TUESDAY AUGUST 4, 3:15 PM
PROGRAM 26
Laemmle NOHO

Flora
USA | Drama | 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Sam Zheng
Producer: Wenqin Ni
Cast: Juliette Cecile, Kyle Mac
After a terrible miscarriage renders her infertile, Flora falls in love with a mysterious botanist who promises her fertility through the power of flowers, only for her to stumble upon a disturbingly twisted secret.

A Blooming of IVY
USA | Drama | 22 minutes
Director: Jeff Prater
Writer: Garry Williams
Producer: Jeff Prater, Garry Williams
Cast: Shane Stirling, Jeff Prater
Ivy and George are old friends, both widowed and living on neighboring farms. Ivy has raised her children and farmed the land by herself for the last twenty years. George, who lost his wife a year ago, wakes this first morning of Spring to the sound of Ivy’s tractor and realizes it’s time to let love bloom again. It really is a beautiful little love story with a lot of funny moments and every emotion, even IVY's being "a little mad about that".

Ghosts of '45
USA | Drama | 19 minutes
Director: Jonathan Heap
Writer: Gary Landi
Producer: Ben Maccabee, Jonathan Heap, Sal Landi
Cast: Sal Landi, Caroline Lagerfelt, Jennifer Olsberg
Set in 1970s America, Ghosts of ’45 follows Joseph Weiss, a stern 70-year-old man living a quiet life under a carefully constructed identity. He shares a modest home with his “daughter” Anna, and her young daughter, Sophie. When Joseph first encounters an elderly woman named Mrs. Hirsch - her unsettling familiarity suggests a connection he cannot fully place.

Girl | Dad
USA | Drama | 20 minutes
Director/Writer: Lianzi Fields
Producer: Rachel Eck
Cast: Sherry Cola, Chris Tallman
Decades after an eccentric father builds his adopted Chinese daughter a playhouse to shield her from a world that won't accept her, dementia forces her to become the architect of his fading memory.

Toss Up
USA | Drama | 14 minutes
Director/Writer: Anna Katherine Scanlon
Producer: Anna Katherine Scanlon, Lauren Byers, Regan Hill
Cast: Alex Sarrigeorgiou, Kevin Carolan, Alan Starzinski
An outsider political candidate battles corrupt forces when her election is called for a recount.
