2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
Pang1/paNG/noun 1: a brief piercing spasm of pain. 2: a sharp attack of mental anguish.
Director(s): Jamin Scotti
Writer(s): Emily Charouhas
Key Cast: Emily Charouhas
Country: USA
Girl Upstairs
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
A hermit invents imaginary friends, who end up trying to kill her to win their freedom.
Director(s): Kevin Stevenson
Writer(s): John Gee
Producer(s): Jason Haffley
Key Cast: Holly Blair, Luiz Gustavo Cintra, Sara Catherine Bellamy
Country: USA
ID EST
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi
Trapped in an ambush, a metagalactic captain fends off mysterious beings seeking to leech the human experience from her.
Director(s): Shayda Frost
Producer(s): Sof Puchley, Andy Chen
Key Cast: Sof Puchley, David W Rice, Sunny Tellone
Country: USA
Onboarding
2024 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360
Working in the future.
Director(s): Huali Fu
Writer(s): Huali Fu
Producer(s): Huali Fu
Key Cast: Lizzie Nguyen
Country: USA
Wesley Loses His Penis
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
A dark comedy about an expecting father who confronts his self-hatred after finding himself in an isolated manor without his, ah, member.
Director(s): Brennan Thomas McGee
Writer(s): Brennan Thomas McGee
Producer(s): Sierra Oleson, Avery Chung-Melino, Jonah Moshammer, Sunce Franicevic
Key Cast: Alex Herrald, William Hennefer, Serra Naiman, Sophia Salesky
Country: USA
White Gaze
2024 Official Selection: Featurette – Horror
Latine twentysomething, Gema, is forced to confront the looming threat of gentrification head-on—after having no choice but to let an overeager stranger move in or risk being evicted. The uneasy peace soon turns sinister, exposing her to something far more invasive.
Director(s): ETA
Writer(s): ETA
Producer(s): Shanhuan Manton, Alain Argueta, Gema Rubi
Key Cast: Gema Rubi, Shannon Gibbs, Alain Argueta
Country: USA
I’ll Be There
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A new dad copes with the possible death of his own father from his baby’s crib.
Director(s): Chris Highlands
Writer(s): Chris Highlands
Producer(s): Chris Highlands, Kelsey Landon
Key Cast: Chris Highlands, Sunniva Swearengin
Country: USA
Is There Anybody Out There?
2024 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360
“Is There Anybody Out There?” is a narrative virtual reality experience that invites the user to enter the narrator’s world and relive the situations of the pandemic period by listening to their stories and interacting with various objects.
Director(s): Konstantinos Koukoudis
Producer(s): Konstantinos Koukoudis
Key Cast: Nikos Mertzanis
Country: Greece
The Wheel
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A woman gets taken on a ride to hell.
Director(s): Nikhil Bhagat
Writer(s): Nikhil Bhagat, Andy Wong
Producer(s): Nikhil Bhagat, Pete Gvozdas, Tim Murray
Key Cast: Molly Beucher
REVERIE
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi
In a future where time travel is used as a form of therapy, Imogen grapples with the weight of her troubled past and is given the opportunity to revisit her younger self and confront the experiences that shaped her present self.
Director(s): Kelli Elizabeth Horan
Writer(s): Kelli Elizabeth Horan
Producer(s): Kelli Elizabeth Horan, Chiara McCarty, Elena Weinberg
Key Cast: Samantha Ireland, Hope West, Dana Wing Lau
Country: USA
