Saturday, April 6th, 2019
ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE HELD AT
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres
6925 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
BLOCK 1 at 1:30 PM
BY WAY OF GUITAR
Drama ( 10 min ) USA
Directed By: Na Liu
Written By: Jinghui Jia
Produced By: Yunhong Guo
Cast: Billy Zane，Gunnar Sizemore，Joey Cremona
Synopsis: A washed up guitarist faces his music dreams fading until a young boy starts a public guitar competition.
LIVE WELL
Drama ( 15 min ) China, USA
Directed By: Bingyu Jiang
Written By: Bingyu Jiang
Produced By: Bingyu Jiang
Cast: Zhe Zhang, Wenting Wang, Heng Kang, Ying Zhang
Synopsis: Lao Zhang is an unsuccessful artist living on the edge of a metropolis. The burden of financial hardship and aging makes him desperate to secure an opportunity for an exhibition to showcase his work. When he fails to secure referrals from friends and professionals he barely knows, Lao Zhang eventually finds the courage to approach art galleries on his own.
SCRATCH
Comedy, Drama ( 15 min ) USA
Directed By: Sam Shapiro
Written By: Spencer Breindel
Produced By: Alex Golden, Spencer Breindel, Sam Shapiro
Cast: Cameron Lao Gosney, Kathryn Palmer, DeAnne Stewart, Dax Abrams, Julie Reifers, Wendy Lazarus
Synopsis: A young man goes on a self reflective journey to tell the last three women he has slept with that he has herpes, and that they should probably get tested, ASAP.
NOTHING TAKES THE PLACE OF YOU
Drama ( 16 min ) USA
Directed By: Bingcen Li
Written By: Bingcen Li
Produced By: Luman Cleo Zou
Cast: Jay Disney, Louis Dezseran, Hiram A. Murray
Synopsis: A contemporary family drama centers around a father-son relationship, reconnection, and forgiving.
AVA
Drama ( 18 min ) USA
Directed By: Sahvannah Henry
Written By: Sahvannah Henry
Produced By: Andrea Leiva
Cast: Ava Marie Bunn, Jacob Reed, Casey Miller, Veletta Marshall
Synopsis: Evans and his teenage daughter, Ava set out on their journey in a dystopian world where talking is obsolete and human communication is minimal because it comes with a significant cost.
SAN MIGUEL
Drama (21 minsheet ) Mexico, USA
Directed By: Cris Gris
Written By: Cris Gris
Produced By: Carolina Tamez Rodriguez, Paul Rachman, A. J. Gomez, Roberto Niebla
Cast: Melissa Peña Rodriguez, Elva Luz Garcia, Barbara Delgado
Synopsis: In order to heal her grieving mother, Ana, a devout 9-year-old girl, pushes her faith to its limit in hopes of divine intervention.
WHEN THE SHADOW FALLS
Drama ( 17 min ) USA
Directed By: Jeseung Woo
Written By: Marco Arizpe, Jeseung Woo
Produced By:Summer Xinlei Yang
Cast: Arielle Wyatt, Lori Allen Thomas, Charley Rossman
Synopsis: After witnessing the suicide of a passing stranger, Jane becomes haunted by the horrible question: “Could I have done something? When the stranger’s widow comes calling, Jane must face her shadow to find the answer they both need.
SONORA
Drama ( 19 min ) USA
Directed By: Jesse Suchomel
Written By: Ruben Rodriguez
Produced By: William Brinker Simmons
Cast: Max Thayer, Nadine Kostine, James C. Burns, Greg Couet
Synopsis: A veteran hit man named Leo drives his rusty Chevy through the bleak terrain of Nevada’s desert. He is on a mission that was given to him by his mob boss Hunt, a mission that will end in the death of a young girl. After discovering the young girl was part of Hunt’s underage sex trafficking ring, Leo disobeys his orders in an attempt to atone for past sins.
BLOCK 2 at 2:00 PM
I, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Documentary ( 53 min ) France
Directed By: Clara and Julia Kuperberg
Written By: Clara and Julia Kuperberg
Produced By: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
Cast: Narrated by Peter Facinelli
Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks’ life story unfolds with American history and the emergence of the film industry as backdrop. At a time when the country had no self-doubt, Fairbanks represented America with strength and confidence. He married America ́s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford and started United Artists Studio with Pickford, Chaplin, and Griffith. The film is Fairbank’s life in a first person narration.
THE PRETENDER
Documentary ( 53 min ) USA
Directed By: Jim Toscano
Written By:
Produced By: Free Age
Cast: Mike Kunda
Synopsis: Mike Kunda’s life was changed forever when he saw the movie ‘ROCKY’ at age 11. Almost 40 years later Mike and his family struggle to identify where Rocky Balboa ends and Mike begins.
BLOCK 3 at 3:30 PM
Chasing You
Short (14 mins) USA
Directed by: Olivia Layhee
Written by: Olivia Layhee
Produced by: Addison Timlin, Gregory Thomas, Pantera Sarah, Veronica Radaelli
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Addison Timlin, Markus Molinari, Raquel Deriane
Synopsis: An adrift man must fall into the depths of drug abuse to resurrect his past lover, oblivious to the catastrophic consequences.
