C.J. Lazaretti

On Burns Night, a lonely young man from Glasgow, bumps into Scotland’s most famous bard who turns out to be a terrible flirt advisor.

On Burns Night, a lonely young man from Glasgow, bumps into Scotland’s most famous bard who turns out to be a terrible flirt advisor.

A dark comedy short film. As the days and nights in lockdown start to merge, Gerry’s paranoia increases as a 5g tower is due to be switched on in his local area. Spurred on by his fellow conspiracy theorist friend Rosie, Gerry must overcome his agoraphobia and take down the tower.

A dark comedy short film. As the days and nights in lockdown start to merge, Gerry’s paranoia increases as a 5g tower is due to be switched on in his local area. Spurred on by his fellow conspiracy theorist friend Rosie, Gerry must overcome his agoraphobia and take down the tower.

All Ada wants is a quiet evening, but Otto has other plans. Showing up with no invitation, the self-styled ladies’ man will not rest until he has won her affections. She's running out of ways to convey her feelings. He won't take a hint. What can Ada do to get rid of him? What sordid ideas could Otto get once his pride has been wounded? A film palindrome of comic proportions, Wine and Roses (and Wine) explores the dilemmas modern women face when confronting the entitled presumptions of men who won’t take “no” for an answer.

All Ada wants is a quiet evening, but Otto has other plans. Showing up with no invitation, the self-styled ladies’ man will not rest until he has won her affections. She's running out of ways to convey her feelings. He won't take a hint. What can Ada do to get rid of him? What sordid ideas could Otto get once his pride has been wounded? A film palindrome of comic proportions, Wine and Roses (and Wine) explores the dilemmas modern women face when confronting the entitled presumptions of men who won’t take “no” for an answer.

An apocalypse survivor records an online vlog to find out if she is the last human being on the planet.

An apocalypse survivor records an online vlog to find out if she is the last human being on the planet.

Kim must warn her husband before he falls into the clutches of a sadistic, evil real estate agent.

Kim must warn her husband before he falls into the clutches of a sadistic, evil real estate agent.

A desperate girl times her first break-up to coincide with Christmas dinner at her boyfriend's parents.

Louis wakes to find a film director dictating his life. He can’t go out, socialise, or even watch TV. The Director wants him to stay in bed most of the time and “contemplate how shit life is”. A metaphor for depression, the film becomes about how much resistance Louis can put up.

Two avid gardeners start a rivalry that gets out of hand.

Utopian prediction of how mental health awareness will have developed 30 years' time. With Danny Carr and Patrick Kondracki.

A micro-short horror film directed by Luis Maurizzio

A young lady working at a home call centre receives a call from a man asking her about the weather outside.

After fleeing for his life, a gay refugee files for asylum in Scotland. Lacking evidence, he decides to photograph himself in the dark techno world of a queer underground scene. Based on accounts of real-life African LGBT refugees and the challenges they face during the asylum process, Crypsis is a raw depiction of a grim reality obscured by vitriolic public debate about refugees and the broken system that surrounds them.

Can the power of Christ cure blindness? What is the secret to turning water into wine? Ruthless talk show host Mary Malone interviews the one and only Jesus of Nazareth (if that is even his real name) to cut through centuries of misunderstandings, debunking the miraculous stories we all know and love (but understand so little of). A mini-mythbuster of biblical proportions, Scripture Screw-Up is a comic cautionary tale for believers, unbelievers and everyone in between.

Can the power of Christ cure blindness? What is the secret to turning water into wine? Ruthless talk show host Mary Malone interviews the one and only Jesus of Nazareth (if that is even his real name) to cut through centuries of misunderstandings, debunking the miraculous stories we all know and love (but understand so little of). A mini-mythbuster of biblical proportions, Scripture Screw-Up is a comic cautionary tale for believers, unbelievers and everyone in between.

Future Sparrow is an experimental micro short film that portrays the promise we all have by nature, watch it from an aerial perspective. It is the universal promise of having something better in the future while forgetting the past.

Are you really with someone if it's all for show? Who is the performance really for? This experimental micro short film explores love, lies, loss and the inability to see what is really there if you are always performing for others.

A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.

A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.

A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.

A priest in training is not what she seems.

A smoker in need of a light gets the absurd instead

A bored sociopath uses self help guides to adjust to society. When her latest cassette tape and guidebook fail to integrate her she resorts to the Darkline to purchase the goods and services which affirm her reality.

A micro-short encouraging viewers to turn their phones off during film screenings.

After six years of marriage, Laura needs to find some solace - in the arms of a stranger.

After six years of marriage, Laura needs to find some solace - in the arms of a stranger.

Marco, a free-spirited Scotsman who feels he has a great deal to say, asks random folk in the streets of Glasgow about their thoughts on Brexit.

Bitten by a turtle in his childhood, a man remembers the effect that the scar has had on his love life.

Bitten by a turtle in his childhood, a man remembers the effect that the scar has had on his love life.

An anxious girl is agonizing over writing the perfect text when her nagging inner voice decides to get involved and pays her a visit.

Music students from Scottish secondary schools take their first steps in the world of composition during a weekend-long workshop by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.

Tormented by her boyfriend's distance, a young Catholic woman seeks Jesus' help to unleash a dangerous game of obsession and deceit.

Tormented by her boyfriend's distance, a young Catholic woman seeks Jesus' help to unleash a dangerous game of obsession and deceit.

When lonely office worker Casper is stood up by his date, he finds himself in a warehouse harboring an abandoned mirror, in which he is confronted by a reflection of a strange woman, Iro, in place of himself. He soon learns from expert Dr Luoma, a physicist struggling to win back her reputation due to her wayward theories, that there is more to Iro than meets the eye and that she is arguably a real person, not just a figment of Casper's imagination mimicking his movements and facial expressions. This leads Casper to a journey into the realms of an inverted world that exists behind the mirror to find out who this feminine impostor really is, and to learn about the curious world in which Iro lives.

Helen was abducted as a child and kept in a basement for eight years. As a young adult, she invites a television crew to document her recovery, which threatens the fragile emotional balance between herself and her estranged mother.

Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to low-budget film-making (his near-alchemical ability to turn the base components of film-making in to artistic gold, his placing of himself at the heart of all his work and his need to be part of a repertory company-type set-up). The Gospel… also promotes Derek Jarman’s importance as one of Britain's finest film-makers and acts, therefore, as a rally call to all would-be independent film-makers. This is the ’10 commandments of St. Derek ‘(who was indeed canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) on low-budget film-making.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

A short documentary following the creative process of six young performers as they collaborate on a new song.

Locked in a dance of mesmerising mimicry, a prisoner has to fight against her captor’s mysterious powers of possession in order to save her life.