This Sweet Romance shows how ice cream makes people happier, makes them smile and even….fall in love.
A Hidden Agender
Written and Directed by Tracie Laymon
A misogynist businesswoman discovers she’s having a baby girl and no longer wants to have the baby.
Ad & Subtract
Directed and Animated by Laura Stephens
The world of a junior accountant explodes in hundreds of resumes after he learns that his boss put an ad in the paper to replace his job.
Bad Boy
Written and Directed by Michael Milillo
Grady seems to have the perfect life: looks, money, career and a beautiful girlfriend. That is, until she delivers the devastating news she is ending their seven-month relationship because of his lack of “edge.” Does Grady take it sitting down or will he do whatever it takes to win her back?
Be Infectious
Directed by Kerry Shaw Brown
Written by Scott Meyer, Dani Coplen and Ross Snodgrass
Each of us is born with a unique path before us and a unique perspective to shape our journey. But as life exerts its own pressures on us, sometimes we just need a spark to keep our flame going. We all have been blessed by the presence of someone special in our lives who pushed us to chase our dreams. Now it's our turn to light the fire.
Buddha's Bracelet
Written and Directed by Trent
an action comedy about a man who buys an ancient puzzle box that contains a magical bracelet once worn by Buddha. It grants him great Kung Fu power to fight off a gang of thugs and get the girl.
Chomp!
Written and Directed by Adam and Joe Horton
In post-apocalyptic Britain two Zombies stumble across the same corpse, with bizarre results...
Church Road
Written and directed by Nicole Yuhas
A young woman must decide whether or not to give her ailing stepfather electric shock therapy.
Containment
Written and Directed by David Charles Gott
A full blown viral pandemic has broken out and a young couple struggles to survive after they isolate themselves in their condo.
Donor
Directed by Mark Gantt
Written by Trevor Algatt
A couple grapples with the moral and intrapersonal consequences of being a donor.
An elderly man struggles against his deteriorating mind to reconstruct the fading memory of his departed wife.
Fall of Night
Directed by Ross Raventos
Written by Steven Haas & Ross Raventos
A comedy about four roommates who have lived together for fifteen years, and one of those roommates is M. Night Shyamalan.
Farmer
Written and Directed by Stacia Allen
When the 1980s debt-crisis sweeps the nation, a third-generation farmer struggles to save his land, his legacy, and his way of life from impending foreclosure. Desperately keeping the threat from his family, he learns just how far he will go to protect all he holds dear.
Feroz
Written and Directed by Virgil Goya
After Reyes kills Anna and erases the evidence, he finds, to his horror, that either he's losing his mind or Anna's spirit will not go quietly. “Feroz” is Spanish for ferocious, and it becomes abundantly clear that Anna is the one who is truly “Feroz.”
Grounded
Directed by Kevin Margo & Barrett Meeker
Written by Kevin Margo
One astronaut’s journey through space and life ends on a hostile exosolar planet. Grounded is a metaphorical account of the experience, inviting unique interpretation and reflection by the viewer. Themes of aging, inheritance, paternal approval, cyclic trajectories, and behaviors passed on through generations are explored against an ethereal backdrop.
Sam is a man bewildered by relationships. So, when his girlfriend leaves him, he shouts to the skies for guidance. But instead of receiving this, he's bitten by a decaying hermit and finds himself infected with a strange disease – every time his heart beats violently, he gets hungry…
How to Kill Your Clone
Direct by Jack McWilliams
Written by Ed McWilliams
Out of control clones must b eliminated!
Le Chapeau
Directed by Marie Tang
Written by Sahag Gureghian
A Photographer's chance encounter with a mysterious woman leads to love and loss.
Rain barrels down on the 1950's New York skyline as a celebrity couple prepares for a big premiere in their hotel room. Their relationship hangs on by a thread as they reflect on happier times before facing the inevitable present.
Mayhem
Written and Directed by A.I. Moore/Richard Blake
On his last night working security for the extremely wealthy and powerful Fulbright family, former special forces officer, Reed Price, as well as the Fulbright family are confronted by a deranged and self described "vigilante" group who have broken in the Fulbright's multi-million dollar estate to continue their cross country rampage of attacking wealthy families.
Mute
Written and Directed by Robert Burdsall
Adam, a socially inept teenager, must face the most daunting task of his life; speaking to the girl of his dreams. However, a chance encounter makes him realize that he is not alone, and he must overcome his anxiety to discover what he really wants.
