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Glass Ceiling Breakers Short Play & Film Festival
June 14, 15 & 16 at the Philipstown Depot Theatre
GCB2024 Films
 To cope with isolation, a Jewish millennial befriends her robotic voice assistant; but can a robot really help her navigate the experience of being human? |  Ordering your first taco might not be as easy it seems. Kavitha and Balaji discover this one Tuesday when they stumble into - and hold up - the lunch line at Emmanuel's. |  A visit to Gina's intolerant mother in law triggers an argument between her and her husband Todd regarding her involvement with their biracial child. |
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 Agnes struggles to teach her public speaking course asynchronously during covid quarantine and becomes dangerously obsessed with her town's mayor. Starring Sol Miranda (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Reed Birney (The Menu), and Adam LeFevre (The Sinner). |  Two sisters living in the same city but completely different worlds reconnect over a meal. A mother suffering dementia pulls them back home but before they can return the trauma of their past must be addressed. |  An uptight personal organizer goes to battle with an unhinged millennial lifestyle guru in a mad competition to offer their clients the most life-changing decluttering experience. |
 In a world without sunlight, a protagonist seeks clarity through various light sources, reflecting the human quest for understanding amidst self-comparison and complexity. |  Personal and public intersect in the city of Cork, as 3 women, unfased by chilly weather and friendly passersby, dance on a bridge. |  What if dying gave you a second chance to live |
 When an aging priest hears the confession of a mysterious stranger, the tables turn and he is forced to confront his secrets, and confess his own sins. |  Inspired by true events, an imaginative girl attempts to fold a thousand cranes as she learns to lose her father during his final days in the hospice. |  It's "Hell Week" for this community theater production of "Mame," and tensions are running high. |
 It's an awkward date and it also happens to be their last minute on earth! |  A couple recall how they got together where their version of events don’t quite align with reality. This is a fun, off-beat comedy that will probably deliver a few home-truths. |  A young girl suffers and then deals with depression the best way she knows how. |
 A middle-aged woman's idyllic life is upended when she has to put her mother in a rest home. |  "Lady Liberty" tells the story of Tom, who truly believes if he springs his wife out of the Alzheimer's care facility that she's in and takes her to the Women's March On Washington, her memory will return and she can come home to him. |  A charming West-Indian radio host sets out to do his weekly show when an unusual letter throws him out of groove |
 Broadway actress Kitty must face her reality in a nightmare with her Brain and Heart. |  A passionate geologist Ernie helps you differentiate space debris. |  Myles and Sam think they are in for a fiery night between the two of them, However, Myles confesses something that causes their night to slow down. |
 Betty's world shifts when she stumbles upon a hidden truth: her beloved grandfather George, harbors a secret—illiteracy. |  When a young woman escapes to a house in the jungle to take a "mental health day", her loneliness makes her even more confused. |  Painter, Dominique Castelano reflects on her trans identity through folklore from her native Philippines in this visually rich portrait. |
 Two lifelong friends, divided by their views of cultural tradition and what it means to be a modern Bengali woman, reconnect at a pivotal moment in one of their lives. |  Shorebreak enters the world of New York's only volunteer-driven turtle rescue-and-release program, New York Marine Rescue Center, to see how the first turtle release of the season impacts the lives of the volunteers and community members. |  At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves. |
 When the pressures of procreating can bust a specimen cup, a baby-fevered couple tries to keep the temperature, and spirits high with the union of biology, Latinx culture, and love. |  When a novelist steps away from writing his latest story, strange things unfold. |  Two slightly lovable, mediocre white theatre producers (think Archie Bunker and Meathead!), try to revive their festival and save the theatre from financial ruin in a post pandemic world. |
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