DRAMA SHORTS PROGRAM A-23

Sweet, sensitive, insecure, and lonely, Danny's your everyday nerd. Only lately, he's been trying to pass himself off as a suave ladies man to get laid. He meets worldwise and intuitive Mia at a bar and the couple head back to his place for a romantic, alcohol-filled evening of soul-searching.

DRAMA SHORTS PROGRAM A-23

As graduation approaches, college sweethearts Scott & Marie must make the difficult decision of choosing between each other or their careers.

DRAMA SHORTS PROGRAM A-23

Mara, a singer in Los Angeles's Koreatown, takes a gig as a Karaoke Hostess Doumi (a woman hired to be a man’s date in a private karaoke lounge) for some quick cash. She, like many women, doesn’t realize the job isn’t just singing; it's sex work. This is a film about dreams that seem out of reach, the jobs we do while working towards our dreams, and the connections we make with others along the way.

COMEDY SHORTS PROGRAM B-23

Jimmy Calzone has owned and operated Chicago pizzeria “Calzone’s Pizza” since the passing of his beloved Ma. With business cratering, Jimmy’s kid sister, Gina, and her boyfriend, D’Ondre, hire a camera crew to film an audition tape for a cable food channel program highlighting local restaurants. While reluctantly filming this day-in-the-life, Jimmy meets and falls in love in Alexis Sansome, a New York transplant who’s just moved to Chicago to open a pie shop in the neighborhood.

COMEDY SHORTS PROGRAM B-23

Hostel Hollywood allows the audience to experience an actor’s career in all its rawness and humiliation--the story's protagonist, Clark, who momentarily escapes his privileged life and domineering wife to pursue greatness--only to find himself with his new friends living in an "artists" hostel. Costumed as Tom Cruise, Mr. T, Charlie Chaplin, and Marilyn Monroe, they feed their dreams and depravities with money pried from gullible tourists along the Walk of Fame.

The show offers those who never had a chance to shoot for their dreams an opportunity to feel what it's like to have their feet touch down on Hollywood Boulevard and from there experience the domino effect from first choices they make and they people they choose to know, all leading them on a slowly winding odyssey towards success, struggle, or ruination.

Ya gotta see it to believe it.

SHORTS PROGRAM C-23

Secret Honor starts off as a hang-out movie between two buddies – Demarcus (Turen Robinson), a hot young comic, and Victor (Ben Brown), a tough ex-boxer. They’re eating tacos, shooting the breeze, waiting to pick up some Laker tickets from Demarcus’s friend. When the identity of his friend is revealed, a laid-back afternoon in LA turns into a grim, comic standoff between old foes. A matter of life and death becomes a matter of true honor in the age of social media.

With crisp dialogue and killer action and style, Secret Honor delivers a funky yet soulful piece of cinema.

SHORTS PROGRAM C-23

Hannah is a devoted single mother enjoying a picnic in the mountains with her 14 year-old daughter, Katie. When Katie is grabbed and shoved into the trunk of a Tesla, Hannah seeks the help of Ranger Tarkov, a friendly but naive park ranger. After witnessing the inadequacies of the authorities, Hannah chooses to take matters into her own hands, find her daughter, and avenge her daughter’s kidnapping.

SHORTS PROGRAM C-23

A group of college kids take a trip to South America to donate time building houses for the unfortunate, but when something goes wrong with their plane they are forced to land in Juarez International Airport.

It just so happens that Juarez, Mexico is the most dangerous city in the world and this group has a four-hour layover while they wait for a new plane to arrive. In four hours their lives could all change forever.

To pass the time, Caroline and a couple of her friends venture off and meet a group of locals just flying back into town. They decide to sneak off with this group to go explore the town and experience some innocent fun. However, as soon as they are lured out of the airport, they realize that the adventure is not what they were promised. Instead, it quickly becomes clear that they are being kidnapped by the local cartel.

Chase Abbott is down and out — literally — he’s gone from being on the town’s hot-list of successful, young Hollywood talent, to signing books in the back of a dilapidated bookstore in the valley. To top it all off, the only girl he’s ever truly loved just left him due to a lack of future potential. His life is literally falling apart around him as he falls deeper into addiction, and it gets darker everyday.

When Chase is at the breaking-point, he meets a free-spirited young actress named Astrid when he helps her out of a difficult situation at a casting studio. To thank him, she invites him to a party, kicking off a magical, all-night adventure through Los Angeles that shows him he has something more worth living for.

An aimless young woman, Haley, and her by-the-book brother, Mac, embark on a spontaneous road trip to Portland to rediscover a time capsule that they buried as kids. Within, holds the bracelet of Haley's biological mother.