Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Opening Night
ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE HELD AT
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres
6925 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
ADINA E-CHANGING
Drama (4 min) Israel
Directed By: Yoni Goodman
Written By: Yoni Goodman
Produced By: Adina Even Zohar
Synopsis: A young girl runs away from home, feeling the need to escape the pain in her world. Not knowing where her path will take her, she heads out on a journey of self-discovery.
BRISTLED
Comedy ( 5 min ) USA
Directed By: Scott Farrell
Written By: Scott Farrell
Produced By: Scott Farrell
Cast: Scott Farrell
Synopsis: After countless blind dates, Bernard swears that his next date will be the one. But could her flaw be too much for him to overcome? Bristled is a hand drawn comedic short film that deals with the way we perceive others as well as ourselves.
GOD I NEED A GIRLFRIEND
Animation ( 5 min ) USA
Directed By: Stefan Janoski
Written By: Stefan Janoski
Produced By: Stefan Janoski Jessica janoski
Cast: Adam
Synopsis: A darkly humorous musical stop motion film giving the background to Stefan Janoski’s sculpture of the same name.
GOLDEN AGE
Animation ( 5 min ) Canada
Directed By: Anthony Di Ninno
Written By: Anthony Di Ninno
Produced By: Hasmi Ferguson, Bert Van Brande
Cast: Jordan Vanderzalm, Johanna Wagstaffe, Maximilian Lundberg
Synopsis: A superhero returns home from a long day at work to have a conversation with his one true love. His own image.
SUBSTANCE
Animation ( 6 min ) USA
Directed By: Jamaal Bradley
Written By: Bruce W. Smith
Produced By: Jamaal Bradley, Bruce W. Smith, Ken Birdwell, Nicole Weinstein, Amid Amidi
Synopsis: Based on true events, two brothers battle over the future of the family, but it will be a young girl who will change her father’s SUBSTANCE and the fate of generations.
FEARLESS
Animation ( 5 min ) USA
Directed By: Thiago Micalopulos
Written By: Thiago Micalopulos
Produced By: Carolina Romano, Thiago Micalopulos
Synopsis: Somewhere in the Peloponnese, thousands of years ago, a vigilante driven by haunting memories faces a relentless foe. Still struggling with her fears, a violent tale of redemption unfolds. Some things are not meant to be kept buried.
NIGHT LIGHT
Animation ( 8 min ) USA
Directed By: Yamiset Trujillo, Jane Suarez
Written By: Jo Anne Adams, University of Central Florida
Synopsis: A wide-eyed, newborn sea turtle named Fin finds itself on the illuminated beaches of Miami. It is a perilous time to be a hatchling, with hazards of artificial light and debris present at every turn. With the help of Abueluna, his caring, celestial guide, Fin will make the daring trek from his cluttered nest to the open seas.
OBON
Animation ( 15 min ) Germany
Directed By: André Hörmann, Samo (Anna Bergmann)
Written By: André Hörmann
Produced By: André Hörmann, Christian Vizi
Synopsis: Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima but in the midst of total destruction she finds a moment of happiness.
SARGASSO
Crime Drama (90 mins) USA
Directed By: Adam Sigal
Written By: Adam Sigal
Produced By: Marc Clebanoff, Andrew Vogel, Zac Weinstein, Carol Anne Watts
Cast: Jeremy Sumpter, Tom Berenger, Richard Portnow, Amber Sweet, Presley Moore, Jim Meskimen, Charlie Talbert & Graham McTavish
Synopsis: A young private investigator, cutting his teeth on the streets of Los Angeles, tows the line between danger and heartbreak as he tries to help the woman he is investigating to commit fraud in order to get the money he needs to help his sick mother.
GOLDEN GIRL
Drama ( 13 min ) Germany, France
Directed By: Chiara Fleischhacker
Written By: Manuel Ostwald
Produced By: Karl Heidelbach
Cast: Anaïs Mauri aka Baby Girl Naab, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Lassina Nebo aka Naab, Florence Branger
Synopsis: 14-year-old Céline sits in front of her father’s camera for a perfect photo. She is beautifully done up, but how long can she hide her emotional world? Is this really her or is it a mask her father makes her wear at every shoot?
THE MILK BOTTLE
Drama ( 13 min ) UK
Directed By: Saul Lotzof
Written By: Saul Lotzof
Produced By: Saul Lotzof
Cast: Oliver Ebsworth, Declan Cooke
Synopsis: A young boy’s life is changed forever on a seemingly innocent pheasant hunt.
BINI
Drama ( 20 min ) USA
Directed By: Erblin Nushi
Written By: Erblin Nushi
Produced By: Lisa Thrasher
Cast: Lurni Krasniqi, Artiola Hamdiu, Fjolla Nushi, Eshref Durmishi, Armond Morina, Elena Shoshi, Florentina Ademi
Synopsis: At the outbreak of the Kosovo War, six year old Bini is only thinking about his most prized possession, a piece of candy. When suddenly he and his family are packed into a crowded truck and faced with life threatening obstacles, Bini learns that candy may not be the only thing of value he loses that day.
