Marni is doing her best— she’s sober, she’s scrappy, and she would do anything for her baby daughter Mila. So when a surprise daycare bill hits and every door slams shut, she finds her solution in the most unexpected Craigslist ad she’s ever seen. Armed with a frozen milk stash, a ride-or-die best friend, and the street smarts she picked up in a past life, Marni pulls off a hustle that’s equal parts absurd, resourceful, and deeply human.

CVNT

A struggling single mother turns to a bizarre side hustle to make a better life for her baby daughter.

At a dead-end gig in a dingy bar, a weary piano player fends off endless requests, obnoxious patrons, a sleazy club owner, and the fear that his career is long behind him. With the weight of family obligations and creative compromise bearing down, the night spirals into a surreal confrontation— one that pushes him to question the cost of ambition, the reality of failure, and the song he’s most terrified to play.

In the Middle of Something

Just Another F*cking Short Film

A young writer pitches a series of jokes to a publishing house, hoping that he can put a life of odd jobs and gig work behind him.

A deadpan comedy about ambition, legacy, and quiet rebellion in a small town, Killingsworth explores how a seemingly minor standoff can become a generational showdown.

KILLINGSWORTH

15-year-old Trudy Killingsworth wants to take over her family’s business, but her father’s planning to sell it.

On the ten-year anniversary of her dad's death, Frankie reflects on the absurdity of content creation. She would rather end her life than make a short film about death. But is she serious? A twisted look at why we make art through the lens of grief.

Life is (a) Short

Meeting Your Maker is a darkly whimsical short film that follows Otis, a beloved puppet on a long-running children’s show, as he faces an existential crisis just before the series’ milestone 300th episode.Set against the vibrant chaos of a TV studio and the surreal backdrop of a puppeteer’s inner world, the story explores themes of identity, burnout, and the creative struggle, blurring the line between performer and creator in (hopefully) poignant and unexpectedly funny ways.

Meeting Your Maker

Life is hard. Puppets are soft. A feel-good movie about a puppet that kills himself.

Shadow Work

After a traumatic event leaves her with an annoying Shadow she can’t escape, Annie attends a transformative retreat, hoping to confront her darkness before she loses her sense of self completely.

Tacocunr

One woman's valiant attempt to log into her email.

A cartoon twist on the Gilgamesh epic, The Epic of Enkidu tracks a doomed, chest-pounding friendship (of sorts) from the walls of Uruk to the end of the earth, where the house of the undying Utnapishtim may hold the answers. A broken paean to cuneiform, the animal kingdom, and what it is to be mortal.

The Epic of Enkidu

When the catastrophic king Gilgamesh meets the grass-fed Enkidu, things don't go according to the clay tablets. A fractured take on the cuneiform tale, featuring doom, despair, deception, and sheep.

Unable to take it any longer Mr. Holden finally confronts his wife about her holiday antics: it's finally time to tell their sixteen year old daughter Santa isn't real. Mrs. Holden now must do whatever it takes to keep the truth away from their daughter, to keep the innocence of Christmas alive.

The Holdens

A 16-year-old girl finds the truth out about Santa.

When Tom gets abandoned in space he lands on an unknown planet in search for fuel. Life on that planet, is not what it seems. The Aliens are fun and oddly friendly, but what will happen when he tries to leave?

Tom's Alien Space Adventure!

A young ambitious astronaut makes an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Little does he know that the aliens waiting there are just as crazy as him!

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