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Comedy Films:

Billy In Motion (16:10)

A high school track runner struggles to prepare for his Regional Championship as an extraordinary malady prevents him from training.

Assistant Director
Alexandra Jensen

Sound Design
Tyler Gunderson

Production Sound Mixing
Kari Barber

Composer
Gareth Coker

Cinematographer
Christopher Kurose

Production Designer
Courtney Dusenberry

Director
Maury Shessel

Writers
Will Goldstein
Maury Shessel

Producers
Mathew Bahadori
Will Goldstein
Maury Shessel

Editor
Robert Panico

Chris's Briss (11:30)

$Chris\'s Briss$

A romantic comedy about CHRIS, a fun-loving brutha, who wants to marry DARA, one hot Jewish babe, but Dara's rabbi FATHER won't marry them unless Chris converts to Judaism...which means getting circumcised. Ouch!

Writer
Josh Eiserike

Director
Delmar Washington

Producers
Garen Thomas
Deshaun Thompson

Cinematographers
Marcel Giwargis
Chelsea Pettit

Production Designers
Andrew Aidman
Joseph Umana

Editors
Suraj Das
Meenakshi Ramamurthy

Sound Designer
Justin Stark
S. Khin May Lwin

In Passing (05:00)

Two lonely people jump off a building to end it all, but meet on the way down and discover it's never too late to fall in love.

Writer/Director
Alan Miller

Producers
Alan Miller
Emily Ferenbach

Cinematographer
Damian Horan

Editor
Joel Townsend

Composers
Samuel Jones
Alexis Marsh

Production Designer
Maria Dirolf
Kali Heitholt

Supervising Sound Editor
Kimberly Patrick

Ostrichland (14:17)

A poignant comedy about two estranged brothers who drive across the country in a truck full of their dead dad's UFO memorabilia.

Director
David McCracken

Producers
Matt Montgomery
Peter B. Siesennop

Writer
David Haskell

Directors of Photography
Sean Addo
Sean McDaniel

Production Designers
Kim Ford
Amanda Milius

Editors
Will Lowell
Amy Reedy

Sound
Wasef El-Kharouf
Mark D. Manalo

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