Alice Nicolini

Inspired by movies of Oscar nominated actress Sally Kirkland, a young writer moves to Hollywood to pursue his dreams. In a chance meeting with Sally, he begins a journey toward trying to resurrect her fading career.

Six short stories about space, inter-dimensional threat, and murder told by storytellers all over the world. A faulty prototype of man-engineered human, whose systematic flaw causes her to kill people when she loses control, has to convince her reluctant Creator to terminate her.

Sometime Before Yesterday... Or After Tomorrow. Somewhere Out In The Yonder. There Was This Guy...

'Ikigai' follows Mayumi, a 9-year-old girl, as she tries to find balance in her Japanese identity and American nationality. Hanako, her mother who celebrates their culture through Nihon Buyo, sees Mayumi's new school as an opportunity to share their culture with the white students. When Mayumi is assigned a show-and-tell presentation, she takes it as a chance to prove to her classmates that she is not that different from them. But, that plan is soon ruined when Hanako unexpectedly shows up and teaches the class a Japanese dance, embarrassing and exposing Mayumi's cultural background. After coming home ashamed of her mother and Japanese identity, Mayumi receives guidance from her parents that motivates her to return to school and redo her show and tell in a way that would make her ancestors proud.

In the year 2143, a young woman confronts her childhood trauma within a virtual reality therapy session, only to discover her inner demons are real.

An ordinary undergraduate is forced to teach an eccentric Goblin to act like a human being in seven days.