Program 23
MONDAY
OCTOBER 12, 8:00PM

A Mother's Voice
United States / Drama / 21 mins
Director: Gregory Cioffi
Writer: John A. Ardito
Producer: John A. Ardito
Cast: Gregory Cioffi, Todd Susman, Tara Westwood
A Mother’s Voice is a legal courtroom drama revolving around a medical malpractice case following the tragic death of a toddler and one lawyer’s pursuit to amend wrongful death laws to allow families to recover damages for emotional loss, such as grief, anguish, and loss of companionship.

A Couple Lives Together
United States / Drama / 13 mins
Director/Writer: Ryan Delouya
Producer: Ryan Delouya
Cast: Madeline Bernhard, Wyndham Maxwell, Thacher Tiffany
A man and woman spend time together in their apartment, where increasingly strange and unsettling behavior reveals a relationship veering between intense affection and bitter hostility. Presented as ten vignettes.

Truths from a Corporate Sellout
United States / Comedy / 15 mins
Director/Writer: Arabella Sharkey
Producer: Daehoon Peter Chung, Henry K. Hwang
Cast: Clara McGregor, Dylan Douglas, Laurie Dawn
An emotionally repressed columnist, who is trapped in a cycle of disastrous dates and an oppressive job, meets a mysterious man who urges her to embrace chaos to break free.

Pain Sits Quietly
United States / Drama / 14 mins
Director: Ahsan Ali, Sabrina Aziz
Writer: Ahsan Ali
Producer: Ahsan Ali
Cast: Ahsan Ali, Raz Ayer, Laura Cantwell, Eliza Richards
Two couples navigate the complex political climate of today over dinner and drinks. The dynamic that reveals healthy and abusive relationship in a room.

Everhand
United States / Drama / 9 mins
Director: Shane Hillier
Writer: Mario Cassem
Producer: Sarah Beth Budd, Lee Cleaveland
Cast: Lee Cleaveland, Sarah Beth Budd, Ron Williams
Rancher Abe Brightwell (Lee Cleaveland) struggles to maintain his livelihood alongside his
wife Edie (Sarah Beth Budd), until a shadowy biotech company offers him a sleek new bionic limb — the Everhand. Productivity soars, but so do the consequences. The couple must confront a mute and menacing corporate Sales Rep (Ron Williams) and reclaim their humanity before the machine consumes them — and everything they love.

Donor
United States / Drama / 13 mins
Director/Writer: Jennifer Saura
Producer: José de la Maza, Grant Norsworthy
Cast: Kristin Högberg, Charly Dannis, Joan Deschamps
After volunteering to be the egg donor for her now-pregnant friend, a woman grows to regret her choice in the aftermath of her own miscarriage—and considers taking back the only baby she has left.
