When the reclusive Ivan rents out his spare room to make ends meet, he encounters Avery - a younger, guarded wanderer. As they navigate how to share space with a total stranger, things go wrong as intentions are misinterpreted. But a spontaneous act of kindness ignites a desire to see more. A lightness reinvigorates these two world-weary souls as Avery flies through Ivan’s world, and in sharing the same claustrophobic space, this unlikely pair helps one another relearn how to play.

WHEN SKIES ARE GRAY

Ivan is a part of his own furniture, stuck in an unbroken routine. When Avery rents his spare room and comes looking for an escape from the world, she unwittingly brings a spark of life and innocence back into Ivan’s.

Jackie, a cash-strapped bartender working at an Upstate New York casino, navigates a difficult work environment while saving for school. Her boss, Ray, creates a hostile work environment, and puts Jackie in a difficult position when she witnesses something she shouldn't have seen. When her estranged brother asks for a favor, she must make a decision that will change both of their lives forever.

PETTY CASH

Jackie, a cash-strapped bartender working at an Upstate New York casino, navigates a difficult work environment while saving for school. When her estranged brother asks for a favor, she must make a decision that will change both of their lives forever.

Allyson and her estranged father reconnect after years of separation. Both are forced to dig up their past together and acknowledge the pain that was left behind.

I’M FINE

After years of separation Allyson and her estranged father come together to embark on a journey they both didn’t sign up for.

Set during the summer of 1984 at a community swimming pool, THE SHALLOW END centers around Addie, a bookish 14 year-old who is torn between the popular clique and the lone oddball, Marjorie. When the girls are unexpectedly confronted with some very grown-up challenges, Addie discovers the meaning of true friendship as she struggles to cultivate the courage to break away from the shallow end.

THE SHALLOW END

Basking in the sunny glow of Reagan's America, a group of vulnerable, swimsuit-clad teenaged girls jockey for power at a community swimming pool.

Eric and Julieanne are a young couple stuck in the static routines of “playing house.” When Todd barges into their lives, he disrupts their carefully crafted facades with the curated manner and haphazard self-assurance that has become ubiquitous with success.

THE HOUSESITTERS

On their last day as house sitters, a young couple is visited by a stranger who exposes the lies between them.

In this comedy about being in mourning, a couples New Year's Eve is interrupted when an unexpected guest asks them to help memorialize her cat. In a time when many of us are in mourning --literally and figuratively--we hope this short comedy brings some solace, levity, and joy.

BELIEVIN'

A tiny drag of a cigarette. The occasional stoned night staring up at the stars. Getting drunk on wine and getting silly with our friends. Vices. Guilty pleasures. For many of us, casual indulgences are things that make life a little exciting, something to elevate the conscious or disrupt the ordinary. But for some people, little vices have a way of permeating deep into their lives to become full blown addictions. Jones is about a woman who, when she is inebriated feels blithe and sexually liberated. It also leaves her alone in alley ways, unable to remember the night before. But the decision to stop drinking is just the beginning of any addict’s journey. It’s an important step but it is the start of a life long process to forget the care freeness at the bottom of a bottle and the loneliness that can overwhelm an alone and sober brain. Using dream like storytelling we show the grit and drive in one woman’s life to find pleasures outside of alcohol and how she must keep running away from the inner demons that threaten to drown her.

JONES

Jones' inner demons threaten to take over her life unless she outruns the voices in her head and the ticking of time.

As Martha, the unappreciated matriarch and manager of Landry Family Furniture, physically readies the store for their doorbuster closeout sale, she is emotionally unready to move on. Caught up in nostalgia for her once happy family and thriving business, Martha refuses to sign her name to the sale paperwork despite agitation and pleas from the “Sofa King,” her ex-husband, and their grown children. So when the store itself presents a new challenge in the form of a power outage, Martha makes a final attempt to save her legacy - by stealing electric from the gas station next door. Culminating with an exciting twist ending, Martha doesn’t her happy ending, but through her series of misdeeds, this marginalized woman becomes the star of the show.

SOFA QUEEN

When a power outage threatens Landry Family Furniture’s final “Going Out of Business” sale, Martha, the matriarch, attempts to reconnect the power and her fractured family.

The Greatest Night was a collaboration with&nbsp;composer&nbsp;Matthew Evan Taylor&nbsp;and&nbsp;the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. It's a mixed media short doc that tells the story of a young man's journey from prison movie projectionist to filmmaker.

THE GREATEST NIGHT

A prison movie projectionist recounts the story of the greatest night of his life.

Shorts Program H: "EXHIBITION SERIES 2" Live Q&A

Shorts Program H: EXHIBITION SERIES 2

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