Welcome to the Los Angeles Short Film Festival

Meet filmmakers in person at the Red Carpet, Awards Ceremony, and Q&A after screenings. We’ll present local, national and international productions.

Enjoy premieres and AWARD winning films previously screened at other famous film festivals around the world. Comedies, dramas, animations, you name it.

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Join us. Have fun. Be inspired.

Festival submissions are still open until Feb 20.
We'll add a few titles before March 1.
We may create few more blocks if necessary.
Saturday, March 9 and Sunday March 10, 2019
Promenade Playhouse
1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Saturday March 9

Red Carpet 1:00 PM
Awards 1:15 PM
Break 1:50 PM- 2:00 PM
Tickets, door $20 online $18 here

Saturday March 9
Block 1, 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM
Q&A, 3:00 PM 3:20 PM
Break, 3:20- 3:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Saturday March 9
Block 2, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
Q&A, 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Break, 4:50 PM- 5:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Saturday March 9
Block 3, 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Q&A, 6:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Sunday March 10
Block 4, 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM
Q&A, 2:00 PM 2:20 PM
Break, 2:20- 2:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Sunday March 10
Block 5, 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Q&A, 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Break, 3:50 PM- 4:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Sunday March 10
Block 6, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Q&A, 5:00 PM 5:20 PM
Break, 5:20- 5:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Sunday March 10
Block 7, 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM
Q&A, 6:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Break, 6:50 PM- 7:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

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SCHEDULE
POSTER / STILL
TITLE & SYNOPSIS
Saturday March 9
Block 1, 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM
Q&A, 3:00 PM 3:20 PM
Break, 3:20- 3:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

The Door
by Kenan Baysal
Drama/Comedy
4:00

MJ
by Jamie Delaney
Short Horror
13:00

Camlo
by David Moody
Short Drama
13:00

The Birds Sing Too Loud
by Jack Kenny
Short Comedy
14:58

Collapsing Time
by Dorian Warneck
Short Documentary
4:30

Surfer Joe
by Jim Keeshen
Short Animation
5:14

A Cold Spring
by Max Quill
Short Drama
6:30

Saturday March 9
Block 2, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
Q&A, 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Break, 4:50 PM- 5:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

The Mingle

by Jacob Pinger
Short Comedy
15:29

Shell

by Stella Rosen
Short Animation
6:09

Wrong Number 

by Megan Binnie
Short Horror
0:53

Rapacious

by Eamonn Keane
Short Drama
12:53

The Good Will

by Christel Elsayah
Short Drama
8:14

Doze

by AJ Reid
Short Drama
7:42

Echo

by Boriša Simović and Kosta Rakićević
Short Animation
7:42

Saturday March 9
Block 3, 5:00 PM- 6:30 PM
Q&A, 6:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Sex Bomb

by Michael Gene Conti
Short Comedy
3:37

Pour 585

by Patrick Smith
Short Animation
4:40

Black Eyed Child
by Tony Morales
Short Horror
9:01

Maren

by Ludo Vici
Short Drama
23:47

After All

by Michael Cusack
Short Animation
13.25

Mad Santa

by Bruce Blain
Short Drama
6:42
Sunday March 10
Block 4, 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM
Q&A, 2:00 PM 2:20 PM
Break, 2:20- 2:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Greater Fool

by Julia Honnacker
Short Comedy
7:11

John 137

by Joseph Guice
Short Horror
4:30

After Birth

by Burgess Coffield
Short Documentary
11:29

Don't Lose Heart

by Christine Arnold
Short Animation 
2:29

Portrait of a Lamb

by Marco Zappala
Short Drama
12:30

Mogu and Perol

by Tsuneo Goda
Short Animation 

8:32

Never Worn

by Joshua Corbaley

Experimental
1:01

Clementine

by Aaron G. Hale
Short Comedy
11:28

Sunday March 10
Block 5, 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Q&A, 3:30 PM - 3:50 P
Break, 3:50 PM- 4:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

We Have Your Wife

by Jim Ford
Short Comedy
6:24

Global Dance Heroes - Global Inspiration!

