INDIE SHORT FEST

A poem of human nature.
Directed by Valentyn Korotkevych (Canada)

Gifted with eternal life after drinking from the Holy Grail, a medieval knight spawns an alternate history where technology is God, and man is a machine.
Directed by Julian Curi and Rocco Ambrosio (USA)

“Slobby” features a young man by the name of Stanley who incurs an exceedingly strenuous and unwelcoming conversation with an insurance company. Simultaneously, his best friend Slobby is persistently harassing Stanley urging Stanley to stop the call, avoid negative circumstances, and change his outlook on life to being more positive. Before long, things get out of control forcing Stanley’s mother to intervene.
Directed by Nicholas Messero (USA)

During the Klondike gold rush, Tagish First Nation, Skookum Jim, hid millions of dollars’ worth of gold around the Yukon. 100 years later, Amanda, a small town wife/mother, dreams of opening Rise n’ Shine bakery on the Alaska Highway in memory of her mother. When her loan application is rejected because of her husband’s gambling problem she is spiritually crushed, and kicks Jim out. Later, when she returns to work at Mukluk Annie’s, two armed masked men hold up the restaurant and steal the historic relic “Charlie” believing that there’s gold in its snout. Amanda recognizes the men are her husband Jim and his shady friend, Randy. She volunteers herself as a hostage. After they dodge the RCMP and find a hideout, gold fever inevitably takes over, and Randy tries to steal the gold for himself. Jim and Randy fight, causing Jim to fall 100 feet into a river. Just as Randy is about to run away with the gold, Amanda catches him o guard and knocks him out. As the gold falls into the river, Amanda must choose between saving her good-hearted but very flawed husband or retrieving the sinking gold…
Directed by Silver Kim (Canada)

How a food pantry strives to improve the quality of life in Desert Hot Springs, California by providing food assistance to needy residents.
Directed by Paul Raimondi (USA)

Thirty-something Kate attends her best friends wedding shower and gets sandwiched between two pregnant women and it’s immediately made clear that she’s not as far along in life compared to everyone else at the party.
Directed by Jake Insley (Canada)

A young woman struggles with the consequences of an important decision.
Directed by Brianna Burdette (USA)

The daily routine of a mysterious girl who is on a mission to obtain her “Number Ten”.
Directed by Grace Eitrheim (USA)

An ambitious young woman sells her soul to Satan in return for fame, but the terms of sale are not exactly what she had expected.
Written by Logan Palmer (USA)

A life-affirming film based upon a chance encounter at a nursing home which captures the resilient life story of a star in the mists of a sad place. With no photographs from her past, the film rescues her memory in a movie album for her to keep.
Directed by Maria Cristina Carbonell (USA)