In an uncertain world, laughter is the best medicine.

ABOUT THE FILM:Best friends Gloria and Ruby are bonded through gossip and potty humor. At lunch, they joke about reincarnation and Ruby promises that after she dies she’ll visit Gloria as a porta-potty. After lunch, Ruby is suddenly killed. Gloria is despondent in her grief when a porta-potty is dropped across the street. Cautiously believing this is Ruby, Gloria begins spending time with the porta-potty. One evening, Gloria approaches the porta-potty with questions about death. The porta-potty welcomes her inside and Gloria enters. She experiences a dream-state exaltation. As she comes back to reality, Gloria moves out of her despondency, until she sees the porta-potty taken off site. She chases after it but… ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:Kate Jean Hollowell is a multi-hyphenate director, comedian and musician, who honed in on her humor and visual skills through her own music videos showcased at SXSW in 2022 and 2023. Taking on narrative, she’s managed to find a unique balance of humor and heart through all her work, with the unexpected musical number.

Say Hi After You Die

A grieving woman believes her deceased best friend has come back as a portapotty.

ABOUT THE FILM:Faced with their grandmother's dying wish, two brothers are tasked with stealing the cremated ashes of her deceased German shepherds from her ex-husband, their grandfather, on his 80th birthday. This is dysfunctional even for them. ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS: Roger Mancusi is a producer, curator, and founder of his production and consulting company Fair Oaks Entertainment. His previous credits include Hannah Ha Ha (Slamdance Grand Jury Prize, Woodstock Ultra Indie Award) and Mutt (Sundance Acting Award winner). This marks his directorial debut. Katie Schiller is a producer, director, therapist, and founder of her production company It Doesn't Suck Productions. Her previous producing credits include Shiva Baby (SXSW, TIFF), Chaperone (Sundance), and Between Earth &amp; Sky (Oscar Shortlisted). Her directing credits include A Portrait of Frances, Enclosed (Palm Springs Shortfest) and Dressed (First Run Acting Award winner).

Columbarium

Two brothers. Six dead dogs. One last wish.

ABOUT THE FILM:Richard, a failed actor, struggles to be the primary caregiver for his two small children while his wife works a demanding job as an assistant attorney general. The all-consuming needs of young children, along with the absurdities of parenting in gentrified Brooklyn, and Richard’s difficulties in reconciling his own failed ambitions, drive his journey through the tenderness, pain and confusion of raising small humans in today’s world. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:Stacey Angeles is a Texas-born, New York-schooled, Emmy and DGA-nominated director. As a precocious nine-year-old, instead of writing a class assignment on Alexander Graham Bell, Stacey decided to shoot a camcorder parody of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to show that time travel wouldn’t have been possible without Bell’s invention. This impulse to color outside the lines has come to define her career, as she has created content for HBO, Showtime, NBC, Comedy Central, ABC, CBS, MTV, VH1, and Bravo. She is currently at The Daily Show, creating segments on anything from Switzerland’s gun culture to racism in porn.

Good Dad

Taking care of his two small children proves harder than Richard could ever have imagined.

ABOUT THE FILM:In a bid to avoid her debutante ball, a girl teams up with a hyena and hatches a murderous plan for it to go to the party in her place. Based on a story by Leonora Carrington, starring Kelly McCormack (A League of Their Own series). ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:Nat &amp; Veronica Moonhill are LA based filmmakers by way of New Orleans experimental theater. This dynamic Cancer/Scorpio duo met at Bard College over a decade ago and have been collaborating on weird, freaky projects ever since. They were fellows in the 2023 Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab with their feature film script Kiki Goes Baby Crazy! Their award winning work has been presented by New Orleans Film Festival, Outfest, the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Prospect 1, and has toured to cities and festivals across the US.

The Debutante

A girl teams up with a blood-thirsty hyena.

ABOUT THE FILM:An indigenous man takes a Happy Thanksgiving wish from a bank teller so personally, his rage drives him to carry out a bizarre revenge plan. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER: ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby is an enrolled member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. He was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Shane is a former Sundance Institute fellow and holds an MFA in writing and directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His dark comedy, Happy Thanksgiving, has screened at Palm Springs International Shortfest, Nashville Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest and Atlanta Film Festival, among others. Shane is a 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Fund Fellow for his upcoming film, The Beguiling, which will be making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Happy Thanksgiving

ABOUT THE FILM:In this six-episode series, an unknown writer becomes an overnight media sensation when her public tirade against a finance douche goes viral. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:Sushma Khadepaun is an Indian-born writer and director based in New York. Sushma’s stories often meet at the intersection of immigration and feminism, exploring ideas of home and identity.

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ABOUT THE FILM:Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director sneaks a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:Jack Dunphy is a filmmaker, animator, actor and writer from Chicago whose short films Serenity and Chekhov have played at Sundance, AFI and festivals around the world. His latest short, Bob's Funeral, won Best Nonfiction Short Film at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. His short film Revelations premiered at Slamdance and went on to play at The Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, France. He co-wrote Stinking Heaven, which premiered at The International Festival of Rotterdam, with Nathan Silver, and wrote, edited and produced Silver’s The Great Pretender, which played Tribeca, AFI and festivals around the world.

Bob's Funeral

It's weird to have a family member you don't love.

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