Angela Suh-Young Kim

UCLA

A stubborn vegan must navigate his diet on the day of his late father’s wake.

Joanne Lee

Brown University

A young woman finds that the acting job market is surprisingly slim for the headless undead.

Anthony Abraham Zayneh

Ithaca College

A nomadic old man traverses across a desolate Kentucky, but something sinister is following him along the way.

Mar J Cox

American University

When a lonely, antisocial high schooler sets her sights on a promotion from sign spinner to lead cashier at a local pizza joint, she slices through the competition and stops at nothing to get the job.

Heather McDonald

UCLA

A group of skateboarders discover something sinister hiding in the waters of a flooded parking garage.

Tyler Lynch

UCLA

When a young novelist learns about her sick mother's condition, she decides to catch a ride with an eccentric artist down south to see her mother one last time. However, the more she gets to know him, the entire trip darkly unravels at the seams.

Sophie Blood Bardos

Sarah Lawrence College

In the heat of the Victorian era, a crafty young governess manipulates the wealthy Coventry family in order to escape destitution and provide safe haven for those she loves.

Zephyr Caulfield

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Before New York's West Side Elevated Line (now known as the High Line) was constructed, trains would run through the Lower West side of Manhattan. These dangerous trains claimed the lives of hundreds of men, women, and children from the 1800s to 1933. Frank Laroy, a man working for Robert Moses in 1922, has tried for years to get these trains shut down, to no avail. Desperate for an answer, he tries to find something to blackmail Moses with by prying into his life, but this leads to Frank coming face to face with the dark side of this magnanimous man, as well as dredging up a criminal life Frank tried to leave behind.

Remy Michael Pierce

Brown University

"cigarettes" is the story of Kevin, a boy growing up in South Los Angeles in the late '90s / early 2000s, as he navigates his way through his late childhood and young-adulthood in the company of his two best friends. Kevin is forced to live with the death of his father and his mother’s affair with a man that later becomes his stepfather, an abusive, angry man who is feared by his wife and destained by Kevin and his younger sister.

Emmanuel Nimarko

Georgetown University

A Ghanaian financier working with the CIA to fix the next election questions his morals after falling in love with a sharp bartender.

Jacob Steven Boelman

University of Montana

Three intertwined stories exploring the world of kids from abusive and neglected backgrounds and those who are supposed to take care of them.

Aleeza Claire Benyona

Florida State University

A Jewish band geek stuck in the closet commits to two concerts on the same night, one with her crush, the new girl in band class, and one with her lifelong best friend.