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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Action/Thriller
Determined to buy the perfect gift for her little brother, a young woman must fight her way through crazed customers at a toy store turned madhouse.
Director(s): Bryan Uvaldo
Writer(s): Sebastian Hunt
Producer(s): Mason Kidd
Key Cast: Amanda Whyte
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
An exhausted nurse is forced into a brutal fight for her life when a mangled and bloody monster invades her home. But as her fearful survival instincts take over, she unknowingly makes a choice that will haunt her forever.
Director(s): Collin Black
Writer(s): Collin Black, Erin Bechler
Producer(s): Fenwick Rockwell
Key Cast: Erin Bechler, Chris Herring, Jim Cummings, Stephen Cormier
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever behind the ominous Blue Door.
Director(s): Regina Hoyles
Writer(s): Aja Houston
Producer(s): Julie Bersani, Toni Adeyemi, Regina Hoyles
Key Cast: Aja Houston, Inger Tudor, Farelle Walker, Nona Parker Johnson, Hugo Armstrong, Jordane Christie
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Sometimes when you haunt someone, it doesn’t go as expected.
Director(s): Darren Coyle
Writer(s): Darren Coyle
Producer(s): Steven Hartman, Leslie Hartman
Key Cast: Jeremy Guskin, Mimi Von Schack, Suzanne Curtis
Country: United States
World Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
On a frozen planet where every word costs energy, a worker endures silence, storms, and solitude, saving his words for the one that matters most.
Director(s): Bo Qing Tang, Lan Zeng
Writer(s): Bo Qing Tang
Producer(s): Bo Qing Tang
Country: China, Taiwan, United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi
After introducing his “perfect” new girlfriend to his friends, Julian realizes that what he had thought was perfection, may just be an illusion.
Director(s): Brandon Fobbs
Writer(s): Kristina Sullivan
Producer(s): Brandon Fobbs, Kristina Sullivan
Key Cast: Don Daniels Jr., Ivonnah Erskine, Kristina Sullivan, Clifton J. Williams
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A surprise pregnancy forces a woman to make a difficult decision alone, triggering memories of the one person she could always turn to—her father—and leaving her to find strength in his absence.
Director(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger
Writer(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger
Producer(s): Emma Elizabeth Steiger, Jessie Gill, Colton Eschief Mastro, Nick Mastro, Wylie Rush, Will Brunker
Key Cast: Emma Elizabeth Steiger, Darby Lee Stack, Claire Kresser, Duane Daniels, Sydney Walsh, Zane Haney, Tanner Hagen
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Talulah, pregnant with her first born, wrestles with the reality of motherhood as she is confronted with memories of her own, mentally unstable mother.
Director(s): Belle Adams
Writer(s): Terri Measel Adams
Producer(s): Terri Measel Adams, Michelle Moreland
Key Cast: Belle Adams, Katelin Chesna, Sage Schmidt, Aditi George, Schyler Tillett, Jonathan D Williams, Scarlett Jane Moore
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Something’s wrong with Grayson and TJ is making it weird.
Director(s): Nathan Trumbull
Writer(s): Nathan Trumbull
Producer(s): Nathan Trumbull, Larissa Pruett
Key Cast: TJ Linnard, Grayson Low, Jeni Reed, Christopher Grajales, Warren Barrow, John Strelec
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: United States
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A firefighter is haunted by the silent burden of an unresolved tragedy, denial extinguishing his passions and relationships. Now he must finally confront the one rescue he’s always avoided – his own.
– Based on the Filmmakers experience
Director(s): Maximilian Curnow
Writer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Producer(s): Maximilian Curnow
Key Cast: Maximilian Curnow, Luke Brady, Darryl Oakley, Holly Stubbings, Pauk Hutcheon
World Premiere
Country: United Kingdom
