Festivals

Pepperdine University Short Film Screening at International Student Film Festival

Join the NDU International Student Film Festival for a showcase of films from the Pepperdine University Short Film Fest.

MOLLY
Director: Jocelyn Davis
Cast: Jocelyn Davis / Braden Roseborough
Running Time: 7 min
Molly is the true story of a girl who, while housesitting one morning wakes up to find the family’s dog has died. In an effort to dispose properly of the dog, she experiences a comical act of karma.

CURRENCY
Director: Ben Holcomb
Cast: Mary Elizabeth King, Josh Alexander
Running Time: 10 min
Currency follows two intersecting story lines-one, dealing with a 103 year-old grandmother writing to her grandson- and the other, tracing a dollar bill through multiple people’s hands.

CONTACT
Director: Kyle Helf
Jeff Loveness, Seth Allison
Running Time: 7 min
A comedy about desperate measures and our need to connect.

TED’S GREAT IDEA
Director: David Chang and Nate Scribner
Cast: Clayton Sommer and Lauren Herzog
Running Time: 10 min
Ted takes extreme measures to win over the girl of his dreams.

REMEMBER
Director: Lindsay Jernigan
Cast: Chelsea Brown and Luke Salas
Running Time: 9 min
Four friends gather to remember the one that got away.

WENDY
Director: David Chang
Cast: Melissa MacFarlan and Titus Rhode
Running Time: 13 min
Wendy is a naive college student whose world is turned upside down when she meets Peter. Yearning for adventure, she visits Los Angeles and discovers the rush of being young and free.

The screening will feature two films by Charles Novia from Nigeria.

MAGA DON PAY
Cast: Ekemini Nankere, Mario Dave, Hadiza Abubakar
Running Time: 15 min
‘Maga don pay’ is a romantic comedy set in sub urban Lagos that tells the story of a young successful business man JAMES BAKARE who considers himself knowledgeable enough to identify perfection in a woman but truly finds it had to find that woman…
A lot of twists and turns, expectations and disappointments lead him to Nadia…the woman of his dreams…

OMONO’S TALE
Running Time: 15 min
Omono’s Tale is a story of the challenges women face in marriage and how it affects their lives. A story of Omono who suffers severe post partum depression, due to several issues in her marriage, a story told by another.