4/26 — As iFF (All Shorts Irvington Film Festival)
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 7pm
at Irvington Theater | Get Directions →
As iFF (All Shorts Irvington Film Festival) is Irvington Theater’s curated international film festival that presents live action, animated, and documentary short films. The 2025 festival features a stunning selection of award-winning short films from the USA, UK, Australia, India and Iran, illuminating this year’s theme of “Take Two.”
This one-night-only event in our historic theater will include 11 short films, jury prizes awarded by As iFF’s Advisory Board (see bios below), a chance to vote for Audience Award, a Q&A with several of the featured filmmakers, concessions (beer and wine) and an after-party at Mima Vinoteca in Irvington.
The 2025 festival lineup includes Favourites (dir. Nick Russell and Nick Musgrove); Curiosa (dir. Tessa Moult-Milewska); 3.400KG (dir. Atefeh Nafari); Le Parrot (dir. Rachael Sonnenberg); A Cow in the Sky (dir. C. Fraser Press and Darren Press); Make It Last Forever (dir. Julia Sub, music by Darryl Rahn); Voice Activated (dir. Steve Anthopoulos); Madhu (Honey) (dir. Tanmay Chowdhary and Tanvi Chowdhary); Terminally Ill (dir. Chris Cole); Your Loving Mother (dir. Cristina Zar); and Love to the Max (dir. Tanya Selvaratnam and Rose Bush). Learn more about the films below.
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Explore the 2025 As iFF Lineup
Favourites
Directed by Nick Russell (with Nick Musgrove)
Australia, 5 minutes
When their family camping trip goes terribly wrong, two parents face an impossible choice.
Curiosa
Directed by Tessa-Moult-Milewska
United Kingdom, 10 minutes
An overly curious Mary visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, only to discover it’s been stripped of all personal belongings. After being denied explanation, she climbs into his head.
3.400KG
Directed by Atefeh Nafari
Iran, 13 minutes
A middle-aged woman living with obesity faces a critical decision when her pursuit of a life-changing gastric bypass surgery takes an unexpected turn.
Le Parrot
Directed by Rachael Sonnenberg
United States, 12 minutes
Three siblings return home for their mother’s funeral. Chaos ensues when they discover that she has left behind a bizarre inheritance: Le parrot.
A Cow in the Sky
Directed by C. Fraser Press and Darren Press
United States, 12 minutes
On his first solo flight as a pilot, a young immigrant finds himself wrestling with his identity when his plane free falls. Based on the true story of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian college student killed by skinheads in 1988 Oregon — a crime inspired by white supremacist Tom Metzger.
Make It Last Forever
Directed by Julia Sub
Music by Darryl Rahn
United States, 6 minutes
A young man contemplates the fleeting nature of his childhood, disoriented in present day as he idealizes the past and confronts how quickly time slips away.
Voice Activated
Directed by Steve Anthopoulos
Australia, 12 minutes
A florist with a stutter is forced to cooperate with a voice-activated car on the way to an important delivery.
Madhu (Honey)
Directed by Tanmay Chowdhary and Tanvi Chowdhary
India, 14 minutes
Two former classmates, Satakshi and Madhu, reunite after many years during the 'Durga Puja' festival in Kolkata.
Terminally Ill
Directed by Chris Cole
United States, 8 minutes
When a rapper is summoned to his grandmother's deathbed, he engages in a madcap freestyle in a desperate attempt to prevent her from dying.
Your Loving Mother
Directed by Cristina Zar
United Kingdom, 2 minutes
A woman reflects on motherhood and how the arrival of a child would transform her life.
Love to the Max
Directed by Tanya Selvaratnam and Rose Bush
United States, 20 minutes
When Texas’ far right-wing threatens Amber and Adam Briggle, who are supporting their transgender child, Max, the Briggle family confronts the anonymous whistleblowers, corrupt politicians, and ideological despots.
Meet the 2025 As iFF Jury
Jon Bardin is an Emmy-winning producer who oversees the creative development of Story Syndicate projects and the creative execution of all projects in production. In this role, he is responsible for developing and creatively overseeing series, feature documentaries, podcasts, and scripted projects. Before joining Story Syndicate, Jon served as VP of Documentaries and Specials at Discovery Channel.
