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Africa Parting
USA, 2006, 9 min.
A deeply moving and evocative hand-made, stop motion animation about the heart of a modern South Africa.... more
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Airplanes
USA, 2006, 10 min.
The early age of public aviation becomes a metaphor for the budding romance between two teenage girls, who spend the night at an amusement park sharing a headlong rush of discovery and pleasure in each other’s company.... more
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Alive and Well
USA, 2007, 10 min.
When the Bakersfield Beavers return in triumph from the state championship badminton tournament in 1976, they never anticipate that their flight home includes a meal – or that the pilot has the team in mind as the main ingredients for the menu…... more
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Anatomy 101
USA, 2007, 8 min.
Young college freshman, James, is stuck in the library stacks late at night, trying mightily to improve his study habits. Unfortunately, his fantasy habits might get the best of him.... more
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The Angel
USA, 2006, 8 min.
Little Ting sits at her dying Grandma's hospital bedside where she's been all night, protecting her Grandma from death.... more
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Ape Sh!t “Wa-Hoo”
USA, 2007, 5 min.
This outrageously over-the-top animated tale features a gnarly ape who employs a very unusual weapon to hold up a convenience store – inventive and flat-out funny, but definitely not for the squeamish!... more
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Arjuna
USA, 2006, 3 min.
A pivotal figure in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, Arjuna was famed for his skill as an archer--but the uncanny concentration that would make him a hero was evident years before…... more
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Art's Desire
USA, 2006, 5 min.
In a museum after dark, the paintings by famous masters come alive and become who they want to be, in this beautifully illustrated animation about art and artifice.... more
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At Second Glance
USA, 2006, 20 min.
Deirdre and Will are best friends who share everything, including the details of 'bi-curious' Deirdre's first date with a lesbian. Yet it's hard to tell where fantasy (either Deirdre's or Will's) stops and reality takes over.... more
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Atomic Banana
USA, 2006, 5 min.
A mad scientist and his hungry monkey helper go bananas when an experiment goes awry…... more
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A.W.O.L.
USA, 2006, 22 min.
David Morse (Disturbia) stars as a Special Services officer captured by North Vietnamese regulars on the border of Laos, and John C. McGinley is a renegade Yank soldier who tortures the Viet Cong prisoners he is in charge of, in this haunting story about the foibles of war..... more
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Beach Access
USA, 2007, 14 min.
What could be more idyllic than a trip to the beach? Just about anything in the world, if you happen to be a member of the couple in this story about the turning point in a marriage.... more
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The Best Men
USA, 2006, 13 min.
Returning to his home town for the wedding of his best friend (and former sometime lover), Peter learns a lesson about letting go of the past.... more
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Bitchslap
USA, 2007, 5 min.
An actress gets her due, as one of the day players she’s been torturing finally decides she’s had enough of the diva trying to ‘feel the moment’.... more
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The Box
USA, 2006, 17 min.
A strange package unleashes a torrent of fear, paranoia and obsession in one young woman. And you'll never look at your neighbors the same way again.... more
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Call it Fiction
USA, 2006, 14 min.
Ron Silver and JoBeth Williams star in an intimate story of one family's struggle through divorce… and a tell-all book about it.... more
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The Caress of the Creature
USA, 2006, 19 min.
This amusing homage to 50’s horror movies turns the genre on its ear, with the help of a sensitive sea creature, a group of burly demolition men, a closet case foreman and the nelly servant boy who worships him.... more
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A Catalog of Anticipations
USA, 2007, 5 min.
Some people collect stamp. Others coins. This girl collects little winged fairies. Dead, little winged fairies. This film is creepy and compelling all at the same time.... more
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Chinese Dumplings
USA, 2006, 8 min.
Two young sisters stick together under the withering discipline of their strict mother in this endearing story of devotion and duty.... more
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Chope
USA, 2007, 19 min.
You think you got problems? Consider Henry Chope, who comes home from his girlfriend’s house to find his life turned upside down and inside out with the news that his long-suffering mother has gone to meet her maker…... more
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Clear Cut, Simple
USA, 2006, 14 min.
Following orders and friendship collide as an American soldier in Iraq must call into question the loyalty of his translator.... more
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Club Soda
USA, 2006, 23 min.
James Gandolfini, Lou Gossett Jr., Joe Mantegna and Michael Rispoli are featured in this supernatural fable about a young man who moves from Boston to New York, intent upon becoming a famous actor, and falls in with a group of friendly barflies who take him under their wing.... more
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Cough Drop
USA, 2007, 15 min.
Ten-year-old Kate's home life may be confusing, but she's scrappy, sassy and smart as a whip… which makes her choice to go into a car with a man she doesn't know all the more frightening.... more
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Crawl Space
USA, 2007, 11 min.
When a young wife is accidentally stuck in the crawl space under her house, she hears - and then sees - things she should never have known.... more
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Cricket Head
USA, 2006, 19 min.
