
TUESDAY JULY 25, 5:30PM
PROGRAM 29
SHORTLIST

Nuestra Santa Lucia
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
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Director: Paul Tully
Writer: Norma Fatima Flores
Producer: Norma Flores, Paul Tully
Cast: Janelle Marie Rodriguez, Wilson Ramirez, Cynthia Quiles
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The Grass is Greener
USA / Drama / 8 minutes
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Director/Writer: Quinlan Donovan-Schager
Producer: Chuck Sterling, Nori Matsushita, Quinlan Donovan-Schager
Cast: Yavor Vesselinov, Jayd Swendseid
The heir to a billion dollar family business goes to low places to abandon his stressful life.

In Her Ear
USA / Drama / 15 minutes
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Director/Writer: Kelsey Siepser
Producer: Ciaran Vejby
Cast: Hope Lauren
Lou and Marcel are two creative thirty-somethings who have a loving marriage and are newly expectant parents. Although Lou has mixed feelings about her newly changing body, she has already bought every book on pregnancy while Marcel lives in the moment.

A Karaoke Space Odyssey
USA / Comedy / 16 minutes
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Director: Achim Mendoza
Writer: Achim Mendoza, Bobbie Green
Producer: Sayali Upadhye, Bobbie Green
Cast: Hazel Lozano, Alex Blue Davis, Iya Baclagan
In this sci-fi rom-com karaoke musical, Stella, an undocumented Filipino once known as her town's karaoke queen, goes on a karaoke date with a strange man who turns out to be an alien from outer space.

Lucy’s Last Song
USA / Drama / 21 minutes
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Director/Writer: Raul Rosco Guerrero
Producer: Robert Craighead
Cast: Brea Bee, Robert Craighead
Lucy’s Last Song is the story of a woman reconnecting with her estranged father after many years apart. As the night unfolds their wounds are exposed and dirty laundry aired.

Still Scattered
USA / Dark Comedy / 16 minutes
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Director: Dominic Burgess, Jeff Lorch
Writer: Jeff Lorch
Producer: Jeff Lorch, Lexi Sloan
Cast: : O-T Fagbenle, Colleen Giddings, Jeff Lorch, Sonal Shah, Hannah Simone.
After losing his wife, a failing gallery artist returns to his small home town for support from the very people he's fought so hard to escape.