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Block 1 @ 1:30 PM

CHEF D’OEUVRE FILM D’ART

Chef D’oeuvre Film D’Art

Director: Chris Armienti
Country: United States
RT: 3min

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

Karma

Director: Christo liu
Country: United States
RT: 4min

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

The Truth Box

The Truth Box

Director: Mike Galeotti
Country: United States
RT: 7min

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

rose and pinky are metal

Rose And Pinky Are Metal

Director: Madi Stine
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

Phan

Phan

Director: Seth Proffitt
Country: United States
RT: 11min

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

NDL

NDL

Director: Aleix Massot
Country: United States
RT: 12min

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

Flour Baby

Director: Caroline Iaffaldano
Country: United States
RT: 12min

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

Better Run Little Wildheart

Director: Owen Campbell
Country: United States
RT: 14min

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....

Hosey name

A Horsey Name

Director: Natasha Fissiak
Country: Russia
RT: 20min

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....

OMA

OMA

Director: Monika Ivonne
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

Block 2 @ 2 PM

Perspective

Perspective

Director: Isabelle Leonard
Country: United States
RT: 3min
Miles

Miles

Director: Griffin Bajor, Carlo Javier
Country: United States
RT: 5min

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

Mother Father Daughter

Mother Father Daughter

Director: Yiting Gao
Country: United States
RT: 5min

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

No Big Deal

Director: Thomas Mentel
Country: United States
RT: 8min

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

When She Was There

Director: Josh Forman
Country: United States
RT: 8min

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....

Brother Liam

Your Brother Liam

Director: Daniel Muller
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

MELODRAMA

Melodrama

Director: Nick Azzaro
Country: United States
RT: 12min

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

The Lost Ones

The Lost Ones

Director: Ben Rand
Country: United States
RT: 14min

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

A Separation

A Seperation

Director: Yalan Hu
Country: United States
RT: 15min

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....

Forever Red

Forever Red

Director: Garrett Adams
Country: United States
RT: 16min

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....

Blue Reverie

Blue Reverie

Director: Siting Yang
Country: United States
RT: 20min

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....

Block 3 @ 3:30 PM

The Gift

The Gift

Director: RB Vigneshwar
Country: United States
RT: 6min

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

The Hereafter Without You

Director: Andrii Lantukh
Country: United States
RT: 6min

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

BYGONE

Bygone

Director: Avi Agarwal
Country: United States
RT: 6min

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

Doris

Director: Youssef Gouda
Country: United States
RT: 7min

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

breathe

Breathe

Director: Austin Smith
Country: United States
RT: 8min

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 intentio...

the quiet

The Quiet

Director: Mateo Márquez
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

THE KICK-OFF

The Kick-Off

Director: Abby Victor
Country: United States
RT: 11min

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

Skaros

Director: The Zavitsanos Brothers
Country: United States
RT: 11min

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

DEATH FROM OUTER SPACE

Death From Outer Space

Director: Wellington Pitts
Country: United States
RT: 12min

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

The Field

Director: Tung Ying Hsieh
Country: United States
RT: 14min

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

Progeny

Director: Justin Daering
Country: United States
RT: 29min

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...

Block 4 @ 4:45 PM

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Reserved

Country: United States

Block 5 @ 5:30 PM

Woman

Women

Director: Jeff grace
Country: United States
RT: 4min

Synopsis: music video...

top row

Top row

Director: Karin Argoud
Country: United States
RT: 18min

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....

David Grusin

Dave Grustin: Not Enough Time

Director: Barbara Bentree
Country: United States
RT: 89min

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....

Block 6 @ 6:15 PM

blame game

The Blame Game

Director: Herb Kimble
Country: United States
RT: 16min

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

Josie & Jack

Director: Sarah Lancaster
Country: United States
RT: 103min

Synopsis: Raised in a decaying old Pennsylvania mansion and home schooled by their tyrannical professor father, Josie and Jack Raeburn have never had anyone but each other to depend on. Set in the 1990s....

Block 7 @ 8 PM

advisor

The Advisor

Director: Scott Turner
Country: United States
RT: 12min

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

Lost Bayou

Lost Bayou

Director: Brian C Miller Richard
Country: United States
RT: 87min

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....

Block 8 @ 8:30 PM

TEN SHOTS

Ten Shots

Director: Gordon Shoemaker
Country: United States
RT: 9min

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

Dark Angel

Director: Svend Ploug Johansen
Country: Denmark
RT: 10min

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....

Mona

Mona

Director: Adam Finley
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

Feeder

Director: Thomas Simon
Country: United States
RT: 10min

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

Forget Me Nots

Director: Daniel Marcha
Country: United States
RT: 13min

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....

ALVIN

Alvin

Director: Christy Anna Wu
Country: United States
RT: 15min

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

Infiltration

The Infiltration

Director: Flynn Falcone
Country: United States
RT: 17min

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…...

it followed me here

It Followed Me Here

Director: Matthew Godbey
Country: United States
RT: 17min

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

Talk

Director: Boulanger Romuald
Country: France
RT: 25min

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....

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