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THURSDAY JULY 24, 10:00 PM 
PROGRAM 51

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Beyond the Glass
USA | Drama | 21 minutes
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Director/Writer: Amanda Yuchen Huang

Producer: Dmitri Logan

Cast: Sofia Lopez

As Veronika’s life is falling apart, she encounters a talking goldfish that promises to help her realize a wish if she takes it to the sea.

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4 Graves For Ximena
USA | Action | 7 minutes
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Director/Writer: Jordan Santacana

Producer: Jordan Santacana

Cast: Angela Elliston

While mourning at a grave, Ximena is confronted by uninvited guests with a chilling proposition: to reunite her with the one she’s lost—by any means necessary.

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The Vanity
USA | Drama | 15 minutes
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Director: Megan Rosati

Writer: Evan Watkins

Producer: Muffy Morton, Nick Ray McCan, Eli Ash

Cast: Megan Rosati, Evan Watkins, Geoff Ross

In the near future, a young couple makes their living as influencers for a new social media platform: THE VANITY. But when THE VANITY upgrades to AI, the horrific visions it shows forces them to decide what matters most: their online following, or each other.

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A Drive at Dawn
USA | Horror | 7 minutes
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Director/Writer: Joe D'Ovidio

Producer: Erika N. Ewing, Catherine Taylor

Cast: Eric Lampaert, Joseph Williams

Three men drive into the desert at night to wrestle with an unspeakable evil.

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Love Eternal
USA | Drama | 13 minutes
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Director/Writer: Dominic Czarnota

Producer: Natasa Eleftheriou

Cast: Anthony Sayo, Anika Kulander, Brooke Bayer

LOVE ETERNAL is a short sci-fi drama film that deals with love, grief, and our relationship with technology. The film is about a widowed husband who becomes obsessed with a virtual reality simulation where his deceased wife has been recreated as a digital avatar.

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Crash
USA | Horror | 10 minutes
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Director/Writer: Giulia Mucciarelli

Cast: Joseph Lopez, Robert Slotnick

Set against the haunting notes of a familiar Prelude, CRASH is a psychological thriller about the destructive force of repressed trauma, the fragility of memory, and the merciless grip of guilt. Dr. Oliver Thorne—a respected psychiatrist—struggles with nightmares from a car crash that claimed his brother’s life.

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How Do You Dream
USA | Drama | 14 minutes
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Director/Writer: Shomari Dunham

Producer: Mason White, Hazel Siff, Kira Robins

Cast: Rylee Singer, Maximilian Seed, Lestonja Diaz

Parker, whose life has become a hellish cycle of withdrawals, is completely dependent on her drug dealing boyfriend Scott. Every attempt she makes to regain normalcy leads her deeper down a pit of despair, as she realizes how hopeless her life has become.

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The Diamond Rose
USA | Romance | 8 minutes
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Director: Scott Mansur Brown

Writer: Alys Murray, Stacy Howard

Producer: Scott Mansur Brown, Stacy Howard

Cast: Jackson Tiller, Jasmine Aivliotis

On a mission to elevate what vertical dramas can be, The Diamond Rose follow a soft-spoken ballet teacher steps into the seductive world of an elite strip club to save her comatose father from a brutal debt. In doing so, she collides with a dangerous man who sees everything she’s trying to hide.

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Devil's Prism
USA | Horror | 11 minutes
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Director: Kika Magalhães

Writer: Kika Magalhães, Chris Marrone

Producer: Kika Magalhães, Chris Marrone, Jessica Sanders

Cast: Emma Raimi, Jasmine Akakpo, Kika Magalhães

Shown entirely from Gabi's perspective, the film follows a thief who joins her friends for a routine heist which finds her in an unsettling encounter with a mysterious object that unleashes a dark entity, taking possession of her.

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