31ST ANNUAL CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL
presents
Tiger Quoll Shorts
THU · NOVEMBER 20 · 2025 · 1:30 PM · THALIAN BLACK
Tiger Quoll Shorts
Thursday / 1:30 PM / Thalian Black
Saturday / 4:30 PM / Jengo’s Playhouse
64 minutes
SHELL YEAH
Director: Sam Graff / 5:27
Producer: Sam Graff
A musician, his shells, and the surprising sounds they create.
Magic Brown Artist
Director: Dinesh Das Sabu, Victor Yañez-Lazcano / 13:07
Producers: Dinesh Das Sabu, Victor Yañez-Lazcano
Visual artist, Victor Yañez-Lascano, makes work inspired by his experience as a Mexican American son of immigrants. When filmmaker Dinesh Das Sabu tries to make a (seemingly) simple documentary portrait of his process while at an artist's residency in Roswell, New Mexico, they are both pulled into a surreal hybrid of documentary form addressing what it means to make art while being brown.
The Conscience Files
Director: Brian Bolster / 13:30
Producer: Brian Bolster
For some visitors to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, the temptation to smuggle out pieces of petrified wood as cherished keepsakes is irresistible. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the party), that act and the retention of such treasures is long-rumored to be cursed – prompting the return of hundreds or more of these “souvenirs” each year.
Once Upon a Wetland
Director: Elizabeth Miller-Derstine / 16:00
Producers: Ian Kibbe, Elizabeth Miller-Derstine
As restrictions tighten across the country, Durham, North Carolina preps for the annual Beaver Queen Pageant. This campy, un-beaver-lievable celebration of LGBTQIA activism, environmental conservation, and outrageous critter cosplay continues on despite the adversity.
Dancing in Tomorrowland
Director: Jakob Roston / 15:40
Producers: Nazanin Nemetollahi, Grace Vincent
In this fantasia of a 1980s gay rights theme park documentary an unsung teen activist fights to overturn Disneyland’s ban on same-sex dancing.
