Two Months

Emily Pope · 2025 · 10 minutes

Ruth, a temporal physicist, tries to use her research to her own advantage, but ends up somewhere unexpected. Again.

Emily Pope is a Writer, Director, and Creative Project Manager based in Knoxville, TN. She studied producing, dramaturgy, and script writing during her undergraduate career at the University of Tennessee, where she wrote and produced a play, Callaway, for her senior thesis. She has been writing ever since. She is currently finishing a Masters in Management at the Haslam College of Business while developing her Creative Project Management practice. Two Months is her first director credit and her first realized short film.

When Santa Claus left him a Nintendo 3DS on Christmas Morning of 2011, Seth Reynolds began his filmmaking career with the equipped stop motion software and his plethora of Lego minifigs, and would be thrilled to see those skills on the festival stage! Since then, he’s received both his B.S. and M.S. in Journalism and Media from the University of Tennessee, where he served as Director and DP at Land Grant Films on multiple projects, including Baker for America (ETPBS), JobPop! (ETPBS), and The Tennessee Circle Drill (WBIR+). He now works at Big Slate Media, creating content that doesn’t suck.