2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series
A troubled young man is given a choice: join the marines or join the prison yard and he chooses the marines.
Writer(s): Matthew Domenico & Katherine Connor Duff
The Tenets of Fear by Allison Hanna
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
After renting out some rooms to make ends meet, a bereaved horror author must venture into a world of his own stories after an ominous monster from his worst nightmares kidnaps his new tenants.
Writer(s): Allison Hanna
Lydia Emily’s Last Mural
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary
Lydia Emily, an artist living with progressive MS, paints her last mural in downtown LA.
Director(s): Christoph Johannes Superstar Green
Cast: Lydia Emily
Hedgehog
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A young caregiver at a Senior Home accidentally discovers that one of her patients is an a former Nazi criminal, hiding under a false identity.
Director(s): Ye’ela Rosenfeld
Writer(s): Ye’ela Rosenfeld
Producer(s): Heliya Alam, Suzann Toni
Cast: Shelly Kurtz, Maryam Roberts
The Passage of Sun by Aaron Braxton
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Three brothers fight the Alabama Convict Leasing System of railroading African American men into prison post-Civil War.
Writer(s): Aaron Braxton
Jeff Hilliard – Consensual
2022 Official Selection: Music Video
Do you wanna go for a ride?
Director(s): Jeff Hilliard, Joey Danger
Writer(s): Jeff Hilliard
Producer(s): Jeff Hilliard
Cast: Jeff Hilliard, Jessica Wall, Hannah Bondy
High School Lullaby by Dave Stishan
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Finding out she has just under two weeks before she has to pack up her entire life and move away, a high school junior balances delicate friendships, secrets, and what she feels she must leave behind.
Writer(s): Dave Stishan
Two Weeks to 29
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Lovers, bound by sex, torn by obsession and deception.
Director(s): Jesus M Rodriguez
Writer(s): Jesus M Rodriguez
Producer(s): Jesus M Rodriguez, Christopher Kinder
Cast: Jesus M Rodriguez, Luis Cherubini
The Last Marriage
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
A comedy about how meager, everyday life continues even after the zombie apocalypse.
Director(s): Johan Tappert, Gustav Egerstedt
Writer(s): Johan Holmström
Producer(s): Carl Molinder
Cast: Emma Molin, Christopher Wagelin
The Poet
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
A young man has written a three line poem that he believes possesses great existential significance in various ways. And he’s going to explain all of them. For a really long time.
Director(s): Daniel Amerman
Writer(s): Daniel Amerman
Producer(s): Daniel Amerman
Cast: Daniel Amerman, Luke Klompien, Susane Lee
