
THURSDAY JULY 24, 10:00 PM
PROGRAM 51

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.