Welcome to the
International Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival.
We know how hard it is to get out there and be noticed. That's why we're here to help. We are looking for filmmakers and screenwriters with visionary ideas. We screen local, national, and international films.
See these pearls selected this year!
VOTE for BEST FILM or VIDEO and BEST SCRIPT FEB 6-7, 2021
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Note. Not all films and scripts are available for viewing.
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Official Selection. Films and Videos.
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The Death of Guillem
Director Carlos Marques-Marcet in Feature Film Spain 01:34:00 Guillem Agulló i Salvador was killed by a stab in the heart by a group of neo-Nazis on April 11, 1993. Destroyed, his parents, Guillem and Carme, will fight so that the death of their son is not manipulated and considered the fruit of a simple gang fight. The road, full of obstacles, threats, and a dirty media war, is about to destroy the family, which will have to learn to mourn for the death of a son while fighting for his memory, which gradually becomes the symbol of a cause that they would never have thought to lead. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/463584129 |
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If I were president
Directors Andrea Arteaga Cote, Andrei Ramos Puerto in Short Doc Mexico 8:05The women of Tahdziú, Yucatán speak about their right to vote as indigenous women, they demand to be heard and taken into account in the decision-making of the community, where they have been despised because of the macho traditions and corrupt political parties. They get organized and speak about how to educate the next generations so there is gender equality and the voices of women are heard and respected. (TAHDZIÚ-MÉRIDA, MX 2019) |
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Third Base
Director Katt Gilcrease in Short Film (any genre) United States 39:05 A young girl meets a homeless ex baseball player. The common bond of their love for baseball brings them close together. Then tragedy strikes… WATCH ON VIMEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3lIHuWlos |
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Everything Pizza
Director David Amberg in Animation United States 2:21 A bear orders too much pizza. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/437462931 Password: pizzaparty |
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Year One
Director Erin Bagwell in Short Doc United States 30:56 Year One is a short documentary about the first year of motherhood, identity, and overcoming postpartum depression. |
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KIM IL SUNG's Children
Director Deog Young Kim in Feature Doc Korea, Republic of 01:25:00 Children who were shaped by Kim Il-Sung's ideal instead of Stalin’s. From 1950 to 1953 One hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. Children who were shaped by Kim IL Sung's ideals, instead of Stalin's. Their lives remained unknown by the rest of the world until now. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/446303976 password: 2020 |
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Bree and Lyndsey are Actors
Directors Lyndsey Frank, Bree Helders in Super Short Comedy United States 10:07 Set in Hollywood, California, "Bree and Lyndsey are Actors" is a satirical comedy short that follows two thirty somethings prepping for a big audition that might be out of their acting range. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/422506347 Password: B&L2021 |
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A Yearning: If only the war never happened
Director Jihoon Kang in Short Film (any genre), Animation Korea, Republic of 4:02While preparing for my entry, I couldn’t help but find myself interested in learning about the causalities of war and especially how women were affected in the aftermath. The women of war fall victim to cruel and unusual abuse not only physically, but maybe even deeper, mentally. Before diving deeper into this topic, I had a vague and minimal picture of what had actually happened to women in the war, but once I had both feet in, and I learned the wicked deeds done to these women, I could not help but stopping myself for a moment and balling my eyes out. The physical and mental suffering did not end once the peace treaties were signed, instead those wounds deepened and became scars that the female victims had to live with for the rest of their lives in constant reminder in every moment going forward similar to PTSD found in soldiers. Studying more, I found myself wondering what these women’s lives might have looked like if their innocence and future were still intact had not been snuffed out in front of their eyes with no other choice left to be found. Through my animation, I recreate a world where these women victims would have lived happily with their families and have the chance to pursue their own dreams in life. I felt that this was the least I could do in order to shed light and recognition into the lives of the victims and to encourage and cheer them to continue to stay strong and make sure they know without a shadow of a doubt that they not to blame for what happened to them. Moving forward, female victims of warring countries should be further assisted and recognized in order to reduce the occurrence of these events in current warring countries and wars going future. By better learning about the devastating effects war has on mankind and its future generations, we must avoid going to war at all costs as much as possible. The structure of my animation is organized so that the image of a grandma is the starting point of reference and a reverse-chronological order of events takes place highlighting the hardships bared during their lifetime up until the point of the war when they fell victim. Then the animation continues in a chronological order of events highlighting what type of life she might have lived out in this fictitious world. Using the subjunctive of “what if,” I was able to better illustrate and organize my thoughts into this animation. |
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Kiss the Ground
Directors Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell in Feature Doc United States 01:25:00 Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle. This movie is positioned to catalyze a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species future. |
