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AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 13 - Saturday, August 30: 12pm
Sean the Baby
Musical, Comedy / USA / 7 min. 4 sec.
In his dreamland, three years old boy Sean leads his stressed-out dad on a surreal adventure—where a vacuum robot, a toilet castle, and an Evil Dad force them to rethink what it means to grow up together.
Director: Jee Suk Kim
Producers: Jiyoung Choi, Shagun Kanwar, Jee Suk Kim
Writer: Jee Suk Kim
Cast: Topher Ngo, Zein Khleif, Sean Kim
We3
Drama / USA / 14.59 minutes
When 3 women bond over an unfortunate event that they all share, the bond they form seems to change their lives for the better creating something powerful.
Director: Dannie Sinsi
Producers: Danielle Harper, Geri White, Dannie Sinsi
Writer: Danielle Harper
Main Cast: Danielle Harper, Cherise Vaughn, Erica Leigh Boseski
When the Clocks Stop
Noir , Experimental / USA / 24 min.
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Director : Brett Willis
Writer : Brett Willis
Producer : Brett Willis
Cast : Eric Lutz, Angel Garet, Mary Garet, Luca Soleimanpour, Kara Soleimanpour, Leo Soliemanpour, Andrew Tamarkin, Seth Goodfellow, Carissa Tajudeen, Christopher Sánchez, Grant Merritt, Louie Espinosa (puppy), Jacklyn Dardarian, Priscilla Välldejuli, Danny Richmond, Miguel Rivermax, Sammy Elliot, Angie Xifaras, Jennifer Nicole Leon, William Murphy, Logan Saldana (puppy), Kevin Johnson & William Murphy
Something to Give
Drama/USA/13.12 min
Tilly, once a rising star in the world of professional boxing, had everything within reach—until a brutal street encounter shattered her dreams. After a tragic act of self-defense that landed her in prison, Tilly's life seemed over. Years later, a man named Mack, who once helped her escape the streets, returns with an unexpected request: Tilly must confront her past and offer something she thought was long gone. "Something to Give" is a powerful story of redemption, second chances, and the courage to face the consequences of our actions.
Director: Joseph Ariola
Producer: Anais Almonte
Writer: Joseph Ariola
Cast: Anais Almonte, Jerome Preston Bates & Baylee Berkley
Brody's Choice
Comedy / USA / 10 min.
After a failed public proposal, Brody and Ashlynn must reflect on their tumultuous relationship in an effort to move on... or not.
Director: Angela Nordeng
Producers: Amy Stuvland, Robert Stuvland, Angela Nordeng
Writer: Angela Nordeng, Jon Padden
Cast: Lucas Hyde, Angela Nordeng, Jon Cahill, Crystal Loverro, Alita Lashae
POW!
Animation / USA / 8 min.
A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.
Director: Joey Clift
Producers: Mik Moore, Harold Moss, Donick Cary, Tom Chorlton, Goldie Chan
Writer: Joey Clift
Cast: Rainy Fields, Angela Startz, Jim Ruel, Joey Clift
BLOCK 14 - Saturday, August 30: 12:15pm
Flocky
Animation / USA-Spain/ 11 min.
FLOCKY is an animated allegory navigating pregnancy, exploring the connection between a mother and her unborn child. Set in a melancholic and enchanting world, the story captures the essence of love, and the poignant nature of loss.
Director: Esther Casas Roura
Producers: Esther Casas Roura, Juan Carlos Concha
Writer: Esther Casas Roura
Cast: Cailyn Lee Clinton, Chaka da Silva
To Lie in the Grass is Enough
Drama / USA / 9 min.
A desperate person waits for themself to show up.
Director: Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
Producers: Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
Writer: Grayson Duvall Wittenbarger
Cast: John Bradford
After Sunset
Drama / USA / 14 min.
Angie always knew she wanted to have a baby... someday. But as a thirty-something who doesn’t feel ready - with a husband who does, she’s forced to get honest about what she really wants - and doesn’t.
Director: Sean Harris
Producers: Catherine Rogala and Randa Karambelas
Writer: Catherine Rogala
Cast: Catherine Rogala, George Deihl Jr
Pandaal
Drama / USA / 16 min.
A female pimp, dispensing her own brand of justice by pimping out abusive men, must confront her darkest secrets when a new case brings her haunting past to light.
