I'm so proud to announce that my latest film NUTCRACKER was officially selected by Short of the Week, and subsequently awarded the STAFF PICK stamp of internet street cred from VIMEO! I'd love for the film lovers over here on Stage32 to comment and discuss. Logline: An introverted retail clerk sheds her good-girl image. NUTCRACKER begins with a volatile game in the stock room of a sporting goods store. Shelly—an imaginative teenaged clerk struggling to unite her stimulating inner life with the slow grind of her retail job—seeks the validation of her coworkers who play the “rape game.” To measure her sense of self worth, Shelly succumbs to the lure of this brazenly toxic culture, and finds that the price of fitting in is more than she bargained for.