Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

A competitive eating champ well past his glory days must recapture the taste of victory by mentoring a brash upstart.

When Gnocchi Bolognese decides to act on her infatuation with an actor from her local theater troupe, the pursuit of romance leads down a tragicomic road to the origins of her unusual name.

Chef Nicholas is formidable in the kitchen, but can only voice his love for the waitress, Penelope, through cuisine. What will happen when an unreasonable customer threatens his most important message? A modern fairytale involving a chef, a cake, a waitress and a steak.

Winner Best Student Film: In the early hours of the 1992 LA Riots, Shauna, a seasoned African-American paramedic is forced to confront an incensed and dangerous mob after her idealistic white partner, Rick, violates protocol in hopes of saving a severely wounded child.

A prisoner who is highly trained in the art of combat must break out of his cell, fight the guards and rescue his best friend, Benny, from the mysterious people holding them hostage before they both suffer an inevitable death.

Embroiled in an abduction case, tough, sociopathic private eye Hennessey is brutally assaulted and finds himself lying crippled in his own office. In a visceral, unbearably tense fight for his own life and that of an abducted heiress, Hennessey must use every ounce of his cunning to engage and outwit the scarred psyche of his assailant.