Sad Psycho – dir. Chase Goforth

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: Sad Psycho

Director’s Name: Chase Goforth

Writer’s Name: Mark Landon Smith

Producer: Chase Goforth

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 60 seconds

Film Description:

A psycho’s plans become unfulfilled.

Lady Henze – dir. Eduardo Cantón Torres

(Finalist)

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Original Film Title: Lady Henze

Director’s Name: Eduardo Cantón Torres

Writer’s Name: Eduardo Cantón Torres

Producer: Raquel Calvo Méndez, Nikole Haraszti

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

Britt Henze, an artist from San Francisco, California, paints under the moniker Lady Henze. This micro doc explores her journey through addiction, survival, and creative rebirth. Focusing on themes of duality and identity, Henze reflects on how her art and personal story now inspire others on their own paths.

Oh… Sheet – dir. Rathi Anandu

(Honorable Mention)

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Original Film Title: Oh… Sheet

Director’s Name: Rathi Anandu

Writer’s Name: Rathi Anandu

Producer: Rathi Anandu

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

A bedsheet ghost is challenged by a fastidious new tenant in his home who cannot be scared.

Land of the Mustaches – dir. Leon Joosen

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Original Film Title: Land of the Mustaches

Director’s Name: Leon Joosen

Writer’s Name: Rutanya Alda

Producer: Rutanya Alda

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 Hour 28 minutes

Film Description:

For the children and women of all wars, it never leaves.

Land of the Mustaches is an autobiographical story of a young girl growing up in the Displaced Persons refugee camps with her mother and grandmother after World War Two left them starving and stateless, and her father’s disappearance into Stalin’s notorious Gulag labor camps in Siberia with only what he was wearing the day he was abducted—two hard paths that parallel each other until they finally merge into one story: The ultimate celebration of resilience and the human spirit.