CARLO’S PLACE
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir: Nick Lane • Prods: Joey Fry, Anthony Gumapon, Jennie Shope, Jason Weissbrod
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Mark Marrone, Rachelle Wise, Beth McGeachie, Kevin Mills

A spoof on the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials. This take on the man shows him as a narcissistic, shovanistic, drunk who over welcomes his stay in a nightclub.

DESMOND JONES: PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND ACTOR
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Tom Stern, Daniel L. Stern • Dir: Tom Stern • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Sean Foley, Dave Lewis, Koco Limbevski, Carolina Phipps, Rick Schiaffo, Daniel L. Stern

Desmond Jones, professional background actor, fights for screen time during the film of a scene.

DR. STRUNKENWHITE, GRAMMER THERAPIST
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Kate Luhr, Eric Frost-Barnes • Dir: Tommy Smeltzer • Prods: Jason Weissbrod, Kate Luhr, Eric Frost-Barnes • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Annalea Rawicz Arnold, Evan Arnold

Dr. Strunkenwhite is a grammar therapist. She is in the middle of a session with a patient who is not the brightest guy. He keeps saying things incorrectly and it drives the Dr. crazy to the point of violence.

ERRATUM
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Vanessa Newell • Dirs: Mikael Kreuzriegler, Vanessa Newell • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent • Cast: Max Faugno, Robert Sidney Mellette

Sit over there. Watch the monitor. And type what you see.

FOREVER
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Jess Thomas, Phabey Wang • Dir: Jess Thomas • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Tohoru Massamune, Robert Sidney Mellette, Phabey Wang

When the order of your life becomes chaos, what do you do?

A GENTLEMEN’S GUIDE TO FLIPPING SOMEONE OFF
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Brian Robinson • Dir: Tim Halling • Prods: Brian Robinson, Amie Donegan, Jason Weissbrod
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Brian Robinson, Billy Scott

A nice guy gets cut in front of in line at a local coffee shop. The nice guy asks the jerk to please excuse him and the jerk doesn't budge. So the nice guy challenges him to a "bird" duel. What follows is a hilarious battle between the two men to see who has the better skills in the art of flipping off.

HEADLESS
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (WINNER - DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers/Dirs: Glen McDonald, David Tompa • Prods: Jason Weissbrod, Inda Craig-Galvan, Kevin Douglas
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Glen McDonald, David Tompa

An actor and director can't seem to communicate on set. The actor thinks his character is dumb, but the director tells him that his character is literally headless. The two men continue to argue when the camera is cut, as the director keeps failing to record the action.

INTREPID NOTHING
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Jamie Lou Moniz • Dir: America Young • Prod: Jason Weissbrod
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Karen Forman, Davis Neves, Zandy Ariss, Paul Michel Newman, Jamie Lou Moniz

A surreal look into the life of an artist. Five Characters play out actions in a black box theatre. All these characters represent a different part of the artist's psyche.

IT’S HARD TO APOLOGIZE
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Tom Stern, Daniel L. Stern • Dir: Tom Stern • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Hattie Davis, Tony Donley, Lauren Gribble, Dave Lewis, Koco Limbevski, Liz Maccie, Rick Schiaffo, Christopher Seagal, Christopher Seals, Mark Elliott Silverberg, Von Rae Wood

Charles offers a poor apology for his poor ability to apologize by recounting all the poor apologies he’s received over his life.

JAMES LIPTON IS DEAD
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (WINNER - DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: James Noel Hoban • Dir/Prod: Bobby Roger Poirier • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Ian Harvie, James Noel Hoban

And he is less than impressed with what he finds on the other side.

MONKS
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir: Eunice Font • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Joaquin Montalvan, Paul E. Respass

Two medieval monks deal with guilt and penitence over petty lusts.

MR. POPULAR
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Erika Olmos, Douglas Spain • Dir: Erika Olmos • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: David Devora

Thanks to the Internet, Jerry’s a celebrity in the making.

9-1-MUM
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Jared Poe with Carol Poe • Dir: Allison Beda • Prods: Allison Beda, Marya Delver, Jason Weissbrod
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Allison Beda

A daughter won't stop calling her mother on mother's day due to her hypochondria. She believes that she has contracted lockjaw from a metal spork. The mother won't have any of it because this is an act she has heard many times before.

SALESGIRL
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (Runner Up - DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Michael Kell • Dir/Prod: Sara Pratter • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Antoinette Valente, Cindy Baer, Dee Ann Newkirk, Marian Belgray, Joy Jacobson

A young woman's call to her father wth some good news reveals a more desperate situaton. . .

SAY THE SECRET WORD
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir: Rick Bitzelberger • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Charles Klausmeyer, Lloyd Sherr

Two spies meet to swap secrets and discuss the state of affairs.

SEND IN THE CLONES
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Mark Garbett • Dir: Barry L. Caldwell • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Lester G. Reynolds, David Stay

A cop must solve a murder....his own.

SOUL MATES
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers/Dirs: Michelle Merring, Jason Hayes • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Jonathan Nail, Antoine Reynaldo Diel, Paula Tracey Wilson, Cortney Wright

Sometimes love at first sight; needs a little push.

SPEED RELATIONSHIP-ING
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (WINNER - DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir: Jerry Kernion • Prod: Guy Birtwhistle • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Anita Barone, Matthew Glave, Zeke Rhettman, Sara Paalman, Mick Orfe

A couple’s relationship happens at the speed of light.

SPONGE
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writers: Inda Craig-Galvan, Kevin Douglas • Dir: Inda Craig-Galvan • Prods: Jason Weissbrod, Inda Craig-Galvan, Kevin Douglas
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette • Assoc. Prod: Vincent Duvall
Cast: Erron Jay, Inda Craig-Galvan, Derek Allen, Erick Esteban, David Lee, Sydney Benson

A group of men are watching a basketball game when the host's wife enters and asks him to look after their baby daughter. She then tells the men to watch their language around her because at her age she's like a sponge. The wife leaves, then one of the guys knocks over a beer and the host uses his daughter to clean up the mess.

30 SECOND MOBIUS TIME MACHINE
USA, 2008, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2008 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir/Prod: Peter Soby, Jr. • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Mike Gallagher, Bruno Gioiello, Retta

What if you could go back in time... BUT, for only 30 seconds... AND, you were too dumb to realize it??

TORTURE
USA, 2009, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2009 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer/Dir: Sara Pratter • Prods: Ned Hallowell, Jason Weissbrod
Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent, Robert Mellette
Cast: Larry Clarke, Subhash Mandal

A man is being tortured in a POW camp. Then the man who is doing the torturing then gets tortured by an annoying alarm that won't seem to shut off. A political commentary on one's version of torture.

WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE
USA, 2007, HD, 2 min. (DWF 2007 - 2Minute, 2Step Short Film Challenge)
Writer: Robin Brodsky • Dir: Ted Oaks • Exec Prods: Leslee Scallon, Michael Trent
Cast: Cindy Baer, Katrina Gourley

When Janet is selected to appear on the hit TV show “Wheel of Money,” her best friend Carol fears she may be left behind. A comedy about how winning big money changes people.