CHEF D’OEUVRE FILM D’ART

Comedy (3 mins) United States
Directed By: Chris Armienti
Written By: Chris Armienti
Produced By:
Cast: Brandon Lessard, Kaitlyn Jenkins

Synopsis: When a man who’s watched too many French New Wave films has to cook for his blind date, he musters all the abilities and knowledge he’s gained from his favorite genre to knock his date off her feet.

KARMA

Animation (4 mins) United States
Directed By: Christo liu
Written By:
Produced By: Christo liu
Cast:

Synopsis: This is a story about a human, a wolf, a hunter and prey, love and harm.

THE TRUTH BOX

Comedy, Sci-Fi (7 mins) United States
Directed By: Mike Galeotti
Written By: Mike Galeotti
Produced By: Michael Galeotti, Allie O’Brien
Cast: Jeff Ronan, Lainey Woo

Synopsis: With his job on the line, an introverted office worker cannot escape the truth while testing a new company product.

OMA

Comedy, Drama (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Monika Ivonne
Written By: Monika Ivonne
Produced By: Monika Ivonne, Michael Aloyan
Cast: Lilita Ozolina, Monika Casey

Synopsis: A Latvian grandmother visits her daughter in America, where she encounters surreal scenes of life in Los Angeles

ROSE AND PINKY ARE METAL

Comedy, Horror (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Madi Stine
Written By: Madi Stine
Produced By:
Cast:

Synopsis: Rose and Pinky, two teenage metalheads, need money for tickets to a Gwar show.

PHAN

Comedy (11 mins) United States
Directed By: Seth Proffitt
Written By: Huy Vo
Produced By: John Bowling
Cast:

Synopsis: Sister Lucia of Jesus and Friends Orphanage leads two adoptive parents into a psychotic nightmare.

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NDL (NATIONAL DATE LEAGUE)

Comedy, Musical (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Aleix Massot
Written By: Aleix Massot
Produced By: Aleix Massot, Kelby George
Cast: AD Johnson, Briana Caitlin, Jules Sanchez, Alberto Henriquez, Ellen Rae Littman, Paul Michael Nieman, Andrew J Cornelius

Synopsis: A battle of sexes regular date in a restaurant turns into a live TV sports event where the date, is the game itself.

FLOUR BABY

Comedy, Sci-Fi (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Caroline Iaffaldano
Written By: Nick Lopez
Produced By: Talbot Hall, Hannah Reynolds
Cast: Juliette Labelle, Paige Elkington

Synopsis: In a world where a woman must prove that she is capable of caring for a child before she’s allowed to conceive, a hopeful mom recruits the help of her BFF to pass the state’s rigorous test: to take care of a bag of flour for an entire year.

BETTER RUN LITTLE WILDHEART

Short (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Owen Campbell
Written By: Owen Campbell
Produced By: Ingrid Sanchez, Matt Johnson
Cast: Victoria Bruno

Synopsis: Roman is a child of privilege but far from the son his father wanted. If Roman fulfills certain expectations, lose his virginity, take his beautiful, well-adjusted sister to prom and be crowned Prom King, his father has promised him one-million dollars. Shepherded by his au pair, Grace, the lonely Roman befriends a suppostive workinman, Jules, and a patient sex-worker, Sasha, en route to a private prom financed by his father just for him. Unsurprisingly, Roman wins Prom King, but he also overcomes his fear of dancing and girls and earns his first kiss.

A HORSEY NAME

Short (20 mins) Russian Federation
Directed By: Natasha Fissiak
Written By: George Fridlender
Produced By: Denis Prokofiev, Rob Reese, Yelena Grinina, Yuri Fisyak
Cast: Yakov Shamshin, Svetlana Kireeva, Anastasia Bar, Valeriy Zinovyev, Ruslan Prokofiev

Synopsis: A Tsarist-era general, his butler, and household attempt to recall the name of a mystic healer who can cure his splitting toothache, driving them all mad in the process.

PERSPECTIVE

Drama (3 mins) United States
Directed By: Isabelle Leonard
Written By: Isabelle Leonard
Produced By:
Cast: Percephone Brooks, Seth Sanders

Synopsis:

MILES

Short (5 mins) United States
Directed By: Griffin Bajor, Carlo Javier
Written By: Evan Skolnick
Produced By: Monica Cappiello
Cast:

Synopsis: A driverless car that’s haunted by a prior fatal accident suddenly takes its new owners on a terrifying journey.

