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Welcome to the
Los Angeles Short Film & Script Festival
Sun, Oct 19, 12 PM
Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory- LAPAC
1534 Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028
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This is an international annual event held in Los Angeles.
We screen local, national and international films.
Perfect place for networking
Meet actors, filmmakers, and other artists.
Meet Stage Plays Writers and Screenwriters.
Meet filmmakers who created selected films in PERSON!
Enjoy Screenings, Q&A with film directors, Awards Ceremony, Red Carpet, and more!

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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 here

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Schedule, Sun, Oct 19
11:30 AM Doors Open
12:00 PM Screenings
Can we talk? Director Nathan Rieden FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!, Student Drama, 13:44
Cowboy Boots, Director Eric K Delehoy FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!, Drama, 12:33
Sock's Manifesto, Director Angeliki Pardalidou, Comedy, 03:30
Of Wind and Water, Director Alexandra Lexton, Documentary, 06:02
Sister Marie-Ange, Director Rami Salloum FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!, Drama, 18:32
The Spirit of String, Director Weimin Zhang FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!, Documentary, 14:30
1:15 PM Q&A with Filmmakers
1:40 PM Awards Ceremony
2:00 PM Networking / Red Carpet
3:00 PM Event Ends

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Tickets
All Film Screenings + Q&A with Filmmakers + Red Carpet +Awards Ceremony + Networking
Sun, Oct 19, from 12 PM until 3 PM. Doors open at 11:30 AM
$12 here online , $15 at the door
EventBrite Tix here. FilmFreeway Tix here
Please note we do not send paper or electronic tickets.
Show proof of your purchase (print, photo screenshot) when entering the building.
You'll get your pass inside the venue.

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Location (click on map)
Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory- LAPAC
1534 Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028
(300 feet from the Dolby Theater- Home of the Oscars)

Suggested Parking (click on map)
6725 Sunset Blvd Garage - 250 spots. Please note festival do not validate parking

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Submit your Film, Video, Screenplay, Poster or Photography.
Is your next project ready? If "YES," submit it for the next festival edition via FilmFreeway here: filmfreeway.com/LosAngelesShortFilmandScript

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Films we selected in the past
Watch now! Amazon Prime and Tubi have it @ www.lacinefest.org/films

Films we selected this year

Can we talk?
Director Nathan Rieden FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Student Drama, 13:44
A drunken college student tries his best to enjoy his party, but when his girlfriend tries to reveal something about their relationship that threatens to spoil his fun, he does all he can to keep her from saying it.

Cowboy Boots
Director Eric K Delehoy FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Drama, 12:33
Jack, a gay cowboy from Nebraska, finds anything but the promised land he envisioned when he visits a San Francisco gay club for the first time.

Sock's Manifesto
Director Angeliki Pardalidou
Comedy, 03:30
Socks go in pairs.They cannot exist on their own, only as a pair! Why?
I am in favor of the self-existence of socks!

Of Wind and Water
Director Alexandra Lexton
Documentary, 06:02
Ned Kahn, renowned large-form kinetic sculptural artist, tells the story of his creations.

Sister Marie-Ange
Director Rami Salloum FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Drama, 18:32
Infiltrating a convent disguised as a nun, Dominique confronts his abandoned sick mother Najat about the past traumas that have defined his life, in a powerful exploration of the delicate balance of power between them.

The Spirit of String
Director Weimin Zhang FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Documentary, 14:30
Two musicians, bound by decades of cross-cultural friendship, fulfilled a lifelong dream — bridging East and West through music.

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Screenplays and Stage Plays we selected this year

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Please note we do not read screenplays at the event.
You can read some of them, now, online. Click READ HERE when available.
Let us know if you like us to contact you with a writer.
Come to event and meet some of the writers in person and talk details about eventual collaboration.