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Smashing through Grief
Director Dan Fowlks in Short Doc United States 11:30 The artist behind making a life sized Hulk that was on the red carpet for FanX. |
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Flush Lou
Director Madison Stewart Leonard in Super Short Comedy United States 8:31 A daughter, mother and grandmother mourn the loss of their beloved, Lou Ackerly after he is accidentally cremated. |
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Adelina
Director Rita Krasniqi in Short Film (any genre) Kosovo 15:12 After convincing his friends to perform in their Drag outfits at a night club owned by a very homophobic businessman, things go awry when their performance is stopped suddenly by a wardrobe malfunction and their true identities are revealed, putting all their lives in instant peril. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/428745035/06776594b0 |
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Resisting the Genocide - The Indigenous Struggle in Brazil
Director Lucca Messer in Short Doc Brazil 4:00The genocide of the indigenous peoples of Brazil began when the Portuguese colonised the country back in the 1500s. Today, with ultra conservative policies put in place by president Jair Bolsonaro, and his party PSL, indigenous communities are mobilising to resist against policies that seek to weaken, and potentially wipe communities off the map. I headed to the Piaçaguera indigenous land, located only an hour and a half from São Paulo - Latin America's biggest city -, with a camera and a microphone to listen firsthand to what the community had to say. The indigenous struggle against Brazil's far-right policies isn't to be taken for granted. On a daily basis, indigenous people from Piaçaguera are not only threatened by big corporations that attempt to suspend the official indigenous land demarcation to put forward commercial plans, they're also threatened by civilians who physically and verbally abuse members of the tribes. A behavioural trend that seems to have been galvanised by Bolsonaro's hate rhetoric. As of the beginning of the year, his government has taken the responsibility for indigenous land demarcation away from FUNAI, the Indigenous affairs department, and giving it to the Agriculture Ministry, opening up room for their land to more easily exploited. However, the people from Piaçaguera - and all indigenous communities across Brazil - stand together to preserve their rights and traditions in the current scenario. |
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Finding the Strength to Heal
Director Michael Boctor in Short Film (any genre), Short Doc, Experimental United States 10:39 Using a research study performed by PhD Laura Sinko, this film shares the healing journeys of four anonymous survivors of sexual assault. The study aimed to identify individual and contextual influences of trauma healing for undergraduate survivors of unwanted sexual experiences. Dr. Sinko interviewed 24 women and collected photos of their "healing" and "negative" moments. We hired actresses to read their interview transcripts and reenact moments inspired by the photos collected |
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Particles
Director Josh Beck in Short Film (any genre) United States 6:30 Stephanie is in the desert and she wants to get home. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/487936120 |
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Barbell Snatch
Director Matthew B. W. Sheehan in Animation United States 1:20 The Barbell Snatch is an Olympic-style weight lifting move, which many people think of as just a big man lifting a big thing in the air. But I think of it as a combination of beauty and explosive power. A true test of raw strength, where an athlete lifts the heaviest weight possible, sometimes three times their own body weight, off the ground and above their head in one movement. If done correctly, the athlete receives three weight circles, letting them know they have done it. |
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Claire
Directors Nick Reed, Ryan Azevedo in Short Doc United States 39:36 Claire Wineland inspired millions of people through her popular YouTube channel, where she chronicled her battle with cystic fibrosis and helped “dignify people who are sick.” Claire was a best-selling author and activist who has had over thirty-five surgeries, has died and been brought back to life and has spent thousands of hours alone in a hospital room pondering the meaning of life. In this film, Claire reveals how anyone can create a beautiful life despite their circumstances. |
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The Concert of Life
Director Lina Li in Short Film (any genre) United States 12:08 Steven is a poor young boy who loves music, but harsh life, especially his needy family, forced him to face reality. He has to do different jobs to supplement the family income. However, he never loses hope. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/333274655 |
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Mime Your Manners
Directors Kate Namowicz, Skyler Porras in Animation United States 3:20 An arrogant man berates a mime. As a consequence, he is transformed into a mim |
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The Organized Life
Directors Patrick Yu Wang, Nguyet Nghi Duong in Animation United States 2:29 "The Organized Life" is a 3D animated short film that presents the relationship between mother and son through the son solving the issue of not being able to control himself from organizing everything in life. |
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Napo
Director Gustavo Ribeiro in Short Doc Brazil 16:28 John, unable to understand the illness that drives his grandfather between past and present states, stumbles into an old album full of photographs and then let the images guide his imagination, transforming his grandpa's memories into drawing interpretations. Drawings that shapes their relationship into a history of remembrance and memory building. |
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The Train to Qinling
Director Shir Baron in Animation United States 2:30 A Middle-Eastern traveler gets lost on a train in China with no one else but a Panda! She must learn to communicate with him in order to find the adventure she was looking for in an unexpected way. |
