Unblinded – dir. Paul Jerndal

Original Film Title: Unblinded

Directors Name: Paul Jerndal

Writers Name: Paul Jerndal

Producer: Paul Jerndal

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Sweden

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description: 

Emma who is struggling with depression gets embroiled in a passionate relationship with Mark, an egocentric pop star. Her vulnerability and his recklessness reach a climax one evening when Emma finds the strength to resist.

PANDA – dir. Jacob Fangel Løgstrup

Original Film Title: PANDA

Directors Name: Jacob Fangel Løgstrup

Writers Name: Jacob Fangel Løgstrup

Producer: Micki Mathiesen, Lucas Lehmann

Country of Origin: Denmark

Country of Filming: Denmark

Language: Danish

Runtime: 25 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description: 

Jacob’s dream is to be a rap artist, so he works on a song that will give him the big breakthrough. To his big frustration, his dreams are tested every time his roomie Adam gets a visit from his girlfriend Frederikke. And through a journey of unforeseen events Jacob meets additional challenges that test his working discipline.

Nana’s Bridge – dir. Chili Chang

Original Film Title: Nana’s Bridge

Directors Name: Chili Chang

Writers Name: Chili Chang, Anpu

Producer: Edison Wu

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 13 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description: 

“My grandma has always told me: The only way to prevail over violence on earth, is through understanding it’s essence.”

The artist ANPU told us her ambition with this song: Nana’s Bridge. “The song almost sounded like an old lullaby which sang by a grandma to put babies into sleep; but when you listen to it multiple times, you’ll figure the true essence of it: which is an endless war story that happened between us since the birth of mankind.”

The story was told through a boy’s journey. There was a dangerous beast live in the boy’s home, the beast was always furious about everything in the world. The boy had no choice but to be sent by his mother to live with his grandma. His grandma would read him stories from her little black book, which tells knowledge of all the beasts on earth. So did the boy eventually learnt the knowledge to prevail over the beast, thus sent him back to his toddler’s form. Years passed, the grown up boy is wound up now sleepwalking in the wild forest. He sniffs his way back to the source of his past traumas, face it once again as an adult. He purged his past along with his one last match. The waken man walked into the wild forest once again consciously, when all those beasts awaits him to join them in the dark.

We don’t know how this man would end up with, but everyone has a choice. Most importantly, the love was always there if we would just open our eyes.

Vinny Mancuso’s Rules for Good Business – dir. Spartan Daggenhurst

Original Film Title: Vinny Mancuso’s Rules for Good Business

Directors Name: Spartan Daggenhurst

Writers Name: Spartan Daggenhurst, Tanner Zagarino

Producer: Enzo Marc

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 12 seconds

Film Description: 

A young mafioso, Vinny Mancuso, butts heads on-set during with the Director of his first infomercial.

CYCLONE – dir. Austin Tsung-Fu Chang

Original Film Title: CYCLONE

Directors Name: Austin Tsung-Fu Chang

Writers Name: Francisco Solorzano

Producer: Christopher Whalen

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description: 

Star crossed lovers reunite only to have their past resurface, igniting the pain that tore them apart. Featuring a predominantly Latinx cast, this story, set entirely in Coney Island, Brooklyn New York touches on the issue of sexual consent within a relationship, communication or lack thereof and the ultimate question of forgiveness.

Smoking Gun Web Series Pilot – dir. Pablo Bobadilla

Original Film Title: Smoking Gun Web Series Pilot

Directors Name: Pablo Bobadilla

Writers Name: Pablo Bobadilla

Producer: Pablo Bobadilla, Salfrico Watson-Grant

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Russian, Spanish

Runtime: 16 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description: 

Dr. Mendez, a colorful astrophysicist, joins forces with Bobbi Calhoun, a conspiracy theorist, in order to uncover an alien invasion in their hometown.

Turns out, their small town is a hotbed for UFO activity. It’s recently been swarmed with aliens that have body snatched undocumented migrants and crossed the border in order to invade the nation undetected.

7OD – dir. Everon Jackson Hooi

Original Film Title: 7OD

Directors Name: Everon Jackson Hooi

Writers Name: Ali Fardi

Producer: Marco van Kallen, Stefan van Gils, Aysu Badar

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Runtime: 14 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description: 

Looking for his girlfriend, Mikhael ends up in a hospital that uses extreme methods.

None other than Pierre Bokma plays the sly medical director of a private hospital using unorthodox methods. ‘Religion is a disease and we’re going to cure you’, he preaches to the newly arrived Mikhael. Mikhael thinks of the girlfriend he lost. They were in love, but religion drove them apart. With this grim mix of science fiction and harsh reality, filmmaker Everon Jackson Hooi, depicts the growing harshness of our society. A divided and fearful society full of dangerous polarisation.

The Volunteer – dir. Joe Simon

Original Film Title: The Volunteer

Directors Name: Joe Simon

Writers Name: Hussain Pirani

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description: 

A scientist chooses to stay behind amidst a mass planetary evacuation.

A girl and a gun – dir. P.E.Joubert

Original Film Title: A girl and a gun

Directors Name: P.E.Joubert

Writers Name: P.E.Joubert, Gautier Renault

Producer: P.E.Joubert, Aurélien Drosne, Alex D. Sanchez

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 8 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description: 

“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” Godard said.
3 Guys are going to take this quote way too seriously, and try in an absurd way to make a movie with just a girl and a gun.

The Kinjiku – dir. Jeff Johnson

Original Film Title: The Kinjiku

Directors Name: Jeff Johnson

Writers Name: Jeff Johnson

Producer: Thomas Hildreth, Mark Harris

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description: 

An investigative journalist is on the verge of breaking the story of his career, and all he needs is a single interview to give the article wings. The Kinjiku is the most exclusive bar in the world and ground zero for a burgeoning black market stock exchange. More than four trillion US dollars move through the underworld annually, and The Kinjiku is where colossal deals are made, where desperate futures are modeled, and where elite shadows and apex kingpins cross pollinate. The New York Stock Exchange began in the Tontine Coffee House on the corner of Wall Street and Water, and underwriters, traffickers, slave traders and politicians wrote an American rule book for supply and demand that would domino through time. The Kinjiku is much the same, though much can be made of a menu. The Tontine served black coffee and spirits to fire the trading. The Kinjiku is the speakeasy answer to molecular gastronomy and serves rare whiskies and liquors microdosed with select toxins engineered to produce a variety of unique highs. Every glass comes with a bullet you’re meant to swallow like a vitamin.