Mountains United States, 14:37 min Director / Writer / Producer:  Kavi YuProducer:  Sharon Oh, Paul Nguyen, Samuel ChoCast:  Lizzy Liu, K. Sidney, Thanh Tran, Tao Tao GillPost Production Supervisor:  Kati Rehbeck After her father is deported back to Vietnam, Cam runs the family farm in Georgia and volunteers every weekend to urge local communities to…

1000 Days UK, 21:57 min Director: Jeanette Rourke, Ron Bambridge Producer: Jeanette Rourke, Ron BambridgeExecutive Producer: Jeanette Rourke, Ron Bambridge Disclaimer: For those who may be sensitive, this film contains verbal and emotional depictions of a loved one’s life lost to suicide. Mental health (specifically depression and Bi-Polar Disorder) are discussed as well. No one is immune…

Valle del Silicio (Silicon Valley) United States, 9:10 min Director:  James Michael DouglasProducer:  Vince WilliamsDirector of Photography:  Noah Amedick Silicon Valley follows the story of 12-year-old Wilson Chun who lives on the violent streets of Guatemala’s Zona 13. Wilson’s goal is to become a computer programmer to save his family from poverty. The one of…

Chai United States, 7:14 min Director/Writer/Editor: Arshum Rouhanian Producers: Vincenzo Dama, Savarone Ammann With the grand opening of their chai stand, Iranian siblings, Sanam and Reza weren’t prepared for the competition from their neighbors’ hot chocolate stand.

Rahmat Creel Iran, 1:40 min Director / Writer:  Behzad AlaziProducer:  Souson Salamat Rahmat Bagheri is a retired man that other people called him RAHMAT CREEL… every week he is going near a lake around the ZANJAN city to fish out as other hunters, but his hunt is different with others…

Not Worth Killing United States, 21:16 min Director:  Eric M. IveyProducer:  Paul Zehrer, John Mutz Not Worth Killing is a documentary short that tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Sister Lillian Oliver, IHM and Mitchell Rutledge, a convicted murderer serving life without parole in an Alabama state penitentiary. It is a story of…