MOTHER FATHER DAUGHTER

Short (5 mins) United States
Directed By: Yiting Gao
Written By: Yiting Gao
Produced By: Yiting Gao
Cast: Rachel CHristianson

Synopsis: Rose is constantly criticized because of her body shape and on her baby first birthday, she decides to take no more.

NO BIG DEAL

Drama, Thriller (8 mins) United States
Directed By: Thomas Mentel
Written By: Thomas Mentel
Produced By: Micah Paisner, Thomas Mentel
Cast: Alexandra Noland, Conor Proft, Curran Connor, Jack Gilbert

Synopsis: Natalie and Tyler head to a liquor store that’s known to sell to minors, but when they arrive they discover it may take more than money to seal the deal.

WHEN SHE WAS THERE

Drama, Romance (8 mins) United States
Directed By: Josh Forman
Written By: Josh Forman
Produced By: Josh Forman
Cast: Kaleb Barlow , Brooke Moeller , Nina Jakobson

Synopsis: A story about a teenager remembering a romantic relationship to only come to realize that the person he was meant to be with was closer than he thought.

YOUR BROTHER LIAM

Short (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Daniel Muller
Written By: Daniel Muller
Produced By: Daniel Muller, Carlos Maldonado, Noelle Gambino
Cast: Lorenzo Pozzan, Jonathan O’Reilly

Synopsis: A heroin addict tries to make it to his younger brother’s birthday party.

MELODRAMA

Short (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Nick Azzaro
Written By: Nick Azzaro
Produced By: Shubham Sanjay Shevade
Cast: Georgia Beam, J.C. Henning, Nadine Naidoo, Kevin Alain

Synopsis: While an insecure young actress prepares for an audition, her hospitalized grandmother encourages her to step up to the challenge.

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THE LOST ONES

Drama, Thriller (14 mins) United States
Directed By: Ben Rand
Written By: Ben Rand
Produced By: Rob Ramos
Cast: Dawn Bower, Ben Rand

Synopsis: A grieving mother is haunted by the ghost of her son.

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A SEPARATION

Drama (15 mins) United States
Directed By: Yalan Hu
Written By: Yalan Hu
Produced By: Chavez Caley
Cast: Michelle Sun, Zhen Yao, Carlee Soeder

Synopsis: On a warm autumn day in 1990, Huixian, a young Chinese woman, arrives in Florida to reunite with her PhD husband, after a four-year separation. Filled with blossoming hope and desire, she is introduced to another side of American life.

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FOREVER RED

Drama, Thriller (16 mins) United States
Directed By: Garrett Adams
Written By: Steve Miles
Produced By: Benjamin Mehr
Cast: April Hartman, David Raizor

Synopsis: Two American ex-spies have left their past experiences during the cold war in an effort to resume some sort of normality in life. However, when one of the ex-spies unexpectedly finds the other more than 40 years later, past feelings resurface and a dark secret from their past is brought to light.

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BLUE REVERIE

Short (20 mins) United States
Directed By: Siting Yang
Written By: Siting Yang
Produced By: Siting Yang
Cast: Annabelle Tsaboukas, Jason Arcaro, Siting Yang

Synopsis: Striving to create a new persona, a young woman struggles with the thought of sacrificing dignity for the sake of her artistic vision. As the persona takes on a life of its own, two inner selves recognize each other for the first time.

THE GIFT

Drama, Fantasy (6 mins) United States
Directed By: RB Vigneshwar
Written By: RB Vigneshwar
Produced By: Madeline Gamero
Cast: Wesley Brown, Tracy Drolet, Dean Bruni

Synopsis: If there is one thing that is more dear to Noah than anything in the world, it’s his family. Noah, a young American teenager, lives in an illusionary world where he thinks that there are no secrets between him and his parents, Steve and Sophia, and everything is perfect. On the day of his parents’ 20th wedding anniversary, Noah finds an unexpected red gift box on his doorstep. Like any curious teenager, when Noah opens the gift box, he is taken down into a deep, black hole of happy and shocking revelations about his parents’ marriage.

