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Program 5
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 11, 8:00PM 

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The Prompt

Italy / AI / 12 mins

Director/Writer: Francesco Frisari

Producer: Vittorio Martone

Humanity has created novels, films, and stories about Artificial Intelligence destroying humanity. Then we used those very tales to train AIs, which can now only act out these clichés and try to destroy humanity. A self-fulfilling apocalypse.

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The Day Keeper

United States / Comedy / 8 mins

Director: Mark Kiefer

Writer: Mark Kiefer, Steve Young

Producer: Mark Kiefer, Steve Young

Cast: Steve Young, Liam McNeill, Jason Reulet

A comedy short about a lighthouse keeper who struggles to keep his own inner light shining.

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The Great Cherokee Grandmother

United States / Comedy / 9 mins

Director: Anthony Sneed

Writer: Anthony Sneed, Chris Thompson

Producer: Loren Waters, Ross O'Shea, Anthony Sneed

Cast: Wes Studi, Pheobe Tyers, John Henry Gloyne

A pleasant date between a man of Cherokee heritage and a Caucasian woman goes downhill when the woman flagrantly fixates on the very bane of Cherokee peoples’ existence: the Cherokee Grandmother syndrome.

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The Traumatist

United States / Drama / 15 mins

Director: Michelle Beck

Writer: Patrick Andrew Jones, Rafael Jordan

Producer: Aisha Jordan, Rafael Jordan, Patrick Andrew Jones

Cast: Amelia Workman, Robert Picardo, Patrick Andrew Jones

See how one person’s trauma can last generations and the lengths someone will go to make their oppressor pay.

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Call Back

United States / Drama / 15 mins

Director/Writer: Blaise Beyhan

Producer: Blaise Beyhan, Luis Galilei, Ashleigh Bell

Cast: Levon Hawke, Paul Fitzgerald, Blaise Beyhan

Danny Lewis unwittingly receives an opportunity to star in a huge blockbuster sequel, but the looming shadow of nepotism and risk of failure cause him to rethink his choices.

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The Book Signing

United States / Drama / 20 mins

Director: Bob Giraldi

Writer: Natasha Soto-Albors, Jacob B. Williamson

Producer: Cailin McFadden, Natasha Soto-Albors, Alistair McMeekin

Cast: Scott Cohen, Sean Patrick Reilly

William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first time in many years, he is forced to confront the life he left behind, and the people he would sooner forget.

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