Director: Shaily Sanghvi
Executive Producers: Naosheen Ahmed, Preeti Saraogi
Producer : Siddhant Vig
Associate Producer : Neha Jauhar
Writer: Shaily Sanghvi
Cast: Naosheen Ahmed, Jai Jhala, Almanya Narula,Anupam Dhyani
Makeshift Society
Comedy / USA / 23 min.
Terminated from her cushy tech job, Alex takes a gamble on a warehouse full of misfit founders in order to build her own startup, and make her own rules.
Director: Serena Schuler
Producers: Maira Memmi
Writer: Serena Schuler
Cast: Siobhan Doherty, Amy Shank, Nardeep Khurmi, Carla Lee, Hayley Goldstein, E. Ambriz DeColosio, Tommy Beck
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 15 - Saturday, August 30: 2:15pm
Mimic
Psychological Horror Drama / USA / 5 min.
A woman awakens to find an exact copy of herself in her home...watching, studying, and waiting.
Director: Matthew Woods
Producers: Kevin Burns, Arielle Murphy, Michael Cerisano
Writer: Matthew Woods
Cast: Arielle Murphy
Killer Talent
Horror Comedy / USA / 13 min.
A struggling actress lets her desperation get the better of her with deadly consequences.
Director: Austin Farmer
Producers: Austin Farmer, Kaylin Zeren
Writer: Kaylin Zeren
Cast: Kaylin Zeren, Shelley Regner, Kara Royster
Wild Animals
Horror / USA / 8 min.
A father and son’s hunting trip turns into a nightmare when the boy reluctantly kills a strange animal and activates a curse.
Director: David B. Jacobs
Producer: Melissa Rodriguez
Writer: David B. Jacobs
Cast: Larry Fessenden, Teddy Biggins
Killing Off Connor
Psychological Horror, Dark Character Study/ USA / 62 min.
When an awkwardly intense drama student (Jacob Loeb) kidnaps his teaching assistant (Hannah Pearl Utt) and binds her to a tree in the remote woods, he subjects her to excruciating psychological games. His goal: to extract the "perfect performance" for his warped play. She's trapped not just physically, but also within the dangerous fantasy of a mind far lost to artistic obsession.
Director: Laurence Cohen
Producers: Laurence Cohen, Tivoli Sisko, Crystal Zolikha, Travis Mendel, Andrew Raiher, Marc Mercury, David Cormican
Writers: Suri Parmar and Laurence Cohen
Cast: Jacob Loeb, Hannah Pearl Utt
AUDITORIUM 4
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 2:30pm
Designed by Preeti
Romantic Drama / USA / 93 min.
A courageous woman leaves her abusive husband, builds a successful career, and finds love where she least expects it.
Director: Gayatri Bajpai
Producers: Rashmi Rustagi, Priyanka Paranjape, Arati Misro.
Writer: Rashmi Rustagi, Wendy Moulton Tate, Yashna Malhotra
Cast: Rashmi Rustagi, Jay Charan, Frank Lawson, Anna Khaja, Shavya Samala, Sangeeta Agrawal, Jewel Hargrove, Ranjita Chakravarty
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 17 - Saturday, August 30: 4:30pm
Leave Me As You Found Me
Animation / USA / 1min 45sec
A mythic creature grows out of the ground and suffers from misplaced trust. She must find it within herself to heal from betrayal to evolve.
Director and Animator: Hannah Mutz
Producer: Hannah Mutz
Music: John Hollywood
Energy
Video dance / Spain / 4 min. 56 seg.
Energy is an audiovisual piece that portrays the inner strength, struggle and creative power of a woman in a key moment of life: motherhood. Through movement and body expression, the work explores the feminine power to create life, claim one's own identity and inhabit the energy that is born from the body and instinct.
With an intimate and empowering look, ENERGY symbolizes life as a miracle, making the birth of Noah the common thread of a sensory experience that invites you to stop, breathe and connect with the essence.
Directors: Sandra Macià and Ianko Stankov
Producer: Xavier Blanco
Cast: Sandra Macià
Two Breaths
After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely friend.
Red Lillies
Thriller / USA / 14 min
6-year old Lily lives with her mother in a small house in the middle of nowhere. When a
stranger appears one day and tries to lure the little girl away, everyone’s life will change
forever. Nothing is what it seems.
Director: Benjamin Knoebl
Producer: Benjamin Knoebl
Writer: Benjamin Knoebl
Cast: Kynlee Heiman, Jill Galbraith, Patrick Hickman
Shaba Daba
Comedy / USA / 12 min
A passionate, Italian-American Chef tries to fix his Niece’s quirk of only speaking in her made-up language: "Shaba Daba"… all while cooking chicken parmesan together.
