Another Day in the West

Runtime 3 minutes 18 seconds

The true cycle of the West reveals itself when a cowboy steps up to defend the honor of the woman he loves.

Writer Director
Matthew Sliger

Producer
Rachel Weis

Cast
Jeff Coppage
Don DiPett
Emmy Newman
Yongjie Zeng

Cinematographer
Joshua Moody

Composer
Nicoletta Nomicou

Director Biography - Matthew Sliger
Matthew Sliger is a writer and filmmaker from Tennessee, now living in Nashville. His work, on the page or behind the camera, moves through memory, place, and the shifting edges of self-identity, all while walking the tightrope of humor and drama. He earned his MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute, where his Oscar-qualifying thesis film, Lane Five, shined a light on the children of parents with Alzheimer’s. He is currently developing his first feature film, Hewie Dink Knows. He’s also piecing together a poetry collection titled Po-uhms, which draws from his upbringing in small-town Appalachia and reflects on the quiet (and at times not-so-quiet) complexities of growing up there.

Screening:
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Sunday, Feb 22 — 6:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

Biological Intelligence

Runtime 1 minute 24 seconds

It's 2032. Videos are created by prompting. By entering cool buzzwords like "blonde" and "boobs" into a chat interface. Out comes a Perfect Video that properly highlights your brand's very sincere and heartfelt message. But let me tell you about a new concept... Biological Intelligence. It's when an actual HUMAN creates - wait for it - a video!

Writer, Editor, Director
Ellinor DiLorenzo

Director Biography
Ellinor is an actor and filmmaker in New York and Sweden who loves to tell a good story. Dark stuff, comedic stuff, inappropriate stuff – she’s here for it. When she’s not performing, she writes, streams video games or acts out entire arguments (in her head) with her long list of enemies.
Before the pandemic, she spent most of her time on New York’s many Broadway and off-Broadway stages, either delivering gut-punching emotionally disturbing monologues (critically acclaimed, baby!) or doing standup comedy (sometimes equally as emotionally disturbing for completely different reasons…). Once it was clear that it was time to go inside for a hot sec, she started creating online content and amassed a following of nerds that helped her launch the very successful podcast The Lost Mountain Saga which was later turned into a book!

Screening:
Wednesday, Feb 18 — 5:30 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 6:15 PM @ Asylum NYC
Thursday, Feb 19 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Friday, Feb 20 — 9:00 PM @ Baruch College

Book Note

Runtime 2 minutes 20 seconds

Denise finds a life-changing note in a controversial novel

Writer, Director, Producer
Denise Taylor

Cast
Denise Taylor
Matty Litwack
Lilly Sparks
LizaBanks Campagna
Eddie Morrison

Screening:
Thursday, Feb 19 — 5:00 PM @ Baruch College
Saturday, Feb 21 — 2:00 PM @ Asylum NYC
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Sunday, Feb 22 — 6:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

Can You Take a Photo of Us

Runtime 2 minutes 54 seconds

Things get very weird when two friends ask a stranger to take their photo.

Cast
Tiny Idea Members
Ann
Eva
Hrannar

Screening:
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 7:30 PM @ Asylum NYC
Thursday, Feb 19 — 8:15 PM @ Asylum NYC
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 2:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

God Dam

Runtime 2 minutes 43 seconds

A mockumentary about two beavers that work in a post office

The camera crew observes a typical work day for Clint Eatswood, the energetic manager, as he attempts to clean up the mess created by his unenthusiastic employee, Humphrey Damiels.

Director, Writer, Producer
Abigail Hill

Cast
Brian Cloutier
Wesley Mills

Animators
Tamryn LeGrant
Luis Montalvo

Fabricators
Equinox Beard
Tristyn Blankenship
Abigail Hill
Tamryn LeGrant
Luis Montalvo

Supervising Sound Editor
Dylan Ramras

Director Biography - Abigail Hill
Abigail Hill is a stop-motion filmmaker from New Jersey. Growing up, she spent lots of time hiking and camping, instilling in her a love of nature and its creatures which inspired the idea for God Dam. She found her second home in the stop-motion studio at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she has spent the last four years pursusing animation with a focus in storytelling. Hoping to spread her love for stop-motion, she has been the co-president of the SCAD Stop-Motion Club. She hopes to continue filmmaking and spending time in nature after graduation.

Screening:
Wednesday, Feb 18 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College

Gun Shot in a Quiet Town

Runtime 1 minute 20 seconds

A therapist explains biology to his patient.

Director, Writer, Producer, Cast
Jon Ryan Sugimoto

Screening:
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 7:30 PM @ Asylum NYC
Thursday, Feb 19 — 8:15 PM @ Asylum NYC

Lil Privilege

Runtime 3 minutes 2 seconds

From the mean streets of Greenwich, Connecticut, comes the hardest rapper you’ve ever heard… (Lil Privilege)
Watch him spit bars about the country club, JP Morgan, and the one thing money can't buy — an STD.

Writer, Producer, Director, Cast
Leo Gabriel

Producer
Truth

Cast
Zach Shaffer
Veronica Kelegian
Rob Kachikian
Nick Benak
Berk Özenç
Chase Filandro
Sophia Granell
Alexandra Devin
Miriam Aslam

Director Biography - Leo Gabriel
Leo Gabriel is a rising senior at NYU Tisch, with a multidisciplinary background in comedy, acting, writing, and producing across film, theatre, and digital media. He’s studied sketch writing under Saturday Night Live’s Emily Spivey for the past two years and trained with Freestyle Love Supreme—where he not only honed his skills in musical improv and character-driven storytelling, but also taught classes and began as a production intern during their Broadway run in high school, continuing to assist the company on tour.