CATTLE
Drama ( 20 min ) Australia
Directed By: Kerinne Jenkins
Written By: Kerinne Jenkins
Produced By: Katie Amos
Cast: Ella Picker, Georgie Statham
Synopsis: On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about their mother’s cancer, but an unexplained death in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone looking for answers.
GUION
Drama ( 21 min ) Canada
Directed By: Sagi Kahane-Rapport
Written By: Adam Madrzyk, Sagi Kahane-Rapport
Produced By: Dominik Haake, Jake Manley, Sagi Kahane-Rapport, Adam Madrzyk
Cast: Emmanuel Kabongo, Thamela Mpumlwana, Neil Whitely, Olunike Adeliyi, Dion Johnstone, Walter Borden, Arlene Duncan
Synopsis: A short narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford who grapples with the reality of becoming the first African American man in space.
HARD RUBBISH
Drama ( 11 min ) Australia
Directed By: Stephen Packer
Written By: Michael Beck
Produced By: Adam Camporeale
Cast: Daniel Cropley, David Griffiths, Marko Siklich, Rory Bird, Nigel Tripodi, Cathy Adamek
Synopsis: While vandalizing a private girls’ high school late at night, image conscious 15 year old Simon & his friends are caught off guard by a gang of the very people they are trying to emulate.
WILL “THE MACHINE”
Drama ( 14 min ) USA
Directed By: Kent Lamm
Written By: Chris Fornataro & Kent Lamm
Produced By: Kent Lamm, Chris Fornataro, John Trefry, James Mitchell
Cast: Chris Fornataro, Denzel Whitaker, Sky Soleil, Phil Tyler
Synopsis: Will “The Machine” Vaughn’s obsessive discipline has made him the top high school football recruit in the country at the cost of everything else in his life. Set in the former capital of the Confederacy, we follow Will on a typical day of training in the Richmond, Virginia winter. Soon a new kid in town challenges Will by effortlessly beating him in a race. As their rivalry heats up, Will must choose between making a friend, or crushing his competition.
DEAR CHICKENS
Comedy, Drama ( 15 min ) Mexico, Switzerland, USA
Directed By: Mauro Mueller
Written By: Mauro Mueller, Jennie Allen
Produced By: Björn Hering, Timon Birkhofer, David Figueroa García, Mauro Mueller
Cast: Philip Baker Hall, Kerris Dorsey, Linda Park, James Eckhouse
Synopsis: When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms.
CAROUSEL
Drama ( 28 min ) USA
Directed By: Joseph Morgan
Written By: Persia White and Joseph Morgan
Produced By: Persia White, Joseph Morgan
Cast: Joseph Morgan, Persia White, Robert Knepper
Synopsis: A man escapes death and returns to the small town he grew up in. Forced to face the consequences of what he left behind, he attempts to make things right before fate catches up with him.
TONY
Drama ( 35 min ) France
Directed By: Hugo Diego Garcia
Written By: Hugo Diego Garcia
Produced By: Hugo Diego Garcia, Pietro Mercieca, Malo Garcia & Jordon Evrard
Cast: Hugo Diego Garcia, Lorenzo Bentivoglio, Pietro Mercieca, Malo Garcia, Wilfried Capet, Vincent Fabiani
Synopsis: It is the 1980’s, France, where Tony, a young third-generation Spaniard immigrant, who is a rebel with a heart of gold, fights for a life he desires despite an abusive and violent father controlling his every move. He bonds with a group of reckless immigrant outcasts from the street that he sees a family. Is the path he is embarking on going to lead him to a dark and uncertain future?
HIDDEN BLUEPRINTS: THE STORY OF MIKEY
Documentary ( 16 min ) USA
Directed By: Jeremy Lee MacKenzie
Written By: Jeremy Lee MacKenzie
Produced By: Aron Meinhardt, Julie Pacino, Mike Jacobs
Cast: Sam Burriss, Matthew O’Thompsonski, Maeli Rutherford, Oliver Rutherford, Jeremy Lee MacKenzie
Synopsis: A hybrid short documentary detailing the history and creation of a collection of wood-scrollwork that was designed and hidden in prison and the story of Mikey, a champion fighting mantis who won all of its fights, only to become an enduring myth after being martyred in a corporate prison riot.
