presented by The Discover Indie Film Foundation
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi
Talia’s depression keeps her locked in her apartment until she receives a HeLP-O, a paper butler robot that unfolds, cooks, and cleans, but can HeLP-O give Talia the help she really needs?
Director(s): Kevin O’Brien
Writer(s): James Kislingbury
Producer(s): Connor O’Brien, Kevin O’Brien
Key Cast: Quinn Francis, Kevin O’Brien, Caitlin Cutt
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
When a righteous sheriff is driven to desperation by his wife’s sickness, he decides to make a deal with the devil and agrees to sacrifice the souls of the living to a demonic machine on eighteen wheels.
Writer(s): Christy Price, Daniel Vidal Perez
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
When a boy’s mother vanishes after a car crash, he’s thrust into a perilous quest. Guided by an eccentric uncle and aided by three unfamiliar allies, he must confront dark forces and his own doubts to rescue his mother before an important birthday.
Writer(s): Lynn H. Elliott
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
When 15-year-old Nancy discovers she can talk to the dead, she becomes a link to an alternate universe and could be the key to saving both realties.
Writer(s):Mark Strauss
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film
A 14 year old boy breaks his arm and is stalked by the older sister of his crush.
Writer(s): Matt Stone
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film
A surprise birthday party spirals into paranoid chaos, as the birthday girl questions whether her friends know her secret, or just secretly hate her.
Writer(s): Haiba Khan
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+
The world’s greatest romance novelist has given up on love due to long-standing grief, but will his blossoming relationship with a younger man lead to a new chapter or the same tragic ending.
Writer(s): Suzy Stein & Fernando Perez
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+
When his fiancé is taken hostage during his European wedding weekend, a groom discovers he’s marrying into a wealthy art crime family and must work with his in-laws to steal a priceless painting in order to save his husband-to-be.
Writer(s): Nick Kilgore
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Series
A South-of-the-Mason-Dixon-Line good ol’ girl gets into legal trouble one too many times and is deported to Toronto, Canada on a technicality: she was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. American Import is a smart, unique, single-cam fish-out-of-water sitcom with a little edge and a lot of heart.
Writer(s): Steven Shehori
2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
In a crumbling near-future where the anti-anxiety wonder drug Phobyx has turned fear into a forgotten instinct, a haunted self-defense instructor returns home to reconnect with her estranged family as the country spirals into crisis. But when her sister becomes a casualty of the drug’s chaos, she must confront buried trauma and fight her way through a city on the edge, determined to expose a deadly truth in a world where fear was the last thing keeping us human.
Writer(s): Rich Van Tine
