The filmmaker’s nightmare depiction of what his life would've been like had he followed in his family’s footsteps instead of rejecting it.

Short, USA, 11 min.

Director: Eli Powers

Writer: Eli Powers

Producer: Eli Powers

Actors: Eli Powers

A lonely woman experiences a transformation after meeting a familiar stranger.

World Premiere

Short, UK, 3:21 min.

Director: Julie Mayhew

Writer: Julie Mayhew

Producer: Julie Mayhew

Actors: Melissa Berry

A poignant exploration of the human experience through “life, death and shit.”

Short, USA, 9:04

Director: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien

Writer: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien

Producer: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien, Michele Dupree

Actors: J.R. Reed, Patrick Sean O'Brien, Scott Murphy

With a decade’s worth of footage, LOOK invites the viewer to be fascinated with things that occur in front of us everyday, as that is where we see remarkable revelations of the human experience.

World Premiere

Feature, USA, 72 min.

Director: Justine Bateman

Producer: Justine Bateman

CREDO 23 COUNCIL FOUNDER, FILMMAKER, AND AUTHOR JUSTINE BATEMAN MODERATES THE DISCUSSION WITH INDIE FILM FINANCE / DISTRIBUTION LEGEND, CASSIAN ELWES, AND OTHERS.

A creative, stop-motion entry in the Kaiju (“strange beast” or “monster”) genre.

Short, USA, 8:07 min.

Director: Rusteen Honardoost

Writer: Rusteen Honardoost

Producer: Rusteen Honardoost

Actors: Lucas Villarosa, Laura Karoubi

The latest free healthcare product! (May include in-app purchases.)

World Premiere

Short, USA, 2:55 min.

Director: Michael Plewa

Writer: Michael Plewa

Producer: Michael Plewa

Actors: Hayley Tyler, Rachel Stubington, Kevin Hinton

The concept of a "home" being one’s body, thoughts, as well as one’s work in this avant-garde piece.

World Premiere

Short, USA, 4 min.

Director: Ethan Krahn

Producer: Ethan Krahn

Love and relationships on multiple levels, reflecting the complex manner in which we connect with others.

North American Premiere

Short, Germany, 6 min.

Director: L. Cronly

Writer: L. Cronly, Ella Shanahan

Producer: L. Cronly

Actors: Pauline Henkmann, Marie-Claire Delahn, Tom Koepke, Janik John

When hemmed in from all sides, like this informant in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia, one truly discovers their options.

Short, USA, 14 min.

Director: Margos Magossian

Writer: Margos Magossian

Producer: Wesley Barker

Actors: Astghik Vardanyan, Aram Karakhanyan, Roffi Petrossian, Mayranush Grigoryan, Artashes Shahverdyan

Drinks for sale in the downstairs bar.

Come hang out.

A grieving man tries to make sense of the loss in this horror-comedy.

Short, USA, 10:27 min.

Director: Emily Maya Mills

Writer: Ryan Meharry

Producer: Alyssa Fritz, Ryan Rosenberg, Ryan Meharry

Actors: Dave Theune, Ryan Meharry

To return to our humanity, we must begin with the people closest to us. But, do we want it bad enough to go one night without our phones?

Short, USA, 9:38 min.

Director: Max Novick

Writer: Max Novick

Producer: Pranav Kothary, Max Novick

Actors: Erika Chase, Anthony Notarile

Life can be violent, and funny, and sometimes only expressed through the movement of the body in this neo-noir Western, set in Texas.

World Premiere

Short, USA, 14:35 min.

Director: Cameron Monaghan

Writer: Cameron Monaghan

Producer: Cameron Monaghan, Nika Burnett, Maya Donato, Grant Rosenmeyer, Maria Prieto, Sara Eklund, Lily Darragh Harty

Actors: Kelli Berglund, Cameron Monaghan

Desperation and hope create a quicksand in which a rideshare driver tries to not be swallowed by it all.

Feature, USA, 86 min.

Director: Jean-Pierre Caner

Writer: Jean-Pierre Caner

Producer: Shaz Bennett

Actors: Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, Kestrin Pantera, Noel Arthur, Larry Clarke

The CREDO 23 Film Festival not only supports new filmmaking, but also new ways for those filmmakers to financially continue their work.

And so, the CREDO 23 Foundation is proud to grant the accepted filmmakers all the festival proceeds, after costs. CREDO 23 knows that with new filmmaking comes new ways to financially support and distribute this fresh work. We hope that granting festival proceeds to the filmmakers can become a new standard.

We look forward to what these filmmakers produce next.

Day Three wrap-up, end of festival.