The Good Guys

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

One evening, in his apartment in Paris, Lorenzo is getting ready to receive Marvin for the first time, a boy he really likes. Marvin shows up at the door with Thomas, a homeless man he met on the street in need of a shower. Lorenzo doesn’t dare say no.

A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.

Drew's dad owns a dojo. She's a pretty good boxer... her boyfriend, Freddie, isn't so the two sneak a practice in after hours. Drew's a tough girl but tonight she broke down into a million pieces. She became the punching bag... to thin air? Distraught she runs away and drops her keys in the process. Freddie picks them up and hides them away... she has the car started and is begging Freddie to jump ship with her. Freddie doesn't disobey - he runs after but feels goosebumps at the door. There's something there and Freddie's gonna kick its ass someway, somehow.

Phineas and Ferb team up with the Avengers to save the world from Dr. Doofenshmirtz and a group of dangerous supervillains.

Comedian and NY Times best-selling author, Charlie Berens, brings his brand of Midwest Nice to a new hour full of stories about growing up one of 12 children, sneaking a beer into church, gambling with his grandmother, and why his dad’s love for the Green Bay Packers was key to a happy childhood…. oh, and how his ADHD helped him understand A.I.

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

Let’s Go Wongos is a romantic comedy with a multi-layered mystery set in Wongledon High School. Taking cues and tropes from Y2K era high school rom-coms; Lily, Maggie, and Stan navigate the first week of their sophomore year with relative ease until people start disappearing around them one by one. Will there be anyone left to take to the Halloween Dance? Written in August. Scripted scenes were given to 65 individual animators who signed up to direct, animate, & score across the month of September 2022.

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

When the Groland teams take on the concept of Christmas, it's a safe bet that there will be dark humor under the tree and tasty sketches as the main course.

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can't miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won't tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.

Believing love has departed from her life, an emotional dependent immigrant runs into a new girl and they find out they have a lot in common, including their final destination.

A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.

Migraines

A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,

In this one-off half-hour silent film, Benny stars as the title character, a "born loser" who is unlucky in everything - especially love. He fancies a pretty nurse who walks by the park, but ends up with a plainer girl.

A stay-at-home husband struggles with societal judgment as his ambitious wife becomes the primary breadwinner. In a small-town setting, their unconventional roles spark humor, conflict, and self-discovery. As they navigate expectations and personal growth, the story unfolds with warmth, challenging stereotypes and celebrating love and equality.