102 Texas Shorts
TEXAS SHORTS
Chicle (Gum)
Director: Lizette Barrera
World Premiere | USA | 2018 | 14 MIN
An ill-tempered teenager
attempts to find peaceful
solitude on the day of her
grandfather's passing until
an estranged friend pays her
a visit.
A Good Son
Director: Suzanne Weinert
World Premiere | USA | 2019 | 12 MIN
When Tommy, 75, asks his son
Mike to put a Hefty bag over
his head and suffocate him to
death, neither believes the
other will really go through
with it. Until MIke's son Chris,
17, devises a plan that will
satisfy both his father
and grandfather.
I am Mackenzie
Director: Artemis Anastasiadou
World Premiere | USA | 2019 | 20 MIN
Caught among toxic
masculinity, a sequin dress,
and a teenage crush, a teen
skater, growing up in rural
Texas, will have sex for the
first time in the back of their
dad's truck.
A Line Birds
Cannot See
Director: Amy Bench
World Premiere | USA | 2019 | 9 MIN
Separated from her mother
at the border, a determined
12-year-old sets out across
the desert with only a plastic
sack, survives starvation on
the streets of Ciudad Juarez,
and escapes kidnappers to
find her mother and a place
where they can be safe.
