Shorts: Making Movies (& Acting, & Kung-Fu!)

Randy As Himself
Narrative • Comedy/Drama • USA • 2025 • 11 Minutes

Director: Margaret Miller
Writer: Margaret Miller
Producers: Natalie Metzger, Jeff Roberts, Matt Miller
Cinematographer: Jared Levy
Editor: Clare Maleeny
Cast: Huiju Park, Nanju Lee, Jinsik Park

A Hollywood production crew comes to West Texas to recreate the grisly murder of a local woman. Using locals to re-enact the crime, Reality TV meets Reality in this bizarre romantic comedy about the (show) business of murder.

Flavor Of The Month
Narrative • Comedy/Drama • USA • 2025 • 13 Minutes

Director: Nathan Xia
Writer: Nathan Xia
Producers: Po Wei Su, Nathan Xia, Benny Luo, Yao King, Benjamin Wiessner
Cinematographer: Ayinde Anderson
Editor: Tiffany Lin
Cast: Nathan Xia, Kevin Changaris, Jack Wang, Jade Kaiser, Dustin Hahn, Jim Cummings

A B-list Chinese actor fears being replaced as “Hollywood’s Asian” while screen testing for a life-changing role.

Cast & Brew
Narrative • Comedy • Spain/USA • 2025 • 9 Minutes

Director: Priscilla Zanni
Writer: Priscilla Zanni
Producers: Priscilla Zanni
Cinematographer: Salman Alam Khan
Editor: Priscilla Zanni & Salman Alam Khan
Cast: Jackie Shearn, George Vagujhelyi, Ren Asher, Luca Antonio, Caitrin Walsh, Chayanika Baishya, Rakhir Bharat, Dorna Baghaeiamri, Alex Hernandez, Amanda Kang, Walker Grossi, JP Williams

Disaster brews on a chaotic film set when a worldwide coffee collapse leaves the diva lead actor in a frenzy, because apparently, the scene can wait, but his coffee can’t.

Perfect Casting
Narrative • Comedy/Drama • USA • 2025 • 5 Minutes

Director: Autumn English
Writer: Autumn English
Producers: Autumn English
Editor: Autumn English
Cast: Maxine Coltin, Caleb Harbin

A skilled costume designer struggles to collaborate with an asocial creature actor who is scarily good at playing his monster character.

Freak Job
Narrative • Comedy/Horror • USA • 2025 • 11 Minutes

Director: Langan Kingsley
Writer: Caroline Cotter & Langan Kingsley
Producers: Rob Hatch-Miller, Puloma Basu, Caroline Cotter, Langan Kingsley
Cinematographer: Markus Mentzer
Editor: Carina Jollie
Cast: Caroline Cotter, Bridger Winegar, Alex Song-Xia, Jacquis Neal, James Dwyer

An aspiring actress must do the scariest thing she’s ever done: audition for a haunted house.

We Were The Scenery
Documentary • USA • 2025 • 15 Minutes

Director: Christopher Radcliff
Writer: Cathy Linh Che
Producers: Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow, Su Kim
Cinematographer: Jess X. Snow
Editor: Christopher Radcliff
Cast: Hoa Thị Lê Chế, Huệ Nguyên Chế

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilized as background extras in the filming of Apocalypse Now.

Check Please
Narrative • Action/Comedy • USA • 2025 • 10 Minutes

Director: Shane Chung
Writer: Shane Chung
Producers: Anna Castagnaro, Nick Leahy, Lydia Hearst, Hyunyoung Lee
Cinematographer: Tristan Baumeister
Editor: Madie Giaconia
Cast: Richard Yan, Sukwon Jeong

Two headstrong Koreans can’t agree on who’s treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.