
MONDAY JULY 24, 3:15PM
PROGRAM 23
SHORTLIST

Career Day
USA / Drama / 10 minutes
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Director: Jason Robinson, Chris Hooper
Writer: Jason Robinson
Producer: Jason Robinson, Chris Hooper
Cast: Paul Bartholomew
A once promising 90's pop star and his boy band reunite for his daughter's elementary school Career Day and go viral.

Dadu
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
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Director/Writer: Raghav Puri
Producer: Rajeev Colton
Cast: Brian George, Rishan Dhamija, Joyce Greenleaf
Dadu follows a grouchy old Indian man determined to go for a walk in the park. More to spite his grandson, and less to really walk. A ‘sort of’ love story between willing and reluctant lovers, within and across generations.

Xiao Bing
USA / Drama / 10 minutes
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Director/Writer: Yawen Yang
Producer: Yawen Yang, Bohan Yang
Cast: Leming Zhu, Ling Zhi, Callie Walker
After the failure of assimilating into her friend's American party, Bing starts to rethink her relationship with her grandmother, Juan.

Sammy
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
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Director/Writer: Sam Syrett
Producer: Kasey James
Cast: Trevor Lown, Keiva Bradley, Wesley Dean Korbein
Sammy is struggling with his manhood due to his awkward and doomed relationship while simultaneously witnessing his Dad, who he lives with, have success on dating apps.

Dude, Where's My Doubles?
USA / Drama / 17 minutes
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Director/Writer: Kevin Samir Ramlal
Producer: Peter Tran
Cast: Aryaan Ohri, Karan Menon
Two friends search through Los Angeles's expansive food scenes in search of doubles, a Trinidadian street food.

Saturday Night
USA / Drama / 5 minutes
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Director/Writer: Michael C Perry
Producer: Ian Matthews
Cast: Madeline Underwood, Reggie Valdez
What is a blank canvas if not anything we desire it to be? What is silence if not the blank canvas to the composer, the empty room to the dancer, or the sunrise to the living?

Cover Up
USA / Drama / 12 minutes
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Director/Writer: Ember Rain Condron
Producer: Coraline Yang Kong
Cast: Laur Allen, Katrina Sherwood, Eddie Alfano
In 1997 New York, while tattooing is still illegal under a 30 year ban, Bonnie, an underground tattoo artist offers solace to another woman after she makes an appointment to cover the scar her significant other gave her.

Reality Dad
USA / Comedy / 8 minutes
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Director: Charlene deGuzman
Writer: Josh Marcus, Charlene deGuzman
Producer: Megan Rosati, Josh Marcus, Charlene deGuzman
Cast: Josh Marcus, Ava Gulick, Charlene deGuzman
After a single father is eliminated from America’s most famous reality dating show, he must explain to his young daughter why he didn’t bring home a “new mommy” like he promised.