by Teresa Taylor
Short Documentary
5:45

Home is Here

by Suejee Lee
in
Short Animation
2:52

NOA

by Angel Barroeta
Short Drama
14:45

Maldives

by Slawomir Bracki
Short Drama, Short Experimental
12:14

Life on Trial

by Carol Jacobsen
Short Documentary
13:43


Sunday March 10
Block 6, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Q&A, 5:00 PM 5:20 PM
Break, 5:20- 5:30 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Planet

by Bill Sebastian
Short Sci-Fi
10:28

Child, Disrupted

by Krista Riihimaki
Short Documentary
25:30

We'll add a few films here before March 1.
Sunday March 1
Block 7, 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM
Q&A, 6:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Break, 6:50 PM- 7:00 PM
Tickets, door $15 online $12 here

Trust Ball
by Anthony Famulari & Ryan Famulari
Short Comedy
13:15

Two Of A Kind
by Donal Moloney
Short Documentary
19:49

We'll add a few films here before March 1.

Festival submissions are still open until Feb 20.
We'll add a few titles before March 1.
We may create few more blocks if necessary.
The Door
An obsessed guy dealing with his loosened door that keeps opening.
MJ
In this dangerously over saturated and image-obsessed world of social media and fleeting hype, Mary Jane is desperately trying to make real connections, frustrated she starts curating her identity, creating the perfect online ‘self’. But increasingly disappointed by her real life encounters she finds herself alienated and numb surrounded by superficial characters, in order to pull her self out of obscurity she resorts to drastic measures. Using the very tools of her narcotic generation.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/246983686
Camlo
A young Roma boy's journey through modern day Belfast. Camlo tries to understand where he fits into a society that has never accepted him.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/287676907
The Birds Sing Too Loud
In an effort to mend old washed out bridges, Mitch invites his two bitter, complaining aunts for a visit to his fancy home in Hollywood. It doesn't go well.
Collapsing Time
Zoe Keller is a graphite artist creating large-scale, highly detailed drawings. using the traditions of scientific illustration, she weaves complex visual narratives about at-risk species and wild places. Collapsing Time takes a look at the motivations behind her work.
Surfer Joe
Surfer Joe is an animated short based on the original 1963 hit song by The Surfaris. This is a nostalgic look back at the early days of surf culture in California through the antics of a bleach blonde surfer, named Surfer Joe.
A Cold Spring
A little girl stuck in an unhappy home takes matters into her own hands.
The Mingle
A real-life comedy about a young, widowed mom who attends an awkward singles dating event, and is surprised to discover what she was really looking for.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/276652808
Shell
A traveler goes searching for a strange comet and is physically changed.
Wrong Number
A woman gets a mysterious text in the middle of the night.
Rapacious
Short Film - On the run from his rapacious lifestyle, a man hides deep in the woods trying to come to terms with the death of a loved one. Fearing capture and running low on provisions he is faced with no hope. He awakens the next morning to face his greatest fear of all.
The Good Will
Janina finds out that she got chlamydia and decides to medicate her boyfriend behind his back because she does not want him to find out that she was cheating and even giving him chlamydia. (If he got even got it). She wants to be on the safe side. However universe and life decides to go the honest way and consequences arise.
Doze
A young woman struggles to balance work, the GRE, and her overall well-being amid the sudden onset of narcolepsy.
Echo
A five-year-old boy spends a day with his father, whom he only occasionally sees, in nature, with the game of calling Echo.
After a great emotional charge that the play and the presence of his father create in him, he returns to his mother's house, where there is no place for such outbursts of 'irrational' attitude towards the world.
Sex Bomb
The blood starts pumping when a rough-neck SWAT team faces off against a ticking time bomb that only one of them has the "equipment" to defuse.
Pour 585
In a dystopian world populated by animated wine glasses, a timid character tries to escape an important rite of passage. When he disrupts the standard pouring ritual, he discovers that individuality comes with a price. Pour 585 is a cautionary tale about the dangers of conformity that uses metaphor to illustrate the process of indoctrination.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/262633984
Black Eyed Child (BEC)
Since 1998 the appearances of the BEC has been constant, and the consequences of looking directly into their eyes has been irreversible. A terminally ill women will recieve a visit from a BEC, who will not come alone on a stormy night, who will be accompanied by a malignant entity.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/310510050
Maren
