Hollywood Comedy Shorts will highlight short comedy, web series, TV episodic, Comedy Screenplays, and Dark Comedy shorts with the goal of screening the best comedic content from around the world for a Hollywood industry audience!
With his elementary understanding of courtship, 11-year-old Darius meets up with friends that conspire to play a popular “predator vs. prey” childhood game, targeted to take advantage of girls. TRT 14:45
After the spread of a virus that preys on the biological impulse for romantic desire, life in America is forced to recalibrate to a world where feelings of love can trigger crippling physical consequences. But Jon was OG lonely, a desolate soul long before repression became the norm. Terrified of disfigurement, but more terrified of having never loved at all, Jon refuses to passively accept his loneliness, and dares to download a deep web dating app. Soon he matches with a woman equally desperate for human connection and they go ahead with a candlelit dinner for two. But when his unfettered feelings lead to stupefying incapacitation, he must reckon with perils of all he stands to lose. TRT 15:47
Jim is a single guy who doesn't want to be single. He believes that if he approaches dating in a logical, rational way that he will surely find his soulmate. Jim as a few things to learn. TRT 10:00
Meena, a young professional, woman of color lands a prestigious role at a company only to find out that her new subordinates are comically racist. She decides to confront racism on its head while also returning to the standup comedy stage to redeem herself and take back her power. TRT 12:28
Dating is hard. Especially when you’re married. Nothing is what appears to be in this short romantic-comedy about two people who find each other on a very special dating app. You just can’t trust what you read anymore. TRT 9:58
"Singles' Diaries" is a comedy webseries about 5 urban singles and their daily struggle with dates, Tinder, the question freedom or relationship or the desire to have children.
If grinding in the bustling streets of NYC isn't enough for a Broadway actress, an uninvited 'guest' in her apartment might be just the thing to put her over the edge. TRT 18:00
