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
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
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 
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 
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 |
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. 
Want to help more? Come to festival, get any festival T-shirt and 100% sales will go to Free Arts for Abused Children.
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AWARDS CEREMONY
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM
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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). |
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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
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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
3:30 PM- 5:00 PM
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Dirtbags - Boyfriend
by Brea Grant Short Comedy 9:03 Mark takes some advice from his therapist too literally. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Weird
by Olivia O'Hara Super Short Experimental 0:48 A high school student learns the worth of sticking out. |
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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. |
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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
5:00 PM-6:30 PM
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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Emma Rae
by Allen Sowelle Short Drama 11:41 Trailer https://vimeo.com/257178441 There will be that day when push comes to shove |
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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. |
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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. |
For photos and screenshots from Awards, Q&A and more, go: photos https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Eg3C3bc7WZdNfc03V45HdiPxKPLEcfja
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