GUEST ARTIST
Comedy, Drama ( 75 min ) USA
Directed By: Timothy Busfield
Written By: Jeff Daniels
Produced By: Melissa Gilbert, Timothy Busfield, Jeff Daniels, Michael A. Alden, Donald Clark, Michael Ferdie, Alyssa Loveall, Michael Lohmann
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Thomas Macias, Erika Slezak, Richard McWilliams
Synopsis: A young man comes face to face with his hero (Jeff Daniels) and explores the tangled relationship between dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
LOST IN CARRANZA
Drama ( 23 min ) France
Directed By: Marin Troude
Written By: Marin Troude
Produced By: Hell It’s Paradise, Born Wild Agency, Bon Enfant Production
Cast: Pablo Carranza
Synopsis: Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love.
THE FABULOUS CHI ALI
Documentary ( 68 min ) USA
Directed By: Tom Colabraro
Written By: Tom Colabraro
Produced By: Versus Productions
Cast: Chi Ali, Fat Joe, De La Soul, Dres, Sadat X, DITC Crew, Mike G
Synopsis: In the greatest era of hip hop, a ten-year-old prodigal son named Chi-Ali is chosen to become the greatest artist that hip hop has ever seen. As fame, money, and pressure takes over, he finds himself turning to the streets with a decision that will forever change his life, and alter the history of hip hop.
SCRAP
Drama ( 15 min ) USA
Directed By: Leena Pendharkar
Written By: Vivian Kerr
Produced By: Sapna Gandhi, Vivian Kerr, Leena Pendharkar
Cast: Vivian Kerr, Anthony Rapp, Elizabeth Ho, Stephanie Drake, John Billingsley, Skylar Hill
Synopsis: After getting fired, Beth, a young single mom finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother Ben.
CARETAKERS
Thriller (89 min) USA
Directed By: Elias Talbot & George Loomis
Written By: George Loomis
Produced By: Ann Tomberlin, George Loomis, Brittany Christine, Trevor Christie, Heidi Selexa
Cast: Christopher Cousins, Vivica A. Fox, George Loomis, Natalija Nogulich, Angell Conwell, Mark Moses, Nick Airus, Missi Pyle
Synopsis: A young medical student finds himself entrenched in a web of intrigue when he’s sent to care for the former US Ambassador to Syria. Christopher Cousins, Vivica A. Fox and Missi Pyle co-star in Loomis’ suspenseful thriller.
THE OTHER
Drama ( 9 min ) USA
Directed By: Shilpi Roy
Written By: Brittani Noel
Produced By: Brittani Noel, Nikolette Noel, Leah McKendrick, Stacie Theon
Cast: Brittani Noel, Nikolette Noel, McKenna Roberts, Brent Bailey, DeJean Brown, Carissa Bazler, Sarah Bazler, Jayden Scala, Monte Lamonte
Synopsis: A woman’s struggle with her multiracial identity gets seriously twisted in this dramedy short film.
PRINCESS OF THE ROW
Drama (85 min) USA
Directed By: Van Maximilian Carlson
Written By: A. Shawn Austin, Van Maximilian Carlson
Produced By: A. Shawn Austin, Edi Gathegi
Cast: Edi Gathegi, Tayler Buck, Ana Ortiz, Jacob Vargas, Martin Sheen
Synopsis: The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her father… a homeless, mentally ill veteran who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row.
CAMPFIRE ALPHA
Thriller ( 15 min ) USA
Directed By: Alex Breaux
Written By: Alex Breaux
Produced By: Grit + Grind
Cast: Daniel Abeles, Alex Breaux, Jimmie JJ Jeter, Babak Tafti
Synopsis: Survival of the fittest.
LIMBO
Comedy, Drama ( 90 min ) USA
Directed By: Mark H. Young
Written By: Mark H. Young
Produced By: Brett Kerr, John Landolfi, Lena Roklin, Christos C. Bitsakos, Mark H. Young
Cast: Lucian C. Collier, Lew Temple, Scottie Thompson, Richard Riehle, Peter Jacobsen, James Purefoy
Synopsis: A murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney.
WAITING GAME
Drama ( 24 min ) USA
Directed By: Jon Bloch
Written By: Jon Bloch
Produced By: Ryan Scaringe, George Horton, Jon Bloch, Amy Lippens
Cast: Bruce McGill, John Patrick Amedori, Dilshad Vadsaria, Roger Cross
Synopsis: Kenny puts his life on hold to return home and take care of his ailing father, Mel. After Mel accidentally has a near death experience one night, Kenny realizes his time to connect with his father is limited. Kenny endures the constant berating and criticisms, as Mel tries to drive his son out of the house in order to die with dignity and end his suffering. Can Kenny let his father go or will he continue sacrificing his future as his father’s health continues to decline?
AUGGIE
Drama ( 81 min ) USA
Directed By: Matt Kane
Written By: Matt Kane & Marc Underhill
Produced By: Marc Underhill, Matt Kane, John Henry Hinkel, Robert Sharman
Cast: Richard Kind, Susan Blackwell, Christen Harper, Simone Policano with Larisa Oleynik
Synopsis: Forced into an early retirement, Felix (Richard Kind) falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter.