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Momma
Director William Rouse in Short Film (any genre) United States 4:40 When a young boy forgets to do his chores, he must deal with the consequences. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/419982429 |
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Dance Until She Died
Director Tyler J. French in Short Film (any genre) United States 10:00 An apprehensive painter confronts the added stress of living in isolation, and losing her trusted scapegoat- time. |
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WAY BACK
Director Per Kasch in Short Film (any genre) South Africa 3:18 It is a coincidental discovery that tears a broke private detective out of his daily routine and turns his life upside down. He embarks on a search into the past to change his future. |
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SPOON
Director Victor Velasco in Short Film (any genre) United States 4:35 In the city, a business man walks to work on a Monday morning when he's interrupted by a junkie-like kid who asks him: Do you want some soup? |
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SOMNIA
Director Marvin Bogatsch, Peter Neugebauer in Short Film (any genre) Germany 21:00 Two young female friends, Maja and Charly, use a new method to experience lucid dreaming by combining an exotic pill with musical sounds. Maja is excited and looses herself in the other world, because she finds herself and her hidden desires in it. |
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SOMEONE GOOD WILL FIND YOU
Director Leelila Strogov in Short Film (any genre) 08:40 United States A well-intentioned Chinese immigrant father tries to teach his son, David, how to “make it” in America. When David becomes enamored by a Superman costume in a store window, his father sees an opportunity to impart to him the importance of hard work, thrift, and delayed gratification. But when the time comes for David to reap the rewards of his efforts, it turns out that the lessons he’s learned transcend those his father intended. Revealing the human capacity for connection, compassion, and sacrifice, Someone Good Will Find You is a story about the lessons parents try to teach their children, and the unintended ones children learn on their own. |
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REA
Director Joanna Bielinski in Short Film (any genre) Germany 22:50Oliver Helfrich and his wife Rea lead a family life dominated by violence and psycho terror – in the middle is their baby son Jonas. Oliver works on a promising project at his job, while Rea is in nostalgia and depression at home. Oliver decides to take their baby to work. From then on, Rea makes him even more reproaches and feels disrespected as a woman and as a failure in her mother’s role. Rea harasses Oliver in the office with telephone terror. At home she uses physical violence against him. Oliver is criticized by his boss that he should "pull himself together like a man" and get the situation under control. After Rea’s fake suicide attempt, it comes to an escalation. When the police arrives at the apartment, the evidence is determined by outdated gender roles. |
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PALERMO
Director Thomas Tröger in Short Film (any genre) Austria 37:00 PALERMO is the story of an unconditional love of a young father for his son and his desperate life-struggle in the outskirts of a small town. The film shows a frightening powerlessness in life and a never-abandoned hope that everything is going to change sometime. |
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O.I.
Director N'cee van Heerden in Short Film (any genre) Canada 18:00 Chris revisits the Tiki bar where he made his first ever deal. He wants to celebrate the biggest deal he's ever made by drinking down memory lane. It is early morning and there is only one other customer, Barry, and the Barman. Barry is drinking to forget and is in no mood to celebrate anything. Only Chris' offer of free drinks for a week if he can't solve Barry's problems makes Barry change his mind. Barry has a unique problem. He came up with a truly original idea. And he is the only one immune to it. Chris doesn't believe a word of it and is determined to prove Barry a liar and win the bet. |
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I AM MACKENZIE
Director Artemis Anastasiadou in Short Film (any genre) United States 19:43 Caught among toxic masculinity, a sequin dress and a teenage crush, a teen skater, growing up in rural Texas, will have sex for the first time in the back of their dad’s truck. I am Mackenzie is a short coming of age drama about adolescence and the feeling of not belonging; the feeling of being an alien to your home, your peers, your body, your gender. It is a story about rushing towards love, and making mistakes; a story about finding the courage to look honestly at yourself. |
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HOT CHOCOLATE
Director David Hay in Short Film (any genre) New Zealand 16:51 Maddie and her 8-year-old sister Nina drive to Maddie’s student flat. Nina Stays in the car while Maddie heads inside to grab a few things so they can have a sleepover at the family home. Inside the garage, Maddie discovers the body of Alex: one of her flatmates. He has killed himself with the fumes from his car. She tries hold herself together and deal with the situation without alerting Nina who is just a few metres away, separated only by the garage wall. Maddie makes a series of phone calls: to the ambulance, her boyfriend, Alex’s sister and finally, his father. Maddie heads back to the car and drives away. The whole episode took only a few minutes and Nina suspects nothing. |
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BONBON - DAS MUSICAL
Director Daniel Meier in Short Film (any genre) Germany 19:24 Dazzling, extravagant and bloody: In ‘Sweet but deadly - The Musical’, ‘Hairspay’ meets ‘Sweeney Todd’. When JUSSEL MEYER, a child model of a famous candy brand suffocates while choking on a candy it calls for a new casting to find the next commercial face. While the whole town is preparing for the upcoming audition, PATRICIA, Jussels former nanny pursues a different plan: She wants to prevent at any cost that someone else fills her protégés shoes. However, when the highly influential casting director CLEMENS WINTER tries to impede her plans, she is ready to take all necessary measures to reach her goal. |
