FRI NOV 7, 2025 8:15 PM

New Worlds: Block #2

$15.00 (member) ; $20.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Culver Theater Aud. 1 | ‘PROOF Film Festival 2025’

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These films showcase characters as they delve into new worlds unknown to them from the magical and surreal to grounded realizations.

 

ABOUT THE FILMS:

Better Life

Director: Jessica Liu

Producer: Annie Huang

Writer: Jessica Liu

USA | 11min

@jessicajliu @betterlifefilm

When a groundbreaking medical procedure promises to turn slackers into overachievers, an aging father sees it as his last chance to achieve the American Dream-through his unemployed adult daughter.

Creature Mountain

Director: Camille Lecoq, Loring Weisenberger

Producers: Camille Lecoq, Loring Weisenberger

Writers: Camille Lecoq, Loring Weisenberger

USA | 8min

@yes.i.cam2 @awildloringappears @creaturemountain

Creature Mountain tells the story of three animal strangers- a Bird, a Wolf, and a Mouse- who travel to the eponymous mountain to scatter the ashes of their mutual friend Gerry. When Gerry’s ashes awaken an ancient darkness within the mountain, our unlikely trio must overcome their doubt, grief, and fear to save the universe.

Glitch Baby

Director: Celine Sutter

Producers: Yael Bermudez, Heather Francis

Writer: Celine Sutter

USA | 13min

@celine__sutter

Set in the early 90s, “Glitch Baby” takes a quantum genre twist on the usual queer coming-of-age story when an unexpected show of affection on the soccer field leaves a young tomboy humiliated and questioning her place in the universe. In this self-defining moment, she triggers a quantum phenomenon that brings her face to face with a celestial version of herself, and through this encounter, the possibility of self-acceptance.

MY KIND OF PEOPLE

Director: Joe Picozzi

Producers: Joe Picozzi, Lauren Germani, Alex Berard

Writer: Joe Picozzi

USA | 14min

@joepicozzi @mykindofpeoplefilm

After a DNA test uncovers his father’s adoption, a proud paesano from Providence, Rhode Island grapples with the revelation that he’s not actually Italian American, and never has been. With the foundation of his identity destroyed, and his familial bonds broken, he begins to spiral.