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Wednesday, October 17
 

4:00pm PDT

Advancing Women Cinematographers | Panel & Industry Mixer

Come out for an evening of networking and a discussion around collaborative pathways for the professional development and placement of women cinematographers in Hollywood motion pictures. Sponsored by ZEISS, inside the fabulously redesigned Hotel Figueroa, adjacent to L.A. LIVE - enjoy your complimentary first cocktail on us, provided by White Claw Hard Seltzer, Ving vodka and Fort Pointe beer. 

Moderator:
Danna Kinsky (Cinematographer)

Panelists:
Marianne Williams(ICFC / cinematographer) — Marianne is a cinematographer based in Los Angeles producing narrative, fashion and advertising media in California and abroad. She received her MFA from AFI Conservatory, where she later served as adjunct faculty, and is a member and Instagram coordinator for the International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC). Marianne is driven by a passion for visual communication, exploration and a want for change
Kate Rees Davis(AWD) — Kate is an award-winning director with experience in narrative features, short film, music videos and commercials. As a directing graduate of UCLA, her love and enthusiasm of the craft of filmmaking is infectious. Five of her shorts have screened at Cannes. She was one of the first independent filmmakers to shoot on 4K with the Sony F65 and as a result, has had her work distributed on the Sony 4K TV.
Jen McGowan(Film Powered) — Jen is an active member of The Alliance of Women Directors and Film Fatales. McGowan created Filmpowered.com, the online skill-sharing site for women in Film & TV. The site was named Best in LA of 2016 by LA Weekly, featured in Indiewire, included in the Sundance Women's Initiative Resource List and supported by the PGA, WGA, ICG and others. She is a Film Independent Fellow, was a finalist for the Clint Eastwood Filmmakers Award, recipient of the Alliance of Women Directors Breakout Award for Excellence in Directing and was included on Vulture's list of Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring.
Gretchen Warthen() —
Additional panelists to be announced!

Wednesday October 17, 2018 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

6:00pm PDT

Youth Film Series
Youth filmmakers in 6th - 12th grade from various schools have created inspiring projects. Come support our next generation of filmmakers!
Wednesday October 17, 2018 6:00pm - 6:40pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 11 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Events, Panels-Mixers

7:00pm PDT

Opening Night Film & Gala | Waterlily Jaguar
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Synopsis: Bob Price (James LeGros), a famous novelist known for his “airport” best-sellers, seeks to write something more meaningful for his new book, but his quest to pen a magnum opus sends him tumbling down a spiral of obsession that may leave the relationships he has already forged in shambles, including his marriage to Helen (Mira Sorvino).

THIS FILM WILL BE FOLLOWED BY OUR OPENING NIGHT GALA RECEPTION AT HOTEL FIGUEROA.  The festivities continue at the poolside terrace and Veranda restaurant of the fabulously redesigned Hotel Figueroa, adjacent to L.A. LIVE. Complimentary passed appetizers and cocktails provided throughout the evening. Live DJ.
TICKET PURCHASE ALLOWS YOU ACCES TO THE GALA RECEPTION
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Dale Fabrigar

Editor
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Mark Mathias Sayre, Melora Walters, Troy Daniel Smith and Jonathan Piumelli

Producer
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Melora Walters

Screen Writer
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Patrick Meade Jones

Director of Photography
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Raphael Auerbach, Suzanei Archer, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Michael Swadling and Larry Nealy

Executive Producer

Wednesday October 17, 2018 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 11 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-ESixzsdwas
  • Genre Drama
  • Cast James Le Gros, Mira Sorvino, Stacey Oristano, Christopher Backus, Steven Swadling, and Dominic Monaghan
  • Total Running Time 90min
  • Website See Social Media Handles.
  • Social Media www.facebook.com
  • Director's Bio Renowned actress Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) has taken her talents behind-the-camera as a writer/director known for The Muse (Cannes' Short Film Corner) and the feature films Waterlily Jaguar (Breckenridge Film Festival; Best Picture Winner at Niagara Falls International Film Festival) and The Lover in the Attic.
  • Print Source Mark Mathias Sayre, President & CEO of LEXICON, marksayre@lexiconent.com

7:30pm PDT

The Convergence of Art, Cinema and Future Technologies: Dennis Rudolph and Botao Hu in Conversation.
German Artist, Dennis Rudolph and Future Technologies Producer Botao Hu, will have an hour long presentation/discussion about their current Holokit collaboration. This conversation will also address the current convergence of Art, Cinema and Future Technologies in present day Germany, and Germany's relationship with Californian culture (Hollywood/Silicon Valley). The discussion is free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of the German Consulate General, Los Angeles.
 
Panelists: 
Dennis Rudolph— Dennis Rudolph is a multimedia artist working primarily in painting and Virtual/Augmented Reality. His artistic practice derives its momentum from a melancholic reworking of the heritage of western culture. He studied at the Language and Cultural Institute in Beijing, the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and the Berlin University of the Arts where he graduated in 2004. Since 2004 his work has been on show in institutions in Europe and the U.S. Rudolph lives and works in Berlin. https://dennisrudolph.com
Botao (Amber) Hu— Botao Hu is the founder of Amber Garage, a Silicon Valley based creative art & tech studio. He is future reality computing creative / inventor, new media art producer and robotics expert. He specialized in robotics algorithm (localization and mapping), augmented reality, real-time computer graphics and robotic cinematography. He received a M.S. degree in computer science from Stanford University and B.S. degree in CS from Tsinghua University. Before founding Amber Garage, he worked at Google, Microsoft, HKUST, Pinterest, Twitter and DJI.

Wednesday October 17, 2018 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

9:00pm PDT

Surprise Me
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Genie is a surprise party planner who hates surprises. She has three men in her life: Her partner, Steven, who calls her out on every issue she owns. Danny, a friend from college.  And Jeff, the very type she avoids. Meanwhile, Genie is hired by an anonymous Hollywood producer to throw a surprise wedding for his girlfriend. Genie must get the bride down the aisle without knowing she's the bride. As her relationships turn and evolve, painful triggers from her past get poked. Mac and cheese and cookies summon her in the night. They lead her to a truth but what is it?  SURPRISE!




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Benjamin McBurnett

Director of Photography
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Danny Fogarty

Editor
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Jeff Marsten

Co-Producer
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Kevin McGrail and Nancy Goodman

Producer
avatar for Nancy Goodman

Nancy Goodman

Director


Wednesday October 17, 2018 9:00pm - 10:45pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 11 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Eg1iWaTlb3k
  • Genre Romantic, Comedy
  • Cast Fiona Gubelmann, Jonathan David Bennett, LaShawn Banks, Sean Faris, Nicole Sullivan, Robyn Coffin
  • Total Running Time 105 min
  • Website www.surprisemethemovie.com
  • Social Media Surprisemethemovie for FB
  • Director's Bio I was a stay-at-home mom with what I called a "food curse." