Short Films

Short Films

Short films created by award-winning independent mediamakers from around the world.

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Short Films
  • The Watery Grave

    A young man dealing with grief, experiences death and resurrection at his local church.

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  • Black Boys Can't Cry

    Javion is a dutiful and loving black father. He is the protector and provider of the family, including his wife, daughter, and grandmother. However, he is haunted by a secret that he continues to bury in silence. Not knowing how to deal with the trauma, he attempts to hide the behemoth inside him...

  • January14th

    A young couple’s anniversary takes a bittersweet turn when a police officer pulls the husband over on a questionable traffic stop. Inspired by true events.

  • Bitter Earth

    Written and directed by Nile Price, this short film is a metaphor for depression. Looking back over his life, a man sits at the edge of a pier, defeated. With misery, sadness, loss of faith, and no reason to live, the man looks for a way out. But does he go too far to where he can't come back?

  • A Natural Choice Good

    Carleen, a proud, beautiful black sister, is confronted by her boss about her hair style.

  • The Unsuperheroes

    Two college age guys decide to become superheroes overnight in their suburban town and have to summon their true powers when they end up in over their heads with some real deal crime.

  • WOW

    It’s love at first sight when Chance, a foster kid, meets Michelle, a rich man's beautiful daughter.

  • The Rose that Grew from the Concrete

    Rose is raised by her single mother, Jorja, who wants Rose to grow up to be the best version of herself she can be. In this mother-daughter love story, we watch Rose's journey about finding strength in weakness; learning resiliency through pain; and accepting failure isn’t the opposite of success...

  • Privilege

    Adetoro and Rashad, two young men from two different backgrounds living in the same neighborhood. With tension between the two men based off differences and a heated argument in the local barbershop, a situation arises that forces them to look to each other for safety.

  • Gravel Wounds

    A mother struggles with alcohol addiction tries to put the pieces of her life back together.

  • Girlfriend

    A couple has a touching conversation on social status, race, relationships and interracial dating.

  • One Sweet Night

    “One Sweet Night” tells the true story of Doctor Ossian Sweet, a 1920’s African American doctor who moves his family into an all white street in Detroit. Their second night, a mob congregates outside the house determined to force the Sweet family to leave. Prepared for trouble, Ossian received as...

  • Boy Zombie (360 Virtual Reality)

    Everyone became zombies, in future society. The boy and girl are going back to the past. And they must overcome the threat of zombies to enter Room 301 back in time.

  • Destiny's Road

    At her high school graduation party, a teenage girl, whose only chance of making it out of poverty is through college, scrambles to recover stolen tuition money before reliant family members catch on to her secret.

  • Jerome Taylor

    Homeless veteran addicted to psychotropic medications recalls moments of his life and contemplates suicide. His last encounter with a social worker becomes the difference between life and death for him.

  • Taboo

    According to the Unofficial Etiquette Book for Blacks, everything is open for consideration, but homosexuality and interracial dating. Kevin unwittingly learns this difficult lesson when he introduces his significant other to childhood best friends.

  • The Scent

    Sarah faces discrimination in her workplace and is subject to her boyfriend’s fetishistic obsession. She needs to break free and move on.

  • Gravity VR

    Gravity VR takes place in a surreal world with no ground, everything that exists is forever falling. Houses, clothes, cars, ruins of a civilization. Everything just falls. And the player too. But even though all things
    are falling at full speed, the general feeling is peaceful. In this world with...

  • The Last 5

    The toll of manic depression on a young Black girl.

  • Furthest From

    In 1999, Novato, California, an 8-year-old girl named Jessie is enjoying what little time she has left with her best friend, Lucas. The two of them have difficulty conveying it, but they’re both aware as to what is about to happen. The trailer park they live in will be closed, and the whole commu...

  • Eraced

    Two close families are faced with the current societal racial unrest.

  • Jaded Gems

    Jaded Gems is a short film based on the memoir by Solomon Hillfleet. An honest look at relationship dynamics in the 21st century, it focuses on issues that affect communities of color using wit, honest dialogue and laughter. Male fragility and ego are addressed and in the process gems are learned.

  • Box: A Digital Love Story

    While on a statewide lockdown in his little studio apartment, a lonely Shawn stumbles upon a cute boy who enters the "digital picture" as the two form a relationship on character rather than lust. After weeks of connecting on deep levels, they are challenged to see if their bond can go further th...

  • Just Another Angry Black Woman

    This silent short film aims to challenge the narrow-minded, and derogatory narrative that all Black woman are angry, by walking a day and a life of a Black woman.

  • Orange Morning

    When a political minded African American man wakes up disappointed by the 2016 presidential election results, he heads to work only to find a terror awaiting him like he's never seen before.