The USA Film Festival will present a series of Narrative Shorts. Two friends take a life-changing risk in James Lawler’s futuristic Eden 2045; Derrick Hausen reveals the dark side of first love in his film Start of Something; a married couple gets carried away with a gaming competition in Stuart Paul’s The Lord of Catan; a jaded lawyer wastes the better part of an afternoon in Brett Weiner’s hilarious Verbatim; people in unusual situations find love and friendship in Kantu Lentz’s Struck by Her and Abram Makowka’s Gnomes; a teacher gets schooled in Phil McCarty’s David Sedaris' The Learning Curve; two office cleaners hide the dirty truth in Jesse Allen’s The Clean Up; and a brokenhearted man exacts a unique brand of revenge in Ian McCulloch’s Wallace.