Welcome to the
Hollywood Short Film Festival
This is an international annual event held in Los Angeles CA.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
11AM-5PM
(DOORS OPEN 10:45 AM)
Broadwater Theater, Main Stage.
6320 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(entrance from 1078 Lillian Way Los Angeles, CA)

We screen BEST OF THE BEST!
Local, national and international films and videos.
Comedies, dramas, documentaries and more.

Great networking for actors, filmmakers, and other artists.
Meet filmmakers who created selected films in PERSON!
Meet Screenwriters and talk with them about potential collaboration.

Stay for the Q&A session with film directors.
Enjoy 15 minutes Awards Ceremony where all producers, directors, composers, screenwriters meet to celebrate winning!
Don't miss Red Carpet Photo Shoot, and more!

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Tickets
We could do a FREE event, but then people do not show up. Enjoy the most affordable film festival in LA!
Block #1 (11:00am-12:30pm) Screenings + Q&A w/Filmmakers + Networking ($3 here, $5 doors)
Block #2 (1:00pm-2:30pm) Screenings + Q&A w/Filmmakers + Networking ($3 here, $5 doors)
Block #3 (3:00pm- 4:30pm) Screenings + Q&A w/Filmmakers + Networking ($3 here, $5 doors)
Awards (4:30pm- 5:00pm) Meet All filmmakers, Red Carpet Photo Shoot ($7 here, $10 doors)
or get FESTIVAL VIP PASS, ALL FILMS + ALL Q&A w/Filmmakers + Awards + Red Carpet Photo Shoot ($15 here, $20 doors)

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Program

10:45 am Doors Open
11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm Screenings + Q&As

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11:00 am Screening Block #1 + Q&A
Come Back, Director Helen O Reilly, Drama, Ireland, 14:37
F*CK YOU, BRYCE, Director Spencer Hayden, Comedy, United States, 4:17
Autopsía, Director Philipp Kowalski, Experimental, Germany, 4:35
Vbucks, Director Keon Rezazadeh, Comedy, United States, 5:21
TOMMY Director Chris Michael Fretwell, Drama, United Kingdom, 20:00
Hansel & Gretel, Director Yiru Deng, Animation, United States, 3:10
UNDERDOGS, Director OLIVIER PANIER, Drama, Belgium, 20:00 (eng subs)
72 minutes total
12:20 pm Q&A w/Filmmakers of the films we just screened (same screening room)
12:40 pm Break / Networking

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1:00 pm Screening Block #2 + Q&A
Battle Of LA, Director Patrick Pizzolorusso, Sci-Fi, United States, 14:36
Second Spring, Directors Jennifer Y. Sun, Ailla R. Crossman, Animation, United States, 4:22
The Re-Education of Jane Brown, Director MK McGehee, Drama/Thriller, United States, 16:20
Back To The Closet, Director Gerald B. Fillmore, Comedy, Spain, 10:00  (eng subs)
Under The Veil, Director Luca Ontino, Music Video, Italy, 2:56
Reddening, Director: Sinem Kayacan, Performance Director: Elina Pirinen , Fantasy/Experimental, Finland, 15:00
EUPHORIA by T E O N I, Film Score, 5:00
70 minutes total
2:20 pm Q&A w/Filmmakers of the films we just screened (same screening room)
2:40 pm Break / Networking

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3:00 pm Screening Block #3 + Q&A
Mystery of the Flower, Director Sargon Saadi, Fantasy, United States, 9:30 (eng subs)
From Mother, with Love, Director Gabrielle Wood, Comedy, United Kingdom, 8:43
Regina Doyle Silent Film Starlet: The Untold, Tragic, But True Story, Director Carla Roda, Documentary, United States, 21:56
Marginalia, Director Alex Gentemann, Animation, United States, 3:15
Wear The Dark, Director Luca Ontino, Music Video, 2:22
The Lover, Director Cadenza Zhao, Drama, Germany, 15:00 (eng subs)
HOW DO YOU KNOW? by Debra Gussin, Song, United States, 3:23
65 minutes total

4:10 pm Q&A w/Filmmakers of the films we just screened (same screening room)
4:30 pm Awards Ceremony.
                All Nominated filmmakers, screenwriters and other artists in the house
4:45 pm Red Carpet – Step & Repeat photos with all guests
5:00 pm Networking/Mixer at the Broadwater Plunge Bar
                6324 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
                     Same building at the corner of Santa Monica & Lillian Way

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We support a Good Cause!
Each year, 1% of all ticket and festival merchandise sales go to Free Arts for Abused Children www.freearts.org

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Festival Reviews
More reviews at filmfreeway.com/HollywoodShortFilmFestival

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Festival Location (map)
Broadwater Theater (92 cinema seats) 6320 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(entrance from 1078 Lillian Way Los Angeles, CA)

Suggested Parking (map)
Television Center, 6311 Romaine St, Los Angeles, CA 90038 or street parking
Please note festival do not validate parking.

