2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Shorts Program 5: All That Jazz
TRT 97 MIN

Affogato
(USA, 15 MIN)

Writer/Director: Dani Hurtado
Cast: Dani Hurtado, Sarah J Bartholomew, Stevie Marceaux

Fanny, a struggling actress and certified ‘pick-me' girl, sets out to record an audition tape that begins mirroring the reality she's desperately trying to avoid.

Beautiful Smile
(Australia, 16 MIN)

Writer: Nicholas Jaquinot
Director: Eugénie Muggleton
Cast: Azaleia Bradley, Nicholas Jaquinot, Tegan Crowley

An aspiring model sees her upcoming photoshoot as a chance at her big break, but must face a predatory photographer intent on shattering boundaries she didn’t know she had.

Brand New
(USA, 22 MIN)

Writer/Director: Quincy Ledbetter, Denzel Whitaker
Cast: Denzel Whitaker, Kris D. Lofton, Maestro Harrell

When a newly famous music producer visits his hometown, he battles the guilt of abandoning his past and the bitterness of an old friend

Canta Santiago
(USA, 12 MIN)

Writer/Director: James Valdez
Cast: Jacob Estrada, David Saucedo, Eduardo Togi

A young mariachi faces his first performance alone but discovers his brother has always been by his side.

Legally Brown: The Musical Short
(USA, 17 MIN)

Writer: Maya Vyas
Director: Kirsten Hoang
Cast: Maya Vyas, Grace Kaufman, Sari Arambulo, Olivia Gill

A scrappy brown high school girl must fight her way to be Elle Woods when the lead of her school's production of Legally Blonde: The Musical gets seriously injured ten minutes before showtime.

The Stand Up
(USA, 13 MIN)

Writer: Hank Freeman
Director: Brittany Patterson
Cast: Hank Freeman, Christaine Escobar

After being ghosted on a first date, an introverted man does stand-up comedy and absolutely bombs.

The Understudy
(Canada, 14 MIN)

Writer/Director: Peter Pasyk
Cast: Tom Rooney, Mia SwamiNathan, Maria Vacratsis, André Sills

An understudy actor receives a call that he must go on last-minute to replace the star of a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.