Caitlin Manning

An innocent lunch at a diner between a lesbian couple turns sour when a hamburger becomes the catalyst for a heated argument about weight. A nontraditional short which scrutinizes the annoying nuances which create tension in any relationship.

Period Piece is a 30 min. documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated. Women of different ages (8-84) and multi-cultural backgrounds tell their menarchal stories.

Consek Industries may have stripped Margaret of her physical body when she was melted down, re-wired and re-built as a cybernetic research assistant, but the corporation made no concessions for the thoughts and emotions that remained locked inside her new metal casing. Imprisoned by immortality and stranded within an isolated, bio-chemical research facility on Venus, Margaret revisits the sour memories of the failed romance between herself and her former colleague, Dr. John George Clay.