Recommended by Ricardo Soltero-Brown

This one-minute short by Philip Middleton Williams actually touches on a lot things for me, not only movie etiquette, but also the stress of so-called menial jobs.

Philip Middleton Williams grants a gem for South Floridians and those who know damn well this state isn't built for pedestrians and how the ghost of old money haunts it. May prove a good piece for politicians and public fundraisers.

Gonzalez has a lot of fun with a couple of prison inmates bickering over the pronunciation of a word in a book, but it opens up a deeper pain for the pair. Cleverly set on a day in which these two will value and discover sentiment in finding what they sadly lack, through sacrifice, what they need. Right here. Right now. With each other.

A fantastic monologue about a mother making sense of her current circumstance, from the house, to the cat, and her son. It's an engaging process if analization, bewilderment and catharsis. She seems to connect her free associations and comes up with a question she desperately needs answered. Moody in range and aesthetic. Creepy and humorous. Exceedingly human.

If the world were ending, some people would, appropriately, pull up a lawn chair and eat popcorn, sadly Stella and Stellan can't even seem to do that with their coffee. They're too busy with their phones and opinions. It's a deft commentary on how we need people, not only to care, but to act, instead of just yelling into the internet. Martin finds a way to slyly and wryly goad us into doing more.

A brief piece that will make you feel as hollow as Carol, let you tap into the emptiness and loss felt by the survivors of mass shooting victims, that will make everything inside of you sink, and then grace you with a sense of connection. Burdick moves his hand to delineate a desperation so horrifying it will jar your sense of empathy.

What starts as a positive laugh riot takes a turn for the real deal when a young woman refuses to get out of bed. An absolute vindication about the fears we have about being part of an horridly violent world and our need to go on living in it, perhaps only a few baby steps at a time. Incredible message and so accessibly done. Exceptional work from Hayet, in what is proving to be an inimitable style.

Absolutely one of Diaz-Marcano's boldest, bravest, and most daring shorts. It's astonishing how he goes straight for the jugular of a both vital and taboo conversation. Comedic, uncomfortable, and necessary, I hope this play is seen by many, for it offers one way of tackling preconceptions, misconceptions, generalizations, misguided intentions, empathy, and kindness, all with a wicked and wry sense of humor.

Liv Matthews has written a fine monologue, given here by a woman genuinely proud of, and excited by, exercising her right to vote - finally, and for the first time - unable to do so till now. Where the writing gets particularly clever is when the character, Gina, seems to be acknowledging the social currency that picture proof of following through this civic duty has for her. Like with the people she sees on social media, in which she was also late to the table, she can tell that everything is connected, except for maybe men's fish pictures on Tinder.

A clever whiplash of a comedy that finds its catharsis in relief. Audiences will find themselves in their own loop of joy or - possibly - offense; the two marks of a good joke.