Freshly released from prison, where she’s just done time for her obsessive sexual pursuit of one of her students, Cricket, a forty-something teacher, shows up at his door in the prologue to a reckless series of encounters, with her going to ever-increasing lengths to win his affections…... more
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Crossing The Heart
USA, 2007, 32 min.
The sweltering desert on the Arizona/Mexico border is the backdrop for a tense face off between Ray (Kris Kristoferson), an aging vigilante, and Jesus, an illegal who is trying to cross the border for work.... more
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Daddy
USA, 2007, 4 min.
Wayne spends a night of bliss with the man of his dreams – Zev, but soon afterwards wakes up to a potential nightmare: he’s pregnant, Zev is last month’s news, and single parenthood is not Wayne’s idea of a good career option…... more
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A Day At The Zoo
USA, 2006, 2 min.
A woman takes her baby to the Zoo, but all the people she encounters are such animals!... more
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Deface
USA, 2006, 20 min.
Free expression is not an option in the People’s Republic of North Korea, so when a worker decides he’s had enough of the state’s propaganda billboards, he risks the wrath of the authorities and the fear of his fellow workers…... more
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The Desert Rose
USA, 2007, 24 min.
Terry Moore stars as a well-to-do ‘lady who lunches’ that transcends the class and ethnic divide separating the Hispanic and white communities in the Desert, through a series of unanticipated encounters with her Mexican American gardener in this stunning local film shot in Palm Desert and Indio.... more
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Dinner at Eight
USA, 2007, 26 min.
Molly-Sue is the perfect wife and soon-to-be mother. Granted, she's a little peeved at the small annoyances in life…but she can always count on dinner at eight.... more
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Downwinders: The People of Parowan
USA, 2007, 26 min.
During the ‘50’s and early 60’s, the U.S. Government conducted a series of thermonuclear tests in the Desert of Nevada, all the while assuring its citizens that there was no danger to people or livestock in the surrounding communities. This is the story of one such community.... more
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The Drift
USA, 2007, 9 min.
This mock documentary utilizes found footage and images in an inventive imagined history of a huge space mission which goes badly awry in the late 60’s, changing life back on Earth in unanticipated ways.... more
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Entity Nine
USA, 2006, 17 min.
Sporting blockbuster special effects, this action-packed tale of cloning and robots is sure to thrill.... more
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Eulogy For Jack
USA, 2007, 10 min.
What would you like people to say about you at your funeral? Maybe you should write it down.... more
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Everything Will Be Ok
USA, 2006, 17 min.
Step inside the mind of Bill, a man who’s going just a little insane…Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award: Best Short Film.... more
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Evocation
USA, 2006, 5 min.
A visual and poetic ode to the strong emotional conflicts arising from the loss of a loved one.... more
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Family Dinner Night
USA, 2007, 7 min.
One very strange family shares their weekly ‘family dinner night’, and dad has cooked up something special for each of them…... more
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Feeding
USA, 2007, 12 min.
A suburban homemaker in a loveless marriage finds solace in an intimate yet bizarre relationship with her garbage disposal. When her husband learns of the 'affair', she makes a spectacular choice between the two.... more
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The Fighting Cholitas
USA, 2006, 21 min.
The bold, resilient and extraordinary indigenous Indian women in Bolivia who jump into the ring each week as professional wrestlers--resplendent in their multilayered skirts and hats.... more
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Fool Me Once
USA, 2007, 15 min.
An adulterous wife embarks on an elaborate mission to pass off an expensive gift from her lover as her own in front of her husband.... more
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Forgetting Betty
USA, 2006, 10 min.
A charming and surprising portrait of what it's like to be old…... more
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The Frank Anderson
USA, 2006, 13 min.
Frank has a sizeable problem that his insurance company doesn’t want to help him with: man-boobs. Can he learn to love his breasts and find true happiness?... more
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Freedom Plaza
USA, 2007, 5 min.
A seemingly everyday conversation between a TV journalist and a woman who has recently joined his network turns into a revelation of sorts, as she unveils the events that led to her coming to America and joining his team.... more
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Freeheld
USA, 2007, 38 min.
Laurel Hester, a policewoman with 25 years of service on the Ocean County police force, faces a form of discrimination that confronts too many people in contemporary America. This incredibly moving documentary draws attention to the issue of domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples in a wa... more
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Full-dress
USA, 2007, 10 min.
Two prisoners are trapped in cages. Why are they there? What is their motivation? And what is really going on behind the scenes?... more
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Gay Zombie
USA, 2007, 20 min.
Miles deals with the everyday problems of being a zombie in an unsympathetic world with equanimity. It’s coming out as a gay zombie that’s causing him problems…... more
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The Gloaming
USA, 2007, 4 min.
Working in his office on a dark and stormy night, a man confronts an unsettling vision both outside his office window and within his computer screen…... more
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The Golden Hour
USA, 2007, 4 min.
Two frogs in the lazy Bayou exchange a lively moment.... more
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Happenstance
USA, 2007, 10 min.
A Holocaust survivor deals with an incident of vulgar bigotry when she encounters a young, disturbed woman on the street outside her house, but when the tables are turned,
will she show the same unthinking lack of humanity?... more
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