Director: Michael Curtis Johnson

A missing college student's classmates struggle to make sense of her absence through a series of overlapping memories and conversations, forcing them to confront the truths they’ve been hiding from each other and from themselves.

Created with the students in Acting for the Screen class, fall 2025.

Director: Worthy E. Culverhouse

Runtime: 00:14:12

Films made by students in the Creative and Performing Arts Magnet at Lee High School, Huntsville, AL

Directors: Harrison Stone and Joseph Morris

Runtime: 00:22:32

An accidental voicemail leads to a chance connection between two people struggling with loss.

Director: Ben Swearingen

Runtime: 00:13:40

Inspired by a viral theft trend, a wannabe musician schemes to afford studio time by convincing his bassist to burglarize a small business, but someone else might have the same idea.

Director: Jeremy Broner

Runtime: 00:04:16

This animated film is centered around two friends playing a video game.

Director: Johnathan Clair

Runtime: 00:03:10

Boxfrog seems like a cute character with inncocent child-like features with his propeller hat, but once he finds out there’s no more food left for his rumbling stomach, he embarks on a journey to acquire a hot dog at the park. On his way there, he passes a bar and a bank, where we get to see how chaotic the world around Boxfrog can be.

Directors: Emma Milling, Cody O'Gwynn, Johnathan Clair, Sidney James, and Jeremy Broner

Runtime: 00:02:16

A college student has a frightening experience while attending a lecture about phobias.

Director: Trey Houston Jordan

Runtime: 00:05:24

An alcoholic mother and her withdrawn teenage daughter play a tense game of I Spy to pass the time. With each round, the objects they "spy" grow more symbolic, and more revealing, until the game exposes a painful truth neither is prepared to face.

Director: Charlie Kroner

Runtime: 00:11:25

A young woman is trapped in a terrifying cycle where her letters are instantly and supernaturally returned to her. But when two bored friends stumble upon her discarded mail and decide to send a mock reply, they shatter the ritual's delicate balance, opening a door to a curse that refuses to be ignored.

Director: Jared Johnson

Runtime: 00:04:00

A man recounts a dream to his doctor where he pursues a woman who feels hauntingly familiar.

Director: Layla Khan-Hickman

Runtime: 00:05:33

In a small Alabama town where weekends body slams and town halls, "The Mayor of Rasslin'" follows the life of a beloved mayor and pro-wrestler who fights for his community—both in the ring and out of it.

Directors: Nate Billings and Charlotte Gale

Runtime: 00:08:35

The Chukker: Nation of Misfits is a short documentary that tells the story of the famed Tuscaloosa, Alabama establishment, The Chukker, from its conception in 1956 to the building’s condemnation in 2007. In the 70s, the establishment transforms from café to bar and became a unique beacon of acceptance that fostered and protected everyone from “normal folk” to drag queens, hippies, and bikers.

Director: Nick Adrian

Runtime: 00:12:37

A mother visits her estranged son on his birthday.

Director: Zion L Bethel

Runtime: 00:13:36

When a college girl who wants more from life gets mysteriously kidnapped, she gets everything she's ever wanted, but it brings into question the objectivity of reality.

Directors: Emme Hall, Faith Fluker, and Rebekah Fluellen

Runtime: 00:16:06

The First to Walk In is a student-led short documentary that honors the courageous Black students who were among the first to integrate white high schools in Lee County, Alabama. Through personal interviews, archival materials, and reflective narration, the film captures the quiet strength and determination of these young pioneers who walked into unfamiliar and often hostile environments, paving the way for future generations. Created under the BBH-365 Internship Program of Hiztorical Vision Productions in partnership with Lee County, AL NAACP Branch 5038, the film sheds light on a pivotal chapter of Alabama’s educational history that has long gone untold.

Director: Justin Arnold

Runtime: 00:10:34

Two brothers come to blows over how to discipline a child for trying to drown the family cat.

Director: Bryan Poyser

Runtime: 01:42:00

An acting professor has her life upended when her charming but volatile baby brother joins her acting class, setting off a battle of wills between them for the hearts and minds of her eager students that could bring them all to the brink of success or debilitating ruin.

Director: Andrew Lamping

Runtime: 01:26:00

When a grieving woman is found harboring a missing man in her basement, a small-town sheriff must uncover whether she's a monster-or trying to save one.

Director: Trevor Peck

Runtime: 00:18:33

A documentary about 3 clones who share the same name, house, and girlfriend.

