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A short film by up-and-coming female director “Maggie Budzyna” that confronts the choices three siblings have to make after being taken out of the foster care system and placed with their uncle.
Directed by Maggie Budzyna (USA)

A Neo-Faustian journey. A young boy sits transfixed before a TV Screen; Saturday Morning Western. The boy now a man, cowboy, balladeer, loner, roams a terrain, part antiquity and part modernity, searching for something. Approaching the mythic ideal, mocked by the devil.

Where have all the cowboys gone?

Is there room for this mythical figure within the modern sphere?
Directed by Drayden DeCosta (Canada)

A newly assigned Casualty Notification Officer for the United States Army struggles to cope with the horrors of visiting families on the worst day of their lives.
Directed by Tyler Szuch (USA)

A man puts his life before the cameras, mockumentary-style, sharing details of the loneliness and tribulations associated with a predictable yet inexplicable daily pie in the face.
Directed by Doug Cox (USA)

On Yu’s way home, he meets some strange people, and he is confused: is this his way home? or is he just walking through his deepest memory and dreams?
Directed by Junwu Tan (China)

An experimental exploration of the dynamic between mother and daughter. Produced at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Directed by Mars LeClerc (USA)

“I Need This Like I Need a Hole in the Head” is a funny and intimate portrait of my father’s journey with Parkinson’s disease before and a year after undergoing deep brain stimulation. More than endorsing any kind of specific treatment for Parkinson’s, this piece offers perspective to others who may be facing the tough decision of whether or not take the risk of brain surgery.
Directed by Naomi Garcia Pasmanick (USA)

Take a tour of Detroit, America’s Motor City, from the 1920s through today with filmmaker Kathy Drasky as she searches for a home once owned by her great uncle. While Drasky gets a few tips from her Dad, who finds old photos and letters, it is her search beyond an address that reveals the heart of this troubled city.
Directed by Kathy Drasky (USA)

The producers use narrative and documentary film techniques, as well as animation, to tell the incredible story of Augustus Post, the automotive pioneer, aviator, balloonist, writer, actor and promoter of transportation technology. Told through family members who have unearthed his lost story, historians who view Post as a key figure in the modernization of transportation, and an imagined radio announcer from the mythic 1950s, this hybrid documentary reveals Post’s wide-ranging achievements and interests. But it also uncovers a complex individual whose widely scrutinized marriage and divorce was a source of great pain until his later years when a new relationship brought him comfort and solace. Post was best known for his record-setting balloon flight and voyage out of the Canadian wilderness in 1910. But he deserves a place at the forefront of history among those thrill-seekers who promoted a vision of a world where anyone could be an explorer.
Directed by Camille Servan-Schreiber (USA)

A bacteriologist takes care of his patient.
Directed by William Pisciotta (USA)