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Screening Room

Where stories unfold in minutes and stay with you for days. Step into the JARO Shorts Screening Room—an immersive space for cinematic gems that challenge, inspire, and connect us through the power of short film.

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Welcome to Dundrill Heights

Hotshot lawyer James D. Jackson Jr. finds himself in quite the predicament, entangled in a web of lies that costs him way more than he bargained for.

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UNIT X

In the short film “Unit X,” a vampire hunting crew is on a relentless pursuit of a female vampire named Felicia. Unbeknownst to Felicia, who finds victims through a dating app, she crosses paths with the very hunters tracking her down. What unfolds is a thrilling and suspenseful encounter as Felicia realizes that her dates are not what they seem.

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Poison

A serial killer, Ms Morality, targets celebs for infecting the world with immorality. Alison and her secret BF Jacoby seek to capture her and destroy her network of “Moralites.”

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The Slow Burn

Marc is a young man with aspirations to be a quantum physicist but survives as an auto-mechanic. He has no higher education and lives a meager life in the inner-city. His goals are clouded by self-doubt and a rocky relationship with his girlfriend, Rachel. Their volatile romantic relationship stems from Rachel’s mother, Grace. The pairing is not ideal in Grace’s eyes— He is a blue-collar African American man and she is an upper middle-class Asian American woman. As Grace’s prejudices are confronted, Marc’s quantum ideas may be the only thing to save his crumbling relationship.

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Why The Fools Dance

Finding Home: Awa Odori Journey” – A captivating documentary follows three Japanese immigrants as they bring Awa Odori dance to America, inviting audiences to embrace foolishness and find belonging.

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I Am a God: Prologue

In a modern age where film is near extinction a photographer begins to see mystical visions that only he can capture. These visions lead him to a mysterious adventure of self discovery and ancient truths.

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ODE TO JOY

Ode to Joy is a two-part intimate paean to Mother Earth and to women’s generativity

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Othaniel

Othaniel is a unique modern retelling of Shakespeare’s famous classic Othello, updating the timeless story, while maintaining its original themes and dialog, in a contemporary urban setting

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Case Thirty

A homicide department doors will close if bodies don’t turn up sooner or DEADER

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9 Wives

Malcolm X was Right about Elijah Muhammad! 9 Wives is a film done in the Spirit of Malcolm X words & through the eyes of Elijah Muhammad’s 9 Wives.

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Heroin(e)

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BLK Magic

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Color Blind

After responding to a home invasion, a police officer mistakenly kills an unarmed teenage boy and is immediately overcome with regret and guilt.

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Aged Out

A widow grieves the loss of her husband until a desperate looking teenager knocks on her door to offer handyman services.

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Telling Stories

Laura Pointdexter as a screenwriter has 48 hours to write a script and she solicits her characters’ to pitch their stories.

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Human Trash

A boy is thrown into a trash container from the future. In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a mysterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.

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My Chemical Romance

A series of relationships pushed to the limit.

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First Week Out

In 1979, Larry Williams entered prison and was released 42 years later. FIRST WEEK OUT is a short documentary that follows Larry’s pivotal first week of freedom.

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Conduit

Adam, an aerospace engineer who helps pioneer Interstellar space travel through a wormhole is betrayed by his handler to shady individuals who work for an unknown organization.

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Touch Screen

While her husband is away at war, Marqueaux creates a revolutionary device that allows the couple to have physical contact through computers.

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Glen’s Village Episode 2

“Glen’s Village,” a documentary and three-part multimedia web series that probes the effects of childhood trauma in Philadelphia — and how a disadvantaged school district is at odds when it comes to …

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