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AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 13 - Saturday, August 29: 12pm
Bridge - My Little Friends
Animation / Japan / 9 min 30 sec
”I'll take you to see Shiro. I promise!” Jin the cat promised Mugi, who was saddened by the loss of her beloved dog, Shiro. Will Jin really be able to save Mugi from her grief?
Director: Kazuyuki Ishihara
Producer: Makoto Mizusawa
Writer: Takahiro Nagano
Cast:
Jin / Natsumi Kawaida
Aki Kageyama / Yuichi Nakamura
Mugi / Tomori Kusunoki
Squirrel / Shiori Izawa
Pigeon A / Natsu Yorita
Pigeon B / Ahiru Ohira
Serenity's Song
Drama / USA / 23:35
A teenager balances life between school and home while taking care of her terminally ill mother as she grants her mother's final wish.
Director: Christopher Schultz
Producers: Christopher Schultz, Julia Schklair, Dean Fronk, Anthony B. Sacco, Edison Layne
Writer: Christopher Schultz
Cast: Scarlett Roselynn, Bridget Regan, Gustavo Galindo, Meredith Thomas, Jon Snow, Jon Briddell
Good Mourning
Drama / USA / 21 mins.
A widower grapples with the role that grief plays in his life. When identities are transformed, some people navigate through it with ease. Some people avoid it. Can Noah bridge the gap between the two?
Director: Paulina Knaak
Executive Producers: Elliot Stevens, Paulina Knaak
Producers: Melinda Edgley, Lance Gorton, Linda Gorton, Courtney Colavita, Hunter Riebesehl
Writer: Elliot Stevens
Director of Photography: Cole Vallis
Editor: Katy Frame
Cast: Elliot Stevens, Jonny-James Kajoba, Alec Nevin, Ruthy Froch, Erin Roth
Best Man Worst Plan
Comedy / USA / 17 min.
A jealous younger brother accidentally feeds his sibling’s engagement ring to their family beagle, right before the big proposal.
Director: Dmitry Parkhomchuk
Producer: Dayana Yakhyarova, Timur Badanov, Kostiantyn Kostyk, Dmitry Parkhomchuk
Writer: Dmitry Parkhomchuk, Dayana Yakhyarova
Cast: Matthew Nichols, Shane Dorriz, Rayna Hickman
Something Pointless
Drama / Wales / 14 min.
When an unhappy young boy discovers an older man quietly affixing painted eggshells to a disused wall in their neighbourhood, both begin to understand how even the smallest, strangest acts can leave behind something lasting.
Director: Asa Bailey
Producer: David Cormican
Writers: Neil Graham and David Cormican
Cast: Owen Teale, Sophie Thompson, Leo Harris, Sule Rimi
BLOCK 14 - Saturday, August 29: 12pm
POI (Primary Ovarian Insufficiency)
Dance Film / Australia / 8 min.
Premature menopause at 28 — a movement film tracing seven years of unanswered symptoms, where the whispers of the body sustained balance through the unknown, until it was diagnosed at 35.
Director: Zoee Marsh
Producers: Zoee Marsh & Alexandra Galloway
Original Score: Beatrice Lewis
Cinematography: Michael Ridley
Cast: Melissa Yvonne Pham
Rice & Sugar
Documentary / United States / 1 hr 1 min
A monk returns to his home in the Himalayas to grapple with the harrowing relationship he had with his late father in an attempt to understand how his pain has shaped him.
Director: Phillip O’Leary
Producers: Phillip O’Leary, Philip DiFiore, Mark Waters, Mukul Bhatia, Daniel Worsley
Director of Photography: Mark Waters
Editor / Co-Producer: Philip DiFiore
Executive Producer: Nicola Glass
Featuring: Geshe Tenzin Zopa
AUDITORIUM 4
BLOCK 15 - Saturday, August 29: 2pm
Chucky Chicken in Driving Me Looney
Comedy / USA / 4 min.
Chucky Chicken has arrived at Tough Cluck Studios for a job interview; however his old pal Louie Loon is gonna make sure he gets there on time...and hopefully in one piece!!
Director: Michael Cook
Producers: Michael Cook, Aaron Berogan and Tom Ruegger
Writer: Michael Cook
Cast: Michael Cook, Alexander Hanly, Malcolm Ray, Tedd Hazard, Stephanie Matarazzo, John Ortiz, Brian Ress, Dion Mastrangelo, and Nick Senny
A Big Star
Drama Comedy / USA / 7 min.
A lonely artist documents the final days of his life after his one-man show ends in disaster. This pitch black drama comedy explores failure, identity, and the thin line between self-belief and self-destruction.
