May 2021 – Page 6 – Independent Shorts Awards

Ode to an Inanimate Companion

his is a fictional fantasy, of a plush inanimate toy ALAN, which serves as a companion to a child Christina

It’s not always easy speed dating, when you’re a sperm. Directed by Michael Alvarado (USA)

Written by Michael Anthony Alvarado (USA)

This short film is a montage of images which when taken apart, don’t have any meaning to anyone but the

Four eccentric women join (or are forced by their parents to join) an online program called Q-friends (quarantine – friends),

Directed by Joey Angerone (USA)

Clarissa is a voice over artist. And that would be fine, except she’s also invisible. In a world where all

Halloween is both Malvolio and Trixie’s favorite holiday. On their way to attend the yearly ‘Masters of Illusion’ Halloween Party

Maya, daughter of a successful painter, must sell her paintings in the art gallery in order to save her Father’s

A lone hunter traverses the irradiated zone in search of the thing he is missing most. However, he is not

Two toddlers get up early in order to raid the kitchen. Directed by Neil Walshe (Australia)

Join Rachel Sellers for a journey in scale from the subatomic world to the edge of the cosmos as she

Directed by Joan Kabugu and Yusuke Sato (Australia)

The middle of nowhere, Siberia. A grizzled hermit squats in an abandoned church. He is cold, lonely and all out