INDIE SHORT FEST

What happens when a woman gives a stranger a ride home? A short thriller, done entirely in one take.
Directed by Nico Giampietro (USA)

Alice is constantly terrorized by nightmares. She is losing grasp of reality. However, these are more than mere nightmares. Alice is faced with something far more evil than she had imagined. Alice tries to hold on to her self but the more she tries the more broken she becomes. Will she be strong enough to not let the entity consume her?
Directed by M.K. Edwards (USA)

Opal has been staring at half a picture her a whole life; but who is the stranger staring back? Returning home to confront her past, an old friend helps piece her past together, until a lifetime of questions unravels with an errant shoe.
Directed by Vincent Liota (USA)

In 1990s Bay Area, a Filipino immigrant’s frustration with western culture threatens his relationship with his younger brother, an aspiring DJ.
Directed by Kiersten Villanueva (USA)

In a war torn Australia where survivors seek refuge underneath the ground, 10-year-old Sammy struggles to build a hot air balloon so she and her little brother Max can find their parents.
Directed by Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (Australia)

It is a story of two friends who came to Mumbai to work and earn their livelihood in Bollywood. They were confident about their luck and talent and were expecting to do big in the industry with their acting skills. After reaching to Mumbai they start searching for a break and they could not keep patience for the right opportunity to come to them. They finally took up wrong decision to take up criminal activities to survive and earn quick bucks. Finally they get trapped in the illegal work and get then begins their final journey of life. When both friends took crime as their livelihood, they actually selected their path towards their own death. Finally one friend gets killed by another friend only to reprieve on their wrong decision.
Directed by Om Kapoor (India)

Intimate conversations with holy men and women in Rishikesh and Northern India. Directed by Burt Chojnowski (USA)

A man convicted of identity theft is sent to a prison run by Zen Buddhists. The warden, a Zen Buddhist master, informs him he must solve a koan (a spiritual riddle) in order to be released. He meditates for four long years, and despite being ridiculed and challenged by the other inmates, he finally solves the koan. As he is released, he steals the master’s credit cards and ID, and gives the unwitting master a koan of his own to ponder.
Written by David Rasch (USA)

Guy and girl who fell apart during high school, who broke up to go for there careers to end up back together. Ryan now has to make a decision.
Directed by Blake Kreider (USA)

The true(ish) story of a young boy and his mother who held afternoon exorcisms in the living room- and the new friend who is so Godly, she may as well be wicked.
Directed by Jonathan Hammond (USA)