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Winter 2026 Collection Shorts Package drive
BUG DINER
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director/Animator: Phoebe Jane Hart
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and work-place fantasies come undone in a Diner run by a Mole Chef with a hot ass.
"that ate." -Delaney, letterboxd review
BONUS FEATURES: BTS photos of animation, fabrication, and original sketchbook / storyboard…...when Gary was obsessed with Titanic
CHAPERONE
Writer/Director: Sam Max
An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.
HUELLA
Writer/Director: Gabriela Ortega
When the death of her grandmother unleashes a generational curse, a disenchanted flamenco dancer resigned to a desk job is forced to experience the five stages of grief through a visit from her female ancestors, pushing her to finally break the cycle.
Following the loss of her grandmother, Daniela, a young immigrant woman finds herself stuck in a 9 to 5 job and suffering a potent and all-consuming sort of grief. As she uses that experience to push herself forward, with the help of her female ancestors, in Huella (Footprint) writer/director Gabriela Ortega paints a powerful picture of the five stages of grief from a fresh perspective, capturing the layers of the immigrant experience in that situation. -- Celine Roustan, Short of the week
THIRSTYGIRL
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director: Alexandra Qin
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.
Charlie and Nic are headed somewhere. We’re not sure where. All we know is Charlie can’t stop sending nudes and watching porn on her phone. As the sisters go along their journey, Charlie’s need for sex intensifies and she resorts to more and more depraved behaviors to get her fix. THIRSTYGIRL is an intimate film about sisterhood and addiction, following two Asian-American women traveling across the American South. It is Alexandra Qin’s (see) first film and the proof of concept for the THIRSTYGIRL feature.
THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HAND
Writer/Director: Gregory Barnes
Troubled by an unnatural temptation, a young Mormon missionary must confess the humiliating depths of his pornography addiction.
BONUS FEATURES: Meet the Filmmaker Video
BUG DINER
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director/Animator: Phoebe Jane Hart
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and work-place fantasies come undone in a Diner run by a Mole Chef with a hot ass.
"that ate." -Delaney, letterboxd review
BONUS FEATURES: BTS photos of animation, fabrication, and original sketchbook / storyboard…...when Gary was obsessed with Titanic
CHAPERONE
Writer/Director: Sam Max
An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.
HUELLA
Writer/Director: Gabriela Ortega
When the death of her grandmother unleashes a generational curse, a disenchanted flamenco dancer resigned to a desk job is forced to experience the five stages of grief through a visit from her female ancestors, pushing her to finally break the cycle.
Following the loss of her grandmother, Daniela, a young immigrant woman finds herself stuck in a 9 to 5 job and suffering a potent and all-consuming sort of grief. As she uses that experience to push herself forward, with the help of her female ancestors, in Huella (Footprint) writer/director Gabriela Ortega paints a powerful picture of the five stages of grief from a fresh perspective, capturing the layers of the immigrant experience in that situation. -- Celine Roustan, Short of the week
THIRSTYGIRL
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director: Alexandra Qin
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.
Charlie and Nic are headed somewhere. We’re not sure where. All we know is Charlie can’t stop sending nudes and watching porn on her phone. As the sisters go along their journey, Charlie’s need for sex intensifies and she resorts to more and more depraved behaviors to get her fix. THIRSTYGIRL is an intimate film about sisterhood and addiction, following two Asian-American women traveling across the American South. It is Alexandra Qin’s (see) first film and the proof of concept for the THIRSTYGIRL feature.
THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HAND
Writer/Director: Gregory Barnes
Troubled by an unnatural temptation, a young Mormon missionary must confess the humiliating depths of his pornography addiction.
BONUS FEATURES: Meet the Filmmaker Video

