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A conflicted writer and an ambitious director navigate ego, control, and creative compromise. Written, Directed & Edited by Ram Agnivesh Cinematography by Chandan CAST Adi Ram Shamitha Praveen Pranathi A Rififi boys short film
putting the pieces together... before they fall apart.
During a chaotic Halloween night, two lonely strangers drift out of suffocating relationships, and toward each other, after a tarot reading hints that fate might show up when the sun shines at night.
Max and Eli lose a rare library book and spiral into increasingly absurd schemes to avoid the quickly mounting late fees.
The 5 little monkeys are jumping on the bed. Surely nothing bad will happen!
A special LIVE musical episode of UMTV's Off the Wire.
Short Stop is a short film about a kid with cystic fibrosis trying to join his college baseball team but can't due to his condition and needs to find a new meaning for his life other then baseball
A little Marie Menken, a little Ornette Coleman. Shot on Super 8mm color negative film on a Nizo S2 camera, in East Lyme, Connecticut, in the summer of 2025.
As a difficult realization sprouts within him, Kyle, a young gay teen struggles to keep alive the life he had already built while trying to bloom once again.
After a fight leaves him bruised, a guarded teen is forced to confront what standing up for his best friend has always meant to him.
A man battles an annual onslaught of horror to protect the children of his neighborhood.
Stories from a mysterious castle.
A girl discovers a flower.
“Without really knowing why, I was convinced I’d find a treasure in my family’s box of home movies. I vaguely remember sitting as a child in front of the flickering light of the projector, watching those films on the screen. Yet I have no memory of seeing the images at that time. What could have led me, years later, to that basket full of 8mm films, stored on the top shelf of the closet in my parents’ bedroom?” - Louise Bourque
Living legends of sailing and surfing cannot imagine themselves without the sea, and they explore the ocean and the limits of their own capabilities through sailing, surfing, and painting.
