New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is proud to announce the projects selected for the 7th Annual NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival, presented in partnership with iWomanTV.
NYWIFT was founded in 1977 by a handful of women who saw a pressing need in New York for a networking and education forum for women in the entertainment industry. Nearly 50 years later, NYWIFT’s diverse membership is made up of professionals who work in all aspects of television, film and media, from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera to the executive suite. We are thrilled to showcase some of our established and rising stars through the Online Shorts Festival!
The selected films and webisodes are available to stream on:
(Please note you will have to sign up for a free account with iWomanTV to watch the films.)
The film with the most views at the end of August will be awarded the Audience Choice Award from iWomanTV!
First Place (Most Watched Film) – $1,000
Second Place – $500
Third Place – $250
And we have great news – you have another full month to watch the films! The deadline for viewing has been extended to September 23rd, and the Audience Choice Winners will be announced on September 27th.
Thank you to our friends at iWomanTV for offering this incredible opportunity to the NYWIFT community.
Watch the films online now:
A Blue Morning
NYWIFT Member Allegra Oxborough
(Director & Writer)
The lives of a group of thirty-something artists weave together as they grapple with the idea of parenthood in this a slice-of-life docu-fiction following two couples with kids, and a third contemplating a family. Captured with remarkable intimacy, the film is a quiet rumination on art, child-rearing, sacrifice, fear, and acceptance. Juggling a host of parental responsibilities, the couples reckon with their past, present, and future in their respective fields of artistic pursuit, music and dance. It’s no-frills but honest, a portrait that moves in ripples, gently growing in scope as it moves from couple to couple.
A Place For Ashes
NYWIFT Member Brianne Neira
(Director, DP, Editor & Producer)
A Place for Ashes is the story of two sisters: Phoebe, an anxiety-ridden college dropout with a guarded personality, and her younger sister Taylor, a bubbly micromanager with a sunny disposition. While waiting for their father to arrive at their family home, the two discover how they can rebuild their relationship and why it fell apart in the first place.
A Shattering
NYWIFT Member Jan Jalenak
(Director & Writer)
A carefully constructed marriage implodes when an unexpected call unleashes the fragility and wounds that have been simmering for years. A Shattering examines the challenges, rewards and inevitable disappointments of marriage and intimate relationships. Deeply wounded by betrayal, the destruction of trust hovers below the carefully guarded façade that Melissa and Douglas have created. During a quiet dinner at home, an unexpected event changes the trajectory of their evening and appears to shatter the fragile façade of their marriage.
Artifice
NYWIFT Member Kate Harpootlian
(Director & Producer)
Artifice explores the delayering of the performative façade to reveal the generational and societal trauma that artists internalize. The performers struggle to grapple with the “characters” they have created in a bid to win the attention and approval of their community turned audience. As they begin to strip away the false layers, they both confront and embrace their primal selves in a process and practice of healing.
At First Sight
NYWIFT Member Kate Harpootlian
(Director & Producer)
In a poignant tale of serendipity and heartbreak, At First Sight follows the fateful encounter between a man and woman whose lives intertwine in a single, life-altering moment. Drawn together, they experience love at first sight, only to have their bond tragically severed by a sudden accident moments later. Before being drawn apart, they are granted a brief glimpse into an alternate reality, where they explore the depths of their connection and envision the future they could have shared. In this bittersweet journey, they grapple with the fleeting nature of destiny and the profound impact of love and loss.
Breaking and Entering: Episode One
NYWIFT Member Okema T. Moore (Producer)
An uptight personal organizer goes to battle with an unhinged young millennial lifestyle guru in a mad competition to offer their clients the most life-changing decluttering experience.
WINNER: Best Director – Comedy
WINNER: Best Producer – Comedy
Body Stories: Together
NYWIFT Member Mariluz Guerra
(Director & Writer)
Sharing one home, we are more connected than we think. Ten people living in different parts of the globe are struggling with the ups and downs of the external limitations due to the pandemic, their local realities and internal shadows. But in some place within, the light is still living.
Boss Lady
NYWIFT Member Meshall Shumate
(Director & Writer)
BOSS LADY, is the biographical story of Mary Fields, a true American legend born before her time. The movie explores the true parallels of her life, beginning with her childhood on the plantation as a slave girl, her cherished relationship with Mary Jo, who secretly teaches reading and writing. After emancipation Mary’s life takes a dramatic turn and winds up a rough rugged cowboy. This free woman became a gun-slinging, whiskey drinking, cigar smoking, foul-mouth, ex-slave, who spoke her mind freely and didn’t let anyone push her around. She was the BOSS LADY and everybody knew it.