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BABY
Director Thais Drassinower in Short Film (any genre) United States 14:00 An unnerving encounter with her estranged father at a night club while on a weekend back home in Lima is enough to remind Lía (19) that there are unhealed wounds. She will be forced to understand that the only person who can take care of her now is herself. |
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AURORITA OF MY EYES - AURORITA DE MIS OJOS
Director Natalia Chinchilla in Short Film (any genre) Colombia 23:17 Raul lost his mind. Aurorita, the love of his life had left him without saying a word. Six months later, chance will make them run into each other again. Together, they will both begin a trip through Cundinamarca countryside, which all in just one day they will find out their love’s destiny. |
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RETRATOS DE MI MADRE - PORTRAITS OF MY MOTHER
Director Tavo Ruiz in Short Doc Mexico 11:11 This is a documentary about my mother and the moment that changed her life. Through her narration, my mother confesses to me what she remembers from the moment she was raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars that these events leave in a person's life. |
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FRAM
Director Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Raekallio in Short Doc Finland 28:00 How far would you go to pursue an idea? Why do we do incredibly difficult things that have no practical application? Is there a parallel between geographic and artistic exploration? Fram is a documentary and travel film about two friends journeying to the end of the earth, in order to make a dance film in the polar wilderness of Svalbard. En route, they explore the history of our ideas of the Arctic, along with the grand questions of life, art and our place in the world. Sharing their love of discovering new geographic and artistic frontiers, choreographer-dancer-filmmakers and outdoor enthusiasts Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio take the viewer on a unique and engaging journey to a place where few have been – and even fewer have danced. |
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SYNCHRONICITY
Director Michelle Brand in Animation United Kingdom 3:47 People come, people go - Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see. The film explores the idea of how everyone is connected in a way we may not realise. By sharing time, space and movement, we overlap and create a bigger picture. |
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LE SONGE DE B. SOARES - THE DREAM OF B. SOARES
Director Thibault Chollet in Animation France 6:00 I am like a pendulum that can’t stop waving, always moving, never reaching. |
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PENG
Director Martin Thaler in Super Short Comedy Italy 15:00 In order to gain Alexandra's love, therapist Rainer inadvertently finds himself forced to euthanize his beloved pet turtle. Rainer is determined to accept the challenge, but even though he gives it his all, he can't find it within him to shoot at the animal. As the therapist is about to give up, he seeks help from a prowling foreigner, whom he mistakes for a refugee and soon believes to be a terrorist. When push comes to shove Rainer wants to arrest the stranger, pointing the gun at him the shy and peaceloving therapist accidentaly lets the gun go off. |
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DIE AUTOFICKER - THE CARFUCKERS (dir. Brezing)
Director Josia Brezing in Super Short Comedy Germany 1:12 During a nocturnal car drive in search of sex, the protagonist meets a trans prostitute. But instead of releasing him from his desires, she informs him together with a leather fetish boy about his irresponsibility regarding the climate change. |
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What Kind Of Day Has It Been?
Director Elijah Reynolds in Short Film (any genre) United States 9:39 Three highschool students go through their stressful, but normal day. Everything is totally ordinary, until it's not. |
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Attack
Director Ben Gavin in Short Film (any genre) United States 13:00 A troubled young woman finally stands up for herself, discovering not only what she is capable of but awakening something within. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/351430210/9e336df640 |
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Illegal
Director Nick Alexander in Feature Doc United States 01:19:00 Illegal is a feature-length documentary about the miraculous journey of Salvadoran immigrant Laz Ayala’s life or death path to U.S. citizenship, the challenges of present-day immigration, and his mission to humanize immigrants and reform immigration for the benefit of all. The film begins as Laz journeys back to his childhood home in El Salvador. He recounts his arduous path north on the Pan American Highway with his father and brother where at any moment they could have been discovered and turned back… or killed. Laz’s life is a story of struggle, determination, and hope for a brighter future for immigrants, the industries that rely upon them, and our entire country. Illegal wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign on April 3rd, 2020 which raised over $40,000 for the production of the film. As of April 2020, the film has been selected to over a dozen festivals including Beverly Hills International Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, and Richmond International Film Festival. WATCH ON VIMEO https://f.io/y4s31u9v Password: illegal |
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Wake From Death & Return To Life
Directors Andrew Ferrer, Javier Gonzalez in Short Film (any genre) United States 07:51 A daughter deals with the loss of her brother during the second world war. As she goes through the stages of grief, she find a way to overcome her loss, and look towards a hopeful future. |
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The Tell-Tale Heart - a musicabre
Director Danny Ashkenasi in Short Film (any genre) United States 37:42 A musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story. A man is so disturbed by an old man's "vulture eye" he resolves to murder and dismember him. But the murderer is driven to madness and confession by the incessant beating of the victim's heart under the floor boards. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/343652895 |
