Nominated for Best Live Action Short Film 
Anuja (Sajda Pathan) is 8-years-old and working with her older sister (Ananya Shanbhag) in a textile factory. A math whiz, she is offered a chance to take a placement exam at a boarding school but the factory owner (Nagesh Bhonsle) makes a counter-offer: work in the office for slightly more money or he will fire Anuja and her sister.
It has an open ending but it's still a little fucked up that an 8-year-old child has to weigh her entire future and choose between opportunity but being separated from her only family and crushing poverty but not being alone.
This one is on Vimeo. Oscar (William Martinez) is in the Immigration office for his final interview before he receives his green card when he is targeted by ICE for deportation. His frantic wife (Victoria Ratermanis) struggles to find the paperwork that will keep their 7-year-old daughter (Koralyn Rivera) from being taken as well.
Here's your friendly reminder that ICE is an evil organization and should be abolished.
A woman (Ellen Parren) fails a Captcha test at work and spirals into an existential crisis.
This is also fucked up but at least it's funny, like a Black Mirror episode filmed by Wes Anderson. It's on YouTube and The New Yorker website.
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