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Join us for the Sunset Film Festival Los Angeles.
An epic in-person experience celebrating indie films, cool vibes, and amazing people.
Catch the latest flicks, chat with filmmakers, and enjoy the sunset backdrop in the heart of LA.
Whether you're a movie buff or just here for the fun, this festival's where the magic happens.
Don’t miss out on great stories and awesome company!

Sat, May 2, 2026
11am-6pm
(door open 10:45am)
Broadwater Theater, Main Stage.
1076 Lillian Way Los Angeles, CA

Program

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Tickets

11am Screenings +Q&A + Networking
$7 online $10 doors

1pm Screenings +Q&A + Networking
$7 online $10 doors

3pm Screenings +Q&A + Networking
$7 online $10 doors

VIP Festival Pass All Screenings +Q&As + Networking
$20 online $25 doors

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Venue Address
Broadwater Theater- Main Stage
1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Suggested Parking
Television Center
6311 Romaine St Los Angeles, CA 90038
or free street parking
Please note the festival does not validate parking

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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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Submit your FILM, VIDEO or SCRIPT
or other art for the next festival edition via FilmFreeway here
filmfreeway.com/SunsetFilmFestivalLosAngeles

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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 we selected this year
All Films and Videos are NOMINATED for the Best of the Festival.
Results at the Awards, 4:30pm, March 28

Apple Cider Vinegar
Director Jodi Carol Harrison
Comedy
United States
13:32
VANIK, the mechanic, meets THE VET when she brings her cherished Rolls Royce in for repair. Vanik and his sidekick, THE MECHANIC, diagnose a serious problem with the heart of the car. "It needs a part that is impossible to find… a Trackulator Fibitour " While waiting for her car The Vet meets Vanik’s beloved dog, KIRBY, and discovers their heart is also broken. There is chemistry when Vanik and The Vet come face to face to discover their mutual broken heart issues.
The Vet is not deterred by the challenge of finding a Trackulator Fibitour. Later that night she researches this miraculous part and starts planning her quest to find it.
Watch at 11am. Tickets

Hit Men
Director Rhyan Hill
Comedy
10:01
United States / Compton CA
Three dysfunctional friends take on their first job as hit men, but the distractions and their inexperience derail the mission.
Watch at 3pm. Tickets

Starry Night
Director Micah Oren Feldkamp
Music Video
Ecuador, United States
3:33
Defying a century of 'tortured artist' tropes, this project marks the first original song-and-animation composed to liberate Van Gogh’s The Starry Night from tragedy into a living sanctuary of love. A dreamy duet melts The Starry Night into the sea, pulling two lovers inside a world of liquid art. They row across indigo waves, waltz on the cobblestone streets of Café Terrace, and cycle through endless Tulip Fields, sharing a kiss under the windmills. As they stroll along the Rhône, a small Crab—with swirls of Starry Night—emerges from the tide and awakens the couple from their lullaby. She rests her red hair on his shoulder as the gallery’s final piano notes fall into a moment of silence.
Watch at 3pm. Tickets

Bears in Hot Tubs
Directors Maddie Bear, Claire Musser
Environmental
United States
17:00
Bears in Hot Tubs is a tender, emotionally resonant short film co-created with Maddie Bear and her wild kin, who move through the suburban landscapes of Los Angeles with curiosity, intelligence, and quiet grace. From soaking in backyard tubs to wandering garden paths, these black bears are not intruders; they are neighbors, navigating a world remade by human presence.
Watch at 3pm. Tickets

Bring A Shovel - Harrison Street DIY
Director Shawn Eric Wright
Sport
United States
40:00
Kansas City skateboarders build a skatepark with some unexpected support, transforming a vacant lot into a sanctuary for activity and community. But, as development interest in the neighborhood grows, the future of the park is uncertain.
Bring A Shovel – Harrison Street DIY explores the world of skateboarding, the power of community and the importance of shared spaces in our neighborhoods.
Watch at 1pm. Tickets

Untouchable
Director Adam Lapallo
Sport
United States
17:59
TRAILER
Roxanne is a fencing champion-turned-coach who was forced to retire too young. Her student, Miles, dreams of achieving glory in the NCAA, egged on by his overbearing father, Harvey. When Miles is waitlisted by his dream school, tension brews amongst the three of them. Mounting pressure from Harvey on Roxanne boils over at a local fencing tournament, and Roxanne's former student, Jillian, is caught in the crossfire. As Miles's tunnel vision around the NCAA worsens, Harvey's grip on Roxanne tightens, and Roxanne's relationship with fencing becomes a conflict of interest, Miles heads into an all-or-nothing bout that could spell victory or doom for the fledgeling duo.
Watch at 3pm. Tickets

