ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE HELD AT
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres
6925 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
BLOCK 1 at 1:45 PM
Offense
Student Film
Producer(s): A.J. Moss
Director(s): A.J. Moss
Writer(s): A.J. Moss
Cast & Crew: A.J. Moss
Run Time: 6 minutes
Synopsis: A boy with an obsession to prove himself to be better than his younger but taller brother begins to lead their relationship towards destruction.
Still and Quiet
Student Film
Producer(s): Isabella Morelli
Director(s): Antonina Kerguelen Roman
Writer(s): Isabella Morelli
Cast & Crew: Georgia Nicholas, Loic Suberville, Pepi Streiff
Run Time: 7 minutes
Synopsis: Rae struggles to choose between her plans for her future, or taking care of her mentally ill brother. One day, in her secret getaway spot in an abandoned RV, Rae has an encounter that brings her closer to her decision.
The Moon Thief
Student Film
Producer(s): Xiaoxiong Guo / Jing Wen
Director(s): Xiaoxiong Guo
Writer(s): Xiaoxiong Guo
Cast & Crew: HELEN HAGGERTY / ZACK BOLLA
Run Time: 10 minutes
Synopsis: Space hero Lance returns to childhood hometown to meet his child hood friend Selena. When he finds, he has already become a stranger in Selena’s eyes, Lance leaves the café she runs. Lance leaves Selena a short letter and a small piece of rock he brings from lunar surface. Turns out, Lance dedicates his whole life for space career just for completing his commitment with Selena. The commitment for stealing the moon for her.
Dark Horses
Student Film
Producer(s): Brad Nisbet
Director(s): Jessica Lytton
Writer(s): Jessica Lytton
Cast & Crew: Jack Scott, Audrey Blyde
Run Time: 11 minutes
Synopsis: Dark Horses is the story of two strangers, who are thrown together by an unfortunate mistake and their journey from for to friend.
CXL
Student Film
Producer(s): Anna Powers, Amy Baker
Director(s): Jordan Blazak
Writer(s): Jordan Blazak
Cast & Crew: Daryl Anisfeld, Jersie Joniak
Run Time: 13 minutes
Synopsis: After celebrating her 140th birthday, Martha must come to terms with the reality of death. Sustained by a mobile life support chair, she is pushed to the physical and emotional edge in her journey to feel alive once more.
The Father of Art
Student Film
Producer(s): Fred Macdonald
Director(s): Freddy Macdonald
Writer(s): Freddy Macdonald
Cast & Crew: Wolfram Berger, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Fiona Coope
Run Time: 15 minutes
Synopsis: Dale Schröder (1951- 2029) was a Swiss artist known for creating AI human hybrids using social media platforms. At the insistence of an ambitious art curator, Dale agrees to introduce his work to the general public. Captured by a documentary ‘filmmaker’, the show’s opening night is a disastrous blend of confusion, fear, and revulsion.
Scissor Pass
Student Film
Producer(s): Sam Shapiro, Gabe Waldman, Andy Shapiro
Director(s): Sam Shapiro
Writer(s): Sam Shapiro
Cast & Crew: Zachary Guttman, Sam Shapiro, David H. Littleton, Dion Costelloe, Christopher Snell, Alex Rauter
Run Time: 16 minutes
Synopsis: Ambition and opportunity separate high school hockey teammates, sending one to college and leaving one in a dead-end job, but memories of their glory days lead them both to hard lessons in the importance of friendship and timing, inspired by a true story.
BLOCK 2 at 2:15 PM
Oneself
Student Film
Producer(s): Alfonso Torres & Vicente Manzano
Director(s): Vicente Manzano
Writer(s): Vicente Manzano
Cast & Crew: Jessica Moreno, AJ Garret, Trin Miller.
Run Time: 9 minutes
Synopsis: Dom lives in a near future world where people dating their doppelgängers is now a big trending. His resentment toward this new culture of love will reach an outbreak point when he finds out his sister is now dating her doppelgänger.
Coffee and Cellphones
Short
Producer(s): Natasha Nova
Director(s): Natasha Nova
Writer(s): Darina Sikmashvili
Cast & Crew: K.C. Schlossberg, Charlotte Stoiber, David Gazzo
Run Time: 4 minutes
Synopsis: Coffee & Cellphones is a love letter to the millennial generation disguised as a short comedy series spotlighting our two most beloved addictions: technological devices and caffeine.