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Death's Door
Directors Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos, Jon Russell Cring in Short Film (any genre) United States 38:37 Death's Door is a medical drama based on the book At Death's Door and the true-life story of Sebastian Sepulveda M.D. Death's Door tells the story of an end-of-life-care doctor, Dr. Mark Corbin. Dr. Corbin's entire career has been dealing with the terminally ill and dying. The deaths slowly take their toll on everyone around: first on Dr. Corbin's staff, then his family, and even himself. |
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Penrose Avenue
Director Jon Maxwell in Short Film (any genre) United States 11:05 After a man observes some suspicious activity during a date with his girlfriend, he decides to follow her home to see if she is being faithful, but what he finds is even more shocking. |
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The Woman of El Siglo
Director Sílvia Quer in Feature Film Spain 01:26:14 In the affluent Barcelona of 1919, a young worker raised in an orphanage tries to earn a living as she investigates if she is the daughter of a well-known painter and his gypsy muse. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/distintofilms/thewomanofelsiglo |
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Well Done
Director Brian Ernst in Super Short Comedy United States 2:56 Neil needs his co-worker BBQ to go off without a hitch in order for his boss to entrust him with the warehouse club membership. Then he will choose the SNACKS! |
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NDL (National Date League)
Director Aleix Massot in Super Short Comedy United States 11:49 A battle of sexes regular date in a restaurant turns into a live TV sports event where the date, is the game itself. |
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Total
Director Aurelien THIBAULT in Environmental France 3:45 A gas station attendant meets a young electric car driver... |
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Here Today
Directors Erica Arvold, Director, Meredith Grace Dabney, Writer in Short Film (any genre) United States 13:32 A high school girl struggles to find her own identity with a new group of friends and discovers that together, their choices have an impact beyond what they ever imagined. This universally autobiographical tale, written by 16-year-old Meredith Grace Dabney, is a reminder of vulnerability, life’s connections and most importantly that words and actions, however small, affect everyone and everything. |
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On the Line (S01E04 "Awkward")
Director Jonathan Horowitz in Web Series United States 14:29 On the Line is a new office comedy series set in a telemarketing office. The show follows an ensemble cast of characters as they attempt to get through their days with each other and with the strangers they call. No matter how they feel about their jobs, they need them to pay the rent, and with each call they make, their jobs are on the line. In this episode ("Awkward"), Danny advises Martin on how to clear things up with Carrie, Carrie encourages Maggie to pursue what she wants, and Alice hears about some telemarketing woes she hasn't had the pleasure of experiencing yet... WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/2e-NaFHpeJI |
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Bruce
Director Cecile Garcia in Super Short Comedy United States 7:46 After her pastor endorses a gubernatorial candidate who sexually harasses teenagers, Bruce, a cheerful North Carolinian woman, decides to look for Jesus and spread his word in Los Angeles. WATCH ON VIMEO https://vimeo.com/346341475 - Password: Cookies17 |
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Tuning In
Director Dan Levy Dagerman in Web Series United States 14:20 WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSOVNOP8Os |
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The Passenger
Director Sam Litovchin in Short Film (any genre) United States 8:59 Disappointed in the modern society filmmaker travels on a train to perform an online suicide. During his ride he faces his art which tries to save him. |
Official Selection. Screenplays.
True North
Writer Sophia Flot-Warner
in Feature Screenplay
United States
True North is a passionate love story about a recently saved, Christian woman who wants to obey God by living a holy life as outlined in the Bible. She faces losing the man she loves because he wants nothing to do with her newfound principles or her God because of challenges his family faced in a church when he was a child. We watch her struggle to navigate pleasing God and saving her relationship. This faith based drama gives the true picture of what it looks like to live a life by faith. The story it tells includes the victories, challenges and falls on the journey through any Christian life. It answers the question: When we make the decision to follow Christ, what does that really look like?
Graveyard Girl
Writer Sixa Monmarche
in Short Screenplay
United States
A deaf cemetery groundskeeper falls for an abused teen with supernatural powers and plots a robbery to help her escape her tortured life.
Headhunters
Writer Jennifer Hunter
in Television Script
United States
A formerly feared small town shore boss reconnects with his right hand man thought to be dead when his family decides to cut and run, focusing instead on normal lives.
Lost in the Sky
Writer Ian Phillips
in Short Screenplay
United States
A year ago, Walter Gavriel died in a storm atop the Himalayas. Now, his two feuding sons attempt to climb the same mountain, each blaming the other for their pain. As a new blizzard rolls in, they must reconcile their prides and pasts or perish together in the cold.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_sz__QkhykNwHA3RfUMjqrZE-BGPjoN/view
Dawn Ridge
Writer Elizabeth Diane Adams
in Short Screenplay
United States
DAWN RIDGE explores a young boy’s feelings about losing his family home. Wyatt rows up in a special place - a fantastic old western ranch that once hosted hundreds o visitors a day, but is no longer as popular in a world that has forgotten the lure of six-shooters and lassos.