Director: Tony De Niro
Producers: Mae Bartek, Greg Austin
Writer: Tony De Niro
Cast: Nick Gregorio, Isla Lemire, Jordan Carlson
He Slipped
Animation Comedy / USA / 1:25 sec
A cheeky spat about discarded socks between husband and wife opens the door to a cluttered hoard of hypocrisy.
Director: Emma Bell
Animator: Emma Bell
Cast: Emma Bell
To Be With You
Drama / USA / 7 min.
A woman returns home seeking reconciliation with her daughter after missing a crucial game, but a
shocking discovery forces her to find a new path toward healing for her family.
Director: Dale Fabrigar
Producers: Will Mahr, Jennifer Aquino, Joe Gunawan, Edwin A. Santos, Jaia Lyne Aluning
Writer: Erin Aster
Cast: Jennifer Aquino, Jaia Lyne, Edwin A. Santos, Magnum Nadal
hello_from.m4a
Drama / USA / 6 mins
In a fragile moment, a woman records a desperate voice message.
Director: Robin Copple
Producer: Caleb Wheeler
Writer: Robin Copple
Cast: Alycia Conrad
Thanksgiving for Angels
Documentary / USA / 13 min.
A true story set in the Lancaster Animal Care Center - a high kill California shelter just 90 minutes from one of America's wealthiest cities - Los Angeles. Thanksgiving For Angeles follows the Stand Up For Pits Foundation as it feeds, loves and helps get as many animals seen and saved as possible while trying to raise awareness and inspire action to end the overcrowding crisis happening at this shelter.
Director: Rebecca Corry
Producer: Angel Forever Productions
Editor: Susan Metzger
AUDITORIUM 4
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 5pm
MIA
Drama / USA / 81 min.
When Emma, a sheltered 17-year-old girl, crosses paths with Aaron, a mentally troubled drifter, they embark on a harrowing journey of discovery and doubt.
Director: Luis Ferrer
Producers: Luis Ferrer, Robbie Dias
Writer: Luis Ferrer
Cast: Emiliana Jasper, Shah Motia
AUDITORIUM 3
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 6:45pm
The Novel
Thriller / USA / 88 min.
Struggling writer, Calvin Connally, takes interest in an aspiring actress after learning of her father’s untimely death.
Director: Kellen Gibbs
Producers: Jason Quan, Kellen Gibbs, John Sheehy
Writer: Kellen Gibbs
Cast: Ka,Prise Colvin, Jordan Knapp, Diego Medellin, Ray Fonseca, Luke Sweeney, Richard Neil, Eddie Blackwell Williams
AUDITORIUM 4
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 7:15pm
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The Ashes of a Dream
"The Ashes of a Dream is about a man who returns to his Italian family in New York,
called home by his ailing mother’s final request: to settle the old scores she couldn’t. As
old wounds reopen and buried tensions arise, he’s pulled into a reckoning with his past,
and with himself.
Writer and Directed by Joseph Nuzzolo
Produced by Kenneth Greenblatt
Cast: Joseph Nuzzolo, Marcia Haufrecht, Alicia Minshew, Anthony De Sando,
Abigail Donaghy, Mike Massamino and Tony Darrow
AUDITORIUM 7
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 7:30pm
Sugar Beach
Drama/ USA / 90 min.
A brilliant yet haunted valedictorian seeks refuge in a passionate throuple but must confront her past when their intoxicating world unravels.
Director: Noely Mendoza
Producers: Bobbie Blyle, Tony Bracy, Greg Carter, & Korey Washington P.G.A.
Writer: Zoe Manzotti
Cast: Zoe Manzotti, Emma Blomquist, Ryley Schroeder, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Kelli Garner, Michael Landes, Alyshia Ochse, Jordyn Raya James
AUDITORIUM 3
FEATURE - Saturday, August 30: 8:45pm
Deviant
Psychological Thriller / USA / 100 min
After a successful video date, Brooklyn invites Cameron over to her rented Airbnb in Joshua Tree to take things to the next level. Their evening soon gets interrupted by a masked intruder who takes them captive with mysterious intentions. To survive the night, they're forced to confront their sordid past that reveals a disturbing connection.
Director: Chai Leng Ta
Producers: Ryan Underwood, Chai Leng Ta
Writers: Chai Leng Ta, Ryan Underwood
Cast: Hank Northrop, Molly B. Thomas, Michael DeCamp, Erik Thomas
