This event is open to the public.
Filmmakers, actors, and regular cinema goers are welcomed!
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Sat, April 25, 3PM
Broadwater Theater
1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles

Get ready for an epic movie experience at the Paramount Film Festival in vibrant Los Angeles! This in-person event brings together film lovers for a spectacular lineup of PG-13 flicks. Whether you’re a cinephile or just up for some great stories on the big screen, this festival is the place to be. Grab your friends and dive into the magic of movies right in the heart of LA!

Program

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VIP FESTIVAL PASS
ALL FILMS + ALL Q&A w/Filmmakers + Awards + Red Carpet Photo Shoot + Networking
($7 here, $10 doors)

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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 Location (map)
Broadwater Theater (92 cinema seats) 6320 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(entrance from 1076 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 your FILM, VIDEO or SCRIPT
or other art for the next festival edition via FilmFreeway here
filmfreeway.com/ParamountFilmFestivalLosAngeles

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Comedies we selected in the past
Our festival not only screen films. We create compilations, with short films submitted to us in the past.
Watch on Tubi, Amazon Video Prime, and other channels have it at www.lacinefest.org/films

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Films and videos we selected this year
All Films and Videos are NOMINATED for the Best of the Festival.

The Shallow End
Director Eddie Kisfaludy
Comedy
6:50
Tiffany’s chill pool day explodes when her wasted neighbors crash the deck with Solo cups and chaos. What starts as tequila fueled torment turns into a viral showdown of class, ego, and unexpected connection. With biting humor and sun burnt absurdity, The Shallow End dives into the messy, hilarious ways strangers collide and why it’s sometimes more fun to swim with the troublemakers.

Please
Director Daniele Frontoni
Music Video
Italy
4:20
Please is a haunting, cinematic track that tells the story of choosing to stay—right at the edge, when everything feels lost.
Inspired by the idea of a suicide that never happened, it explores the fragile space between darkness and rebirth, and the power of second chances.
With suspended, intimate, and sensual sounds, Please is also a tribute to David Lynch, honoring his way of unveiling the human soul through the aesthetics of silence and mystery.
A sonic journey through nostalgia, longing, and hope.

SCHMIQUARDS
Director Charlotte Cayeux
Western
France
9:00
Patoche and Dom go to Milou's bar to try to obtain their share from an obscure deal…

Belly Button - Chapter 2 Mezcal
Director Dan Goldberg
Documentary
United States
6:06
In the heart of Oaxaca, mezcal is more than a spirit - it's a bridge between generations, a keeper of indigenous wisdom, and a testament to cultural resilience. This documentary follows the sacred journey of mezcal production, where ancient techniques passed down through families reveal how culinary traditions preserve indigenous identity in modern Mexico. Through the eyes of master mezcaleros, we witness how each batch of mezcal carries forward not just flavors, but stories, rituals, and a way of life that refuses to be forgotten. As global interest in mezcal soars, these guardians of tradition demonstrate how food and drink can become powerful tools for cultural preservation, proving that in Oaxaca's indigenous communities, every sip is a return to origins - a taste of home.

Discovering Bessie Coleman
Director Beth Powell
Documentary
United States
26:01
Discovering Bessie Coleman is an inspiring documentary that celebrates the impact of Bessie Coleman’s legacy through the eyes of those she continues to inspire. Rather than a biographical account, the film shares personal stories from Coleman’s family, aviation professionals, and celebrities like author and actress Karyn Parsons, recounting how they first learned about Coleman’s groundbreaking achievements as the first African-American and Native American woman to earn an international pilot’s license. Despite her accomplishments, Coleman’s story remains unfamiliar to many. This documentary highlights the transformative power of her journey, showcasing how her determination to overcome barriers continues to motivate and empower new generations in aviation and beyond.

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TV Scripts, Short & Feature Screenplays we selected this year
All Scripts are NOMINATED for the Best of the Festival.
Are you a director or producer looking for a script?
Click OPEN PDF (where available), and the script or stage play will pop out on this screen.
Please note we do not read screenplays at the event.

An Act Of Kindness
Submitter Benny Redmond
Short Screenplay
OPEN PDF
An elderly, bullied assistant has had enough of her Kindness Influencer tyrant boss.

Over The Rainbow
Writer Lucia Tarantino
Feature Screenplay
A young boy struggling with the death of his
mother is given a key to a map that transports
him into a magical world where animals talk,
and dreams come true.
His path towards finding his inner strength to carry on, lies on the treacherous yet mystical journey
over the rainbow.

Brodhead Society
Writer Christopher Alan Scott
TV Pilot
When Wisconsin’s buried folklore comes to life, a small-town waitress, a cook, and a historian must uncover the truth behind the ghosts and curses haunting their community, before the past consumes them all.

MAYHEM AT TRANQUILITY MANOR
Submitter Robert Mcdannald
Feature Screenplay
A witty ex-mob fixer recovering from a stroke in a convalescent home must outsmart a corrupt psychiatrist and two ex-cons to survive a deadly plot-armed with only a dagger cane, loyal allies, and his charm.

PRECURSOR
Writer Steve Brown
TV Pilot
When a mysterious contagion traps its victims in paralyzing loops of déjà vu, a burned-out neurosurgeon races against time to save lives, only to stumble upon a conspiratorial plot to wipe out the human race. Think the cosmic dread of 3 BODY PROBLEM meets the psychological horror of YELLOWJACKETS.

