"Tonight Show" film festival. Here we go!

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-"Tonight Show Film Festival."

-I'm super excited about this. We teamed up with Samsung

to find some of the best rising creators out there.

We got a ton of submissions

and narrowed them down to 10 finalists

and gave each of them a new Samsung Galaxy

S21 Ultra 5G phone. There you go right there.

And we asked them to use it to make a short film for us

based on the theme, "A Different Focus."

This phone, by the way, is unbelievable.

It's got 8K video.

That's, like, the highest quality available on any phone.

It's got a really cool director mode feature.

Can you just see all those lenses

on this back? Look at that thing.

So, the director mode, if you do that,

you can just, like, bleep blurp

through all the different cameras and stuff.

You could really make a movie on this thing.

And every night this week, we're going to air a short film

created by one of our finalists

using this phone starting right now.

Tonight's film was created

by Pete Scalzitti, from Rockport, Texas.

They've been hit hard by the storms down there,

and Pete made this film in the middle of it all.

No running water. Everything was shut down.

His wife actually had to go and get the props

because nothing arrived in the mail,

and everything broke, apparently.

But he used it and made it part of his film, and we loved it.

That's one of the reasons why we loved it.

So here it is, the debut of "Moon Dog," by Pete Scalzitti.

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[ Dog grumbling ]

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[ Reverse signal beeping ]

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[ Barking ]

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[ Dog growling ]

[ Sad music plays ]

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[ Inspirational music plays ]

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[ Grinding ]

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[ Triumphant music plays ]

[ Dog barks ]

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-Tonight's film was created

by Shady Mawajdeh, from Valrico, Florida.

He's always loved films and making films,

and his hope is to inspire others with the work he creates.

He says the film we're about to see tonight

is about a man who has the entire world

as his stage for one minute, but he doesn't know what to say.

So he says everything.

Here is the debut of "American Made,"

by Shady Mawajdeh.

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-Ladies and gentlemen, "American Made."

[ Applause ]

[ Piano playing ]

My parents came into this country

to make a change with the change that they had.

I am the son of success, so for me, it was never bad.

I'm on "Fallon," Mama. The world is my stage.

I don't know what to say, but it moves with or without me.

I've been dreaming of this all my life.

I'm feeling like I'm slipping through the cracks.

The second hand is about to hit the minute.

This is the real game, not the scrimmage.

So let me say this before I hit my limit.

I am...

Arab American, American born,

born and raised in the U.S.A.,

a child of immigrants,

immigrants who became citizens.

American made.

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-Tonight's film was created by Margo Akopov.

She is a college student, from Burbank, California.

When her campus shut down because of COVID-19,

she was upset about missing her senior year, understandably,

and having to move back home.

But she decided to focus on the positive --

that she was safe and she was healthy

and she was with her loved ones.

So with this film, she wants to challenge everyone to think

of something positive that's come from the past year.

Here's the debut of "Over the Hills and Far Away,"

by Margo Akopov. [ Applause ]

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Tonight's film was created by Michael Hopkins,

who lives in Sedona, Arizona.

He loves movies and stop-motion animation.

And he says if he can make you laugh or cry or both,

then he's done his job.

The film was inspired by growing up with his dad,

and it's about taking the time to pay attention

to the ones you love.

Here's the debut of "Dear Dad," by Michael Hopkins.

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[ Guitar plays ]

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[ Keys clacking ]

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[ Telephone rings ]

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[ Keys clacking ]

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[ Dog trills ]

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[ Button clicks, motor whirring ]

[ Dog barks ]

[ Birds chirping ]

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Now it's time to show our last film.

It was created by Whit B. Lauren.

She lives in Southern California.

She's been creating films ever since she was a little kid,

especially science fiction.

Obviously, we're in quarantine, so she made

this whole film in her garage.

Super impressive.

Here is the debut of "Prophecy," by Whit B. Lauren.

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[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Coughing, clock ticking ]

[ Gasps ]

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-I know you don't remember recording this video.

Defying time at accelerated speeds

has a way of warping your brain.

And I needed you to remember why you were there.

Welcome to time travel. This is how you got there,

and this is how you're going to get back.

Now I need you to focus, because you aren't in the past.

You're in the future.

I had a dream about something that could happen,

and I needed to see if it's true.

You are in the year 2026.

You need to observe, and you need to record.

And if what I dreamt is true...

you need to come back and warn everyone.

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