Category: Films in Competition

A grieving mother aids a police detective in solving a horrific crime, only to regret it.
Directed by Robert Mann (USA)

A solitary soldier wanders aimlessly in a barren desert in search of his existence.
Directed by Robert Mann (USA)

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” 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)

It is a long, sad, swan song about the story between a boy and a girl and their sources of pain.
Directed by Qing Zhao (China)

Brandi reluctantly carries out her grandmother’s last wish but couldn’t foresee the hidden truth that poured out in ashes.
Written by Danetta Barney (USA)

Dani’s anxiety is building and she’s about to break in a scary way. The pressure of work becomes too much when she realizes she can’t hide from it anymore.
Directed by Corey Allen (USA)

Benjamin follows a handful of characters (all criminals of varying degree), but at it’s core is about the strained relationship between two loan shark brothers, who are dealing with their late father’s death, and the sole object he left behind for them in his will: a hundred dollar bill.
Directed by Marco WestWood Gonzalez (USA)

Hank needs to get rid of his mistress and fast so he asks his friend James for help killing her. Too bad they’re both as stupid as their victim.
Directed by Jaclyn Chessen (USA)

Fed up with America, three people from very different backgrounds decide to start their own nation.
Directed by Zachary Adams (USA)