Link to Event photos and Winners' List
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Welcome to the
4th Annual OhScares Film Festival Los Angeles
Saturday, October 18, 4 PM
1534 Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028
LAPAC- Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory
This is an international annual event held in Los Angeles CA.
This event is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
We screen local, national and international films.
Great networking for actors, filmmakers, and other artists.
Meet filmmakers who created selected films in PERSON!

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/OhScares

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Schedule, Sat, Oct 18
3:30 PM Doors Open
4:00 PM Screenings FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Sewing Machine, 5:30, Director Tyler Hagen
As A Rake, 10:44, Director Amy Whittenberger
Summon a Gravedigger, 7:30, Director Ryan Barri
Self Shadow Animus, 16:09, Director Mike Reda
THE MORTICIAN'S DAUGHTER, 21:10, Director Elwood Quincy Walker
5:15 PM Q&A with Filmmakers
5:40 PM Awards Ceremony
6:00 PM Networking / Red Carpet
7:00 PM Event Ends

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Tickets
All Film Screenings + Q&A with Filmmakers + Red Carpet +Awards Ceremony + After Party/Networking
Saturday, October 18, from 4 PM until 7 PM. Doors open at 3:30 PM
$12 here online , $15 at the door.
Tickets are also available at FilmFreeway here and Eventbrite 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 (map)
Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory- LAPAC
1534 Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028
(300 feet from the Dolby Theater- Home of The Oscars)

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Suggested Parking (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/OhScares

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

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Films we selected this year

Sewing Machine
Director Tyler Hagen FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
5:30
Heather, a young fashion designer, is working on her latest collection when a knock at the door changes everything. Left on her doorstep is a mysterious sewing machine, seemingly a gift - but it carries a lot more than just bad vibes.

As A Rake
Director Amy Whittenberger FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
10:44
Kim brushes aside red flags when gym-bunny Freddy, her old crush, follows her home from the store. Freddy is blown away by Kim's changed appearance; he can't stop commenting on how amazing she looks now that she's lost so much weight, and complimenting the presumed work ethic the weight loss must have taken. So he's a little thrown off and betrayed to find out Kim's new body is NOT the result of hard work, but instead the result of a new injectable weight loss drug. Now it's his turn to dismiss the red flags. Before long, they're heading upstairs together. But late in the night, the drugs reveal an unpleasant, deadly side-effect, and Kim wonders if the cost of beauty is really worth it.

Summon a Gravedigger FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Director Ryan Barri
7:30
A stop-motion short featuring toys about a mysterious grave bell that starts to ring...

Self Shadow Animus
Director Mike Reda FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
16:09
A teenage girl can't tell the difference between dreams and reality while trying to cope with a recent tragedy.

THE MORTICIAN'S DAUGHTER FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Director Elwood Quincy Walker
21:10
After her Mother’s death, Violet must fulfill her Mother’s final wish that she is embalmed by her own daughter. But as she prepares her Mother’s corpse in the funeral home she was raised in, long-buried memories resurface & Violet discovers a terrifying secret…

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Screenplays we selected this year

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 future collaboration.

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Dinner With the Vampire READ HERE
Writer Bill Mulligan
Scary Short Screenplay (up to 45 pages)
An aging monster hunter trains his protege on the ways of the undead, with some help from a clueless group of vampires.

Necrotica READ HERE
Writer Wesley Steven Drent
Splatter, Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
Six years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a suicidal widow must protect an orphaned child as the world descends into literal Hell on Earth.

The Blood of Blackstone Manor
Writer ROBERT Eugene GRATRIX
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
A fugitive becomes caretaker of a decaying mansion, only to discover its seductive owner and her grotesque mother are breeding a colony of parasitic leeches—creatures that crawl into emotional wounds and psychically feed on negative emotions.

One for the Box
Writer Kevin Machate
Scary Short Screenplay (up to 45 pages)
A reserved ventriloquist and his glamorous, sharp-tongued puppet take the stage for an intimate performance, but beneath the spotlight and sequins, nothing is quite what it seems

They Bring Hell
Writer Bernard Schaffer
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
Two Federal Agents investigate cases of the paranormal, usually ending with them splattered with goo, but a darker evil awaits.

TOILET SHARKS
Writer Bruce Griffiths
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
When mutant sharks attack the residents of a small coastal town from within its sewerage system, a toilet cleaner is forced to team with a shark rights activist, a germophobic biologist and a portaloo vendor to prevent them from biting the whole world in the ass.