THE HEREAFTER WITHOUT YOU

Short (6 mins) United States
Directed By: Andrii Lantukh
Written By: Danel Azimova
Produced By: Ruishu Jiang
Cast: Danel Azimova, Christopher Sutton

Synopsis: A story about a fading memory of an obsessive love.

BYGONE

Drama, Mystery (6 mins) United States
Directed By: Avi Agarwal
Written By: Alondra Delgado
Produced By:
Cast: Alondra Delgado, Evan James Henderson

Synopsis: After a blurry night out of rough drinking, Harper wakes up, blood on her hands, oblivion, and a missing boyfriend. She needs to pick up the pieces of the puzzle and discover what happened the night before her legal wedding.

DORIS

Comedy, Drama (7 mins) United States
Directed By: Youssef Gouda
Written By: Youssef Gouda
Produced By: John Burroughs Hanle
Cast: Harrison Thomas Boxley, Daniel Mardapittas, Eva Collette Smith

Synopsis: Abandoned and forgotten by their own army, two WW1 soldiers slowly lose their minds, waiting for the help that will never come.

BREATHE

Short (8 mins) United States
Directed By: Austin Smith
Written By: Austin Smith
Produced By: Austin Smith
Cast: Dominick Perez, Alivia Long

Synopsis: After the fall of society due to a viral toxin that has caused the air to become nearly unbreathable, one survivor goes to find his wife, while leaving evidence of his intentions.

THE QUIET

Drama (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Mateo Márquez
Written By: Miguel J. Soliman, Matthew Altman
Produced By: Miguel J. Soliman
Cast: Mariana Parma, Jequrey Slaton

Synopsis: In the midst of a deadly outbreak, a man returns home in search of family.

THE KICK-OFF

Drama (11 mins) United States
Directed By: Abby Victor
Written By: Abby Victor
Produced By: Monica Higuera
Cast: Elena Heuze, Benedikt Sebastian

Synopsis: Lola, a 16-year-old star soccer player, must stay with her estranged father in order to visit prospective colleges or risk her chance of pursuing a college education. Will keeping her guard up stop her from reaching her goal?

SKAROS

Drama, Thriller (11 mins) United States
Directed By: The Zavitsanos Brothers
Written By: The Zavitsanos Brothers
Produced By:
Cast: Nikos Zavitsanos, Apostoli Fatyros, Konstandina Georgakopoulos, Spiros Soukas

Synopsis: An impoverished goat herder scrambles up a haunted mountain in search of a transcendental treasure buried at its peak.

DEATH FROM OUTER SPACE

Horror, Sci-Fi (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Wellington Pitts
Written By: Wellington Pitts, Tiffany Pitts
Produced By: Mike Chilson, Tiffany Pitts, Brian Pitts
Cast: Shoshana Scot, Sagan Pitts, Makena Ono, Lila Cameron, Amanda Lewinsohn, Audra MacDicken, Satya AtkinsonClark, Lucy Wright, Sabina Schoeld, Amos Applegate, August Marshall, Ban Grossman

Synopsis: When two business men go missing in the middle of the day, Detectives Ronald Bog and Joe Rickman take up the case. Reports pile in, even if the bodies don’t. Their dogged determination starts earning them some special attention – from the killer himself! Bog and Rickman soon discover that solving the crime is easier than stopping a killer that’s out of this world.

THE FIELD

Sci-Fi, Thriller (14 mins) Taiwan
Directed By: Tung Ying Hsieh
Written By: Tung Ying Hsieh
Produced By:
Cast:

Synopsis: This is a sci-fi romantic thriller that takes place in the near future. A future where virtual reality is so well developed that it deeply affects people’s perception and consciousness. It is a time where immersive VR blurs the line between the digital world and reality. PO-CHEN, a former VR drug addict who carries the guilt of past memories, encounters a ghost-like image of his dead wife on his routine VR run. The incident makes him believe his wife is still alive in the VR world. PO-CHEN acquires the strongest VR drug available. He risks everything in hopes that the ultimate connection with the VR world will redeem him, as well as reunite him with his lost love.

