EMPIRE SHORTS
JUNE 13 - 4:30PM - COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
BOUNTY MOMMA
Directed by Wendy Keeling
United States 15 min
Twyla Sue Dollarhide, aka “Bounty Momma”, is a no-nonsense southern firecracker with a reality show who, despite the incompetence of her gun toting lamebrain family and film crew, proudly boasts that she “always gets her man”! This reality parody brings the viewer inside the day to day of a dysfunctional family business that turns otherwise mundane bounty escapades into mayhem and madness.
HYENA’S BLOOD
Directed by Nicolas Caicoya
Mexico 29 min
In 1973, a corrupt cop helps the new born DEA to burn down the poppy fields in Mexico.
CARRY ON
Directed by Yatao Li
China 16 min
During the brutal withdrawal of Japanese forces at the end of WWII, a Chinese father does whatever he can to save his family.
SWOON
Directed by Jacob Joyner
Wilmington, NC 6 min
Tyler and Joy work the late shift at a grocery store. Tonight is Joy’s last shift and Tyler wants to ask her out on a date. Will Tyler succeed in swooning Joy?
GRACE
Directed by Chris Ordal United States 14 min
Today, Janice will face her high powered ex-husband in family court for the custody of their daughter. As head waitress at the Depot Diner, staying clean and doing the NEXT right thing is her priority. When Johnny, her boss makes a decision that affects her ability to appear in court, Janice has to face her demons of addiction and choose whether to stay clean through life’s adversity or “screw it” and use….
FLOWERS
Directed by Sabina Sattar
United Kingdom 8 min
A boy falls in love with a deaf and mute girl and has to find a way to communicate his feelings for her.
IN THE BLIND
Directed by Davis Hall
United States 17 min
A duck blind is a place of concealment, but for two estranged brothers confronting their father’s apparent suicide, emotional truth is revealed.