Unforgotten
NARRATIVE SHORT | USA | 20 MINUTES
Ivy, a neurotic artist, struggles to get past the grief of a previous relationship. Unable to get closure, she opens her home to the man she still loves and her new partner. Ivy fears whether to share the burden of her suffering, and will have to rely on her art and imagination to heal her trauma.
DIRECTOR: Floriane Andersen
PRODUCER: Floriane Andersen, Marianne Bourg,
Yessica Sanchez Thurnherr, Nina Seul
WRITER: Floriane Andersen
CAST: Floriane Andersen, Kyle Kaminsky, Chloe Hollings
Playing Pretend
NARRATIVE SHORT | USA | 13 MINUTES
Two 20-something-year old best friends await the results of a pregnancy test in the bathroom of the restaurant they waitress at. As a customer outside grows angrier, so do their chances of getting fired.
DIRECTOR: Kaitlyn Scardino
PRODUCER: Valaniece
WRITER: Valaniece
CAST: Valaniece, Hailey Cullers
Fix Your Franchise
NARRATIVE SHORT | USA | 8 MINUTES
Fix Your Franchise is a repeatable-format episodic digital comedy series about two consultants hired to make pop culture's favorite universe... make sense. From Minecraft to Star Wars, these two suits strive to create more efficient and cost-effective environments for their hapless inhabitants. But as the duo streamlines and rationalizes each franchise, they gut most of the fun, leaving a world that's efficient, orderly— and misses the point entirely.
DIRECTOR: Luke Pereira
PRODUCER: Luke Pereira
WRITER: Evan Baker, Jeremy Iversen, Ivan Chen-O'Neill
CAST: Jeremy Iversen, Elaine Wang
Confessions
NARRATIVE SHORT | USA | 21 MINUTES
Confessions is a grounded, present-day, one-hour, supernatural thriller franchise, exploring the multi-layered facets of sin and atonement.
After committing a sin in heaven, Manuel de Castillo, an angel and former Spanish conquistador, is banished and must roam the earth until fulfilling his penance, which is to compel sinners to carry out a penance of their own, to right their wrongs and cleanse their souls. Fallen angel Manuel has been earth bound for 500-years and today, he initially contacts sinners by using the one thing they all possess -- a phone.
DIRECTOR: Evette Vargas
PRODUCER: Evette Vargas, Noah A. Waters III, Jimmy A. Velarde
WRITER: Evette Vargas
CAST: Carlos Leal, J. Mallory McCree, Kassandra Lee
A Case of The Mondays
NARRATIVE SHORT | USA | 20 MINUTES
Four assistants work late into the night when a mysterious creature starts to hunt them off one by one.
DIRECTOR: Jason Grobstich
PRODUCER: Dylan Hoang, Jason Grobstich, Chelsea Hateley,
Dan Marcus
WRITER: Jason Grobstich
CAST: Gaby Sandoval, Danraj Rajasansi, Chantal Biancardi