Links to Streaming Video of Select Short Films

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Vimeo: The Pigeon Family Vimeo: The Fox in the Snow Vimeo: Tuesday Night Make-Out Vimeo: Allison, My Love Vimeo: So-Called Living
Trailer Trailer Trailer
2 Min . Color
Subtitles available in: English
10 Min . Color
Subtitles available in: English
14 Min . Color
Subtitles available in: English, French,
German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

2 Min . B/W
Subtitles available in: English, French,
German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
5 Min . Color
Full Voice mudgeonsoul productions mudgeonsoul productions mudgeonsoul productions Full Voice
Director: Cyra K. Polizzi Director: Richard Paro Director: Richard Paro
Segment Direction By:
Richard Paro, Cyra K. Polizzi,
Breahan Eve Pautsch, Katie Jones
Director: Richard Paro Director: Cyra K. Polizzi

A couple's afternoon in the park is interrupted by an unexpected threesome on a stroll, suspending the couple's debate about meaning in art. This fun 2 minute film plays with audience assumptions, flirts with cultural critique, and questions the things we imbue with importance... or does it?

A more traditional comedy about searching for meaning and love, unraveling, and questioning the role of religion. In the short romantic comedy The Fox in the Snow, a women's bible study meeting takes an unexpected turn when the members' true motives are revealed.

An experiment in highly collaborative micro-budget filmmaking, TNMO follows Vi, Catherine, and a city full of people pulled in different directions. Throughout an afternoon of odd encounters and public transportation, Vi and Catherine just want to make it home for a coveted evening together, despite work, family obligations, a friend's election party, and the neighborhood's diversions.

A fun black & white short for all adult audiences. In Allison, My Love, when an intimate moment is interrupted, three passionate people are affected by a simple slip of the tongue...

Made for MSCL fans, this plays extremely well with queer 25-40 year olds, but does not work for older audiences. A lighthearted parody of the cult 90s TV series "My So-Called Life," this time featuring queer characters in the title roles as they deal with those transitional times in adulthood when all the awkward angst-filled longing of adolescence comes rushing back.

Screenings Include:
Frameline San Francisco Intl LGBT FF (CA)
Indie Boots FF (IL)
Out Film (CT)

WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM
Out Here Now

Screenings Include:
Frameline San Francisco Intl LGBT FF (CA)
Red Wasp FF (TX)
QFest St. Louis (MO)
North Carolina G&L FF (NC)
Out Here Now Kansas City G&L FF (MO)
Outflix FF (TN)
Sacramento Intl G&L FF (CA)
Cinema Diverse (CA)
Milwaukee LGBT FF (WI)
Connecticut G&L Film Fest (CT)
Indianapolis LGBT FF (IN)
Indie Boots FF (IL)
Portobella FF (England)
Perlen Queer Film Festival (Germany)
Out Takes (New Zealand)
Bangalore Queer FF (India)
Serile Filmului Gay Intl FF (Romania)
Q! Film Festival (Indonesia)
Reel Love FF (WI)
Bisexuality Day Chicago (IL)
Bisexuality Day New York (NY)
Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Fest (IL)

Screenings Include:
Frameline San Francisco Intl LGBT FF (CA)
Red Wasp FF (TX)
Blue November Micro FF (WA)
North Carolina G&L FF (NC)
Indianapolis LGBT FF (IN)
Perlen Queer FF (Germany)
Bangalore Queer FF (India)
Gay Film Weekend (IL)
Bisexuality Day New York (NY)