Metal Show
Writer Ashland Thomas
Scary Short Screenplay (up to 45 pages)
When a local heavy metal band unleashes a forbidden Satanic ritual during their final song, the music becomes a deadly symphony, and the audience pays the ultimate price.

Don't Turn Around
Writer Lawrence Whitener
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
Family of four trapped in an abandoned carnival are hunted by bad-ass bikers. Soon their hunters also become the hunted as all learn, Don't Turn Around, there IS something behind you. 8 Laurels on IMDb.

The Grey Space READ HERE
Writer Neeraj Anilkumar Rajani
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
In The Grey Space, Teressa, the daughter of Victor and Margarette, is haunted by the lingering darkness of her parents’ unresolved past. As she uncovers long-buried secrets, Teressa finds herself drawn into a nightmarish web where the boundaries between reality and horror begin to blur. The "grey space" that has defined her family is not just emotional—it is a terrifying, unspoken force that twists perceptions and destabilizes her understanding of truth. As Teressa delves deeper into the horrors of her parents' history, she begins to experience a creeping dread that the very fabric of her existence may be tied to the unresolved traumas that have plagued her family. In this atmospheric and unsettling drama, the search for truth becomes a descent into psychological horror, where the cost of uncovering the past may be more than Teressa can bear. The Grey Space explores the terror of confronting the unknown, the weight of generational secrets, and the disorienting nature of a truth that threatens to unravel everything.

La Esposa READ HERE
Writer MATTHEW BENJAMIN SHEEHAN
Los Angeles Screenwriters, Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
If you make a habit of luring migrant day laborers into your home to satisfy the evil slimy forces that creep inside, you better not mess with Hector Ramirez. Because his wife will definitely come looking.

La Caja (the box)
Writer Gabriel Duran
Scary Short Screenplay (up to 45 pages)

The P.I.'s (Paranormal Investigators) READ HERE
Writer Krista Crawford
Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
After a fall from grace, a ghost hunter reluctantly returns to the hometown she left behind and comes face to face with her greatest paranormal threat yet as she tries to rebuild her image. Years after escaping a family and hometown that shunned her, Bates thought she had it all. A successful ghost hunting career and show, a beautiful woman by her side and an unreliable ghostly touch that allows her to touch something and see flashes of its history. But after being discredited and dismissed from her own show as well as dumped, Bates Crawford is forced to return home and face old demons, literally. She reunites with her best friend, she develops a crush on her client’s daughter, and with the help of a couple old classmates, find herself in a paranormal battle from the past as she tries to rebuild her image and reputation as a ghost hunter.

Spring Heeled Jack
Writer Anthony A. Labriola
in Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
Far and away form the traumas of her childhood, Evelyn has made a new life for herself with her adoptive family, but as the horrors of her past, and the hideous monster that accompanies them, come back to haunt her the deep rooted secrets of the people she thought she knew come to light.

Coal Eyes Are Watching READ HERE
Writer Christine Makepeace
in Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages)
When big city “girl boss” Cord Howell travels back home for Christmas, attempts to connect with her aging mother are thwarted by the matriarch’s hostile behavior and a bizarre town-wide obsession with snowmen.

Cat Lady, A Psycho-Biddy Horror
Writers Suzan Averitt, Jeff G Peters
in Scary Feature Screenplay (up to 200 pages), Los Angeles Screenwriters
It's always been Caturday for Auntie Cath. A lonely cat lady succumbs to possession of her spirit by Ancient Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet. Through Bastet she saves her small town from real estate fraud, falls in love and is reunited with her lost child. But Bastet is not a friend, she's a queen and as such, she will take what she needs with little care for those she uses to get Her way

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GRAND Prize sponsored by
Storrior Box

Thank you Festival Judges

John Comen
Mariusz Marek Moscicki
Chris Auby
Ron Slotkin
Tobin Reid
Marquise Franklin
Miguel Silva
Louie Valdez
Ariel Lavi

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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

BEST OF THE FESTIVAL Self Shadow Animus

FILM CATEGORY
BEST SFX MAKE-UP DAN REBERT Sewing Machine
BEST STORY Sewing Machine
BEST SCREENPLAY As A Rake
BEST CONCEPT THE MORTICIAN'S DAUGHTER
BEST ANIMATION Summon a Gravedigger

SCREENPLAY CATEGORY (not produced)
BEST SCREENPLAY La Esposa
BEST STORY Dinner With the Vampire
BEST CONCEPT Necrotica

1% of all photo sales go to
Free Arts for Abused Children

www.freearts.org.

Event Photos
https://snapped4u.com/galleries/22908

Photos by Daniel
www.instagram.com/the_.rovers_lens/?hl=en

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