Michigan Made Shorts

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm*
Heath is a somewhat experienced gambler, though he doesn’t know the stakes at hand as he enters a game of 21 he was given coordinates for.

Is one night enough to say goodbye?

Tomato Soup follows Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, desperate for a reason to stay.

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm*
“Waves” follows Grace, a 17-year-old grappling with a profound, unaddressed grief that manifests as recurring, terrifying memories of her younger sister, Emma, before a tragic accident. Her parents, Louisa and Victoria, have opted for a radical medical procedure designed to erase Grace’s traumatic memory of the event. As Grace undergoes successive “treatments,” snippets of her memory, particularly of Emma, surface, creating confusion and fear. Simultaneously, the procedure takes a toll on her parents’ relationship, exposing the deep fissures caused by their differing approaches to grief and the ethics of memory erasure.

Ms. Smith packs up to leave for the night after a long day of listening to her clients. She’s startled by a sudden knock at the door as she is not expecting anyone. Ms. Smith opens the door to reveal a very weary looking teenage girl. She quickly realizes that it’s her client, Jordan, who she has not seen or heard from in weeks.

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse*
A midwestern elementary school secretary waits with a student to be picked up after being disciplined for an “inappropriate” drawing.

A lonely retail worker’s closing shift takes a harrowing turn when a mysterious stranger comes in asking to shadow her for the night.

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm*
A mother celebrates her daughter’s birthday with an unusual tradition.

Before his malign father can send him to a cult-like bootcamp, a defiant son must face life on his own terms.

When she is confronted with the threat of deportation by ICE officers, a distressed young woman must fight through a panic attack to prove her valid DACA status without revealing she has an undocumented mother.