Directors: James Graham and Brandon Underwood

Runtime: 00:14:00

DON'T FEED THE MAN IN THE SHOWER

Years after a failed heist, a fugitive hiding inside a suburban house spirals into paranoia when his old partner arrives, warning that their buried money has been found. As he questions what’s real, he must decide whether to face reality or maintain the illusion that's kept him sane for so long

Director: Payton Rower

Runtime: 00:14:13

Director: Reagan Andrew Lawson

Runtime: 00:08:22

A man grapples with battling addiction and keeping relationships whilst trying to understand his powers.

Director: Mclain Leigh Shaffer

Runtime: 00:12:00

A girl and her research partner go on a trip together in search for new plant-life. while researching, she uncovers something dark.

Director: Tynan Gibson

Runtime: 00:07:08

Three late teen friends enjoy some drinks alone, reflecting on personal struggles and enjoy each other’s company before separation.

Director: Brandon Underwood

Runtime: 00:17:51

In the final days before a mysterious ritual he believes will save the world, a menace to society records his beliefs and preparations—with the help of his friends and fans.

Director: Trevor Peck

Runtime: 00:04:19

Sometimes our home decor can feel abandoned.

Director: Mary Charles Ramsey

Runtime: 00:04:00

As her memory slips away, a grandmother and granddaughter try to find their way back to each other.

Director: Chance Freytag

Runtime: 00:14:48

November 2008. A laconic ex-con is sent to find and kill his former lover. When the search is hijacked by a psychopathic mechanic, the night devolves into a violent journey through Bush's America.

Director: Cole Johnson

Runtime: 00:06:12

Two drug mules in a romantic entanglement drive across the deep south with a bag of cash. However, a game of cat and mouse quickly ensues and only one of them will make off with the dough...

Director: Ohad Ira Amram

Runtime: 00:10:42

Jay helms a group of young, incarcerated men as they go about their routine litter pick up. He keeps it light and airy with his cohorts, Chris and Chase. However, when their fellow inmate Rene can't get through to Darius, Jay attempts to save Darius from himself.

Director: Paul Taylor

Runtime: 00:07:00

After alienating her co-workers, a self-absorbed woman turns to her enabling chatbot for advice.

Director:  Benjamin Morehead

Runtime: 00:05:24

A young woman bound to a cursed doll seeks revenge on the man who wronged her.

Director: Joseph Morris

Runtime: 00:12:00

When a grieving man's pain explodes into violence, a lifelong friend refuses to walk away, forcing both of them to confront the hidden battles that claw at the soul.

Director: Cole Johnson

Runtime: 00:15:30

Based in the humid heart of rural Alabama, this is the tale of Chip and Fish—two twenty-something drifters scraping by on dreams, drugs, and dime-store philosophy. Haunted by lost love and failed fatherhood, Chip spirals toward a reckoning with his past as he tries to reconnect with Day, the mother of his daughter, Anya. What begins as a night of underground music and misguided hope descends into violence and revelations illuminated by burning bonfires. Cottonmouth is a fractured love story about broken men grasping for grace in a world that’s given them none.

Director: Jess Anderson

Runtime: 00:11:00

A momentous cliff draws near a pained woman as she makes an offering to her former self.

Director: Natalie Couture

Runtime: 00:09:09

Antics! Estrogen! Escapades! Hijinks ensue when The Girlies are forced to face the unexpected. Shot on Bolex H16 Reflex using Kodak film.

Director: Kenneth Hurd

Runtime: 00:08:15

When Jack stares into the mirror, the reflection staring back feels unfamiliar — almost as if it doesn’t belong to him. It lags behind his every move, fueling his growing doubts about his own sanity. As night falls, his fears manifest into reality when a sinister entity emerges from the mirror, hellbent on tormenting him.

Director: Charles Dillon Ward

Runtime: 00:04:34

Meme Man, a voice based on Disney's Belle, and a 3D scan of a Rodin sculpture star in this experimental documentary built around my spouse's nightmarish sleep talk and my endless scrolling of Instagram and Reddit before bed.

Director: Dalton Allen

Runtime: 00:06:56

On August 1, 2023, Dalton bought the house at 1310 Alma Drive. The listing said it was haunted. But it was within his budget.

Director: J.C. Reams

Runtime: 00:09:03

A terminally-online office drone’s obsession with J-pop web forums fuels his hallucinatory insomnia.

Director: R. Todd Campbell

Runtime: 00:19:51

Amber Damare is a trailblazer in the Ordo Procinctus, a medieval combat league, where she crafts her own armor, masters the German longsword, and faces off against men twice her size every weekend. As the first woman to take on "The Gauntlet," an intense trial of skill, strength, and endurance. Amber challenges centuries-old traditions in her quest to earn knighthood. This journey pushes her beyond her limits, redefining what it means to be a warrior in a world where only the toughest survive.

