NEXT UP! Student Film Awards

AV Club
As a high-school A.V. club faces the absurdity of egomania, tensions flare between the director and lead actress, causing the director to fatally reprimand the crew.

Catharsis
A psychotic woman struggles with illusion and reality in her attempt to find a meaningful relationship.

Dear America
Generation Z shares their fears in the age of school gun violence.

Freewheel
A boy finds the joy in bike riding after an unexpected birthday present.

Hasti Joon
In this coming-of-age comedy set in the late 70s, a rebellious 11-year-old’s overbearing Persian parents want her to be more girly and she just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately for Hasti, in this family, looks are everything!

Heads Up
When another random hookup leaves Ethan with more than he bargained for, he’s forced to face the unfortunate realities that come with anonymous, unprotected sex: HIV.

More To Life
A teenage boy shows his depressed friend the beauty in life.

Mates
Mates shows the daily grind of two young factory workers. At night the two friends try and escape to the factory rooftop for some peace before the grind begins again, but some how, some way, life always seems to find them.

My Landline
In the wake of Hurricane Irma’s devastation, a little old landline telephone became a life-line for the island dwellers of the Florida Keys.

Gasp
Traumatized by the suicide of his young pregnant wife, a dapper-handsome lawyer who has vowed to remain silent, must fight to overcome his personal struggle of depression and finally confront his wife’s therapist.

Standardized Heisting
Jonnny, the school troublemaker, assembles a crafty crew of middle-school classmates to steal an exam and save him from private school exile.

Doll It Up
Feeling his marriage with Natalie – a sex doll he has been with for 3 years – has grown stale, Gunther decides to purchases a new doll, Dorri, that he adores and esteems as “true love.”