2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Eliza and Cary have a mysterious communication problem.
Director(s): Nicholas Burns
Producer(s): Mary Frances Noser
Key Cast: Leslie Yacopetti, Jeremy Urann
Country: USA
Rites Of Passage
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Two brothers in the middle of an argument get trapped in an elevator that reveals to them blood has nothing to do with family.
Director(s): Grant Housley
Writer(s): Kyrah Dames, Nehemyah Gray, Nagi Moore, Daniel Williams
Producer(s): Tiffany Thomas
Key Cast: London Jones, Nagi Moore, Daniel Williams, Kyrah Dames, Eckley Smith
Country: USA
The REVVER
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
At wit’s end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a beleaguered artist takes matters into her own hands to finish her masterwork.
Writer(s): Mike Hanson & Kelly Susan Moothart
Monkey IntthE Middle
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Comic Ricky B slapped the hell out of Life and Life finally slapped back. Nurse’s aide Doug Helper jumps in to show Ricky B just how real things can get when they’re not really real
Writer(s): Suzan Averitt & Jeff G Peters
Fear
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
Jamie’s motherhood troubles spiral into life or death.
Writer(s): Noelle Ann Mabry
KEATON – pilot episode – part one of six
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
The rise, fall, and rise of the comic genius Buster Keaton
Writer(s): Paul David Lisy
GASP
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
In a house with a fiery past, a group of friends gather for bonding, unaware that one’s severe OCD and fear of fire could be a dark omen. As old relationships are tested and the night grows strange, they realize something sinister lurks within the walls.
Writer(s): Steph France
All the Wrong Ingredients
2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy
Desperate to win a high-stakes dessert contest, chef Ben unintentionally cooks up an imaginary friend to help him reinvent the meaning of delicious. But what happens when his ambition becomes a monster?
Director(s): Nicholas Livanos
Writer(s): Nicholas Livanos
Producer(s): Tanya Musgrave, Nathan DeWild, Michael Moyer
Key Cast: Joshua Trevilcock, Jonathan Bouvier, Emily Gesi, Jude Timothy Harris, Sydney Shea Barker, Aris Juson, Timothy Perez-Ross, Mark Ashworth
Country: USA
Sorta Rican
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
Emilio, an artsy Puerto Rican raised in a white world, has fallen hard for a working-class Latina activist, who both fully sees him and sees right through him.
Writer(s): Eric Rivera
Transitions
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
A gender non-conforming young adult embarks on a journey of self discovery with help and — at times — hindrance from their family
Writer(s): Rachael CG Cudlitz
Country: USA