2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary
Lydia Emily, an artist living with progressive MS, paints her last mural in downtown LA.
Director(s): Christoph Johannes Superstar Green
Cast: Lydia Emily
Hedgehog
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A young caregiver at a Senior Home accidentally discovers that one of her patients is an a former Nazi criminal, hiding under a false identity.
Director(s): Ye’ela Rosenfeld
Writer(s): Ye’ela Rosenfeld
Producer(s): Heliya Alam, Suzann Toni
Cast: Shelly Kurtz, Maryam Roberts
The Passage of Sun by Aaron Braxton
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Three brothers fight the Alabama Convict Leasing System of railroading African American men into prison post-Civil War.
Writer(s): Aaron Braxton
Jeff Hilliard – Consensual
2022 Official Selection: Music Video
Do you wanna go for a ride?
Director(s): Jeff Hilliard, Joey Danger
Writer(s): Jeff Hilliard
Producer(s): Jeff Hilliard
Cast: Jeff Hilliard, Jessica Wall, Hannah Bondy
High School Lullaby by Dave Stishan
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Finding out she has just under two weeks before she has to pack up her entire life and move away, a high school junior balances delicate friendships, secrets, and what she feels she must leave behind.
Writer(s): Dave Stishan
Two Weeks to 29
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Lovers, bound by sex, torn by obsession and deception.
Director(s): Jesus M Rodriguez
Writer(s): Jesus M Rodriguez
Producer(s): Jesus M Rodriguez, Christopher Kinder
Cast: Jesus M Rodriguez, Luis Cherubini
The Last Marriage
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
A comedy about how meager, everyday life continues even after the zombie apocalypse.
Director(s): Johan Tappert, Gustav Egerstedt
Writer(s): Johan Holmström
Producer(s): Carl Molinder
Cast: Emma Molin, Christopher Wagelin
The Poet
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
A young man has written a three line poem that he believes possesses great existential significance in various ways. And he’s going to explain all of them. For a really long time.
Director(s): Daniel Amerman
Writer(s): Daniel Amerman
Producer(s): Daniel Amerman
Cast: Daniel Amerman, Luke Klompien, Susane Lee
RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary
2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy
RE-OPENING is a fully-improvised lockdown mockumentary following the cast and crew of a struggling theater in Tennessee as they attempt to reopen after months of lockdown.
Director(s): Chris Guerra, Matthew John Koppin
Writer(s): Chris Guerra, Matthew John Koppin, Kelsey Cooke
Producer(s): Kelsey Cooke
Cast: Chris Guerra, Amanda Lehan, Kelsey Cooke, Casey Hime, Emily Pendergast, Benjamin John Koppin, Kiel Kennedy, Patty Guggenheim, Sam De Surra, Leonard Robinson, Karen Maruyama, Jessica Pohley, Steph Barkley, Chris Kleckner
The Phoenix
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
After successfully acquiring superpowers, an 8 year old girl attempts to fix her parents’ crumbling marriage.
Director(s): Regina Pigsley
Writer(s): Regina Pigsley
Producer(s): Melody Carey, Jack Berkenfield
Cast: Audrina Miranda, Liza Stephanian, Mike Ward, Danielle Mercado