Director: Micah Van Hove

Runtime: 01:36:15

Chino's life on the outskirts of the Amazon is consumed by one thing: hunting the anaconda that ate his dog. When an American journalist hires Chino to travel to a dangerous area, an encounter with illegal gold miners causes Chino's life on the river to unravel.

Directors: Clayton Christopher and David Smith Jr.

Runtime: 00:06:59

A mysterious woman crashes a Hollywood Hills house party and sets her sights on the movie star host. What starts as a dreamlike encounter quickly unravels into chaos as obsession and reality collide.

Director: Andrew Johnston

Runtime: 00:29:09

After a devastating fall leaves Jeremy with a traumatic brain injury just weeks into his marriage, he and his wife Anna are thrust into a battle for survival neither could have imagined. The Farthest We Fall is a powerful short documentary about faith, resilience, and the quiet miracles that unfold in hospital rooms and home bedrooms—where love holds fast and hope refuses to let go.

Directors: Andrew Johnston and Jackson Townsend

Runtime: 00:09:39

Every first weekend in October, a quiet stretch of highway through Northwest Alabama into Tennessee springs to life. For 40 miles, fields and front yards turn into open-air markets where strangers become neighbors over vintage tools, fried pies, and stories that stick with you longer than any roadside treasure. Amid the antiques and oddities, what truly stands out is the unmistakable warmth of Southern hospitality—genuine, generous, and disarmingly human.

Director: Nora Stone

Runtime: 00:12:45

Janie and Paul are engaged to be married, but they have lost their spark. When their couples counselor gives them a homework assignment, they must confront their future. A comedy-drama about attention and attraction.

Director: Michael Glover Smith

Runtime: 01:28:55

Hekla, a determined Chicago actress, races through auditions, breakups, and self-doubt over the course of one chaotic day, risking her heart and career to claim her voice and step fully into the artist and woman she’s meant to be.

Director: Joslyn Jensen

Runtime: 00:04:00

Over drinks, an old friend reveals a masturbation technique that must be experienced to be believed.

Director: Artemis Griffie

Runtime: 00:12:37

Adult film star Rod Ryder must battle the forces of hate after being dragged into the grasp of corrupt mayor Winkle Freely.

Director: Allison Torem

Runtime: 00:13:14

An actor goes method while investigating a corrupt tennis camp owner equal parts ruthless and lazy, but the deeper “Inspector” delves into the narrative, the blurrier the lines become between the case on the court and the mysteries that consume him in his own home. “Don’t Come Home Before Midnight” is a short existential comedy about intergenerational trauma, the absurdity of American values, and the theatricality of adult life.

Director: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser

Runtime: 01:30:50

Sofia works as a location scout for a TV show pilot shooting in New York City. The film takes place over a twenty-four-hour window in the lead-up of the show beginning its principal photography. Throughout the day, Sofia asks to enter the private space of a handful of the city's residents and in doing so, steps into the fabric of their lives.

These brief voyages into the lives of others are intimate yet transactional, enlightening but one-sided - a source of both potential connection and alienation for Sofia. Over the course of a day, she struggles to find her footing in this mess of contradictions and the endless momentum of her unusual job.

Directors: Thomas Southerland and S. Cagney Gentry

Runtime: 01:35:00

Immigrant Radka Winslow must choose between the American Dream or living a creative life back in Bulgaria. Other Houses tells the poetic and funny story of Radka’s life-changing summer of choices.

Directors: Allison Inman, Jace Freeman, and Sean Clark

Runtime: 00:11:45

In a rural middle Tennessee grocery store, daily transactions are more than the sum of their parts.

Directors: Drew Durepos and Isaac Brooks

Runtime: 00:11:33

In the near future, a struggling urban food co-op adopts AR technology to save their store. The strategy proves too successful.

Director: Christophe Katrib

Runtime: 00:05:30

Through poetic visual and aural fragmentation, This Dissonance navigates the emotional terrain of exile, colonialism, and resistance. The film weaves Palestinian and Lebanese voices with sweeping “American” landscapes, capturing the aching dissonance of witnessing U.S.-backed atrocities from afar, and resulting in a searing reflection on the generational toll of empire.

Director: Christopher Jason Bell

Runtime: 00:10:17

Two friends goof around until a freak accident kills one of them. Lisa is unable to process this sudden death but the lingering specter will force her to.

Director: Daniel Christian

Runtime: 01:38:53

O. N. Pruitt — the "picture man" for the small town of Columbus, Mississippi, during the Jim Crow era — was one of the most prolific photographers of his time. Nearly a century later, a Columbus native who grew up surrounded by the ghosts of Pruitt's work delves into his vast archive of photographic negatives, opening a portal where images of past and present converge in the everyday stories of the town's citizens today.