Shortz! Film Festival

Winner - Judges Choice Brief

A bird creature travels to the desert in his wagon to bury his heart.

Winner - Best Horror

In a house in the middle of nowhere, Jason made the discovery of a cookbook hidden in his attic. Later, when he decided to prepare a delicious meal for his wife Marie, things do not go as planned ... A ghost took possession.

Winner - Best Documentary

Travel film about exploring swimming holes and cliff jumping spots in Northern California.

Winner - Best Brief & Audience Choice Brief

Assisted nursing communities are full of residents who are often ignored and forgotten. Facilities in Chico aim to shift this mindset by leading a movement of change.

Winner - 2nd Place Judges Choice

Far east in the Himalayan border of India and China, lives the tribal Adi people, by the river Siang. The Adi culture is beautiful and unique with shamanic chants of their mythologies of origin, animistic rituals around nature and amicable resolution of disputes in their traditional courts.  With the memories of 1962 Indo-China war still fresh, China now reasserts its territorial claim of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, the land of the Adis.  This conflict is also extended to the water, and is becoming a great Dam war. On both sides of the border mega dams are being built on the elegant Siang that originates in Tibet, turns sharp through the Himalayas and flows down through the Adi villages to join the mighty river Brahmaputra in the valley of North East India.  Will peace return to the borders? Will the Adis stay Indian? Will the megadams have a catastrophic effect on the rivers - both Siang and the Brahmaputra downstream? Will this tribal culture and language survive - orally, without a script?  Will India and China get into a dialogue? Through a series of encounters with the Adis by the Siang, near the old town of Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh, this journey probes for answers and portrays their inspiring resilience and hope.

Winner - 1st Place Audience Choice

And you thought your job sucked.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens. A young women finally has the courage to confront her tragic story during an AA meeting.

Lost in a nightmare world a man must unravel the mystery of his plight in order to find the key to his escape.

An apathetic man who is terrible at his job longs for something better. By the way, he's a hitman.