Director: Austin Kane Anderson
Producers: Austin Kane Anderson, Christopher Ellay
Writer: Austin Kane Anderson
Cast: Christopher Ellay
Lucy's Last Dance
Drama / USA / 14 min.
After learning of her cat Lucy's terminal diagnosis, June is buoyed by her friends who throw her a party to celebrate the life they have.
Director: Rosie Grace
Producers: Rosie Grace, Nate Hapke, Marisa Hood
Writer: Rosie Grace, Marisa Hood
Cast: Marisa Hood, Melanie Thompson, Julie Schmid, Jamie Miller, Nate Hapke
Critter Encounters: A Forever Home
Documentary / USA / 24 min.
A seasoned wildlife specialist and her team give rescued animals who can’t live in the wild a forever home while teaching their community about nature, coexistence, and the responsibility we share in protecting wildlife.
Director: Annette M. King
Producer: Annette M. King
Executive Producers: Jennifer Buenrostro, Nancy Mott
Editor and Impact Producer: Jule Hermann
Writers: Cole Campbell, Gilda Pretolani, Lucien Marcus, Nick Biddle, Sean Nam
Cast: Andrea Burgan, Connor Hoyt
The Listeners
David, a once-brilliant jazz musician, can no longer hear music. Doctors search for a diagnosis while debating whether his condition is neurological or psychological, but answers remain elusive. As pressure mounts to institutionalize him, David is guided through an unconventional therapy that pulls him into memories of faith, discipline, and unresolved trauma. Moving between a hospital, a chapel, and the past, David confronts the voices that shaped him and the fear that silenced him. When he finally stops searching for proof and allows himself to listen inwardly, sound returns in an unexpected way, raising questions about perception, healing, and whether truth needs to be witnessed to be real.
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
Music Video, Drama / UK/US / 5 min.
A young gentleman, working as a photographer, falls in love with a woman as she takes her daily stroll down Brighton Pier. Mustering the courage to approach her, he is devastated to discover that there's someone else in the picture.
Director: Kenny McCracken
Producers: Kurt Rosenberg, Angus Light, Brent Rogers, Nick Hale, Zach Stevens
Writer: Kurt Rosenberg, Kenny McCracken
Cast: Scott Hunter, Bobbie Seavill, Will Richardson, Ivor Fireman, Catherine Jeffery, Kurt Rosenberg
Gross Income
Comedy / USA / 12.5 min.
A2er a troubling mee:ng with his accountant, Jonathan is visited by increasingly bizarre figures offering solu:ons to his financial problems.
Director: Josh Levinson
Co-Direc:on by: Sharlene Radlein
Producers: Josh Levinson, Bryant LiMrean, Sharlene Radlein
Writer: Josh Levinson
Cast: Josh Levinson, Jessie Klueter, Josephine Huang
Director of Photography: Bryant LiMrean
Music: Hannah Dishman
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 16 - Saturday, August 29: 2:15pm
Where Fools Go
Comedy/Drama 85 minutes
Seven intertwining vignettes, all set within the walls of a single bar, where time bends and memory lingers. A cast of unpredictable, broken, and love-starved characters collide in moments of absurdity, longing, and revelation.
Written/Directed By Barrett DeYoung
Producers: Barrett DeYoung, Benjamin J. Young, Bridger Zadina, Max Fisher, Joshua Opper
Director Of Photography: Ariano Treviño Angelone
Cast: John Conner… Host Shirley Jordan… Suzanne David Chatham… Arthur Kristin Garrison.. Ebeth Gabrielle Young… Jane Ptolemy Slocum… Father William Jurel Kirkland… Derek Jordan Lemmon… Peter Bridger Zadina… Simon Kevin McCorkle… Raymond Brian Hastert… Carter Elion Olson… Man in TV Allison Scagliotti… Her Aidan Moulder.. Henry Emily Vanni… Emma Liam Silbernagel - Will Benjamin J. Young - Nicholas
AUDITORIUM 4
BLOCK 17 - Saturday, August 29: 4:15pm
Tales from the Crypto
Comedy / USA / 93 min.
As the Covid pandemic upends the global economy, a young programmer, Ravi, turns to cryptocurrency trading during the emergence of Uniswap and "DeFi Summer” to save his parents’ farm in India. But in a world rife with scammers, ruggers and naysayers, he finds that trading is much more than he bargained for.
Writer / Director / Producer: Marcus Niehaus
Cast: Aryaan Ohri, Marcus Niehaus, Sadhana Singhal, Anwar Molani
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 18 - Saturday, August 29: 4:30pm
Finding It
Comedy / USA / 74 min.
Minutes before the curtain rises on his debut play, an LA theater maker learns a powerful artistic director may be watching, forcing him to confront his fears of failure while chasing the performance of a lifetime..
