BLUE DRESS Director: Katie Stern - USA - 20 minutes Blue Dress is the story of twelve-year-old Hadley, who is devastated when her older brother goes away to camp, leaving her to endure an endless summer alone with her parents. But when the bookmobile rumbles into town one dusty morning, Hadley discovers a new source of companionship and begins to crave independence. CHICKAMAUGA Director: John Henry Summerour - USA - 15 minutes A teenager in rural Georgia rashly throws out his sister’s kitten, then experiences the spark of first love at a funeral. What these two events share in common is revealed in the deep of the woods as his experiences of love and death become forever tangled. SMALL AVALANCHES Director: Gillian Munro - USA - 16 minutes Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen-year-old Nancy encounters her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues her on her way home. THE STATE OF SUNSHINE Director: Z. Eric Yang - USA - 23 minutes In Chinese with English subtitles Two young immigrant siblings, who engage in prostitution to work off the enormous debt they owe their smugglers, are torn by a glimpse of hope that suddenly enters their lives. THE TRUTH ABOUT FACES Director: Lindsey Shockley - USA - 15 minutes Overprotective super-mom Patricia Whitfield appears to be keeping it all together despite the fact that the center of her universe, her only daughter Jules, is moving away to Africa. But beneath her upbeat exterior lurks a painful secret.