Carnitas
NYWIFT Member Iliana Guibert
(Actor & Producer)
Carnitas is a dark comedy exploring ambition, family bonds, and the lengths to which people will go to achieve success, all wrapped in the deliciously twisted world of a struggling taco shop.
WINNER: Best Dark Comedy
WINNER: Best Producer – Dark Comedy
Catherine Opie b. 1961
NYWIFT Member Sini Anderson
(Director)
The extraordinary imagery of renowned photographer Catherine Opie is on full display in this stunning and emotionally moving documentary short. Whether photographing San Francisco’s queer and gender-expansive communities during the AIDS crisis, Texas high school football, or her own devastatingly honest self-portraits of her body and life as a lesbian mother, each piece forms the foundation of this compelling and energetically diverse artist profile. Plus, a killer soundtrack with exceptional timing.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse Peace Prayer
NYWIFT Member Tiffany-Marie Delorme
(Producer)
Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe is a longtime environmental activist, and compelling global peace advocate. Born on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota his teachings focus on spiritual awakening and the significance of the white buffalo calf in Lakota culture, particularly the prophesy of when four white buffalo calf will come together from the west, north, south, and east: a time of peace. Chief Looking Horse has a deep commitment to non-violence and founded International Peace Day, which is now under the auspices of the United Nations.
Chocolate with Sprinkles
NYWIFT Member Okema T. Moore
(Producer)
Art and Mary have been in the business of marriage, parenting and donuts for so many years that they lost sight of each other a long time ago. What they share however is a donut shop business celebrating its 25th year, and an immense love for their children. In the midst of a heated argument, everything changes for Art and Mary, forcing them to do something they haven’t done in 25 years – actually stop and work on their marriage. Chocolate with Sprinkles is a sweet film about love, marriage and forgiveness.
WINNER: Best Cast – Drama
WINNER: Best Cinematography – Drama
WINNER: Best Film Editing – Drama
WINNER: Best Score
Choice
NYWIFT Member Dawn Young
(Actor)
A cautionary tale of what can happen when a woman’s choice is taken from her in a situation where the ultimate decision should be hers alone. The involvement of others who are not directly involved in the consequences of the decision only further complicates an already difficult and heart-wrenching decision for the woman in question who will ultimately bear the consequences of that important choice that she must make depending on her life situation.
CityBIRDS
NYWIFT Member Kristin R. Harris
(Director & Writer)
New to the City and missing the woods, I found comfort and welcome from the local birds…and there are lots of them. In addition to being a welcoming committee for me, we all benefit from their presence.
WINNER: Best Short Under 5 Minutes
Climax
NYWIFT Member Zen Dot
(Actor & Producer)
A thirty year old woman who has never had an orgasm decides to take her sexual pleasure into her own hands.
Code-Switched
NYWIFT Member Myrta Vida
(Director, Producer & Writer)
A frustrated white-collar worker, a resigned Professor, and an aggrieved everyman, vie for a chance at the American Dream by denying their humanity and transforming their speech –all in a world that’s constantly surveilling them because they’re Black.
WINNER: Best Writer – Dramedy
Compassionate Release
NYWIFT Member Lynn Dow
(Director & Writer)
Jasmine and Janet are twins raised in a loving home until their father dies. Their mother, Carol, is left with the responsibility of sole provider. Carol takes a part-time job to send Janet to a prestigious university, while her sister, Jasmine, falsely confesses to a petty crime she did not commit in order to spare her boyfriend the long sentence mandated for a repeat offender. Once self-involved and obsessed with her own path, Janet leans in and responds to the inextricable bond between twins as she dedicates herself to freeing Jasmine.
WINNER: Best Picture
WINNER: Best Writer – Drama
WINNER: Audience Choice Award – Second Place
Concrete Rose
NYWIFT Member Amanda Ramirez
(Director & Producer)
Concrete Rose is a documentary about transformation and hope, following Christina Green, who overcame her past to help others do the same. As director of the Marcus Garvey supportive housing program in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Christina embodies resilience and community, despite the challenges of reentry and societal stigma.