No Rest for the Wicked
Written and Directed by Ryan Schifrin
This short horror-adventure romp features the title’s two main characters Basil & Moebius. Basil (Ray Park) is a street tough brawler while Moebius (Zachary Levi) plays a dashing cat burglar playboy. The
partners-in-crime, who work for the mysterious and supernatural Collector, pull a daring heist during an illegal gambling party thrown by an underworld kingpin (Malcolm McDowell).
Panic, Fear: Part One
Written and Directed by John Francis Conway III
No one is safe... When a young woman is awakened in the middle of the night by an intruder, no one will hear her death cry.
Connie and Cliff are on their way to Manhattan for Connie's newest book signing. Their car mysteriously dies and they roll into an auto repair shop. Here they encounter the very strange operators - Fred and Jimbo and their lives change forever. A homage to "The Twilight Zone".
Rubbin' One Out
Directed by Margo Romero
Written by Robert Gross
When Lois comes home to find Peter 'in the act' she is pleasantly surprised that there is a gift in it for her.
Ten Minute Decade
Directed by Sarah Gurfield
Written by Laura Mannino
A woman stumbles through her twenties struggling to reach all the right milestones before turning 30. After ten years of missing her own self-imposed deadlines she learns maybe it’s okay to not have what she’s supposed to want. Ten years in ten minutes.
The Last King Blood
Written and Directed by Jonathan Vender
United States Corporation research vessel Zarathustra is on the final tour of a five year research expedition to discover a renewable energy source for Earth. After landing on the planet Muncasa, they discover something else and are forced by their commander to bring this unknown creature aboard.
The Luckiest Man Alive
Written and Directed by Matthew Temple
Everything that can go wrong for Jon, does go wrong. But for every misfortune, a greater peril is averted... until fate catches up to him.
The Short Cut
Directed by Jude Weng
Written by Jude Weng and Nicky Holender
A modern day retelling of Aesop's fable 'The Tortoise and the Hare'. This action packed comedy is also a satirical look at life in Los Angeles when two friends argue over walking...or driving one mile. Their argument escalates into a bet and then the race is on!
Ticket to Hell
Directed by Enrico Natale
a family without health insurance, and a teenage boy's struggle to manage his dying mother's pain. It's a challenging look into a situation which many will relate, and takes a disturbing twist into the dark hell of desperation, hopefully few of us will ever endure.
To Beauty
Written and Directed by J. Zakira Wise
We all deserve to be noticed - a cinematic recreation of six paintings by Dada artist Otto Dix.
Two Bulls
Directed by Ricardo Ultreras
Written by Wolfgang Bodison and Mario Degasperi
Vinny is the golden boy on the LAPD. Then one day, his partner, Michael, makes a terrible mistake. Attempting to protect his best friend’s career, Vinny takes the fall, thinking he could beat the rap. But that’s not how things turned out. A debt must be repaid.
Vampire Vampire Vampire Vampire
Directed by Brenton Stumpf
Written by Gabe Hammad, Barrett Shuler, and Alyson Weaver
A guy becomes a vampire for a girl...and then vampires fall out of fashion.
Velcro Love Triangle
Directed by Russ Taylor
Written by Russ Taylor and Ashley Walsh
Bobbie Baxter, a lesbian singer song writer is confronted with hatred at every performance until her smarmy manager swoops her hair and tosses on a baseball cap creating the new hit male tween pop sensation, 'Bobby Baxter.' She achieves all of her so called dreams by becoming famous and loved but actually finds herself feeling miserable because her whole life has become a lie.
White Rose
Written and Directed by Hayley Watson
A young burlesque dancer struggles to overcome the trauma of a violent rape and the continued physiological torment of her attacker after he is declared not guilty of the crime.
Will & Fiona
Directed by Kate VanDevender
Written by Nelson Cheng
A short film about two co-workers (one married and one not) getting drinks after work— they're just getting to know each other, or are they?
The Father who realizes that his dream will not come true for a distant son. How a young child grown up and gone, will never come back to work the ranch that has been in the family for generations. A father's hope that there will be some one to keep working the land long after he is gone.
The 2013 Film line-up will be announced Feb. 7th, 2013. Below, you can check out the 2012 FILM SELECTONS
