SMALL TOWN
When a successful businessman returns to his hometown diner, he hopes a long-time waitress might help him find his long-lost love.
Starring: Kathryn Byrd Steinhaus, Phillip-Charlie Daniell, and Ashly Covington.
Written and Directed by: Moni Wood
Produced by: Samantha K Henderson and Tulin Ozurk
Director of Photography: Jordan Pardes
Small Town is an official selection of the 2026 LA SHORTS International Film Festival.
About the Film
At one time or another, we’ve all wrestled with the thought “What if….? It’s one of few universal truths that we all can relate to. What if I had made a different choice, taken a different path, or just tried to be a different person? We wonder if the life we lived, the one we are living, or the one that could have been, would be different if we just had taken that chance, kept trying to reach that dream, or just said hello?
Small Town is a story of two people, a resigned small-town waitress and the boy-next-door turned a success, who face and reflect on these questions, both in the past and the present, over coffee and pie.