EPISODIC SHOWCASE

friday, april 28th

11:45 am − uptown 2

Experience the beginnings of your next favorite series with these three enticing pilots! You’ll nd stories featuring chefs with grand designs, humanoid robots born from grief, and childhood dolls mysteriously coming to life. Plus, you’ll have the bragging rights of saying you saw them here rst.

*this screening may not be suitable for all audiences

Off the Menu

Daniele Sestito - 21, Cooper Yeager - 20, Eric Dyer - 21, Mackenzie Zambo - 20, MASSACHUSETTS + NEW JERSEY, USA

Chef is a perfectionist, Italian cook who works for an unlikely institution and takes pride in the satisfaction of his clients. When a new client rejects his europeanized version of a native dish she ordered, he hurries to make her an authentic Taiwanese meal before it’s too late.

Carly Dolls

Lindsay Newland - 22, Maudie Schmidt - 22, Jaxson PowerThornton - 22, Isabella Hermelin - 21, CALIFORNIA, USA

When Carly, a homeschooled fourteen-year-old, is forced to face public high school, she turns to her beloved dolls, Lily and Mermia. Sprung from Carly's own vivid imagination and taking the form of lifesize "friends," they guide Carly through the ups and downs of growing up, tting in, and guring herself (and her sexuality) out.

Humanized

Gabriel Guimaraes - 22, Colin Sevely-Ortiz - 22, Radley

Docekal - 22, Benjy Berkowitz - 22, NEW YORK, USA

Posing as a typical teenager, a humanoid robot must navigate the uncertainty of adolescence in order to conceal a haunting secret.