Directed by Rachel Morgan
Several days captured in a matter of seconds through an animation created from hundreds of photos.
1 minSouvenir
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Fisher
Written/Directed/Produced by Yoram Benz
Fisher is an outcast who lives in a small cabin at the edge of the sea. A pasty grey creature living among tall furry ones, Fisher is ostracized by his village for being different. His only company is a memory, a faded photograph of his deceased mother. But his world is turned upside down one day when in a twist of fate, he is forced out of his comfort zone and into a journey of self-discovery.
A film about finding yourself and how sometimes we need that extra push to take a leap toward changing our lives.
7 minZing
Directed by Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collins; Produced by Phillip Wolf, C. Cramer-Clausbruch
Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It’s a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she’s the next life on Mr. Grimm’s list.
7 minVoyage Trekkers
Written by Nathan Blackwell, Craig Curtis; Directed by Nathan Blackwell; Produced by Tray Goodman
A sci-fi comedy web series about the worst crew in the galaxy. Join the impulsive Captain Sunstrike, the exasperated Doctor Rena, and the unphazed Commander Powell as they thoroughly screw up one adventure after another. These are the voyages that don’t make the captain’s log.
5 minTransfers
Written/Directed by Chuck Hartsell; Produced by Stacey Shirley, John White
He has no name, no memory. All this man knows is he has awakened in a strange, subterranean hospital surrounded by doctors professing they are there to help him. With little choice but to trust them, he allows himself to be connected to an experimental machine in the hopes that it can repair his mind. But when he begins experiencing waking nightmares, each more bizarre than the one before, he starts to suspect that his doctors aren’t working to help him restore his memory at all. Rather, they seem to be working on a secret objective of their own.
21 minThe Price
Written by James St. Vincent; Directed by Zeke Pinheiro, James St. Vincent; Produced by Michael May, Ashleigh Snead
Set in a gritty, futuristic, and economically devastated NYC, The Price is the story of two outlaws and the bounty hunter who pursues them. Inspired by the Italian Westerns of the 1960’s, the film is a mash-up of A Fistful Of Dollars and Mad Max with a little Escape From New York sprinkled on top.
Starring Carlos Gallardo (el Mariachi), Solomon Trimble (Twilight), Mali Elfman, Michael May, and James St. Vincent.
18 minTo Catch a Predator
Written/Directed/Produced by Wes Eastin
A spoof of MSNBC’s long running special program, To Catch a Predator. Chris Hansen might have finally met his match.
4 minTaste
Directed by Sydney Raye Smith; Produced by Taylor Slingerland
Cliff, a butcher, is employed by a local seafood market that specializes in the sale of mermaid flesh. For a long time he has felt conflicted over the ethics of his job and of the way that he perceives these fantastical creatures to be. After his interaction with a chilly customer heightens this internal struggle, he must make a choice when the mermaid of his fantasies becomes a nightmarish reality.
5 minSWOOSH!
Written/Directed by Sabina Sattar; Produced by Ash Maharaj, Brian Lavery, Gladys San Juan, Julianne Honey-Mennal, Sabina Sattar
S.W.O.O.S.H! – the Support Week Of Overlooked Super Heroes therapy group gets a new member, Melder. Melder’s polite interest soon turns hostile as he begins to bully all the other members. Melder finally reveals himself to be the Super-Villain Melter and demands the other members join his evil empire. The other members aren’t sure. There’s only one person who could possibly save them but she retired years ago…
20 minScrap Metal
Written/Directed/Produced by Anthony Straus
The Cold War is over, but with a different ending. New York is in ruins and is overgrown with a network of some kind of sentient plant organisms. All human life has vanished. However, roaming the empty streets is a lone robot leftover from a Soviet spy initiative. The robot’s only companion is a screw which the robot lives with inside his out-of-place subway car wreck. When mutant plant monster known as Gigaplant emerges, threatening to eat the screw, the robot must do everything he can to defend his helpless friend from certain demise.
