Type of Story: Family Comedy

Synopsis: A teenage son tricks his dad into thinking he got a tattoo.

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

A son tricks his father into believing that he got a tattoo after his father expressly forbid it.

2. What ge...

Title: Marie's Nutcracker
Written by: Margaret Marie Klenzing

Logline: Marie, a seventeen-year-old dancer on the cusp of becoming a professional ballerina, struggles to overcome her insecurities to become the star of her local dance company's production of the classic Christmas ballet, The Nutc...

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

Love

2) What motivated you to write this poem?

In the search of my second half.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would
that be?

...

Genre: sci-fi

A robotics engineer by the name of Garrett Lyda attempts to salvage a troubled relationship with his son Bryce after discovering that Bryce became the subject of an experiment on mind control; but the government sponsor is more interested in the engineer's studies on robotics and w...

Type: Fantasy

Performed by Val Cole

Screenwriter novelist Margaret Bard and her husband Bartley were living their dream in the glamorous world of Hollywood - when at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market their life changed in an instant. Bartley's memory was wiped out. He didn't recognize his wife. In fact, he thought he had two wives. ...

Genre: Comedy-drama

Synopsis: A successful banker decides to step out on his fiancé before getting married, but things get a bit hairy when his plans are botched by a series of unexpected events.

Performed by Val Cole

Type of Story: A non-fiction story

Synopsis: A mother struggles to heal her young son from a disease for which there was no cure.

This story was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and won Honorable Mention in Writers Digest.

Performed by Val Cole

MUSHROOM, 64min., India, Crime/Thriller
Directed by Samik Roy Choudhury
A quaint guest house nestled in the hills, almost idyllic. The house owner, Yamini, is attractive, but withdrawn. She runs the guest house with some old timers, who seem to know a lot about the newly renovated guest house.

...

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RACHEL AND RAHA, 16min., Canada, Relationship
Directed by Nedda Sarshar
Rachel and Raha is a short film about second chances, and how the people in your past make reappearances at strange moments in your life. Rachel is a grad student living in her parents house in ...

MOMENTS IN TIME, 4min,. USA, Fashion
Directed by the reggies
time difference fashion film

https://thereggies.net/
https://www.instagram.com/the.reggies/

PACIFY, 3min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Ziyi Yuan
The concept of "pacifiers" as a coping mechanism for feelings of vulnerability and uncertainty is a common theory in psychology. The idea is that as we grow older, we develop ways of coping with stress and negative emotions that mimic the com...

THE UNICORN SYMPOSIUM, 9min., Australia, Fashion
Directed by Max Simonson
A young woman enters a colourful clothes shop to try on some new looks only to be surprised by a group of friendly strangers who insist that it's a very special day.

https://www.instagram.com/s.xvw/

Get to know the filmm...

LVCI, 3min., USA, Fashion
Directed by Brock Gregory Newman
A woman wanders the desert in search of a connection to her spiritual self and is transported to a darker realm where she makes contact with another side of herself.

https://www.kentsunamishep.com/lvci
http://instagram.com/undergroundts...

EMERGENCE, 4min., USA, Animation
Directed by Nick Pascoal
The serenity and calm of the peaceful countryside is brought to an abrupt halt when a mysterious colossal nemesis invades.

http://[email protected]/
https://www.instagram.com/nickpascoal/

BOGUE, 4min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Santiago Echeverry
The House of Tupamaras is a group of Voguing performers based in Bogota, Colombia. They are professionally trained dancers that chose to break from the norm and explore the queerness of their bodies and their everyday self-expressions ...

1.i, 6min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Colin James Wade

https://www.instagram.com/colinwade0387

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I'd thought about and wondered about making a film for a while, starting in the later years of high school. Over time, I w...

MIN'S TALE, 3min., Canada, Experimental
Directed by Rakesh Sidana
Min's story of transition and coming into her own body has been of lot of turmoil and desparation....
It’s been a bit of a long journey with this body, and I mean.. it continues and continues. At this point that’s what love is, to ...

THE WORLD OF WITHOOS, 10min., Netherlands, Experimental
Directed by Hans Withoos, Inge Theunissen
Together with filmmaker Inge Theunissen of Itmoves, I Hans Withoos made a surrealist film about my quest for the amalgamation of the works of our ancestors and our photography.

https://hanswithoos....

MURO, 12min., Mexico, Drama/Thriller
Directed by Jimena Huesca
Bruna wakes up from a nightmare due to some noises coming from her room.She suddenly hears a woman's voice as she approaches one of the ancient walls that surround her. They start talking cautiously as Bruna tries to get information i...

SABRINA, 13min., UK, Drama
Directed by Amy Greenbank
"living with this is like living in a raging storm" | A major family event ends in chaos for Sabrina, as she struggles to overcome an enduring condition that wreaks more than its monthly devastation on everything, and everyone.

WITCH, REBORN. 19min., UK
Directed by Maria Shevtsova
Documentary short film following US singer Sabrina Kennedy as she finds herself at the Samhain celebrations in Glastonbury and dives into the hidden world of modern-day paganism in the UK.

http://mariashevtsova.com/witch-reborn
https://insta...

DOE, 3min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Yi Liu
An aggressive, self sufficient dancer discovers her softness and dependency through being with her mate.