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Submit you FILM, VIDEO or SCRIPT
or other art for the next festival edition via FilmFreeway here filmfreeway.com/HollywoodShortFilmFestival
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Comedies we selected in the past
Our festival does not only screen films. We create compilations with short films submitted to us in the past.
With a special agreement with our previous winners, we can show you the best of the best on Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, and other channels. All films are listed here: www.lacinefest.org/films

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Films we selected this year

Come Back, Director Helen O Reilly
Drama, Ireland, 14:37
11 year-old Jenny idolizes her older sister and tags along with Lisa and her new friends on a day out. When she witnesses her sister being bullied, Jenny tries to help but events take a sinister turn.

Autopsía, Director Philipp Kowalski
Experimental, Germany, 4:35
Autopsía is a short experimental video essay that explores what lingers when bodies have vanished but their presence endures. Set in desolate spaces, where no living beings appear except in fleeting black-and-white recollections, the film traces an atmosphere steeped in loss, yet strangely filled with humanity. Drawing on archival footage and pre-existing works by other filmmakers, Autopsía operates as a montage-based citation—an assemblage of visual memory that reflects on absence, cinematic afterlife, and the traces images leave behind. Through images of abandoned homes and fractured landscapes, Autopsía reflects on the fragile boundary between body and spirit, between surface and soul.
Empty shells remain — silent witnesses to lives once lived — yet the air hums with an invisible vitality, a memory of human presence that refuses to fade. In fragmentary rhythms and stillness, the film evokes the haunting beauty of absence: where what is lost becomes most deeply felt.

Vbucks, Director Keon Rezazadeh
Comedy, United States, 5:21
A boy unintentionally angers the mob boss he owes money too.

TOMMY Director Chris Michael Fretwell
Drama, United Kingdom, 20:00

F*CK YOU, BRYCE, Director Spencer Hayden
Comedy, United States, 4:17
You ever hate your coworker so much you write a diss track about them? No? Oh. Well, I did.

UNDERDOGS, Director OLIVIER PANIER
Drama, Belgium, 20:00 (eng subs)
Karim, a homeless boy, and Gégé, his drug-addicted father, are finally eligible for social housing. Estranged from him, Karim finds him in a dreadful squat, sacrificing his dignity to afford drugs. Karim must make a drastic decision to turn things around.

Hansel & Gretel, Director Yiru Deng
Animation, United States, 3:10
In a vast desert, two starving and exhausted children knock on the door of an isolated RV, begging for food. A tense, oppressive atmosphere emerges as a scruffy man peers at them through the cracked door. When two innocent children enter the RV, an unexpected story begins.

Second Spring, Directors Jennifer Y. Sun, Ailla R. Crossman
Animation, United States, 4:22
When the making of a new planet goes wrong, Moon encourages Sun to let their creation be imperfect.

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Battle Of LA, Director Patrick Pizzolorusso
Sci-Fi, United States, 14:36
During one of Los Angeles' most bizarre evenings in 1942, a 'something' was spotted over the skies. A 'something' that the anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on. A 'something' that two young scientists find and race against the clock to figure out what it is and how to keep it safe.

Under The Veil, Director Luca Ontino, Music Video, Italy, 2:56

The Re-Education of Jane Brown, Director MK McGehee
Drama/Thriller, United States, 16:20
A reticent young woman, haunted by her violent past, wakes to find herself imprisoned in a re-education facility for women who have attempted to have abortions. In this new reality where seeking bodily autonomy is a crime punishable by death, she must decide if she is willing to be re-educated or if she is ready to face her own mortality.

Back To The Closet, Director Gerald B. Fillmore
Comedy, Spain, 10:00  (eng subs)
After ten years living together, Sebastian is going to confess the truth to Lucia about his sexual orientation. Sebastian is a victim of social pressure and he has been leading a double life but now the time has come to confess Lucia that he is heterosexual. it's time to get out of the closet, I mean, back to the closet.

Reddening, Director Sinem Kayacan
Fantasy/Experimental, Finland, 15:00
REDDENING is a genre-bender arthouse fantasy film, at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction.
zodiakvisions.com/reddening

EUPHORIA by T E O N I
Film Score, 5:00
“Euphoria” is a piece filled with light and energy. Gentle piano and warm strings grow step by step into a powerful and uplifting sound. It carries the feeling of joy, freedom, and hope — like a moment when the heart feels completely alive.

Marginalia, Director Alex Gentemann
Animation, United States, 13:15
When a young monk gets creative in the scriptorium, things take an unexpected turn as his doodles come to life!

Mystery of the Flower, Director Sargon Saadi
Fantasy, United States, 9:30 (eng subs)
A reclusive Syrian poet, captivated by the beauty of a discarded bouquet of flowers, is transported into a tapestry of his imagination to uncover life deepest truths. As he delves deeper into the mysteries of existence, he confronts profound truths about life, love, and the interconnectedness of all things. The film draws its inspiration from an Arabic poem of the same name, written by the late Syrian-Assyrian poet Saad Saadi. Despite his extraordinary literary contributions, much of Saadi's work remains largely unpublished.

