Program 16
SUNDAY
OCTOBER 13, 6:00PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.