Evelyn is disgruntled when she realises that none of her friends can come to her birthday party. She is soon joined by a fairy party entertainer on Zoom who tries her best to cheer her up. Evelyn pressures Fairy Ginny to prove that magic is real. With an unexpected arrival, Evelyn's day starts to look up.

Evelyn

A young girl challenges an online fairy party entertainer to prove that magic is real.

It’s 1979, James Do, a hitchhiker,encounters a group of hippies offering a lecture from a Guru that is visiting from India. James attends the meeting and is unimpressed by Sita the Guru. James runs into Sita while killing time at a gas station. Their small talk revitalizes his interest. In search of a free meal, James attends a pot luck hosted by the hippies. Sita makes an appearance. At the end of the night Sita and James share a cigarette and discuss her teachings. A skeptical James challenges Sita and she proceeds to give him enlightenment. In the morning, James wakes up to the hippie host, offering coffee and conspiracy theories . Turned off, James returns to the road. James runs into Sita again as she is heading to San Francisco and offers James to join her. He refuses, explaining that he should return to his obligations at home. Sita leaves. Alone on the open road a car stops. In a change of heart James decides to go to California to follow Sita.

Devotee

SYNCHRONIZED is an experimental documentary short that embraces 5 women of color as they collectively reflect about their experiences living and thriving in Oakland. This will uncover their perspectives of what it means living in the Town, a city that’s ever-changing – from memories, dreams, home, and resiliency. Like a mixtape, SYNCHRONIZED amalgamates their voices, natural landscape sounds, and unconventional Oakland imagery to encapsulate a unique representation that acknowledges how the personal and environment coexist together. Inspired by Godfrey Reggio's 1982 film, Koyaanisqatsi, this film was produced during the COVID-19 pandemic and features voices from BIPOC LGBTQ+ Oakland residents along with beautiful takes of Oakland’s changing urban landscape.

Synchronized

SYNCHRONIZED is an experimental documentary short that embraces 5 women of color as they collectively reflect about their experiences living and thriving in Oakland. This will uncover their perspectives of what it means living in the Town, a city that’s ever-changing – from memories, dreams, home, and resiliency.

The week before her due date, pregnant theater manager Kenzie looks forward to clocking out of her last night at work. First, she must say a bittersweet goodbye not only to her sleepy historic theater, but to her longtime confidant and employee, Misha. As the two friends pick up trash around the empty auditorium, Kenzie tries in vain to convince Misha to apply for her management position, a promotion that would bring the kind of responsibility that Misha hopes to avoid. The pair are soon sidetracked when they discover a forgotten bag of cash tucked beneath a seat. As Misha tries to convince mom-to-be Kenzie to keep the cash as a parting gift from the theater, each woman vies for what they believe is best for the other in this sweet slice-of-life look at a friendship in the face of immense change.

Cashback

On her last night of work, a pregnant theater manager and her longtime employee discover a bag of cash under a seat and must decide what to do with it.

Danika video chats with her friend Amy, excited to be joining her on the space station in just a few months. But when an unexpected diagnosis disqualifies Danika from spaceflight, she reconnects with her love of engineering and begins working on a design to help the Telos Mission, which proposes to send a probe to Titan. Danika's design shows promise, and she begins working with the Telos team to complete the mission.

Telos

Danika designs a revolutionary probe after a chronic illness disqualifies her from space flight.

A teenage girl in Iran is a model unbeknown to her traditional and religious father. At her sister’s wedding, her father finds out about her job. The girl, who has spent her income to help her sister get married, realizes that her sister has exposed her to her father. The father scissors her long hair, but she tries to continue her career whit her new style.

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