Director: Jacob R. Young
Producers: Megan Rosenberry, Chance Lang
Writer: Chance Lang, Jacob R. Young
Cast: Chance Lang, Kory Karam, Vincent Giovanni, Mo Leblanc
AUDITORIUM 4
BLOCK 19 - Saturday, August 29: 6:30pm
Pretty Boys
Drama/Comedy / USA / 18 min.
When a washed-up Hollywood star tries to reboot his dying career, he convinces his estranged son to come out of acting retirement, hoping it will bring them back together.
Director: Sof Puchley
Producers: Matt Edwards, Kealani Kitaura
Writer: Matt Edwards
Cast: Doug Jones, Matt Edwards, Julian Zane
Sunflower Sisters
Drama / USA / 6 mins. 43 secs.
It’s 1933— times are hard and the landscape is rough… especially for two sisters trying to bury a body in the high desert. When the sheriff stumbles upon them, threatening to uncover their secret, tensions run high as the sisters must decide what to do next.
Director: Emily Nicole Hansen
Producers: Emily Nicole Hansen, Aubrey Reynolds, Amy Cosentino, Adam Gibson
Writers: Aubrey Reynolds, Amy Cosentino
Cast: Amy Cosentino, Aubrey Reynolds, Daniel Ballard
West Texas Home
Drama / USA / 15 min.
A new home in West Texas became his savior when he was a teen, but now as an adult, Ben has made a decision that may jeopardize everything he knows.
Director: Gui Agustini
Producers: Jerry Elman, Gui Agustini
Writer: Jerry Elman, Gui Agustini
Cast: Gui Agustini, Kevin
Very Prosperous Men
Horror/USA/22min
In 1962, a struggling door-to-door Bible salesman navigates the haunting consequences of his actions.
Director: Josiah Walker
Producers: Tommy & Dominic Koponen
Writer: Josiah Walker & Josh Oakley
Cast: Dustin Ingram, Scott Subiono, Tim DeZarn, Sharon Sharth, Zarah Mahler, Tanner Hagen, and Larry Cedar
The Veil
Psychedelic / France/Switzerland/Mexico / 7 min.
Magdalena survives an imminent-death experience. The event itself remains unseen. What unfolds is its aftermath.
She moves through landscapes and intimate moments with a heightened awareness that she does not yet understand. Ordinary gestures feel charged. Time loses its usual rhythm. Memories surface unexpectedly, less as recollections than as sensations returning to the body.
As these impressions accumulate, perception begins to shift. The film opens into an inner passage where narrative dissolves and experience takes over. Images arise that belong neither to memory nor dream: a burning car, bodies in transition, organic forms, an animal presence that observes without interruption. Identity thins. Control loosens. Thought gives way to instinct.
This passage unfolds as a surrender rather than a revelation. The structures that once defined Selena quietly collapse, allowing something older and more essential to emerge. The body remembers what the mind cannot articulate.
THE VEIL remains in the space that follows this crossing. It observes the fragile adjustment that comes after such an encounter, when perception stays altered and attention settles into the present. Life continues, outwardly unchanged, yet internally transformed in ways that cannot be reversed.
Director: Maxime Durand
Producers: Theodore Bajard
Writer: Maxime Durand
Cast: Valentina Quiroga, Lorenzo Edwards
Frankslist
Comedy / USA / 15 min.
A simple interview spirals into a nightmare of bizarre encounters and escalating chaos.
[absurdist satire]
Director: Christine Celozzi
Producers: Ming Fen Congdon, Rose Knight, Alexa Frisch
Writer: Christine Celozzi
Cast: Christine Celozzi, Alessandra Levy, Katie Novotny, Mitchell Slan, Rebecca Gomberg
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 20 - Saturday, August 29: 6:45pm
We Want the Virus
Comedy / USA / 82 Minutes
After a blacked out night of drinking, two lifelong friends and struggling actors wake up and realize they raised 22 thousand dollars falsely claiming they had the Coronavirus, and now must go to extreme lengths in order to obtain the virus and collect their cash.
Director: Paul Santoli
Producers: Joshua Libertine, Sterling L. Pope, Kevin Rios, Ray Oddi
Writers: Paul Santoli and Daniel Gualajara
Cast: Paul Santoli, Cody Schultz, Amy Lyndon, Elisabeth Montanaro, Sam Naismith
AUDITORIUM 1
BLOCK 21 - Saturday, August 29: 7pm
The Fox Sisters
Drama / USA / 140 min.
The true story of American sisters who started the spiritualism movement in the midst of the 19th century.
