All Films

The Lone Angler

2025 • 4 min • United States

In a world where anthropomorphic sea creatures have taken over the world and grew a disdain over humans, a mysterious individual enters a saloon in a small seashore town while hiding a secret that, if revealed, could put his life on the line. This secret becomes difficult to keep when a duo of aquatic mammalian robbers' barge in the saloon. Will the individual stand by idly or will he risk it all to save the aquatic patrons?

SWiM

2025 • 17 min • United States

Nope. Seriously. Androids still dream of art. ______________________ After a disastrous fashion runway walk, Maggie, a low-cost, Tenzing model mountain droid with serious artistic aspirations, embarks on her never-ending and sometimes perilous journey into creativity. This time, she’s guided by Robert, the brilliant mind behind the Tenzing project at CIT (Cupertino Institute of Technology), and Blu, a destructive Morpho peleides butterfly. Together, they explore the works of Goethe, Kafka, Beckett, Sant'Elia, and more, delving into the joys and pitfalls of artistic creation, the absurdist way. Will Maggie overcome her database limitations and achieve her artistic dreams? Find out in SWiM. ______________________ Enduring the Palisades Fire of January 2025, the film has completed its final post-production stage.

A History of Prehistory

2026 • 2 min • Australia

An off-kilter view of the highlights of Prehistory

It's a Rewrite...

2025 • 7 min • China

Convincing your doctor they aren't real is harder than it first appears.

Swim

2020 • 4 min

Captures of Kareem’s universe during the pandemic. A short film about the feeling of isolation, creating art in a world paused by Covid-19, and friendship.

Swim

2024 • 11 min

SWIM is a meditation on visual archives, the datafication of memory, and training data in the age of generative artificial intelligence. In a reproduction of the AI training process, a digital archival film is slowly diffused as its subject frolics underwater. The actress dissolves into 'training data,' amidst a backdrop made from visualizations of generative AI searching for patterns in the absence of any training data at all.

Chandler the Handler...You Can't Bully Me!

2025 • 10 min • United States

Chandler the Handler...You Can’t Bully Me is a 10 minute short film about a 17-year-old student in the Bronx who takes a stand against bullying after his bike is stolen by a classmate. What starts as a simple act of revenge turns into a powerful journey of empathy, allyship, and leadership as Chandler unites his peers through courage and peaceful resistance. The film will be shot on location at PS 14 in Bronx, NY, and will feature a diverse cast of youth actors. With a tone that is heartfelt and uplifting, the story is designed to resonate with students, parents, and educators alike. When a Bronx teenager has his bike stolen by a school bully, he refuses to be silenced. Instead, Chandler turns his struggle into strength, inspiring his friends and community to stand up, speak out, and prove that resilience is stronger than fear.

Through in Between

2025 • 5 min • United States

A man wakes up on a boat in a dried up river with only a dress hanging from a tree and a strange doorway to another world in site.

Tale & Bones - Dark Princess

2024 • 3 min • United States, United States

Dark Princess is a psychological short highlighting the unique relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild. The innocent yet menacing ques are overlooked as something mysteriously dark is brewing.

The Heist Job

2025 • 12 min • United States, United States

Eric Stiles returns in Style. Will Eric and Tanner complete the job?

You're Next

2025 • 22 min • United States

When their best friend mysteriously disappears, four teenagers are questioned by police but left with more doubts than answers. As eerie warnings and unsettling encounters unfold, they realize the danger is closer than they imagined. Bound by fear and friendship, the group sets out to uncover the truth, only to find themselves caught in a terrifying game of survival that threatens to consume them all.

Chronicles of nothingness

2025 • 4 min • Italy

There are no men, no stories to tell: only the slow breathing of a world that seems empty.

Untitled

• 1 min

A meta-cinematic story about a screenwriter and a blank sheet.

The Parody News Network Presents Gladiator!

2024 • 5 min • United States

Maximus the gladiator once famously asked "Are you not entertained?" The question was rhetorical, but here at PNN we don't deal in rhetoric, so we decided to actually ask the question. Turned out to be a case of being careful what you ask, because it ends up driving Maximus completely around the bend. Watch the episode, you'll see.

Where She stayed

2025 • 6 min • United States

"Where She Stayed" is a psychological horror short about a woman haunted by memories that may not be real. After taking a mysterious pill, reality begins to blur—unraveling a truth more disturbing than she imagined.

Echoes From Dimension X

2023 • 11 min • United States

Based on True Events - Two farmers have an encounter with an UFO and must do battle with monstrous creatures.

ALBINO CANNIBALS

2022 • 8 min • United States

A lone hiker stubbles upon a farmhouse where she comes face to face with chainsaw manic

The Five Stages

2022 • 12 min • United States

Eva Allen is a recently single, devastated young woman. She enters a black box theatre being filled with well-dressed and put-together people, laughing and drinking. A variety act performance is about to begin. Slipping through the crowd, Eva slinks into a seat to watch Clara Bright and the Magnificent Five's performance. As the show begins... Eva is transformed through five acts of music and performances that portray her five stages of grief.

Double Brothers, Double Trouble

2023 • 18 min • United States

- Double Brothers, Double Trouble is an ode to 1980s arcade side-scrollers, celebrating old-school Kung Fu flicks full of bad lip-reading and melodrama. Shot entirely on iPhone and boasting a budget that is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, it’s a must-watch for any freak or geek.

Blade Echo

2025 • 14 min • United States

Blade Echo is a gritty, tactical tokusatsu-inspired episodic series following Derek Castle, a wrongfully convicted underdog recruited to become an Echo—a government-deployed warrior equipped with an adaptive combat suit and a personal AI partner.

I Love You With All My Teeth

2018 • 8 min • United States

A young man is rapidly engulfed into a paralyzing state of jealousy when he believes his partner is cheating on him.

Eleutheria

2026 • 25 min • United Kingdom, Greece

'Awakening of character', a politically charged community in the hidden corners of Athens exploring themselves and eachother with the guidance of Maria Lappa. Brendan Void, visual and sound artist, collaborates with filmmaking and music creation (analog synthesis, piano and voice).

Ladies T Party

2025 • 51 min • United States

Viva

2024 • 3 min • Mexico, United States

Citizens refuse to take their blinders off and face the harsh reality they live in.