Hollywood Short Film Festival
  • HOME
  • SUBMIT
  • Schedule & Tickets
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018
    • 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
  • JUDGES
  • BECOME A SPONSOR
  • LOCATION
  • CONTACT US
  • Waivers
  • We submitted
  • laurels
  • Certificates
  • SHOP
  • Donate
  • Store

Welcome to the Hollywood Short Film Festival

Meet filmmakers in person at the Red Carpet, Awards Ceremony and Q&A after screenings. We’ll present local, national and international productions. Enjoy premieres and AWARD winning films previously screened at other famous film festivals around the world. Comedies, dramas, animations, you name it.

10% OF TICKET SALES WILL GO TO FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN

Join us. Have fun. Be inspired
Picture

Here is a little taste of what you're going to see this year.
Watch Trailer, click on image below or go to Vimeo directly here vimeo.com/308227320

Picture
Picture
Saturday, Jan 19, 2019
Promenade Playhouse
1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Red Carpet & Awards
1:00-2:00PM
door $20 online $18 here

Block 1
2:00-3:30PM
door $15 online $12 here

Block 2
3:30-5:00PM
door $15 online $12 here

Block 3
5:00-6:30PM
door $15 online $12 here

BUY 1 GET ONE FREE
Get your ALL FILM PASS for $25 and bring a friend for FREE!
DETAILS HERE

Watch Festival Trailer here
Picture

Red Carpet & Awards
1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Block 1
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM


Right Swipe
by Ricky J Payne
Short Comedy
21:20

God I need a girlfriend
by Stefan Janoski
Short Animation
4:32

Momentum
by May El Hossamy
Super Short Experimental
1:05

The Director's Treatment
by Heinz Kobernik
Short Comedy
12:05

Spirit of the Mountains
by Nurmat Sakebaev
Short Drama
18.19

Waking Up in Crazytown
by Nathan Shelton
Short Comedy
6:20


Block 2
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM


Dirtbags - Boyfriend
by Brea Grant
Short Comedy
9:03

Butterflies
by Andrés Gómez Isaza
Short Animation
8:04

2nd class
by Jimmy Olsson
Short Drama
13:51

Holding
by Jesse D Turk and Jon Zucker
Short Comedy
8:30

Zebrafish: Practically People, Transforming the Study of Disease
by Jennifer Manner
Short Documentary
9:46

Weird
by Olivia O'Hara
Super Short Experimental
0:48

A Play
by Nino Mancuso
Short Comedy
9:20

My Uncle Eddie
by Todd Kwiatkowski
Short Documentary
8:01


Block 3
5:00 PM-6:30 PM


The Master of Cuchillo
by Rodrigo Sebastian Gonzalez
Short Comedy
11:24

How Far
by Alexis Ostrander
Short Drama
11:00

Curious Georgina
by Feraz Ozel
Short Comedy
10:11

Emma Rae
by Allen Sowelle
Short Drama
11:41

POP
by Pat O'Malley
Short Experimental
12:46

We may add a few titles to schedule by December 30th

Expect Q&A with filmmakers after each block.
Subject to change.
We may not have Q&A if filmmakers not arrive.

Watch Festival Trailer here
Picture
Picture
This year our festival supports Free Arts for Abused Children. Free Arts uses art to restore hope, resiliency and self-esteem in children who have experienced abuse, neglect, poverty and/or homelessness.

Free arts volunteers pair children with adult mentors who serve as a positive role model with whom the child has a beneficial, rather than traumatic relationship.

Dance, music, drawing, painting, writing or other art forms gives children a chance for a better future. Today Free Arts provides creative arts programs to more than 22,000 children in Los Angeles annually.

Programs are implemented by expert trained facilitators with the assistance of nearly 200 adult volunteer mentors, who donate more than 14,000 hours every year.

Join us and support them with us. How? Simply get any festival ticket and 10% of the sales will go to Free Arts for Abused Children.

Mark Mos, founder of Hollywood Short Film Festival, thank you for reading this message.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Want to help more? Come to festival, get any festival T-shirt and 100% sales will go to Free Arts for Abused Children.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

AWARDS CEREMONY
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM

Picture
Picture
Presented by Sarah Williams
Actress | Producer | Director

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University - Long Beach in May of 2013 with a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Communication Studies.
Sarah Williams is an actress and producer, known for The Flip Side (2012), Hollywood CEO (2013) and Ash's Homecoming (2018).
Picture
Picture
Photography by Bob Delgadillo.
Bob worked in the entertainment industry for over 40 years. 28 years with CBS Studios at Television City. The last 8 years a professional photographer and authorized contributor to World Entertainment News Network (WENN), PR Photos, The Mega Agency and The Urban Media Group. Lifetime Achievement Award from Los Angeles Music Awards (LAMA) and several certificates of recognition by the California State Senate and Assembly.

Block 1
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM

Picture
Right Swipe
by Ricky J Payne
Short Comedy
21:20

In the search for true love, Emily and George swipe away their expectations of online dating in this dark romantic comedy. Inspired entirely by real life stories, George and Emily meet with challenging scenarios and complex characters in a hilarious tale exploring the triumphs and pit-falls of social situations in today's less-than-perfect digital age.

Picture
God I need a girlfriend
by Stefan Janoski
Short Animation
4:32

From the mind of Stefan Janoski, God I need a girlfriend, a musical short story, that gives the background to the sculpture of the same name.

Picture
Momentum
by May El Hossam
Super Short Experimental
1:05

Life in cities is hard. A woman in Cairo struggles to find her inner rhythm. Only when she gives credit to her Self, a Momentum is created, is time for smiling.

