INDIE SHORT FEST

Clouds

A single father’s optimistic outlook on life is tested when he faces an unfortunate turn of events.
Directed by Aaron Brewer (USA)

The Story of Your Life

One night, two people saw the infinite possibilities of their lives. After recognizing themselves thoroughly, they made their decision. 
This film is about youth, dream and reality, disappointment and acceptance, elite and mundane, past and future.
Directed by Zihan Qu and Shenshen Tan (China)

Puppet

All people are innocent angels when they come into the world. But life gives us lots of temptations that cut our wings. Young woman comes under the influence of bad habits, that gradually destroy her. She is death’s puppet now.
Directed by Oleg Loparev (USA)

Own You

Feeling grossly hard-done-by, a 13-year-old’s life is turned upside down after being told to get off the computer…oh & whether he wants pineapple on pizza – life’s tough.
Come joins Matt, a 13-year-old kid, and check out what a typical afternoon looks like. The weight of the world is on his shoulders – some legit issues (pressures of conforming to social media), other issues a bit exaggerated (the perils of putting dishes & hanging up his towel). Everything seems to be going ok until his mother asks him if he wants pineapple on his pizza. Follow his turmoil as the demands of social media and a nasty group of girls turns his world upside down.
Directed by Oscar Bailey (Australia)

The Free Agent

Los Angeles native & MLS professional Tristan Bowen is striving to get back on the soccer field with the elite. A look into his personal life of daily routines, past struggles and his determination to get back on another Pro MLS team.
Directed by Anthony Molina (USA)

Love Letters

“Love Letters” is an experimental short film created from real correspondence and interviews during the first world war, and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the conflict.
A couple sends each other messages across an ocean during the largest and most violent conflict the world had known. The unnamed woman copes with the horrors of a military hospital in the US while her fiancee faces despair in the trenches of Europe.
The short is filmed with contemporary, abstract setting and costume because the content is timeless. Love is love and war is hell. Produced in the United States of America by Eric Ryan, as a tribute to the men and women who sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom, and on whose shoulders our democracy stands.
Directed by Eric Ryan and Alexa Hann (USA)