Shawna Shea Festival Brings 3 Days of Films to Worcester

By Tom Marino | July 16, 2026

Last Updated: July 16, 2026

WORCESTER – The Shawna Shea Film Festival comes to Worcester from Thursday, July 16, through Saturday, July 18, at the Hilton Garden Inn, at 35 Major Taylor Blvd.

Tickets to each block or feature film are $10. Get tickets here.

Find the full schedule below.

Thursday, July 16

The order of films shown within an individual block is subject to change.

10 AM Feature Documentary

No Baby on Board by Julia Kots

A woman who decides not to have children embarks on a journey to donate her frozen eggs while documenting the personal stories of other childless women, exploring the diverse reasons behind their choices.

Julia Kots is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and a refugee from Ukraine. Her first narrative feature film, Inez & Doug & Kira, came out in 2020. Julia works full-time as an editor. Her award-winning short films have screened at dozens of festivals worldwide.

Shorts

Dazzling: A Timekeepers Tale by Jessica Gray
Dobrina by Hannes Rall (Germany)
Filkool by Maral Forouzesh (Iran)

12:00 PM Short Documentaries

Four Hands by Helene Sevaux (France)
Rose’s Revenge by Maryanne Galvin
Untold Legends of Comic Books Presents Bernie Wrightson by Chris Denmead
VIENNA: Suddenly An Angel by Marko Albrecht
Where’s My Coffee Cup? by Yehuda Sharim

2:30 PM Shorts Block

Ramirez by Rob Levinson
My Sight is Lined with Visions by Beatrice Hoang
Late Fall by Abigail Jean Lucas & Alecia Jean Orsini Lebeda
Monument by Allison Thompson
Deepfake Girl by Annika Murdock 
Los Tres Antifaces: The First Body by Angel Rojas

5 PM International Shorts

Meow by Sarah Meital Benjamin (Israel)
OMG by Tania Watson (Spain, UK)
She Said So by Madeline Clayton (Australia)
Home Base by Amit Kra (Israel)
Adas Falasteen by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini & Samar Taher Lulu (Palestine)
Suspicious Minds by Imelda O’Reilly (Ireland)
Frame by Farshad Sharifi (Iran)
Pica by Sepide Berenji (Iran)

7 PM Mobile Features

Depressed Terrestrial by Steven Bouffard & Craig Dunlavey

Ellis was never happier than when he was befriended by a stray alien as a child. After it left, Ellis’s heart broke and he was never happy again. 20 years later, awaiting contact in the desert, Ellis’s girlfriend hires a paranormal therapist to help find what’s missing

Shorts

Now Smile by Miguel Lopez de Leon
The Onset of Fear by Jacob Barnes

9 PM Series Screening

Impostor Syndrome Series  by Wednesday Klevisha

A surreal variety show unraveling the layers of impostor syndrome.

Episodes 1 – 3

Friday, July 17

11 AM – Experimental Feature (Italy)

La Buona Educazione by Domenico De Ceglia

The education of Gabriele, a troubled boy with a troubled past, sparks a profound reflection on educational systems, revealing their contradictions and blind spots. His mysterious disappearance will expose every single inconsistency, calling into question the very foundations of education and its ethical implications.

12 PM – International Feature (Lebanon)

City Exterminator by Christophe Karabache

Nabil, an ambitious engineer, has a totalitarian project to transform the city of Beirut.

He wants to destroy everything in order to rebuild it, doing so by implanting vitalist AI bombs into human bodies.

But things don’t go as planned.

1:30 PM Shorts Block

Off-Off-Off-Off-Broadway by Tom Anastasi
The Things We Do by Clotilde Delavennat
Herencia by Javier Barrios Acuna
Say Hello by David Graziano
I’m The Hero by Dan Bartlett
Into Reality by Matt Gorman
Drowned by Ryan Nunes

4 PM Feature

Watch Them by Marvin Suarez  

Shorts:

Her ’83 by Julia Schnar, Mikela Picard, Haley Ruccio
Worm Girl by Drew Dammron

6:30 PM Feature

The Freaks Go Marching by Jerry Landi

Shorts

Old Friends by Ally May
Partus by Rachel Thomas-Medwid
Ice Scream by Charlotte St-Louis & Antony Boudreau Savoie
The Fort on Rocky Point by Connor Morley

9 PM Feature Horror

Wrecked by S.D. (Stormy Daniels) Barrett  

The film follows a classic coming-of-age story that morphs into a gory urban legend, centering on a 20-year-old bitchy cheerleader named Lily. Things take a twisted turn when her hidden, evil, psychopathic nature is revealed

Screening with Mother Grimm by Jason Lake

Saturday, July 18

10 AM Experimental Shorts

The Geologic Record of My Heart by Joanne Burke
Somnus by Hicham Chérif d’Ouazzane (Canada)
You Are Not a Memorial by Jaina Cipriano
Glass in Motion by Amanda Reid
Kissing the Lipless by Amanda Besl
Ant Girl by Amanda Besl
Dog in the Manger by Jacob Varney
Trade by Adam Tocci
Finale/Interlude 2: “Cast Aside” by Marco Steel
Erotikafka by Ramzi Abed
Piano Man by Fritz Kohle (Netherlands)

12:30 PM Horror Shorts

Rash by Lyssa Samuel
Silver String by Getulio Ribeiro (Brazil)
Human Resource by Henry Chaisson
Shift by Bridgette Cannell
Horror Stories by the Campfire by Shana Figueroa
Summoning Sickness by Erica Stockwell-Alpert
Do You Hear What I Hear? By Manny Serrano
Infectum (A Possession) by John Westcott
Noctis Monstorum by Patrick J Rahall & Ashes Homon-Rahall
Eviction by Ashes Homon-Rahall