Ruby McCollister

The African Desperate

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Messy

Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.

The Sarah Vaccine

The Sarah Vaccine is a technicolor COVID nightmare from the deranged mind of Sarah Squirm. Your government has failed you...but SARAH never will! CW: excessive gore, poop, vomit, blood

Mermaid, Bitch

A codependent long-term friendship is challenged when one of the women suddenly transforms into a mermaid.

The French Italian

Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.

The Code

Early-pandemic, Jay and Celine head to a rental house to reconnect. While Celine films a documentary on their disintegrating relationship, a recently ‘cancelled’ Jay becomes increasingly paranoid about his portrayal, setting up hidden cameras to spy on Celine.

Slay

A killer on the loose targets a group of teenagers on spring break.

Neighborhood Food Drive

A sublime comedy of biting humor and unusual schemes that paints a satirical portrait of millennials and hipsters who think they’re benefitting their community. But good intentions do not always have good consequences.

Avocado

A film about a person's inability to cut an avocado. Directed by and starring Lorelei Ramirez, this experimental short finds strange humor in reality-bending absurdities and illogical deep-seated fears.

Bug Bite

A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.

Pots N' Tots

Two ceramicists are split apart by their pottery studio for mysterious purposes. Does the studio really have their best interests in mind, or is something sinister bubbling beneath the surface?

The Scary of Sixty-First

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Bev

The son of a serial killer goes to a trust workshop in Tampa, has nightmares.

Irene in Time

A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.

Uncle Peckerhead

When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie.

Salesmanship

A hallucinatory stoner flick about two friends trying to stay afloat in the big, bad city.

Rap World

In 2009, four friends living in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, document their attempt to record a rap album over the course of one eventful night.

Bunnylovr

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Fame and Other Four Letter Words

In a world where Instagram is dead and scientists are hot, one influencer must face her biggest fear: being irrelevant.

DEATH GAME

A couple in 1930s Hollywood play a high stakes game of backgammon

Floating Carousel

A Gender Studies masters student, a messy philanderer, an in-denial Sugar Baby, an aspiring cabaret artist, and a professional cuddler collide in a web of dystopian dating scenarios in modern-day New York City.

Tuna Tartare

In a karaoke bar in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an expired can of tuna fish and a fake Louis Vuitton purse encourage each other to believe in their artistic voices even if the world sees them as trash.

Straight Line

A short film by Jack Bensinger.