SHORTS: MAKE ‘EM LAUGH

Who doesn’t want to laugh? Dive into this delightful and darkly comic collection of laugh-out-loud shorts, featuring the world’s worst pizza, the best methods to dilate, a microaggressive pool party, a pair of assassin besties, a queer Indigenous spin on INSIDE OUT, and the biggest daddy issue of all time.


DADDY ISSUES
Dirs. Matt Campanella, Stephanie Chloé Hepner, USA, 2022, 5 min
A young dominatrix encounters an unexpected client



DIDN’T THINK I’D SEE YOU HERE
Dir. Dylan Guerra, USA, 2023, 13 min
Rory thinks there’s a ghost in his shower. Hope it’s not after him. And also, there’s that party.



POOL PARTY
Dir. Megan Chumbley, USA, 2023, 5 min
In an effort to stand in her power post-transition, Max attends her high school buddies’s pool party. She’s repeatedly slapped in the face with ignorant comments and eventually retorts with self-aware sharp wit. Resilient as she may be, Max is exhausted, and when she reaches the tipping point she just might break…



BUSHWITCHES
Dir. Jasia Ka, USA, 2023, 8 min
A supernatural dark comedy series that follows an angsty coven of witches in Bushwick as they seek alternative sources of income.



DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS
Dir. Nyala Moon, USA, 2023, 14 min
A whack, irreverent comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.



INTERDIMENSIONAL PIZZA PORTAL
Dir. Aron Kantor, USA, 2023, 5 min
After opening a portal to another dimension, Grover and his best friend Aliee face the perilous unintended consequences of their actions.



HEADDRESS
Dir. Tai Leclaire, USA, 2022, 10 min
When a Queer Native Person at a music festival sees a Non-Native person wearing a ceremonial headdress, they retreat into their mind to find the perfect insult.



HIT FRIENDS
Dir. Daniel Rashid, USA, 2023, 13 min
Alice and Paul are best friends who do everything together, but when Alice reveals that she went to Six Flags without Paul, he starts to question their friendship. Oh, and they’re hired assassins.



FANATIC
Dir. Taran Killam, USA, 2023, 16 min
Charlie and Gerald revive their failed 2000’s boyband, 2N1, for a competition with prize money that could remedy all of their financial woes. What could go wrong?

This program will be followed by a Q&A.