Independent Shorts Awards

Only Me

A man wakes up in a staged roadside car beside a bound stranger, with no memory of how he arrived.

The City is a collection of unscripted moments from the streets of New York City. Directed by Rayne York (USA)

After a young teen awakes from a hypnotic trance in a strange land he must search high and low for

A woman with an overwhelming attachment to her belongings tries to change for the man she loves — but finds

Over several nights alone in his apartment, a young man’s visits to the fridge become a silent reflection of everything

Johnathan is ready to start dating for the first time, and when he gets set up on a blind date

A painter on a brutal deadline for a career-defining gala is completely blocked, until she falls into a volatile, magnetic

Lured into a dust-submerged forest by a mysterious stranger, a teenage boy becomes lost in a mutated world, where the

A troubled boy, Donaime, tries to escape a bad situation by resorting to his mother. Directed by Michael Anthony Carter

Frey, goalkeeper for Earth 2, faces a critical moment when her experimental technology fails during a match. Remembering her mother’s

In a future where medical care depends on online fame, a son races to become viral enough to save his

Directed by Montana James Miller (USA)

For years, Mary has been writing protest letters to help free a famous poet held as a political prisoner in