Presented by MPS Film Directing

Fourth Annual Apple Box Short Film Festival

May 17, 2025; 2:00 - 8:00pm
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Credit: MPS Film Directing Alumnus Zijing Wu
Credit: MPS Film Directing Alumnus Zijing Wu

Reception

Sat, May 17; 7:00 - 8:00pm

MPS Film Directing presents its thesis film festival. This year, the festival will be broken into two screening blocks of eight films. Each screening block will be followed by a Q&A; a special screening of MPS Film Directing’s learning film,  Jury of Your Peers; and an awards presentation.


The first set of films will run from 2:00 to 4:00pm and the second set will run from 5:00 to 7:00pm.


First Screening Segment (2:00 to 4:00pm)

1. The Eye of the Beholder • 16:05 min. • Fendy Fengting Liu

2. Jane Doe • 10:27 min. • Anran Chen

3. My Cake • 19:31 min. • Chenhang Jin

4. New Moon • 12:02 min. • Nic Yu Zhang

5. With Time • 12:14 min. • Chen Chen

6. Golden Bubbles • 15:23 min. • Weiran (Wyan) Zhu

7. Law’s World: Lipstick Bandit • 14 min. • Law Artis

8. My Rainy Night• 15 min. • Leo Yizhe Wang

9. Two Socks • 17:20 min. • Christi Bertelsen


Second Screening Segment (5:00 to 7:00pm)

1. Sunrise • 13:08 min. • Shuyu (Ash) Zheng

2. Bindi • 17:13 min. • Anoushka Iyer

3. Soft • 17:27 min. • Kairui Yang

4. Civic Worker 2.0 • 13:42 min. • Ruojia (Alice) Wang

5. CHORONZON • 17:00 min. • Keegan Sailor Lindsey

6. Bad Actor • 19:16 min. • Sonea Patil

7. The Wave of Body • 15:25 min. • Linkai (Luke) He

8. Jury of Your Peers • 25:52 min. • Bob Giraldi