Program 5
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 11, 8:00PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.