Official Selections
3 MINUTOS – Directed by Douglas Ryan
After The Fires | Café de Leche – Directed by Rebekah Chun (World Premiere)
AIMEE COMES FIRST – Directed by Aimee Garcia
Aliadas – Directed by Juan Diego Ramirez
ANACHRONISM – Directed by Nick Talarico
Beethoven’s Great Great Great Great Great Grandchild – Directed by Daniel Maggio (Los Angeles Premiere)
Blackberry Winter – Directed by Jason Hightower (West Coast Premiere)
Burt and Hathaway – Directed by Julien Lasseur
Buzzkill – Directed by Amanda Griswold
Carriage Return – Directed by Ferguson Sauvé-Rogan
Church Bell – Directed by Naftali Beane Rutter (Southern California Premiere)
DAD-rahpy – EP 1 -It was dads at first site – Directed by Rick “Wind” Herrera &
Alexandra “Cloud” Gutierrez (West Coast Premiere)
Darling – Directed by Finola Hughes
Ectropy – Directed by Jordan Schulz
End of Things – Directed by Timothy Hautekiet
Erebus – Directed by Brian Reynolds
Eugene O’Neill’s – The First Man – Directed by Hardeep Giani (Los Angeles Premiere)
Exposé – Directed by John Webb
Fairy God Bro – Directed by Stephanie Williams
Folded – Directed by Ari Kraiman
Forgive Me – Directed by Cameron Sun
Good Boy – Directed by Brett Robert Culbert (World Premiere)
Guys Next Door – Directed by Noel Belknap
‘Head Sighs’ – Jumprope – Directed by Matthew Hardesty
Heart Full of Hope – Directed by Dale Fabrigar (World Premiere)
HER HOUSE – Directed by Will Lee
Homeward Dawn – Directed by Alysha Daniele Haran
Hullabaloo: The Curse of the Cheshire Cat – Directed by James Lopez
I-Scream – Directed by Jordan Beltz & Carlee Coulehan (World Premiere)
In Loving Memory Of Our Transgressions – Directed by Jorge. (World Premiere)
INFINITY! – Directed by Benjamin To
Invisible Basketball – Directed by Harry Valentine
Life Support – Directed by Jamon Tolbert
Mother – Directed by Elizabeth J. Musgrave (World Premiere)
Motherload – Directed by Jennifer Berry (West Coast Premiere)
Muscle Beach – Directed by Eliot Charof (World Premiere)
Nate and Moriah in Venice – Directed by Austin Balke (West Coast Premiere)
NO LEFT TURNS – Directed by Douglas Ryan
Not Today, Not Tomorrow – Directed by Neil Miguel Watson
Penguins In Paris…A Love Story? – Directed by Kenny Hargrove (West Coast Premiere)
Reminisce – Directed by Leslie Morris
Ride Share – Directed by Will Ahrens (World Premiere)
Routine – Directed by Jake Bernstein (World Premiere)
Sewing Machine – Directed by Tyler Hagen
SIENNA AND THE SIT – Directed by Scottie Thompson
Solo Trip – Directed by Travis Roman (West Coast Premiere)
Someday – Directed by Justin Baggio Cheung (Los Angeles Premiere)
Spitting Image – Directed by Dimitri Dyó (West Coast Premiere)
Stone Garden – Directed by Alysha Daniele Haran
Stranded – Directed by Luca Floris
STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon – Directed by Ernie Bustamante (Los Angeles Premiere)
Symptoms – Directed by Eliza Gibson & Todd Eric Valcourt
The Junction – Directed by AJ Lambert
The Magic of Santa Claus – Directed by Andrew de Burgh (West Coast Premiere)
The Opener – Directed by Jeff Toye
THE OTHER SIDE – Directed by Nikita Hattangady (California Premiere)
THE PROFESSIONAL PARENT – Directed by Erik Jasaň
The Spot – Directed by Gabriella Westwood & AJ Starzak (World Premiere)
They Slay – Directed by Maddie Macloud
To Engage – Directed by Le Chau
Toby – Directed by Olivia Nash (West Coast Premiere)
TOTALLY SICK – Directed by Adam Nadler (California Premiere)
Two Step Forward, One Step Back – Directed by Cici Liu (World Premiere)
