WEDNESDAY
JULY 27, 1:00PM
PROGRAM 35
SHORTLIST

After
USA / Drama / 5 minutes
Director/Writer: Lei Jia
Producer: Aaron Yu, Jera Wang
Cast: Greena Park, Riley Hashimoto
A strict mother tries to reconcile with her pianist son after their heated argument.

Wu Way Day
USA / Drama / 9 minutes
Director/Writer: Kire Tosevski
Producer: Kire Tosevski, Julián Conde
Cast: Jason Morris, Neyssan Falahi, Kire Tosevski
A wheelman waits for his accomplices to arrive from a heist gone awry. Tensions are high upon their subsequent arrival as conflict within the team threatens to disrupt a safe getaway.

Hypnotize
USA / Drama / 6 minutes
Director/Writer: Jesse Mendelsohn
Producer: Jesse Mendelsohn
Cast: Guyon Brandt, April Nelson
Two people run into each other on an eventful night. Fire, Romance, S’mores.

Spy v Spia
USA / Comedy / 18 minutes
Director: Cristo Zambone
Writer: Erin Carere, Carlo Carere
Producer: Gretchen Landau, Erin Carere, Carlo Carere
Cast: Carlo Carere, Erin Carere, Paul Elia, Charlie Taylor
Spy V Spia, a MADCAP Spy Parody... …served up with an unexpectedly romantic twist!

Seafoam
USA / Drama / 6 minutes
Director/Writer: Izzy Stevens
Producer: Charles Velasquez-Witosky, Moriah Hall
Cast: Izzy Stevens, Jae Kim, Amy Punt, Dalia Rooni
Billy tumbles down the rabbit hole after visiting her mother at a psychiatric health ward and recognizing an orderly who works there. Suddenly, he is everywhere. Billy can’t escape. The fish, the cowboy, her mother... What's real?

The Cosmopolitan West
USA / Comedy / 21 minutes
Director/Writer: Molly Ratermann
Producer: Finn Cardigan Bruce
Cast: Eme Ikwuakor, Molly Ratermann, John Moeslein, Maya Butler
Based on true events, Rose Pritchard, a cavalier woman and unlikely outlaw, leaves her partner in crime, Boot, to rob a bank alone to afford starting her own homestead.

Gold
USA / Comedy / 7 minutes
Director: Roland Smith
Writer: Eliza Helm
Producer: Eliza Helm
Cast: Eliza Helm, Marshall Bell
Kicked out of the Mormon church for having sex out of wedlock, headstrong Ava drags her rigid twin sister Lavinia through the dangerous California wilderness in search of a new life with their uncle, who is rumored to have found gold in a nearby town. When they find themselves lost, alone, and out of food, the twins must decide whether to push on toward a life that is unknown but free or to return to a life that is certain but stifling.

Irish Exit
USA / Romance / 18 minutes
Director/Writer: Zaria
Producer: Travon Free, Nicholas Maye, James Jolly
Cast: Zaria, Dylan Sprayberry
A young woman is forced to say goodbye.