Short Films

Short Films

Short films created by award-winning independent mediamakers from around the world.

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Short Films
  • Pressed

    When Carmen is peer pressured into a full makeover for her big date, she is unpleasantly surprised by her date's reaction.

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  • Wanderlust

    A film made from Instagram Stories videos, “Wanderlust” is an ode to the people, places, and moments that one experiences while traveling around the Indian subcontinent. The film is a reminder that these experiences are still out there, waiting for our return.

    The film features scenic landscapes...

  • 10

    A person's uniqueness is what makes them unique. We must accept our uniqueness as well as others.

  • Man Down

    After the racially charged shooting of an unarmed teenager, an officer of color must decide whether to stand on the side of the law or seek justice for his community.

  • Caroline

    A professional artist is on the brink of failure as she struggles with self-doubt and the resignation of her new assistant just before her first solo show.

  • Beauty Mark

    A young woman struggles with the illusion that pain is love while trapped in an abusive marriage.

  • Break

    BREAK explores a single mother handling a custody battle, low-wages, and a water crisis.

    One day at the grocery store, out of shame and guilt for not being able to buy her little girl some candy, she steals a chocolate bar for her daughter, and consequences ensue.

  • Smell the Trees

    While social distancing during a pandemic, Jakayla reluctantly embraces her ill sister’s request to create a list of ways to find joy during sorrow.

  • Remember Their Roots

    Remember Their Roots studies the impactful influence Black musicians have on the American music industry.

  • Together At Last

    A wife's grief turns to revenge towards his children, that never called him.

  • Within 8 Hours

    A family, a rookie cop and his trainers all meet on a quiet Sunday day..Their lives will never be the same

  • ReUp

    Brent Bartley, a former black ops agent is hired to protect a prized scientist. He compromises his objective when he falls in love with her and breaks his cardinal rule. Business is never personal.

    Blindsided, he's betrayed by friend and team member Solomon Chiang and loses more than his reputat...

  • Becoming: ORLANDO DUGI

    "Becoming" explores the connection of Orlando's contemporary designs with his traditional Navajo upbringing, the honoring of Native women, especially his grandmothers. It challenges the notion that Native art must be fixed in time, and shows how weaving the past into the present can be a powerful...

  • The Little Death

    A doting young married couple riding the emotional wave of infertility & miscarriage.

  • Black Girl

    Black Girl is a short film highlighting the epidemic of missing and mostly forgotten about African American girls, which continues to spread throughout the U.S.

  • Don't Be Afraid

    Haunted by her fears of a world rife with masks and disease, Lynn begs a neighbor to go pick up her meds for her, lest her worsening psychosis consumes her -- and possibly others.

    • Produced in 2020 during the Covid-19 quarantine, adhering to all CDC guidelines and parameters.
    • Shot entirely on...

  • The Washerwoman

    Woman encounters a ghostly figure but is everything as it seems?

  • Love Forgotten

    A photo roman narrative of a soldier's struggle to search for his purpose with the inevitable that he is becoming dehumanized by war. Following another battle that ends with him getting injured from an explosion and waking up to be the only one alive, our protagonist decides to use this second c...

  • Shred

    A controversial story of snowboarders in the Olympic games who are caught up in an amateur sports organizer's power game. The film depicts the athletes' struggle and conflict through the beats and rhymes of rap music.

  • Chocolate Milk

    A young college student of color struggles to find racial identity and acceptance among his campus peers, while trying to exist in a world perceived to be only black or white.

  • Going For Gold

    What happens when dreams are dashed and talent squandered?

    Going for Gold is three imagined conversations based on the career of Frankie Lucas a black British Middleweight Boxer from London in the 1970's.
    The film charts his early ambitions, the fights and the obstacles of the boxing cartels and...

  • Talk With Us

    Twelve subjects with different disabilities from all over Brazil talk about Communication and the specific ways through which they connect with the world and with themselves.

  • I'll Be There 4 U: An Uber Story

    An Uber driver has tough decisions to make when his passenger becomes unresponsive.

  • Eggshells

    How much can your love endure?

  • Crown

    A harsh reality is revealed when a wild-haired, self-discovering 13 year old uncovers her mother’s secret teaching the adolescent a lesson on appreciating the beauty she already possesses.