15 YEARS
Director: Quintin Fernandez
2024 | 7 MINUTES
Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations moves out of the Lehigh Valley for the first time since they’ve existed.
A COW IN THE SKY
Director: Darren Press and C. Fraser Press
2023 | 12 MINUTES
On his first solo flight as a pilot, a young immigrant finds himself wrestling with his identity when his engine fails and his plane free falls. Based on the true story of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian college student killed in Portland, OR in 1988 by skinheads in a crime inspired by white supremacist Tom Metzger, A Cow in the Sky is a film about the pain and personal triumph of a son left behind.
A DEAD MARRIAGE
Director: Michał Toczek
2023 | 18 MINUTES
Filip works as a professional movie extra and he always plays roles of dead bodies. On the set of a historical film, he meets Lucy, who happens to be also an extra, playing a role of a dead woman. When laying on top of each other during long film making hours a bittersweet relationship develops between them in the unusual circumstances.
A WEDDING DAY
Director: Brendan Beachman
2022 | 21 MINUTES
For newlyweds Brad and Jill, it seems the honeymoon is over before it even began. When an eccentric stranger stumbles into the couples first argument as man and wife, the day takes an abrupt turn and changes their lives forever.
ABSOLUTION
Director: Jill Yapsuga
2023 | 3 MINUTES
Eike Granford discovers what happens to good men who do bad things.
ADDENDUM
Director: Peter J. Harrison
2023 | 8 MINUTES
An experiential piece sharing moments with a young woman as she returns to the cleared out home of a recently passed family member and though the apartment is all but bare, memories and lives once lived permeate the space.
AIKĀNE
Director: Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson
2023 | 14 MINUTES
A valiant island warrior, wounded in battle against foreign invaders, falls deep into a mysterious underwater world. Everything changes when the octopus who rescues him transforms into a handsome young man.
ALEXANDRA AND NICOLAY CHOCOLATE
Director: Daniel de Bruyn
2024 | 6 MINUTES
A short look into a small European-style artisanal chocolate shop in Portland, PA.
AN OPEN DOOR – TEMPLE GRANDIN
Director: John Alexander Barnhardt
2023 | 60 MINUTES
An Open Door is the international award-winning documentary that reflects on the influential life and work of Dr. Temple Grandin as a champion of the humane treatment of livestock, autism rights, and inclusive neurodiversity by employing her gifted insights from her personal experience with autism and visual thinking. The film speaks with Dr. Grandin, her colleagues, industry professionals and those she has influenced to celebrate her groundbreaking life, lessons learned and lasting legacy. An Open Door is directed by award-winning filmmaker John Barnhardt and presented by Colorado State University.
APAYAUQ
Director: Zeppelin Zeerip
2022 | 16 MINUTES
Apayauq Reitan’s journey to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race.
BARBETTE + FONTAINE
Directors: John-Carlos Estrada and Zak Zeh
2024 | 14 MINUTES
A century apart, two drag icons unite through art, resilience, and a shared legacy of self-expression and freedom. Leading the cast is Cynthia Lee Fontaine of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
BOB’S FUNERAL
Director: Jack Dunphy
2023 | 18 MINUTES
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director sneaks a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.
BORN INNOCENT: THE REDD KROSS STORY
Director: Andrew Reich
2023 | 92 MINUTES
Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal Los Angeles band of the last half century. Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers. They have influenced independent music in ways that beg to be acknowledged. From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. They are the underappreciated link between countless threads of Los Angeles rock. The band that connects Black Flag to The Partridge Family, The Runaways to The Seeds, The Go-Go’s to The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Born Innocent will introduce a wider audience to two of the coolest people alive. The McDonald Brothers embody Southern California, rock and roll, and what it means to be an artist.
CHAUNCEY
Directors: Reilly Anspaugh and Daniel Rashid
2023 | 10 MINUTES
Zoe is afraid to introduce her new boyfriend to her old stuffed animal, Chauncey.