Complete event listing for
Narrative Shorts Competition
Saturday, March 9
"Sequin Raze" - starring Anna Camp (Mad Men, True Blood), Ashley Williams and Frances Conroy(Six Feet Under) explores the twisted mental anguish of ‘Goldberg’, a jaded, once-feminist producer on a hit reality show, as sh…
The audition tape of an actor who goes to great lengths to get the part.…
After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creates a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.…
An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child.…
Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a coup…
"#PostModem" is a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a …
When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager, finds out that his biggest investor may be pulling out of the fund, his world begins to collapse on him, as he juggles fatherhood, his ex-wife, and one very big secret.…
An eleven year old boy uses the discarded objects he finds around the windswept seaside community he has just arrived at to make a kite. Despite strong winds and a dogged persistence he can’t make the kite fly. He befrie…
Kelly, a female entrepreneur, gives personal advice and insight into business and beauty. She finds motivation in her personal experiences and in her role model Mary Kay.…
An elderly couple seeks to make their relationship more adventurous. When they find an abandoned trailer the couple decides that breaking and entering will be the perfect beginning to an adventure. Upon making the abando…
After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that "Necronomica" will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to…
"Si Nos Dejan" is a love story flooded with good intentions and missed connections.…
A pig farmer tests his unemployed son’s resolve to join the family business.…
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.…
Sunday, March 10
A young woman's relationship takes a dark turn when every sound her boyfriend makes starts to annoy her.…
She wants to go. He wants her to stay. Neither gets exactly what they want.…
Sitting on her bed in a run-down rest home, Dotty is desperate to send a text message to her daughter. When her morning cup of tea arrives, Dotty manages to rope someone else into her long battle with technology.…
Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships. Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Ham…
"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-…
In the Weston’s 45-year marriage, John controlled his submissive wife, Sheila, until one day, she had finally had enough. After months of separation and in the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his…
A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.…
With a hurricane threatening to destroy her way of life, "When We Lived in Miami" is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Stylistically similar to Seimetz's critical…
Monday, March 11
A father with restricted custody kidnaps his 20 month-old son to take him on a road-trip.…
Where lies that ineffable line that separates our past from our future? "Chiralia" is a film about the perplexing vastness of our experience as we drift in the imperceptible streams of time.The disappearance of a child t…
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash.…
The audition tape of an actor who goes to great lengths to get the part.…
After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creates a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.…
An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child.…
Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a coup…
"#PostModem" is a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a …
"Sequin Raze" - starring Anna Camp (Mad Men, True Blood), Ashley Williams and Frances Conroy(Six Feet Under) explores the twisted mental anguish of ‘Goldberg’, a jaded, once-feminist producer on a hit reality show, as sh…
When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager, finds out that his biggest investor may be pulling out of the fund, his world begins to collapse on him, as he juggles fatherhood, his ex-wife, and one very big secret.…
An eleven year old boy uses the discarded objects he finds around the windswept seaside community he has just arrived at to make a kite. Despite strong winds and a dogged persistence he can’t make the kite fly. He befrie…
Kelly, a female entrepreneur, gives personal advice and insight into business and beauty. She finds motivation in her personal experiences and in her role model Mary Kay.…
An elderly couple seeks to make their relationship more adventurous. When they find an abandoned trailer the couple decides that breaking and entering will be the perfect beginning to an adventure. Upon making the abando…
After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that "Necronomica" will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to…
"Si Nos Dejan" is a love story flooded with good intentions and missed connections.…
A pig farmer tests his unemployed son’s resolve to join the family business.…
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.…
Tuesday, March 12
Sitting on her bed in a run-down rest home, Dotty is desperate to send a text message to her daughter. When her morning cup of tea arrives, Dotty manages to rope someone else into her long battle with technology.…
Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships. Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Ham…
"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-…
In the Weston’s 45-year marriage, John controlled his submissive wife, Sheila, until one day, she had finally had enough. After months of separation and in the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his…
A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.…
She wants to go. He wants her to stay. Neither gets exactly what they want.…
With a hurricane threatening to destroy her way of life, "When We Lived in Miami" is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Stylistically similar to Seimetz's critical…
Wednesday, March 13
A father with restricted custody kidnaps his 20 month-old son to take him on a road-trip.…
Where lies that ineffable line that separates our past from our future? "Chiralia" is a film about the perplexing vastness of our experience as we drift in the imperceptible streams of time.The disappearance of a child t…
An eleven year old boy uses the discarded objects he finds around the windswept seaside community he has just arrived at to make a kite. Despite strong winds and a dogged persistence he can’t make the kite fly. He befrie…
Kelly, a female entrepreneur, gives personal advice and insight into business and beauty. She finds motivation in her personal experiences and in her role model Mary Kay.…
An elderly couple seeks to make their relationship more adventurous. When they find an abandoned trailer the couple decides that breaking and entering will be the perfect beginning to an adventure. Upon making the abando…
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash.…
After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that "Necronomica" will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to…
"Si Nos Dejan" is a love story flooded with good intentions and missed connections.…
A pig farmer tests his unemployed son’s resolve to join the family business.…
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.…
The audition tape of an actor who goes to great lengths to get the part.…
After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creates a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.…
An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child.…
Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a coup…
"#PostModem" is a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a …
"Sequin Raze" - starring Anna Camp (Mad Men, True Blood), Ashley Williams and Frances Conroy(Six Feet Under) explores the twisted mental anguish of ‘Goldberg’, a jaded, once-feminist producer on a hit reality show, as sh…
When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager, finds out that his biggest investor may be pulling out of the fund, his world begins to collapse on him, as he juggles fatherhood, his ex-wife, and one very big secret.…
Friday, March 15
Sitting on her bed in a run-down rest home, Dotty is desperate to send a text message to her daughter. When her morning cup of tea arrives, Dotty manages to rope someone else into her long battle with technology.…
Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships. Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Ham…
"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-…
In the Weston’s 45-year marriage, John controlled his submissive wife, Sheila, until one day, she had finally had enough. After months of separation and in the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his…
A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.…
She wants to go. He wants her to stay. Neither gets exactly what they want.…
With a hurricane threatening to destroy her way of life, "When We Lived in Miami" is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Stylistically similar to Seimetz's critical…
A father with restricted custody kidnaps his 20 month-old son to take him on a road-trip.…
Where lies that ineffable line that separates our past from our future? "Chiralia" is a film about the perplexing vastness of our experience as we drift in the imperceptible streams of time.The disappearance of a child t…
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash.…