From Mother, with Love, Director Gabrielle Wood
Comedy, United Kingdom, 8:43
When a daughter in her 30's comes home to find her mother straddling a stranger on the coach, more in unraveled. Turns out her mother isn't really a hairdresser and had been lying to the family for years.

Regina Doyle Silent Film Starlet: The Untold, Tragic, But True Story, Director Carla Roda
Documentary, United States, 21:56
A joyride through silent-film era Hollywood, whose center of gravity is a rising, 24 year-old starlet whose violent death clips the rose of her silver-screen dream. Discovered by Carl Laemmle in Chicago as a teenager while performing at the Gold Room of the Chicago Congress Hotel, he said “ if you move to Hollywood, I will be sure that you get your chance to be the next Mary Pickford, Pola Negra or Norma Shearer”. Regina Doyle was on a trajectory of Hollywood film success, when tragedy struck, highlighted by a Premonition of Evil by her mother and the circumstances of how she died. One hundred years later her grandsons embark on a 20-year journey! We all know about the famous Silent Film actresses' and stars, the Clara Bow's, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor and many others. But what about the other lesser unknown actresses of that galaxy of stars, such as the Untold Story of a Silent Film actress our Grandmother, Regina Doyle!

Wear The Dark, Director Luca Ontino, Music Video, 2:22

The Lover, Director Cadenza Zhao
Drama, Germany, 15:00 (eng subs)
Haunted by grief, Daniel fills the void with casual sex, hoping to escape his loneliness. But when he can no longer ignore the truth, he’s forced to face the emotions he has been running from.
__________ Daniel appears to have it all — loyal friends, a deep bond with his father, and a very active sex life. But beneath his ‘manliness’, grief is eating him up. His friends are there to support him but their presence offers little comfort. He distracts himself with one-night-stands and casual sex, secretly wishing to find true love to fill this void. But desire is no cure for loss, and when the weight of his denial becomes unbearable, Daniel is forced to confront the truth he’s been running from.

HOW DO YOU KNOW? by Debra Gussin
Song, United States, 3:23

It’s like you stepped out of a prayer,
a beautiful gift from out of nowhere,
just to make me smile. In the space between empty and whole,
you unlock my heart, and you fill up my soul.
I can’t believe you’re mine. (chorus)
How do you know
when I need you the most?
Does heaven ring some kind of bell? You make me dream
a much bigger dream
than I’ve ever dreamed for myself. (verse 2)
If I’m lost or I’m losing control
You are the light that keeps leading me home.
I just follow you. Feeling like I don’t belong,
I listen and hear you there singing my song
in a voice so strong and true. (chorus)
How do you know
when I need you the most?
Does heaven ring some kind of bell? You make me dream
a much bigger dream
than I’ve ever dreamed for myself. (bridge)
How do you know what I’m missin’?
How do you know what I’m wishin’?
How do you know why I’m here
and who I’m meant to be? (chorus x 2)
How do you know
when I need you the most?
Does heaven ring some kind of bell? You make me dream
a much bigger dream
than I’ve ever dreamed for myself. How do you know
when I need you the most?
Does heaven ring some kind of bell? You make me dream
a much bigger dream
than I’ve ever dreamed for myself.
than I’ve ever dreamed…for myself.

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Short Screenplays we selected this year
Are you a director or producer looking for a script?
Click READ HERE (where available), and the script or stage play will pop out on this screen.
Please note we do not read screenplays at the event.

Celandine's Diversion
Writer Helen Fowler
Celandine rediscovers former talents when she is paroled to a group of symphonic witches for diversion therapy from drug addiction. As a corvid elf, her road to success is lined with temptation and her fellow corvids seek to obstruct her recovery.

The Stopover between Life and Death
Writer gabriel yves cuny
READ HERE
Dive into an odyssey where an angel guides a human along the
mysterious path that separates life from death.

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The Festival is organized by

Thank you all Judges

Julia Trachtenberg 
Seojin Park 
Myriam L. Obin
Maryam Farahzadi 
Marta Topolska 
JONNY LEWIS 
Justin Gorski 
Julian Kozerski 
Stella Asmon 
Loyal Royal 
Judy Ng
James Cotton 
K Ament 
Dave Quarrington

The Festival is organized by Mark Mos, Los Angeles-based Kodak Entertainment Imaging Awarded filmmaker and Film Premieres organizer. Mark has organized premieres such as Oscar's Awarded "Gladiator" (Russell Crowe), "Mission Impossible 2" (Tom Cruise), "Gone in 60 seconds" (Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie), "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Jim Carrey), and much more. Mark is also a filmmaker; he has a master's degree in TV and Film Production. His films were shown at film festivals in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago or Salt Lake City, and also European countries.

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