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2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
Tasha, an enthusiastic secondary school student is deeply infatuated with her older boyfriend, Jamie. She finds herself trapped in a tumultuous web of love and manipulation.
Director(s): Damien Nembhard
Writers(s): Damien Nembhard
Producer(s): Kasima Whittingham, Matt Nelson, Damien Nembhard, Paul Maynard, Harriet Mckean, Laura Duffy
Key Cast: Kudzai Mangombe, Jeremie Kuyu Tshiobi, Miles Davis
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: United Kingdom
2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary
Legendary entertainer, George Segal, shares his life story: From a shy kid from Great Neck to Hollywood leading man during its most prolific decades.
Director(s): Vernon Alfredo Davidson, Ryan Krayser
Producer(s): Vernon Alfredo Davidson, Ryan Krayser
Key Cast: George Segal
World Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – SciFi
A group of people come together to test an exciting and experimental new technology. But it quickly turns into a deadly game of survival as the technology turns against them.
Director(s): Ian Wittenber
Writer(s): Ian Wittenber
Producer(s): Ian Wittenber
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Â Featurette – SciFi
A grieving mother battles her addiction to a black-market drug that gives her life-like dreams about the son she lost.
Director(s): Parker Croft
Writer(s): Aaron Golden, Parker Croft
Producer(s): Max Loeb, Parker Croft, Aaron Golden, Chris Blim, Laura Coover
Key Cast: Laura Coover, Sean Marquette, Dawson Sweeney
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama
WHAT FRIENDS DO is a short that follows a young woman returning to her hometown in the wake of the death of a childhood friend, and her grief stricken mother. Throughout the weekend spent in the desert town, she learns that parents aren’t always right and what it means to do right by your friends.
Director(s): Jacqueline Linares
Writer(s): Jacqueline Linares
Producer(s): Jacqueline Linares, Angelique Gross
Key Cast: Angela Rosado, Seneca, Elizabeth Hernandez, Robert Ramirez
World Premiere, Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental
Seamlessly blending CG animation with live-action, the film Ouroboros delves into the metaphorical borderlands of truth and falsehood in our digitally-driven era.
Director(s): SyL Shiyang Liu
Writer(s): SyL Shiyang Liu
Producer(s): SyL Shiyang Liu, Ziyi Cao, Rou-Chi Wang
Key Cast: Isabel Salazar, Cameron Brady
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: China
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
This pool boy’s dream is about to become a nightmare.
Director(s): Thomas Peck
Writer(s): Thomas Peck, Barrett Barnes
Key Cast: Liam Callister, Helena Geraci
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Web Series / TV Pilot
A stay-at-home mom whose life is falling apart finds it hard to let go of her son when he goes off to college.
Director(s): Nevada Grey
Writer(s): Nevada Grey, Lisa Altmann
Producer(s): Nevada Grey, Ric Griffith, Joshua Minyard
Key Cast: Nevada Grey, Kylr Coffman, Annie Karstens, Chris Wylde, Edgar de Santiago, Jonathan Tanigaki
Country: USA
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental
“Welcome to Metta Michael. Today, we have another session of Loving Kindness Meditation. Take your seat. Gently close your eyes. Bring to mind someone you love…””
Director(s): Jiyuan Ler
Writer(s): Jiyuan Ler
Producer(s): Jiyuan Ler, Wendy Toh
Key Cast: Wendy Toh, Liz Sgt Tan
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: Singapore
2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
Darkly comedic and inspired by both Stephen King’s THE SHINING and Stanley Kubrick’s film, A SHINING EXAMPLE looks at creative and familial frustration with a mother at the center of the story.
Director(s): Clarke Wolfe
Writer(s): Clarke Wolfe, Dylan Guerra
Producer(s): Buz Wallick
Key Cast: Clarke Wolfe, Andy Cohen, Marnie McKendry, Dylan Guerra
Los Angeles Premiere
Country: USA
