Nickel Children

Marie, a pretty young woman, wanders through the aisles of a futuristic supermarket where everything, from the miracle pill to the virtual man, is for sale. Tonight, she's having a birthday party. She's invited a few old friends and their virtual companions. Everyone is young, beautiful and meek.

As Zac’s relationship with his long suffering girlfriend deteriorates, a mysterious ‘plant’ is discovered in his back yard.

One dark gritty night, a poised Erin York and her unruly partner Jax identifies their target...Derrick. They trail him back to a grimy motel. After staking out the place for a few hours, they finally go in for the kill, but shit goes sideways when Erin recognizes the target, putting the entire mission in jeopardy.

After Saturn XVI crashes back to Earth, ex-astronaut Arthur struggles with an infection. Richard and his friends are blind to it's origin but his victims won't be. The Doorway is open.

When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.

Lifelong friends and scientists Nate, Chloe and Bernard believe they are safely creating A.I. within virtual reality, until their creation, Kate, learns it's at risk of being shut down.

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

TRAJECTOIRE

A desperate computer scientist struggling to fund her anti-depression AI application faces her toughest challenge yet.

A young man builds an artificially intelligent woman to be his perfect companion only to find out she doesn't have feelings for him in return

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

A Twilight Zone-inspired cautionary tale about a young mother forced to come face-to-face with her deepest desire.

A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

In late 17th Century France, a young, insecure woman resorts to desperate ways to be reunited with her lover, who's become a nun at a convent. Based on the chronicles of Julie d'Aubigny.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

As longtime con men Dickie and Maddox plan their next deal, Maddox wrestles with his conscience.

After 25 years, an ex hired gun visits his old colleague, who is now a small town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.

The Pony Express was one of the most legendary of the frontier trails in the American West. Riding for the Pony Express was a dangerous job. No one has an exact amount of riders that lost their life while delivering the mail. This short film was filmed on the actual Pony Express trail used over 150 years ago.