Let Us Play

USA | Thriller | 13 minutes

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Director/Writer: Joseph Sperber

Producer: Galileo Mondol, Aaron Schmidt

Cast: Doug Jones

A reporter looking into the case of an injured child finds herself on the doorstep of a man who hosts an unorthodox chess game. In order to get the answers she's looking for she must play the very game that she's there to investigate.

Chocolate Cake
USA | Drama | 14 minutes

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Director: Jack Craymer, Jesse Suchomel

Writer: Jack Craymer, Jesse Suchomel, Logan Custer

Producer: Sammy J. Thompson, Paris Sommerfeld, Andrew Mackenzie

Cast: Jaeden Martell, Starla Caldwell, Jesse Harley

Desperate to simmer down his bubbling anxiety, a stressed-out line cook enters a contest and seeks to complete one simple objective: bake the best chocolate cake in the world.

Five Star

USA | Comedy | 14 minutes

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Director: Kai Hamada Hasson

Writer: Brett Konner

Producer: Elyse Priess, Jacob Motz

Cast: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Tate Hanyok

Called on an unusual job – to keep Maya’s closet door shut for good – Soung discovers a dark secret that challenges him to go to extraordinary lengths to secure his five star review. At its core, Five Star is a comedic look at the obsessive lengths we go to to be successful and the trivialities that often undo us.

Sweet Cesspool
USA | Drama | 6 minutes

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Director/Writer: Daniel Paredes

Producer: Laura Lanktree

Cast: John Ennis, Jessica Lynn Parsons

A broke ghostwriter is hired to help a man craft his suicide letter. On the day the letter is finished, the writer has doubts.

Dog Moms
USA | Comedy | 10 minutes

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Director/Writer: Jess Fee

Producer: Irene Ashu, George Fan

Cast: Angela Giarratana, Tatyana Komaguchi, Chad Damiani

"Dog Moms" is a coming of age story about a 30-year-old woman forging her own path forward, when her life doesn’t look like what she thought it would.

Bark (Reward If Found)
USA | Comedy | 17 minutes

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Director: Searit Kahsay Huluf

Writer: Tristen Tarp

Producer: Jennifer Sherer, Searit Kahsay Huluf

Cast: Jennifer Sherer, Monica Potter, Alfonso Caballero

He stole her heart. She stole his dog. A heartbroken obsessive woman takes extreme measures to reconnect with her ex boyfriend.

Hookah Head

USA | Comedy | 21 minutes

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Director/Writer: Goldwing

Producer: Mike Lev, Eric Hill

Cast: Max Lipchitz, Nate Varrone, Eric Rahill

A 30-something man in an identity crisis spirals into a hookah obsession, alienating everyone around him — until an eccentric hookah lounge playboy drags him on a surreal, all-night odyssey through LA.