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WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS
ESPERANZA
FOLDED WHISPERS
HomeBound
STRANGER AT THE GATE
THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
SLOW PULSE
THE OUT

AN IRISH GOODBYE
Gentle, funny and touching, Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s short dramedy, An Irish Goodbye, just about achieves all of its modest ambitions. It seamlessly sustains

WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS
Mary (Paige Sciarrino) is encompassed in darkness. An out of work, struggling actress, it would be hard to find a single actor who hasn’t felt

ESPERANZA
Esperanza tells the story of human beings being inhuman to each other. In this case the title character (Giselle Marie Muñoz) is an undocumented immigrant,

FOLDED WHISPERS
After a lengthy absence from the literary scene, veteran writer and poet Mark Anthony Thomas presents Folded Whispers, a documentary short film, giving us a

HomeBound
HomeBound – written, directed and produced by Usher Morgan – is a claustrophobic look at the challenges of Agoraphobia. When Jamie (Katie Vincent) loses her

STRANGER AT THE GATE
Stranger At The Gate, an Oscar-Qualifying short documentary, written and directed by Joshua Seftel, is an exploratory view into the mind of Richard “Mac” McKinney,

THE DEPORTATION OF A MODEL CITIZEN
In The Deportation of a Model Citizen, a young girl in Denmark faces deportation back to Syria. Torture and/or execution awaiting, the stakes are never

SLOW PULSE
In the opening of the Oscar-qualifying short Slow Pulse, we quietly enter the home of a father (Jimmie Fails) who’s had his life turned upside

THE OUT
It is palpably evident that writer-director Harry Brandrick’s short drama The Out (BAFTA Qualifying) represents a deeply personal project for the filmmaker. Dealing with drug