Let’s get… sexy!? This program explores adult themes like sex work, being in control of your sexuality, sexual relationships. It’s a late night block for a reason!&nbsp; Online short film programs will vary from the in-person programs due to virtual availability restrictions.

Jeremy is the fortunate recipient of a heart transplant who didn't anticipate also receiving the emotional and romantic baggage of the organ donor. Tensions mount and deep secrets are revealed as the layers of deception unravel in this dark comedy.

Beat

Jeremy is the fortunate recipient of a heart transplant who didn't anticipate also receiving the emotional and romantic baggage of the organ donor. Tensions mount and deep secrets are revealed as the layers of deception unravel in this dark comedy.

A chronically ill people pleaser interviews for a life-changing job at a recruiting agency, only to unravel the sinister cult that lies within. Inspired by true events.

The Recruit

A chronically ill people pleaser interviews for a life-changing job at a recruiting agency, only to unravel the sinister cult that lies within. Inspired by true events.

Human-passing Pandora introduces her boyfriend to her parents, (who, unbeknownst to him are a mermaid and a minotaur), at the dinner party from hell.

Dinner at the Smyths'

Human-passing Pandora introduces her boyfriend to her parents, (who, unbeknownst to him are a mermaid and a minotaur), at the dinner party from hell.

Recently divorced from her husband, a woman with an unhealthy relationship with perfection explores her newfound queerness by hiring a female sex worker to teach her how to eat fruit.

Come Correct

Recently divorced from her husband, a woman with an unhealthy relationship with perfection explores her newfound queerness by hiring a female sex worker to teach her how to eat fruit.

Friends wind down around a campfire. When one couple attempts to leave, their desperate friend suggests throwing one more log on the fire summoning a charred shirtless stranger (Kyle) looking for warmth.

Don't Let Kyle Sit Down

Friends wind down around a campfire. When one couple attempts to leave, their desperate friend suggests throwing one more log on the fire summoning a charred shirtless stranger (Kyle) looking for warmth.

The night of a sorority hazing event, Scotty, a college freshman, must make an impression on the older girl she wants as her “big”. As the night goes on, Scotty realizes how far she’s willing to go to prove herself. Power dynamics are not what they seem.

Scotty's Vag

The night of a sorority hazing event, Scotty, a college freshman, must make an impression on the older girl she wants as her “big”. As the night goes on, Scotty realizes how far she’s willing to go to prove herself. Power dynamics are not what they seem.

Richard Tye “Trigga” Simmons, a rich, promiscuous, jet-setting rapper, has a one-night stand with a beautiful groupie who happens to be a witch. When Tye disrespects her, she places a curse that can’t be broken until he learns how to respect women.

Dick Control

Richard Tye “Trigga” Simmons, a rich, promiscuous, jet-setting rapper, has a one-night stand with a beautiful groupie who happens to be a witch. When Tye disrespects her, she places a curse that can’t be broken until he learns how to respect women.

Cuxball

On the advice of her therapist, a young woman hires a sex worker to help recreate — and recover from — a traumatic experience in this comedic short.

Simulated consensual non-consensual role playing 

Give It To Me

On the advice of her therapist, a young woman hires a sex worker to help recreate — and recover from — a traumatic experience in this comedic short.

At Zoe’s wedding rehearsal dinner, her mom toasts to Zoe and her fiance Jude—but mostly to becoming a grandparent. Flashback to that morning—Zoe begins to have a miscarriage.

Fish Bowl

At Zoe’s wedding rehearsal dinner, her mom toasts to Zoe and her fiance Jude—but mostly to becoming a grandparent. Flashback to that morning—Zoe begins to have a miscarriage.

Just Lie to Me is a dark comedy centered around two people navigating their identities: Noah, a well-off intellectual who gets pressured by his coworker into soliciting a girl for the night and Brooke, who gets mistaken as a sex worker and decides to go along with it. The situation unfolds in a clunky interaction where both characters’ facades slowly wear away as they're forced to examine themselves.

Just Lie to Me

Just Lie to Me is a dark comedy centered around two people navigating their identities: Noah, a well-off intellectual who gets pressured by his coworker into soliciting a girl for the night and Brooke, who gets mistaken as a sex worker and decides to go along with it. The situation unfolds in a clunky interaction where both characters’ facades slowly wear away as they're forced to examine themselves.

Stuck on the side of the road, two contact-starved millennials try not to connect on an intimate level in this surreal Reform Jewish comedy about grief, changing plans, and the lengths we'll go to avoid direct communication with the people we love.

ROAD HEAD

Stuck on the side of the road, two contact-starved millennials try not to connect on an intimate level in this surreal Reform Jewish comedy about grief, changing plans, and the lengths we'll go to avoid direct communication with the people we love.

Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.

Krush The Wrestler

Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.

An aspiring porn star spends the summer of 1980 sleeping with men who pass through her family's dilapidated desert motel until one fateful summer night, when she's forced to contend with her father's darkest secret.

Daddy

An aspiring porn star spends the summer of 1980 sleeping with men who pass through her family's dilapidated desert motel until one fateful summer night, when she's forced to contend with her father's darkest secret.

The SPERM BANK is a hilarious, dark comedy about the dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Based on the writer and creator’s real life experiences with stage 4 testicular cancer.Rob sits at a sperm bank with his friends Dave &amp; Andy. A day before, he was diagnosed with cancer, &amp; now has to “store his sperm” before chemotherapy makes him infertile. Rob tries, but the thoughts of cancer keeping popping in his head. Masturbating and having cancer aren’t a good mix.He talks to his friends, who give him terrible advice. Finally, in a flurry of music, masturbation, &amp; a visit from his future self, Rob finishes. Yet as he leaves, the doom of cancer resurfaces. It is not the end, just the beginning.

The Sperm Bank

The SPERM BANK is a hilarious, dark comedy about the dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Based on the writer and creator’s real life experiences with stage 4 testicular cancer.Rob sits at a sperm bank with his friends Dave & Andy. A day before, he was diagnosed with cancer, & now has to “store his sperm” before chemotherapy makes him infertile. Rob tries, but the thoughts of cancer keeping popping in his head. Masturbating and having cancer aren’t a good mix.He talks to his friends, who give him terrible advice. Finally, in a flurry of music, masturbation, & a visit from his future self, Rob finishes. Yet as he leaves, the doom of cancer resurfaces. It is not the end, just the beginning.

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