Awards
Audience Choice (Block 1)
“Snatch & Grab” – Directed by Michael Sheridan
Audience Choice (Block 2)
“In the Grey” – Directed by Paul Robinson and Sashia Dumont
Audience Choice (Block 3)
“PeaPod Man (Pilot)” – Directed by John Wrigley
Audience Choice (Block 4)
“I Had A Great Time Last Night” – Directed by Will Martinko
Best Screenplay
“The Test” – Directed by Natasha Bogutzki
Best Concept
“They Come Back” – Directed by Zack Wilcox
Best in Show
“Meats & Cheeses” – Directed by Brian Kesek
Schedule
~ Block 1 ~
1 – 2:30 p.m.
“Christmas Miracle” – Directed by Vincent Stahl.
“The Interview” – Directed by Carla Hadley. An interview with a promising candidate.
“Friends” – Directed by CR Naturi.
“Snatch & Grab” – Directed by Michael Sheridan. A pair of crooks who plot to rob a jeweler of a pouch of diamonds.
“Gabe” – Directed by Vincent Stahl. A young neglected boy has an imaginary friend who helps him through difficult times but his imaginary friend may be more than just his imagination.
“Sketch” – Directed by Carla Hadley and Dawn Daignault. Two baristas begin to suspect their regular customer of murder.
“The Exchange” – Directed by Rick Gaeta. A highly tense game of cat and mouse between two mafia hitmen and two friends who have nothing to lose.
“The Sixth String” – Directed by Carla Hadley and Dawn Daignault. One take film: Yard sale treasures may bring unexpected surprises.
“The Job” – Directed by George Ostertag.
~ Block 2 ~
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
“The organized thoughts of a misdirected genius hellbent on fixing the world from his mother’s basement” – Directed by Michael Buttino.
“The Hessians of ‘67” – Directed by Emily Rae Kaucher. A tale about a long-lost high school prank.
“In the Grey” – Directed by Paul Robinson and Sashia Dumont. A dramatic autobiography, where each character represents the three conflicting emotions felt from the writer’s perspective, after losing her estranged father to homicide.
“The Hand” – Directed by Will Foreman.
“Antonio’s Journey” – Directed by Jerry Roe. Losing both parents to sickness, ten year old Antonio finds himself an orphan in 1945 post World War Two Italy.
“Saint Harlow” – Directed by Naman Gupta. Detective Robert Saint Harlow and his cheeky teenage daughter Ellie, solve criminal capers over breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner.
“Aunt Hetty’s Golden Thimble” – Directed by Andrew Hoffman. In this excerpt from educational series Creating Fashion with Laurel, fashion educator Laurel Hoffmann tells a story about a cherished family heirloom.
~ Block 3 ~
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
“Animal” – Directed by Jeremy Ciliberto. A medieval traveler finds himself on an adventure trying to protect his family from a mythical spirits and beast who protects the forest.
“Reese’s Pieces” – Directed by Rich Drees. A young woman comes to terms with the death of her father.
“Tides of Wyrd” – Directed by Louise Devery. Jenny reunites with Larry 26 years later in the old west.
“10 Euros” – Directed by John P. Coulter. American tourist in “France” trying to use an Uber.
“They Come Back” – Directed by Zack Wilcox. Two long-time friends go into the woods in the hope that a lost loved one returns.
“PeaPod Man (Pilot)” – Directed by John Wrigley. Born with the uncanny but completely useless ability to shoot peas from his hands, 21-year-old PeaPod Man foregoes college in pursuit of a life as a famous superhero, but he finds his career as a crime-fighter to be dead on arrival.
“Covid Thoughts” – Directed by Stewart Brodian. A self made “self film” with random thoughts made during the shutdown of 2020.
“There can only be one” – Directed by Ines Wnek.
~ Block 4 ~
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
“Immortal” – Directed by David S. Heiser Jr. An individual wakes up in a strange environment. Along with two mysterious individuals, they traverse the lonely place know as The Void.
“Newsprint Colored Sky” – Directed by Danielle S Notaro. Poetic narration & music about a Vietnam Vet.
“Meats & Cheeses” – Directed by Brian Kesek. One of three friends vastly underestimates his knowledge of protein and dairy consumables.
“The Test” – Directed by Natasha Bogutzki.
“Forged in Steel” – Directed by Matthew Ryan Heffner. This documentary short details the American workers of the Bethlehem Steel Plant.
“I Had A Great Time Last Night” – Directed by Will Martinko. Two down-on-their-luck stoners execute a bank heist when one realizes he went on a date with the teller the night before.
“Being Trans” – Directed by Christopher English. Experience the journey of a courageous trans teen as she shares her unique perspective on being a female in this inspiring micro-documentary.
“Hoagie” – Directed by Michael Du Vide. A comedy film about loss and the spiraling madness in Scranton Pennsylvania.
~ Awards ~
9 p.m.