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Oh My Sweetheart

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

Joaquin, a lonely homeless kid finds a life friend in a little puppy, just to later find out the dog is lost and has an owner after Joaquin’s older brother refuses to keep the puppy with them and Joaquin must find the owner to bring the puppy back home and finally finding a true friendship.

Director(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Writer(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Producer(s): Aristides De Jesús Mantilla Artigas
Key Cast: Fernando Hernandez Polito

Country: Mexico

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Wake

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror – $500 Prize

With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have to stow the dead body of a young woman in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.

Director(s): Sean Carter
Writer(s): Sean Carter
Producer(s): Lauren Fash
Key Cast: K Steele, Milly Sanders, Lavelle Roby, Catherine McCafferty

Country: USA

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Happy Ending

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A young Cambodian woman, carrying a tragic secret, comes to America to work in an illicit massage parlour.

Director(s): Élodie Yung
Writer(s): Élodie Yung, Jonathan Howard
Producer(s): Jonathan Howard, Matthew Keene Smith, Jason McLagan, Marie Jamora, Élodie Yung
Key Cast: Jasmine Sims, Martha Milan, Tossapon “Didi” Banks, Krista Morin, Jonathan Howard, Jolie Thana Pho

Country: USA

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Vanilla Lily

2024 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360

During her lunch break, Lily flees the Louvre and her demanding boss, opting to read an art history book in the park until she’s approached by Clément, a dapper financier, who interrupts her and invites her to lunch, to which Lily, on a whim, agrees, ultimately altering the course of her life.

Director(s): Keeley Turner
Writer(s): Sheila Traister
Key Cast: Jen Robyn Jacobs, Tom Fugedi, Billy Vera, Diane Sellers, Kennedy Barrie, TriJoëlle Zilberman, Milan Ogier

Country: USA

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The Feeling Expert

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

An introverted video gamer is forced to repay his bookie by becoming his wife’s feeling expert. 

Director(s): Jamie Anderson
Writer(s): Jamie Anderson
Producer(s): Jamie Anderson, Caroline Calvin
Key Cast: Max Korman, Spencer Garrett, Lori Alan, Chelsea London Lloyd

Country: USA

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The Unreliables

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A babysitter and an absent father spiral out of control as they refuse to confront grief.

Director(s): Adam Linkenhelt
Writer(s): Jen Robyn Jacobs
Producer(s): Katie Barrie, Jen Robyn Jacobs, Adam Linkenhelt
Key Cast: Jen Robyn Jacobs, Tom Fugedi, Billy Vera, Diane Sellers, Kennedy Barrie, Tripp Barrie

Country: USA

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The Word

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

The 1% decide to give all African American’s reparations…but there’s a catch.

Director(s): Rob M. Neilson
Writer(s): Sam Demaris, Billy D. Washington & Rob M. Neilson (Original story by Colin Ochs)
Producer(s): Adam Taylor, Rob M. Neilson
Key Cast: Rutherford Cravens, Sam Demaris, Joe Grisaffi, Billy D. Washington, Andy Huggins & Ed Warner

Country: USA

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