Narrative Short Films

When God Went Silent

In the final hours before his execution, When God Went Silent shares the story of a grieving brother and sister who confront the man who killed their mother. With a clemency petition on the table, they must choose between the state’s definition of justice and the heavy burden of Black grace. You can give directly to the project here.

Pocket Money

Broke and about to be deported, two out-of-depth Brits in America rob a small-town bank. When the heist goes terribly wrong, resentments within their lifelong friendship - as they’ve failed over the years to open up to each other - boil up to the surface and expose their flawed masculinity. Pocket Money is not just about a collision of worlds - between the UK and US - it’s an exploration of the grievances within a friendship, stemming from childhood abuse and the power dynamics that can follow when trauma is repressed. You can read the pitch deck here and give directly to the project here.

John Doe

A group of migrants gather at a midtown New York bodega after work, but tragedy strikes when one of them, known only as "Chilango”, suddenly dies. John Doe is the story about Chilango’s passing, how the group of friends become determined to send Chilango’s body back home to Mexico before the authorities dispose of it, and how one of them sets out to uncover his friend’s true identity—only to discover truths about himself. You can read the pitch deck here and give directly to the project here.

House of La Mancha

Studies have shown that the media has portrayed people living with mental illness as either a stereotypical villain or a victim, which perpetuates social stigmas. Inspired by the tale of Don Quixote, this 3D animated film short empathetically recreates the fragmented world of a girl, Isabel, living with a trauma induced Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Like Don Quixote and his faithful companion Sancho Panza, we follow Isabel and her faithful dog, Guillermo, on a surreal adventure through her fragmented world as she faces her inner demons and grapples with what is real and what isn’t. You can read the pitch deck here and give directly to the project here.

Four Square

When a 5th grader is betrayed by his best friend, he decides to settle things the only way he knows how — on the four square court. You can read the pitch deck here and give directly to the project here.

Dr. Midknight

When Dr. Alexander Knight, a respected psychologist, loses his daughter to suicide his stoicism begins to fracture. Consumed by guilt, and longing to “see his daughter again,” Dr. Knight edges toward ending his own life. But, on that precipice, he encounters Bianca—a young woman who’s also ready to give up. What follows is an intimate, high-stakes conversation where two strangers—ready to give up and desperate to escape their pain—become lifelines for each other. Dr. Midknight reveals how empathy can ripple outward: redemption found not in saving oneself, but in saving another. You can read the pitch deck here and give directly to the project here.

A Letter To My Younger Self

A deeply personal animated short co-directed by Summer Willis and Hisko Hulsing and produced by Soledad O’Brien, SOB Productions, Monica Lewinsky, and Dini von Mueffling A Letter to My Younger Self blends raw video footage with striking rotoscope animation, the film follows Summer as she writes a vulnerable, powerful letter to the girl she once was. She retraces her decade-long journey from surviving sexual violence to rebuilding her life through impossible endurance challenges, ultimately reclaiming her voice on the steps of the Texas Capitol—where she helped change the very laws that once denied her justice. A Letter to My Younger Self is both a survivor’s testament and a call to action—showing what is possible when one woman refuses to stay silent. You can give directly to the project here.