4 minOld Man Cabbage
Written/Directed/Produced by Raymond Carr
In a farm forgotten by time, Viola and Theodore are a couple of dust bowl farm kids who love to play circus. But their lives are flipped upside down when they are caught in an accident with Viola’s abusive father in a struggle. They decide to run away and join a ghostly circus that appears in a 1920’s style Speakeasy.
This new long-form narrative music video is based on the Song “Old Man Cabbage” by Atlanta’s own Ninja Puppet Productions Blair Crimmins and the Hookers and features the magnificent Imperial Opa Circus performers.
16 minPerceptio
Written/Directed by Brendan Gabriel Murphy; Produced by Jeff Beard
Through a dream-like fantasy interpretation of dying, Viola experiences the powerful seduction of the Angel of Death. Her vulnerability causes her to cross over, taking her deeper into the darkness. But through pure strength and determination, her soul suddenly breaks free of Death’s grasp and continues to go on living. A surreal journey seen through Viola’s cold, white eyes.
14 minPac-Man
Written/Directed by Brad Cannady; Produced by Brad Cannady, Josh Miller, Hunter Kallenbach, Steven Aleck
Two men find themselves trapped and on the run from a nightmarish creature.
3 minOpening Day
Written/Directed by Caitlin Shirts
In this slapstick tragedy, handless creatures are given the opportunity to receive hands. When two of the creatures cheat the system to increase their odds of getting good pairs, the others try to stop them.
8 minThe Old Man and the Old Woman
Written by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (original material); Directed/Produced by Basia Goszczynska
Two soul mates fight their fears of death and loneliness in this short dark comedy based on the Polish fable by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.
9 minThe Narrative of Victor Karloch
Written by Ryan Murphy; Directed by Kevin McTurk; Produced by Heather Henson
Victor Karloch receives a journal from a colleague who is involved in a salvage operation for a series of missing sea freighters in the North Sea. In this journal, Karloch’s friend describes his descent into the abysmal deep with the use of a diving bell and his encounters with the ghosts of a lost Templar Knights ship.
The Narrative of Victor Karloch is a Victorian ghost story puppet short film that utilizes 30′ tall rod puppets, traditional shadow puppetry, rotoscope, and rear projection to present the adventure of Victor Karloch, an alchemist, scholar, and ghost hunter, as he battles the supernatural forces of the Unknown.
15 minLife Life in in Space Space
Directed by Tyson Persall; Produced by Cary Martin, Tyson Persall
Life Life in in Space Space is a concept TV show/short film that is about fanciful characters in space working together and getting along despite radical differences. It centers on the themes of tolerance and “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Some people have said, “It’s like Space Balls for the 90’s.” The truth is, political correctness on a space ship—an isolated place—is probably a horrible idea in all practicality.
13 minThe Keeper
Written/Directed by Chris St.Croix; Produced by Chris St.Croix, David Buchert
When a mysterious stranger pays a visit to the underground lair of a gang of murderers, they soon find that there is more to him than meets the eye…and he’s not alone.
25 minJess Archer vs. The Ex
Written/Directed by Amy Taylor; Produced by Chris Haak
Jess Archer and her best friend, Chase Pollard, used to be two peas in a pod. They stood up for the little guy against the tyranny of school security officer Turner, a fascist nightmare whose major weapon is the threat of detention. But then Chase got interested in girls and abandoned Jess on a particularly important mission against Turner to go make out with his girlfriend in the parking lot. Now, however, someone has stolen Chase’s beloved Phantom comic, he suspects a disgruntled ex-girlfriend, and he turns to the one person he knows can help him get it back: Jess Archer.
13 minImminent Danger
Written/Directed by Alana McNair; Produced by Rebecca Drummond
In a very distant post-robotic future, Gail is an enthusiastic Motherland Protection Agency employee where her job is to notify the population of the Union’s current threat levels. After an unintentional button pressing incident alerting the Union’s population of its impending demise, people do not remain calm. Due to a minor injury back at the office, Gail wakes up in the hospital and realizes what she must do to reverse her mistake. Gail embarks on a wild journey meeting many bizarre characters in pursuit of an antique robot hand that may just be the key to saving the world.
16 min
