THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hour 41 min
Directed by: Chris Cottam

Two distant cousins who’ve never met - one in NYC, the other in the smallest town there is in Ireland - come together to finally put an end to a generations-long family feud. It doesn’t go well. The Problem With People, set in beautifully lush Irish countryside, is a heartwarming comedy about family, world peace ... and sheep.

MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr 32 min
Directed by: Michael Lukk Litwak

MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE is a Sci-Fi Romantic Comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions and one space-cult.

GIRL AT A BAR

Webseries Program 1

Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 55 min
Directed by: Angela Cohen

Girl at a Bar is a short form series about a young woman's journey to bars alone for a year to reclaim her identity after half a decade debilitated with Lyme disease. Gabby spent years disabled with Lyme and now significantly recovered, she is ready to get her life back, so she plans a party to celebrate her improved health. But everyone flakes. So she goes to the bar up the street and there she realizes no-one treats her like she’s sick and for once, her health is not the focus. Gabby decides to keep going to bars alone, to explore her city and herself as a more able-bodied woman- still grappling with her past and managing her illness, but redefining her future. Made possible by Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the project is inspired by the writer and creator Tracy Mulholland's blog and true story of being disabled with Lyme.

MIA & THE SKELETONS' NIGHT FROM HELL

Program 2: Midnight Sessions

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
Running Time: 4 min 35 sec
Directed by: Ryan Maples

A spec teaser short horror comedy about a punk band dealing with a rival group whose music just so happens to turn anyone who hears it into demons. Now the punk group must band together to survive a literal night from Hell. This is a short teaser film, setting up the larger story.

NEON RAGE

Program 6: Female Gaze

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 13 min
Directed by: Alejandra Parody

Camila, a young aspiring-and-struggling illustrator, meets Madison, a teenage girl, when Camila is hired by Madison’s (very) wealthy family as her tutor. Unlike Camila, Madison is confident, popular, and has never experienced rejection. Though Camila initially dismisses the teenager as vapid and out-of-touch, they connect over their shared struggles as artists at heart. Camila becomes seduced by Madison’s can-do-attitude and naïve drive. The short interaction ultimately sparks a new fire inside of Camila. There’s a low key, slice-of-life feel to the story. It moves us to reflect on the themes of wealth, privilege, and what it takes to be successful.

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THE FAVOR

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 10 min
Directed by: Wanjiru Njendu

"Death doesn't become her." When the Angel of Death comes to collect a woman who is just not ready to go, things take a surprising turn. (Winner of the Inaugural Freestyle Cinema Rentals Short Script Competition Presented By The Chimaera Project)"

INGLORIOUS LIAISONS

Program 3: Queer it Up!

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 11 min
Directed by: Chloé Alliez, Violette Delvoye

Tonight is the night for Lucie, Maya and their friends. Even Jimmy came : he is here for Maya and everybody knows it. But at the moment when everything is supposed to happen, Maya and Lucie finds out they have hidden feelings for each other, tender and confused, who trouble to find their place in this evening punctuated by alcohol that flows freely, the compilations that rock and the hormones that boil.

THE WORD

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 10 min
Directed by: Rob M Neilson

In THE WORD, billionaires decide to give African American's reparations for slavery...bit there's a catch.

HERITAGE DAY

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 20 min
Directed by: Lara Everly

After Evie dresses up like her estranged grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, on HERITAGE DAY at school, she becomes increasingly obsessed with this dark part of her family history.

SUMMER'S LAST SWIM

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 12 min
Directed by: Eliza Bent

Magazine quizzes, summer camp crushes, and awkward funerals fill the world of 15-year-old besties Shawna and Juno who spend one last day at the beach as they await the uncertain future of an in-person sophomore year. “Do you really think I’m a cauliflower?”

FINDING FILMAN

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 13 min
Directed by: Kevin Anglin

A documentary team follows a delusional soft-core porn actor who seeks to cross over into the mainstream acting world. Regis Filman is a soft core porn actor who has recently been submitted for consideration for an AVN Award for his performance in an adult film entitled 'The Buttler’. The potential nomination leads him to believe that he is ‘more’ than just a soft core star and he seeks to 'cross over' into the mainstream performance world by showcasing his skills as a ‘method actor’. When the AVN nomination doesn’t go as planned Regis must rely on help from his roommate JAKE and the rest of his friends to keep him focused on his method acting dreams.

PROOF OF CONCEPT

Program 7: Funny Threads

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 6 min
Directed by: Max Cohn, Ellie Sachs

An aspiring auteur tries coaxing her dad and uncle into financing her first short film but winds up raising more questions than dollars.

WHAT A TRIP!

Program 2: Midnight Sessions

Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 15 min
Directed by: Collin Kornfeind

Two downtrodden strangers go on a vision quest to cure their depression but end up trying to figure out why they have matching visions of a manic, talking wolf-bear named Kevin.

TABERNACLE

Program 2: Midnight Sessions

Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Running Time: 13 min
Directed by: Dante Capone

A wandering tramp falls in with a crowd of religious zealots, led by a bumbling preacher who sermonizes, ""Hellfire is a real place!"" In the back pew, the tramp imagines grandiose visions of snickering devils and orgiastic torture. The unnamed hero is then baptized in the ocean and does janitorial work for the church, but idiotically causes a fire. There are devils hiding in the carpet! The preacher catches him in the act, resulting in a scuffle which leads to the demise of both.

