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Artist Prentiss Haney has a special feeling for “Ohio Shorts.” In 2009, as a 17-year-old high-school student in Dayton, Haney made an experimental film selected for inclusion in that year’s edition of “Ohio Shorts,” the Wexner Center for the Arts’ long-running festival of short films created by filmmakers of all ages residing in the Buckeye State. Haney remembers the screening as something of a breakthrough. “I had never been to a film festival before; I had never had my films shown in a festival,” said Haney, now a 28-year-old resident of Cincinnati, who points to the validation of having his work shown in the company of other Ohio filmmakers. ....