Swinging for Tomorrow
Director Guan Yi
port
China
23:52
Qin Yujie, an orphan from China’s Inner Mongolia, is given a life-changing opportunity when Coach Li brings him to join the “Little Dragons” baseball team in Xujiadai—China’s famed baseball village. Under the blistering summer heat, he trains relentlessly alongside his teammates for the upcoming National Youth Championship. But for Qin, this tournament is more than just a game: it’s his chance to build a future through baseball. If he fails to perform, he must return to the orphanage.
Watch at 11am. Tickets

Hot Fascist Jizz
Director Jayme Kusyk
Comedy
United States
17:54
A woman asks to use her friend's husband's sperm to make a baby -- even though he's a racist cop.
Watch at 1pm. Tickets

Ghosts of Things to Come
Director Germano Sardinha
Thriller
Sweden
17:12
Ghosts of Things to Come follows Nate, a man in his late 30s, haunted from a lifetime of horrible visions and dreams, which he now believes to hold the answers for survival from an oncoming apocalyptic event.
Nate begs his twin sister, Brenda, to return to their childhood home, where we first see them. Emotionally drained, from her own life and witness to a entire life of delusion and paranoia, she is skeptical of Nate’s proposal and plan. But despite her doubts, she’s drawn deep into his world of chaos.
As emergency sirens blare and the outside world descends into panic and chaos, Nate convinces Brenda to follow him into the cave, a place where they use to play as children, and that now he believes to be their only path to survival. The two race through the forest as the blinding light of the apocalypse engulfs them.
Brenda finally chooses to trust her brother, stepping into the cave with him as everything around them collapses. The lines between delusion and reality blur, and the siblings face an uncertain fate together.
Watch at 3pm. Tickets

Acetone
Directors Justin Colvin, Meredith Jackson, Mario Becerra
Music Video
United States
5:13
Music video for the song "Acetone" by The Pronghorn. Cautionary tale about addiction and early death.
Watch at 1pm. Tickets

Rumination
Director Catherine Ngo
Animation
United States
6:24
A knight struggles with the intense compulsion to sharpen his sword to perfection. When he hesitates to tell his companion, his compulsion manifests in reality as a monster, posing a threat that he cannot face alone.
Watch at 11am. Tickets

Portraits in Coal
Director Jack Gaertner
Documentary
United States
17:01
Miners in West Virginia Coal towns are dying to make a living in a fading industry. Movement toward sustainable energy sources has strangled the coal-dependent economies that many Appalachian communities have relied on for over a century. Despite the corruption and the long history of negligent safety practices, the people of Whitesville, West Virginia are determined to carry on their way of life.
Watch at 11am. Tickets

House Party
Director Robert Fabian Arnold
Drama
Germany
12:15
Everyone thought Actor Frederick had found his peace, but he feels trapped by the monotony of success. After collapsing at a party, he decides to quit his play and confess an affair, realizing he must change himself to escape his recurring struggles.
Watch at 11am. Tickets

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Stage Plays, TV Scripts, Short & Feature Screenplays we selected this year
All Scripts are NOMINATED for the Best of the Festival.
Results at the Awards, 4:30 pm, March 28

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.

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SERPENTINE
Writer Arinjoy Majumder
Number of Pages 81
OPEN PDF
Franz City is divided between the powered and the powerless, where electricity, law enforcement, and even its celebrated superhero are owned by a single megacorporation. When a staged hero appearance leaves LoTown in chaos and his sister is detained, an impoverished young man is forced to confront a twisted system where surveillance, justice, and heroism exist only to serve profit, and must decide what it truly means to be a hero.

The Few Who Survive
Number of Pages 25
OPEN PDF
Writer Dustin Andrew Funk
A deadly virus has devastated the global population, and the world has been lost to snow. This post-disaster world is harsh, and yet a few do continue to survive. Brought together through dire circumstances, two survivors are forced to confront a painful truth.

