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10th Annual Los Angeles Television, Script, and Film Festival
Saturday, January 13, 2024, at 3:45 p.m.
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1% of all ticket and festival merchandise sales go to Free Arts for Abused Children at www.freearts.org.
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Watch unique films and meet directors in person!
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Watch unique films from around the world that you'll not find anywhere on the internet.
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Enjoy Q&A after the screenings with filmmakers who represent their films at the festival.

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Schedule
3:45 pm Doors Open
4:00 pm Screenings


Advanced Placement
Director Sam Hyatt
Drama, 6:00
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

A-List Thieves
Director Elijah Holston
Comedy, 8:37
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

Salt Kingdom
Director Iñaki Velasquez
Drama, 12:00

Clown Now Cry Later
Director Estevan Oriol
Documentary, 25:08
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

The Cage
Director YangMing Wang
Drama, 26:27

Tomorrow Is Friday
Director Cameron Raser
Comedy, 11:24
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

About people and about war
Director ARTEL FIlM PRODUCTION
Comedy/Drama 11:32

TOTAL TIME: 1 h45m
5:45 pm Q&A with Filmmakers
6:15 pm Winners Announcement

Tickets are $8. Get them HERE!

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Get tickets from FilmFreeway here

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Get Tickets from Eventbrite here

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If you have a film, video, music video, or screenplay for our 2025 film festival edition, then submit it now via FilmFreeway here.

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Simply show up at the event, show proof of transaction and you're good to go. We do not send electronic or paper tickets. Your Filmfreeway or Eventbrite purchase is your ticket.
You'll get a ticket or pass once you arrive at the venue.
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Location
LAPAC
Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory

Promenade Playhouse
10931 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064

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Parking
LADOT (Los Angeles Department of Transportation)
Midvale & Pico (Lot 707)
2377 Midvale Avenue
West Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90064
(Please note that the festival does not validate parking)

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Festival Merch
1% of each sale goes to FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN, www.freearts.org

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Films we selected in the past

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Films we selected this year

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VOTING
Come to the festival and vote for the BEST OF AUDIENCE AWARD.
Once you pick up a ticket, ask for a ballot at the front desk.
Write the title of the film you like and return the ballot at the front desk.


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Advanced Placement
Director Sam Hyatt
Drama, 6:00
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Trapped in a job doing the most menial of menial tasks, one man finds an opportunity to break free from corporate drudgery.

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A-List Thieves
Director Elijah Holston
Comedy, 8:37
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Two clumsy thieves break into a blind man's mansion.

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Salt Kingdom
Director Iñaki Velasquez
Drama, 12:00
Amanda, Rebeca and Giuli are three teenage girls who start a business of extorting older men ("sugar daddies") in order to gain money and stop them from going after minors.

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Clown Now Cry Later
Director Estevan Oriol
Documentary, 25:08
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Introducing "Clown Now Cry Later," a captivating docuseries directed by the renowned Estevan Oriol and proudly presented by Foos Gone Wild. Delve into the intriguing world of Foos Gone Wild as this extraordinary series provides intimate and revealing glimpses into the lives and personalities of the platform's diverse and fascinating individuals.

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The Cage
Director YangMing Wang
Drama, 26:27
"The cage" creates a ridiculous but worth thinking about the reality of the atmosphere, the story is about the female breeder to help developers raise a lion (illegal) in the Spring Festival was disturbed by firecrackers jumped off the building, but the developer has a lion, in order to prevent exposure, the developer asked the breeder to help transfer to her home in the night as compensation, the female breeder let her son to send the lion, But let the lion run away.

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Tomorrow Is Friday
Director Cameron Raser
Comedy, 11:24
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
A background artist must adjust her performance to not ruin the realism of a shot.

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About people and about war
Director ARTEL FIlM PRODUCTION
Comedy/Drama 11:32
The cycle "About people and about the war" is a collection of short stories based on the stories of people who experienced the hardships of wartime. These are tragic, heroic or even ironic cases that happened to boys and girls during the war of 1941-1945. They were young and beautiful guys who had dreams, plans, love, happiness and creativity ahead of them. But the war intervened.

Screenplays we selected this year.
Read HERE online!

Read some screenplays now, here online. Just click the
READ HERE button (where available).
If you are a director or producer looking for a new screenplay and want to produce any of those listed works, contact Festival, and we'll contact you with a screenwriter. Some of the writers will be present at the event. It's another opportunity to talk to them about potential collaboration.
Please note that there will be no screenplays read at the event.

Corey's Hand
Writer Jim Norman
Feature Screenplay
A high school boy born with a deformed hand is determined to pitch for his school, like his father. His dream seems impossible until someone very unusual appears and coaches him.

Doin It Mike Style
Writer Caleb Stone IN PERSON!
Feature Screenplay
Mike Style, a pilot wannabe’s life turns upside down when gets denied an airman's medical by the FAA, but things get crazier when he has to protect his crush Becky Harrison and her infant daughter Tia who are dealing with a violent ex-boyfriend who puts everyone’s lives at stake.

Nobody's Heroes
Writer Michael Alan Elliott IN PERSON!
Feature Screenplay
Two lifelong friends, a Vietnam-combat-shattered Marine and an anti-war activist wanted by the FBI, join forces to flee to Canada. A vengeful FBI agent pursues and corners them in a small Vermont border village that ends in a life-or-death struggle.

The Snowflake Wears Payless
Writer Vid Harper IN PERSON!
Television Script
Three working-class millennials, friends since college, navigate love and careers in their thirties amidst a society that seems to have no room for them.