WINNER: BEST TWIST
Indie Incubator

Screenings Include:
Frameline San Francisco Intl LGBT FF (CA)
London L&G FF (England)
Seattle G&L FF (WA)
Olympia FF (WA)
LesGaiCineMad (Spain)
LesGaiCineMad Women's FF (Spain)
North Carolina G&L FF (NC)
Q Cinema L&G Intl FF (TX)
Perlen L&G FF (Germany)
Sacramento Int G&L FF (CA)
Philadelphia QFest (PA)
Boston LGBTQ FF (MA)
ImageOut (NY)
Fresno Reel Pride FF (CA)
St. Louis QFest (MO)
One in Ten FF (PA)
Connecticut G&L FF (CT)
Riverside Saginaw FF (MI)
Wildwood FF (WI)
Kansai Queer FF (Japan)
Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FF (ND)
Louisville LGBT FF (KY)
Cine De La Diversidad (Bolivia)
Good Vibrations IXFF (CA)
South Loop FF (IL)
Long Beach Q FF (CA)
Cinhomo FF (Spain)
Bisexuality Day Chicago (IL)
Bisexuality Day New York (NY)
Short Story Film Showcase (IL)
Holebi FF (Belgium)
Bangalore Queer FF (India)
Serile Filmului Gay Intl FF (Romania)
Indie Incubator FF (IL)
Art Haus Filmmakers Lounge (IL)
No Shame Theatre (IL)

Screenings Include:
North Carolina G&L FF (NC)
ImageOut (NY)
Long Island G&L FF (NY)
St. Louis QFest (MO)
Rainbow Reels (Canada)
GayCharlotte Film Festival (NC)
Threat Level Queer Shorts (IL)
Queertopia! (IL)
Dyke Delicious (IL)
Art Haus Filmmakers Lounge (IL)

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Vimeo: Deidre Vimeo: Most Wonderful People Vimeo: Morning in the Cafe Vimeo: I'm Gay Haunting Perpetually Dead Squirrels
5 Min . Color 9 Min . Color 5 Min . Color 4 Min . Color Shorts Series
Full Voice mudgeonsoul productions
Trundling Productions
mudgeonsoul productions
Trippin TheRift Records
Adam Guerino Presents mudgeonsoul productions
Director: Cyra K. Polizzi Director: Noah Riemer Director: Richard Paro Directors: Cyra K. Polizzi
Christopher Weiher
Director: Richard Paro

An experiment with poetry and filmmaking. "Inspired by Marisa Crawford's The Haunted House, the story follows Katherine as she apprehensively joins a friend at Mixed Mixers, a queer social event. When her friend deserts her, Katherine is convinced her evening is ruined. That is, until she notices... Deidre."

With little time to prepare, our pining protagonist finds ingenious ways to ready his home for an oh-so-important first date with the most wonderful girl.

A discouraged juggler is excited, and apprehensive, to perform at an unusual event in this music video for the band Coldreavers.

Told from the perspective of the wonderfully imaginative protagonist and that of his loving parents, this short film celebrates the excitement, apprehension, sense of community and embracing of gay steriotypes that often accompany those two little words, "I'm gay." The LGBTQA cast and crew play with the silent film and music video genres to tell a jubilant contemporary coming out story. I'm Gay was originally written for use in a multi-media play and then was produced to stand alone as a short film.

In this mockumentary series, three friends try to make some extra cash by putting together a haunted house. This is more complicated than expected.

Screenings Include:
St. Louis QFest (MO)
South Loop Film Fest (IL)
Merlinka Intl Queer FF (Serbia)
The Printers' Ball (IL)
Bangalore Queer FF (India)
Serile Filmului Gay Intl FF (Romania)
Q! Film Festival (Indonesia)

TOP TEN SHORTS OF THE YEAR
Film Threat

WINNER: BEST OF THE FEST
Burlington Culture Film Festival

Screenings Include:
Black Point FF (WI)
Burlington Culture FF (WI)
Majestic Midway Theatre (IL)
Flickerings (IL)
South Loop FF (IL)
Looptopia (IL)

Screenings Include:
Red Wasp FF (TX)
Deep Fried FF (Scotland)

Screenings Include:
Connecticut G&L FF (CT)
St. Louis QFest (MO)
GayCharlotte Film Festival (NC)
Cinema Diverse (CA)
Savannah G&L Film Festival (GA)
Merlinka Intl Queer FF (Serbia)
Holebi FF (Belgium)
Fractured Lens FF (IL)
Art Haus Filmmakers Lounge (IL)
Bangalore Queer FF (India)
Serile Filmului Gay Intl FF (Romania)
Q! Film Festival (Indonesia)

Screenings Include:
Black Point FF (WI)
Times Cinema (WI)
Looptopia (IL)

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