Consider The Lilies
NYWIFT Member Cristina Spina
(Director & Writer)
A woman, MIMI, possibly homeless, enters an expensive Brooklyn apartment Open House. We sense that she loves and mourns the space. In time we’ll discover that she lived there some fifty years before with her own family. MIMI grabs a pair of keys, and during the night enters inside the apartment while the family is sleeping. AMY, the only child, wakes up and with surprise and fear approaches the woman, thinking she is a fairy, a witch, a dream…
WINNER: Best Drama
Crying Applause
NYWIFT Member Sousana Maragkou
(Director & Writer)
Crying Applause is a film essay that delves into the theme of duality and phantasm, exploring how seemingly insignificant events can significantly disrupt the monotony of daily life. Set in the bustling city of New York, the film follows a woman who experiences an unexpected incident that propels her into uncharted territories of her mind. As she navigates through this mental labyrinth, the line between reality and illusion blurs, leading her to question her own sanity.
WINNER: Best Cinematography – Experimental
Cycles
NYWIFT Member Chiara Padejka
(Director, Producer & Writer)
Amidst what is supposed to be the last fun-fueled Brooklyn summer before college, Owen finds himself grappling with his father Mitchell’s unspoken past. He receives guidance from his best friend Elliot, but after ignoring his advice, decides to dig deeper. Yet, when Owen uncovers the truth, he must decide if finding justice for his father is worth jeopardizing the two’s contentment.
WINNER: Best Coming of Age
Deserted
NYWIFT Member Leslie Cunningham
(Director)
The world produces 1.5X the amount of food needed to feed every person a sufficient diet, yet 13.5 million American households do not have access to healthy or adequate food. Deserted explores the deeply rooted causes and effects of food insecurity in the United States.
WINNER: Best Director – Documentary
Diana’s Electric Tongue
NYWIFT Member Haroula Rose
(Director, Producer & Writer)
It’s 2080 and brokenhearted Diana has a Harbor escort delivered to her apartment. It’s the latest model. Her roommate Bernice is uncertain about this decision, but tries to be supportive. What if your ideal mate could be created, and adjusted according to your behaviors?
WINNER: Best Writer – Romantic Comedy
WINNER: Best Cast – Romantic Comedy
Ebony Kiss
NYWIFT Member Desiree Rucker
(Actor, Editor & Producer)
Found footage purported to be the first kiss by African Americans onscreen elicits a conversation between an intergenerational group of African American women artists about how the portrayal of black people in love effected their beliefs about love.
Escape Artists
NYWIFT Member Karen Goeller
(Producer & Writer)
Escape Artists: A police officer is feeling depressed on his birthday until a few neighborhood artists trick him into attending his birthday celebration by using graffiti to attract him to each location. It is written with the same type of humor as the three stooges. It’s a silent, black-and-white film, nice for festivals with physical, expressive comedic actors.
Gloria’s Birthday
NYWIFT Member Robin Noonan-Price
(Director & Producer)
Joanie, a feisty senior, regales her friends about past events from her youth, but cannot recall her sister Gloria’s recent death.
WINNER: Best Dramedy
WINNER: Best Cast – Dramedy
Her Turn
NYWIFT Member Rachel Black Spaulding
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
A mature woman’s coming-of-age story, Her Turn follows the day of an overly devoted mother as she packs up her family home of 25+ years for the inevitable downsize – she finds herself in a full-on face-off with her past, her abandoned dreams, and her bearing with her beloved family. She barely comes to terms with the gravity of her own situation before she must make a life altering choice. Charged with humor, this poignant drama represents themes of family, marriage, neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, and getting older.
WINNER: Best Director – Drama
WINNER: Audience Choice Award – First Place
Halmoni’s Pot (Grandma’s Pot)
NYWIFT Member A. Lauren Lee
(Director & Writer)
A dutiful Korean grandma reluctantly agrees to pick up weed for her grandson, but pay full price? NEVER!
WINNER: Best Comedy
WINNER: Best Actor – Comedy
WINNER: Best Original Music
Honey and Clover: A Recipe for Disaster
NYWIFT Member Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
Honey and Clover are two former child stars from the hit show Rink Inc. where they played crime fighting sisters who’s parents owned a roller skating rink. Past and future collide threatening to reveal their darkest secrets when the two are thrust back into the spotlight together after years estranged. They are forced to accept that the only way they can survive is together. Their powerful bond during this timely re-connection teaches them to cope with their new lives while coming to terms with the shocking past that tore them apart in this deeply empathetic and magical portrayal of friendship.
