SATURDAY JULY 20, 7:45 PM
PROGRAM 18
All The Rage
USA / Comedy / 11 minutes
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Director: Benji Gillespie
Writer: Leland Douglas, Benji Gillespie
Producer: Leland Douglas, Benji Gillespie, Anthony Marquez
Cast: Anthony Marquez, Michele Dawson
A meditation instructor tries to take control over his lifelong anger problem, but finds he is tested at every turn! Could the cure be around the corner?
I Already Went
USA / Comedy / 3 minutes
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Director/Writer: Allegra Eve Oxborough
Producer: Rafaela Sanchez, Grant Cutler
Cast: Heather Martin, Lorelye Johnson, Laith Hoffarth
I Already Went is a pitch-black comedy set in a not-so-distant future, where our craving for convenience has reached an all-time high. The side effects can be a bit uncomfortable, sure, but there's a pill for that.
RAPT
USA / Drama / 12 minutes
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Director: Margot Budzyna
Writer: Margot Budzyna, Christian Tasiopoulos
Producer: Andrew Carlberg
Cast: Jesse LaTourette, Marc Menchaca
A young woman navigates a surreal audition process where her boundaries are tested in pursuit of a coveted spot in an elite acting program.
1 in the Chamber
USA / Comedy / 7 minutes
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Director/Writer: Annie Girard, Diana Wright
Producer: James Bristow, Kourtney Gleason, Matt Danner
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Yara Martinez, Wilson Bethel
A work-obsessed assassin sent to “retire” her coworker is shocked to discover her target is pregnant and infuriated by how baby-proofed a nursery can be.
Guts
USA / Drama / 11 minutes
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Director: Margaux Susi
Writer: Jan Rosenberg
Producer: Grayson Propst
Cast: Kate Burton, Angela Giarratana
Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date.
The Rug Hustler
USA / Comedy / 16 minutes
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Director/Writer: Russ Lamoureux
Producer: Russ Lamoureux, Bailey Parks, Constance Zimmer
Cast: Patrick Wilkins, Constance Zimmer, Brittany Perry-Russell
This dusty fable of deception and discovery follows a stranded carpet salesman looking to make a few dollars to fix his van and get back on the road, but not before local shysters try to take him for a ride.
A.A.
USA / Comedy / 6 minutes
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Director/Writer: Auden Bui
Producer: Gates Bradley, Auden Bui
Cast: Brandon Potter, Anna Akana, Malcolm Barrett
A woman heads into an AA meeting, only for it not to be the AA meeting that any of them were expecting.
It Takes A Village
USA / Drama / 14 minutes
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Director: Joshua Kissi
Writer: Joshua Kissi, Keyla McNeely
Producer: Kegan Sant, David Richards, Kamila Prokop
Cast: Jackson Abram, Michael Ealy, Nadine Ellis
The year is 1965, and the residents of Winneba, Georgia inhabit a community that seems untouched by the rest of the world. Our story focuses on Isaiah and Lawrence Cooke and their father/son dynamic.
Once More, Like Rain Man
USA / Comedy / 15 minutes
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Director: Sue Ann Pien
Writer: Bella Zoe Martinez, Melissa J Martinez-Areffi, Andrew John Areffi
Producer: Suzann Ellis Spurgeon, Darren Dean, Bella Zoe Martinez
Cast: Bella Zoe Martinez, Matt Jones, Joe Mantegna
​‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe (Martinez) and her dad, Gerry (Jones) in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with - and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself - in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.