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Category: Narrative Short

Director: Geno DiMaria

Synopsis: An A.I. therapy tool helps a lonely and depressed man confront the darkest parts of himself.

Oak Park Connection: Producer

Nominated For: Best Narrative Short

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Bath Salt

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Nadyja von Ebers

Synopsis: A teenage cancer survivor learns her friend from the hospital has died

Oak Park Connection: Writer/Producer/Actress

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Breakup Season

Category: Feature

Director: H. Nelson Tracey

Synopsis: A young man brings his girlfriend to his rural Oregon hometown to introduce her to his family, only for things to go terribly wrong upon arrival.

Oak Park Connection: Producer

Nominated For: Best Actress, Best Feature (Winner)

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Family For Christmas

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Nick Pospisil

Synopsis: Robert meets Marshall's family for the first time this Christmas, only for things not to be as jolly as they appear.

Oak Park Connection: Writer/Director/Producer and Actor

Nominated For: Best Visual Effects

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Favor

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Dan Aho

Synopsis: A friendship is tested when Dermot asks Barry for a favor: needing help with something in his trunk.

Oak Park Connection: Writer/Director/Producer and Actor

Nominated For: Best Actor, Best Narrative Short

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Fire Department, Inc.

Category: Documentary

Director: Colin C. Hughes

Synopsis: A suburban firefighter’s labor union finds itself under a different kind of fire when the Village Mayor announces he’s privatizing their department to save money.

Oak Park Connection: Director

Nominated For: Best Documentary, Best Director

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Get Away Driver's Ed

Category: Animation

Director: Ali Weber

Synopsis: Nervous, 16 year old Madison will do anything to get her license

Oak Park Connection: Director

​Nominated For: Best Visual Elements

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Guaranteed in Gary

Category: Documentary

Director: Darryl Parham

Synopsis: Residents of Gary, Indiana receive five hundred dollars a month for a year, and a chance to imagine a better future for themselves.

Oak Park Connection: Producers

Nominated For: Best Documentary

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Hillbilly

Category: Documentary

Director: Ashley York, Sally Rubin

Synopsis: Personal and political story that explores the evolution of the uneducated, promiscuous `hillbilly' stereotype in movies and television, linking it with corporate exploitation of Appalachia’s natural resources.

Oak Park Connection: Composer

Nominated For: Best Cinematography, Best Director (Winner), Best Documentary

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Inferno

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Wendy Roderweiss

Synopsis: After a big mistake leaves an altruistic law-school grad desperate for a job, he interviews at a firm of morally depraved divorce lawyers.

Oak Park Connection: Writer/Director and Filming Location

Nominated For: Best Actor (Winner), Best Narrative Short (Winner)

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Kickstand

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Thomas Schultz

Synopsis: A suburban kid rallies the neighborhood against the bullies who stole his bike.

Oak Park Connection: Director

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Lunchbox Armageddon

Category: Animation

Director: Adam Tock, Kevin O'Rourke, Joe Gustav

Synopsis: Lunchbox Armageddon is going to thrash at the school talent show. But then Gabby had to get her tonsils out so like, who's going to sing?

Oak Park Connection: Original Music

Honorable Mention: Animation

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Stairs

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Jeph Porter

Synopsis: An older woman returns home to find life has taken a frightening turn.

Oak Park Connection: Actress

Nominated For: Best Actress, Best Cinematography (Winner), Best Narrative Short

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That thing we all share

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Michèle Jedlicka

Synopsis: A woman responds to a call home, and confronts hard memories.

Oak Park Connection: Writer/Director/Producer

Nominated For: Best Narrative Short, Best Visual Elements (Winner)

    

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The Hive

Category: Young Filmmaker (18 or younger)

Director: Marco Esteban Delgado

Synopsis: Two orphaned siblings try to take down a hypnotizing VR platform and discover a surprising secret on the way.

Oak Park Connection: Director

 

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Windy & Warm

Category: Music Videos

Director: Eric Henry

Synopsis: A guitarist meditates on a dynamic moment.

Oak Park Connection: Director/Producer/Actor

Nominated For: Best Music Video (Winner)

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Wonderlost

Category: Narrative Short

Director: Michael William Chopra

Synopsis: A graduating art student grapples with the decision to be a struggling artist or to enter the corporate world, and in the end finds a path forward.

Oak Park Connection: Actor