WINNER: Best Writer – Dark Comedy
Hot Idiot
NYWIFT Member Katharine Chin
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
Two office besties deconstruct a date with an unexpectedly eligible suitor.
I Already Went
NYWIFT Member Allegra Oxborough
(Composer, Director, Editor & Writer)
A worlds-within-worlds narrative short, I Already Went is a pitch-black satire set in a not-so-distant future, where our craving for convenience has reached an all-time high. The side effects can be a bit uncomfortable, sure, but there’s a pill for that.
Implosions
NYWIFT Member Lisa Sherman
(Director, Producer & Writer)
Lou is a bright teen, but struggles with her mental health, specifically issues in anxiety and attention. Although she appears fine on the outside, her struggles leave an impact on her duties, relationships, and her self-perception. Thus, it is how Lou fights in this inner battle that she discovers her own will.
WINNER: Best Animation and Visual Effects
Intervention
NYWIFT Member Janel Tanna
(Actor & Producer)
A woman faces depression and opioid addiction head on, encountering an unlikely source of help. Is it strong enough to help her break her (family’s) destructive cycle? Does she end it all, or choose to make a change, however small, and survive for her daughter.
Isolation Restaurant
NYWIFT Member Nadia Tass
(Director)
During the depths of the Covid-19 quarantine, you’re cordially invited to Pascale’s Trattoria, a charming Italian restaurant nestled in the heart of a suburban living room.
WINNER: Best Sound Design
Mandy’s Voice
NYWIFT Member Roxanna Lewis
(Director & Producer)
Mandy’s Voice is a narrative fictional short film about Mandy, a 17 year old teen girl with autism who’s mom, Liz, searches for ways to communicate with her nonspeaking daughter. When Liz hits rock bottom, she begrudgingly turns to a controversial therapy, Facilitated Communication, which can give Mandy the ability to express herself by typing words on a keyboard, if she is able. A new world opens up to both daughter and mother once Mandy is capable of independently owning her own voice for the very first time. Based on a true story.
Married to Math
NYWIFT Member Nina Zaretskaya
(Director & Producer)
Married to Math is a 17-minute video film profiling the extraordinarily creative lives of three U.S. mathematicians, all from the ex-USSR, in the vibrant fields of visual arts, music, and literature. With the power of math in mind, they release their artistic expression. The film is based on the geometric artworks of Yana Semenovich (2009 – 2019), the classical-sounding music of modern composer Alexey Shor (2014 – 2018), and the mirrored worlds of Asya Semenovich’s science-fiction novel Fire of the Dark Triad (2019) which uncannily prophesied the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic.
Me Against the World
NYWIFT Member Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
(Producer & Writer)
Smart, ambitious, yet shy, an Indian-American college student, Mala, finds herself navigating challenging coursework and a pair of complicated relationships that force her to reckon with who she is, what she values, and what she actually wants.
WINNER: Best Romantic Comedy
WINNER: Best Actor – Romantic Comedy
Migrating Textile
NYWIFT Member Khatia Maglakelidze
(Director)
An embroidery dress, found in New York’s Flea Market, connects back to the homeland, where people lead a nomadic life and use the colorful fabrics in everyday life. Harmonic relationships between people and nature are reflected in their lifestyle, food, handicrafts, cloth, materials they use, and what they embroider.
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Muse
NYWIFT Member Lauren Le Beau
(Director, Editor & Writer)
Pulled by the need to be great, a photography student struggles to complete their senior thesis, and despite their advisor’s attempts at redirection, begins to spiral.
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My Father’s Name
NYWIFT Member Susanna Styron
(Director & Producer)
The intimate story of one woman’s attempt to uncover the truth about her father’s participation in a lynching, find a way to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls My Father’s Name “a gripping and essential exploration of race, accountability, and the far-reaching consequences of family secrets.”