The Reason to Live
Student Film
Producer(s): Boyoung Kim
Director(s): Boyoung Kim
Writer(s): Boyoung Kim
Cast & Crew: Ron Kemp
Run Time: 11 minutes
Synopsis: An optimistic, busking musician tells his story about how music has transformed his life from his troubled past and why he can’t give up playing music.
Arsenic
Student Film
Producer(s): Vic Martonne, Nicole Fahel, Nicholas Cunha
Director(s): Vanesa Prieto
Writer(s): Vic Martonne
Cast & Crew: Vic Martonne, Isabelle Menard, Orlando Pineda, Anele Morris, Marilyn Flores
Run Time: 14 minutes
Synopsis: Vivian, an investigative journalist writing a story on a suicide case, meets a stripper named Arsenic/Talula and they begin a troubled relationship marked by lies and delusions.
Fated to Repeat
Student Film
Producer(s): Logan J. Freeman and Amy DePaola
Director(s): Logan J. Freeman
Writer(s): Logan J. Freeman and Sean R. Temple
Cast & Crew: Virginia Newcomb, Ian Hoppe, Charlotte Rea, Micah Rector, Logan J. Freeman, Breely Flower
Run Time: 16 minutes
Synopsis: A musician takes the stage singing for her dead lover’s band. After a meltdown in the middle of their comeback set, she sets out to find the one guest she invited to the show.
Viceroy
Student Film
Producer(s): Stone Taul
Director(s): Stone Taul
Writer(s): Stone Taul
Cast & Crew: Jon Parker, Stone Taul, Haley McCrory
Run Time: 21 minutes
Synopsis: Malcolm and Saul are two brothers living in a motel room together. Malcolm struggles to take care of his mentally challenged brother, Saul, while also dealing with his own sanity.
(Out)caste
Short
Producer(s): Elena Aksenova
Director(s): Shilpi Shikha Agrawal
Writer(s): Shilpi Shikha Agrawal
Cast & Crew: Aurea Jolly, Nandini Minocha, Deepti Gupta
Run Time: 21 minutes
Synopsis: Dasi, a Dalit (“untouchable”) woman, dehydrates while manual scavenging, emptying dry non-flushing outdoor toilets for upper caste villagers. This leaves Amrita, her 11-year-old daughter, to finish this work and pick up where her mother left off.
BLOCK 3 at 4:00 PM
Play Money
Documentary
Producer(s): Anthony Gilmore
Director(s): Anthony Gilmore
Writer(s): None
Cast & Crew: Marcus Eikenberry, Jared Psigoda, Mike Donnelly, Ma Liang, Brock Pierce
Run Time: 87 minutes
Synopsis: “Ten years ago:
A college drop-out, an aging family man, a former Disney child actor, and a self-taught programmer were making millions. Their business model was simple — earn real money by selling virtual objects or services in games like World of Warcraft. It was a gold mine. Until Blizzard Entertainment, the game’s developer, stepped in. Play Money is the untold story between upstart entrepreneurs and big business. Join our misfit pioneers on their extraordinary ride of success and failure that changed the gaming industry forever.”
BLOCK 4 at 4:45 PM
The Lightkeeper
Short
Producer(s): Victor Mazzone, Meg Steedle
Director(s): Zach Bandler
Writer(s): Zach Bandler
Cast & Crew: Meg Steedle, Bruce Davison
Run Time: 16 minutes
Synopsis: Set on a remote stretch of stormy coastline, a hardened young woman agrees to dinner at the home of an aging recluse. Featuring SAG Award nominee Meg Steedle and Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award winner Bruce Davison.
Hunting Lands
Feature
Producer(s): Cory Pyke, Zack Wilcox, Josh Amato, Michael O’Heney
Director(s): Zack Wilcox
Writer(s): Zack Wilcox
Cast & Crew: Marshall Cook, Joe Raffa
Run Time: 83 minutes
Synopsis: A reclusive veteran witnesses a crime decides to take justice into his own hands.
