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Mamu

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

A mother struggles to take care of her baby while haunted by a dark spirit.

Director(s): Michael Skanes
Writer(s): Michael Skanes
Producer(s): Michael Skanes
Key Cast: Emma Bellomy

Go to 2022 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
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Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Moments: Six

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A serial killer and the detective who tracked him down find themselves in an unexpected stalemate.

Director(s): Michael Vaughn Hernandez
Writer(s): Darren Bailey
Producer(s): Michael Vaughn Hernandez
Key Cast: Vincent Stalba, Stephen Wilson

Go to 2022 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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The Housesitters

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

Erin and Matt are best friends, underemployed entertainers, and terrible housesitters. And when they find themselves staying at the site of an infamous murder, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to recreate the crime.

Director(s): Graham High
Writer(s): Matt McConkey & Erin Pineda
Producer(s): Brittany High, Graham High, Matt McConkey, Erin Pineda
Key Cast: Matt McConkey, Erin Pineda, Jules Wilcox, Burl Moseley, Ryan Tresser

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No one told them it was a murder house

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Above the Branches

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi

An adopted introvert aims to find his biological parents to feel a sense of belonging, but after taking a genealogy test he discovers he may not belong to the human race.

Director(s): Matt Kravitsky
Writer(s): Matt Kravitsky
Producer(s): Matt Kravitsky, Jake Swartz, Gibson Pitts, Tori Martin, Liz Loo, Hussein Hammouda, Jacob Rubin, Rhonda Berchuck, Max Grant, Boris Gluz, Andrew X. Ho, Kimmie Johnson, Joel & Lisa Markowitz, Phyllis & Marvin Noller, Michelle & Bob Pepe
Key Cast: Brian Dole, Jonathan Dingel-El, Bonnie Kathleen Ryan, Marilyn Busch, Jim Fromewick

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When the apple falls very far from the tree

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Dick Control

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

Richard Tye “Trigga” Simmons, a rich, promiscuous, jet-setting rapper, has a one-night stand with a beautiful groupie who happens to be a witch.

Director(s): Shequeta L. Smith
Writer(s): Shequeta L. Smith
Producer(s): Mingzhu Ye
Key Cast: Curtis Hamilton, Anna Maria Morris, Casey Gardner, Kenyon Long, Michael Walton Jr., Myesha Williams, KeNeice Musgrove

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Respecting women is not that hard.

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Moxie

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

An exclusive orgy in Los Angeles doesn’t go as planned.

Director(s): William Venus Means
Writer(s): William Venus Means
Producer(s): Olia Zimarova, Yulia Safonova
Key Cast: Rocky Shay, Timothy Huls, Jessica Lea Risco, Kian Morr, Brayden Dalmazzone, Ryanne Terrazas, Lauren Peterson

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You either got it or you don’t

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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All Eyes

2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror

A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.

Director(s): Todd Greenlee
Writer(s): Alex Greenlee
Producer(s): Emily Calhoun, Adam Greenlee, Alex Greenlee, Todd Greenlee, Janice Pellam, Laurie Cummings, Tab Pierce, Jeff Greenlee, Lisa Greenlee
Key Cast: Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Nick Ballard, Laurie Cummings

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One beast of a story awaits.

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Ragged Heart

2022 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama

A rough-hewn, dramatic thriller from the legendary music scene and rural back roads of Athens, GA about a washed-up musician and his attempt to complete the last song his daughter wrote before her death.

Director(s): Evan McNary
Writer(s): Evan McNary, Debrah McNary
Producer(s): Debrah McNary
Key Cast: Patterson Hood, Josh Mikel, Jim White, Kate McManus, Eddie Craddock, Willow Avalon

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Her words, his flaws, their song.

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Watcher

2022 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

After a bank heist goes awry, a group of four ex-military thieves find shelter in the woods overnight while en route to the Canadian border. Meanwhile, an invisible malicious spirit begins a hunt…for them.

Director(s): Alan Sanchez
Writer(s): Alan Sanchez
Producer(s): Alan Sanchez, Soren McVay, Gracie Lacey
Key Cast: Soren McVay, Kristian Lugo, Gracie Lacey, Jimilee Allen, Danielle Dallas Roosa

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You Will Never See It Coming

Theatrical Screenings: Held at The Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, (13500 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Screenings for the 2022 festival take place from November 15 to November 20.
Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2022 Virtual Screenings will begin Friday, November 18. There will be 25 films to watch that are Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.
Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

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Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival

We never get tired of getting the email from FilmFreeway with the subject, “Congrats on your Top 100 status!”

“According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 10,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event.”

Only one deadline remains for 2022, and that is August 15.