Mia Stegner

After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them. Songs are sung and friends are made in this sweet, funny short film about building trust, overcoming fear, and connecting across difference to make room for everyone.

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

After getting bullied for being a weirdo on the school playground, Natalie turns to the rabbits under her shed for help processing her difficult feelings. Together with the bunnies and Harvey the Hawk, Natalie learns valuable lessons about embracing difference and celebrating what makes each of us unique.

Four college journalists begin to question everything when a bloody fairy tale, read around the campfire from a stolen journal, starts to come to life.

Lux searches for the eraser he needs to fix his drawing, but when his attempts to get his family's attention are ignored, he begins to disappear.