Wyatt’s fascination with the abled Lost Adams old sends on him on a journey to save the property and remain on the ranch. From bedtime to horse chases, his living room becomes the rowdy saloon it was meant to be. DAWN RIDGE rides head-first into the feelings of loss, growth, and love that come with getting older.
TOUCH OF GREY
Writer Daniel Talamantes
in Feature Screenplay
United States The story follows an acerbic late-twenties writer, Liam, and his free-spirited twin sister, Louise, on their way home from a boat harbor in the Bay Area of California to their brooding coastal hometown of Crescent, California for the Celtic Midsummer's Ceremony. Visiting multiple iconic Northern California locations in the plot it alternates between two timelines: one with both Liam and Louise, and the other, solely with Liam after Louise has passed away. On this drive they run into other aimless individuals -- a gothic barista, a traveling hippy girl and her dog, a retired couple who travels from KOA campgrounds across the US, a sassy but aimless tech girl -- all who've been both positively and negatively effected by the hippy/counterculture lifestyle pervasive in the previous generation. Ultimately, the story's about the strained relations they have with their divorced parents who can't seem to face reality or take responsibility for the trauma that occurred specifically to Louise. It's a repressed relationship in which negativity cannot be addressed and which left Liam and Louise to fend for themselves. After Louise passes, Liam spent so much of his life supporting her, that he is now trying to fill the void she left behind.
READ SCRIPT HERE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlSmsCwPLdVWCTmdK93962ihB_KDBfNF/view
In the Air
Writer Balázs Pethő
in Short Screenplay
Hungary
Adam, a successful street photographer is faced with the fact that a drone, powered by AI and designed by his girlfriend, takes better pictures then he does. If technology can produce art, and can even replace artists, what does that say about us?
Expect Miracles
Writer Audra Wheeler
in Feature Screenplay
United States
The lives of a 17-year-old terminally ill girl, a teacher suffering from domestic violence, and a struggling therapist, weave together as they search for their life’s purpose.
High Water
Writer Caitlin Brands
in Television Script
United States
In 1968 in Caro County, Georgia, Johnny is a rebellious and closeted hot shot racer from nowhere. Compared to Johnny's life, Daniel is rigidly structured by his racist and domineering parents. After drag race goes awry, Johnny must team up with Daniel and Edith, a brilliant medical academic of color, to win back the family farm and get out of the world of illegal drag racing.
Johnny's Pico
Writers Sean Monahan, Scott Hennelly
in Feature Screenplay
United States
A pair of hapless private detectives, middle-aged brothers Craig and Timmy, are sick of Los Angeles and finally moving home... until they stumble into the middle of a murder investigation and the crosshairs of the Irish Mafia. Their only way out is to actually become the detectives they had always pretended to be.
Hellster Inc
Writer Matthew David Rafferty
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Hellster Inc-a low budget horror about an underground society of cannibals that has existed for over three hundred years. Mr. Hellster, who has captured fifteen-year-old Romeo Washington’s
older brother, runs them. Romeo joins forces with a tough thirteen-year-old girl to save his brother and bring down their society.
VoiDead
Writer Karina Kalaydzhyan
in Television Script
United States
When a spell and an experiment simultaneously clash, a rift causes the immortal and mortal worlds to collide. Three witches attempt to make their way back to the netherworld, but after befriending a special mortal, they realize that life amongst humans isn’t so grim.
Miss Perception
Writer Oaks Christian Advanced Film Class
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Ocean Crest High School sends all their graduates onto Ivy League Universities. Pay no attention to the vacant stares or seizures.
Darci Kills
Writer Darren Press
in Feature Screenplay
Darci Falling, a middle-aged, unmarried New Yorker thought she had found her special thing going to open mics and trying her hand at stand-up comedy. That was seven years ago. Her days are now spent clock watching and working the desk of a one-man fabric company in the garment district. Her evenings are spent in performance spaces and comedy rooms sharing the stage with other comics who use their 3-5 minutes to work on new material, mental health issues, or both. Darci’s never had a good set, not even a sustained laugh. It’s safe to say Darci has never killed. Until one night, between open mics, Darci is followed by a strange man and attacked. In self-defense she accidentally kills the man. In a shocked state, she takes the stage and has the set of her life.
Darci quickly realizes the only way she can kill on stage is to kill off. But as her local fame and need for laughter grows, Darci is dying an existential death. She is desperate to be taken seriously, and the last thing she wants now is to be laughed at. After finally realizing there is nothing she can do to change what she has become, Darci takes the stage to a sold out audience and gives them a performance of a lifetime - a show she can only do once.
