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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
A female pimp, dispensing her own brand of justice by pimping out abusive men, must confront her darkest secrets when a new case brings her haunting past to light.
Director(s): Shaily Sanghvi
Writer(s): Naosheen Ahmed, Shaily Sanghvi, Rutul Desai, Sagar Nayak
Producer(s): Naosheen Ahmed, Preeti Saraogi, Siddhant Vig
Key Cast: Naosheen Ahmed, Jai Jhala, Almanya Narula, Shalini Srivastava
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
An overbearing mother implores her horny son to resist his urges to save him from the fate she endured.
Director(s): Charlie Paulin
Writer(s): Charlie Paulin
Producer(s): Graciela Garcia, John Zerbo
Key Cast: Jason Grobstich, Jaymes Mansfield
Country: United States
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: Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse
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Director(s): Brett Willis
Writer(s): Brett Willis
Producer(s): Anthony Saldana, Adolfo Espinosa, Sarah Curry, Brett Willis
Key Cast: Eric Lutz, Grant Merritt, Mary Garet, Angel Garet, Andrew Tamarkin, Seth Goodfellow, Carissa Rhea Tajudeen, Christopher Sanchez, Jacklyn Dardarian, Kevin Evans Johnson, Priscilla Valldejuli
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
A short-sighted prank at a sleepover hurts more than just the perfect hairs on Brittany’s head.
Director(s): Nee Kirschman
Writer(s): Nee Kirschman, Zachary Foster
Producer(s): Nee Kirschman, Zachary Foster
Key Cast: Taylor Shurte, Teya Patt, Sherry Mandujano, Lauren Mayer, Jonaye Kelsey Anderson
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
A trans teen and her mom must survive a night of winter camping after being challenged by her politically incorrect uncle.
Director(s): Michael D. Cohen
Writer(s): Michael D. Cohen
Producer(s): Felix Mack, Michael D. Cohen
Key Cast: Erinn Hayes, Sophie Giannamore, Michael D. Cohen, Chris Cornish
Country: United States
