Connected
A short film about staying together in a hyper connected world.
Directed by Josh Pitta (USA)
Category: Films in Competition
Calls for Archie
A man gets mysterious calls for years and tries to understand why.
Directed by Zach Christy (USA)
Abe’s Pizza: Blondie’s to Abe’s
An Immigrant’s story about him and his Berkeley Pizzeria.
Directed by Kevin Wen-Kuan Huang (USA)
Let’s Play Catch Boy
Music video lyrically depicts the journey of an asylum seeking family from El Salvador to U.S. border – and their separation.
Directed by Jerald Morse (USA)
The Ballad of Black Justice: Babies of the Plain
Vigilantes Jase Boome and Black Justice solve crimes and cause mayhem in Dead Flats!
Directed by John Mozier-Tichy (USA)
The Talk
A young girl prepares for her “first time” and shares a heart to heart with her mother. Meanwhile, her father is left to attend to his daughter’s date for the evening. Needless to say, the night gets a little intense…
Directed by Cameron Voris (USA)
The Cleanup Crew
Crime Scene Cleanup has a side hustle. Murder.
Written by Christine M Torres (USA)
Choices
“Choices” is an experimental film wherein seven different couples perform the same scene in the same space. All seven conversations are cut together into a single scene with fourteen characters. So many choices! The goal was to showcase as diverse a cast as possible including different genders, races, handicaps, and sexual orientations, turning a seeming innocuous conversation into an exploration on how we humans are the same yet unique.
Directed by Kevin Rosen-Quan (USA)
Searching for a Beautiful Bachelor
A docudramedy combining real life and drama scenes in a serious comedy of gathering information on Canadian Bachelors while lead player Helene consults a gypsy, Zolar, in her search for her beautiful Bachelor. Her travels take her from Ontario to Nova Scotia as the movie documents ideas from real people integrated into her dramatic search.
Directed by Peter Evanchuck and Helene Lacelle (Canada)
Outsourced
A busy Ad agency exec finds herself being pressured into trying a new dating app by her 3 best friends. She ultimately finds a clever way to appease them and still get her job done, until her clever plan throws her for a loop of its own.
Directed by Dani Coleman (USA)