FAIRYTALE
Drama ( 87 min ) USA
Directed By: Eli Hershko – Director, David Spaltro – Co Director
Written By: Based on Short story by Eli Hershko – No script involved –
Produced By: Eli Hershko, Robert Womack, Sharon Maguire, Verity East, David Spaltro
Cast: Verity East, David Spaltro, Robert Womack, Bec Fordyce, Andre Gauthier
Synopsis: Verity kills a monster and drifts eastward on borrowed time. She meets Bec, another lost & abused soul. Together the girls try to find peace in one another but not for long.
BLOCK 4 at 4:00 PM
CALM DOWN, ANNY
Drama ( 5 min ) USA
Directed By: Huan Cheng
Written By: Huan Cheng
Produced By: Huan Cheng
Cast: Huan Cheng
Synopsis: Anny realizes that sunflowers still grow at night despite her journey and aftermath of an emotional showdown.
ANCHOR BABY
Comedy, Drama (6 min ) USA
Directed By: Shicong Zhu
Written By: Shicong Zhu
Produced By: Samuel Miller
Cast: Jamie C.X. Wang, Jennifer Yun, Rena Wang
Synopsis: A coming-of-age story of a punk teenage mom, Xiaomi, who is an undocumented immigrant from China. While preparing for the birth of her child, she contemplates stealing from a wealthy client at the nail salon where she works.
CLAMS CASINO
Comedy, Drama ( 10 min ) USA
Directed By: Pam Nasr
Written By: Natasha Soto-Albors
Produced By: Jason W Short
Cast: Eloisa Santos, Roma Lopez, Rina Mejia, Sarah Lynne
Synopsis: Can four Latina women whose lives are uniquely interwoven, overcome the barriers of insecurity and find a way to genuinely connect with each other?
VALENCIA
Drama ( 10 min ) Australia
Directed By: Chris Paraskevas
Written By: Chris Paraskevas
Produced By: Chris Paraskevas
Cast: Johna Mae Munoz, Tom Coyne, Peejay Svoboda, Chris Paraskevas
Synopsis: The Actor is in love with The Actress… but she has a boyfriend. The Actor asks The Filmmaker to create a romantic scene for him with The Actress. When the scene plays over and over, The Filmmaker becomes increasingly jealous of their on-screen relationship.
SKINNY GHOST
Comedy ( 16 min ) USA
Directed By: Nicolas Curcio
Written By: Nicolas Curcio
Produced By: Gracie Corapi
Cast: Ben Gust, Brady Richards, Sajel Oh, Larson Rainier, Charlie Hoffman
Synopsis: When two nerdy teens decide to attend a Halloween dance for the first time, they are confronted with young love, bullies, and even their own friendship. Because nothing is spookier than growing up.
BLOCK 5 at 5:30 PM
LIGHT MY FIRE
Drama ( 9 min ) USA
Directed By: Bobb Barito
Written By: Bobb Barito
Produced By: Joe DePasquale
Cast: Ed Moran, Colin Walker, Rosie Benton, Dante Palminteri, Lizzy DeClement
Synopsis: A vengeful father hunts down his daughter’s boyfriend on the Fourth of July.
AN EVENING AT THE DINER
Comedy ( 11 min ) USA
Directed By: Daniel Zagayer
Written By: Hunter Cope & Adam Aseraf
Produced By: Jason Daks
Cast: David Valdes, Jill Galbraith, Jayme Andrews, Jose Rosete, Erica Jean Mungor
Synopsis: Three high school friends, Arthur, Lisa, and Nathan, concoct wild fantasies about an arguing couple seated at a diner booth beside them. The trio entertain imagined scenarios until an unexpected truth is ultimately revealed.
KENSINGTON
Comedy ( 26 min ) USA
Directed By: Matt Ferrucci
Written By: Michael Marc Friedman
Produced By: Alain Uy, Michael Marc Friedman, Matt Ferrucci, Nick Mouyiaris
Cast: Mather Zickel, Michael Marc Friedman, Kim Director
Synopsis: Meet Doug Harper, an Ivy League educated, uptown therapist forced to move his practice to Kensington, the roughest blue collar section of Philadelphia. A place where “therapy” is foreign and the people eat lightning, shit thunder, and sure as hell thrive on confrontation.
BLOCK 6 at 6:00 PM
REMIND ME
Drama ( 8 min ) USA
Directed By: Rachel Chavkin
Written By: Megan Ketch & Alan Petherick
Produced By: Alan Petherick, Megan Ketch, Jeremy O’Keefe, Suza Horvat
Cast: Megan Ketch, Sanjit De Silva, Amy Hill, Isla, Callan Farris
Synopsis: REMIND ME is a poetically fractured meditation about a woman trying to stay connected to herself and her young children as her marriage dissolves. Under the influence and reproached by her increasingly flustered husband, they attempt therapy, but ultimately she finds her voice in a goodbye letter.
