Austin Lift-Off Film Festival 2021 - Network Round Shorts

Friday 4th June - Friday 11th June

1.

SWIPE
Dir. Anthony Sneed
USA
Logline: A delinquent teenage boy learns a valuable lesson about growing up.

2.

Black Thoughts
Dir. Dwayne Logan
USA
Logline: Aiming to bridge the divide that exists between embattled Americans, Black Thoughts places viewers within the history ravaged mind of a broken-hearted Black man, as he contemplates how confusion has kept citizens engaged in an endless cycle of conflict.

3.

Bond
Dir. Simon Yahn
USA
Logline: After a last bonding experience with her grandmother, a young girl comes to terms with her grandmother’s dementia and grows closer to her mother.

4.

A Man of Anxiety
Dir. Michael Tibbetts
USA
Logline: Michael battles with anxiety and has developed OCD tendencies that control his life. A Man of Anxiety follows Michael's journey through his morning routine as he tries to leave his home for work. A simple task most people coast through every day. For Michael however, it is a constant struggle.

5.

Come Home (Ghar Aau)
Dir. Kirtana Banskota
USA
Logline: A single mother pleads with her son who attends university in the United States to COME HOME to Nepal during the COVID 19 lockdown of 2020.

6.

HELLBENT
Dir. Enrique Fabian Hernandez
USA
Logline: Three unorthodox debt collectors, Donnie, James, and Declan are sent on a job to hunt down a wealthy man in their town but from the lack of preparation and knowledge of who they’re hunting leads their job into a downward spiral.