TUESDAY
JULY 26, 7:45PM
PROGRAM 30
SHORTLIST

For Good
USA / Drama / 16 minutes
Director: Lukas Dong
Writer: Shane Munson
Producer: Nicole Smolen, Lily Blavin, William Day Frank, David Goldblum
Cast: Lily Blavin, Charlie DePew
Jennifer and her husband Andrew begin their IVF journey filled with hope and love. But the discomfort and burden of the daily injections begin to take their toll on the relationship. Andrew becomes detached from Jennifer and obsessed with an alligator he is convinced he saw in the canals. Jennifer becomes depressed and begins doubting her husband’s sanity. The couple’s final round of IVF forces them to come face to face with their issues.

The Hostage
USA / Comedy / 7 minutes
Director/Writer: Natalie Prisco
Producer: Paul Feig, Laura Fischer, Kesila Childers, Erica Fishman
Cast: Annie Mumolo, Paul Scheer
A bored middle-aged woman, desperate for an adrenaline rush, becomes entangled with a crew of dangerous diamond thieves.

Elevate
USA / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Dylan Boom
Producer: Connie Jo Sechrist, Jordan Horowitz, Andrew Carlberg
Cast: Tracie Thoms, Jason Butler Harner
Tiffany works the graveyard shift as a security guard at a high rise building. Over the course of one night on shift, her morality is tested.

ArmaGoogle
USA / Comedy / 5 minutes
Director: Julián Juaquín
Writer: Matt Flanagan
Producer: Iris Disla, Matt Flanagan
Cast: Benjamin Horwitz, Matt Flanagan, Mohamed Diaby, Mitchell Collins
When Google unexpectedly goes down, the people of the world are confronted with the reality that its presence in their lives was the only thing holding them together as a functioning society.
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After (A Love Story)
USA / Drama / 14 minutes
Director: Clare Cooney
Writer: Alyssa Thordarson
Producer: Alyssa Thordarson, Clare Cooney, Jill Oliver, Mike McNamara
Cast: Glenn Stanton, Alyssa Thordarson, Susaan Jamshidi
After surviving a violent event, a couple tries to overcome the space trauma created between them.

The Voice Actress
Japan / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Anna J. Takayama
Producer: Joe Skinner
Cast: Urara Takano
Kingyo, a veteran voice actress working in Tokyo, possesses a unique ability to see the soul in all things, living and inanimate. The voice acting world is changing and Kingyo must find a way to reconcile her way of living with the modern industry.

Sobrevivir
USA / Drama / 14 minutes
Director/Writer: Ben Carey Wilson
Producer: David Goldberger
Cast: Mariel Martinez, Emi Félix
We find two lovers on the end of a long journey running for their freedom, and now running from the cartel. In a single room ones journey is explained while the others is just set in motion.

Triggerman
USA / Drama / 14 minutes
Director/Writer: Tyler Holmes
Producer: Sarah Al-Qatou, Ben Levine
Cast: Cameron J Ross, Grant Hall, Darian Michael Garey
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Hoop Dreams
USA / Drama / 10 minutes
Director/Writer: Kasey Elise Walker
Producer: Nabil Elderkin, Samantha Nirenberg
Cast: Madison Southerland, Torin Ashtun, Jess Willard, Honneur Je Suis Aimé
Savannah Walker's fear of speaking publicly in poetry class leads her to steal her mother's magical golden hoops with a belief that they'll help her overcome it. Ultimately, they transport her into a world beyond her greatest imagination.