INDIE SHORT FEST

Boombats

Indebted to the mob, Bobby ‘Boombats’, an underachieving loser, hatches a half baked business venture to avoid moving back home with his suffocating Italian Mama, and his more successful, yet conflicted older brother.
Created by Tony DeSantis (Canada)

A Christmas In Ochopee

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”–Native Style! When a young Native American man brings his unannounced vegan fiance home to his Southern Family and something on the menu is a little more surprising than expected.
Directed by Montana Cypress (USA)

One Day Till Tomorrow

A short film by up-and-coming female director “Maggie Budzyna” that confronts the choices three siblings have to make after being taken out of the foster care system and placed with their uncle.
Directed by Maggie Budzyna (USA)

Phantom.

A Neo-Faustian journey. A young boy sits transfixed before a TV Screen; Saturday Morning Western. The boy now a man, cowboy, balladeer, loner, roams a terrain, part antiquity and part modernity, searching for something. Approaching the mythic ideal, mocked by the devil.

Where have all the cowboys gone?

Is there room for this mythical figure within the modern sphere?
Directed by Drayden DeCosta (Canada)

Private Barry

A newly assigned Casualty Notification Officer for the United States Army struggles to cope with the horrors of visiting families on the worst day of their lives.
Directed by Tyler Szuch (USA)

Pie

A man puts his life before the cameras, mockumentary-style, sharing details of the loneliness and tribulations associated with a predictable yet inexplicable daily pie in the face.
Directed by Doug Cox (USA)

On My Way Home

On Yu’s way home, he meets some strange people, and he is confused: is this his way home? or is he just walking through his deepest memory and dreams?
Directed by Junwu Tan (China)