Film Categories: comedy

  • 10th Avatar

    Television’s influence is so great that it has left us completely mesmerized and has become our new form of worship. Our faith in the divine power has been challenged several times, through the ages. According to Hindu mythology an avatar appeared who relieved man’s distress and re-established the belief in God and the avatar. Nine incarnations of God or avatars have appeared thus far and the 10th avatar appeared with the fusion of mass media and formal worship. This is the story about the challenge divine worship faced as cable TV encroached our “idle” time.

  • Birthday, The

    “The Birthday” is a short drama about Sapphire, an insecure and socially challenged woman who wants to experience real connections with people, especially her own mother. However, when her mother uses tricks to set her up on a date, the truth is revealed, leaving Sapphire feeling angry and used. Sapphire is faced with the decision to confront her mother, finally realizing that she cannot change anyone no matter what she does, unless that someone is willing to make the change personally.

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Crushed

    “Crushed” is a meditation on media through the eyes of grief. Can Dr. Phil mend a broken heart? This work pays homage to Midi Onodera’s “Basement Girl.” Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration.

  • Exquisite Corpses, The

    Absurd vignettes populate this tribute to cult films and Dada play. The genre of the musical is stretched and twisted to exhibit a bizarre cast of characters as they struggle against the confines of the film itself.

  • I’ve Never Had Sex

    Inspired by the party game “I’ve Never Had Sex”, Kennedy captures true confessions on a cell phone.

  • Dish

    “Dish” is a unique documentary series created by David Quantic. Fast-paced editing and eye-popping graphics fuse together interviews with fans of popular culture to create a “chorus” of enthusiastic opinions. In this debut episode, 6 gay men talk about their obsession with Oprah.

  • Frog Fortuna

    A hotel manager buys a frog for display in his lobby, prompting different reactions from both the guests and, eventually, the frog itself.

  • Case of the Missing Artistic Integrity, The

    An artist loses his artistic integrity and hires a private detective to find it.

  • Delta Don

    Delta Don is in each one of us; while we yearn for that perfect longtime companion, we usually settle for less. Delta Don, however, has the staying power of a good 70’s pop tune. In spite of all odds, he inspires us to push harder, even if that takes us to the truck stops and rest areas along the I-75 in Georgia and Tennessee. A bittersweet, hummable comedy.