Seattle's True Independent Film Festival 2009

An unlikely bond forms between a small-town football agent and his working-class client as they face the most important year of their lives. Intimately shot with 1 camera in 10 cities over 5 months and starring top NFL rookies Antoine Cason (San Diego Chargers), Beau Bell (Cleveland Browns) and notorious facemask-breaking college walk-on turned EA Sports Video Game cover athlete, Owen Schmitt (Seattle Seahawks), The Call takes a candid look at the most crucial period in the life of an NFL hopeful and the most grueling part of the job for any agent - the harsh reality that all the training, preparation and pain comes down to a draft day phone call that may never come. Awarded the STIFFY for Best Sports Documentary Genre: Sport

A young woman, Lucy, receives a message of a girl friend of hers, whom invites her for a Webchat. After a while, her friend begin to get undressed on her Webcam. Intrigued, Lucy is caught in an erotic and quite disturbing game. Awarded the STIFFY for Worst Cyber Sex Genre: Thriller

Hidden inside a shipping container on a boat headed to the United States, eight Colombian strangers wait for days in the dark to reach their destination. But, a dangerous journey takes a frightening turn when one of the young women makes a shocking discovery. Awarded the STIFFY for Most Intense Short Genre: Drama, Hispanic, Latino, Third World, Women, Horror, Thriller, Human Rights, Independent, Social Issue

An adaptation of Plato's, 'Allegory of the Cave' animated in clay. Awarded the STIFFY for Best Claymation Genre: Independent, Anime, Culture, Art, Spiritual

Three oddball friends happen upon the brilliant notion to create a company where fear can help shed unwanted pounds. Their idea? Physically chase clients into better fitness by scaring the $%#! out of them--chaseme.com. Awarded the STIFFY for Best Mockumentary Short Genre: Comedy, Action

A guilt ridden chemical engineer and a live-in nurse plot to kill his sick and scarred wife with a new, experimental compound he's been secretly working on. Awarded the STIFFY for Best On Screen Chemistry Genre: Thriller, Film-Noir

A starving, homeless woman finds a pair of evil dentures. Awarded the STIFFY for Best Smile Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, B-movie, Youth/Teen, Supernatural

Presented by Three Dollar Bill Cinema "Fans of movie musicals who secretly re-enact the "Cell Block Tango" from "Chicago" -- you know who you are -- need not sing in the closet any longer. In the evolution of singalongs, cineoke is for the performer who wants to undo the shackles of conventional karaoke and go for all the theatrical gusto that comes with big Broadway productions." Athima Chansanchai - Seattle PI Genre:

A day in the life of a busy grocery store parking lot Awarded the STIFFY for Best Road Rage Genre: Comedy, African American, Gay/Lesbian, Jewish, Independent