Independent Shorts Awards

A mailman wants to deliver the 1000th letter in his career to impress his girlfriend. However, he meets a strange letter that mails to a place that doesn’t seem to exist. This short film was shot in Savannah, GA.
Directed by Noah Wong (USA)

1937, Spanish Civil War. Three Republican soldiers desert, escaping the horror. Or at least, that’s what they believe.
Directed by Paco Arasanz (Spain)

A middle eastern Muslim lady who lives in the USA with her family and dominated by her husband is seen to have a latent desire to have freedom and be free from patriarch bondage.
Directed by Razid Season (USA)

A married couple is on their way back home after receiving bad news from a Fertility Doctor, when their car breaks down in the middle of the Desert and they’re forced to have a difficult conversation.
Directed by Marco Bottiglieri (USA)

July 1944, An Asian American soldier Corporal Soo is thrown into a Nazi work camp on a farm in Germany as his family back home in America are forced into an American Japanese concentration camp in Manzanar California. The allied soldiers think Soo is a Japanese soldier and segregate him. Soo must fight to let go of the past in order to be set free.
Directed by Derek Quick (USA)

It’s 1985. A seven-year-old Boy believes a monster is living in his bedroom but nobody seems to believe him. Especially his Babysitter.
Directed by Chad Meisenheimer (USA)

Directed by Jack Impellizzeri (USA)

A psychiatrist has to help her captor uncover the past few hours of his life.
Written by Rebecca Harris-Smith (UK)

John, a lawyer who has Tourette, had his case taken by a co-worker, now he must find a way to regain his case back.
Directed by Sathwik Rai (Canada)

James, an aging baby-boomer, arrives just after closing at a local cell phone store seeking help with a smartphone. Derek, an empathetic employee, takes what he knows best and tries to create a connection across generations, helping James find the courage and strength to say goodbye.
Directed by David Fritzson (USA)

Two brothers lives collide when the fatal actions of one have devastating consequences for the other.
Directed by Dat Nguyen (USA)

A 1 1/2 minute therapy scene.
Directed by Mauricio Marces (USA)

Dan, a single father, battles with the memories of a tragic event that occurred along the side of the road. He drives down the road of the accident, replaying it moment by moment, in hopes to find anything to help him manage.
Directed by Henry Grenier (USA)