Carlos Lerma Original Films

An exiled monster makes friends with an unlikely creature.

Designer’s Game is a crime drama short film that follows a young broke graphic designer into the descent of a life of crime working in the deep web in the city of Chicago. With a new-found life with easy money, he thinks all is okay until a client comes back, but not in the way he thinks.

A cursed photo is found by a guy walking on the streets. Mesmerized and curious to find who his girl is he aimlessly wanders around Chicago to find her. He asks friends and strangers. And comes out with no answers. On the verge of giving up, he starts to follow a person who he thinks resembles the girl that is in the photo. The pretty girl holding a peace sign in the photo is the girl he starts following. The boy is run over by a car because he was so distracted by the photo. In the end, the girl in the photo disappears as she is a ghost and the peace sign she was holding in the photo changes to her holding three fingers up, as the hand was never making a peace sign but showing a count.

A robot is trying to keep a sunflower alive through different attempts but always comes out unsuccessful. His attempts get more and more desperate as all he wants is to make the sunflower see the sun. It goes to the absolute extreme and flies to the sun. In the end, the robot is an imaginary representation of a kid sitting on his bed ending a one-sided friendship.

Curious and smart kid Logan Wright finds the cure for cancer. He quickly discovers an unexpected fame after his discovery is shared to the world, but that fame is short-lived because there is something or rather someone that gets in the way. The World Habitants' Authority and Trust Corporation step in to capture Logan Wright, as they do not want this cure made public. Logan quickly learns what W.H.A.T. Corp. is; a secret organization that controls the world. In the W.H.A.T. Corp. Headquarters he meets Agent Ember who offers him a position in the company in exchange of making the cure again, only now for private and elite clients. Logan must now choose to save himself or the world.

How far would you go for a hug? — A young man uses a magic potion to turn himself into a ghost, now, with his new-found abilities he flies miles away to the house of a person he loves. Longing for a hug, he possesses a gift. Sadly, when the morning comes, he must return home, faraway from his person.

In a world where men bottle their emotions and toxic masculinity reigns supreme, a young man's repressed feelings manifest as lightning in a bottle. As he faces toxic masculinity, bad lovers, and life challenges, he hoards more emotions until the jar overflows. A breakthrough makes him learn that... real men cry.

An immigrant young man prepares his apartment for his mother’s birthday. However the "party” is a lonely video-call because his entire family is a country away.