TOM AND GRANT
Writer/Director/Producer: Tom Cavanagh | USA / 2018 / 24 min / Narrative
Two small-time crooks go big time when they decide to rob some bank robbers. Starring Tom Cavanagh and Grant Gustin from The Flash TV series.
MAUDE
Writer/Director: Anna Margaret Hollyman | Producer: Bettina Brown | USA / 2018 / 10 min / Narrative
An insecure woman babysitting a former classmate’s daughter ends up pretending to be someone she is not.
MOTHER, MOTHER
Writer/Director: Robert Machoian | Director: Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck | Producer: Laura Heberton | USA / 2018 / 16 min / Narrative
A mother takes an overnight getaway.
HAIRCUT
Writer/Director/Producer: David Brundige | USA / 2018 / 7 min / Narrative
Josh and Lindsey face a relationship-defining test when Lindsey gets an ultra-short cut.
SECOND BEST
Writer/Director/Producer: Alyssa McClelland | Writer: Simone Moessinger | USA / 2017 / 20 min / Narrative
Twins Velika and Nouchka are isolated by their mother's high expectations for Nouchka's budding gymnastics career.
DON'T BE A HERO
Writer/Director: Pete Lee | USA / 2018 / 15 min / Narrative
In order to get over her depression, a woman decides to dresses up as a cowboy and rob banks.
LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL
Writers/Directors: Elizabeth Beecherl, Carla Patullo | Writer: Jennifer Maisel | USA / 2018 / 10 min
Before Walt Disney, there was Lotte Reiniger, a pioneering German artist who created the first animated feature film.
I LOVE YOUR F*CKING NAME
Director: Finn O’Hara | Canada / 2017 / 8 min
People discuss the trials and joys they have experienced because of their unusual or famous names.
SUPER 8 DAZE
Directors: John Morgan, Rob Hampton | USA / 2018 / 14 min
Capsule: Two 1970s teenagers (now grown up) recount childhood filmmaking adventures and how their mini-blockbusters found a new audience decades later.
EMPIRE ON MAIN STREET
Director: Jessica Congdon| USA / 2018 / 24 min
Capsule: An entrepreneur struggles with the the amount of work her success brings.
SPACESAVERS
Director: Sarah Ginsburg | USA / 2018 / 4 min
When it snows, Boston residents respond to threats to parking spaces with subconscious self-expression.
THE WATER SLIDE
Director: Nathan Truesdell | USA / 2018 / 9 min
In Kansas, Libertarian-leaning politicians fast-track the world’s largest slide.
HOMELESS: THE SOUNDTRACK
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky | USA / 2018 / 26 min
Thirty years after being taken away from her parents by the state, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert searches for her biological father.
UZMA THE GREATEST
Writer/Director: Christopher Hawthorne | USA / 2017 / 7 min
After getting in a fight with her spouse, a woman goes on a grand adventure.
CHEER UP BABY
Writer/Director: Adinah Dancyger | USA / 2017 / 13 min
After Anna falls asleep on the subway, she is woken up by a stranger.
THE OFF SEASON
Writer/Director: Tucker Pearson | USA / 2018 / 16 min
During winter in Nantucket, two young men steal pieces of art from unoccupied homes.
SALAM
Writer/Director: Claire Fowler | USA / 2018 / 13 min
A female Lyft driver has to navigate the night shift in New York while waiting to hear news from Syria.
ATLANTIC CITY
Writer/Director: Miguel Alvarez | USA / 2018 / 15 min
Two men work odd jobs throughout Texas as one longs to see his estranged mother. With Raúl Castillo (also starring in We the Animals.
OKAASAN (MOM)
Writer/Director/Producer: Kana Hatakeyama | USA-Japan / 2018 / 18 min
A mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.
EMERGENCY
Writer: K.D. Dávila | Director: Carey Williams | USA / 2018 / 12 min
Faced with an emergency situation, a group of young black and Latino friends carefully weigh the pros and cons of calling the police.
LOSER LEAVES TOWN
Writer/Director: Mark Nickelsburg | Writer: Eric Johnson | USA / 2018 / 12 min / Narrative
Eleven-year-old luchador El Valiente draws on his rich imagination to navigate the toughest weekend of his life.