WINNER: Best Documentary
Nana Dara is Gay
NYWIFT Member Theresa Burkhart Gallagher
(Actor, Producer)
Based on characters in the award winning novel SUGAR LAND, Nana Dara is Gay, zeroes in on the moment Nana Dara has avoided for 40 years. It’s 1970 and Nana Dara invites her step-daughters, Edna (who goes by “Eddie” and wears men’s suits) and gin-soaked, bible thumper Miss Debbie, to her trailer for the great reveal: she is a lesbian. It goes the way most things go in the Deep South – hilarious, histrionic, and ultimately hopeful. Family is family, after all (“Praise Be!”).
WINNER: Best Cast – Comedy
No Know Nothing
NYWIFT Member Elizabeth Indianos
(Producer & Writer)
Goose-stepping bully, WARMAN, aims to extinguish self-expression, pull the plug on all our cultural artifacts— but can he? CAVEGIRL knows, that even if all were destroyed, we l go on, continue to create, it’s our human nature to do… In 10-minute work, CAVEGIRL eternally, instinctively creates and prevails, with her, “ability to build a future landscape in crisis, one that will renew and flourish.” The work is an antiwar premise, asking simply, who are we without all that defines us and what we create, all those iconic things in culture that make us who we are all over the earth?
Our Tent
NYWIFT Member Louisa Kendrick Burton
(Director, Producer & Writer)
On an extended camping trip with his family, young Julius longs to leave the great family adventure behind, but his parents struggle with the reality of their new normal.
WINNER: Best Screenplay – Drama
Preserving Taste
NYWIFT Member Gelareh Kiazand
(Director, DP & Producer )
Hanif Sadr, chef from Tehran, Iran, opens his first restaurant in San Francisco, USA. His mission is to introduce the regional and seasonal recipes of Northern Iran, where its ingredients geographically match California. With his wife banned from the US, and sanctioned Iranian ingredients, he travels back and forth between Iran and the U.S, attempting to bridge the personal and political to bring back a taste of home. Alongside other renowned food figures Hanif aims to show the depth of a unique forgotten cuisine that is connected with nature, influenced by seasons, and which defines the art of preservation techniques.
WINNER: Best Cinematography – Documentary
RSVP
NYWIFT Member Zen Dot
(Actor, & Producer)
After the death of their family patriarch, a mother and daughter grapple with the ways in which we grieve loss, and try to move forward.
WINNER: Best All-Female Cast
Rosie
NYWIFT Member Clare Frost
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
When Anna’s mother dies unexpectedly, she must make the wrenching decision whether she should honor her mother’s unexpected wish to place her disabled sister in a residential care home, or keep her family together and take Rosie to live with her in New York.
WINNER: Judge’s Choice
Saving Jaguars and Ourselves
NYWIFT Member Susan Perz, Ph.D
(Director)
Eduarda, Elizeu, and others fight climate change fires in the world’s largest wetland south of the Amazon Rainforest, which is dying due to climate change drought. Will they success in saving their homes and the wild jaguars they love so dearly? Amazon affects global weather. We cannot address climate change without Amazon. Will we succeed in protecting the Amazon and addressing climate change before it’s too late? Saving Jaguars is actually saving ourselves.
Smothered
NYWIFT Member Faryar Hosseini
(Director & Writer)
Devastated by the absence of their wife and mother, a father struggles to reconnect with his son while harboring a hidden secret.
WINNER:
Audience Choice Award – Third Place
So Help Me God
NYWIFT Member Joelle Westwood
(Producer)
Twenty-year-old middle-class Christian singer/songwriter Jamie Wade is on the path to success, aiming for Nashville. While his career blossoms, so do his hormonal urges, challenging his vow of chastity until marriage. After a concert, Jamie has a one-night stand with Crystal, a rebellious lower-class woman from Ohio, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy. Crystal is willing to terminate, but Jamie is not, leading to a bitter and resentful relationship. Their conflict ends with Crystal’s tragic overdose, leaving Jamie as a twenty-one-year-old single father, unable to perform and responsible for raising their baby girl.
WINNER: Best Producer – Drama
Stand UP, Speak Out
NYWIFT Member Katherine J. Brewster
(Producer & Writer)
The story of American women’s 200+ years and ongoing fight for the right to bear children and to control whether, when, and how often to have children – from no say over their own bodies to Griswold v. Connecticut to Roe v. Wade to Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom.
