NO COWBOYS
USA 14 MIN
DIRECTOR Piper De Palma
SCREENWRITER Ian Geronimo
PRODUCER Kenza Berrada Amor
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Adam Birch
EDITOR Bo Wen
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Hayeon Kim
A horse trainer who’s overcome his troubled past by pouring himself into training a wild horse is tested when a fading movie star tries to buy it from under him.
SHEDDING
USA 12 MIN
DIRECTOR Peiqi Peng
SCREENWRITER April Yixiao Peng
PRODUCER Shirley Sui
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Keying Kate Wu
EDITOR Zhiyan Liu
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jianxi Elijah Qu
A Chinese-American teen battling hair-pulling compulsions and a tyrannical mother’s obsession with discipline reaches a breaking point, unleashing a chilling descent into violence and transformation inside their sewing room.
KILLER OF MEN
USA 13 MIN
DIRECTOR Jordan Betine
SCREENWRITER Jordan Betine, Kiera Bratton-Lewis
PRODUCER Ruoxiao Li
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Luke Scroggins
EDITOR You Wu
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Rajarajeshwari Ragampudi
In the 1830s American South, an enslaved prizefighter confronts guilt and buried identity after discovering the funeral of the man he was forced to kill.
SOUND OF FIRE
USA 17 MIN
DIRECTOR Hyo Kim
SCREENWRITER Hyo Kim, Andrew Yung
PRODUCER Ayumi Fujita
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Silas Croddy
EDITOR Icey Zhang
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Austyn James
Ten years after losing her father to a wildfire, a girl sees life growing in the ashes while her mother sees a curse.
KAVOR
USA 19 MIN
DIRECTOR Joseph El-Khoury
SCREENWRITER Edward Nenedzhyan
PRODUCER Divyashree Muruganandam
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ryan Alva
EDITOR Sean Fay-Wolfe
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Kalina Kirkbride
Leon, a working-class Armenian immigrant, is honored as Kavor at a wedding, but old wounds resurface as his wealthy cousin Vaz arrives, the man whose money made the celebration possible.
