SUNDAY
JULY 24, 7:45PM
PROGRAM 18
SHORTLIST
The Family Meeting
USA / Comedy / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Rebecca Usoro
Producer: Uzo Aduba, Susanna Fogel, Margaret Riley, Ogechi Echebiri, Leo Blumberg-Woll
Cast: Rebecca Usoro, Georgina Elizabeth Okon, Chet Anekwe, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Okieriete Onaodowan
A Christmas family meeting in a Nigerian household forces a grandmother and granddaughter to face their fears about growing old and growing up.
Murder in Monte Nido
USA / Drama / 8 minutes
Director/Writer: Bonnie Foster
Producer: Michael Valinsky
Cast: Lotus Bech, David Lee Smith
There's a killer targeting sex-traffickers on the loose, and the murderer is closer than this Malibu couple thinks.
What Wilderness Permits
USA / Comedy / 16 minutes
Director: Joel Marsh
Writer: Mike Leavitt
Producer: Mike Leavitt
Cast: Galen Howard, Claire Glassford, Brendan Sargent, Ted Le Plat
After losing his dream job as a Park Ranger to government funding cuts, Russ McCoy slips into madness when he meets a city slicking couple backpacking for the first time.
Morning Into Night
USA / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Joanna Gleason
Producer: Sean Akers, Tim Kirkman, Todd Shotz, Kelly Woyan, Chris Sarandon
Cast: Anne Keefe, Aleta Mitchell, Patricia Kalember, Brennan Brown
A family gathers as their mother is dying and tries to convince their father that it is time to say goodbye.
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S.Q.A.G. Short Quiet Asian Girl
USA / Comedy / 8 minutes
Director/Writer: Benedict Chiu
Producer: Grant Singer, Emily Kim
Cast: Tricia Fukuhara, Kristian Flores
A SQAG (short quiet asian girl), in a desperate effort to upend her anonymity, disguises as another student to take a test in her place.
Güicho
USA / Drama / 13 minutes
Director/Writer: Hugo Arvizu
Producer: Hugo Arvizu, Marcos Pugliese, Ana Sierra
Cast: Juan Benítez, Armando Heredia, Lydiana Guzmán
As a consequence of his actions, Güicho finds himself in the middle of a drug war he can’t run away from.
Chimera
USA / Horror / 13 minutes
Director/Writer: Justin Hughes
Producer: Matthew Koss
Cast: Elizabeth Arends, Hudson Hilsman, Darian Michael Garey
A stressed single mother enlists a psychiatrist to help with her troubled teenage son's behavioral issues, but she soon discovers a deeper, darker secret lurking inside him.
A Future In Question
USA / Drama / 12 minutes
Director: Chris Wilson Orr
Writer: Shaun Graham
Producer: Chris Orr
Cast: Angus Benfield, Christie Nicholls, Melody Peng, Christopher Callen, Acacia Fisher
A man questions his partners future on a romantic first date but soon realizes his future is the one in question.