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Stage Plays

John And Nance In Bed Reading READ HERE
Writer Jim Shankman
John is a blocked writer who moves back and forth between two beds, one where he sleeps with his wife, the other where he sleeps with his lover. His marriage is toughened and strained, and over the years it has hardened into an uneasy stalemate. When he meets a younger woman, he falls headlong into a relationship that is volatile, intensely intimate, sexually charged and which breaks him open emotionallyand creatively. But at what cost?

Hemingway Country READ HERE
Writer Darren Crawford Sullivan
This is a one-act play of Hemingway's earlier short stories that demonstrate a great relevence to this modern age. The set is simple and creates a throughline that connects all five stories. Other consistencies is a repeating character of Nick. These stories also model much understanding of Hemingway's themes and biography: unwanted pregnancies, sexual assault, traditional marriage, and PTSD in soldiers returning home from war.

The Garden Club (Tomatoes to Die For)
Writer Mark D Cottrell
Rose Treppendahl, fifty-five, the current owner of her family's historic home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi is forced to take in boarders due to financial difficulties, whom she quickly murders and uses as fertilizer in her prize-winning tomato garden.

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Screenplays

Mio Tesoro
Writers Mario Antonio Pasquali, Andrew Nicholas Blackall
MIO TRSORO chronicles the lives of two destitute siblings (Esther and Raffaele) who become unwittingly embroiled in the quest for a fabulous treasure of immense value, whilst facing trials and tribulations amongst the Calles (lanes) of 1950s Venice, Italy.

The Water Glass
Writer Eric Luthi
Robert has a fight with his wife. He goes to a bar where he finds a replacement, but she comes with strings attached.

The Butterfly Keeper READ HERE
Writer Guy Mayfield
A young British soldier sent on mission via the Royal signals, finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with his new found American ally. Together they overcome the harrows of war, attack and their unrelenting need to find Mussolini and hold to the promises they made to their loved ones back home. Based on a true and untold story.

Weight
Writer Sreedevi Jagannath
To move forward, a woman must unburden herself from the weight of her past.

Timeless Memories READ HERE
Writer Andy Diep
Sebastian is burdened by adult responsibilities, Sebastian yearns for his carefree youth. His discovery of an old VHS tape suddenly takes him back to 2006, where he can relive the pleasures of his youth, including playing video games and making friends as a child. But as the memories reveal, so do the regrets: a failed class, family fights, and a childhood crush he never had the strength to confront. As Sebastian navigates his past, he must decide whether to hold on to nostalgia or accept the future that awaits him.

Pornacopia Inc. Script
Writer Sarah Kopp
Breaking into show biz is hard. Breaking into the porn biz is surprisingly harder for the Pornacopia team. They’re a dysfunctional group of porn stars and crew who show us the behind the scenes antics of what it takes to make “pro-level” pornography in the hopes that they will one day be invited to Porn Con.

Lineage
Writer Jordan G Read
At her teenage child's funeral, a grieving mother confronts her hidden witchcraft ancestry to unleash dark powers and seek revenge on those responsible for the brutal murder. As mourners grapple with the tragedy, chilling flashbacks expose the horrifying truth of a blood-soaked night and a sinister family legacy that can no longer stay buried.

In Love with Regret
Writer Tyre Branton Mills
After scoring 37 points in one half and saving his school's hopes to participate in March Madness, a college ballplayer finds himself at the ultimate fork in the road when life challenges him to choose between what he loves most and what he thinks he loves most and what he's influenced to love most. In addition to several influences pulling him in all directions, the pressure builds to make critical decisions in a short window of time that could decide his future and his love life.

The Man with No Shoes
Writer Nicole Gray
When Ahnest moves to New York, he meets two bad influencers who introduce him to alcohol, parties, and a man who doesn't wear shoes. Although none of these new friendships last, he learns that the choices people make have consequences.

