Animated Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
Sumer
Directed by Alvaro Garcia
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Synopsis: The Earth's ionosphere has weakened, perishing all plant and animal species down to one small group of humans living in an isolated city. A young boy lives alone close to the surrounding walls and while observing the desert from a rooftop, he sees something resembling a blue feather floating in the air...
My Big Brother
Directed by Jason Rayner
Synopsis: The reflections of a boy sharing a room and a childhood with his twenty-foot tall brother.
The Present
Directed by Jacob Frey
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Synopsis: Jake spends most of his time playing video games indoors until his mom decides to give him a present.
Speed Dating
Directed by Meghann Artes
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Synopsis: Desperate to find the man of her dreams, Ava attends a night of speed dating. After the cast of characters she encounters, she wonders if being single isn’t so bad after all.
Love Bugs
Directed by Teresa Hooper
Synopsis: What if a battery powered toy bee was shocked into action to try to attract the ladybug of his dreams? Would he get her?
Love in the Time of March Madness
Directed by Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano
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Synopsis: Melissa Johnson hit 6'4'' tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, what follows is a series of hilarious and awkward misadventures in romance as she dates shorter men.
Hold My Handle
Directed by Ethan Barrett
Synopsis: Two cups imprisoned by a cruel, sloppy owner fall in love. When one of them is discarded they have no choice but to escape, though they will not get away without making huge sacrifices.
In Capricious Hands
Directed by Stephan Larson
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Synopsis: Living in a box, life is pretty bleak and boring. And then a window opens...
Monstro!
Directed by Christopher Romano
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Synopsis: A scientific expedition travels down the dark Amazon, searching for a mythic creature.
The OceanMaker
Directed by Lucas Martell
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Synopsis: After the seas have disappeared, a courageous young female pilot fights against vicious sky pirates for control of the last remaining source of water: the clouds.
Additional Screenings:
Saturday, March 28th at 4:55pm
College Shorts
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cootie Contagion
Directed by Joshua Smooha
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Synopsis: BIOHAZARD. Cootie Levels: Maximum.Patient: Matt. Infected by: Becca. Warning: Patient still expresses interest in Becca. Patient must be QUARANTINED. -Connor Nelson, Cootieologist.
OstrichLand
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Directed by David McCracken
Synopsis: A road-trip comedy about two estranged brothers driving across the country in a truck full of their late father’s UFO memorabilia.
Lambing Season
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Directed by Jeannie Donohoe
Synopsis: An American woman travels to the Irish countryside to track down her long-lost father. When things don't go according to plan, she and her father learn they have more in common than they imagined as the truth is revealed.
Drone
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Directed by Justin S. Lee
Synopsis: A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.
Liv
Directed by Gwyneth Christoffel
Synopsis: A video blogger inadvertently reveals too much of his life to his audience.
Miracle Maker
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Directed by Kate Marks
Synopsis: It's been a rough summer for Francisco, a 12-year-old who travels door to door with his uncle hoping to sell a vacuum while is father is deathly ill. But when he hears about a miracle maker living nearby, he puts a plan in place to turn his luck around.
Grange to Garage
Directed by William Johnston-Carter
Synopsis: A California farmer struggles to stay in business raising organically grown, free-range automobiles.
Additonal Screenings:
Saturday, March 28th at 12:45 pm
Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 70 minutes
Tomgirl
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Directed by Jeremy Asher Lynch
Synopsis: Jake, a gender non-conforming seven year-old, invites us into his world to explore the transforming power of love and support on our children.
Sugar Coated
Directed by Chris Parson
Synopsis: Lolita, a fashion movement from Harajuku, Tokyo, has a thriving group of followers in Los Angeles. We follow four Lolitas and investigate their motivations for taking on the extreme style; from self-expression, to the questioning of identity and body image.
Half Sour
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Directed by Mary Anne Rothberg and Sean McGing
Synopsis: A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business.
Dockery & Son
Directed by Jack Truman
Synopsis: Dockery & Son is a documentary following a Mother and Son’s junk store and revealing an eye-opening slice of life at their real-life thrift store in the ghost town of Milford, Missouri: population 26.
