Mike Cheslik

In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.

In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

When a beloved power couple breaks up, their mutual best friend Craig stages an elaborate sting operation to get them back together.

The bravest adventurer at The League of Interplanetary Process Servers attempts to deliver 30 subpoenas throughout the universe in only ten minutes.

An eccentric sea captain assembles a motley ship crew in a revenge mission to slay the sea monster lurking in Lake Michigan that killed his father.

Katie and Jake want to keep things platonic, too bad the teenage ghost haunting their new apartment has other plans!

An altruistic dream salesman writes his own dreams for the first time.

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Marty, a lovelorn student at New York University, uncomfortably mingles with fellow members of his debate team at a college party, before breaking away from them entirely.

An urgent meeting between the boss of a pharmaceutical company and one of his upstart young employees is called in order to discuss a groundbreaking new drug.

Jack Kyser's first film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Having just graduated from anger management, Sean's ready to become a new person, but between his past and his surroundings, he'll discover that there's no way you can change who you are.

Suspicious boyfriend Spike goes to a party to bury thoughts about his deceitful girlfriend. Enticed by an exotic new girl and reminded of his dark childhood, he follows the lurking monster of his best nightmares, hoping to capture the ecstasy of youth in the darkest places.

Jake the Cinephile is the story of a young film fanatic who, fed up with the rowdy behavior and disrespectful etiquette of movie theater audiences, decides to abandon the cinema and take a stab at an actual relationship with a young woman.

MISSED CONNECTION follows Jamie Nichols, the awkward and slightly desperate girl you took to dinner and a movie, and then dumped on the front stoop of her Brooklyn apartment.

Morgan Evans (The Onion News Network, The Rest of Caesar), plays himself in this fantastical comedy about a young man whose thoughts and fantasies get uploaded to YouTube against his will. After meeting Elaine, played by Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Morgan discovers just how hard dating can be when people see what you're really thinking.

The Wheels is a portrait of the relationship between an alcoholic father, John, and his seventeen year-old son, Harry.

Jack and Lucas travel to the Midwest to attend their high school friend's wedding. Confined in a hotel room together, they're consumed by their own insecurities, as Jack tries to write the perfect wedding speech, while Lucas grapples with his romantic devastation. As the wedding approaches, the question arises: can they get to a place where they understand each other?

High school short film directed by Mike Cheslik

Remember the day you built a machine to make yourself grow up? Remember taking up coffee and losing interest in dinosaurs? If so, this anti-coming of age short film is about you. 'Max Ages' is about the unstoppable locomotive of age and the nostalgia of a more immature outlook on life--with homemade machines, dinosaur footprints, and pen doodle tattoos.