Florida Showcase 1 (Shorts)

Hasti’s Persian parents try to keep their culture, but things become overbearing during a party when expectations run high.

Two teenagers, one date, and extreme social awkwardness. Is there a chance for more than just hand holding?

An undocumented Jamaican immigrant who struggles to support his family with a restaurant job is tempted by other options.

Marquise struggles to embrace his new life following a debilitating spinal cord injury.

Riverview’s Coach James Ward’s career through segregation and beyond has effectively raised and vitally inspired a generation of Sarasota’s best coaches and athletes.

Two diverse Florida schools come together with assistance from Asolo Repertory to put on a play that exemplifies their unique cultures while celebrating diversity.

A documentary-form narrative about mourners at Miami’s annual “T Ball” remembering lives lost.

USF and the 45th Space Wing work together to preserve historical NASA launch sites.

Can a priest reconcile the requirements of confessional privilege with the demands of his conscious?

Filmed inside a historic Sarasota train car, “Pie Car” imagines the storied circus melodramas its walls would have once housed.

Can personality be programmed? Chemistry coded? Or are feelings not born of biology less real?

A modern couple’s reality is disparately narrated with the words of “The Good Wife’s Guide”.

He’s the superhero you never knew you needed and soon won’t want to live without!