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SATURDAY JULY 22, 5:30PM 
PROGRAM 14

SHORTLIST
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Lucky Market
USA / Drama / 13 minutes

Director: Eric Wang Schwager

Writer: Eric Wang Schwager, Rebecca Leo

Producer: Zixin Zhang, Brenden Hubbard

Cast: Chindera Che, Harmony He, Chen Tang

On her last day at work, an elderly grocery store owner decides she cannot leave the community she loves, until a violent racial attack changes her perspective.

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A Mind Cannot Touch
USA / Drama / 15 minutes

Director/Writer: Geoffrey Prather

Producer: Geoffrey Prather, Clare O'Connor, Eric Toms

Cast: Paget Kagy, Ai-Chan "Love" Carrier, David Stanbra

A Mind Cannot Touch is a short film about loss and how one grieving mother will go to any lengths to bring her daughter back from the dead.

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Carol, Roberta, and Teri
USA / Drama/ 11 minutes

Director/Writer: Dana Silverman

Producer: Dana Silverman

Cast: Julie Brett, Mandalynn Carlson, Joey Jupiter-Levin

History comes between three generations of women during the cooking of a family meal.

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Chicken and Duck Talk
USA / Drama / 14 minutes

Director/Writer: Dan Qiao

Producer: Dan Qiao

Cast: Richie Fusco, Joy Wang

Expecting to solve the remaining problem in the class, a strong opinion girl goes to her cultured professor’s studio to have a consultation. They're about to engage in the different point of views conversation between East and West.

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Ready
USA / Drama / 15 minutes

Director/Writer: Kirby

Producer: Kirby, Daniel Smith Coleman

Cast: Kirby, Larry C. Fields III, Ayden Mayeri

A millennial couple faces a pregnancy scare and reality of what possibly having a child means, whilst simultaneously preparing for a co-worker's baby shower that they agreed to host weeks before.

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A Conflict
USA / Drama / 5 minutes

Director/Writer: Alex Jiang

Producer: Alex Jiang, Ciao Zhao

Cast: Ima Djie, Andrew Ge, Tommy Beardmore

When two Asian American theater actors joins a Chinese adaptation of Macbeth, they have to put up with the White director’s excessive oriental obsession.

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Savage Dawn
USA / Drama / 9 minutes

Director: Tamiah Bantum

Writer: Jessica Rookeward

Producer: Jessica Rookeward, Travis Leland

Cast: Jessica Rookeward, Lee Cohen

Tom Havis' life has been torn apart by a mysterious killer. Out for revenge, he stumbles upon a young woman whose secrets may just be the answers to his hunt.

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Ella and the Ghost
USA / Drama / 13 minutes

Director/Writer: Clara Gil

Producer: Whitney Cunningham

Cast: Elizabeth Wolfinger, Andrea Bilkian, Thomas Park

A hardworking college student's routine life gets thrown into disarray by the sudden appearance of a ghost. Despite the pressure of school, work and the taboo nature of interacting with ghosts, they form an unlikely friendship that prompts Ella to process the death of her father.

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