A woman returns to her family home in rural Ireland to find herself caught in a cruel mind game with someone she had forgotten.
Ronan Day-Lewis is from New York City. He is a Sophomore and Art Major in Berkeley College at Yale University.
James and Liz, young and in love, desire nothing more from life than each other. When social pressures get the best of them, however, they decide that their relationship will thrive only in isolation. Running away from their homes, families, and lives, James and Liz seek to start a new, pure life together. Instead, they are torn apart.
Bread and Bark Chips is a short, non-linear film that explores a teenage girl’s psyche as she deals with an eating disorder and grapples with the idea of home.
Evan Billups is from Portland, Oregon. She is a Sophomore and American Studies Major in Morse College at Yale University.
When Brittany, a single mother struggling to get by, gets an unexpected visit from her estranged brother, Anthony, she is understandably suspicious. Anthony offers her a ride home, and it seems as though they might be able to reconnect. However, when the topic of their disabled father comes up, both siblings must reconcile what they owe to their family.
Over the course of the rehearsal process for a tragic gay play, two boys in a college theater class do some thinking about the nature of representation.
Rebecca Shoptaw is a senior majoring in film and media studies. She has written and directed a number of award-winning short films about LGBTQ+ characters, along with the web series “Middlemarch: The Series,” which recently finished airing on YouTube.
19-year-old Jason does everything he can to be a good role model for his brother Jordan. Years of hard work in the face of adversity have paid off, giving Jason an opportunity to go to college and help his brother do the same. However, everything suddenly changes, as Jason is forced to choose between letting down his family and breaking the law.
Director’s Bio: TJ is a freshman film studies major, originally from Hartford, CT. He hopes that this will be the first of many films he will make.
“Sonnet 23” is a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s sonnet: the story of a boy frozen in his indecision about whether or not to confess his feelings to his male best friend, told through an impressionistic style that mirrors both the sentiment and the structure of the original sonnet.
Rebecca Shoptaw is a junior at Yale. She has created a number of award-winning short films featuring LGBTQ+ characters, along with the currently airing web series Middlemarch: The Series.
Alexa, a college student, receives a vision from God commanding her to proselytize the new word to the people of the world. Finding the old methods of evangelism (street preaching, door-to-door evangelism) less than efficient, she hires a team of marketing executives to promote her new church. Of course, nothing goes according to plan.
Benjy Steinberg is a writer, director, and producer from Palo Alto, California. He is a senior Film & Media Studies major.
dir. Russell Cohen
When the world’s greatest hero is defeated, his five ex-sidekicks gather together to mourn, air longstanding grievances, and, perhaps, figure out a successor.
Russell Cohen is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College from Cleveland. He’s a Film & Media Studies and History double major, and a proud (trombone-playing) member of the Yale Precision Marching Band.
