WME Unveils 2024 Lineup For Student Short Film Showcase Futurefest

EXCLUSIVE: WME has unveiled the 2024 lineup for Futurefest, a student short film showcase in its second year, which is taking place today and on September 11 at the agency’s Beverly Hills offices.

The screening series, focused on diverse filmmakers, features master’s student shorts from Columbia, USC, NYU, AFI, and Harvard, with 10 to screen in total.

Among the filmmakers highlighted is Harvard’s Wesley Wang, who as we were first to report, has been set to helm a feature adaptation of his viral short nothing, except everything. for TriStar, with Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa producing.

Check out the full WME Futurefest lineup below.

SEPTEMBER 4

YOU ARE SEEN. directed by Wesley Wang (Harvard)

Logline: Influencers on a Hamptons trip are terrorized by a mysterious stalker.

THE TRUCK directed by Elizabeth Rao (NYU)

Logline: In the heat of young love, impulsive Chinese American teen Jo and her Iranian American boyfriend Arash set out to buy the Morning After Pill in rural Tennessee.

START THEM YOUNG directed by Jenna Rossman (USC)

Logline: Two excited yet nervous parents will do whatever it takes during their daughter’s preschool interview to get her accepted.

NOT MY NAME directed by Juan Paulo Laserna (Columbia)

Logline: 1996 – As Colombia descends into bloody insurgent warfare, a family must travel on a perilous road to visit their ailing grandfather. Their fear of kidnapping forces them to rely on their youngest child to conceal their fake identities, exposing him to the reality of war.

THE BULLFIGHTER directed by Giselle Bonilla (AFI)

Logline: Ex-bullfighter, Felipe Fernando de la Fernand, gets a job as a flag-waving parking attendant to stage one last redemptive bullfight… actively triggering a past he’s yet to reckon with.

SEPTEMBER 11

PREMIERE directed by Omer Ben-David (Columbia)

Logline: Daniel is preparing for his film’s premiere at a prestigous NYC film festival. Unfortunately, Daniel’s girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, a big shot director, is also in the competition.

DONUT BOY directed by Bunthoeun Real (USC)

Logline: A boxer is determined to make it into the next tier of amateur boxing, but family obligations and his cousin’s turbulent lifestyle threatens to keep him out of the ring.

MIS-ALIGNMENT directed by Pablo Riesgo (AFI)

Logline: When an engineer who destroys malfunctioning androids encounters a shocking abnormality in a rebellious patient, she risks everything to save her new friend and herself.

DAD SWAP directed by Ethan Mermelstein (Columbia)

Logline: Ethan Mermelstein’s dad is a dick, and he’s had enough. So he swaps him out with his dad’s best friend/nemesis, Ron.

PUNTER directed by Jason Adam Maselle (NYU)

Logline: Young Brett must navigate the underbelly of the Johannesburg Gambling world as a seemingly harmless horse-racing bet jeopardizes the surprise he’s prepared for his father’s birthday.