Beverly Chase has produced and edited hundreds of hours of television and film, including scripted, non-scripted, and feature and short-form documentaries. Most recently, she oversaw Current Programming and Development for VICE News. She produced "VICE" on HBO, "Investigations by VICE" on Hulu, and was executive producer and showrunner of "VICE" on Showtime. Her work has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations, 13 News and Documentary Emmy wins, two Peabodys, and two duPont Awards. She was also honored with a Gracie Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Showrunner from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Laurie Chock’s entire career has been in communications, including her work as a television and film actor, a television reporter, and a host of a daily morning magazine show, where she produced and edited hundreds of short-form segments. She has directed and produced an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary and various other award-winning documentaries, covering topics from women-owned businesses in Afghanistan to micro-housing in New York City. Her films have been exhibited in museums, screened in theaters, and film festivals worldwide, including the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Laurie was the founding festival director of As iFF.
Carolina Heller is a television editor. For the last twenty years, she has edited thousands of hours of unscripted television on such popular and iconic shows as "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" (Bravo), "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" (Bravo), "Say Yes to the Dress" (TLC), "90 Day Fiancé" (TLC), "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" (MTV) and "The First 48" (A&E).
Tom Heller is a film and television producer. He has produced and executive produced a string of critically acclaimed films over the last fifteen years including Academy Award-winning PRECIOUS, directed by Lee Daniels; Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS, which was nominated for six Oscars; WIN WIN, directed by Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy; and Independent Spirit Award-winning MUD, starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jeff Nichols. He also executive-produced FOXCATCHER, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo, after discovering the source material for the story and acquiring life rights to Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz. The film was nominated for five Oscars. Most recently, he produced Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut, GONZO GIRL, starring Willem Dafoe, Camila Morrone, and Sean Penn.
Stephen G. Hill is an American businessman, television producer and content creator. Stephen G. Hill is best known as the former President of Music Programming and Specials at the BET network. He was President of Programming at BET from 2008 to 2017. He was the Executive Producer of the BET Awards and the BET Hip Hop Awards. He has also served as executive producer for the BET shows The Deal, The BET Honors, Rip the Runway '11, The Story So Far: Alicia Keys, Black Girls Rock! 2011, and Real Husbands of Hollywood. Hill was responsible for directing and managing the music programming at BET. He has been responsible for the BET series 106 & Park, Rap City, and Spring Bling. He worked as Director of music programming at MTV for four years and was program director at WILD-AM in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also worked for ABC Radio Networks and was executive producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Aaron Lubarksy is a documentary filmmaker and executive producer who won an Emmy Award for JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE (HBO). He was a producer on the Emmy-winning series YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (Showtime) and directed & edited the duPont-award-winning PBS documentary SEOUL TRAIN. Aaron received his MA in Documentary Production from Stanford University, where his thesis film earned a Student Academy Award and Student Emmy Award.
Ali Moss is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker whose latest feature NO ACCIDENT (HBO/MAX), premiered in 2023. Other recent documentaries include the Oscar-nominated THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK (The New Yorker 2024), FAUCI (Disney+/Telluride 2021), YUSUF HAWKINS: STORM OVER BROOKLYN (HBO/Tribeca 2020), and the Emmy-nominated feature NOT DONE: WOMEN REMAKING AMERICA (PBS 2020). She is honored to have been a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow and to have been named to DOCNYC’s 2021 list of 40 Under 40.
Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner have produced, written, and directed over 250 documentaries, including four public television series, Journey to Planet Earth, Women at Work, Faces of Man, and The World of Cooking. They have also produced three feature films: Family Business, The Imagemaker, and K2. They are recipients of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Silver Circle Award for “outstanding contributions to the television industry.”
Ernestine White-Mifetu is the Sills Foundation Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She was formerly the Contemporary Art Curator at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Her professional accomplishments include being the Acting Director for the Iziko South African National Gallery, serving on the National Arts Festival’s artistic committee responsible for coordinating the visual arts programme at the Grahamstown Festival and selecting the Standard Bank Young Artists winner for the Visual and Performance Arts categories. Recently Ms. White has been judge and adjudicator for competitions such as the Vuleka art competition, the Taxi Art Award and the Sanlam Portrait awards. Spanning eight years White has worked as the Exhibitions and senior projects coordinator for the Parliamentary Millennium Programme, an initiative of the South African Parliament to develop projects and programmes related to nation building. She is also an artist whose work features in a number of major local and international collections. A career highlight has been the inclusion of her work into the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Ms. White completed a four-year Bachelor degree at the State University of Purchase College in New York, a two-year Master apprenticeship at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico to become a Tamarind Master printer. Ernestine White returned to South Africa in 2001 to complete her Masters degree in Fine Art and in 2014 completed an Honours in Curatorship diploma at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art.