Whispers of Love
Writer Michelle Lynn
In the 1930's in Berlin, Germany, Lea Bachstein, a Jewish Ballerina, and Karl Richter, a high ranking German Cabinet member find themselves entangled in a forbidden love affair as the storm of the Holocaust begins to downpour, testing their loyalties and roles. Will their whispered messages of love and hope be enough to defy darkness and keep their love alive despite a gloomy forecast?

Hunt of the Hound
Writer Alisdair Xibin Zhang
This is a storyboard of 5-minute short animated story.
Hunt of the Hound is intended to be an animated short film, blending the early 20th-century sci-fi horror aesthetic with 21st-century Urban Weird Tales, Japanese anime, and meta-narrative elements.

Night of the Living Diwali
Writer Shankar Sudhakaran
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DIWALI: Bollywood meets horror, as a passive pushover Indian American Amal fights to save his engagement, win his mother’s approval, and survive the Zombie apocalypse during Diwali. 1970s rock classics like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band, and the Ramones, reimagined through the lens of Raag Bilawal and Carnatic stylings, emphasize the themes of cultural identity and the journey of self-discovery in the face of overwhelming challenges encountered by many second-generation Americans.

BOLD
Writer Andry Platrites
"BOLD" is a short story set on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Harlen is challenged by a woman who rides a large displacement motorcycle to follow her on a long ride as a co-pilot. Her passionate personality and love of adventure prompt her to take the dare. To her surprise, she is inspired to turn the step she took into a leap. She starts big engine motorcycle driving lessons!

JUST FOR FUN: A HORROR LOVER’S FANZINE READ HERE
Writer Susan Eileen Jizba
A callous former fraternity guy learns a little too late that his careless words and actions can have deadly consequences.

Awakening
Writer Marianne Vail
A war veteran battling PTSD and his curious grandson are drawn into a dreamlike reality where they face the literal and figurative ghosts of the Vietnam War.

Rooney
Writer D. Hunter Fein
A young raccoon named Rooney and his friends defy all odds by crossing forbidden borders to find food for their starving town, uncovering unexpected dangers and alliances along the way.

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GRAND Prize sponsored by
Storrior Box

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Thank you Festival Judges

Christian Jimenes 
Sascha Wolf
Mireille Joseph
Jonathan Vogel 
William Dobak 
Marta Topolska 
Ray Rael 
Ed Cefala
Johnny D’Angelo D’Angelo 
Jacob Upchurch 
Victor Holcomb
Suzy Stein 
Cole Marshall 
Anisha Chatterjee 
Tina Williams 
Roberto Jabor 
Zhen Chen 
Shelly Ingram 
Chris Hapstack 
Jeremy Finch 
Ria Patel 
ZHAOXUN YUN
Jordan DeCourcey 
Lily Mireles 
Julia Smith 
Tammy Hobbs
binkstersd None 
Teddy Ashcraft 
Evan Thomas 
Joseph Widgeon 
Robert Hargreaves 
Barbara Bullen 
Alexis Lexi 
Shakohwin Black Cloud 
Barry John Terblanche 
Erika Amor 
Demetrix Elyssa Brown 
kt craig 
Gurdeep SIngh 
Kimi Palacios 
Rucci A
Andrea Campbell 
Frank Beckett 
Margaret McNulty 
Riya Agarwal 
Brendan Oliver Bow 
Anestis Pavlidis 

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.

Enjoy
Mark Mos

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BEST DOCUMENTARY & BEST OF THE FESTIVAL The Spirit of String

FILM CATEGORY
BEST STORY Of Wind and Water
BEST DRAMA Cowboy Boots
BEST STUDENT FILM Can we talk?
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SCREENPLAY CATEGORY
BEST SCREENPLAY Timeless Memories
BEST STORY Pornacopia Inc
BEST CONCEPT In Love with Regret
BEST ORIGINAL PLOT The Man with No Shoes
BEST STORYBOARD Hunt of the Hound

STAGE PLAY CATEGORY
BEST STORY John And Nance In Bed Reading
BEST STAGE PLAY Hemingway Country

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