THURSDAY
JULY 21, 1:00PM
PROGRAM 1
SHORTLIST

Unlimited World
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
Director: Peter Falls
Writer: Caroline Falls
Producer: Carrie Finn, Daniel Jaffe, Peter Falls, Caroline Falls
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Peter Falls, Esteban Carmona, Harper Cullen
A young woman in a codependent relationship is confronted with a difficult decision after moving into a new apartment.

Glafira
USA / Drama / 12 minutes
Director/Writer: Eric Armando Ibarra
Producer: Alexandria E. Martin
Cast: Christian Ibarra, Elizabeth Lamboy - Wilson
Tony, (Chicano, 25) travels down to Ensenada, Mexico to reconnect with his grandmother through her swap meet endeavors forcing him to revisit his childhood memories of her.

Mom
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
Director/Writer: Shannon Lucio
Producer: Shannon Lucio, Charlie Hofheimer, Berman Fenelus
Cast: Shannon Lucio, Spencer Harte
Elizabeth’s developmentally disabled sister Mary had a breakdown and ran away from home into a freezing Denver winter. She’s just been found and institutionalized, but their parents refuse to help. Elizabeth puts life in Los Angeles on hold, traveling home to see Mary.

Hooky
USA / Drama / 18 minutes
Director: Steve Curley
Writer: Anne Carmack
Producer: Adee Zach
Cast: Tommi Rose, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Colter Ford
On the first day back from the COVID lockdown, two high school students make a last minute decision to ditch class. But before leaving the school grounds they befriend a troubled classmate and unwittingly prevent a potential tragedy.

Red Gaia
USA / Sci-Fi, Animation, Experimental / 13 minutes
Director/Writer: Udesh Chetty
Producer: Udesh Chetty
Cast: Natasha Loring
Red Gaia is a tone-poem meditation on life, death and rebirth, destruction and creation and the cycles of existence, drawing inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita, Dante's Purgatorio, the Kabballah, the Tibetan Bardol Thodol as well as the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

Block-D
USA / Drama / 11 minutes
Director: Jason Farrand
Writer: Ryan Rowe
Producer: Joan Burney Keatings MBE, Sean Barney, Jennifer Hengst
Cast: Armani Barrett, Grace Edwards, Ali Alejandra
BLOCK-D tells the parallel stories of two teen students, Ramone and Annabelle, each fighting against their physical manifestations of depression. Ramone fights a dark and imposing “THING” that only he is aware of, while Annabelle struggles with a THING of her own – a girl, unseen by others, who mocks her constantly and won’t leave her alone.