HOMELESS
While living on the street, Winston gets a generous donation from a friendly stranger. He uses the money and his wit to get a new job, and turn his life around ... losing a part of himself in the process. Can he redeem himself, and find what he's lost?
Director: Lance Hopper
Genre: Drama/Student
Cast: Dominique Wilson
Steve Ulman
Rick Gray
Monej Cruz
Running Time: 15:28
YANANTIN
A lonely, stay at home mother summons an Incan Priestess version of herself from a world where Incans and all other Native Americans defeated conquistadors with their special abilities like force choke holds! This isn’t an introduction or discussion about mystical travel to different dimensions because we all know it exists...so many movies have proven it so. But rather a lonely stay at home mother who abuses her Native. American abilities for a second conversation with her Incan Priestess self, breaking their agreement to never speak again. The Incan Priestess does not take this unexpected summoning lightly…however when the Incan Priestess discovers the lonely woman is a mother she decides to stay, as she and no other versions of her have a child. They serve each other’s needs as one wants to know what motherhood is like and the other just wants someone to talk to and who better to talk to when you’re lonely than yourself…from another dimension.
Director: Glenda G. Delgado
Genre: Drama
Cast: Glenda G. Delgado
Friday Delgado-Esquivel
Running Time: 11:32
BORDERS
“Borders” examines what it is to be a person of color in a country that is addicted to the oppression of your people. The horrors of war and at home are explored, as two veterans - a social worker making a house call to the other - discuss their service, while the client’s artwork comes alive in a surreal experience.
Director: Frank Velasquez
Genre: Drama/Student
Cast: Daniel Mora
Michael G. Martinez
Running Time: 16:57
LA CUARENTENA
"Two nurses take you on a journey about their experience during the pandemic in a colorful feel good journey of hope in this PSA short film/music video."
Director: Johaira Michelle Dilauro
Genre: Comedy, Drama, PSA
Cast: Johaira Michelle Dilauro
Jonathan Christian Fernandez
Camila Marillo
Brian Bell
Jerrell Johnson
Stephanie Bennett
Gabriel E. Encinas
Shinobou Naruse
Running Time: 6:38
AZIZAM
Set in 1970s Iran. Two young students from opposite ends of society meet by the sea in a time where revolution hangs in the air. Bijan, the son of aristocrats close to the regime of the Shah, prepares to leave for college and feels the pressures of a future already decided by his powerful father. He meets Layla, a girl from the wrong side of Tehran, who forces him to question everything. Their bond will challenge class and social divisions in a world soon to disappear.
Director: Alci Rengifo
Genre: Drama
Cast: Shahrooz Mahmoodi
Rana Ghiassi
Zina Torab
Afshin Katanchi
Nakta Pahlevan
Ali Azizian
Wayne Hodges
Running Time: 21:50
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 1 hr 11 m 5 sec