Sightlines: Ohio Documentary Shorts Presented by Cinema Columbus
The Cinema Columbus festival presents these seven documentary shorts, showing the range and quality of work being produced across Ohio.
Film/Video Theater
With their hearts planted in Ohio these exceptional documentary shorts cover personal struggle, warm relationships, societal pressure, the way history informs our present, and more. The 17th state in the union is a vast landscape for talented cinematic hands to mold their human stories both at home and abroad. (program approx. 80 mins., DCP)
Program lineup
Break All the Vases, Steal All the Flowers (Michael Alexander Morris, 2025, 4 min.)
Maroon (Logan St. Hilaire, 2026, 15 mins.)
North Star (Bryn Silverman, 2026, 18 mins.)
Paper Promises (Grayson Kisker and Grant O’Brien, 2026, 9 mins.)
Good Morning (Nikki Swift, 2024, 3 mins.)
home—work (Dean Taylor, 2026, 16 mins.)
Hands That Fed Us (Benvindo Pereira, 2025, 12 mins.)