Independent Shorts Awards

The Breath Holder

When Güray holds his breath, he realizes the true intentions of the person who is speaking and the facts behind the words.
Directed by Emin Murat Kılıç (Turkey)

Aurora

Poetic short about the beauty of the Earth and space as captured from the International Space Station.
Directed by Marcelle Abela (Malta)

Food To Ate

This is a video for the song “Food To Ate” off the upcoming album release “The Broke Leg EP.” The EP and the video were made while recovering from a broken leg. This track is old school nursery rhymes with a little modern twist. Featuring Michael “Baba” Raudenbush.
Directed by Randy J. Huling (USA)

Overdose

While four buddies are hanging out in one of their houses, Kaan mentions a digital drug called “I,Doser.” They watch videos of people who have tried it but it doesn’t look secure to them. None of the boys dare to try it. They decide to play a game and incidents occur.
Directed by Emre Yapici (Turkey)

The Noise of the Light

Pablo and Marius make a disturbing discovery about their childhood friend Lou: she appears to be able to synthesize into sound the light she is exposed to. But as she soon becomes an instrument of their musical experiences, her gift turns into a sort of curse…
Directed by Valentin Petit (France)

Cue Jane

A middle-aged actress, Jane, has been failing to balance her acting career and taking care of her father who has Alzheimer’s. One the way to an important audition, she has to overcome unexpected hurdles which also forces her to reevaluate her life. 
Directed by Qianzi Gao (USA)

Sepia

The Man is rejected from reentering his country of residency after visiting his country of origin. Due to being a former immigrant, he is prohibited from coming back to the place where he has built his life and relationships. He is separated from his wife, the Woman, with whom he is deeply in love and has decided to share his life with. Therefore, he decides to undertake a journey by foot across the desert in order to illegally reenter the country and be reunited with his love.
Directed by Vicente Almuna (USA)

Your Move

A discouraged and disillusioned high school senior receives eye-opening and life-changing advice from his beloved older sister.
Directed by Kaleb Cruzado (USA)

Under the Flowers: Circle of Hell

The second season of the Award-Winning, supernatural web series finds Poe attempting to transform her tortured soul and move on as ‘Rose’ in a hellish odyssey set in the In-Between, led by the darkly mysterious Nerissa. Bravely facing down her many demons, Rose’s journey soon grows even darker, rapidly sending her to the outer edges of Hell, and threatening the very destruction of her soul. Will ‘The Halloween Girl’ come to her friend’s aid, or will even Charlotte find the price too high in the Circle of Hell…?
Directed by Richard T. Wilson (USA)

The Balloonatic

A clown tries to earn some money on the street by doing balloon tricks. But no matter what he tries, the audience doesn’t seem to notice him.
Directed by Eoin McLoughlin (Ireland)

GoatHead

A girl wakes up one morning with a goat head. Not knowing what to do, she goes through an internal crisis that ultimately brings her to an important and essential realization.
Directed by Marta Dias (UK)

BeeRockin

This video was born for the hip-hop culture event “Beerockin” guest of the famous “Beernocchi Beer Festival” in Rome. The goal of this video is to keep together the four disciplines of hip-hop: Djing, Writing, Mcing, Bboyin.
Directed by Gianlorenzo De Donno (Italy)

Here There Be Tygers

Third-grade student Charles really needs to go to the bathroom. And when his evil teacher Miss Bird finally releases him to go and relieve himself, he arrives at the bathroom to find a full-grown tiger sitting outside of the stalls.
Directed by Mike Johnston (Canada)