Independent Shorts Awards

Frankie, 16 years old and 6 months pregnant, meets with her two closest friends to figure out how to ditch the gender-reveal party her mother is throwing. In denial of her pregnancy and convinced she remains the alpha of the team, her world starts to crumble as she realizes her teenage years are disappearing and the perception she has of the world is just fantasy.
Directed by Rebecca Lafon (USA)

A young woman struggles with the initial emptiness as she tries to put the past behind her. Directed by Dane

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To win back his ex, a man spends his day at a deli shop ordering ham on white sandwiches.
Directed by Zachary Warner (USA)

Based on the poem “Summer Storm” by Dana Gioia about two people who have a connection outside of a wedding party that remains as an intense memory long into the future.
Directed by Daniel Colella (USA)

With nowhere to live, a young student is forced to move in with her estranged mother…and an obnoxious new stepdad.
Directed by Kyle Kenyon (USA)

Intimate conversations with holy men and women in Rishikesh and Northern India.
Directed by Burt Chojnowski (USA)

A group of 14-year old’s try to figure out how to fit in at their high school.
Directed by Michael Spound (USA)

A group of 14-year old’s try to figure out how to fit in at their high school. Individuality and Underage Drinking is a part of the web series NC-16). Individuality focuses on two 14-year girls spending the night talking about how and why it’s important to just be normal (or not) and how important it is to fit in. (Or not). Underage Drinking focuses on three 14-year boys try to fit in by stealing, drinking and dancing their way into thinking that this is what normal high schoolers do.
Directed by Michael Spound (USA)

Three children are riding their bikes in a park. Lorenzo, the youngest, is attracted by the strange interferences of his walkie talkie. Petrified in front of the small agonizing creature that he saw at the foot of a tree, he’s reached by his friends. Is it an alien? Is it a martian? Surely they cannot leave it there…
Directed by Lorenzo Di Nola (Italy)

This story revolves around a young ad exec, who, on the day of his big promotion, is challenged with a problem that could change the course of his life forever.
Directed by Eric Smith-Gunn (USA)

The moon is still. It has not moved in weeks. Nature has been corrupted as a result. One boy has an idea to bring the moon a gift, 
hoping to please it and put it back in motion. 
On his journey he learns about himself and others, and what it really means to exist. He discovers that the best gift of all is intangible. 
Directed by Eric Robison (USA)

In this contemporary spaghetti western, a morally ambiguous middle school girl attempts to get her hands on the greatest treasure of all: the answer key to an upcoming exam.
Directed by Logan Thomas (USA)

Do you really know who your therapist is? Grab a seat and share your deepest, darkest secrets. Be careful though, he might enjoy your stories a little bit too much.
Directed by John Patrick Shulak (USA)

A man traveling home from a work trip encounters a challenge involving the airport bathroom sinks.
Directed by Alvin Joo (USA)