10 AM - Lone Star Showcase Bloc 1

• MY DEAR AUNT SALLY (10min, ATX)

  • ​A grade-schooler with crippling anxiety reluctantly spends time with his free-spirited aunt: arcades, ketchup stains, ax-throwing & powerful lessons of risk-taking.

• PETE & RE-PETE (12 min, Taylor)

  • ​A zombie attack on three elderly men takes an unexpected turn when the zombie turns out to be an old friend. Again.

• NEAR MISS (14min, Nacogdoches)

  • ​With an asteroid due to wipe out all life on Earth, aspiring writer Marie finds an unlikely friend in Frank, a local crackpot whose predictions have finally come true.

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• MILTON (12min, Waco)

  • ​An elderly couple vacations, struggling with physical limitations but sharing memories of a life fully lived.

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• 12 PINK ROSES (6min, San Marcos)

  • ​A father tries to do something nice for his daughter, but his addiction gets in the way.

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• KINDRED SPIRITS (22min, Bellville)

  • ​Two women, on opposite sides of the planet, meet online in a heated, misunderstood discussion about one another’s countries, but soon discover they have much in common.
     

Followed by Q&A with MILTON Director Kevin Machate, Actor Gerald Brodin & Actress Gayland Williams; MY DEAR AUNT SALLY Writer & Co-Producer Heather Kennedy; NEAR MISS Director Andrew Hodge as well as 12 PINK ROSES Director Kate Patterson

Total runtime: 1hr 16min
 

12:30 PM - Lone Star Showcase Bloc 3

• TAKE A CHAIR, LEAVE A CHAIR* (7min, San Marcos/L.A.)

  • ​A performer must find a new chair.

• SHAME FULL (11min, ATX)

  • ​Traumatized by body shaming during her childhood, a mother struggles to separate her past from her daughter’s present.

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• FALSE & BASELESS (12min, ATX)

  • ​A college student who survives a sexual assault finds her victim statement to an Austin police detective shifts from empathy to confrontation.

• I NEVER SAW VENICE* (15min, ATX)

  • ​Having just lost a new job & facing eviction, a depressed millennial drives from Texas to the West Coast.

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• FALSE & BASELESS (12min, ATX)

  • ​A college student who survives a sexual assault finds her victim statement to an Austin police detective shifts from empathy to confrontation.

• I NEVER SAW VENICE* (15min, ATX)

  • ​Having just lost a new job & facing eviction, a depressed millennial drives from Texas to the West Coast.
     

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• A LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR (19min, San Anto)

  • ​A film lover stuck in her apartment during COVID recreates the movies she idolizes as a mysterious force outside threatens to drain her world of life, sound & color.

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• TWINSIES (10min, ATX)

  • ​A young woman's search for a job forces her into a nonsensical bubble where delusion & eccentricity call the shots.

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• CLOSE SHAVE (10min, ATX)

  • ​A real estate agent gets more than a shave when he visits his hometown barber.

 

Total runtime: 1hr 33min

 

Followed by Q&A with I NEVER SAW VENICE Director Mike J McAllister & Lead Actor Julien Hemmendinger; TWINSIES DIrector Tiana Stuart; FALSE & BASELESS Director Robert Cantu; SHAME FULL Co-Directors Andee Kinzy & Chiara McCarty & LOOKING BACK Director Michael Charron

 

3 PM - Nominated Texas Shorts

• IN TOW* (21min, ATX)

  • ​A self-involved teen & her overworked single mom confront their differences as their mobile home is towed away … with them inside of it!

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• LOOKING BACK (9min, ATX)

  • ​George gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a ghost living in the backup camera of his new car.

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• TUCO: THE TEXAS WRESTLING MYSTERY SHOW* (21min, Kyle)

  • ​A former World Champion Wrestler, Tuco Guerra, & his motley crew travel throughout Texas solving crimes & mysteries.

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• POP’S FLIES* (16min, Dallas)

  • ​Ray & his father Bill use fishing & Pop’s notebook – with nearly 100 hand-drawn fly patterns & instructions to tie them – to discover threads of story connecting them to generations past. U.S. Premiere!

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• MOTHER F—–ER* (8min, ATX)

  • ​A fed up young mother scrambles to surmount a neighborhood rascal.