2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
A reformed gang member must confront his violent past when his younger brother is shot and hospitalized.
Writer(s): Johnny Galvan
Country: USA
Whiskey Mountain Days
2024 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
A golden opportunity. A startling connection. When a young man falls for a famed actress of yesteryear, can he control his overflowing emotions?
Writer(s): Bill Walker
Country: USA
Vessel
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
A young disabled girl, kept under strict control by her religious mother, sees a way out of her situation when her mysterious new aunt comes to visit.
Director(s): Leila Garrison
Writer(s): Leila Garrison
Producer(s): Laurel Kulow
Key Cast: Jill Galbraith, Dena Navarroli, Phoebe Pearl
Country: USA
PANG
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