Picture
The Director's Treatment
by Heinz Kobernik
Short Comedy
12:05
Trailer https://vimeo.com/255492592

After passionately delivering a TV commercial pitch for a local Indian supermarket, Agnes a filmmaker from Milwaukee, must find a way to fit into her proposal the colourful requests of the client.
Mr. Satyajit, a former Bollywood actor and now store owner shares with Agnes his version of the commercial by adding ideas of his own. The original idea changes before our eyes as the increasingly excited Mr. Satyajit keeps adding more and more.
By the end the commercial looks nothing like the original pitch and Agnes must decide whether to give in to Mr. Satyajit’s requests or risk loosing the commercial.


Picture
Spirit of the Mountains
by Nurmat Sakebaev
Short Drama
18.19
Trailer https://vimeo.com/274422069

A story about a young adult who risks his own life to save snow leopard from the hunter





Picture
Waking Up in Crazytown
by Nathan Shelton
Short Comedy
6:20

A man wakes up after a one night stand to discover he's slept with a crazy woman

Block 2
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM

Picture
Dirtbags - Boyfriend
by Brea Grant
Short Comedy
9:03

Mark takes some advice from his therapist too literally.

Picture
Butterflies
by Andrés Gómez Isaza
Short Animation
8:04

Butterflies, is the first animated short film produced by LaFinka. It is based on the personal story of the mom of our creative director, Andres Gomez, who battled against cancer with tremendous strength and optimism.

Picture
2nd class
by Jimmy Olsson
Short Drama
13:51
Trailer https://www.hollywoodsff.org/2019.html

Charlotte is the new 2nd class teacher and when she is out with her friends she gets attacked by a nazi. After the hospital when she gets back to her school she discovers that one of her students is the son of that nazi

Picture
Holding
by Jesse D Turk and Jon Zucker
Short Comedy
8:30
Trailer https://vimeo.com/278185050

Nick calls a suicide hotline and is put on hold due to high caller volume (this is a real thing). He finds that his next door neighbor, Cassy, has also been put on hold. They decide to hang out while they wait, but upon Cassy learning that Nick's ex-girlfriend, Chelsea, has been cheating on him for the last four years out of their five year relationship, she drags Nick to confront her.

Picture
Zebrafish: Practically People, Transforming the Study of Disease
by Jennifer Manner
Short Documentary
9:46

Zebrafish: Practically People, Transforming How We Study Disease is a new film that provides an overview of the benefits of Zebrafish as a biomedical research model, in an easy-to-understand, visually-stunning documentary.

Picture
Weird
by Olivia O'Hara
Super Short Experimental
0:48

A high school student learns the worth of sticking out.

Picture
A Play
by Nino Mancuso
Short Comedy
9:20

Ryan and Mark attend their friends' play and encounter the cast and crew afterwards, badly navigating the awkward post-show conversations.

Picture
My Uncle Eddie
by Todd Kwiatkowski
Short Documentary
8:01

Edward Kwiatkowski was born with cerebral palsy, yet learned how to paint with his right foot, and became an accomplished artist.

Block 3
5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Picture
The Master of Cuchillo
by Rodrigo Sebastian Gonzalez
Short Comedy
11:24

Each mind has its own rules, passions, obsessions and ways of loving. But no matter who you are, you should accept yourself as you are, and learn to dance with your darkest version of yourself.

Picture
How Far
by Alexis Ostrander
Short Drama
11:00

An intense psychological thriller about bystander effect, gender inequality, and rape in America after a bus ride home for the holidays goes terribly wrong.



Picture
Curious Georgina
by Feraz Ozel
Short Comedy
10:11
Sizzle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncj-stM3W_I

Inspired by her Korean family pressure to find a husband, Georgina decides to explore her life-long curiosity in women. But she's bad at picking up ladies. Like, scary bad. (Based on true events)

Picture
Emma Rae
by Allen Sowelle
Short Drama
11:41
Trailer https://vimeo.com/257178441

There will be that day when push comes to shove

Picture
POP
by Pat O'Malley
Short Experimental
12:46

This Hollywood Horror story is a psychological thrill ride through the dark side of La La Land, where a mysterious drug blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, and competition turns fatal between friends.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Watch Festival Trailer here
Picture
Picture
Picture
We know the Winners :)

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Right Swipe
by Ricky J Payne

BEST DIRECTING
The Director's Treatment
by Heinz Kobernik

BEST EDITING
Spirit of the Mountains
by Nurmat Sakebaev

BEST ACTRESS
Waking Up in Crazytown
Erin Helm

BEST ACTOR
Dirtbags - Boyfriend
Gregory Wallace

BEST SCREENPLAY
Holding
by Jon Zucker

BEST SUPER SHORT EXPERIMENTAL
Weird
by Olivia O'Hara

BEST LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Curious Georgina
by Feraz Ozel

BEST DRAMA
Emma Rae
by Allen Sowelle

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Zebrafish: Practically People, Transforming the Study of Disease
by Jennifer Manner

BEST ANIMATION
God I need a girlfriend
by Stefan Janoski

BEST EXPERIMENTAL
BEST OF FESTIVAL
Pop
by Pat O'Malley

Congratulations everybody.


Picture
For photos and screenshots from Awards, Q&A and more, go: photos https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Eg3C3bc7WZdNfc03V45HdiPxKPLEcfja
Picture
Support Festival and buy something!
Get Festival T-shirt: Wear it, Frame it,
Get it for someone else as gift!
Visit https://shop.spreadshirt.com/markmosdesign/

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • HOME
  • SUBMIT
  • Schedule & Tickets
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018
    • 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
  • JUDGES
  • BECOME A SPONSOR
  • LOCATION
  • CONTACT US
  • Waivers
  • We submitted
  • laurels
  • Certificates
  • SHOP
  • Donate
  • Store