OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
A King’s Curtain — Directed by Grant M Johnson
ALTADENA: The Heart. The Art & The Soul — Directed by Eric Dyson
AMUCK — Directed by t.j. peters
An Auschwitz Album Story — Directed by Jeffery L. Gary
Anchor Points — Directed by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe
At the Mercy of Faith – Short Film — Directed by Andrew Arguello
BACKYARDS: L.A.’s Gen Z Music Scene — Directed by Paul Covington
Beneath the Ashes: The Past Reimagined — Directed by Hrag Yedalian
Bet On A Bad Horse — Directed by James Francis Flynn
Bob’s Best Friends — Directed by Randy Kent
BORIS IS DEAD — Directed by James Cullen Bressack
Bottom Feeder — Directed by Vito Trabucco
Brain Spotting — Directed by Chelsea Spirito
Bye-Bye Baby Otter — Directed by Nathanael Shoemaker
Calamity Care — Directed by Zoe Xandra
CALL ME MULE — Directed by John McDonald
Central Unit — Directed by Micah Schiff
CERULEA — Directed by AJ Lambert
Clean Getaway — Directed by Patricia Rigney
Committee Animal — Directed by Robert Redfield
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution — Directed by Bill Haney
Dirty Drugs – The Crisis of Addiction and Overdose — Directed by Peter Bahlawanian, Nairi Bandari
Don’t Assume — Directed by ZEENA M. PLISKA
Earthquake Note — Directed by Kat Foster
Eat Surf Love — Directed by Nada Djordjevich
Eaton Alive — Directed by Jeannette Godoy
Eggnog — Directed by Heather Hillstrom
F Minor — Directed by Josh Litman
Face Love — Directed by Gerald Fillmore
Follow The Sun — Directed by Will Ahrens
Frith – Pinocchio Music Video — Directed by Lauren Hoover
Given — Directed by Marissa Vonn
Happily Never After — Directed by Tamara Hernandez
Harmless — Directed by Charles Box
Homebodies — Directed by Rachel Olson
In The Quite — Directed by Liana Grigoryan
Intertwined — Directed by JOHN SCHWERT
Kick Time — Directed by Thomas Ian Griffith
Left Behind — Directed by David Alexander Ambrose
Limit Exceeded — Directed by Setareh Samandari
Lolo’s JoyRyd — Directed by Wilandrea Lynette Blair
MARILYN’S DARK PARADISE — Directed by Remi Gangarossa
Mort — Directed by Larry Ziegelman, Terry Ziegelman
My Foot is in Heaven — Directed by Iyad Hajjaj
NEXT UP — Directed by Elisabeth Silveiro
NIKI•TOMI•BETO — Directed by Jon Ayon
Paper Faces — Directed by Sull Devries
Partner in Crime — Directed by Alex Wood
Peanut — Directed by Sheila Sawhny
People vs. Politics — Directed by Robert M. Pease, Carol A. Wingard
Plaything — Directed by A.B. Allen
Please Hold — Directed by Donald McQuade
Proxy — Directed by Sungho Phillip Moon
Repercussion(s) — Directed by Kelsey Nerrie
SANDWICHED — Directed by Meg Swertlow
Squash Casserole — Directed by Tobin Sanson
The Audit — Directed by Jon Rizik
The Border Czar — Directed by Raymond T. Williams
THE CURRENT STATE OF THE BACKYARD POOL INDUSTRY — Directed by Derek Frey
The Dying Business — Directed by Joe Duca
The Heroism and Resiliency of 9/11: From Tragedy to Triumph — Directed by Michael Gier
The Hour — Directed by Paige Henderson
The Last Brown Beret — Directed by Del Zamora
The Last Coin — Directed by Minjia Du
The Listeners — Directed by Joslyn Rose
The Ocean and the Sea — Directed by Matthew Katz-Overstreet
The Shape of Her Smile — Directed by Dale Fabrigar
Three Brothers in Shanghai — Directed by Nick Andrus
Tied Up — Directed by Elana Rubin
Todd & The Toad — Directed by Julia Mücke
TOXIC — Directed by Ànú Bámidélé
Unboxed — Directed by Pam Thanatrakolsri, Jiyoung Choi, Marci Wilson, Brian Tran, Chloe Chan, Sizhe Guo
Uncommitted — Directed by Razi Jafri
