father.
YOUR OPINION, PLEASE
2025, US, 14 minutes
Directed by Marshall Granger
In this lyrical portrait of a more innocent time, listeners across Montana call into Yellowstone Public Radio to express their views on everything from state politics to the Iraq war to the meaning of poetry, as America enters the new millennium.
KEYTAR BEAR
2025, US, 12 minutes
Directed by Kely Maloney
A street busker in Boston dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the evils that plague his home. Unable to function within a traditional system, he instead creates a new identity—offering a way to bring peace and music to all.
THE POMTASTICS
2025, US, 14 minutes
Directed by Anna Carroll
Spirited participants aged 65 to 85 comprise the POMtastics, a senior pom-dancing troupe that rehearses and performs across Massachusetts. Vibrant and heartfelt, THE POMTASTICS celebrates how movement, teamwork, and performance can create joy, connection, and a sense of youthfulness—regardless of age.
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