• Under the Spotlight

Whether for the camera or for an audience, for family and friends or complete strangers, this collection of films digs into what it takes to mount a performance and explores the trials, tribulations and history of show business.

Short Films

Untitled Movie

Zoe is making a movie about a woman who is making a movie. In it, her character has to kiss a woman.

Daron, Daron Colbert

Living on the edge of one the most polluted zip codes in the US, an actor prepares for a role.

Mouthpiece

A distressed actor and her crass dummy quarrel over whether she is settling for her fiancé. In a performance that goes off the rails, the actor must ultimately confront the revealing insecurities that her dummy articulates.

A Dead Marriage

Filip is a professional dead body movie extra. On set, he meets Lucy, also an extra, playing a dead woman. While laying on top of each other during long hours, a bittersweet relationship develops in these unusual circumstances. Meet the filmmarker: https://youtu.be/oy-X027gnfo

High Noon on the Waterfront

On the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, this film explores its impact on two American classics in a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman (voiced by Edward Norton) and Elia Kazan (John Turturro).

Surprise

The successful actress and unconventional mother Ingrid decides to fly out and surprise her daughter on her birthday. The trip does not turn out as planned and Ingrid is confronted by the consequences of her life choices.

ShortFest 2023