Leo has co-written, starred in, and produced an independent film, and previously produced and performed with Friends with Dads, NYU’s sketch comedy group. He’s also created a number of comedic music videos and digital projects that explore pop culture, cinema, and music history through a satirical lens—and brings a strong sense of character to his work, with over 150 impressions in his back pocket. Whether on stage, behind the camera, or in the writer’s room, Leo Gabriel combines sharp comedic instincts with a deep love for storytelling.

Screening:
Wednesday, Feb 18 — 5:30 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 6:15 PM @ Asylum NYC
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 3:30 PM @ Asylum NYC
Saturday, Feb 21 — 4:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

Tantrum Tent

Runtime 3 minute 59 seconds

World Premiere

Being an adult is hard. Sometimes you just need to throw a tantrum.

Directors
Steven Bailey
Dinner for One Comedy

Writers
Ally Condrath
Kyle Miller
Jake Mann
Ian Wexler

Producers
Ally Condrath
Kyle Miller

Cast
Ally Condrath
Joshua Logan
Jake Mann

Director Biography - Steven Bailey, Dinner for One Comedy
DINNER FOR ONE is an award-winning writing and filmmaking collective. With over a decade of collaboration, this four person team has created viral videos, commercials, music videos, TV series, and short films. Their work has been recognized at festivals nationwide, including “Best Comedy” at the Catalyst Content Festival and a finalist for “Best Pilot” at the NYTVF for their viral web series Life Sucks. Their projects have also been featured on MTV, Funny or Die, and Comedy Central.

Their most recent short film, 4th DEMENTIA screened at more than a dozen prestigious festivals including Santa Barbara Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival and Hollyshorts, earning a Grand Jury Prize for “Best Screenplay” at the Oscar-qualifying Flickers’ RIIFF.

The foursome—Ally Condrath, Jake Mann, Kyle Miller, and Ian Wexler—write and produce all of their work together, bringing a unique voice as millennials navigating an increasingly chaotic world.

STEVEN BAILEY is a cinematographer and director with roots in New York and California. He’s been traveling the world shooting branded, documentary, and narrative content for well over a decade. One of his most recent projects, Together We Can, a PBS Kids series from Sesame Workshop, received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Short Form Live Action Program.

Screening:
Monday, Feb 16 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College
Friday, Feb 20 — 8:00 PM @ Asylum NYC
Thursday, Feb 19 — 5:00 PM @ Baruch College
Saturday, Feb 21 — 2:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

Tacocunr

Runtime 1 minute 50 seconds

NYC Premiere

One woman's valiant attempt to log into her email.

Writer, Producer, Director
Erin Brown Thomas
Producer
Elle Shaw
Cast
Shannon Gisela

Director Biography - Erin Brown Thomas
As a diplopic filmmaker, Erin Brown Thomas literally sees everything twice, shaping her slick, visually heightened approach.

Her 30-minute single-shot short CHASERS World Premiered at Sundance in 2025. Other films have won at Oscar-Qualifying festivals.

As Artistic Director of Salute Your Shorts, she champions other emerging filmmakers.

Screening:
Friday, Feb 20 — 4:30 PM @ Baruch College
Saturday, Feb 21 — 6:00 PM @ Asylum NYC
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 2:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

The Substance…For Men

Runtime 2 minutes 43 seconds

A short form parody of The Substance

Writers
Will Hines
Jimmy Woods IV
Robyn Adams

Cast
Jimmy Woods IV
Will Hines
Phillip Wilburn

Director Biography
Robyn Adams is a WGA, Peabody, and AFI Award-winning, Golden Globe, Emmy, and PGA Award-nominated female comedy Director/Writer/Producer who grew up in a working class household.

Screening:
Wednesday, Feb 18 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Thursday, Feb 19 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College
Monday, Feb 16 — 7:00 PM @ Baruch College
Friday, Feb 20 — 8:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

These Moms Are Cooler Than Me

Runtime 2 minutes 2 seconds

New York Premiere

A deadbeat son realizes his mom's friends are cool...and something else, too.

Director, Cast
Andrew Bourne

Director Biography
Andrew Bourne is based in both NYC/ATL and he is a sketch comedian as well as comedy director.

Screening:
Friday, Feb 20 — 4:30 PM @ Baruch College
Saturday, Feb 21 — 6:00 PM @ Asylum NYC
Thursday, Feb 19 — 3:00 PM @ Baruch College
Friday, Feb 20 — 9:00 PM @ Baruch College

Wet Floor

Runtime 4 minutes

While being dumped by his boyfriend over the phone, Sam is thrust into the middle of a life-altering corner store robbery.

Director, Writer, Actor
Paul McCallion

Producer
Amanda Distler
Ted Eschweiler

Cast
Paul McCallion
Michael Benjamin
James Tom
Gabriela Cristina Rivera

Director Biography
Paul McCallion is an actor (Girls5Eva, Dead Ring
ers, The Equalizer, more), writer (Vulture, New York Magazine, Interview Magazine), and prolific tweeter (@OrangePaulp) based in Brooklyn, NY.

Screening:
Tuesday, Feb 17 — 3:30 PM @ Asylum NYC
Saturday, Feb 21 — 4:00 PM @ Asylum NYC

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