Moonwalk with Me

Directed by So Young Shelly Yo
USA, 2018, 12 min.

Juno, a Korean-American girl, is haunted by her father''s disappearances. Upon his return, she must decide to keep her drift-prone dad grounded or let him go. Moonwalk with Me is a tale about the immigrant experience told through a magical landscape. 

Producers: Jamil Munoz, Kate Zhu, Daniel Leighton
Writer: So Young Shelly Yo
Cast: Carrie Kim, James Kang -

School Columbia University of New York

Southeast Premiere

 

 

Claymator

Directed by Roy Cunningham
2019, USA, 3 min.

An aspiring stop motion animator in the 1930s struggles to find his purpose and motivation.

Producer: Cody Egan
Writers: Roy Cunningham, Cody Egan
Cast: Devin Parker, Anna Henson, Colin Buckingham

School SCAD

World Premiere



Time

Directed by Mitchell Smalenski
USA, 2019, 13 min.

In a time when time travel has become a commodity, Anna decides to travel to the past to save her mother. In a very small window of time, she must navigate her forgotten past and convince a younger version of herself to take action.

Producer: Ian Arnoldy
Writer: Aubrey J. Woodard
Cast: Ellis Cox-McAllister, Madeline Brister

School SCAD

World Premiere

 

The Chef

Directed by Hao Zheng
USA, 2019, 20 min.

In the near future, when work is done by robots, a traditional Chinese chef is forced to train a Caucasian humanoid to cook Chinese food. The chef’s former protégé makes this harder when he joins an anti-robot riot group.

Producer:  Ithaca Yixian Deng
Writers: Leqi Vanessa Kong, Ithaca Yixian Deng
Cast: Jim Lau, Quinn Von Hoene, Allen Theosky Rowe

School American Film Institute



Before Dark

Directed by Aaron Smithson
USA, 2018, 11 min.

On a hike of the Appalachian Trail, a deaf couple argue over the moral implications of whether to give their child a cochlear implant and explore the idea that being deaf is not a disability but rather a culture.

Producers: Colby Higgins, Ellen Rice, Susan Weinfurtherner
Writer: Aaron Smithson  
Cast: Amber Zion, Christopher DeSouza

School SCAD

 

No Gravity

Directed by Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham

France, 2018, 8 min.

An astronaut returns to Earth and has difficulties fitting in again since nothing excites him like being in space.

School Supinfocom Rubika