PROGENY

Drama, Sci-Fi (29 mins) United States
Directed By: Justin Daering
Written By: Kenda Greenwood Moran, Justin Daering
Produced By: Gregory M. Schroeder
Cast: Chasen Tyler Bauer, Wyni Landry, Christian Dunlop, Clayton Hoff, Hans Christopher

Synopsis: This is a world exactly like ours, except that the wealthy elites are aliens, living and working among us, but with one key difference: they reproduce by implanting their offspring in a human host who raises the alien child as his own. When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss’s parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite, a dangerous and forbidden act that puts their marriage and their lives at risk.

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WOMEN

Documentary (4 mins) United States
Directed By: Jeff grace
Written By: Jeff grace
Produced By: Jeff grace
Cast:

Synopsis: music video

TOP ROW

Documentary (18 mins) United States
Directed By: Karin Argoud
Written By:
Produced By: Karin Argoud
Cast: Travis Rogers and 70 freshman high school choir boys

Synopsis: At Napa High School, in California, a teacher named Travis Rogers has created a place for students to be themselves, a place where they can be free of the masculine stereotypes that culture shackles them with to be: tough, emotionless, and cool. This is a place where boys can be sensitive and emotional, and caring without judgment. Step inside what has become the coolest class on campus – the Freshman Mens’ Choir. The film follows what happens to seventy 14-15 year old freshman boys who can’t sing, when one choir teacher turns them into seasoned choral performers. Watch as they compete like athletes on the playing field of chorus risers to take the Top Row, while discovering themselves, and each other, and a love for singing.

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DAVE GRUSIN: NOT ENOUGH TIME

Documentary (89 mins) United States
Directed By: Barbara Bentree
Written By: Barbara Bentree
Produced By: Barbara Bentree, John Rangel, Holly Martin Baker, Nan Newton – Co Producer, Nick Heizmann – Co Producer, Robin Heizmann – Co Producer
Cast: Tom Brokaw, Quincy Jones, Michael Keaton, Carl Hiaasen, Thomas McGuane, Marcus Miller, Tommy Lipuma, James Taylor

Synopsis: Grusin has been described as “flawless” by his peers – amazing when you consider that he had five simultaneous careers; Composer, Pianist, Arranger, Performer and Record Company Executive. He led a completely bi-coastal life for decades flying weekly between LA and NY to work with an astounding list of music and film artists.

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THE BLAME GAME

Horror, Thriller (16 mins) United States
Directed By: Herb Kimble
Written By: Matthew Godbey, Herb Kimble
Produced By: Matthew Godbey, Herb Kimble
Cast: MAtthew Godbey

Synopsis: With wealth, corporate success, and a loving family, Alex Taylor, seemingly had it all. That is until a terrifying demon shows up night after night to haunt his every move. Trapped in a huge corporate building, Alex is chased by the deadly demon who demands he play an evil game to the death.

JOSIE & JACK

Drama (100 mins) United States
Directed By: Sarah Lancaster
Written By: Sarah Lancaster & Kelly Braffet
Produced By: Jonathon Komack Martin, Blake Goza
Cast: William Fichtner, Olivia DeJonge, Alex Neustaedter, Anna Baryshnikov

Synopsis: The movie follows the dark story of teenage siblings, raised in isolation in a decaying rural Pennsylvania mansion. Homeschooled by their tyrannical professor father, Josie and Jack only have each other to depend as they make their way into the world.

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THE ADVISOR

Drama (12 mins) United States
Directed By: Scott Turner
Written By: Scott Turner
Produced By: Brendan Bradley
Cast: Sean Bolger, Taryn O’Neill, Bernard Addison, Jennifer Galardi

Synopsis: A man is asked to recount a traumatic event.

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LOST BAYOU

Drama (87 mins) United States
Directed By: Brian C Miller Richard
Written By: Hunter Burke, Nick Lavin
Produced By: Kenny Reynolds, Brian C Miller Richard, Hunter Burke, Alicia Davis Johnson, Russell Blanchard, Murray Roth
Cast: Teri Wyble, Dane Rhodes, Deneen Tyler, Terence Rosemore, Ritchie Montgomery, Jackson Beals, Hunter Burke

Synopsis: In this hauntingly evocative Southern Gothic mystery, a struggling addict ventures into the Louisiana swampland to reconnect with her faith healer father, only to discover he is hiding a troubling secret aboard his houseboat.

