Program 3
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 21, 6:00PM

Booksmart
France / Drama / 3 mins
Director/Writer: Côme Ferré
Producer: Claude Fayolle
Cast: Liam Biermans
Since he wants to know everything about everything, this 8 years old boy spend all of his time reading books.
But there are things no book can explain...

Ray
United States / Drama / 13 mins
Director/Writer: Charles Socarides
Producer: Adam Bradley, Max Rothman, Charles Socarides
Cast: Juan Castano, Sarah Steele
After years of painful separation, Quinn (Juan Castano) learns that his brother Ray has fatally overdosed. Seeking closure, he attends the funeral and forms an unlikely connection with Daphne (Sarah Steele).

Covid Support Group
United States / Drama / 8 mins
Director/Writers: Abigail Bogle
Producer: Soledad Bolden
Cast: Alyssa Alizor, Kevin Richard Best, Zachary Sherry
A short film inspired by the events of the pandemic. A young woman's search for solace leads her to attend a community group therapy session but the meeting does not go as expected.

Look Like You
United States / Drama / 13 mins
Director/Writer: Snigdha Kapoor
Producer: Pulkit Datta, Lauren Sowa
Cast: Shazi Raja, Ryder Khatiwala, Robert Z Grant, Margaret Champagne
Tara, a South Asian queer woman, goes to see her eight-year-old biological son after many years but is unprepared for the tensions that resurface with his white adoptive parents.

Spin
United States / Drama / 17 mins
Director/Writer: Lisa Marie Tedesco
Producer: R.A. Johnson
Cast: Courtney St. Gelais, Sierra Berkeley Fisher, JahDey Oakley Wright
When the curtain descends on their final performance of Romeo and Juliet in drama club, high school seniors Abigail and Sky bid a fair adieu to the stage they loved while letting their most deepest desires for one another surface at the cast party.

The Game
United States / Dance / 5 mins
Director: James Kinney, Pierre Marais
Producer: Straighten Your Crown Productions
Cast: Yesenia Ayala, Jordan Betscher, Ashley Blair Fitzgerald
Paying homage to classic film noir cinema, The Game brings together an unlikely cast of characters in a midnight game of cat and mouse. Set in a mysterious abandoned warehouse and told through a hybrid of jazz dance styles, alliances are forged, suspicions are raised, and from within the shadows, a player will ultimately take the prize.

PG 13
United States / Horror Drama / 24 mins
Director/Writer: Tiffani Holland
Producer: Christopher Gleaton
Cast: Brittany Mirabile, Tiffani Holland
In the 1990's 4 teens with latent superpowers come together one night to search for an elusive serial killer who abducts kids just like them.