Dumbest Generation
Writer Leslie Lyshkov
in Feature Screenplay
United States
An aimless young man with an uncertain future ahead of him is mistakenly transported through a time-travel experiment to the year 1942 by a WAVES physicist who seeks answers from a modern-day historian to rescue the United States from defeat in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor. The young man eventually comes to understand the significance of his role and, to gain the physicist's respect, sets out to find information that may prevent Japan from crushing the US Navy at the looming Battle of Midway.
The Son Rises in the East
Writer Mervin Bourne
in Feature Screenplay
United States
The Cunningham Family is determined to find balance and happiness in the years following the death of their patriarch but can’t escape the demons that haunt them as they raise two generations of sons without fathers in their lives.
And No One Mourned
Writer Ky Rogers
in Feature Screenplay
United States
When a financial advisor is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers.
Indian Summer
Writer Madhu Powar Garg
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Through a twist of fate, UCLA student, Sara Gupta's path crosses with Bradley Walker's, the international tennis star, whom she suspects is her biological Dad. Sara sets out to prove her paternity, but then her sister/biological mother Priya, shows up and her entire plan is turned upside down.
The Witter Merchants
Writer Elizabeth Blandford
in Feature Screenplay
United States
William Kempe's wittering causes pandemonium at the opening of Henry V. William Rowley is imprisoned accused of being a Jesuit. Shakespeare dons a disguise and with his daughter Judith rescues Rowley. Rowley's play The Birth of Merlin gets him and Shakespeare in trouble with Robert Cecil. Both of them out-witter Cecil and are exonerated by King James. The King's Men perform The Birth of Merlin at the King's Gala to great success.
READ HERE
Ashes to Ashes
Writer Julie Bretones
in Short Screenplay
United States
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Writer Sophia Flot-Warner
in Feature Screenplay
United States
True North is a passionate love story about a recently saved, Christian woman who wants to obey God by living a holy life as outlined in the Bible. She faces losing the man she loves because he wants nothing to do with her newfound principles or her God because of challenges his family faced in a church when he was a child. We watch her struggle to navigate pleasing God and saving her relationship. This faith based drama gives the true picture of what it looks like to live a life by faith. The story it tells includes the victories, challenges and falls on the journey through any Christian life. It answers the question: When we make the decision to follow Christ, what does that really look like?
Graveyard Girl
Writer Sixa Monmarche
in Short Screenplay
United States
A deaf cemetery groundskeeper falls for an abused teen with supernatural powers and plots a robbery to help her escape her tortured life.
Headhunters
Writer Jennifer Hunter
in Television Script
United States
A formerly feared small town shore boss reconnects with his right hand man thought to be dead when his family decides to cut and run, focusing instead on normal lives.
Lost in the Sky
Writer Ian Phillips
in Short Screenplay
United States
A year ago, Walter Gavriel died in a storm atop the Himalayas. Now, his two feuding sons attempt to climb the same mountain, each blaming the other for their pain. As a new blizzard rolls in, they must reconcile their prides and pasts or perish together in the cold.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_sz__QkhykNwHA3RfUMjqrZE-BGPjoN/view
Dawn Ridge
Writer Elizabeth Diane Adams
in Short Screenplay
United States
DAWN RIDGE explores a young boy’s feelings about losing his family home. Wyatt rows up in a special place - a fantastic old western ranch that once hosted hundreds o visitors a day, but is no longer as popular in a world that has forgotten the lure of six-shooters and lassos.
Wyatt’s fascination with the abled Lost Adams old sends on him on a journey to save the property and remain on the ranch. From bedtime to horse chases, his living room becomes the rowdy saloon it was meant to be. DAWN RIDGE rides head-first into the feelings of loss, growth, and love that come with getting older.
TOUCH OF GREY
Writer Daniel Talamantes
in Feature Screenplay
United States The story follows an acerbic late-twenties writer, Liam, and his free-spirited twin sister, Louise, on their way home from a boat harbor in the Bay Area of California to their brooding coastal hometown of Crescent, California for the Celtic Midsummer's Ceremony. Visiting multiple iconic Northern California locations in the plot it alternates between two timelines: one with both Liam and Louise, and the other, solely with Liam after Louise has passed away. On this drive they run into other aimless individuals -- a gothic barista, a traveling hippy girl and her dog, a retired couple who travels from KOA campgrounds across the US, a sassy but aimless tech girl -- all who've been both positively and negatively effected by the hippy/counterculture lifestyle pervasive in the previous generation. Ultimately, the story's about the strained relations they have with their divorced parents who can't seem to face reality or take responsibility for the trauma that occurred specifically to Louise. It's a repressed relationship in which negativity cannot be addressed and which left Liam and Louise to fend for themselves. After Louise passes, Liam spent so much of his life supporting her, that he is now trying to fill the void she left behind.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlSmsCwPLdVWCTmdK93962ihB_KDBfNF/view
In the Air
Writer Balázs Pethő
in Short Screenplay
Hungary
Adam, a successful street photographer is faced with the fact that a drone, powered by AI and designed by his girlfriend, takes better pictures then he does. If technology can produce art, and can even replace artists, what does that say about us?
