This second edition of Screw It, We’ll Do It Ourselves! (after its first edition in 2016) brings forth a collection of short films – helmed by emerging filmmakers living and/or working in NYC – that haven’t fully reached their desired film festival circuit.

Screw It, We’ll Do It Ourselves! 2.0 presents six ‘underdog’ shorts that delve into the darker side of human nature, in comedic and off-kilter ways. The shorts in this program potently explore latent & simmering tensions as well as looming dangers – through biting social critique, uncomfortable humor and unpredictable circumstances.

UNDERLYING Tim Noble
An insomniac grapples with the root cause of her sleepless nights. 18min

ALL DAY ELLIPTICAL Boothe Carlson
An older woman, Clara, cannot find her way to a child’s birthday party. Interactions with strangers reveal the chasm between herself and the world around her. Wandering the city, Clara is in movement but covers little distance. 11min

LEO LAS OLAS Emilio Subia
An Ecuadorian immigrant is introduced to his American soon-to-be stepbrother over a weekend at his beach house, but tensions arise when the family dog gets lost. 15min

THEY’RE PACKING Noah Wolfe & Gabi Carrubba
Hoping to gain a sense of security, a group of queers head upstate to learn how to shoot a gun, but when the first shot goes off, the day of mishaps and mayhem devolves into something much darker. 10min

SCRATCH-OFF Tara E Sheffer
A home healthcare worker steals her dementia patient’s winning scratch-off lottery ticket. 19min

BELLY BELLY Gabriel Carnick
As two body-obsessed queer femmes begin to relax the brutal control they exert over their urges, romantic appetites are derailed by a deeper hunger. 11min