ALLURE, 4min., USA
Directed by Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
A junior astronaut fulfills a dream of going to the moon. Once there, exhilaration gives way to reality. But what has been left behind? Created in a colorful, prismatic, 2D graphic style with a haunting soundtrack that echoes with l...

YOUR EVERYDAY HEROES OF COSTA RICA, 25min., USA
Directed by Hernán Salcedo
Your Everyday Heroes traveled to Costa Rica and searched for inspirational everyday people who are changing the world. Jeremy, Tracey, Vernon and Che are clearly all examples of what it takes to be a Hero, and we're proud ...

BUTTERFLY BUSINESS, 2min., USA
Directed by Amanda Elizabeth Mai
An overworked office worker has the quirk of turning into a butterfly under stress. We watch him struggle to keep his insect side a secret as the pressure of his office life becomes so intense he can't take it anymore.
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THE NEED, 15min., USA
Directed by Michael Rognlie, EE Tallent
David Alan Shepherd is constantly tormented by the ghosts of his own making, and the need to keep making them.

https://www.the-need-movie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/onthefenceproductions/

Producer: Michael Rognlie, Sam Arias Mosto...

TURNING A NEW LEAF, 2min., USA
Directed by Isabelle Alison Hibbard
Hazel and Willow, two teenage theater club members, exit from backstage after a rehearsal. Willow is upset by her role, and Hazel argues that no, being a tree and chorus member is the best. Hazel breaks into song, and the girls en...

Chicago Festival Aug. 8th/9th event

a nightpiece for those who feel or felt like they were falling, 3min., Netherlands
Directed by Tessa Langeveld
“In this animated short, three iterations of the fall of an undefined object (that might resemble a cloth, or a piece of paper) unfold to an increasi...

GET AWAY, 85min., USA
Directed by Gia Paladino
Four young couples travel to Maine for a lakeside cabin getaway. It's all skinny dipping and stupid pranks until the humor turns to horror.

DATA - THE NEW OIL, 14min., Canada
Directed by Spencer Maurice
A young filmmaker-turned-law student takes us on a dark tour, revealing a clandestine ecosystem hidden from public view - a digital underworld that threatens democracy and civil society by ‘hacking’ our brains.

https://www.digitalpo...

GIN RUMMY, 17min., USA
Directed by Suzanne Baird
I'm excited to share our project made from love and friendship..
Three best friends have been playing Gin Rummy every week for over 50 years. On this Gin Rummy night they have made other plans as a final bonding of the trio.

Get to know the filmma...

BETWEEN PICTURES: THE LENS OF TAMIO WAKAYAMA, 70min., Canada
Directed by Cindy Mochizuki
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama locates the artistic journey of B.C. born photographer Tamio Wakayama who alongside his family was interned during WWII and forced to uproot after the release fro...

HOTPANTS, 15min., Sweden
Directed by Vera Berggren Wiklund
A story about finding your way back to volleyball where the dress code in the sport and self-hatred of the body stands in between. The film is Vera's process (the director) of re-approaching the sport after a break caused by hotpants and ...

WE'RE STILL BREATHING, AMHARA GENOCIDE IN ETHIOPIA, 23min., Ethiopia
Directed by Graham Peebles
We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia is a short documentary about the systemic silent genocide of the Amhara people in Ethiopia.

https://twitter.com/AAA_Amhara

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WASTED, 55min., Singapore
Directed by Jessica Cheam, Fraser Morton
Wasted prompts us to re-examine who we are and our values — to re-think our relationship with the world around us. We cannot continue to extract and exploit our ecosystems at unprecedented rates, and continue down the path of wast...

Biography/Drama/Romance

When the arrival of a female Syrian refugee fleeing a war-torn past completely disrupts the quiet life of an Italian former car racer who retired from ...

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Rita: Hannah Ehman
Marco: Steve Rizzo

When a grieving teenage boy, sent to live with the father he's never met, is haunted by memories and wrestling with his identity, it takes the magic of pebbles on water and the transformative power of kind friends to help him accept his past and welcome his future.

http://www.alandavidpritchard....

Romantic Comedy

In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Jennifer: Hannah Ehman
Gerard: Geoff Mays
Ashleigh: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

https://j...

A grieving female CIA analyst goes undercover on a mission to stop a Frenchman from smuggling uranium to Iran, only to learn that he is also undercover and is working for her husband, who is still alive.

Thriller

https://jacksherryscreenplays.com/pipe-dreams/

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth R...

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Realor: Hannah Ehman
Soothsayer: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

https://www.shadowhorsetheatre.com/dark-pony-radio

Get to know the screenwriter:

1. What is your screenplay about?
A couple who are dealing with a loss, and purchase their first home. Only to expe...

Mike's beloved "Office Family" dynamic is ominously disrupted by a strange new hire who threatens to upend everything Mike has built.

https://www.instagram.com/de4thrace/

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mike: Steve Rizzo
Carol: Hannah Ehman
Dale: Geoff Mays

1. What is your s...

LGBTQ+ Drama

This is a study in gender rights and the rights of all humankind. What truly makes one female or male?

A female attorney is assigned to represent a transgendering inmate seeking a transfer from a male to a female prison. This is a study in the struggle for the balance of rights: pe...

Set in 1991, a cocky young boy faces off against the menacing main villain of a popular video game... in real life.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
J.C.: Geoff Mays
Shredder: Sean Ballantyne

https://www.instagram.com/kay.gatzby/
https://www.facebook.com/KabrienG5

The Hoover 2000 is an A.I. computer used by the FBI to track crimes as they happen in real time. Combing A.I. technology, cellphone tracking information with satellite photography, you can follow a crime from the moment it happens and also solve cold cases by replaying a crime that took place.

C...

When a New York City Nurse becomes trapped in the south because of their backwards bodily autonomy laws, she must brave the folks of Mississippi and the Appalachian Mountains in order to make it home.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Marie: Hannah Ehman
Adam: Sean Ballantyne

Get ...

A hot-tempered writer finds redemption after losing control, he connects with an unlikely neighbor.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Michael: Steve Rizzo

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?
Silent Redemption is about a man struggling with anger issues. When he loses...