Category: Films in Competition

Lizzy gives way too many f*cks as a new Zumba Dance instructor, & it’s just got to stop! Fortunately, Monica an instructor that has a class overflowing and is dubbed the Zumba whisperer is armed and ready to teach Lizzy a couple lessons on how caring just a little less, will pay off a lot more.
Directed by Carrie Lazar (USA)

Four decorated military female friends are killed in action but are brought back by a higher power and transformed into the Sisters Templar Evil Fighting Force who have special mystical powers to serve holy justice against all who threaten life except something or someone is missing and could tip the balance of celestial power across the universe.
Written by Robert J. Butler (USA)

Masked filmmaker presents this dark, surreal tale of a boy, a girl and the bag on her head.
Directed by Also Nonas (USA)

A boy’s plan to bake a birthday cake becomes disastrous when his scientist father’s latest experiment gets added to the mix.
Directed by Sarah Heinz (USA)

A slip of the tongue leads to a series of increasingly awkward and horrific revelations during a casual dinner party between two couples.
Written by Nick Alverson (USA)

1853: The Outsider rides into a city center plagued with disease, meanwhile, stories run rife of women in the woods.
Directed by Logan Fulford (Canada)

We meet the protagonist, a white-collar family man, when he comes to in a crashed car. While in shock he doesn’t seem to notice the destruction the accident caused and leaves the vehicle with his family still inside. A couple of young hikers discovers the car and follows the man to a campground.
Directed by Milena Korolczuk (USA)

Veteran Christian Bob (40’s) has just taken “Babe in Christ” Matthew (20’s) under his wing. Christianity already seems like a huge commitment to Matthew, and when Bob is reluctant to have just one post-sermon beer with him, Matthew quickly finds it to be a total buzzkill. With some goading Bob comes around and the pair decide to pay a visit to Bob’s old watering hole. But by the end of his first beer Bob begins to do things the Lord would never approve of.
Written by Caleb Parazette (USA)

Pastor John accepts an invitation to a Native American Pow Wow, from Aiyana, one of his young congregants. What follows is a visionary experience that shakes his rigid belief system to it’s core.
Written by Caleb Parazette (USA)

An outcast, Alien Guy Tim, wants to prove that he has been abducted by aliens, but faces many obstacles along the way.
Directed by Scott Simerly Jr. (USA)