Shorts: Doc Stories From The US

Looking Forward
Documentary • USA • 2025 • 9 Minutes

Director: Devon Gulati
Cinematographer: Kayla Windsor
Editor: Secret Twins (Corinne and Logan Tabor)
Cast: Owen Cravens

Diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease at 11, Owen Craven defies his visual impairment to pursue triathlons. A decade later, he stands as one of the top athletes in his sport, striving to secure his place at the Paralympics.

Mystery Seeds
Documentary • UK/South Korea • 2025 • 10 Minutes

Director: Nathan Truesdell
Producers: Nathan Truesdell, Sue Ding, Maggie Li, Kat Nguyen
Editor: Nathan Truesdell, Sue Ding

After thousands of mysterious packages sow the seeds of a xenophobic conspiracy, we track its growth through local news, internet detectives, and your online shopping history.

The Most Memorable Art
Documentary • USA • 2025 • 14 Minutes

Director: John Beder
Producers: John Beder, Helen Cho
Cast: Clarisse Casalino, Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz, Wilma Bainbridge, Trent Davis

The Most Memorable Art follows two painters on a bold artistic experiment, one striving to create the most unforgettable artwork and the other aiming for pure forgettability. Their works are put to the test in a gallery filled with strangers, but human perception isn’t their only judge. A groundbreaking AI, designed to predict memorability with remarkable accuracy, will challenge our understanding of what truly makes art stick in the mind. 

Unfurled
Documentary • USA • 2025 • 28 Minutes

Director: Gail Willumsen
Producers: Gail Willumsen, Jill Shinefield
Cinematographer: Gail Willumsen
Editor: Gail Willumsen
Cast: Eve Wood

At mid-career, queer artist Eve Wood still chases fame and fortune. A long-time fixture in the Los Angeles art scene, she is known but not renowned: “The art world is a horrible business, and I have to wonder why I keep doing this.” “Unfurled” follows Wood over a year as she creates new works for a solo exhibition she hopes will launch her career to the next level. Her art is dark, angry and funny. It stems from a deep well of trauma, which she reveals for the first time on camera.

As Long As We Can
Documentary • USA • 2024 • 11 Minutes

Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

As Long As We Can captures a day-in-the-life of an Arizona reproductive health clinic trying to navigate the turbulent aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs decision. As the entire abortion care system struggles to figure out what is now legal and what is not, extra poignancy was thrown onto this particular clinic by an Arizona Supreme Court decision to uphold an 1864 law criminalizing all abortions.