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A ROSARY AND A DIAMOND RING
Writer/director Nanak McCann’s subtle short film A Rosary and a Diamond Ring resonates with its realism. The film takes place in San Francisco in 1971.

FLY
From her Sun Valley upbringing, Maria (Carlie Quesada) loves to tell stories. No surprise that she wants to go to New York to make a

HARD FEELINGS
A good film with bad ensemble acting does not exist. Case in point: First time director Rick-kendy Noziere’s earnest short Hard Feelings. It aims for

SOLDIER ISLAND
A reinvention of an Agatha Christie classic, Soldier Island is a 65-minute screendance period piece that offers a new perspective on the murder mystery genre.

Val-e-ree
Brimming with empathy and insight, Samantha Lavin’s 10-minute inclusive short Val-e-ree will haunt the viewer long after the credits roll. A subtle story of female

OUT OF WATER
Mermaids are not real. Of course, if there was one out there, she’d probably be pretty lonely. Sandy (Marlee Learner) isn’t actually a mermaid. But

WRAP ME IN A SHEET
At first glance, not a whole lot happens in Molly Muse and Britt Harris’s short drama Wrap Me in a Sheet. Yet within 16 minutes,

BABA
Baba is a chaotic experience that is, at the same time, very precisely controlled; there is not a single second that feels wasted on anything

AFTER THE BEEP
One-man-show-type films are always a coin toss, with filmmakers often overcomplicating their concepts or overindulging in their own abilities as on-camera performers. There’s a delicate