The life of MAREN couldn´t be better. Everything is like she wanted it to be. She has a nice home, no financial worries, a happy marriage. She fulfilled every expectation, she feels save and she wants to celebrate all this with her husband, who is returning from a long business trip. The table for a romantic dinner is booked, but as she is waiting for him in the restaurant, her cellphone rings and she must learn that her husband died in a car crash in this very moment. Everything, that was defining her life is destroyed within the blink of an eye. Death entered her life and as she tries to understand what happened, death in person is sitting right at her table. She takes her chance begging for the life of her husband and death makes an sinister offer. If she wants her husband back she has to sacrifice one of the other guests in the restaurant.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/310510050
After All
After all is said and done... all that is left are memories. A man cleans out his childhood home remembering past conversations.
TRAILER https://www.dropbox.com/s/v96pkz96wf2bxs7/AfterAll_TLR_v001.mov?dl=0
Mad Santa
Don't make Santa mad.
Greater Fool
This dark comedic piece wrestles with the idea of love and gender-roles. Are men really only after one thing and do women really still believe in love? Who is corrupting whom at this point? Story: Tommy is a romantic at heart but his love life just doesn't seem to take off. So he finally visits Stella, a once renowned beautiful and empowering "love-doctor", only to find a now alcoholic, disheveled and cynical woman, who is trying to convince him that love does not exist. The question remains just who is the Greater Fool in this brief but thought-provoking encounter?
John 137
Amid gender segregation, a man acts on an impulse to help a woman in need. But, he takes it too far. And must face the consequences.
After Birth
After Birth is a short documentary film about the struggles of postpartum depression and the women who work in the specific field of placenta encapsulation.
Don't Lose Heart
Don’t Lose Heart is the story about a young girl on the day of her heart transplant, but her transplant cooler gets lost in transit and must make it back to her before time runs out.
Portrait of a Lamb
A short film about the aftermath of sexual assault, revenge, and how far we will go to seek retribution.
Mogu and Perol
A story about two friends living on Yummy Island, where delicious food can be found everywhere! Whenever Mogu is cooking, Perol just pops up and eats the yummy meal. One day Perol finds a very tasty looking Brrrr-berry that Mogu was about to pick. Perol doesn't wait for a second to taste the berry which brings about an unexpected quarrel between the two.
Never Worn
We find ourselves alone in a desolate long forgotten place that has a story to tell.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/315356167
Clementine
A film crew shoots a documentary about the home life of a seemingly normal, happy couple. But some things aren't how they appear on the surface.
We Have Your Wife
Two criminals kidnap a man's wife. When they call with their ransom demands, they are very surprised with his response.
Global Dance Heroes - Global Inspiration!
The mission of The Global Dance Initiative is to spotlight, and support, HEROES from around the globe – that use DANCE to Heal, Connect and Inspire. The beauty and the impact that dance has on those with Down Syndrome is stunning. It not only helps with physical coordination & strength, but with the dancer’s confidence & self-esteem, which serves them in forming meaningful friendships and family bonding. Dance literally changes the life of the participant, and their entire family.
Home is Here
The story is about a lily livered fisherman who remembers a life changing experience.
NOA
A spiritual journey, in a dystopian and chaotic society, brings Noa to dive deep into the dark side of humanity.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/252611174
Maldives
Elton is lost in the undergrowth of his own thoughts, a tangle of relationships, gender identity and loneliness. What was once hidden deep in his subconscious rises to the surface, taking hold, and dragging him and the audience on an emotional roller coaster.
Life on Trial
Stacy Barker served 23 years in a U.S. prison for killing her rapist in self-defense. She narrates a powerful indictment of the American criminal/penal system and recounts her own and other prisoners’ acts of resistance for women’s justice and human rights.
Planet
A husband buys his wife a planet for their anniversary. Five years later, they find the national space agency at their door.
Child, Disrupted
As a society, are we in danger of raising a generation of children disrupted by the overuse of technology?
Through interviews with experts in the fields of neuroscience, occupational therapy, addiction, psychology, and sociology, we uncover the reality behind fears about the effects of screen time on children.
TRAILER https://vimeo.com/259970380
Trust Ball
A corporate team building seminar turns into a wildly cathartic experience.
Two Of A Kind
When the extraordinary twins Shay and Finn are born, a couple's world is turned upside down. Life has dealt them the ultimate hand and their love for each other struggles to hang on.