LILY'S MIRROR

Program 6: Female Gaze

Genre: Thriller, Horror, Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 17 min
Directed by: Linnea Frye, Adam Pinney

Lily is out on a dinner date with her boyfriend Bart, expecting a proposal, when he unexpectedly chops off her hand. As Lily works on recovering, she begins to feel phantom pains where her hand used to be, so her doctor gives her a therapeutic mirror box to help with the discomfort. However, as she begins to use the box, she realizes there's a side effect: she can see real phantoms in the mirror. Specifically, she begins to see the obituaries of multiple dead women who experienced recent and mysterious deaths come to life. As Lily learns these women's stories, their lives and deaths begin to intertwine in a journey of self-discovery, female empowerment, and the quest for justice.

LET IT OUT

Program 5: Life, Unscripted

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 2 min
Directed by: Scott Talbot

A man suffering from depression finds something unexpected at his lowest point.

I ONCE WAS LOST

Program 5: Life, Unscripted

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 11 min
Directed by: Emma Limon

One night in 2008, my father, John, got lost in a Boston suburb.

HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS

Program 3: Queer it Up!

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 12 min
Directed by: Nyala Moon

HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.

CUXBALL

Program 3: Queer it Up!

Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 12 min
Directed by: Dave Paige

Sam finds something in the dirt.

HOW TO DEAL WITH FAME

Program 1a: LA Stories

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 21 min
Directed by: Tiffany Ike

When a masculine-presenting actress gets cast as the leading lady in a play where her character dresses the opposite of her, her mother’s arrival for the performance reminds her of the womanhood she lacks.

OH GREAT, RILEY'S DEPRESSED AGAIN

Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 11 min
Directed by: Charia Rose

Riley’s self-medication of choice right now is weed and lots of it. As she sits in her car trying to find the energy to attend an annual brunch hosted by her damn near perfect sister Jasmine, she is visited by Lee, the visual (and more put together) representation of her consciousness. Lee attempts to guide Riley through the brunch, coaching her on how to hide her “crazy” but it all comes to a head when the friend group realizes Riley is, in fact, depressed again. An intervention follows, and Riley is painfully confronted with the reality that no matter how good she thinks she is at hiding her depression, it’s impacting all those that love her. She’s left wondering how is she supposed to handle her pain and the impact it has on the ones she loves the most.

BENTO BANANA 1-4

Webseries Program 2

Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 27 min
Directed by: Ari Grabb

An animated web series about a talking artificially intelligent banana and his eggplant sidekick existing within a procedurally generated anime that appears to be mysteriously glitching. With the progression of the series, the themes move from the absurdity and conventions of anime into existential questions about the nature of reality, The role of AI in art and Capitalism, and how much of ourselves exist within our animation.

THE COUNTDOWN

TV Pilots Program

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 29 min
Directed by: Melanie Renfroe

A dark comedy about two best friends staring down the barrel of 40, facing the painful truth that their individual hopes for motherhood have been bested by dead-end careers and unfaithful partners. At the end of their collective ropes, a rage- and alcohol-fueled science experiment becomes their dark solution to the genetic injustice of their biological clocks.

HAND ME DOWNS

TV Pilots Program

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 21 min
Directed by: Blaise Beyhan

HAND ME DOWNS is episodic ensemble series that explores the consequences and nuances of American masculinity on a group of friends. This programming is handed down generation to generation, father to son, brother to brother, friend to friend. we follow the group of friends through everyday life with their hand me downs guiding each step they take.

WHO'S ANNIE?

TV Pilots Program

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 30 min
Directed by: Sophia Peer

After jail-time, 12-step programs and five marriages, Annie begins her acting career in her mid-fifties with the help of a young director she met at a Burger King. In this show within a show, Annie tackles both her gigs as an actor and the role of herself in her own life story.

DARLA IN SPACE

Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 1hr 34 min
Directed by: Susie Moon, Eric Laplante

Darla Peterson lives with her mother and runs her business, Kitty Kasket, out of the garage. She works hard and keeps her nose clean, so how did she end up with a $349,000.22 tax debt? Leona Peterson's nose is less clean. She suggests they hunt carburetors in the neighborhood and sell off the valuable platinum found within. With this plan, they'd have the debt paid off in two weeks. Darla is frustrated with her mother's insane notions, but she tries to make the best of her work day cleaning the warehouse overseen by Arnot Pickens. Arnot Pickens is an absentee boss at best. His work seems to be guarding a shipping container and not answering the telephone which perpetually rings. Poking around the place, Darla topples upon the discovery of a lifetime, locked tight inside the shipping container: a sentient kombucha scoby, and it can talk! Or at least, Darla can hear this scoby, whose name is Mother, loud and clear. This is not the topper in the list of Mother's unusual qualities, however. Darla discovers Mother's ability to grant mind-blowing orgasms. If Darla will help Mother fulfill her dream of going to space, Mother will help Darla with her debt. As quick as that, Darla puts her plan in motion: All she needs is to find 350 people to orgasm, or "Menage", with Mother at $1,000 a pop and the debt is paid. Totally straightfoward.

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