 "how to be: emo" is a funny, inventive and fresh short film from the minds of Chris Bretz and Brennan Reed. The story is fairly simple -- a typical Everyboy named Billy wants to learn how to  get all the girls,  just like Kyle, the school s resident emo kid. Of course, every teen can use a little helping hand, and so Billy is walked through the how-to s of emo by the disembodied voice of The Narrator who utilizes a unique visual flair (think 1950 s instructional video married to quirky animation), Bretz and Reed sketch out the intricacies, ironies, and absurdities of the emo phenomenon with surgical precision and an abundance of hilarious tongue-in-cheek humor.