
Congratulations to the winners
June 2021

BEST FILM ~ SMALL SHORTS
Muffy
Emily Draper (New York, NY)
A woman in 1970s' suburbia gets sweet, creamy revenge when her husband flirts with another woman in front of her.

BEST FILM ~ MICRO SHORTS
A Cold Dinner
Gulzhan Sitakhmetova (Russia)
A cold dinner is a dish with bad news. Today it will be more disgusting and destructive than yesterday; and tomorrow will not come at all.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE ~
SMALL SHORTS
Final Deathtination
Marika Tamura (Japan/USA)
A man who is about to hang himself
encounters Death who is a "travel agent" for finding the best place to die. The odd pair end up on a world tour.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE ~ MICRO SHORTS
The Mustache
Lizzy Rudakas & Clark Pavlik (Chicago, IL)
A man dares to change the style of his mustache.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS ~ JUNE 2021
(in order of appearance at the screening)
1
Bandwidth

Pat Battistini
Santa Clarita, CA
Frank's important job interview on Zoom goes south due to his "stay at home" COVID precautious family using up his bandwidth.
4
Deep Fears

Ryan Chu
Garden Grove, CA
A sea otter who is afraid of the ocean is challenged to face his fears when he loses his precious pink shell necklace at sea.
7
Home

Milena Bolouri
London, United Kingdom
A home is supposed to be a safe place - but what if it's not?
10
Zack: The Movie

bob finkelstein
Philadelphia, PA
See the world through the eyes of a cat who longs to be a part of the world he sees outside his window that is always beyond his reach.
13
Love Your Oven

Kyle Mantegna
Chicago, IL
A song about ovens (not stove).
16
Call Me Back

Melina Kiyomi Coumas
Portland, OR
Originally made just for family, the filmmaker uses the last voicemail left on her phone by her Grandmother in this experimental short that becomes a meditation on loss and haunted spaces.
19
Llaves (Keys)

Nicholas Manting Brewer
United States
A young mother, whose family is separated by ICE, shares her story in this short animated documentary.
22
Gaze

Jackie Teboul
London, United Kingdom
The male gaze: seemingly innocuous yet a tool of domination. What if ‘The Gaze’ could change women in a physical way?
25
The Life and Times of Muriel the Fish

Lily Paris
Quebec, Canada
Muriel is a small fish in a big world; unbeknownst to her, she is also someone's idea of fine dining.
28
Antenna Farm

John Akre
United States
The best antenna for you may not necessarily be home-grown.
31
Final Deathtination

Marika Tamura
Hillsboro, OR
A suicidal man who is about to hang himself encounters Death who is a "travel agent" to find the best place to die and goes on a world tour.
2
Let 'er Rip

Mick Szal
New York, NY
A story of how love is never rational and revenge is always justified.
5
The Mustache

Lizzy Rudakas
Chicago, IL
A man dares to change the style of his mustache.
8
Nuntio Vobis

Alberto Dessimone
Italy
The moments preceding the proclamation of the new pope
11
Sc@tter_me

alex goddard
United Kingdom
A man contemplates his final resting place.
14
Hot Dog Guy

Sara Bulloch
Canada
A woman has a panic attack in a club and is comforted by a man with a hot dog cart outside.
17
Total Catch

Brittany Devon
Chicago, IL
Dating is hard... Zoom dating is harder.
20
Muffy

Emily Draper
Brooklyn, NY
A woman in 1970s suburbia gets sweet, creamy revenge when her husband flirts with another woman in front of her.
23
A Fistful of Coins

susana piegas
Beato, Portugal
In the aftermath of a pandemic, a lovely matriarch, Judite, goes for a daily stroll with her grandson. But she is suddenly pulled out of her suburban slumber by a liquidation sale that she simply can’t refuse.
26
Falling in love

Yolafilmo Productions
Barcelona, Spain
A scientific and personal explanation about love.
29
Daddy Issues?

Tony Kelly
Munster, Ireland
A young woman brings her new boyfriend home to meet her parents for the first time as he tries to win the approval of her over protective father.
32
It's Over

Charlie Andelman
Tallahassee, FL
After a couple is separated with five minutes until the apocalypse, they must spend their final moments with each other via walkie talkie.
3
A cold dinner

Gulzhan Sitakhmetova
Russia
A cold dinner is a dish with bad news. Today it will be more disgusting and destructive than yesterday; and tomorrow will not come at all.
6
I want to love you in analogue

Paula Harris
Manawatu, New Zealand
A film about the melancholic yearning to love someone. Based on the poem "I want to love you in analogue" by Paula Harris.
9
happy people.

celine freud
Canada
Welcome to a tour of the world's most mentally unwell metropolis!
12
The Dawn of Duck

ZZ Satriani
Los Angeles, CA
A man is distraught over the disappearance of ducks at his local pond, until a drifter reveals the disturbing truth about the habitation of the birds.
15
Go Chase Yourself

Landon Stephen Popadic
Los Angeles, CA
A 1920s engagement party infiltrated by a temptress.
18
PROJECT-19

Randy Slavin
New York, NY
PROJECT-19 is a sci-fi short film about a 6 year old engineering genius who puts her skills to work to solve her biggest issue with lockdown. The film was shot using all five family members of a multi-generational quarantine in New York.
21
First Contact

Geoff Allen
United States
A team of experts argue over what to do after humanity receives a message from aliens. It doesn't go well.
24
Short Mat Man

Jamie Neale
Essex, United Kingdom
A short film about dreaming big during isolation..
27
Surprise Inspection

Lorenzo Benitez
United States
Frank is late for an appointment to renew his passport.
30
Students

Adrian Dulnik
Kielce, Poland
A study of anatomy in the 1930s' Soviet Russia based on Konstantin Istomin's painting "Students".
