The International Short Film Block from 2020 was ... mostly ... from USA - but that counts as international! These shorts kick some serious ass ! Some serious award worthy ( or possibly award winning ) films with a variety of subgenres to explore - these films really kick some ass! Laugh Till You Die - Dir. Wade Brown - USA - 9 min. Five strangers wake up in terror. Tied and bound, they are determined to figure out what happened to them. None of them are prepared for what they are about to witness. Chain Letter - Dir. Eliott Glasser - USA - 9 min. It was a night of friendship and gaming, then Joey got a text that would change everything. Cold Blooded - Dir. Kidd Tommy - USA - 27 min. Cold Blooded follows the titillating tale of a scorned amateur herpetologist who enacts a twisted revenge on her deadbeat guitarist ex. Despite worst intentions, the plan backfires and instead leads to the rise of Rex Komodo, a reptilian rock god with big hair and an even bigger appetite for blood. Shelly - Dir. Emmet Dotan - USA - 13 min. Shelly is the story of a Halloween party gone very, very wrong. Shadow At The Door - Dir. Roshni "Rush" Bhatia - USA - 4 min. A troubled young woman searches for an intruder in her home unaware that what she’s really looking for may be something she refuses to see. The Rejected - Dir. Onur Doğan - Turkey - 8 min. A woman who lives alone at home wants to get rid of her unborn baby by applying an abortion. But that won't be as easy as she thinks. Chateau Sauvignon: terroir- Dir. D.M. Night Maire - USA - 13 min. The isolated, adolescent son of a storied vintner family finds himself torn between obeying his father’s callous restrictions and preventing his ailing mother from deteriorating further.
