Program 26
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 14, 2:00PM

There For All The Moments
United States / Drama / 10 mins
Director/Writer: Alek Abate
Producer: Eduardo Ecker
Cast: Bart Elliott, Tate Rehklau, Joe Casey
Two surfers wait for waves to materialize, until an encounter with an evangelical Christian prompts them to reconsider their decision.

Change
United States / Drama / 11 mins
Director/Writer: Sai Lang
Producer: Robbie Sokolowsky, Sai Lang
Cast: Sai Lang, Nate Lang
After learning they are in the running for a Vice Presidential nomination, a Republican senator and his South Asian wife debate the path forward when they are told that their son’s name may sound too ethnic for the voting public.

What's Locked Away
United States / Drama / 19 mins
Director/Writer: Aidan Middlebrook
Producer: Jonathan Sim
Cast: Arielle Flax, Anthony Mark Mancini
Brie Baskins had a troubled relationship with her father. He was constantly out of the house, off on some adventure, and when he was home, he plagued her life with alcoholism. At the same time, he had a fierce love for her, and was a wonderful mentor, as any father should be.
Fast forward several years later.

Lear's Shadow
United States / Drama / 16 mins
Director/Writer: Michael Cherry
Producer: Julia Messick
Cast: Gregor Patti, Devin Burnam, Annika Burley
In Lear’s Shadow, a young college acting student, Sam Cartwin, struggles with isolation, self-doubt, and a crumbling sense of reality as he rehearses for a university production of King Lear. His desperate need for validation collides with his fading confidence, leading to surreal and disorienting experiences both in and out of the classroom.

Robster
United States / Drama / 9 mins
Director/Writer: Matthew Koebele
Producer: Cate Christiansen, Jessica DiMento, Alexandra Mettler
Cast: Hank Johnstone, Rutger Scott, Rodney Koebele
An off-kilter, apathetic grocery store clerk cares for a supermarket lobster while avoiding a trip to see his recently hospitalized mother.

Yellow Brick Road
United States / Drama / 17 mins
Director: Sofi Dawalibi
Cast: Amelia Bacon, Ellen Lanese
Yellow Brick Road is a charming coming-of-age film about a high school graduate named Alice who’s not really trying to find her way in life, and for that sole reason her parents send her off to her eccentric aunt who lives on a farm. With more things in common rather than unshared, Alice and her aunt Bonnie teach each other valuable lessons about life.