Sherman Oaks Film Festival

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Arthouse/Experimental

A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America’s hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted.

Director(s): Nathan Tape
Writer(s): Nathan Tape, Tim Cairo
Producer(s): Nathan Tape, Fabiola Andrade, Laura Cassidy
Key Cast: Jon Oswald, Scott Turner Schofield, Ashley Smith, Reed Diamond, Jared Bankens, Miles Doleac

West Coast Premiere

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

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Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Arthouse/Experimental

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. A streaming of digital consciousness.

Director(s): Alessandro Amaducci
Writer(s): Alessandro Amaducci
Producer(s): Alessandro Amaducci
Key Cast: Derryn Amoroso, Kate Holly Hall, Henry Errington, Michael Wilkop, PJ Van Gyen, James McCluskey-Gracia, Mark Healy, Dorian Tisato, Adam MacNeill, Adrian Brunato, Louise Byrne, Lindsay Dunn, Kate Van Der Horst

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy

When Mags and Ash take a trip to rekindle their marriage they meet a beautiful stranger who leads Mags to question her sexuality and allows them to reconnect over the possibility of having a threesome.

Director(s): Dan Levy Dagerman
Writer(s): Selina Ringel
Producer(s): Selina Ringel
Key Cast: Selina Ringel, Ritesh Rajan, Sydney Park, Marianna Burelli, Roberto Aguirre

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy

Two grocery store workers from different districts meet and end up spending time with each other after the store they’re assigned to open in another town shuts down unexpectedly. Over the course of a weekend, they grow close and let each other in on one another’s hopes and dreams…and deepest secrets.

Director(s): Eddie Vigil V
Writer(s): Ryan Willer
Producer(s): Jennifer Ball, Ryan Willer, Joe Koch
Key Cast: Jennifer Ball, Frank Gonzalez, DeJean Brown

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

REAL is an illuminating documentary that delves into the complex and often invisible forces that shape our relationships. It takes viewers on a transformative journey of self-discovery, revealing the hidden dynamics that we all bring from our pasts into our present relationships.

Director(s): Gary Stuart Turner
Writer(s): Gary Stuart Turner
Producer(s): Merissa Jennings-Turner
Key Cast: Duane & Catherine O’Kane

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Featurette – Drama

A war hero returns home after going missing in the Afghan withdrawal. Upon his return, he thought his life would go back to what he remembered. A wife. A home. But a lot can change in a year.

Director(s): Claire Chubbuck
Writer(s): Alvaro Orlando
Producer(s): Nathan Paul
Key Cast: Alvaro Orlando, Natalie Stavola, Jay Krymis, Michael Mammoliti, Catherine Carlin

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror

While exploring a decrepit and abandoned facility, an auspicious photographer faces off against her traumatic past.

Director(s): John Pata
Writer(s): John Pata
Producer(s): Sarah Sharp, Robert Patrick Stern, Jen Shelby, Jill Gevargizian
Key Cast: Agnes Albright, Jeremy Holm, Andrew Bailes

Los Angeles Premiere

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror

Criminal fixer Cliff Van Aarle’s unique psychological condition gives him an edge in the criminal underworld, but when he’s hired by two amateur drug dealers claiming they were attacked by ‘zombies,’ Van Aarle is dragged into a terrifying and bizarre mystery that will force him to relive the traumatic past he thought he’d escaped.

Director(s): Pirie Martin
Writer(s): Pirie Martin
Producer(s): Pirie Martin
Key Cast:Derryn Amoroso, Kate Holly Hall, Henry Errington, Michael Wilkop, PJ Van Gyen, James McCluskey Garcia

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Sci-Fi

An unusual piece of foil with potential alien origin causes a rift between two former best friends camping in the California desert.

Director(s): Zach Green
Writer(s): Zach Green, Devin O’Rourke
Producer(s): Jill Von Dae
Key Cast: Zach Green, Devin O’Rourke, Chris Doubek, Brian McGuire, Ashley Spillers, Jasmine Wattar, Ari Stidham, John Ryan Benavides

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!

2023 Official Selection: Feature Film – Sci-Fi

A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the mind control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. MIND THIEF is a sci-fi thriller that takes us on a harrowing, sometimes humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.

Director(s): Matt Steinauer
Writer(s): Matt Steinauer
Producer(s): Matt Steinauer, Angelique Pretorius, Dilip Isaac
Key Cast: Angelique Pretorius, Leslie Miller, Greg Berman, Michael Tighe, Jamie Lynn Concepion, Jason Sims-Prewitt, Alison Martin, Stefanie Estes

Go to 2023 Official Selections – Films Page

Theatrical Screenings: All theatrical screenings are held at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
SOFF 2023 Theatrical Screenings held from November 29 to December 3.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Virtual Screenings: The SOFF 2023 Virtual Screenings run from Friday, December 1 to Sunday, December 10. There will be Virtual Exclusives as well as many of the films that screened at the theater.

Click here to visit our Virtual Screenings!