Drama Short Block #3
Married in New York - Angelica Blotkevich, Director (Short) 5 min.
Abusive marriage relationship. A nice-looking husband is being creative with claims towards his wife. For example, she must go through plastic surgery to make her eyes look Asian because it seems sexual to him. What else?
Calipatria - Heika Burnison, Director (Short) 19 min.
A young woman on a road trip with her boyfriend through the American southwest suddenly finds herself alone in a strange desert town while an unusual local man courts her.
"She" (8 min; directed by Nick McCallum) -- What happens when a woman fighting through her depression rescues a homeless one-eyed dog?
"Cash For Gold" (8 min; directed by Robert Enriquez) -- When a desperate Grace (Deborah Puette) walks into the Queen of Persia Gold Emporium, all she wants is to get in and out with some badly needed cash and a shred of her dignity intact. Things do not look promising when she comes up against Ehsan ('Homeland's Navid Negahban), a man with troubles of his own who reluctantly works the store's counter under his father's controlling gaze. A short film about hope told in English and Farsi, 'Cash for Gold' delicately examines the economic and ethnic tensions America grapples with today through the lens of two unlikely allies and the split-second decision that will turn their brief encounter into something neither of them will ever forget.