Expect Miracles
Writer Audra Wheeler
in Feature Screenplay
United States
The lives of a 17-year-old terminally ill girl, a teacher suffering from domestic violence, and a struggling therapist, weave together as they search for their life’s purpose.
High Water
Writer Caitlin Brands
in Television Script
United States
In 1968 in Caro County, Georgia, Johnny is a rebellious and closeted hot shot racer from nowhere. Compared to Johnny's life, Daniel is rigidly structured by his racist and domineering parents. After drag race goes awry, Johnny must team up with Daniel and Edith, a brilliant medical academic of color, to win back the family farm and get out of the world of illegal drag racing.
Johnny's Pico
Writers Sean Monahan, Scott Hennelly
in Feature Screenplay
United States
A pair of hapless private detectives, middle-aged brothers Craig and Timmy, are sick of Los Angeles and finally moving home... until they stumble into the middle of a murder investigation and the crosshairs of the Irish Mafia. Their only way out is to actually become the detectives they had always pretended to be.
Hellster Inc
Writer Matthew David Rafferty
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Hellster Inc-a low budget horror about an underground society of cannibals that has existed for over three hundred years. Mr. Hellster, who has captured fifteen-year-old Romeo Washington’s
older brother, runs them. Romeo joins forces with a tough thirteen-year-old girl to save his brother and bring down their society.
VoiDead
Writer Karina Kalaydzhyan
in Television Script
United States
When a spell and an experiment simultaneously clash, a rift causes the immortal and mortal worlds to collide. Three witches attempt to make their way back to the netherworld, but after befriending a special mortal, they realize that life amongst humans isn’t so grim.
Miss Perception
Writer Oaks Christian Advanced Film Class
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Ocean Crest High School sends all their graduates onto Ivy League Universities. Pay no attention to the vacant stares or seizures.
Darci Kills
Writer Darren Press
in Feature Screenplay
Darci Falling, a middle-aged, unmarried New Yorker thought she had found her special thing going to open mics and trying her hand at stand-up comedy. That was seven years ago. Her days are now spent clock watching and working the desk of a one-man fabric company in the garment district. Her evenings are spent in performance spaces and comedy rooms sharing the stage with other comics who use their 3-5 minutes to work on new material, mental health issues, or both. Darci’s never had a good set, not even a sustained laugh. It’s safe to say Darci has never killed. Until one night, between open mics, Darci is followed by a strange man and attacked. In self-defense she accidentally kills the man. In a shocked state, she takes the stage and has the set of her life.
Darci quickly realizes the only way she can kill on stage is to kill off. But as her local fame and need for laughter grows, Darci is dying an existential death. She is desperate to be taken seriously, and the last thing she wants now is to be laughed at. After finally realizing there is nothing she can do to change what she has become, Darci takes the stage to a sold out audience and gives them a performance of a lifetime - a show she can only do once.
Dumbest Generation
Writer Leslie Lyshkov
in Feature Screenplay
United States
An aimless young man with an uncertain future ahead of him is mistakenly transported through a time-travel experiment to the year 1942 by a WAVES physicist who seeks answers from a modern-day historian to rescue the United States from defeat in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor. The young man eventually comes to understand the significance of his role and, to gain the physicist's respect, sets out to find information that may prevent Japan from crushing the US Navy at the looming Battle of Midway.
The Son Rises in the East
Writer Mervin Bourne
in Feature Screenplay
United States
The Cunningham Family is determined to find balance and happiness in the years following the death of their patriarch but can’t escape the demons that haunt them as they raise two generations of sons without fathers in their lives.
And No One Mourned
Writer Ky Rogers
in Feature Screenplay
United States
When a financial advisor is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers.
Indian Summer
Writer Madhu Powar Garg
in Feature Screenplay
United States
Through a twist of fate, UCLA student, Sara Gupta's path crosses with Bradley Walker's, the international tennis star, whom she suspects is her biological Dad. Sara sets out to prove her paternity, but then her sister/biological mother Priya, shows up and her entire plan is turned upside down.
The Witter Merchants
Writer Elizabeth Blandford
in Feature Screenplay
United States
William Kempe's wittering causes pandemonium at the opening of Henry V. William Rowley is imprisoned accused of being a Jesuit. Shakespeare dons a disguise and with his daughter Judith rescues Rowley. Rowley's play The Birth of Merlin gets him and Shakespeare in trouble with Robert Cecil. Both of them out-witter Cecil and are exonerated by King James. The King's Men perform The Birth of Merlin at the King's Gala to great success.
READ HERE
Ashes to Ashes
Writer Julie Bretones
in Short Screenplay
United States
NO INFO