BLOCK 5 at 6:00 PM
#TAKEMEANYWHERE
Documentary
Producer(s): LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner
Director(s): LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner
Writer(s): LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner
Cast & Crew: Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Luke Turner
Run Time: 44 minutes
Synopsis: “In mid-2016, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner embarked on a month-long project to hitchhike the internet, in an artwork commissioned by Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish Institute in London. Each day, the trio posted their coordinates online and waited for a ride. Whoever then appeared could take them anywhere they chose. For the duration of the project, their journey could be tracked in real time at http://take-me-anywhere.net, with their path entirely in the hands of the public.”
The Women who Run Hollywood
Documentary
Producer(s): Julia Kuperberg and Clara Kuperberg
Director(s): Julia Kuperberg and Clara Kuperberg
Writer(s): Julia Kuperberg and Clara Kuperberg
Cast & Crew: Paula Wagner, Robin Swicord, Lynda Obst, Ally Acker, Cari Beauchamp, Sherry Lansing (archive), Lillian Gish (archive), Margaret Booth (archive)
Run Time: 52 minutes
Synopsis: Before 1920 there were more women producers and directors in Hollywood than in the entire history of cinema. Going back over the fascinating careers of these women, from Alice Guy Blaché to Dorothy Arzner, including Lois Weber and Mary Pickford, one discovers with stupefaction a whole gallery of fabulous and passionate pioneers, who between 1910 and 1920 have been of crucial importance in the foundation of Hollywood and the film industry as we know it today. It is them who have directed the first films with a story line, invented color films and even the sound track. And however incredible this might sound today, these pioneers were even better paid than men. And what holds true of all of them? They were women and are forgotten.
BLOCK 6 at 7:00 PM
The Kicking Yoda
Short Documentary
Producer(s): Alfredo Adan Roses
Director(s): Alfredo Adan Roses
Writer(s): Alfredo Adan Roses
Cast & Crew: Doug Blevins
Run Time: 12 minutes
Synopsis: This is the story of Doug Blevins, one of the best kicking football coaches of his time that never kicked a ball in his life.
Becoming Iconic
Documentary
Producer(s): Daniel Herther
Director(s): Neal Thibedeau
Writer(s): n/a
Cast & Crew: Nicolas Cage, FayeDunaway, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Baker, Adrian Lyne, Taylor Hackford, John Badham
Run Time: 90 minutes
Synopsis: BECOMING ICONIC delineates the perilous journey of first time filmmaker Jonathan Baker, narrated both by Jonathan directly and indirectly by Jodie Foster, Adrian Lyne, John Badham and Taylor Hackford, who share wisdom about first-time filmmaking perils. It’s an eccentric journey starting from a boy’s dream.
BLOCK 7 at 8:15 PM
Happy Little Bluebirds
Short
Producer(s): Giovanni Mojica, Sarah Choi
Director(s): Nello DiGiandomenico
Writer(s): Nello DiGiandomenico
Cast & Crew: Sally Kirkland, Jeff Doucette
Run Time: 15 minutes
Synopsis: An elderly couple, struggling with sickness, decide whether they should continue suffering or go out together.
Bedtime Story
Short
Producer(s): Sascha Rasmussen
Director(s): Kevin Alejandro
Writer(s): Adrian Cunningham
Cast & Crew: Patrick Fischler, Tricia Helfer, Natalie Dreyfuss, Henry Simmons, Chris Payne Gilbert, Jessica Lu, Derek Ray
Run Time: 15 minutes
Synopsis: A cash-strapped literary agent hatches a plan to turn a lousy writer into a bestselling author.
Benjamin
Feature
Producer(s): Nicholas Tabarrok
Director(s): Bob Saget
Writer(s): Joshua Turek
Cast & Crew: Bob Saget, Rob Corddry, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Cheri Oteri, Peri Gilpin, Max Burkholder, Clara Mamet, David Hull, Jonny Weston, James Preston Rogers, Lyriq Bent, with Dave Foley, and Kevin Pollak
Run Time: 85 minutes
Synopsis: A family calls in an intervention for Benjamin, their teenage son whom they believe to be hooked on crystal meth. Soon, it becomes clear that those who are confronting Benjamin’s problem also have many problems of their own.
BLOCK 8 at 9:15 PM
Unexpected Discoveries
Animation
Producer(s): Fern
Director(s): James Mabery
Writer(s): N/A
Cast & Crew: N/A
Run Time: 2 minutes
Synopsis: A young fellow finds himself stumbling upon an ordinary flashlight that allows him to explore other places. You never know what is around the corner or what is directly in front of you.
