SHORT STORY MOVIE: Make Lemonade, by Donna Douglas Walchle

Dramedy Casey Alliston thought she had it all. Or did she? It took being forced to step down from the company she built and two hundred community service hours at a children’s home to discover what she was missing. Voice Over: Val Cole Visual Design by Kimberly Villarruel

DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death’s Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez

A cynical teenage girl views her father’s struggle with depression as a sign of weakness but her attitude toward him changes when an ancestor seeking a lost love saves them both from the wrath of an assassin in a drug cartel. CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo Peter: Sean Ballantyne Rudy: Shawn Devlin Chema: Geoff Mays… Continue reading DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death’s Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez

DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling

After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don’t speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the México-U.S. border. When they all decide to head… Continue reading DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling

WINNING Short Screenplay: Bentobox, by Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro

With his father depolyed overseas in 90s rural America, a little boy of a half Japanese-half American decent connects with is mother through her cooking. After being teased at school for his strange lunches, he struggles to find his idenity between school and home, rejecting his mother in the process. CAST LIST: Narrator: Val Cole… Continue reading WINNING Short Screenplay: Bentobox, by Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro