• Strictly Business

The 9 to 5 is dead - these shorts explore the ever expanding, never ending, shapeshifting workday and how working people live their actual lives within it.

Short Films

CRAFTWORK

While struggling to keep his fledgling business afloat, Manuel notices his daughter is suddenly spending well above her means. Suspicions unleashed, Manuel seeks to find out where she's getting all this money.

CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE

While Mila struggles with being unpaid at work, a new love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But the promise of hope may also lead to tragedy.

I DON’T CARE IF THE WORLD COLLAPSES

A dilemma ensues when a career-driven line producer finds herself in a position where she has to choose between the job responsibility and being a human being, trying to save the one-day commercial shoot from collapsing.

PAPER

Follow interweaving stories about the vicious cycle of debt and desperation: a widow who has fallen behind on life’s expenses, a professional debt collector with his own expensive habits and a loan shark’s enforcer trapped within his own obligations.

PRIMETIME MOTHER

The audition process for an exploitative game show becomes the latest test of a long-suffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity.

ShortFest 2024