SandorKraut
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Directed by Emily Lobsenz and Ann Husaini
Synopsis: A portrait of the acclaimed food writer and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death.
Anna
Directed by Eric Latek
Synopsis: Anna is an intimate portrait through the eyes of Anna who is a wife, mother, grandmother and Native American activist who endures the final stage of Alzheimer's. This film is only through her eyes.
World Cinema Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
Live (En Directo) - Spain
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Directed by Wenceslao Scyzoryk
Synopsis: A poor family, on the day of their eviction, allows a reality show to document its history. But what seemed a dream to save the home becomes a horrible nightmare.
Dead Hearts - Canada
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Directed by Stephen W. Martin
Synopsis: A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu, and biker werewolves.
Sunflowers - Malaysia
Directed by Shio Chuan Quek
Synopsis: An orphan and grandmother live with a girl, in the metropolis as a stage show makeup artist.
HTM – Sri Lanka
Directed by Sachi Ediriweera
An urban bank worker finds his customer base threatened by the presence of a homeless musician begging for money on the street.
In The Clouds (En Las Nubes) - Argentina
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Directed by Marcelo Mitnik
Synopsis: The difference between how we think romance should work and how it actually does is at the comedic heart of EN LAS NUBES, an exploration of cultural disagreements about intimacy, love, and marriage proposals in the age of YouTube.
Live Action Shorts A
Run Time: 80 minutes
Contrapelo
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Directed by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
Synopsis: A Mexican barber is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel who is destroying his country. He battles with the choice to become a killer, or to let the Campo continue to kill. By the end of the shave, the Barber will realize the two of them are not so different.
Protocol
Directed by Elliot Feld
Synopsis: The true story of a SWAT operation gone wrong.
Muse
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Directed by Christopher Leps
Synopsis: A life-changing event inspires an artist to finally meet his object of affection... but the outcome is not what he expects.
Daddy’s Little Girl
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Directed by Chad McClarnon
Synopsis: A precocious little girl uses her self-taught science knowledge to finally tackle the problem of her abusive alcoholic father head on.
Lucid
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Directed by Kevin Shah
Synopsis: Karen's nightmares always pick up where they left off the night before and it's affecting her marriage. She wants to control her dreams, but she's not the one creating them.
Truckin’
Directed by Diane Newman
Synopsis: Two women reunite after their awkward adolescent years are over. In a bitter food truck war, they come to terms with their childhood differences.
Wild & Precious
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Directed by Cusi Cram
Synopsis: Sparks fly when a wayward grandmother returns for a funeral and it falls upon the shoulders of her granddaughter to ask the questions no one has ever dared to.
Live Action Shorts B
Run Time: 85 minutes
Isolation
Directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Synopsis: This film is about Nil and Nell. Nil and Nell both live in the same town and follow the same monotonous routine day in and day out but all that they need to break out of their dreary everyday existence is the spark that comes from meeting someone new...
Une Liberation
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Directed by Brian Crewe
Synopsis: On the eve of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during WWII, an American resistance member descends into the underground tunnels of Paris to deliver a message. However, an encounter with a pair of German deserters threatens to destroy the very thing she has been fighting for.
The Listing Agent
Directed by Jared Hillman & Matthew Helfgott
Synopsis: A desperate, down-on-his-luck real estate agent must carry out his client's unorthodox demands before closing the sale.
The Little Violinist
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Directed by Yang Wang
Synopsis: A trash-picker in New York City Chinatown, hides a secret from his daughter for 11 years. After her heartfelt violin performance, he reveals that he found her on the streets of Chinatown as an infant and had raised her as his own.
Catching Fireflies
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Directed by Lee Whittaker
Synopsis: A Latina girl uses the power of her imagination to escape the rigors of living on Skid Row, Los Angeles while also trying to protect her relationship with her addict mother.
Birthday
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Directed by Chris King
Synopsis: When a young wife gets news that her Marine husband has been severely wounded in combat, she discovers that life ahead for the both of them is going to be a difficult and yet amazing journey.
Additional Screenings:
Homegrown Shorts Showcase
Run Time: 95 minutes
Grace of a Stranger
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Directed by Troy Hollar
Synopsis: A poor man loses his last shred of hope and an unlikely stranger finds himself able to help. Based on the autobiographical short story 'Acts of Kindness' by Aaron Keel.
