Central Florida Film and Video Festival

Narrative

Any film or video that tells a story by emphasizing the storyline with real or imaginary characters and events.


Examples:

For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide

Director: Narcel Reedus.
Best of Show/Hammercam Award 1994.

A young black man murders another young black man for seemingly no reason at all, but an ancestor has come for answers traveling through space and time. The ancestor interrogates the young black man. The ancestor offers a theory to explain the violence and a way to circumvent it.

Chili Con Carne

Director: Tony Lord.
1st Place Narrative 1993.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Kristy Swanson

When Pete Connely is dumped by his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a term in a surrealistic male bonding prison. The inmates consist of men who share one thing, faulty relationships. Every day consists of gambling, football highlights, drinking, bowling and eating chili con carne. Pete tries to escape this male bonding hell and redeem himself in the eyes of his love.

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