Dr. Mantis: Insect Analyst
Animation
Producer(s): Joe Gugliotti
Director(s): Brandon Mikolaski
Writer(s): Rob Bartlett and Andrew Smith
Cast & Crew: Megan Simard and Rob Bartlett
Run Time: 3 minutes
Synopsis: Be a fly on the wall in the office of the world’s foremost insect analyst, Dr. P. Mantis. As she helps her patient, Fred, a caterpillar, deal with his identity issues. He doesn’t want to be a butterfly, he’s got a much different idea of what his true destiny should be.
KCLOC
Animation
Producer(s): Ninaad Kulkarni
Director(s): Ninaad Kulkarni
Writer(s): Ninaad Kulkarni
Cast & Crew: Christopher Ramirez, Frank Gresham, Pupul Bisht, Emmett Goodman, Paul Medioli, Gonzalo Janer, Ritwik Deshpande
Run Time: 3 minutes
Synopsis: “Even a broken clock is right twice in a day”, a quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach stood as a strong inspiration for the young filmmaker Ninaad Kulkarni, who spent 8 months exploring and developing a 3 minute animated documentary film called ‘KCLOC’. Ninaad conducted over 60 interviews in New York and Mumbai with individuals from different walks of life to understand their perceptions of time. In this documentary, that features 10 selected interviews, Ninaad gathers these complex ideas to create a unique cinematic experience which leaves the audience questioning their own ideas of time. Time can be haunting, fleeting, limiting or liberating. It is both relative and cruel. Time conditions us, keeps us in motion and is a gauge of our mortality. But, what does time mean to you?
Paddleball Hole
Animation
Producer(s): Keith Cantrell
Director(s): Keith Cantrell
Writer(s): Keith Cantrell
Cast & Crew: Jace Hiro, Allie Eibeler, Cam Glass, Monica Bryant
Run Time: 3 minutes
Synopsis: Two animated characters discover a portal from their world to Santa Monica Beach, where they cross paths with two real-life beachgoers.
Your Face Global Jam
Animation
Producer(s): Ken Mora, Bella Fe Media
Director(s): Ken Mora
Writer(s): Maureen McElheron, Bill Plympton
Cast & Crew: Ken Mora, Mike Schneider, Christophe Lopez-Huici, Dominic Polcino, Jerry “Fooksie” Fuchs, Pablo Rodriguez, Bouman, Seth Nicholas Johnson, George Ward, Kevin Sean Michaels, Jaime Rodriguez, Bryce Hallett, Claudia Ruiz, Anthony Amos, Taylor Armstrong, Mike Storey, Miguel Otálora, Dani Bowman, Jaki Rosser, Mauricio Vargas, Merle Koch, Becks Wallace, Danny Madden
Run Time: 4 minutes
Synopsis: “In 1987, Bill Plympton, now heralded as “”The King of Indie Animation”” was nominated for an Oscar for his debut hand-drawn animated short film “”Your Face.””
For 2017, animators around the world came together for the 30th anniversary of that nomination to ‘Jam’ this historic milestone and celebrate his worldwide influence”
Fishy
Animation
Producer(s): Joseph Sulsenti
Director(s): Joseph Sulsenti
Writer(s): Joseph Sulsenti
Cast & Crew: Amanda Lepore, Arnaud Spanos
Run Time: 7 minutes
Synopsis: Stranded at sea from a devastating ship wreck, a sailor is saved in more ways than one when accompanied by a drag queen mermaid.
The Wayward Kite
Animation
Producer(s): Yaju Hsieh
Director(s): Yuting Hsueh
Writer(s): Yuting Hsueh
Cast & Crew: No Cast
Run Time: 8 minutes
Synopsis: An untethered kite flees to the city where the setbacks and wounds make it grow, change, and realize its real inner goal to fight for.
NORA
Animation
Producer(s): MO DAVOUDIAN ALI DONOVAN TAMMY HOLGUIN
Director(s): MO DAVOUDIAN FARZAD VARAHRAMYAN
Writer(s): MO DAVOUDIAN FARZAD VARAHRAMYAN
Cast & Crew: N/A
Run Time: 13 minutes
Synopsis: The last of a secret element was stolen from the old city. A pair of hot-shot pilots are sent to retrieve it but they are forced into becoming the unwilling heroes once the secret of the element is revealed to them.