Stolen Afternoon
Directed by Aaron Kes
Synopsis: An inexperienced uncle is left at home with his infant niece. A thief is looking for an easy mark. For both of them, sometimes help comes in mysterious ways.
The Class Analysis
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Directed by Webb Pickersgill
Synopsis: A Vietnam vet, an Aryan Brotherhood biker, a wealthy black businessman, a peaceful Muslim, and a poor Hispanic couple are thrust into a corrosive argument. Race, class and religion violently disrupt the group bringing them to peace in an unexpected way.
Fighters Move Forward
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Directed by Jake Lee
Synopsis: Fighters Move Forward follows Pete Chavez, the founder of the Chavez Boxing Foundation, and two of his 'kids,' exploring the struggles of those affected by the non-profit, as well as the numerous obstacles faced by the foundation itself.
Duty
Directed by Vic Rincon
Synopsis: During the financial crisis of 2008-2009, a small town cop struggles to support his family. As his burdens escalate, he fears there may only be one option left. A touching story of humility, desperation and courage one man takes to carry out his duty.
Fish Hook
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Directed by Nickolas Duarte
Synopsis: A young man struggles with the cycle of abuse, internal conflict and a murky morality.
Logan Must Make Star Wars
Directed by Nathan Blackwell
Synopsis: Logan is thrown back to the year 1974 where he accidentally kills George Lucas. Now, to ensure that the greatest sci-fi trilogy is made, he must impersonate Lucas and make Star Wars himself.
Thrasherland
Directed by Joshua Provost
Synopsis: A 13 year old boy tries to be accepted by the skaters. When his kid sister falls ill and his single mom calls off the family vacation, he must decide whether to sit it out or go at it alone.
Live Action Shorts B
Run Time: 85 minutes
Isolation
Directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Synopsis: This film is about Nil and Nell. Nil and Nell both live in the same town and follow the same monotonous routine day in and day out but all that they need to break out of their dreary everyday existence is the spark that comes from meeting someone new...
Une Liberation
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Brian Crewe
Synopsis: On the eve of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during WWII, an American resistance member descends into the underground tunnels of Paris to deliver message. However, an encounter with a pair of German deserters threatens to destroy the very thing she has been fighting for.
The Listing Agent
Directed by Jared Hillman
Synopsis: A desperate, down-on-his-luck real estate agent must carry out his client's unorthodox demands before closing the sale.
The Little Violinist
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Yang Wang
Synopsis: A trash-picker in New York City Chinatown, hides a secret from his daughter for 11 years. After her heartfelt violin performance, he reveals that he found her on the streets of Chinatown as an infant and had raised her as his own.
Catching Fireflies
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Lee Whittaker
Synopsis: A Latina girl uses the power of her imagination to escape the rigors of living on Skid Row, Los Angeles while also trying to protect her relationship with her addict mother.
Birthday
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Chris King
Synopsis: When a young wife gets news that her Marine husband has been severely wounded in combat, she discovers that life ahead for the both of them is going to be a difficult and yet amazing journey.
Additional Screenings:
Friday, March 27th at 5:00pm
Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 70 minutes
Tomgirl
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Jeremy Asher Lynch
Synopsis: Jake, a gender non-conforming seven year-old, invites us into his world to explore the transforming power of love and support on our children.
Sugar Coated
Directed by Chris Parson
Synopsis: Lolita, a fashion movement from Harajuku, Tokyo, has a thriving group of followers in Los Angeles. We follow four Lolitas and investigate their motivations for taking on the extreme style; from self-expression, to the questioning of identity and body image.
Half Sour
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Mary Anne Rothberg and Sean McGing
Synopsis: A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business.
Dockery & Son
Directed by Jack Truman
Synopsis: Dockery & Son is a documentary following a Mother and Son’s junk store and revealing an eye-opening slice of life at their real-life thrift store in the ghost town of Milford, Missouri: population 26.
SandorKraut
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Emily Lobsenz and Ann Husaini
Synopsis: A portrait of the acclaimed food writer and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death.
