SHORTS PROGRAM #6 - HOUSTON & TEXAS SHORTS #2
ONE FOREST DAY
While trying to escape from human hunters through a vast forest, Udok must overcome his paralyzing fears and stand up to his pursuers to turn the tables in his favor.
THE KID
The first complete remake of a Charlie Chaplin film set in modern day. This film features Houston talent, and is set exclusively in the Heights. A distraught mother abandons her baby boy. An unuspecting tramp finds the child and cares for him. Five years later, CPS comes to take the boy, and our hero fights to save the orphan from the public system. A father’s love drives him to protect the kid.
THE GRANNY GLOBETROTTER
It’s time to get up, get out and get your move on! Kay Seamayer, a feisty 74 year-old singer and basketball player, lives the dream by battling her way with the All-Stars through the Senior Olympic tournament in hopes for the gold.
5150 DAY STREET
This is a story of one man’s battle with his past and present. When Mike decides to take the first step to recovery, a trip to the local store for a cigarette turns into a life or death reunion. Sometimes life is found in the dark.
MR. CHUCKLEBONES
A nurse starts her new job at a modern psychiatric hospital in which patients are routinely tormented by the night staff. There, she is drawn towards a patient who communicates only by impersonating people that she sees on TV; a chance encounter or something far more sinister?