2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
An astronomer stumbles upon a strange star, launching a journey of scientific discovery that leads his unlikely team into the international spotlight.
Director(s): Sam Smartt
Luminous
Sons of Toledo
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
After receiving the early morning news of his younger brother’s murder, a mourning barber pushes through the muddy waters of grief to find the courage to do the impossible – give his brother one last cut.
Director(s): Monty Cole
Writer(s): Matt Foss, Monty Cole
Producer(s): Matt Foss, Diana Perez Riveros
Cast: Marcus Temple, Jamal Grant, Shinaul Jones, Tawan Gaston and Cincere Temple
Palisades Patrol! by Bob Yates
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
How do police pass the time in a place with no crime?
Writer(s): Bob Yates
Grasping at Straws by Charlotte Barrett & Sean Fallon
2022 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Episodic comedy set in Austin about a wannabe social media influencer and a woman who follows her. It explores the stories behind their social media posts.
Writer(s): Charlotte Barrett & Sean Fallon
Spiritual Avail
2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Experimental/Arthouse
A meditation on the journey of a soul told through a series of nine vignettes
Director(s): Nicholas Kundrat
Writer(s): Nicholas Kundrat
Producer(s): Nicholas Kundrat
Cast: Nicholas Kundrat
i tell you very softly
2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy
Living in the lie is like constantly living in reality the real one means…
After his ex-wife’s death, Giuseppe and his long-time partner Nikolas receive custody of Giuseppe’s son and daughter. Meanwhile, Giuseppe’s three sisters will put them to a very severe, and hilarious, test. “A real Italian family.“
Director(s): Pasquale Marrazzo
Writer(s): Pasquale Marrazzo, Fabrizio Bozzetti, Roberto Traverso
Producer(s): NOI FILM
Cast: Lucia Vasini, Stefano Chiodaroli, Pietro Pignatelli
The Long Way to Die
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Documentary
Actor Peter Egan and filmmaker Andrew Telling travelled 15,000 miles to witness the dog meat trade in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. They expected darkness, cruelty and pain. They experienced far worse. However, amid the horror, there were some whose light restored their faith in humanity.
Director(s): Andrew Telling
Featuring: Peter Egan
Conversion
2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
A story of survival and hope, CONVERSION follows five survivors as they shed light on the secretive and often deadly practices of conversion therapy.
Director(s): Zach Meiners
Producer(s): Leilani Gushiken, Zach Meiners, Taylor Young
Featuring: Dustin Rayburn, Elena Joy Thurson, Zach Meiners, Matt Ashcroft, Sam Brinton, McKrae Game, Wayne Besen, Dr. Kelsy Burke, Garrard Conley
How to Hack Birth Control
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
‘How to Hack Birth Control’ is a 3-segment pilot satire focusing on how to navigate and take charge in today’s contraception universe, Birth Control takes a run at ‘not supposed to talk about,’ scenarios and answers all of the questions women truly want to know but are taught to be too afraid to ask.
Director(s): Sassy Mohen
Writer(s): Sassy Mohen
Producer(s): Sassy Mohen
Cast: Xanthe Paige, Jackie Jacobson, Austin Powell, Aisha Renee Holden, Megan Rach, Lauren Elizabeth Harris, Danny Royce
Black Hole
2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi
When a miniature black hole shows up in a man’s house, he has to learn to deal with it. But as time passes, his obsession with the anomaly grows, and he begins to dance with danger as he utilizes it in his every day life.
Director(s): Jamie Parslow
Writer(s): Jamie Parslow
Producer(s): Evan Zissimopulos, Reid Nicewonder
Cast: Aaron Moorhead, Leo Camacho, Alexa Cappiello