FRUITS OF CLOUDS
Writer/Director: Kateřina Karhánková | Czech Republic / 2017 / 11 min / Animated
A little tuft makes a great discovery by overcoming its fear of the unknown.
POLES APART
Writer/Director: Paloma Baeza | UK / 2017 / 12 min / Animated
In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide whether a naïve grizzly bear is her food or her friend. Featuring the voice of Helena Bonham Carter.
THE POCKET MAN
Writer/Director: Ana Chubinidze | France-Switzerland-Georgia / 2017 / 8 min / Animated
A little man who lives in an old suitcase finds a new friend.
ANT
Writer/Director: Julia Ocker | Germany / 2017 / 4 min / Animated
The ants are working together, but one is doing everything differently.
LION
Writer/Director: Julia Ocker | Germany / 2017 / 4 min / Animated
The lion has to get more physically fit, but the gazelle does not think he is capable of doing so.
IF YOU FALL
Writer/Director: Tisha Deb Pillai | Canada-India / 2017 / 6 min / Animated
Eight-year-old Lila takes on the daunting task of learning how to cycle as she faces an unfamiliar parental role-reversal at home
I THINK MY DAD'S A SUPERHERO
Writer: Butch Hartman | Director: Joseph Barton | USA / 2018 / 9 min / Narrative
After nine-year-old Kevin begins to suspect that his dad is the town superhero, he sets out to capture him on video to prove his theory.
UNDISCOVERED
Writer/Director: Sara Litzenberger | USA / 2017 / 3 min / Narrative
Sasquatch has always remained elusive, but not for the reasons we think.
SIDELINED
Director: Galen Summer | USA / 2018 / 40 min / Documentary
The sisterhood of the San Diego Chargettes sweep the nation, then are ultimately destroyed by lies from management after posing nude for Playboy.
END GAME
Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | USA / 2018 / 40 min / Documentary
Terminally ill patients meet extraordinary medical practitioners seeking to change our approach to life and death.
HAIR WOLF
Writer/Director: Mariama Diallo | USA / 2018 / 12 min / Narrative
The staff of a black hair salon fends off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
MY DEAD DAD'S PORNO TAPES
Writer/Director: Charlie Tyrell | Writer: Josef Beeby | Canada / 2018 / 14 min / Documentary
The filmmaker tries to better understand his deceased father through random objects he inherited, including a pile of dirty movies.
WHILE I YET LIVE
Writer/Director: Maris Curran | USA / 2018 / 15 min / Documentary
Filmmaker Maris Curran explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African-American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.
MANIVALD
Writer/Director: Chintis Lundgren | Writer: Draško Ivezić | Canada / 2017 / 13 min / Animated
Hot young plumber Toomas disrupts the harmonious life of Manivald and his retired mother.
A GENTLE NIGHT
Writer/Director: Yang Qiu China / 2017 / 15 min / Narrative
In a nameless Chinese city, a mother whose daughter is missing refuses to go gentle into this good night.
CAROLINE
Writers/Directors: Logan George, Celine Held | USA / 2018 / 12 min / Narrative
When plans fall through, a 6-year-old is faced with a big responsibility on a hot Texas day.
THE DRIVER IS RED
Writer/Director: Randall Christopher | USA / 2017 / 15 min / Animated
Set in Argentina in 1960, this true crime documentary follows secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he searches for a mysterious man named Ricardo Klement.
BAO
Writer/Director: Domee Shi | USA / 2018 / 8 min / Animated
In this Disney*Pixar film, an aging mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly boy.
Screening before Incredibles 2.
BOY BOY GIRL GIRL
Writer/Director: Ross Kauffman | Writer: Addie Morfoot | USA / 2018 / 11 min / Narrative
A gay couple try to adopt a newborn baby from a drug-addicted pregnant woman (Katie Holmes) and her abusive, criminal girlfriend.
Screening before 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up.
FIRED UP!
Directors: Dan Fipphen, Elyse Kelly | USA-Colombia-Israel / 2017 / 3 min / Animated
The origin of Obama’s famed “Fired up, ready to go!” chant.
Screening before Our New President.
NEGATIVE SPACE
Writers/Directors: Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata | France / 2017 / 6 min / Animated
A nostalgic look at a traveling businessman father and his complicated relationship with the son he often leaves behind.
Screening before Eighth Grade.
