MAD ABOUT HARRY
United States - West Coast Premiere
16 mins. Studio Theater, 5:00 p.m., Aug. 5.

Three brothers kidnap their sister's ex-boyfriend and force a confrontation that yields unexpected consequences. Revenge can be sweet.

Director/Writer/Producer: Ashley Mendoza
Director of Photography: Samantha Schutz
Editors: Ashley Mendoza with Shari Rothfard
Cast: Eliza Pryor Nagel, Mark Shanahan, Scott Sartiano, Michael O'Rourke, Patrick R. Smith, Gail Karp.

THE MASK MAKER
United States - World Premiere
25 mins. Studio Theater, 5:00 p.m., Aug. 6.

In France, during World War I, soldiers who had been severely disfigured in combat were encouraged by the government not to show their faces in public for fear they would affect public morale and detract from the heroic image of the French soldier. The Mask Maker is the story of a young soldier with a scarred face and a mask maker who carries his scars internally. It is a tale about the triumph of the human spirit, and the joy attained by one individual who makes a sacrifice to help another.

Director/Writer: Amy Waddell
Producers: Tina Alano, Amy Waddell
Director of Photography: Phil Schwartz
Editors: Millie Iatrou, Frank Mazzola
Cast: Richard Bakalyan, Christian Martin, Alexandra Sarramona

NEXT STOP, ETERNITY
United States
26 mins. Paramount Theater, 1:30 p.m., Aug. 5.

A comedy about post-life crisis. Take a bourgeois housewife at the gates of heaven. Add a sarcastic apprentice guardian angel to guide her through the "decompression zone." What you get is a whimsical look at their bumpy ride from afterlife to eternity.

Director: Yasmine Golchan
Writers: Yasmine Golchan, Vera Kessedjian, based on the French play Avec Deux Ailes by Danielle Mathieu-Bouillon
Producers: Yasmine Golchan, Vera Kessedjian
Director of Photography: Phil Parmet
Editor: Matthew Cassel
Cast: Seymour Cassell, Cathy Moriarty

NIGHT IN A HOTEL
Slovenia - U.S. Premiere
22 mins. Paramount Theater, 2:00 p.m., Aug. 6.

Zlatko is a hired killer contracted to murder Hunter. He waits for him in his hotel room, but things do not work out the way Zlatko wants.

Director: Blaz Svent
Writer: Jure Matjazic
Producer: Ales Pavlin (AGRFT, University in Ljubljana)
Director of Photography: Valentin Perko
Editor: Dafne Jemersic
Cast: Radko Polic, Ludvik Bagari, Ales Horvat, Zvezdana Mlakar, Aljosa Koltak, Neva Jana Flajs, Metka Trdin, Zoran Brankovic, Joze Skodic