Selected by the Short Films Branch.

For many years, author Stephen King had a “Dollar Baby Program” that would allow aspiring filmmakers to option his stories for adaptation for only one dollar. This event brings together several shorts created under the program: Paranoid (2000) is about two young women coping with an alcohol blackout; Disciples of the Crow (1983) explores a crow-worshipping cult whose members are children; Dedication (2021) tells of a Portuguese worker at a Berlin hotel and the lengths she will go to for her child; Popsy (2019) reveals a twisted gambling debt that leads to a child abduction; Beachworld (2019) portrays two astronauts struggling to survive on an alien world; and If You Tell Your Dreams... (2013) depicts a middle-aged couple and the memory of a... recent nightmare.

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

Paranoid

DIRECTED BY: Jay Holben. WITH: Tonya Ivey. 2000. 8 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Not Rated.

Dedication 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Selina Sondermann. WITH: Raquel Villar, Danielle Schneider, Buenaventura Braunstein, Carlos Lobo. 2021. 16 min. Germany. Color. English/German. Not Rated.

Popsy 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jon Mann. WITH: Gary Belding, Kirk Belding, Charley Moore. 2019. 11 min. Canada. Color. English. Not Rated.

Beachworld 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jackie Perez. WITH: Samantha Cutaran, Tom McCafferty, Lyn Ross. 2019. 14 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Not Rated.

If You Tell Your Dreams... 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Yonatan Weinstein. WITH: Eli Danker, Ayelet Margalit. 2013. 7 min. Israel. Color. Hebrew. Not Rated.

Academy Museum film programming is generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.