Pace

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

As a boxer wrestles with the decision to transition at the potential cost of their marriage, they form a bond with another boxer on a similar journey of self evolution.

Director(s): Beck Williams
Writer(s): Beck Williams
Producer(s): Shannon Elizabeth Clark, Aaron Krimetz, Rainn Wilson, Bernadett York, Nas Albizuris, Autumn Ivy, David Florin
Key Cast: Bex Taylor-Klaus, Beck Williams, Kelly Lou Dennis, Veto Swarn

Country: United States

You don’t have to have all the answers

 

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Obsession

2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

When a true crime fangirl hooks up with her favorite serial killer, she becomes violently obsessed with him.

Director(s): Devon Kane
Writer(s): Devon Kane
Producer(s): Devon Kane, Madelaine Melcher, Michael Goi
Key Cast: Rachel Deutsch, Joe Chambrello, Amanda Fritz

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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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

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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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