2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Action/Thriller

Determined to buy the perfect gift for her little brother, a young woman must fight her way through crazed customers at a toy store turned madhouse.

Director(s): Bryan Uvaldo
Writer(s): Sebastian Hunt
Producer(s): Mason Kidd
Key Cast: Amanda Whyte

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

An exhausted nurse is forced into a brutal fight for her life when a mangled and bloody monster invades her home. But as her fearful survival instincts take over, she unknowingly makes a choice that will haunt her forever.

Director(s): Collin Black
Writer(s): Collin Black, Erin Bechler
Producer(s): Fenwick Rockwell
Key Cast: Erin Bechler, Chris Herring, Jim Cummings, Stephen Cormier

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever behind the ominous Blue Door.

Director(s): Regina Hoyles
Writer(s): Aja Houston
Producer(s): Julie Bersani, Toni Adeyemi, Regina Hoyles
Key Cast: Aja Houston, Inger Tudor, Farelle Walker, Nona Parker Johnson, Hugo Armstrong, Jordane Christie

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

Sometimes when you haunt someone, it doesn’t go as expected.

Director(s): Darren Coyle
Writer(s): Darren Coyle
Producer(s): Steven Hartman, Leslie Hartman
Key Cast: Jeremy Guskin, Mimi Von Schack, Suzanne Curtis

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

On a frozen planet where every word costs energy, a worker endures silence, storms, and solitude, saving his words for the one that matters most.

Director(s): Bo Qing Tang, Lan Zeng
Writer(s): Bo Qing Tang
Producer(s): Bo Qing Tang

Country: China, Taiwan, United States

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