WINNER: Best Film Editing – Documentary
WINNER: Best Producer – Documentary
Sunrise, afterparty, kiss, or this could be the beginning
NYWIFT Member Bernice Gonzalez Bofill
(Director, Producer & Writer)
As dawn breaks over the city, a young couple finds themselves alone on a rooftop, the last remains of a lively afterparty. With the first light of day casting a golden hue around them, they share intimate conversations, laughter, and quiet moments. Will this serendipitous morning mark the beginning of a new chapter in their relationship?
WINNER: Best Editing – Romantic Comedy
Sunscreen
NYWIFT Member Edna Luise Biesold
(Director, Producer & Writer)
When Shelby and Mason get to the beach, they realize that neither of them brought sunscreen. Mason takes the blame, but when the bottle resurfaces at an inopportune moment, it turns out he did nothing wrong. This cautionary tale observes how accountability is handled in a crumbling relationship.
Suspicious Minds
NYWIFT Member Imelda O’Reilly
(Director, Producer & Writer)
A romance at a trippy Halloween rave goes wrong. Lola’s public breakup is disrupted when an Elvis impersonator comes to the rescue. Sharing confidences and ghosts from their past they reminisce and find meaning in their newly shared bond.
Sylvia
NYWIFT Member Angela Page
(Producer & Writer)
A mature bankrupt divorcee starts a date coach business with an Asian trans woman and a Latina psychic chiropractor.
The Blue Jay
NYWIFT Member Marlene Shigekawa
(Director, Producer & Writer)
It’s 1942 in a Japanese American concentration camp. Sam peacefully carves a piece of wood. He’s interrupted by Mariko, worried that their baby is not breast feeding, and a hysterical Uncle Toshi. Later Sam and Pohache, Native American, argue about reservation land until Uncle Toshi is shot dead by an Army guard. Pohache now consoles Sam. Mariko needs baby formula but the supply truck has been hijacked. Sam turns to Pohache. When Pohache delivers baby formula, a grateful Mariko grants Pohache a blue jay carving that Sam carved. Pohache returns the gift by introducing Sam to an ACLU attorney.
The GO TO: The Casting
NYWIFT Member June Marie Davis
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
In this webisode, Jules, Sam and Beth are determined to be casted in a new age telenovela set to air on a major network and need help, but there’s a slight hiccup.
The Housewife
NYWIFT Member Kelly A. Turner
(Actor, Producer & Writer)
In this proof-of-concept for a feature, a disillusioned housewife rediscovers her power after she and her son are placed in mortal danger. This is a film that challenges traditional gender roles in the family, explores female empowerment, and most of all, re-examines mothers as everyday heroes. We are proud to feature a diverse female cast and females in key creative roles. This thriller marks director Jeremiah Kipp’s (Slapface, Black Wake) first foray into the thriller genre. The script is written by Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist and NYTimes bestselling author Kelly A. Turner, who also stars in the film.
WINNER: Best Thriller
WINNER: Best Actor – Thriller
WINNER: Best Screenplay – Thriller
The Smell of Smoke
NYWIFT Member Spring Sutter
(Director, Producer & Writer)
The Smell of Smoke tells the story of Dottie, a woman in her 80s who struggles with loneliness, and the frustration of being invisible to others. She wanders into the East Village bar where she and her late husband spent many nights with their friends, years before. As Dottie reminisces, time travels between the 1940’s when the world seemed to belong to herself and her husband, and the sparse desperation that the 1990s offers her. Jason, a neighborhood drug dealer, follows her into the bar. Charming and manipulative, Dottie is captivated by the male attention and Jason takes advantage.
There’s Something Wrong
NYWIFT Member Lisa Romagnoli
(Director & Writer)
When a deranged repairman determines he’s the alpha and begins to take over a young couple’s cabin, a husband and wife must defend their home and their marriage.
WINNER: Best Cinematography – Thriller
VIDA
NYWIFT Member Erika Goyzueta
(Director)
A spirit takes us through the cycle of life. As we follow Vida, we see a figurative and abstract journey of what our bodies go through on earth.
WINNER: Best Experimental
Whim-Wham
NYWIFT Member Jordyn Cormier
(Actor & Director)
A woman goes for a stroll around her neighborhood block. When she finds a mysterious bag of magical candy, her quiet afternoon stroll becomes a groovy, reality-bending romp!
You are Enough
NYWIFT Member Valeria A. Avina
(Actor & Director)
When you think everything is wrong, something happens that makes life meaningful again. You are enough just the way you are.
