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Doors open at 7 pm/ Screening starts at 7:30 pm

Join us for an encore screening of the 2015 festival Hometowner Narrative Shorts Block #1. These short films had a great audience response, and we thought we should bring them back leading up to a strong Hometowner showing at our 2016 festival!

NOTHING | Keith E. Curry Jr. | 19:08 min.
A day in the life of a man who must decide between avenging his brother’s death or choosing life.

MISSED CONNECTIONS | Drew Smith | 6:11 min.
A note on a “Missed Connections” board at her coffeehouse sends a lonely illustrator on a quest to find love.

TIME WILL TELL | Jimmy Crosthwait & Theo Patt | 3:39 min.
In an art-filled forest, the young witch thinks only of clawing out her living, while the forest sprite stops to marvel at the wonders of the woods. How will the sprite survive their inevitable encounter?

GLITCHING | Emily Heine & Lara Johnson | 14:22 min.
A love child between “Broad City” and “The Twilight Zone,” this production by an all-female cast and crew explores friendship, reality, and an eerie television.

JUST BOOM IT | Ivon & Eyan Wuchina | 2:50 min.
A short film set in 1986 about a young man with a broken heart who overcomes his troubles with the magic of music.

ALPHABET | Ben Siler | 2:38 min.
A woman murders her husband.

SANCTUM | Christopher Raines | 6:00 min.
Two friends are hiking when they come across a girl who they think is in danger. But, it is they who are in danger.

SNOW DAY | Drew Smith | 3:06 min.
Nothing’s more exciting to a kid in Memphis than the one snow day they get each year. But when a bully tries to ruin it for one five-year-old, he decides to get even.

EXODUS ROAD | Clint Till | 6:26 min.
A young couple makes a bold decision that will forever alter their lives and open themselves up to a world beyond their own.

THE DEPARTMENT OF SIGNS AND MAGICAL INTERVENTION | Melissa Sweazy | 19:05 min.
Captivated by a beautiful stranger on a trolley, Aidan Crane misses some key signs that might have saved his life. Arriving at the Department of Signs and Magical Intervention, he is put to work sorting through the requests from the living for signs from above.

Presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts and made possible through support by ArtsFirst, the First Tennessee Foundation, and ArtsMemphis.