One conversation can change your life…

What begins as a short journalistic interview turns into a life-changing conversation when two writers of different generations engage in a philosophical exchange about ambition, life experiences and the nature of success as they walk through the pastoral landscape of Western Massachusetts.

Ryder, an independent delivery motorcyclist known as an Arecibo, must outrun deadly bike gangs and a mysterious hacker known as The Cryptkeeper after discovering the dangerous secret inside her latest package.

Arecibo is a 15-minute sci-fi short that fuses live-action, hand-drawn 2D animation, and Unreal Engine 5 virtual production. Shot entirely on an LED volume with custom-built rigs, practical sets, and animatronics, the film pushes the boundaries of independent filmmaking to create a blockbuster-scale world on an indie budget without the use of generative AI. By combining handcrafted visuals with cutting-edge technology, Arecibo showcases a bold new path for Canadian genre cinem

Ryder, an independent delivery motorcyclist known as an Arecibo, must outrun deadly bike gangs and a mysterious hacker known as The Cryptkeeper after discovering the dangerous secret inside her latest package.

Arecibo is a 15-minute sci-fi short that fuses live-action, hand-drawn 2D animation, and Unreal Engine 5 virtual production. Shot entirely on an LED volume with custom-built rigs, practical sets, and animatronics, the film pushes the boundaries of independent filmmaking to create a blockbuster-scale world on an indie budget without the use of generative AI. By combining handcrafted visuals with cutting-edge technology, Arecibo showcases a bold new path for Canadian genre cinema.

Two sisters at odds, armed with a cookie jar of their father’s ashes, take one last road trip with Dad to find the perfect place to say goodbye. When one threatens to smash the jar, they realize they have to learn a new way to live with each other–or risk losing their family forever.

The owner of a small restaurant in Manhattan finally receives his beloved wife’s ashes in an Egyptian pot, but his customers discover it is a $30-million ancient artifact.

Fall of the Phoenix is a mythically inspired documentary that follows a filmmaker down the rabbit hole of brain injury, into healing gardens, native lands, mobile brain clinics, prison cells, and justice reform movements. Alongside survivors, doctors, and advocates, she discovers that invisible injuries don’t just alter brains—they reshape entire realities.

After a historic rainstorm wrecks their apartment in Beijing, best friends XingXing and TianTian embark on an odyssey across the city. But things don’t go their way, and as strange encounters make their world unfamiliar, the place they thought they knew begins to look a lot like New York.

A small town’s violent annual tradition is put in jeopardy after a reluctant high school senior is selected as the winner.

Homecoming is a social impact short film and response to the gun violence epidemic in the United States. Our goal is to challenge audiences to contend critically with this issue, one that forever changes the lives of tens of thousands of people every year.

If survival means obedience, can you still call it freedom?

In the galley of a newly desegregated Navy ship, Bill Harper holds onto himself through the meals he cooks. But when a callous superior orders him to turn his most personal recipe into a spectacle for a military event, Bill must choose how far he’s willing to go to protect it.

In the remote north of Montenegro lies one of Europe’s last wild canyons, a place of towering cliffs, ancient forests, and crystal-clear waters. Beneath its surface, life thrives in ways science is only beginning to understand. KOMARNICA follows an international team of researchers and local conservationists as they journey into the canyon to document its hidden biodiversity. From undiscovered species to fragile cave ecosystems, their mission is urgent: the entire landscape is threatened by a proposed hydropower dam.

To protect her little brothers from the very real danger they’re in, a quick-thinking ten-year-old girl convinces them to be knights in a great make-believe adventure.

While searching for snow chains to escape the snowy mountains of June Lake, Temo is caught in a botched burglary that forces him to reconsider his toxic first love.

In 1947 small-town Texas, societal norms are challenged when a determined teenage girl — with the support of her Cherokee coach — joins the high school football team. Inspired by a true story.

Edward thought surviving the car crash was the hard part. But the demonic presence that followed him home has other plans. Each night it takes control, turning Edward into something unrecognizable. With his sanity hanging by a thread, he’ll do anything to avoid sleep….

Being a current college student, this film is designed to spread awareness about the irreversible consequences that come with binge drinking using supernatural horror to externalize the very real internal battles that addiction creates.

Live It to Know It follows Jim Mathis, who rose from mechanic to rancher to president of WyoTech, a struggling trade school he rescued from closure. Through stories of resilience on the land and in the classroom, the film explores how discipline, hard work, and community can transform both students’ futures and a state’s economy

“When a woman tells you she is in pain, believe her the first time.” Elinor Cleghorn, UNWELL WOMEN

When a breakthrough drug to eliminate women’s pain is trialed in a cutting-edge hospital, a frontline nurse begins to unravel the haunting cost of progress in women’s medicine.

Created by a team of AFI graduates with work recognized at top festivals including Tribeca, Cannes, and the Student Academy Awards (Gold Medal) along with medical health experts, SYRINGE is a psychological body horror rooted in the lived realities of medical gaslighting. It confronts the systemic neglect of women’s healthcare and asks: If pain is our last form of resistance, what happens when even that is taken away?

Seemingly put-together JOHNNY visits his recently paralyzed best friend, BILL, during a comically chaotic hospital visit. But when Johnny learns that Bill’s most recent relapse is the reason he’s there, the friendship is tested as they each confront the difficult truth that as much as we try, change is never a sure thing.

In 1971, speaking out could cost you everything.

Yippie activist Dana Williams finds herself the interim leader of the White Panthers when their leader John Sinclair is thrown in prison on an unjust charge — ten years for possession of two joints. The White Panthers fight to free John by escalating their protests to dangerous new heights, only to realize that an explosive rebellion might not be the change they need.

Based on true events.

An 11-year-old girl’s misunderstanding of a “blow job” sets her babysitter on a chaotic mission to save her at a birthday party.

Logline: This FUNERAL is Definitely Out Of The Box

THE FUNERAL is a short comedy film based on characters from the Grandmothers Incorporated cozy mystery book series about three crime-fighting widows in their sixties. In THE FUNERAL, a conversation about a funeral service becomes hilariously chaotic as it passes from friend to friend.

An idealistic yet overworked teacher discovers an unexpected connection to the past with a guarded 15-year-old foster youth proving that kindness isn’t just a gesture, it’s a force for change that can echo across generations.

Cèilidh is a moving and visually stunning musical short film about self-acceptance. The film is set against the sweeping beauty of the
Scottish Highlands and the spirited energy of a traditional wedding dance.