Independent Shorts Awards

Purple

A girl struggles to tell her girlfriend how much she is breaking.
Directed by Elena C. Lockleis (USA)

Circadia

Your attention is no longer yours. For the next four minutes, it belongs to her. She calls for liberation. She calls for you to snap out of the spell. Can you hear her? Will you demand silence?
Directed by Jacob Murray (USA)

Home

Home is about a young soldier coming home from war and overcoming his struggles with PTSD as he adjusts to life back home.
Directed by Julia Weaver (USA)

Doggie

Doggie ponders her life, fellow doggies, and her forever human friend.
Directed by Emily Ming-An Wang (USA)

Virtually

A woman struggling to survive alone in a post-apocalyptic wasteland discovers a virtual-reality machine and escapes from her loneliness into a scenic virtual world. When she falls in love with a man inside this virtual world, she must choose between her love and her life in this romantic science fiction short film.
Directed by P. Patrick Hogan (USA)

Blind Vampire

Centuries after a being ambushed, a blinded vampire survives thanks to her seeing eye dog.
Written by Eric Robert White (USA)

Rainbow Mothers

Sesame and Bean, a Chinese lesbian couple, had to travel thousands of miles away from home to get married and again to get pregnant because both are illegal for same-sex couples in their own country. Now they are determined to create a more rainbow-friendly society for their babies.
Directed by Elle Luan (China)

Courage

“Courage” is a Neo-Noir Western drama that explores the themes of generational dysfunction, choice, and the ability to change ones behavior. Set in the Southwest, Courage tells the story of Gayle, a man on the run from the law, and his abusive past. On his way back to where his trouble all began, he is held up by a group of local thugs, and robbed of something of great value. He must make a choice to get back what was stolen, or get out before the long arm of the law catches up with him.
Directed by Eric Wann (USA)