SF Short FF: Friday Funnies

Girl in the Lake
Director: Max Gold
Runtime: 15 minutes
A darker take on The Little Mermaid.Minneapolis 2022. Sirens everywhere. Guy is just trying to make this food delivery, but then he meets a Girl who might be a mermaid.

A Streetcar Named Bizarre
Director: Serge Rocco
Runtime: 7 minutes
On a sunny day, in a public park, a man desperately tries to enjoy his lunch break in spite of strange and plain ridiculous occurrences.

Bad Vintage: A Randy Tale
Director: Ben Élie
Runtime: 17 minutes
A magical realist comedy about romance in our times, family baggage, and a mischievous talking car. San Francisco Bay Area millennials Lenny and Quinn have a hot date; Randy the vintage love-bug steers them way off-course, and Trent is very upset about not being invited. It’s a “check yourself before you wreck yourself” trip where everybody learns a little something about how to get along.

Saturday’s Game
Director: Suzanne Marie Collins
Runtime: 12 minutes
A young woman learns an improbable family secret and has to find out if it’s true.

Still Scattered
Director: Dominic Burgess, Jeff Lorch
Runtime: 16 minutes
(Dark Comedy) After losing his wife, a failing gallery artist returns home to his small town, looking for support from the very people he’s fought so hard to escape.

Mid-level Modern Knowledge Worker
Director: Mikey van Beuren
Runtime: 5 minutes
A phone addicted knowledge worker, with all the traditional trappings of success, realizes that something is “off” about his life.

Women of Substance
Director: Tim Neenan
Runtime: 15 minutes
Former childhood best friends reconnect twenty years later with one goal in mind: do all the drugs before one of them gets pregnant.
Presented as part of San Francisco Short Film Festival.