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After Dinner
USA, 2010, 5 min.
It's always a tug-of-war to see who picks up the check.... more
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Alan and Frank: The Festival Heist
USA, 2010, 5 min.
Alam and Frank, two talentless filmmakers, make their way to a film festival where their film may have been rejected, but Alan has a plan.... more
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American Patriot
USA, 2009, 12 min.
Thinking he's hit on the perfect way to pick up girls, a dodgy librarian hits the bars pretending to be a NYC firefighter from 9/11 in this dark comedic tale of vice...and versa.... more
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Ana's Playground
USA, 2009, 20 min.
Amazingly, children can make a game out of nearly anything.... more
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Annie Leibovitz: “So, There You Go.”
USA, 2009, 10 min.
An engrossing overview of the life and work of America's preeminent portrait photographer.... more
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The Author: Part of Locker 13
USA, 2009, 18 min.
In this dark, wry tale of secrets and lies, a hired hit man uses his current assignment as the basis for a novel he's writing.... more
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Banana Bread
USA, 2009, 9 min.
Matt Meyerson has a worried Jewish mother. In this case, she actually has good reason to worry as he heads out the door for another typical day on the job.... more
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Barko
USA, 2010, 8 min.
After a not-so-pleasant stint in the circus, Barko is only too happy to find an owner who treats him like a dog.... more
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Bastard
USA, 2009, 8 min.
A legendary story is re-imagined in a contemporary setting, as a young couple make their way through the desert to a rendezvous with fate. The cast includes Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Juno Temple (Glorious 39) and Lukas Haas (Witness).... more
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Bedfellows
USA, 2010, 15 min.
Bobby is almost ready to give up on love when he meets what may be the man of his dreams at a bar one night. Will handsome Jonathan turn out to be just another nightmare?... more
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Betty
USA, 2010, 13 min.
Betty's emotional landscape is fragile and fragmented, until she is given a chance to connect with some long lost part of herself.... more
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The Butterfly Circus
USA, 2009, 23 min.
A cynical man without limbs is rescued from life in a traveling freak show by a kindly showman with a far more kindly view of human values and dignity.... more
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The Cake
USA, 2010, 2 min.
When an attempt to be romantic backfires in the worst possible way, a man does the only thing he can to salvage it -- the Heimlich maneuver.... more
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The Call to the Post
USA, 2009, 10 min.
David has had more than a few failed dreams, but there is one he can't let go of.... more
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Catching On: The Day the World Turned Gay
USA, 2009, 18 min.
In this comedic parody of Night of the Living Dead, a young man tries to save himself and his girlfriend from becoming infected on the day that gay marriage is approved.... more
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Cecilia
USA, 2009, 12 min.
A married woman finds herself unexpectedly attracted to a liberated younger woman in this story about the conflict between personal identity and cultural taboos.... more
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Clean
USA, 2009, 11 min.
Natalie dodges phone calls from her landlord and creditors as she teeters between her job teaching dance to the elderly and a desperate plunge into the abyss.... more
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The Clerk's Tale
USA, 2010, 14 min.
Trapped in a world in which the "closet" refers to more than just a place to hang clothes, a man grapples with the trappings of his life as a posh clothing store clerk.... more
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Colonial Gods
USA, 2009, 29 min.
A contemporary story about a complicated friendship between a Somali and Nigerian, set against the backdrop of gentrification and displacement in a small immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales.... more
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Comfortable Distance
USA, 2009, 15 min.
Helen is caught on the horns of a dilemma: her sense of obligation to her long-deteriorating husband conflicts with the sense of newfound happiness she feels when she experiences a romantic reawakening in the autumn of her life. ... more
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The Cross
USA, 2010, 9 min.
PSISF alumni Christina Choe (The Queen) returns to ShortFest with this striking tale about a vigilante rancher who takes a young illegal immigrant prisoner and lives to regret it.... more
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Curious Thing
USA, 2009, 9 min.
The first in a three part trilogy examining the lives of gay men in NYC, this blend of love story, coming out story and documentary explores the emerging romance between Jared, a closeted gay man and Sam, the straight object of his desire.... more
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Death by Scrabble
USA, 2010, 5 min.
A Scrabble board provides the battlefield for a married couple who barely tolerate each other, until the husband's appetite provides his wife with an unexpected opportunity.... more
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Dibble
USA, 2009, 19 min.
Reluctantly returning home to his former life, a young man finds the airwaves a surprising place to be.... more
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Easy Made Hard
USA, 2009, 13 min.
Tyrone Brown, proud owner of a long and brutal rap sheet, takes a final refuge in his father's house. But this last visit home spells tragedy from the beginning. The only question being, whose tragedy will it be?... more
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Envirometer
USA, 2009, 5 min.
The fantastic new contraption, Envirometer, stands at the ready to regulate the fight between those who would conserve and those who would build. In this world, balance is everything, but Envirometer has other ideas.... more
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Family Jewels
USA, 2009, 21 min.