Writer / Director: Wagner de Assis
Producers: Richard Avila, Iafa Britz
Cast: Jamie Hughes, Sionne Elise, Marie McHugh
AUDITORIUM 7
BLOCK 22 - Saturday, August 29: 7:30pm
Quiet After Supper
THRILLER/USA/96 Min.
In the eerie shadows of Los Angeles, a calculating serial killer's quiet life unravels when his childhood friend arrives for a surprise visit.
DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR: Francis Tejada
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Aris Katsoulis, Francis Tejada, Rachel Mullins
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Lonely Rider Productions, in association. with Nectar Inc.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Chris Christiana
CASTING: Tessa Faye Talent
Cast: Bryan Mittelstadt, Laura Cantwell, Emma Reinagel, Del Alan Murphery, Selna Lantry, Stephanie Mieko Cohen, Jack Villhard, Jaime Bartolett
AUDITORIUM 4
BLOCK 23 - Saturday, August 29: 8:45pm
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Miss Matched
Romantic Comedy / USA / 113 min.
After a messy divorce, an architect who believes his rare skin condition makes him undateable hires a quirky matchmaker - sparking a partnership that challenges them both to rewrite their own rules about love.
Director: Jonathan Green
Producers: Darby Barton, Caroline Ellenthal
Writer: Jonathan Green, Darby Barton
Cast: Isa Espy, Jonathan Green, Phillip Andre Botello, Michael Houston, Alex Lovinggood, Leo Chan, Ashley Rowe, Hilary Bryant
AUDITORIUM 3
BLOCK 24 - Saturday, August 29: 9pm
Enough
Drama / USA / 17 min.
After experiencing an ectopic pregnancy a woman has to come to terms with her toxic marriage. Will she break the generational trauma or continue the cycle of abuse?
Director: Denise Borraz Trepat
Producers: Denise Borraz Trepat, David Guthrie
Writer: Denise Borraz Trepat
Cast: Denise Borraz Trepat, Adam Wesley
Anatomy of a Trap
Action / USA / 6:19 min.
When a powerful financier invites a captivating stranger to an exclusive, candlelit dinner, he discovers too late that she has engineered the entire encounter to expose his crimes and bring him down.
Director: Claire Chubbuck
Producer: Ofir Natalie Korsia
Cast: Ofir Natalie Korsia, Wade F. Wilson, Paxton T. Payton, Liam Bradford
HER
Thriller / USA / 10 min.
A two-faced woman who kills abusive men targets a rapist, but when she uncovers his secret, the hunter becomes the hunted. The film ultimately questions whether vigilante justice is born from cruelty or from a system that has failed its victims.
Director: Kris Prihodova
Co-director: Michael Parrella
Producers: Kris Prihodova, Nicolas Gallegos-anda
Writer: Kris Prihodova
Cast: Jake Lesh, Kris Prihodova
Obscura
Psychological Thriller / USA / 14:24 min.
When a revealing article about a photographer is published during a photoshoot, he is forced to confront the consequences of his past.
Director: Santha Rowles
Producers: Santha Rowles, Jamie Leuchs-Curtis, Paige Freeman
Writer: Santha Rowles
Cast: Stephen Sherman, Shanaya Sales, Shaun Holmes
Fashion Model
Horror / USA / 21 min.
When a group of young filmmakers embark on a passion project, their newest cast member brings an eerie presence that begins to unravel the line between anxiety and nightmare.
Director: Jose Escorcia
Producers: Paige Bounassi, Jose Escorcia
Writer: Jose Escorcia
Cast: Yong Yea, Jackie Ho, Jared Crowe, Jason Ha, Ivan Bernal, Vivian Wu
Real Quiet Grove
Western-Horror / USA / 16 min.
Welcome to Real Quiet Grove, home to the lumberjack Michael Orchard and his daughter. But when a new plague appears and the dead start to rise, Michael will have to learn to chop more than wood.
Director: Jacob Peter Smith
Producers: Vincent Catalina, Jordan Laemmlen, Joe Murner, Jacob Peter Smith
Writer: Jacob Peter Smith
Cast: Jordan Laemmlen, Vincent Catalina, Della Atherton, Ozzie Rodriguez, Morgan Kirkpatrick, Colette Freedman, Winter Bassett
Rave
Horror/Comedy / USA / 14 min.
A masked DJ slices and dices his way through an afterparty in the Hollywood Hills.
Directors: Jimmy Gruss & Riley McMahon
Producers: Jimmy Gruss & Riley McMahon
Writers: Jimmy Gruss & Riley McMahon
Cast: Grant Morningstar, Elijah Rashad, Andrew Ferguson, India Darling, Eliot, Dylan Wheatley, Alexis Savides