TEN SHOTS

Thriller (9 mins) United States
Directed By: Gordon Shoemaker
Written By: Gordon Shoemaker
Produced By: Elizabeth Barchi, Andrew Scrivani, Benjamin Garst, Gordon Shoemaker
Cast: Lindsay Mushett , Raymond Sammak

Synopsis: Deep in a Pennsylvania forest, a hunter hidden up in his tree stand chances upon gunmen executing hostages. He jumps into action, using his rifle and limited ammo to save the victims. But unfortunately for our hunter, he soon discovers he may not have been intervening on the right side.

DARK ANGEL

Drama, Thriller (10 mins) Denmark
Directed By: Svend Ploug Johansen
Written By: Svend Ploug Johansen, Mads Koudal
Produced By: Tivi Magnusson, Kim Magnusson
Cast: Mads Koudal, Ditte Ylva Olsen

Synopsis: Shot in a single continuous take, this is the story of a terrorist who is on his way to commit a terror attack. However, much can happen during the 10 minutes before the countdown hits zero.

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MONA

Adventure, Comedy (10 mins) United States
Directed By: Adam Finley
Written By: Gareth Hutchins
Produced By: Adam Finley, Roxanna Kaye
Cast: Roxanna Kaye, John Tague, Joseph Edward Dooley, Robin Arenson, Deborah Kellar

Synopsis: Mona, a beautiful young con artist, has found men to cause nothing but trouble in her life. So she lures them in with her girlish charms and takes what she pleases: karmic justice. That is until she tries to swindle the wrong guy, or maybe just the right one. When Bonnie met Clyde, on Christmas.

FEEDER

Horror, Thriller (10 mins) France
Directed By: Thomas Simon
Written By: Thomas Simon
Produced By: Erin Gilchrist
Cast: JJ Straub, Lauren Faulkner, Josh Madson, Johnny Hoops, Brian Funnagan

Synopsis: In an isolated mountain range, a forsaken veteran is forced out of the woods to hunt his prey in order to keep alive what he cherishes most.

FORGET ME NOTS

Drama, Thriller (13 mins) United States
Directed By: Daniel Marcha
Written By:
Produced By:
Cast: Danice Cabanela, Robert Santi, Adriana Colón

Synopsis: In the wake of their parents’ untimely death, twin brother and sister, Lucy and Leo, must re-evaluate their relationship or risk losing one another forever. Inspired by true events, this psych thriller/drama explores mental health through the lens of a Filipino American family and dives deeper into a world of reality, imagination, empathy and provocation. After Leo starts exhibiting strange and oddly supernatural behavior, Lucy is left with the decision to seek outside help or follow her brother into an erratic world of uncertainty.

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ALVIN

Drama (15 mins) United States
Directed By: Christy Anna Wu
Written By: Christy Anna Wu
Produced By: Sophia Gutierrez Perez
Cast: TJ Alvarado, KC Guyer, Sonya Davis

Synopsis: Depressed and in poor physical health, a man receives free healthcare at the expense of his freedom.

THE INFILTRATION

Short (17 mins) United States
Directed By: Flynn Falcone
Written By: Flynn Falcone
Produced By: Flynn Falcone, Dan Wally
Cast: Mitchell Edwards, Cathryn Dylan, Lindsay Elston, Jon Briddell, Flynn Falcone

Synopsis: A professional cult infiltrator goes undercover to penetrate a mysterious group and spring his client’s mind-controlled daughter. He quickly discovers that the cult is much more dark and dangerous than he originally bargained for…

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IT FOLLOWED ME HERE

Thriller (17 mins) United States
Directed By: Matthew Godbey
Written By: Matthew Godbey, Travis Opgenorth
Produced By: Matthew Godbey, Diana Valentine
Cast: Matthew Godbey

Synopsis: Alone, desperate and terrified, Daniel H. Harmon is a down-on-his-luck businessman addicted to a deadly game he can’t win, as he attempts to escape his office, defeat the deadly forces and turn his life around.

TALK

Drama (25 mins) France
Directed By: Boulanger Romuald
Written By: Boulanger Romuald
Produced By: Boulanger Romuald
Cast: Baldwin William, Spera Paul, Hudson Tom, Guide Vanessa, Stranger Avant

Synopsis: At a Los Angeles radio station, the host of an emblematic night talk show (William Baldwin) gives advice to live callers. One call will destroy his career, his family, and his life.