Category: New Entries

Hollie wants to be an actress…
Directed by Sofia Streisand (USA)

A hard-working immigrant steals from his son’s, tuition fund, forcing the son to rob his father’s employer, further fracturing a relationship steeped in mutual desperation.
Directed by Doan Umer (USA)

This short film is a satirical thriller, which aims to confront anxieties experienced by students about how they choose to spend their limited time at university – whether to see it as a social or an educational opportunity.
Directed by Ruochen Zhao (UK)

This film gives voice to five of those mothers and examines the terrible social cost of shunning the family members of those on death row.
Directed by Linda Broocks (USA)

After a boy accidentally swallows a watermelon seed, weird things start to happen.
Directed by Kefei Li and Connie Qin He (USA)

A short film discussing living with mental health issues.
Directed by Bryan Cruz (USA)

A young woman inherits her estranged mafioso father’s strip club against her overly religious mother’s wishes.
Directed by Jonisha Rios (USA)

Yoli De La Cruz is a tough Latina woman from the streets of the Bronx who attends church and studies Krav Maga & MMA at a local gym.
But Yoli’s Ex, Xavier Montenegro, aka “Chango” named after one the most feared Gods in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria wants her back in his life and will stop at nothing until he has her. Aside from his army of soldiers, Chango uses black magic to defeat and destroy his enemies. Chango calls Yoli his “Oshun”, the Goddess of sensuality and love, whose symbol is the butterfly. Chango is ready to take over New York but is missing one thing… the strength and support of the woman he loves.
Directed by Michael Baez (USA)

This is a journey into the underground. Inspired by Dante’s 7 circles of hell, the video takes us on a journey to the darkest reaches of the human soul.
Directed by Mustafa Kandaz (USA)

“Sharecrop: Delta Cotton” features stories from the life of Sylvester Hoover, who was born into a cotton sharecropping family in the Mississippi Delta in 1957. Hoover recounts his family’s struggles to access education and voting rights. He also paints a vivid picture of daily life and the unrelenting toil of even the young children on cotton plantations.

A meditation on the rough violence and surprising beauty of the fight game as it is played in Africa.
Directed by Sean Kernan (USA)

This new American satirical comedy features sex, murder, recycling, and heartbreak in a small seaside town— all the while taking you on a nostalgic, genre-bending journey through the tv shows you know and are embarrassed to love.
Directed by Morgan Gould and Nate Trinrud (USA)

A socially awkward college freshman is determined to win the most important debate competition of his life.
Written by Sophie Wang (Canada)

On the verge of graduating college, an ambitious pre-med student is verklempt after a friend commits suicide and his plans for post-graduation fall apart. He deals with it the only way he knows how, to destroy the life of his notoriously difficult professor and seek solace from his friends.
Directed by Alexa Tariff (USA)