Short Films

Directed and edited by Chris Osborn

Starring Cole Doman and Michael Patrick Nicholson

As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods. Twenty years later, they're still searching.

 

Genuinely chilling... [GUSSY is] an impressive achievement, not just because of how much is packed into it, but how Osborn deftly implies a bounty of emotions through inference and suggestion.

Osborn seems to have mastered the art of leaving an audience wanting more.
— Daniel Gorman, In Review Online

Written, directed, and produced by Chris Osborn

Starring David Warshofsky and Michael James Shaw

A pyramid schemer's dark night of the soul in Atlantic City.

Shot on Super 16mm film.

    Audience Award        Narrative Short


A soulful 16mm portrait... TRUE BLUE draws its characters perhaps as symbols of a faded American dream, but does so with complexity and warmth. David Warshofsky and Michael James Shaw are both riveting performers and the film built around them registers as a sad romance, to lost people and a lost place...
— Kentucker Audley, NoBudge (2019 Short Films of the Year)

An interesting character study as well as a ‘post-LGBTQ’ film in the vein of [Barry Jenkins’] MOONLIGHT...

Both Warshofsky and Shaw fully inhabit their roles and the film possesses a certain earnestness as well as a somewhat prickly underbelly. It’s almost a bit tough to recall that it is less than 20 minutes... because it manages to create a world that feels real.
— Hammer To Nail

After being dropped in the woods by a mysterious blue light, a haunted woman reconnects with her estranged sister to explain where she's been and what she's been through. Through this incomprehensible trauma, the sisters draw ever closer, only to drift apart yet again.

Written, directed, produced, and edited by Chris Osborn

Starring Lindsay Burdge and Jade Lane


A familial sci-fi drama that surrounds its gruesome finale with moments of carefully constructed empathy, [SISTERS] is a study in abstract horror and potential mental illness. Osborn’s use of parallel editing, particularly in a sequence that alternates between a downstairs kitchen and an upstairs bathroom, earns its high-strung pathos.
— Erik Luers, Filmmaker Magazine

The performances—Jade Lane as a weary single mom who’s unsure whether to believe her unpredictable sister; Lindsay Burdge as a fragile soul who’s convinced that E.T. has it in for her—are excellent, and the ambiguous story offers a clever way to examine a family that’s been fractured by forces (alien or otherwise) beyond its control.
— Cheryl Eddy, Gizmodo/io9