A mother, also a soldier, spends the eve of her deployment to Afghanistan at odds with her desires and the demands now placed upon her.... more
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The Feast of Stephen
USA, 2009, 5 min.
Based on a poem by Anthony Hecht, this atmospheric tale of one boy's brush with forbidden adolescent desire pays homage to the work of Kenneth Anger, the seminal priest of contemporary homoerotic underground cinema.... more
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Feeding Baudelaire
USA, 2009, 15 min.
Isabelle and Robert are feeling the same thing as most young couples with a new baby: exhausted, overwhelmed and afraid that the door to adventure will be forever closed to them. Then a mysterious couple moves in next door, giving them an opportunity to reawaken their passion.... more
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Free Parking
USA, 2009, 12 min.
When three kids are given $5 to find anything to do other than play video games, they come across a magical Monopoly game in a thrift shop with a strange power beyond their wildest imaginings.... more
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Gayby
USA, 2010, 12 min.
The gayby boom has hit, as Jenn (straight) asks her best friend from college, Matt (gay), to be her sperm donor. Deciding to take the cheap route, they plan to make a baby the old fashioned way, but consummating the act proves more difficult than either thought.... more
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Girls Named Pinky
USA, 2009, 17 min.
Morris Munsey, least likely guy to defend a woman's honor, finds himself doing just that in a bar. But this woman isn't your average damsel in distress.... more
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Git Along, Little Dogies
USA, 2010, 9 min.
In this amusing personal meditation, a woman confronts the fact that she's always been defined by her breasts rather than by her actions and accomplishments.... more
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Go Go Reject
USA, 2010, 20 min.
Daniel yearns to leave his job at Yogurt World and pursue his real passion: becoming the Jennifer Beals of male go-go dancing. Unfortunately, his physical attributes seem to be the only thing getting in his way.... more
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God of Love
USA, 2010, 19 min.
Lounge-singing darts champion Raymond Goodfellow learns a surprising lesson about unrequited love when he discovers his true place in the universe.... more
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The Good Life
USA, 2010, 9 min.
Robert (Julian Sands) has set the scene for the perfect romantic dinner with Melissa, the woman of his dreams. But in the course of his planned perfect evening, Melissa will reveal a fatal flaw that causes a major malfunction in the evening's activities.... more
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A Harlem Mother
USA, 2009, 12 min.
Local filmmaker Ivana Todorovic tells the heart wrenching story of Jean Corbett-Parker whose love for her son, tragically shot, lives on through her work with Harlem Mothers.... more
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He She We
USA, 2009, 10 min.
Verbally challenged in the English language department, Frenchman Jacques writes his girlfriend Cynthia a note telling her he's leaving her for someone "closer to his own age." What he meant to say was someone closer to his own sex.... more
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Head in the Sand
USA, 2009, 16 min.
When we first meet Henry, a young American soldier on his way to Afghanistan, he is a 7-year-old with a sweet tooth for combat-themed comic books.... more
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Helpless
USA, 2009, 11 min.
Events can be perceived from quite different perspectives depending on your vantage point, as Good Samaritan Eli Delaney learns when a young child runs out in front of his car one clear spring day.... more
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Herbert White
USA, 2009, 13 min.
Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) stars as the titular character who harbors a terrible secret in this utterly compelling portrait of a family man living two distinctly separate lives.... more
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How I Survived the Zombie Apocalypse
USA, 2009, 11 min.
A single mother and her teenage son try to exist in the shattered and brutal near-future where mere survival is best played as a game to win.... more
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If You're Gonna Build a House: Community by Architecture
USA, 2010, 8 min.
The Palm Springs legacy of noted architect Donald Wexler.... more
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The Ignorant Bliss of Sun and Moon
USA, 2009, 6 min.
Fleeting moments of bliss that make life worth living are few and far between for our Everyman who could use a little help from the world above.... more
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The In-Between
USA, 2010, 10 min.
Can true love survive the world of online sex sites? Two gay men in a committed relationship navigate the waters of contemporary coupledom in this, the second of Alain Hain's three films dealing with contempo gay culture.... more
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It's Over
USA, 2009, 14 min.
This movie-within-a-movie revolves around a former studio executive who works as a concessions seller at a local movie theatre. She has a run in with her manager that can only mean one thing: could her life in show business be over?... more
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Just in Case
USA, 2009, 7 min.
A terrifying suspicion yields a deliciously delicate return.... more
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L.A. Bag Brothers
USA, 2009, 5 min.
Dominik and Vlad are brothers with a family business disposing of bodies. Their three rules: cash only, never panic, and don't trust generic trash bags.... more
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A Lack of Gravity
USA, 2010, 13 min.
With this, the third part of his audacious trilogy on contemporary gay life, Director Alain Hain explores how gay men are pressured to conform to straight stereotypes in American society.... more
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Last Call
USA, 19 min.
Gavin, a reformed alcoholic, calls his former lover in hopes of setting things right, but finds himself sidetracked to a far different place on his way to the planned rendezvous.... more
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