Sundance Short Films

With her fiancé in jail, single mother Alone Watts must decide whether to go through with their wedding. A documentary short filmed in black and white, “Alone” mines layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of love within the modern Black American family.

A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after inadvertently becoming a viral sensation.

Emeteria (85) is visited by the ghost of her patrón, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news. A visual and deeply moving journey of a mother trying to save her son's life. Magical realism filmed in rural and rugged Chile as a backdrop that shows the long walk of a hard working woman giving her life for her son when death comes to town.

Kelvin Peña, a charismatic 17-year-old from rural Pennsylvania, shares his story of going viral after befriending a group of wild deer in his backyard.

To commemorate Daphne’s eighteenth birthday, she invites a handful of students from her all-girls high school to watch a male stripper at her family home. Among them is Andrea, who has been vying for Daphne’s attention for years. After stripper Jonny Ca$h has completed his main act, he asks his captive audience for a special volunteer to sit in “the hot seat”, where that lucky gal can get a private viewing of what Jonny has been hiding under his thong. When her other attempts to impress Daphne fail to pay off, Andrea volunteers to sit in the hot seat and bravely goes where none of her friends have gone before. She may lose a little innocence but ultimately, she gains the respect and admiration from Daphne that she’s been craving.

The true story of 400 fish that were found in a high school pool in Saitama, Japan, and the four fifteen-year-old girls who put them there. Winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2017.