Fall Grants:

As Ever, Stan -- A Middle American couple,

striving for normalcy, realizes that life after the

War will never be the same.

    http://www.aseverstanmovie.com

                                            A New Sincerity -- In a pre-apocalyptic world, what

                                                        is there really left to do when you having nothing left to

                                                        do?  Laugh.

Mute -- One awkwardly shy individual is

given a chance to break free from social

bondage through the death of a stranger. 

                                            The Songtree -- A young man learns that certainty

                                                        and morality can be mutually exclusive--and that the

                                                        former is easier to attain.

Winter Grants:

Viva La Mariachi -- Three young men in an

unsuccessful mariachi band decide to enter a

music competition.  During the competition,

contestants begin disappearing, and the trio,

having discovered the true culprits, are captured.

        http://www.vivathemovie.com 

                                           Back By Midnight -- A modern coming of age story

                                                       about a lonely teenager who makes a risky decision in an

                                                       attempt to experience intimacy for the first time.

Spring Grants:

Bloodbath -- After the recent passing of

his father, Sidney wakes up to find his

bathtub completely filled with blood.

                                                    Instrument Man -- A story about a man who

                                                                    inherits the sufferings of others.

Solo --  A professional impersonator going

through heroin withdrawal, arrives at a child’s

birthday party where he is supposed to

portray Han Solo, only to realize that it is a

party for his own son, who he has never met.

                                                 Quartered -- A typical Laundromat scene takes a

                                                               turn when one young man finds himself caught in the

                                                               midst of an unusual hold up. When two thugs rob the

                                                               Laundromat for quarters to play Streetfighter at an

                                                               arcade, the protagonist stumbles on a new

                                                               perspective from an unlikely source.

Jessamine -- Set in the 1950s Deep South,

a young girl becomes mysteriously ill following

her Grandfather’s death, and in her feverish

state hears the ticking of his pocket watch early

one morning.