Baby Brother
It’s the mid-eighties and six-year-old Timmy is going to be a big brother. There is nothing he wants more in life than the premiere home video game system. When his mother loses the pregnancy, Timmy offers to give up his video game savings to buy a new baby brother.
JURIED AWARDS & HONORS
Winner - Best Production Design, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Winner - Best Editing, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Finalist - Best Film, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Finalist - Best Director, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Finalist - Best Cinematography, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Finalist - Best Ensemble Performance, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Semi-Finalist - Best First-Time Filmmaker, Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Semi-Finalist, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI
Shortlisted, Online Audience Award, Short of the Year - Winter Edition, Promofest, Spain
Best Graduate Film, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Best Graduate Screenplay, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
JURIED GRANTS
Student Grant Award, The Caucus Foundation for Producers, Writers & Directors. $1,000
JURIED SCREENINGS
Ljubljana International Short Film Festival - EUROPANORAMA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA
Best of Fests 2024, cinéSPEAK, Philadelphia, PA
CyBorg Film Festival XII international edition, Anghiari Italy
Short of the Year - Winter Edition, Promofest, Spain
(private) 78th UFVA Conference, Cleveland, OH
(private) Jack Carton Diamond Film Screening, Dolby Screening Room, New York, NY
(private) Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
16 minutes, ARRI AMIRA camera. In Post Production
Vamos, Gustavo
Lodged between two cyclones, Gustavo breaks his promise to evacuate just as coastguards arrive to his south Florida neighborhood. Ending up on the state deportation registry was just another form of predictable peril for him. Left alone with young Sofia after his fiancée Sara flees, he must protect the only home and family he’s ever known in America.
GUSTAVO David Arturo Sanchez
SOFIA Ava Alves-Wrubel
SARA Julie Czarnecki
Writers Harold Batista, Christhian Diaz
JURIED AWARDS
Best Cinematography, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Best Graduate Screenplay, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Best Editor, BFA/BA Masterclass Screening, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
JURIED GRANTS
TFMA Alumni Grant, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. $250
Philadelphia Student Mediamaker, Scribe Video Center with Independence Public Media Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. $1,500
JURIED SCREENINGS
(private) Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Once, Upon Some Stars
In Development
Two young siblings responsible for administering the world’s wishes clash when the sister wants her own wish granted - one that her brother could never allow.
Written by Zachary Tyler Vickers
Story by Harold Batista