INDIE SHORT FEST

A day inside the minds of two individuals living with active eating disorders. A queer man and Latina woman struggle with body image and the challenges of disordered eating in every day life. A look at how eating disorders can affect people of any race, gender, and orientation – and the far-reaching impact this condition can have on the lives of those dealing with it.
Directed by Jordan Hidalgo (USA)

This is the story of a young boy Rigo, who resides in Mexico. He faces challenges like many others in his country; poverty, lack of education and insecurity. He decides to better himself and emigrate to the United States. He embarks on his journey with his best friend Lupita . He leaves behind his mother in search of the American dream to provide for his mother.
Directed by Adrian Moran (Mexico)

When Mike stops making progress at the gym, he discovers an unconventional protein source that leads him down a sinister path.
Directed by Emily Tomasi (USA)

Directed by Lilton III (USA)

An alluring woman with a secretive past, hopelessly longing for a relationship with her beloved fish, finds herself entangled in a bizarre twist of fate, as she unwillingly awakens as a mermaid and her fish a human. Together they are trapped in their star-crossed existence to either fight for their freedom or their love.
Directed by Natalie Paige Bentley (USA)

A boy wakes, something’s escaped the cellar. 
A deformed face looms over the boy with a harrowing scream.

The bad dream remembered by a Man as he shaves making him cut his neck. It bleeds. 
He checks the locked cellar door before work. 
In the Restroom, the Man sees bloody tissue on his neck, wonders ‘How many shaving cuts would it take to bleed to death?’

A Playing Field. Seasons pass as the man sits waiting, children play. Finally Arnold Granger, a pensioner, arrives. The Man remembers the smell of tobacco and toffee on his breath. 
Arnold and the Man leave. 
From the dark, the Man opens the cellar door, looking down at what screams below. 
He decides, his guest needs a shave.
Directed by Stuart Fryer (UK)

Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia dell’arte masks, but also a dark secret that won’t be divulged until decades later. 
Directed by Christophe Mavroudis (Belgium)

When two low life drug dealers mistake a pizza delivery man for Seth Rogen, they force him to hang out.
Directed by Brandon Len (USA)

Two janitors found a body of a dead woman. But in this digital age, priority is not as simple anymore.
Directed by Jerry Hadiprojo (Indonesia)

Patrick is so inspired to create music. He wants to be successful but his girlfriend, his luck and even cosmic forces at times, seem to be testing him. Desperate to be a part of the music world that so inspires him, he tries again and again to create. Several ridiculous setbacks force him to question it all. 
Directed by PK Simone (USA)