What We Dreamed of Then — Directed by Taylor Olson
Woman Reclining on Grass — Directed by Claudia Doumit
WOMANHOOD: A TRILOGY OF HORROR — Directed by Elizabeth J. Musgrave
Woozy — Directed by Joey Bicicchi
STUDENT FILM SELECTIONS
A Prayer — Directed by Juan Andres Davalos
Alyssum — Directed by Alex King
An Oath to Two, For Three — Directed by Mohe Pinkston
angel’s eye — Directed by Emi Baumgardner
Birdsong — Directed by Michelle Cheng
Buddies — Directed by Rahul Hansraj
Camp Salvation — Directed by Oz Zhang
Chase Me — Directed by Sal Ardongde
Collision Theory — Directed by Vanessa Lavoie
Dialtone — Directed by Hannah Hope O’Briant
Don’t Letter Go! — Directed by Celine Hung
Embrace — Directed by Youil Kim
FINIS VIAE ODYSSEA FELINA — Directed by Demian Guzman Gonzalez
FISH MONEY — Directed by Genevieve Funes
FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE — Directed by Julian Barahona Rhi
GiRL DOG — Directed by Marissa Jane Brennan
Go Dodo! — Directed by Yoyo Zhu
Heart on the Diamond — Directed by Martha Rodriguez
“Her Anima” — Directed by Benjamin Nicholas Madoyan
Hi, Dad — Directed by Joshua Pitney
Hidden Jab — Directed by Michael Bernardi, Michael Fischer
Honey Business — Directed by Dallin Clarke
In The Still Of The Night — Directed by Aristides Mantilla
InteleJustice — Directed by David Shuck
Last Round — Directed by Pincheng Kuo
Loss — Directed by Alejandra Rosales
Maktub — Directed by Kunle Fasasi
Medəkärpəs — Directed by Indy Gott
Mexican Mudflats — Directed by Ben Do
No Small Matter — Directed by India Anne Mitchell
Normal Glasses — Directed by Ava Azarmi, Matthew Lei
Nuh Uh — Directed by Dean Farella
Our Last Time — Directed by Jiayang Liu
Pyre — Directed by Dylan Miller
Salieri and Mozart — Directed by Mikhail Cherkasov
Seagull Coffee — Directed by Yunqing Pan
St. Augustine’s School for Redeemable Boys — Directed by Judah Joel Esquivel
Talking Stage — Directed by Ken Edwards Offodile
Teenhood — Directed by Jiayang Liu
The Cadenza — Directed by Andrew Ragan
The Gloved Hands of God — Directed by Isabella Ersoz
The Heroine with A Thousand Faces — Directed by Yujie Liu
The Holdens — Directed by Nicholas Geraci
The Last Delivery — Directed by Hasmik Jasmine Tumasyan
The Magic Words — Directed by Gael Kuni
The Oceanarium — Directed by Matthew Lei
The Roswell Report — Directed by Matthew Levine
The Uninvited Child — Directed by Ojsee Brijpuriya
The X Time I Saw Her — Directed by Rex Xiao
There Is, There is Not — Directed by Vincent Parkes
Us and Them — Directed by India Anne Mitchell
Wasabi — Directed by Uhoman Blonded Baby Moltok
we are something — Directed by Huayi Yu
Wedding Belles — Directed by Katherine Wise
FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
Don’t Eat the Mushrooms — Written by Robert C. Hall
Preying on Unicorns — Written by McKinley Bundick
Sunnyslope — Written by John Cummerford
FEATURE SCREENPLAY SEMI-FINALISTS
Jackalope — Written by Luke Guidici
Mint — Written by Jon C. Carlson
SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
Briefcase of Grievances — Written by Paul Corricelli
Baby Manual — Written by Arjun Dinakar
Odysseus Returns — Written by Donald Tongue
Spheres of Influence — Written by Kamran Zamanian
The Meet Up — Written by Enrique R. Carrasco
SHORT SCREENPLAY SEMI-FINALISTS
Final Draft — Written by Michael H. Moore
Interference — Written by Kevin Machate
Need More Eyes — Written by Isabella Ersoz, Ben Do
STUDENT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
The List — Written by Amitav Lahiri
These Days Ago — Written by Olivia Kang