Visitant – Directed by Cameron J. Kic (West Coast Premiere)
Waiting – Directed by Saric Cooper
Watching Walter – Directed by Mitch Yapko
Water Lilies – Directed by Chanho Lee
We Were Young – Directed by Roe Moore
When It Hits – Directed by Veronica Mitsuk
Why Dogs Howl – Directed by Sandi Johnson
Official Selections – Student Films
Caesar’s Cache – Directed by Ralph C. Schulz (California Premiere)
Dahlia’s Monsters – Directed by Abigail Salmon
Do Not Disturb – Directed by Apoorva Dasari
Don’t Forget To Live – Directed by Rohan Aggarwal and Maya Tannous (World Premiere)
El Bar De Hernando – Directed by Andres Felipe Bernal Farias & Maria Gomez
Escape Artist – Directed by Kieran Barker
Essence of Yourself – Directed by Patrycja Kupczyk (Los Angeles Premiere)
F*CK ME! – Directed by Jo Branson (Los Angeles Premiere)
family dinner – Directed by Huayi Yu
Feathers and Silver – Directed by Junyoung Kwon
FIGHTER – Directed by Lauren “Reni” Park (California Premiere)
God Dam – Directed by Abigail Hill
Goddamn’s Great Big Adventure: The Dating Crisis – Directed by Lulu Arrow Mckown
Grandpa’s Stamps – Directed by Yunqing Pan
How We Hamsters Die – Directed by Phoebe Burdick & Mio Gribskov
Human Trial – Directed by David Shuck (World Premiere)
It’s an Art – Directed by Kiana Pan (World Premiere)
Jalopy – Directed by Sal Ardongde
Love & Gold – Directed by Connor Van Dyke (West Coast Premiere)
MISMATCH – Directed by Luna Lee
Natural Selection – Directed by Amanda Ryan D’Ambrosio
Offspring – Directed by Hannah Mutz
Outlandish – Directed by Christina Wu
Palmas – Directed by Aric Lopez
RESTLESS – Directed by Ender Waters (World Premiere)
Scary Marian, the Scariest Librarian – Directed by Brian Thomas Fagan
Second Chance – Directed by India Anne Mitchell
Secrets Kept – Directed by Griffin Powell (World Premiere)
Sequoia – Directed by Michelle Künzler
Sleep – Directed by Logan Kishi
Soultones – Directed by Austin Jeffrey Bourdages
The Boulder Theory – Directed by Quinn Tisdale (California Premiere)
The Diary of Nightmares – Directed by Elizaveta Manina (World Premiere)
The Lonely Life of Lint – Directed by Sarah Sklar
The Pink Skirt – Directed by Hannah Hope O’Briant (World Premiere)
The Princess is Missing! – Directed by Kabir Azul Kukathas
Together – Directed by Gyumin Choi
When The Skies Are Blue – Directed by Matthew Lei
White Custard – Directed by Diag Mikelan Govender
Wilbur & Harold – Directed by Giovanni Edwards
Feature Screenplay Finalists
BENEATH THE UNDERCURRENT – Written by Helen Alexis Yonov
Don’t Eat Paper! – Written by Julius J. Galacki
Sam Katt, Detective – Written by V.R. Marianne Zahn
The Devil’s Chalice – Written by SherLann Dearri Moore
The Fourth Psalm – Written by John Martins III
Short Screenplay Finalists
Diwata – Written by Shea Formanes
Moonshot – Written by Michael Henry Moore
Oceandrop – Written by Michael Henry Moore
Split – Written by John A. Goodlove
THE OLD TIMERS AND THE FOUL BALL – Written by Christopher Loveland
Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalists
Amoeba – Written by Noreen Quadir
Beat of Your Own Drum – Written by Nicholas P Runfolo
Leaving Vacaville – Written by Wendy Bain
The Judge Retires – Written by Jonathan Fear
Short Screenplay Semi-Finalists
Best of Times – Written by Jim Norman
Levi’s Conversion – Written by Antonio Guanaes
The Heist – Written by Humberto De Luna
Ultimately – Written by Cesar Sanchis Romero
Student Screenplay Finalists
Calico – Written by John Moreno Gonzales
Prodigal – Written by Aidan Cullen