Student Film

Logline: After months hiding out following an LA scandal, a comedian’s hometown comeback goes horribly wrong when a backstage accident forces her to face the truth. Synopsis: After months in hiding from an LA scandal, burned-out comedian Betsy drifts back to the torn-up Oklahoma’s comedy club where she started. A cocky young headliner and his starstruck girlfriend recognize who she used to be, and a backstage blowup leaves the club without a show and Betsy exposed. As old friends John and Marcus argue over whether to protect her or turn her in, Betsy is forced to confront the truth about the “accident” that destroyed her career, finally taking the stage.

Old to-do lists tell the story of a mother’s sacrifices to her son.

Logline: Two college students, once high school sweethearts, now fight to keep their love alive as long distance and the demands of everyday life keep them apart.

I AM MAI is a psychological piece about Mai, an Asian American artist who represses parts of her identity in an attempt to shield herself from society’s judgment. She visualises the artworks she paints within her own mind space that takes the form of an art studio, but finds there’s a fractured masked figure there with her. She wakes up from her meditation and goes to see her professor in an attempt to enter her lotus painting into an art exhibition about self-identity. However, she’s encouraged by her professor to incorporate self-identity into her art, and she looks deep inside herself to find what she’s truly looking for. When she goes back into her mind, she finds it distorted, seemingly by the masked figure she sees from her first visit. She’s grabbed by a black hand and forced to relive through traumatic distortions of her memories to find herself. Mai first encounters an altered version of her U.S. Citizenship test, where she’s ridiculed and berated by the naturalization officer for not being able to speak English. She then finds herself wearing traditional attire and sits in front of a vanity mirror to beautify herself. She finds that her reflection, speaking Vietnamese, is berating her for wearing the traditional wear, stating that it doesn’t belong to her because she’s forgetting her identity. Mai protests by stating she forgot herself to fit in, but then she finds that her other reflection, speaking English, tells her she might as well just embrace being Asian, as people will never view her as American. Mai, distraught by her internal struggle, finds no other choice but to sell herself and who she is to a crowd of faceless paparazzi. It destroys her sense of self-worth, but she’s pulled back to reality by the masked figure who takes her to her final destination. She’s taken to a desolate room with only two chairs and a landline telephone. She takes a seat and answers the phone to her grandmother, who’s in the ICU on her deathbed. She attempts to converse with her grandmother, but finds she’s unable to communicate with her due to a language barrier. Mai attempts to reconcile with her by telling her she loves her, but it’s too late. The masked figure goes to Mai and reveals that she is a reflection of Mai. She tells Mai to embrace her two worlds and gives her the fractured mask, telling her that her split identity is one to be celebrated instead of repressed. Mai finds herself back in the art studio and creates a self-portrait with gold fracturing on her face, symbolizing her fractured identity.

A group of young men chase their dreams of becoming rockstars in LA, and deal with the dangerous choices they make to get there.

In a remote 17th-century village, a widowed mother accused of witchcraft is interrogated by a charming but ruthless inquisitor, forcing an impossible choice to save her daughter.

Two children help their parents rummage through the belongings of their late-granfather only to discover that adventure awaits in the most unexpected of places.

A detective is called in to solve a case of a missing actress for the school play before curtains go up.

Amid the quiet tension of a rural home, a boy searches for tenderness with a dad who refuses to help grow it. What We Carry is a haunting portrait of love, loss, and the things we inherit when words can't be spoken.