Anna
Directed by Eric Latek
Synopsis: Anna is an intimate portrait through the eyes of Anna who is a wife, mother, grandmother and Native American activist who endures the final stage of Alzheimer's. This film is only through her eyes.
Additonal Screenings:
Friday, March 27th at 1:20 pm
Arizona Shorts
Run Time: 90 minutes
The Tent
Directed by Marcus Stricklin
Synopsis: After her brother Ethan is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Stephanie and Ethan use their imagination to travel the world using the tent in their family home.
Kitty
Directed by Josh Kasselman and Stephanie Lucas
Synopsis: Tensions rise on a young couple's sightseeing tour as they discuss the cat sitter they've hired for the weekend.
Keep Running
Directed by Sean Oliver
Synopsis: While on a routine morning jog a young man comes across a mysterious stranger who changes his life.
Project Daisy
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Directed by Adolpho Navarro
Synopsis: Control what you create!
Ouroboros
Directed by Alexander Broderick
Synopsis: A quantum physicist creates an artificial wormhole, a breakthrough in teleportation. But the wormhole brings an unexpected visitor - Faye's future self - warning that the device threatens the fabric of spacetime and the very existence of the universe.
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Directed by Randy Murray
Synopsis: During the zombie apocalypse, a young girl's search for food puts her and a stranger in danger. Will she be able to escape the zombie horrors while still making it home with food to eat?
Blue Copper
Directed by Diane M. Dresback
Synopsis: A well intentioned woman hired to care for a man works to liberate her psychologically complex client, as he enacts his own contorted version of reciprocal help.
Additonal Screenings:
Sunday, March 29th at 4:45 pm
College Shorts
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cootie Contagion
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Joshua Smooha
Synopsis: BIOHAZARD. Cootie Levels: Maximum. Patient: Matt. Infected by: Becca. Warning: Patient still expresses interest in Becca. Patient must be QUARANTINED. -Connor Nelson, Cootieologist.
OstrichLand
Watch the Trailer
Directed by David McCracken
Synopsis: A road-trip comedy about two estranged brothers driving across the country in a truck full of their late father’s UFO memorabilia.
Lambing Season
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Jeannie Donohoe
Synopsis: An American woman travels to the Irish countryside to track down her long-lost father. When things don't go according to plan, she and her father learn they have more in common than they imagined as the truth is revealed.
Drone
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Justin S. Lee
Synopsis: A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.
Liv
Directed by Gwyneth Christoffel
Synopsis: A video blogger inadvertently reveals too much of his life to his audience.
Miracle Maker
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Kate Marks
Synopsis: It's been a rough summer for Francisco, a 12-year-old who travels door to door with his uncle hoping to sell a vacuum while is father is deathly ill. But when he hears about a miracle maker living nearby, he puts a plan in place to turn his luck around.
Grange to Garage
Directed by William Johnston-Carter
Synopsis: A California farmer struggles to stay in business raising organically grown, free-range automobiles.
Additional Screenings:
Friday, March 27th at 11:05 am
Animated Shorts
Run Time:
Sumer
Directed by Alvaro Garcia
Watch the Trailer
Synopsis: The Earth's ionosphere has weakened, perishing all plant and animal species down to one small group of humans living in an isolated city. A young boy lives alone close to the surrounding walls and while observing the desert from a rooftop, he sees something resembling a blue feather floating in the air...
My Big Brother
Directed by Jason Rayner
Synopsis: The reflections of a boy sharing a room and a childhood with his twenty-foot tall brother.
The Present
Directed by Jacob Frey
Watch the Trailer
Synopsis: Jake spends most of his time playing video games indoors until his mom decides to give him a present.
Speed Dating
Directed by Meghann Artes
Watch the Trailer
Synopsis: Desperate to find the man of her dreams, Ava attends a night of speed dating. After the cast of characters she encounters, she wonders if being single isn’t so bad after all.
Love Bugs
Directed by Teresa Hooper
Synopsis: What if a battery powered toy bee was shocked into action to try to attract the ladybug of his dreams? Would he get her?
Love in the Time of March Madness
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano
Synopsis: Melissa Johnson hit 6'4'' tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, what follows is a series of hilarious and awkward misadventures in romance as she dates shorter men.
