The Helping Hand
A young couple buys a smart device to help monitor their daughter, but they don’t know the mechanism continues to talk to the child long after they’ve gone to sleep.
2019, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Brenden Hubbard
Allergic Overreaction
A yearly movie marathon descends into chaos when one man accidentally poisons another.
2019, USA, 14 minutes
Directed by Zachary Eglinton
Skjemt Blod
A pack of valley girls plunge head first into brutality accompanied by a black-metal rendition of a bubble-gum pop song.
2018, USA, 6 minutes
Directed by Gwenmarie White
Nocturne
A woman home alone panics when a desperate-looking visitor appears on her home security system.
2019, USA, 12 minutes
Directed by Michael Trainotti
Garden
Doughnut Eve angers Doughnut God by consuming everything in her path.
2017, USA, 3 minutes
Directed by Derek Gieraltowski
Black Jeans Whoa
The arrival of a black-clad interloper threatens the sanctum of a group of large, adult men.
2015, USA, 7 minutes
Directed by Bob Rose and Michael C. Stettes
Winner: Best Music Award
TDEOMMVDH: The Deplorable Existence of Monster Mt. vs Dreamo Hernandez
Prince Dreamo Hernandez descends into a somnambulistic coma after a monstrous volcano claims his family.
2018, USA, 10 minutes
Directed by Bradley Oliver Wilkinson-Vega
WOMXN
Jane Dark must transform into the shero WOMXN to protect her community from the European Normale Police.
2018, France, 5 minutes
Directed by Adrien Gystere Peskine and Eden Tinto Collins
Winner: Mink Stole Award
Mother
Longing to be a mother, a woman finds herself saddled with an affliction she’s not so eager to be rid of.
2017, United Kingdom, 5 minutes
Directed by Lee Charlish
Sister
Genderfluid forms dance and undulate, melting into each other to the driving beat of the music.
2019, United Kingdom, 5 minutes
Directed by David Wilson
The Plan (Le Plan)
A monster fashions a sentinel to protect him during his evolution.
2016, France, 13 minutes
Directed by Pierre Teulières
VR Food
An experimenter researching a revolutionary approach to sustenance feels threatened when he misunderstands a filmmaker’s latest work.
2019, USA, 13 minutes
Directed by Malcolm Mills
Winner: The Golden Tentacle