2020 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Director: Aaron Hanzel

Running Time: 3 mins

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description:  A couple on their first date meet at a coffee shop. This silent film explores the beauty of romance and the powerful desire for validation. 

Director: Edward Loupe

Running Time: 15 mins 23 secs

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description:  A dying man and his nurse have one last conversation. It changes her life forever. 

Director: Fidel Ruiz-Healy

Running Time: 15 mins

Screening: Block 5 - March 7th

Description:  The story of a young, western-obsessed girl hell-bent on turning her quiet Texas suburb into the lawless playground of her imagination. 

Director: Humberto Guzman

Running Time: 14 mins 15 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description:   A writer struggles with her marriage as she connects deeper with her story than with her husband. 

Director: Valerie Rinder

Running Time: 3 mins

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description:  A stop-motion animation featuring a drum playing jackalope and other quirky delights. 

Director: Philip Gioja

Running Time: 14 mins 45 secs

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description:  Facing a devastating disease with no known cause or cure, Austin Crawford claims to be 'the richest man in the world' as he fights to pay it forward and keep his head in the wind. 

Director: Sara Harmon

Running Time: 19 mins 30 secs

Screening: Block 3 - March 7th

Description: A mini-documentary about Wonderland Park (1906-1918), Wichita's First Amusement Park. It was located on Ackerman island in the Arkansas River. 

Director: Andrew Chen

Running Time: 19 mins

Screening: Block 3 - March 7th

Description:  A man left for dead encounters a possessed gun and transforms into a gunslinger bent on avenging his wife's murder, but unbeknownst to him the gun has a vendetta of its own.  

Director: M. Louis Gordon

Running Time: 10 mins

Screening: Block 2 - March 6th

Description:  After years of confinement, a teenaged girl escapes her kidnapper and returns to the house of her long-lost family, but her homecoming is far from welcome.  

Director: Chad Scarborough

Running Time: 12 mins 29 secs

Screening: Block 5 - March 7th

Description: After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.   

Director: Justin Eugene Evans

Running Time: 9 mins 59 secs

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description: When a planet-hopping cowboy-criminal (Jason R. Moore, Marvel’s The Punisher) returns to New Mexico after a heist-gone-wrong, he expects a hero’s welcome. Instead, he finds his mutinous crew have decided he’s no longer in charge. 

Director: Lawrence Hennigan

Running Time: 12 mins 28 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description: David Murdoch is a Searcher: a government-sanctioned bounty hunter from a future dystopia. His mission is to travel back in time to present-day Los Angeles and capture a fugitive hiding in the past. Once he meets his target, he begins to question his orders and his future. 

Director: Jay Mohan

Running Time: 6 mins 30 secs

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description: It is alarming to note that anti-national, anti-constitutional ideas of racism and race superiority are spreading fast in the land of freedom, especially in enterprises, threatening the very own foundation this great country was built upon. This short film is a look into the question - Is racism spreading in United States now? 

Director: Trey Murphy

Running Time: 14 mins 33 secs

Screening: Block 2 - March 6th

Description:  An urban exploring duo come face to face with horror while investigating an abandoned house with a well known, yet enigmatic photographer.  

Director: Bobb Barito

Running Time: 8 mins 50 secs

Screening: Block 5 - March 7th

Description:  A vengeful father hunts down his daughter's boyfriend on the Fourth of July.

Director: Catya Plate

Running Time: 9 mins 58 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description: 500 years from now, in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepares them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth. 

Director: Matthew Hanisch

Running Time: 8 mins 31 secs

Screening: Block 3 - March 7th

Description: When a grandmother hesitates to try a new product designed to combat the effects of her dementia, her grandson must help her overcome her fears to improve both their lives.

Director: Webb Montgomery

Running Time: 9 mins 59 secs

Screening: Block 5 - March 7th

Description:  On an aging farm in the middle of nowhere, two scarecrows traverse a complicated relationship when one of them doesn't have the heart to scare. 

Director: Rob Andrew

Running Time: 1 mins 15 secs

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description:  Great communications make you think. They make you work and stimulate your reconsideration of a belief or behavior that currently exists. 

Director: Doug Armknecht

Running Time: 2 mins 20 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description: A thoughtful and scenic perspective on the beauty of farming and rural living, set to a passage by pioneer author Willa Cather. Even though removed from Cather's world by more than a century, the modern farmer embodies the spirit of the pioneers: Enjoyment of solitude, appreciation for nature, and stubborn independence. 

Director: Nicholas Ybarra

Running Time: 5 mins 51 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description:  Everyday people moonlight as fire-spinning artists - endangering themselves for the sake of their art. 

Director: Amor Adirtya

Running Time: 12 mins 16 secs

Screening: Block 3 - March 7th

Description:  If you drop a coin into the river, The Girl Of The Bridge will come and play with you for a day. Naya, a 6year old girl, has made this story up and drops a coin in. 

Director: Brendan Hubbard

Running Time: 10 mins

Screening: Block 2 - March 6th

Description:  With a new baby at home, young parents adopt a hi-tech monitoring system. Will it be an answer to their woes or have they invited a monster into their home? 

Director: Giancarlo Orellana

Running Time: 19 mins 3 secs

Screening: Block 2 - March 6th

Description:  Luke is a paranormal hunter who is able to communicate with the spirits of the undead. Claire is a recently turned lycanthrope on the run from the wolves who took away her humanity. And a vengeful spirit named Karen makes these two cross paths. 

Director: Geoff Marslett

Running Time: 7 mins 30 secs

Screening: Block 3 - March 7th

Description: Tom Skerritt stars in this animated short film about a lonely trucker waiting for a reply on the CB radio...a ghost that haunts the lonely highways...and a whale that sings in a voice no other whale can even hear. 

Director: Adam Lipsius

Running Time: 10 mins

Screening: Block 2 - March 6th

Description: A terrifying reimagining of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' with female protagonists living now. Beatrix Callow photographed Amanda Bleu 30 years ago, imbuing the image with feelings she dared not speak aloud. Now, Beatrix looks older, and Amanda appears... unchanged. And the secret of why could be too much for anyone to survive. 

Director: Daryl Lathon

Running Time: 16 mins

Screening: Block 5 - March 7th

Description:  The Seven Men of Hanukkah is about a man who’s experienced a major loss--and he’s about to embark on the most peculiar audition he’s ever had. 

Director: D. B. Sweeney

Running Time: 5 mins

Screening: Block 4 - March 7th

Description: Two unlucky guys meet in the drunk tank and hatch a plan. 

Director: William E. Simpson II

Running Time: 3 mins 45 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description: A Cinematic experience carried by an uplifting musical score powering a revealing look into the plight of America's Wild Horses. 

Director: Javier Molina

Running Time: 16 mins 20 secs

Screening: Block 1 - March 6th

Description:  An 11 year-old kid growing up in “the hood” secretly dreams of trick-or-treating as Wonder Woman for Halloween.