Hold My Handle
Directed by Ethan Barrett
Synopsis: Two cups imprisoned by a cruel, sloppy owner fall in love. When one of them is discarded they have no choice but to escape, though they will not get away without making huge sacrifices.
In Capricious Hands
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Stephan Larson
Synopsis: Living in a box, life is pretty bleak and boring. And then a window opens...
Monstro!
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Christopher Romano
Synopsis: A scientific expedition travels down the dark Amazon, searching for a mythic creature.
The OceanMaker
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Lucas Martell
Synopsis:After the seas have disappeared, a courageous young female pilot fights against vicious sky pirates for control of the last remaining source of water: the clouds.
Addtional Screenings:
Friday, March 27th at 9:00 am
Live Action Shorts A
Run Time: 80 minutes
Contrapelo
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
Synopsis: A Mexican barber is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel who is destroying his country. He battles with the choice to become a killer, or to let the Campo continue to kill. By the end of the shave, the Barber will realize the two of them are not so different.
Protocol
Directed by Elliot Feld
Synopsis: The true story of a SWAT operation gone wrong.
Muse
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Christopher Leps
Synopsis: A life-changing event inspires an artist to finally meet his object of affection... but the outcome is not what he expects.
Daddy’s Little Girl
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Chad McClarnon
Synopsis: A precocious little girl uses her self-taught science knowledge to finally tackle the problem of her abusive alcoholic father head on.
Lucid
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Kevin Shah
Synopsis: Karen's nightmares always pick up where they left off the night before and it's affecting her marriage. She wants to control her dreams, but she's not the one creating them.
Truckin’
Directed by Diane Newman
Synopsis: Two women reunite after their awkward adolescent years are over. In a bitter food truck war, they come to terms with their childhood differences.
Wild & Precious
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Cusi Cram
Synopsis: Sparks fly when a wayward grandmother returns for a funeral and it falls upon the shoulders of her granddaughter to ask the questions no one has ever dared to.
World Cinema Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
Live (En Directo) - Spain
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Wenceslao Scyzoryk
Synopsis: A poor family, on the day of their eviction, allows a reality show to document its history. But what seemed a dream to save the home becomes a horrible nightmare.
Dead Hearts - Canada
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Stephen W. Martin
Synopsis: A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu, and biker werewolves.
Sunflowers - Malaysia
Directed by Shio Chuan Quek
Synopsis: An orphan and grandmother live with a girl, in the metropolis as a stage show makeup artist.
HTM – Sri Lanka
Directed by Sachi Ediriweera
Synopsis: An urban bank worker finds his customer base threatened by the presence of a homeless musician begging for money on the street.
In The Clouds (En Las Nubes) - Argentina
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Marcelo Mitnik
Synopsis: The difference between how we think romance should work and how it actually does is at the comedic heart of EN LAS NUBES, an exploration of cultural disagreements about intimacy, love, and marriage proposals in the age of YouTube.
Arizona Shorts
Run Time: 90 minutes
The Tent
Directed by Marcus Stricklin
Synopsis: After her brother Ethan is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Stephanie and Ethan use their imagination to travel the world using the tent in their family home.
Kitty
Directed by Josh Kasselman and Stephanie Lucas
Synopsis: Tensions rise on a young couple's sightseeing tour as they discuss the cat sitter they've hired for the weekend.
Keep Running
Directed by Sean Oliver
Synopsis: While on a routine morning jog a young man comes across a mysterious stranger who changes his life.
Project Daisy
Watch the Trailer
Directed by Adolpho Navarro
Synopsis: Control what you create!
Ouroboros
Directed by Alexander Broderick
Synopsis: A quantum physicist creates an artificial wormhole, a breakthrough in teleportation. But the wormhole brings an unexpected visitor - Faye's future self - warning that the device threatens the fabric of spacetime and the very existence of the universe.
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Directed by Randy Murray
Synopsis: During the zombie apocalypse, a young girl's search for food puts her and a stranger in danger. Will she be able to escape the zombie horrors while still making it home with food to eat?
Blue Copper
Directed by Diane M. Dresback
Synopsis: A well intentioned woman hired to care for a man works to liberate her psychologically complex client, as he enacts his own contorted version of reciprocal help.
