RAT! (2025)
LOGLINE: When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global popstar of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted fans seek retribution.
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OFFICIAL SELECTION: AFI FEST, Palm Springs International ShortFest (Special Jury Nominee: Best Midnight Short, Best Comedy Short, Best LGBTQ+ Short), American Cinematheque’s Proof Film Festival (Honorable Mention from the Jury), Atlanta Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Iris Prize (Finalist), SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival, Salute Your Shorts Film Festival (Winner: Best Local Film, Best Cinematography), Nashville Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, San Luis Obispo Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, American Cinematheque’s Queer Rhapsody Film Series, MOTELX, Popcorn Frights, IFFBoston, Panic Fest, Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival, MixBrasil, MiX Milan LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Hollyshorts, LA’s Rich & Successful Film Festival, Nightmares Film Festival, Hysteria Film Festival, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Key West Film Festival, Anomaly Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, The Asian American Showcase, FilmQuest, Roze Filmdagen, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Ravenheart International Film Festival, Soho Horror, SouthSide Film Festival, Finger Lakes Film Festival, Reel Q Pittsburgh, Las Cruces Film Festival, Indie-Lincs, Kashish Film Festival, Drunken Film Fest, Salem Horror Fest, Stamped Film Festival, Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, Pittsburgh Shorts
PRESS:
“By creating a film that’s both broadly appealing and strikingly specific, Mulani has made a short that is instantly entertaining and deceptively complex. It’s a deft balance of relatability and niche commentary, making it the perfect foundation for a feature-length expansion.” - Short of the Week
“Exceptional queer horror, through and through.” - Dread Central
“What begins as satire spirals into a grotesque, surreal home‑invasion nightmare with dark humor and visual absurdity. It’s as sharp as it is unsettling—performing paranoia with a sly grin.” - Vimeo
“Scathing [and] scabrously funny.” - WBUR
“A hilarious send-up of toxic fandom culture with writing reminiscent of the great Scream franchise screenwriter Kevin Williamson.” - Moviejawn
“This razor-sharp dark comedy skewers a media landscape stuffed with inane cultural products, parasocial relationships and rigid and fanatical digital identities and communities. With hilariously cutting cultural observations and witty, fast-paced storytelling, it captures one of the cesspools of modern life: stan culture weaponized by the lightning-fast echo chambers of social media. The storytelling is lean and nimble, with its first half leaning on comedic satire about music, queer culture and social media mores. The writing is smart, funny and merciless, lampooning the lowest-common-denominator nature of insipid pop music and its marketing with a series of rapid-fire clips.” - Omeleto
TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW (2022)
LOGLINE: Cary brings his friends to the desert for his 25th birthday and requests one gift: list everything they hate about him. A reckoning ensues.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Palm Springs International ShortFest (Special Jury Nominee: Best Comedy Short, Best LGBTQ+ Short), Outfest, Nashville Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Frameline46, Milwaukee Film Festival, IFFBoston, Inside Out: Toronto, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, Reeling: Chicago, OutSouth, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Slovak Queer Film Festival, NFFTY 2023, Wicked Queer Film Festival
FROM THE TOP (2020)
An unnerving incident begins to chip away at a young songwriter’s state of mind.
WORLD PREMIERE: Palm Springs International ShortFest
FISH TANK (2018)
When a college student goes to his first hook-up with an enigmatic older man, he must decide if his anxieties point to a darker truth about his host for the night.
FISH TANK, starring Marcus DeAnda (Outfest 2013 Jury Prize for Best Actor - Pit Stop), premiered in competition at IFFBoston 2018 before completing an international festival run.
PRESS:
“Captures a strong sense of paranoia…[and] leaves us with lingering unease.” - METRO WEEKLY
“A dark, tension-filled study of shame, desire, and power struggle.” — SAN DIEGO GAY & LESBIAN NEWS
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
IFFBoston 2018
Rhode Island International Film Festival
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TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival
Kaleidoscope Film Festival
Roze Filmdagen | Amsterdam
qFLIX Philadelphia
FilmOut San Diego 2018
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Court Métrage - Festival de Cannes 2018
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
East Village Queer Film Festival
Reel Affirmations: Washington DC International Queer Film Festival
SALES: SND Films