Jazz On A Wave
Writer Robert Merz
Number of Pages 93
Los Angeles, mid-summer, 1949. South Central Avenue throbs with the syncopated rhythms of jazz and the burgeoning sounds of Rhythm & Blues. "Dolphin's of Hollywood," a vibrant record store sanctuary for Black musicians and their devoted fans, stands at the epicenter. Within its walls, also housing a radio station and recording studio, luminaries like Duke Ellington, with his sophisticated cool, the enchanting Ella Fitzgerald, the smooth Nat King Cole, the electrifying T- Bone Walker, and the gospel prodigy Sam Cooke grace its intimate stage.

Death By Night
Writer Kristian James
Number of Pages 84
In the 1980s, a sadistic killer descends upon a quiet small town. He breaks into homes, slaughters entire families, and stages their corpses as grotesque lawn displays for the town’s annual Halloween decorating contest. It’s the one night of the year when murder can hide in plain sight—because everyone mistakes his grisly work for props.

MNEMONIC
Submitter Tae Kwon
Number of Pages 87
In a world addicted to artificial euphoria, a scientist haunted by painful memories finds himself piecing together fragments of the past to rediscover what it truly means to remember.

THE FALSETTOS
by Gary Porpora
Number of Pages 44
Hollywood Description: SOAP meets THE SOPRANOS, meets THE MASKED SINGER.... In essence, THE FALSETTOS is mob story, within a sitcom, within a reality show... In television terms, THE FALSETTOS is a three camera, half hour, traditional sitcom written in soap-operatic style, employing “reality show” techniques--interviews, contrived conflicts, emotions, alliances--a confluence of formats that aspires to reinvent American television comed

PRECURSOR
Writer Steve Brown
Number of Pages 60
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.

Cross Bell
Writer Adeline Jackson
When the heir to the largest cattle empire in the Osage is murdered, cowboys, the Mafia, the Indy 500, and professional football converge in the most infamous cold case in Oklahoma history.

In Love With Regret
Number of Pages 40
Writer Tyre Branton Mills IV
A college ballplayer gains the instant fame and status he's always wanted when he saves his school's chance at March Madness in a big performance and comeback win. Yet just as his dreams begin to come true, Life presents a fork in the road that will challenge him to choose what is actually the love of his love life. Could it be basketball, could it be love, could it be both or neither?

Angst
Writer Jeff Kimball
Number of Pages 73
During his senior year, a grief-stricken, guitar-slinging teen unleashes a raw, fourth-wall-breaking monologue—part performance, part self-destruction—channeling rage, lust, and identity collapse into a public reckoning with conformity, silence, and generational violence.

The Alexandrite Ring
Writer Harker Jones
Number of Pages 94
OPEN PDF
When a successful architect’s search for his husband’s misplaced wedding ring is interrupted by home invaders, his life and all he knows to be true are upended until he starts to question his identity.

Wicked Women and Their Men
Writer Merrill Anway Jones
Number of Pages 114
In small town Mississippi at Christmas, socially isolated Henry fixates on a British movie star, Forrest Livesay, while his toxic extended family fractures after Aunt Ruth is killed in a hit-and-run. As online imposters circle and his aunt Joy and cousin Alice secretly catfish him for cash, Henry grieves, questions his sexuality, and relives childhood trauma under the iron rule of his venomous grandmother, Lucy. A mounting cycle of manipulation, lies, and humiliations pushes Henry toward a reckoning over love, money, and survival.

Booglinee: The Musical (2026 Revision)
Writer Randall Kit Wong
Number of Pages 110
A musical comedy about a young idealist who joins Silicon Valley’s hottest tech company—only to discover a surreal corporate machine where AI, ambition, and absurdity collide. Booglinee: The Musical is a substantially revised version of the award-winning screenplay “Booglinee,” a satirical stage musical exploring tech culture, AI ethics, and the cost of chasing success in Silicon Valley.

Closer to Heaven
Writer James Robinson
Number of Pages 139
In a post-World War II London, a charming yet ruthless and sociopathic veteran, Henry Hayes, returns from war and sets out on a treacherous odyssey to seize control of the city's drug trade. He works under rival kingpins as a double-agent, manipulating both sides in order to take what he desperately covits, the crown. His deceit is eventually uncovered, which leads to a deadly game of cat and mouse between him and his employers. In a desperate bid for survival, Henry betrays his only friends and the woman he loves, leaving behind a trail of broken alliances and shattered lives.

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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 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.

Mark co-produced these films and compilations
Watch them all on Tubi, Amazon Prime and other channels.
at www.lacinefest.org/films

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Attend. Have Fun. Be Inspired!
Sat, May 2, 2026
Broadwater Theater- Main Stage
1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles
See you there!

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