The Horsemen
Writer Daniel Fernando Flores
Television Script
The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are released on to Earth but have to meet up at a Anger Management office to begin their adventure of who let them out and why?

Marbles
Writer Danielle Elise Olson IN PERSON!
Short Screenplay
In a world where lives are measured by a jar of marbles and our days are literally numbered, a 52 year old woman is coming to terms with and preparing for her final days with her family. As she reminisces the time she's had with her family, her daughter has yet to realize her mom will be gone soon until it's almost too late.

Mint Chocolate
Writer Maiqi Zuo
Short Screenplay
Yu, an old Chinese lady, wants to buy the new mint chocolate ice cream.

Abijah's Fairy Tale
Writer Barbara Ann Bullen
Feature Screenplay
A young proud Black South African girl is chosen by Jaquan, an Angel, as Queen Enchantress of South Africa to aid in the restoration of peace in South Africa but when she is crowned queen, Poyjiyalis, an evil enchantress embarks on a mission to destroy her.

Amy and Angel
Writers Julia Verdin, Deedee Benkovich
Feature Screenplay
Shy 16-year old Amy just wants to dance, but her deafness causes her dreams to be shattered when she is bullied out of dance class. Finding the most unbelievable new dance partner, her neighbors neglected dog, they perform a spectacular routine that lands them on a national TV talent show where they compete against her former dance crew.

The Match
Writer Crystal Rivers IN PERSON!
Feature Screenplay
Paige acclimates to her new normal in a wheelchair at her first Mardi Gras, where the adventure never ends.

Reloved
Writer Ossie Sharon
Feature Screenplay
A widowed and still reeling university professor pairs up with an autistic savant doctoral student to revive his career and life.

Love & Loyalty
Writer Janis Hepburn
Feature Screenplay
A black freshman plays a dangerous game of catfish with a deep-rooted racist while attending a predominantly white university known for its 50-year-old covert prejudice tradition.

Debbie
Writer Sarah Harvey
Television Script
Debbie, a sarcastic bisexual woman who comes off as a bit of a cold arsehole, will have you rooting for her to find love by the end of the show. Although she seems cold, she actually just wants to find love. She works as a sales manager for a tech company, a job she doesn’t love.

Greetings From The Floodgates
Writers Mary von Aue, Mary von Aue
Television Script
Broke and stuck in a Jersey Shore town in the off season, two sisters take care of their has-been musician father by scamming tourists and posing as psychics. But when someone dies from a spell gone wrong, they start to worry if their powers are real... and how much they should charge.

Super Nova
Writer Jonathan Cardell Sims
Short Screenplay
Super Nova" is a heartwarming story about the bond between a father and daughter, and the ways in which that bond can shape and influence our lives. Nova's father works for NASA and each night he shares his space explorations with her, sparking her imagination and allowing her to dream. But when he becomes a workaholic and distant, Nova's dreams stop and she grows up to be just like him - cold and unhappy.

Love, Mary Todd
Submitter Bixby Elliot
Television Script
Mary Todd would rather die than be confined to the roles society has for her; she will have an extraordinary life even if it means marrying a terrible dancer in a stove pipe hat and riding Honest Abe's coattails all the way to the White House. Love, Mary Todd, a 1/2 hour comedy/drama, is a modern retelling of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln.

No Address
Writers Julia Verdin, James Papa
Feature Screenplay
A group of homeless people bond together as a family, struggling to survive the streets while fending off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community and the local authorities in hopes of finding their humanity again.

MOKSHA
Writer Saurin Lakhia
Feature Screenplay
In the late 22nd century, a queer Indian-American man uses Hindu psychedelic science to lead humanity to its new interstellar home. But he must first confront his past after receiving a dark message from a dying Earth involving his long-estranged mother and her mass ritual suicide cult.

MACHO
Writer Francisco Solorzano
Short Screenplay
A Nuyorican Webcam Model sets out to reconnect with his son. After receiving a full custody request, Paco, a once promising filmmaker turned reclusive adult webcam model, searches for his son, Luca, for one last chance at redemption, but not before facing his past, and most of all, his mother.

Cookbook for Southern Housewives
Writer Josie Hull
Feature Screenplay
Dissatisfied with her mundane and repetitive life in 1969 Biloxi, Mississippi, a southern housewife yearns for adventure. She gets what she wishes for when she falls in love with a mysterious man, who turns out to be a member of the Dixie “Cornbread” Mafia.

Dead Filter
Writer Luke Hunter
Feature Screenplay
An insecure teen influencer is cursed with a phone filter that will kill her in 12 hours unless she forwards it to her friends.

Cold War Reboot
Writer Joshua A Cohen
Feature Screenplay
An FSB spy hunting an oligarch team up to stop a Russian terrorist attack on NATO Headquarters


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And the WINNER is...

1st Place Festival Winner, BEST COMEDY A-List Thieves
2nd Place Festival Winner, & BEST PRODUCED SCRIPT Tomorrow Is Friday
3rd Place Festival Winner & BEST DRAMA Advanced Placement
BEST DOCUMENTARY Clown Now Cry Later
BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT The Snowflake Wears Payless
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY Doin It Mike Style
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY Marbles
BEST SCREENWRITER Michael Alan Elliott, Nobody's Heroes
BEST FEMALE SCREENWRITER Crystal Rivers Badeaux, The Match
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Photos from the event:
https://snapped4u.com/galleries/20443
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Submit your next project for the 2025 edition here.
https://filmfreeway.com/LosAngelesTelevisionScriptandFilmFestival


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