2026 Q&A Sessions
This year's festival features several Question & Answer (Q&A) sessions with filmmakers and actors from around the world! Be sure to check them out!
Q&A for "After What Happened at the Library"
Special Guest:
- Kyle Chu (Writer/Lead Actor)
With Shane Engstrom and Clare McCarthy.
Q&A for "Girls & Boys"
Q&A for "Global Entry: Shorts from Around the World"
Special Guests:
- Damp - Director/Writer ETSEN CHEN
- Magid/Zafar - Director/Co-Writer LUIS HINDMAN
- Uniformed - Co-Writer/Producer MARI BIURRUM
Moderated by Clare McCarthy.
Q&A for "Authenticity: Trans and Nonbinary Shorts" program
Special Guests:
- Anyway, I Piss Sitting Down - Director/Writer ZAK SLATTERY
- Church Girl - Writer/Producer/Actor ALLY CANIZARES
- F*ck the Cistem - Director/Writer TAJO HURRLE
- One for the Team - Director RAIN VALDEZ
- Such a Pretty Girl - Director/Writer DEBORAH PUETTE
Moderated by Clare McCarthy.
Q&A for "Truth Be Told: Documentary Shorts" program
Special Guests:
- Big Bass - Director DREW DICKLER
- Icebreakers - Co-Director/Co-Producer MARLO PORAS, with subjects LAURA MOORE & WADE CORBETT
- My Friend Kim - Director/Producer MARIBETH ABRAMS
- Rag Dolls - Director/Producer AMY ADLER
- Thanks, Babs! - Co-Director/Co-Producer RIVKAH BETH MEDOW
- Voice Shift - Director/Writer ROBERTO DUQUE
Q&A for "Everything Between Us" (part of CHOOSY PEOPLE CHOSE THESE: Committee Selects shorts program)
Q&A with Christa Steiner - Miss Constitution State
Special Guest:
- Christa Steiner: Miss Constitution State!
Moderated by Clare McCarthy.