THE SHIFT
Director: Elivia Shaw | USA / 2017 / 9 min / Documentary
A slice-of-life look at shift workers at a 911 call center in San Francisco.
Screening before Roll Red Roll.
TEA PARTY
Writer/Director: Emily Shesh | USA / 2018 / 12 min / Narrative
Months before their first day of high school, best girlfriends embark on a game of truth or dare that threatens their bond.
Screening before Unlovable.
THIS NEW SEA
Director: Jamie Drew | UK / 2017 / 3 min / Documentary
NASA archival footage reveals space travel as an inherent part of human nature.
Screening before Above and Beyond.
DINNER PARTY
Project Creators: Angel Manuel Soto, Charlotte Stoudt,
Laura Wexler | Key Collaborators: Rachel Skidmore, Bryn Mooser, Erik Donley | USA / 2018 / 13 min / Narrative
A thriller adaptation of a UFO abduction story recounted by husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill to friends and authorities.
THE DREAM COLLECTOR
Project Creator: Li Mi | China / 2017 / 11 min / Animated
An old man and an optimistic dog live in a garbage dump, picking up abandoned garbage day after day, year after year.
FIRE ESCAPE
Project Creators: Vassiliki Khonsari, Navid Khonsari,
Andres Perez-Duarte, Sam Butin | Key Collaborators: Lulu LaMer, Maria Essig | USA / 2018 / 20 min / Narrative
When the clock strikes eight, a suspenseful drama begins to unfold in real time. Peer into the private lives of eight disenfranchised tenants entangled in a murder.
GREENLAND MELTING
Writers/Directors: Catherine Upin, Nonny de la Peña
Writers: Julia Cort, Caitlin Saks, Carla Borras | USA / 2017 / 13 min / Documentary
Experience being in Greenland—standing in the water in front of a glacier, flying at low altitudes over some of the world’s most stunning scenery, and diving beneath the ocean’s surface.
INTO THE NOW
Project Creator: Michael Muller | Key Collaborators: Michael Smith, Morne Hardenberg | USA / 2018 / 10 min / Documentary
A unique look at our oceans and the creatures that reside in them.
THE JOURNEY
Writer/Director: Charlotte Mikkelborg | USA-Germany / 2018 / 10 min / Documentary
In Ethiopia, 3-year-old Aminai is trying to find enough food and water to survive the worst drought in 30 years; 10-year-old Changkouth in South Sudan is trying to get an education and avoid being recruited as a child soldier; and 18-year-old Mani in Chad is ostracized by her community because she is living with HIV, but determined to change minds.
KINOSCOPE
Project Creators: Clement Léotard, Philippe Collin | France / 2017 / 10 min / Narrative
Have you ever dreamed of traveling to the cinema? Immerse
yourself in the masterpieces of the seventh art.
MY AFRICA
Project Creators: Conservation International, Passion Planet, Vision3 | Key Collaborator: The Tiffany & Co. Foundation | USA-UK / 2018 / 9 min / Documentary
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o,
My Africa transports viewers to an elephant sanctuary in Kenya.
REVOKED
Project Creator: Stevo Chang | Cast: Kally Khourshid, Holly Rone, Natalie Erickson, Steve Froehlich, Jon Maxwell | USA / 2018 /
15-30 min / Narrative
In a not-too-distant American dystopian future, the president revokes the green cards of all Iranian-born U.S. permanent residents. Jane Manesh must flee or face deportation.
TAKE EVERY WAVE: LAIRD IN VR
Writer: Tarik Benbrahim | Director: Elijah Allan-Blitz | USA / 2018 /
4 min / Documentary
Join Laird Hamilton and friends as they chase perfection in the form of eight- to ten-foot waves stretching over a mile long, where rides up to six minutes become normal atop an innovatively designed hydrofoil surfboard.
UTURN
Writer/Director: Ryan Lynch | Project Creator/Director: Nathalie Mathe | Project Creator: Justin Chin | USA / 2017 / 10 min / Narrative
What happens when a young female coder joins a male-dominated floundering startup that’s deep in an identity crisis?
WE'RE STILL HERE
Writer/Director: Jesse Ayala | Writer: Connor Lonning | USA / 2018 / 3 min / Documentary
Aiden ShortCloud, a Two-Spirit artist and historian in Boise, Idaho, struggles to preserve and revive his heritage in a race against time.