UNDONE
Comedy, Drama ( 9 min ) Canada, USA
Directed By: Justine Stevens
Written By: Elma Begovic
Produced By: Elma Begovic
Cast: Elma Begovic, Trey Anderson
Synopsis: A raw look at the unconventional experiences of an immigrant woman, trying to make it as a TV personality in LA.
STALL BOY
Drama ( 10 min ) Canada
Directed By: Luke Toye
Written By: Luke Toye
Produced By: Marissa Schwartz, Luke Toye
Cast: Tomaso Sanelli, Frank Crudele, Michelle Piller
Synopsis: When a germaphobic thirteen-year-old boy grapples with an abusive father at home and relentless bullying at school, he must find the will to overcome his inner turmoil or be consumed by it.
OLYMPIANS
Comedy ( 10 min ) USA
Directed By: Amit Gupta, Meghan Sunder
Written By: Meghan Sunder
Produced By: Marius Haugen, Meghan Sunder, Amit Gupta
Cast: Meghan Sunder, Mel Brooks, Samuel Hunt, Andrew Pifko, Joe Coffey, Tamara Camacho
Synopsis: A dysfunctional family, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Ares adjust to their new lives as immigrants in modern day America. A satirical look through the eyes of Aphrodite in an updating of mythology and absurdist commentary on the events of today’s world.
THE GOLDEN PEOPLE
Drama ( 12 min ) Mexico
Directed By: Victoria Garza
Written By: Victoria Garza
Produced By:Mariana Rodriguez
Cast: Nora Trex
Synopsis: The story of the founder of the Golden People, a movement which claims that one can live without eating by just feeding on sunlight and ultimately reach a higher level as a human being.
THE DIRECTOR’S TREATMENT
Comedy ( 12 min ) USA
Directed By: Heinz Kobernik
Written By: Heinz Kobernik
Produced By: Heinz Kobernik, Victor Deras, Monica Carrasco
Cast: Kelsey Boze, Raghuram Shetty, Devon Barnes, Alejandro Bravo, Amit Gupta
Synopsis: After passionately delivering a TV commercial pitch for a local Indian supermarket, Agnes, a filmmaker from Milwaukee, must find a way to fit into her proposal the colorful requests of the client.
THE WIGHT CHRISTMAS
Dramastrong> ( 30 min ) USA
Directed By: Levi A. Taylor
Written By: Levi A. Taylor
Produced By: Michael Collier, Levi A. Taylor, D.K. Johnston, Jessie Wei
Cast: Matt V. Fernandez, Katie Wallack, Jamie Nelson, Evan Silcox, Bradford James Jackson, Keven T. Bennett, Megan Hellenthal
Synopsis: After their father presumably commits suicide, a dysfunctional family come together for the holidays to unwrap skeletons from their closet.
BLOCK 7 at 7:30 PM
UNORGANIZED CRIME
Drama ( 30 min ) USA
Directed By: Nick Vallelonga
Written By: Kenny D’Aquila & Chazz Palminteri
Produced By: Nick Vallelonga, Mike Hatton, Mark Sherman, Kenny D’Aquila, Chazz Palminteri
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Kenny D’Aquila, Alex Meneses, John Pankow, Carmine Caridi, Lainie Kazan, Colleen Porch, Al Sauchelli Jr., Mike Massimino, Freddie Ganno
Synopsis: Under-appreciated ‘family’ member Gino Corso is finally given an opportunity to prove himself worthy of New York’s fifth largest crime syndicate. What transpires is a dark yet humorous tale of a family seeking common ground, and their internal struggle to remain a family. Their fate will ultimately come down to their ability to count on one another. Even if the best of circumstances plays out, it may not be enough to save all of them.
REBORN
Thriller ( 77 min ) USA
Directed By: Julian Richards
Written By: Michael Mahin
Produced By: Jeannie McGinnis
Cast: Barbara Crampton, Michael Pare, Kayleigh Gilbert, Rae Dawn Chong, Chaz Bono, Monte Markham
Synopsis: A stillborn baby girl is abducted from the hospital by a morgue attendant and brought back to life using electrokinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday she escapes her captor and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of destruction behind her.
BLOCK 8 at 8:00 PM
BLOOD LINE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRIAN DEEGAN
Documentary ( 80 min ) USA
Directed By: Paul Taublieb, Susan Cooper
Written By: Paul Taublieb
Produced By: Paul Taublieb, Susan Cooper, Mitch Covington, Mark Hall, Sam Pontrelli, Brian Deegan, Jason Krutzsch, Tim Reed, Eric Johnson, Stacy Transou
Cast: Brian Deegan, Marissa Deegan, Hailie Deegan, Haiden Deegan, Hudson Deegan, Travis Pastrana, Cameron Steele
Synopsis: In this adrenaline-soaked documentary, we follow the legendary life and career of motocross superstar Brian Deegan, one of the most admired action sports athletes in history, as he transitions from an edgy, gravity-defying rebel to becoming a father to the next generation of motorsports stars.
