Roseline is a renowned actress with an impressive career. After a lifetime on camera, she gets ready to play the greatest role of her life. Fiction and reality blur together, surfacing a deeply buried secret—then: lights, camera, action.

Roseline Like in the Movies

Sandra, a woman in Honduras, and Rosario, a Mexican woman living in the U.S., develop a strong friendship over a series of direct messages. They share common experiences of violence in their respective home countries. When the danger intensifies for Sandra and her 15-year old son, Carlitos, Rosario offers financial assistance to help them get out of harm’s way and begin a journey to the U.S., but the path to safety comes at a higher cost.

missguidance

A struggling actress is up for her first big dramatic audition. She thinks she’s about to get her big break. Little does she know, in order to get the part, she’ll have to do a chemistry read with her Father, an actor who has made a surprise move to LA.

Lipstick City

This film serves as a collective grief ritual. A journey of reckonings and resilience. Experience a celebration of the power of the human heart amid the aftermath of atrocities in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Both survivors and perpetrators, collectively and individually, source forgiveness and peace from within.

Something to Give

By a stream in the woods - a place between worlds - two women find each other ankle-deep in the water, letting go of what's past and wondering what will come.

Birdwatching

This is the inspirational family legacy story of Nathan Seely, a black carpenter who built an extraordinary ten-foot-wide skinny home in the Village of Mamaroneck, New York during the Great Depression.

Ten Feet Wide: The Story of a Skinny House

A young woman decides to carry on the family tradition of attending the county fair, this time with her dead parents. This is Kate Jean Hollowell's directorial and acting debut. It is based on the true story of the passing of both of her parents in her early 20's.

Are They Smiling?

A mother wishing her daughter a happy 15th birthday reveals devastating news from the past.

El Regalo (The Gift)

Brushstroke is the story of Paul Kirby, an abstract expressionist who makes art with an unusual collaborator: a robot he built named Dulcinea. The idea for Dulcinea came to Paul in the late 70s while studying at Harvard and since that moment he's dedicated his life to fusing his love of technology with his love of art. The art he creates is inspired both from the world around him as well as tragedy he's experienced in his life.

Brushstroke

Q&amp;A with the filmmakers for Shorts block 2. Moderated by Vail Film Festival Shorts program director Amanda Durst.

Shorts 2 Q&A

Shorts 2 (with Q&A)

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