THE SHORT LIST
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SHORTS
A Brand New Day - Lissette Mehl
ACHILLES - Ivan Beste
A Foot In The Door - Jeffrey Slaff
After the Fact - Dhun Sharma
Ain't that a Kicker - Miles R.
A Labour of Love - Olga Holtz
All Out There - Shawn Johnson
Anaphora - Dominique Saint Malo
An Emerald Christmas - M Lashomb
A Promise I Made to Mr. Bagels - R. Ciolfi
A One Time Thing - Justin Nosler
Arabelle - Steve Trebilcock
Assegai - Karl Jansen
Ayden: The Exceptional - Arthur Glenn
BadCop, BadCop - Leon Freeman Jr.
Betty Blue Eyes - Nicolas Charron
Big in Japan - Kayne Gorney+Maria Hinterkoerner
Big Trouble In Tokyo - Scott Harmon
Blow Fly - Patrick Taylor
Boomerang The Great - Ana Rand Dominick
Brush Contact - Lewis Carter
Built to Last - Ellen Winburn
By the Dark of the Black Blood Moon - S. Prano
Cambridge - Marilyn Hegefeld
Carnegie's Call - Ryan Skinner
Chessboard Rumble - Jens 'Pil' Pilegaard
Cinderella - Sooze Thornton
Circles of Hell - Joseph Tamborello
Citizen - Marshall Ferrin
Cutters - Christine Gerardi
Daphne - Hope Yoon
Darling Clementine - Ned Thorne
Decoherence - Andrew Stewart
Descending Skies - Liz Biscevic
Diaries of Elizabeth Frankenstein - Daniel Kostic
Diegesis - Benjamin Owens
Dove's Labyrinth - Jenn Fonteyn
Dry by Midnight - Gregory Caruso
Earl's Gotta Die - Heather Shapiro
Edge of Humanity - Craig Court
ELEPHANT PATH - Robert Wooldridge
Empty House - Raynard Goodman
ERGOSPHERE - Martin McLoughlin
Escape from Pet Heaven - Avery Koenig
Evergreen - Phoebe Zimmerer
Everything Said Welcome - Joshua D. La Russa
For the Sake of a Girl - Cecelia Farrah
F#KED UP - Nikolay Romanov
GAETANO, THE CHARMING SICILIAN - Rick Zingale
Gender Perfect - Brian Wapole
Good F*ck Charm - Isabelle Davis
HALSTED - Jacobo Fe Gismera
Hay's Code - Andrew Bryan Smith
Heirlooms - Matthew Kelcourse
Hot Desk - Terry Phelan
Infinity Canvas - Jay Hodgkins
INSURRECTION - Simon Bowler Khan
In The Name of The Father - Peter Macaluso
Intrepid - Mike Langer
IRON MAN NEVER DIED - Shreyans Chhajed
Isolation - Brian Whiteman
It Took Five - Donna Loehrer
Josefina - Kevin Walsh
Julie La Maupin - Jack Steeley
Just One Inch - Georgette Skolnick
Literally Too Mad To Die - Chris Martin
Lord Almighty - John Mitchell
Maeve and Sile - Grainne Ferrigan
Man's World - Alexander Julian
Meme - Vikki Harris
Mordred's Song - Enrique Dueñas González
MOTHER UP - Chris Crowley
Mr. Morgan Returns - Willie Kalema
Need - Cote Bellard
Night Of The Living Decorations - Steffany Sommers
Nowhere Jungle - Emeka Obika Banor
Offside - Hayley Griffin
Off the Mat - John Acquaviva
Old Patrol - Kevin Jordan
Ouroboros - Red Davis
Out of Water - Madi Stine
Over the Hill - Laura Kemp
Peria - Marcus Looney-Brooks
Pleasant - Dr. Darla Drendel
Put On A Happy Face - Meli Nunyakpe
Original Sound - Adam Seidel
Ostre - Stef Piermattei
Quarantine One - Miles R.
Reformation - Stefan Alexander
Rent Boy - R. W. Perkins
Reptiles of Montgomery County - Joey Noce
RIP VAN WILSON - Phillip Hardy
Rodeo Joe - The Geare Brothers
Say His Name - Chris Willis
Sent Away - Joel McElvaney
Silver - Joseph Murillo
Skin - Matisse Haddad
Somewhere In The Sugar Cane - Kayla Jessica Serrano
Sheep's Clothing - Anna Dudley
Stoneface - J.R. Spaulding, Jr.
