Shorts

An alternative interpretation of a Tooth Fairy legend.

A Surrealist inspired short film focusing on insomnia and its relation to a disturbed psyche.

Nathan checks into the Waldorf Hotel hoping to beat his writers block in an unfamiliar environment. While drowning himself in booze at the hotel Bar, his attention is drawn to two shady characters. As he starts writing about them, their reality melds into his fiction, creating an unsuspected series of results.

Dale and Larissa Becker think they're attending 'normal' therapy, but they soon find out they're way in over their heads.

Characters from a series of drawings by an eight year old girl are transformed into a vivid animated story.

A young girl wanders alone through Dublin's dark, bleak streets encountering adults in various states of despair.

In 1950's Argentina, a simple man meets the woman of his dreams in a bar. With a little bit of tango, he will attempt the impossible: To seduce her.

The struggles of a narcissistic middle-aged mother, whose desperation to find a man to care for her pushes her daughter Kira to the streets.

Leave Day is a dark comedy centered on a convict who is granted a 12-hour furlough from prison. The film will take you on an adventure as the main character encounters one problem after the next as he tries to make it back to jail on time.

Working inside a Walk/Don't Walk traffic light isn't as easy as it looks. When you learn more about Lester and James' life, you will never cross a street in the same way - especially if Julia isn't far away.

'One Week' is a romantic comedy that gives an honest look into the dishonest world of online dating. We follow Jill, a woman who wants love, but will settle for a date in a hurry to keep up appearances. However, some things aren't meant to be rushed. She finds herself in surprising situations, which leads her to new insights about life, dating and love.

A war (man-made disaster) is overshadowed by a natural disaster.

The Smiths could be any family. They could be your neighbors. When 12-year-old Jason looks in his neighbor's window, he learns he's not the only kid living in an abusive environment. What he learns will change his life forever.

A troubled inmate lures his guards into his world and uses them to attempt an escape.

A young mother suffering from post-partum depression makes an unusual and unexpected encounter.

Follow one woman on her journey through the trials of a serious addiction, as her friends try to help her any way they can.

Devon (Kate Levering), while studying in the new studio rented by her boyfriend, Shawn (Gil McKinney), explores a secret room under the floor. Soon, long suppressed memories of her childhood start to surface. Driven by these tortured memories, she descends into a nightmare of fear and panic. Eerie clues about her past haunt her and blur the lines of reality. Will she unravel the mystery before its too late?

This is a Director's Cut version of the jury awarded "Best Actor" and "Best Special Effects" which competed with 55 teams. The original film had to be written, filmed and edited within 48 hours. It was produced and directed by Bontrager Twin Productions - Lawayne and Dewayne Bontrager. Answers to questions we've been asked, if you care: Spoiler Alert! 3 36" helium balloons and a camera rig we made (to keep the camera level) were used to get the birds-eye-view shot of the parking lot. The shopping cart is actually what spawned the entire idea. Dewayne saw it one day at our client's warehouse and said "How can we use that in a movie?" He came up with the idea to have a boy making a box and entering an imaginary world like we did as kids. After choosing "Family Film" as the genre, we knew it had to be made. The concept of the boy in a coma and accident were quickly added with the help of our sister and it all came together. We called in many favors from a customer of ours to make this happen. Czarnowski was extremely generous by printing unique wrapping paper for us, creating custom size boxes and providing us with an oversized shopping cart. They even delivered the cart to us. We shot the overhead "boy running" shot with a forklift. We found a wall in our office basement with a round hole in it. We took the fan out and covered the wall with black paper. Shined bright lights thru it and we had our shot. Locations: The store was at Fired and Wired in Highlands. They were nice enough to let us film until 11pm. The parking lot and store front was outside our office. The open field was next to our office. The "inside box" was filmed in the basement of our office - courtesy of Atlanta Feed The Hungry and Ashwood Development. The hospital scene was filmed at Atlanta Aesthetic Surgery Center. Found through the Doctor that delivered Dewayne's daughter, also helped build our sets. Subtle things you may not have noticed: The wrapping paper turns from a smiley face to a frown. The birthday card changes at the end to say HELP on it. This idea came to us while filming. The mother is reading the book that the boy purchased at the beginning. The caution cone keeps reappearing because it contributed to the accident along with the texting, The photos on memory lane were actual photos from Sheri and Royce's family photos. The boy was named Jack is a tie in with "Jack in the box" derived from the boy popping out of the box. The only thing the boy hears inside the box is "Jack over here" which was the last thing he heard before he was hit. Everything gets larger from scene to scene. The gift, shopping cart, traffic cone, balloon and birthday card. We purchased 2 different sized matching balloons and ribbons from Party City and scanned and printed the larger B-day card. A regular size traffic cone was in our office parking lot, we borrowed a medium size cone from Costco and since the 5 ft. traffic cone we wanted was at a trade show, we enlarged it in post. We borrowed a 6 ft. shopping cart from Czarnowski, a regular size cart from Publix and we also found an extra small red shopping cart in the basement below our office. We painted it silver and we were good to go. It is quite amazing what we pulled off with all the graciousness of so many friends, colleagues and businesses here in Atlanta. Thanks to ALL OF YOU, our vision came true.

A mysterious warrior reveals his identity and transformation from demonic possession to demon hunter.

The Lesson is a period piece that takes place in World War II, where a passionate Chinese mathematician cannot cope with the reality of the war and finds his escape and refuge in his teaching. He hides in his work until reality finally knocks on his doorstep.

At the crossroads where science and religion collide, one everyman must uncover the truth about a secret government cloning project in order to save the world from an unnatural apocalypse.

Can you get to know someone through a closed door?

It's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on?

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

EN LAS NUBES (In the Clouds) explores the complicated, and often comedic, space between how we think romance should work and how it actually does. Set all around Buenos Aires during one momentous week in the lives of Mariela, an Argentinean illustrator, and Oliver, an American dog food executive working abroad, the film takes a look at conflicting cultural disagreements about intimacy and the way the once-simple idea of a marriage proposal has taken on an increasingly public, and sometimes ridiculous, weight in this golden age of YouTube.