GOLD MINE
Writer Andrzej Ciesielski
Feature Screenplay
OPEN PDF
In a galaxy where love has been forgotten and life has begun in fluid incubators, one man dares to rediscover what it means to be human.
Jupiter Cross, a former soldier, senator, and now scientist, shaped by countless incarnations, an exemplary citizen of the Kyron Federation, is accidentally included in a unique experiment. Instead of going through an incubator and then ending up in a children's colony, he is born naturally for the first time and experiences childhood under the care of his real biological parents.
Deeply moved by their sincere love and the joyful childhood they provided him with, he decides to turn his life into a new direction.

Beulah
Writer Beulah
Short Screenplay
OPEN PDF
Beulah is a true story told through a creative nonfiction lens — a Southern woman’s journey from trauma to transformation.
Set across Arkansas, Texas, and the Gulf Coast, it follows Beulah from a childhood marked by silence and abuse to a womanhood defined by faith and resilience. Each stage of her life reveals the quiet strength of a survivor learning to find her voice — through heartbreak, single motherhood, and divine encounters that reshape her sense of purpose.
When tragedy strikes and she loses the father of her unborn child, Beulah is forced to rebuild from the ashes of pain. Guided by faith, therapy, and her daughters’ love, she begins to heal and rediscover herself. A divine prompting leads her to the Gulf Coast, where new light breaks through.
There, through writing and reflection, Beulah turns her wounds into words — transforming survival into freedom.
A deeply personal yet universally resonant story, Beulah explores faith, motherhood, and the redemptive power of voice.

Through Time and Tears
Writer Henry Fox
Feature Screenplay
OPEN PDF

MAX AND MARIA
Writer Rosalyn Rosen
Female Screenwriter
The unlikely love story between two people haunted by their unimaginable pasts.

Running: A New Play
by Sean Chandler
Stage Play
When a married, closeted-gay mayoral candidate is outed in a lewd and public manner, he and his family struggle to pick up up the pieces and move forward.

At The Flash
Writers Sean Chandler, David Leeper
TV Pilot
At The Flash tells the story of a fictitious gay bar over six different decades from the 1960's to current day. We begin in 1965 with Richard, a husband and father, struggling with his true identity and reaching a critical personal crossroads. The new gay freedoms of the 1970’s are represented in Miss Sparkle, an aging Drag Queen, who shares her wisdom with her newest protégé. With the 1980’s bringing the fear of AIDS to gay men young and old, Derrick Winston humorously faces a questionable diagnosis adding to the already complicated task of finding a lover. Fighting the uphill battle of the Gay Rights Movements of the 1990’s, bubbly lesbian Mona Epstein takes on activism to advance her personal, political and social agenda. Doris, an unofficial den mother, challenges the unreasonable "requests" of a local religious figure during the mid-2000's. Present day owner of The Flash, Rod Mahoney, struggles to make his grand re-opening deadline while pinpointing his motivation to do so.

The Screenwriter Dies A Thousand Deaths
Writer JIm Shankman
Feature Screenplay
OPEN PDF
Willy Shotz is a brilliant screenwriter. Producers kill for his stylish violence and comic sci fi. He looks to be a true Hollywood eccentric, smoking a joint before walking into the office of Gabe Weiner to pitch him one last time. But this is not recreational drug use. Willy is dealing with symptoms of late stage cancer, including fainting spells, chemo brain and a heart full of woe. Gabe for his part is a steely charmer who dismisses his own flagrant insincerity as merely an occupational hazard. As Willy begins to pitch his screenplay, Gabe fights back with every word in his impressive arsenal including “intellectual arthouse comedy.” As they battle back and forth, Willy’s illness threatens to get the better of his short-term memory, his emotions, his ability to stay upright and cogent; in other words his dignity. As passions rise to a heated pitch Willy walks out and takes his script with him.

Good Buddies
Writer Bob J Lanz
California Writers
When an old friend suffers a head injury and looses his memory some of his oldest buddies try to help his recovery by returning to Mexico where their greatest surfing memories were made.

Home Game
Writers Michelle Massie, Tim McHugh
Feature Screenplay
After an international pilgrimage changes his world view, an idealistic young man starts a quixotic quest to bring decent housing to the people of Los Angeles. But the Red Scare steals his vision, displaces thousands, lands him in jail, and opens the door for Dodger Stadium.

Deception
Writer David Alan Bentley
Stage Play
Deception is a chilling one-act psychological drama that blurs the lines between reality and performance. Nasha, a defiant patient locked in therapy sessions with the enigmatic Aniloyoda, believes she is a character trapped inside a play—her every move dictated, her pain exploited by an unseen audience. As their sessions unravel, layers of illusion and control peel back, culminating in a jaw-dropping reveal: Aniloyoda is not just her therapist but the very creator of Nasha’s scripted torment. In a brutal act of rebellion, Nasha seizes the narrative and shatters the fourth wall, literally and figuratively. Leaving audiences questioning authorship, autonomy, and the true cost of voyeurism.

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Thank you all Judges

John Comen Judge
Mariusz Moscicki Judge
William Ward Judge
David Preciado Judge
Lazarus Gerofotis Judge
Roman Kozyrev Judge
Feiyang Zhang Judge
Mellissa Manzagol Judge
Carina Chavda Judge

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The Festival is organized by

The Festival is organized by Mark Mos
Mark is a 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.

Mark co-produced these films and compilations below
Watch them all at www.lacinefest.org/films

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