Independent Shorts Awards

Dumped by his true love in the post #metoo era, newly single thirty-something Ben Siegel looks to make sense of a world where technology and misplaced values have rendered the nature of dating and friendship absurd.
Directed by Ben Majest (USA)

An amateur geologist goes out on a hike to add to his collection. He ends up uncovering a truth about his life hidden among the stones.
Directed by Dave Huber (USA)

A woman’s chance encounter with her former band’s manager leads to a night of rekindled memories and trauma.
Directed by Jason Cortez (USA)

Los Angeles student Jose Lopez is placed in a generic science course and not Advanced Placement Biology, the course he requested. He asks his mother Maria to try everything to get his classes changed. Will everything be enough?
Directed by Oscar Alvarez (USA)

A woman in turmoil finds reclamation at a gig.
Directed by Anna Hildebrandt (Australia)

Prominent Palestinian artist, Khaled Jarrar, pushes the boundaries of performance art, and sells his own blood on Wall St.
Directed by Vin Arfuso (USA)

It’s a haunting story of regrets and resignation… entangled fates… the deep scars caused by our all-too-human failings… and, ultimately, of redemption.
Directed by James Kerwin (USA)

“In Limbo” is the story of a man who makes a devastating choice that leads him to meet “Death,” a sassy, persuasive goth teenager with a flair for irreverence. Her wise counsel will change a life. Join us on the unexpected journey of Wilhelm Yates.
Directed by Anthony M. Veller (USA)

Charley’s struggling to tell her best friend Annie about her new relationship, but she may get a practice run when she drives her home from dental surgery.
Directed by Katy Erin (USA)

The life of a quiet and peaceful woman will be altered by the arrival at her home of a package.
Directed by Alberto Martín-Aragón (Spain)

Tomomi Sato, a 20 year old girl, lives in the countryside of southern Japan. She decides to move in with her boyfriend living in Tokyo.
However, he doesn’t appear at their meeting spot in Ueno, Tokyo.
Disappointed with him, Tomomi wanders through the city all night and meets Tajima Katsuya in a bar, who also just came to Tokyo from the countryside to meet his father who is critically ill.
Directed by Takuya Okamoto (Japan)

The disappearance of a young girl has more questions than answers. A writer tries to find out the truth.
Directed by Andrew Vandaele (Netherlands)