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Program 16
SUNDAY
OCTOBER 13, 6:00PM 

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Rat Czar

United States / Comedy / 10 mins

Director: Ana Breton

Writer: Maggie Scudder

Producer: Ana Breton, Maggie Scudder, Jake Huff

Cast: Jamal Rana, Aizzah Fatima, John Andrew Morrison

New York's newly appointed head of rodent mitigation must unite her staff in a struggle against bureaucracy and the rats, which outnumber them a million to one.

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Strays

United States / Drama / 11 mins

Director: Or Schraiber

Writer: James Rana

Producer: Catherine Ann Taylor, Jane Kotlyar

Cast: Jamal Rana, Aizzah Fatima, John Andrew Morrison

STRAYS is a short film in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Jacques Tati. It tells the story of a Pakistani immigrant living alone in Coney Island. He spends his days driving people throughout the city. One day, a stray cat enters his life, bringing him the greatest gift of all - friendship.

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Knead

United States / Comedy / 11 mins

Director/Writer: Timothy Michael Cooper

Producer: Susie Talbot, Natalie Schwan, Dylan Flasowski

Cast: Ana Cruz Kayne, Danny Deferrari, Mallory Portnoy

When an alien landing mysteriously drives people around the world to achieve their deepest dreams, an aspiring baker in an unhappy marriage wonders why she hasn't been affected at all—forcing her to take matters into her own hands.

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Female Captive

United States / Dark Comedy / 12 mins

Director: Brit Crawshaw, Josh Hayward

Writer: Brit Crawshaw

Producer: Lauren Lukow, Katrina Kudlick

Cast: Pauline Chalamet, Emilio Garcia-Sanchez, Wayne Stephens

A dive inside the mind of a female captive as all the different parts of her fight over what is true and what to do.

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The Battle Scene

United States / Comedy / 9 mins

Director/Writer: Ju Lee

Producer: Daniel Jaffe, Ju Lee, Adam Baron-Bloch

Cast: Michelle Uranowitz, Brianna Joy Pitcher, Skyler Brickley

A motion capture actor goes off-script.

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Gut Punch

United States / Comedy / 13 mins

Director/Writer: Jon Ryan Sugimoto

Producer: Jon Ryan Sugimoto, Brenna Webb

Cast: Joe List, Radel Ortiz, Greer Barnes

Darkness rumbles beneath the floorboards of a Brooklyn bodega as three locals argue about pills, politics, and semantics.

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4th Dementia

United States / Comedy / 16 mins

Director: Ian Wexler

Writer: Ally Condrath, Kyle Miller, Jake Mann

Producer: Ally Condrath, Kyle Miller

Cast: Caroline Aaron, Bill Irwin

Nellie's dementia has an unlikely side effect. Despite her determination to locate her husband and love of her life, Lou, she keeps involuntarily dimension-hopping.

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