Sin Matador
Zach Carver, Brooklyn NY, Short, 14:00

Darren and Sylvie's long overdue date night is threatened when they get wrapped up in an illegal, underground bullfight in the basement of their Manhattan luxury apartment building.

Pepper and the Salt Sea
Don Downie, Brooklyn, NY, Short, 14:41

After losing everything in Superstorm Sandy, a devastated photographer tries to forget that she ever loved the sea. Until a mermaid appears, to seduce her into picking up her camera again.

Pepper and the Salt Sea is a magical realism fable about holding on to your dreams against all odds.

Dead Water
Andrew Gilchrist, Jesse Allen, Brooklyn, NY, Short, 17:00, New York City Premiere!

As all of humanity mysteriously mutates into fish-like creatures, a group of New Yorkers grapple with the disintegration of their relationships and attempt to reconcile their personal desires with their moral responsibilities before the impending apocalypse.

NO MILK
Melanie Abramov, Brooklyn, NY, Short, 16:00, New York City Premiere!

Set in an alternate Sci-Fi future where breast milk is the known cause of a host of deadly epidemics. As a result breasts are considered to be repulsive by the public at large. NO MILK follows the trials of a rebellious, adolescent girl as she tries to maintain a positive self-image in the face of a society that thinks she's ugly, toxic and wants to cut her down to size. What path will Sasha choose?

Zerogon
John Mattiuzzi, Joshua Planz, Brooklyn, NY, Short, 4:02, Brooklyn Premiere!

A lonely creature, on a lonely planet, is abducted into the false allure of a computer generated world.

Fiji Mermaid
Russell Richards, Charlottesville, VA, Short, 14:31, World Premiere!

Weird visions of a mermaid haunt an impressionable young man's imagination and lure him into a trap of his own devising.

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