STRUGGLING UP THE SLOPE - Peter Noel
Suncatcher - Keith Wilcox
Tell It On The Mountain - Michael Sexton
That-Man Vs. The Hunter of Hunters - Eide Lee
THE 9 PEOPLE I DATED DURING THE END-TIMES - Frank Spiro
The Agave Diary - Robert Borrego
The Brother - Jeffrey Perry
The Children of Lilith - Siobhan Finkielman
The Chronocar - Steve Bellinger
The Civil Servant - Jennifer Weber
The Exceptionally Crafty... - K .McLoughlin
The Fatal Error - Nicholas R. Zingarelli
The Fate Lord Game - Zoran Videnovic
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Steven Howard
The Henchman - Ian Oliphant
The Judas Apocalypse - Dan McNeil
The Lost Crystal Of Kulvar - Danielle Reeves
The Moon Has Left the Heavens - Jenn Fonteyn
The Mountain - Catherine Owens
The Night Doctors - Christian Maxwell
The Orion Queen - Howard Buddy Lewis III
The Patron Saints of Lost Causes - Ann Thurber
The Place of the Lost Things - Jerzy P. Suchocki
The Promised Letter - Alexander Yakobovich
The Puppeteer - Delorean Jones
The Sojourner - Sean Jasko
The Solar Knights - Sylvester Fryson Jr
The Town: Rising - Giasin-Iason Naas
THE TWO OF US - TAPASH DUTTA
Thou Shalt Not - Howard Lewis
To Make a Murder - Cam Eickmeyer
Transistor Radio - Georgia Bloo Nicolaou
Treasure Trap - Jack Warner
Twenty-Seven - Gregory Caruso
Undocumented Minors - Weiyang Liu
VOLANTINO - Russ Eisenman
Warning Signs - Aaron Michael Bailey
Warrior-born -Jeanne Haskin
Welcome to America - Weiyang Liu
What Comes Through - Kyle C. Mumford
Where There's A Will - Erin Hickman
Y2KIDS - Cole Thompson
13 Steps - Loren Davis
AMAYA - Dan Slavin
An Untethered Woman - Cynthia Webb
Blood Spiller - Andre Salloom
Broken - Lishai Rice
Carnage Avenue - Matt Curtsinger
Circle Of Jerks - David Poric
Dirty Baal - Yumna Khan
Downline - Jacob Zorn
Five Scenes on Love, Faith, and Loss - Mykola Kutola
Flotsam - Siobhan Mithen
free martin - Scott Thompson
Green - Alison Ruiz
Handle With Care - Allison Orr Block
Hidden Infantry - Kalvin Ogbuefi
Iron Fist - Kagure Kabue
Loving Frames - Alessia Mavakala
Michelle's Griffin - Roberto Alvarenga
My Truck - Cory Dean Ford
Pandora - Crystal Stauffacher
Patrimony - Phillip Dishon
Perfect Vision - Matt Curtsinger
Ramona - David Woll
Reset - Jarred Keane
Salsa Sangre - Nathan Castiel
Salt in Soil - Hina Effie Ogino
Skunk - Toby McShane
The Apex Sentinel - Johnny M. Garcia
The Bench - Tammy Boyer
The Boy with the Magic Flute - Saul Preciado-Garcia
The Dancing Ballerina - Jorge Serrano Sierra
The Masque Of Death - Josh Bryson
The Nine Lives of Honey Chang - Constance Chang
The North William's Murders - Chris Gutierrez
The Nurse - Joyce Kostakis
There's Something in the Water - Julia M. Sauder
Tumbling - Hannah Siden
Vortex - Anthony Marcon
WE ARE THE DEAD GIRLS - Kylie Boersma
Who Are You, Nanu? - Anjini Taneja Azhar
PILOTS
A Jealous Mistress - David Woll
Angela's Archive - Greg McCarron
Aris - VP Evans
Atlas - Matthew Habibeh
A Troubled Past - Christopher Walker
Belladonna - Danielle Tjoelker
BRENDA & EDDIE - Frank Vespe
BUTCH - Rae Binstock
Camp Psychopathways - Danny Galvin
CHASING THE DARK - Mike Bencivenga
Children of New York - Michelle Santy
Clean Sweep - Isabelle Davis
Crossing the Red Line - Dan Fried
Crown Of Thorns - Sarah Mellas
DeCode Switch - April Denise Kimble
Dingbats - Kevin Brunner
Displacement - Toby Marks
EATER - Cathriona Slammon
EDDIE - Frank Vespe
Enigma - Christian Maxwell
Everything Has Changed - Sufian Abulohom
Fortunato's - Amanda Barbaro
GOLD COAST - Ryan Galliher
Ineffable - Marcus McGee
Iris - Carrie Fishbane
Jarwick Castle - Alexia Buchholz
LimitxBreak - Aidan Pullian
Me! - Deontae Simolien
Mortality - Seamus Gearin
Offspring - Hannah Silverman
Ottercity - Dani Marunovic
Pink and Purple - Jazeel Gayle
PREMONITIONS -Chris Schmalz
Quantum Entanglement - KC Kramer
Sex Sells - Chad Oliver
SHE.E.O - Teri Shavoz
Spell Slinger - Brian Johns
Superior - Sean Jasko
TEE - David LeBlanc
The Affected - Shane Harbinson
The After War - Matthew Kelcourse
The Bender Girls - Rachel Leighson
The Blade of Cyrene - Robert Davis
The Esoteric Library - Christian Maxwell
The Firekeeper - Dan Stevens
THE HOUSE OF TANG - Lisa Iannini
The Killing Trade - Christopher Baker
The Tale of Two Brothers - Deontae Simolien
Wakiza Territory - Helen Brower
YUMMY! - Pam Price
You'll Be Sorry in the End - Chachee Valentine
WE CALLED THEM GODS - Nate Crowder
World Wrestling League of Badassery - Lee Lucero
Wickedest Man Alive - Autumn Cavender
The Short List may be amended prior to the Finalists announcement on Jan. 19th.