THURSDAY
JULY 21, 3:15PM
PROGRAM 2
SHORTLIST

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USA / Drama / 10 minutes
Director: Roy Huang
Writer: Patrick Lota
Producer: Patrick Lota
Cast: Jude Lota, Solomon Huang, Jane Lota, Peirce Thompson
Kai is a basketball star, popular kid and all around social media darling. While his younger brother looks up to him and yearns to be exactly like him, it leads to one disappointment after another as Kai has no patience for his younger sibling. After an accident keeps Kai off the court, he finds the true meaning of brotherhood and re-evaluates who his true friends are.

As The Tide Comes In
USA / Drama / 8 minutes
Director/Writer: Keana Issartel
Producer: Keana Issartel
Cast: Keana Issartel, E.J Bonilla, Nick Krause
As the Tide Comes in' is a silent film that explores the puzzling in-betweens moving from a toxic relationship into a healthy one, and all of the resistance that comes with that. "I felt it important to depict this film with no dialogue (and to reach across all borders) to truly represent all of the feelings and emotions that we can't express with words, but rather through heightening of the senses and experience."

Take Care
USA / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Myra Aquino
Producer: Myra Aquino, Ceren Bulca
Cast: Roxy Shabestari, Christy St. John, Andre Jackson, Intae Kim, Camille James Harman
A resident fatally overdoses on fentanyl in the call room of a busy county hospital, and her hospital team struggles to respond in the aftermath.

Wild Braid
USA / Drama / 13 minutes
Director: Yasmine Diba
Writer: Medalion Rahimi
Producer: Hannah Perko-Engel, Medalion Rahimi
Cast: Medalion Rahimi, Mojean Aria
A traditional western storyline of an unsuspecting femme fatale but with Middle Eastern undertones as we follow Golnaz, a lonesome girl in a dead end job with no prospects for the future. She meets a handsome traveler, Darius, headed for the big city.

Daughters
USA / Drama / 9 minutes
Director/Writer: Jess Berry
Producer: Jess Berry
Cast: Jess Berry, Janae Berry
Home for a birthday visit with her family, a career-driven daughter must come to terms with the heart-breaking differences she has with her beloved mother.

Hang Up
USA / Drama / 9 minutes
Director/Writer: Tsarina Merrin
Producer: Tsarina Merrin
Cast: Tsarina Merrin, Al Merrin, Sandy Sabean, Blu Detiger
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Hummingbird
USA / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Lindsey E. Gary
Producer: Andrew J. Amato, Lindsey E. Gary, Tyler Nelson
Cast: Stella Maeve, Ella Grace Helton, Chistopher Allen
Over one disorienting evening, Rosa discovers that her daughter has developed unusual abilities that threaten the harmony of her perfect family, and the world at large.

The Courier
USA / Drama / 12 minutes
Director/Writer: Jon Robben, Zach Wiegmann
Cast: Elyse Mirto, Jon Robben
A motorcycle courier is invited into a woman's home to learn about an important delivery.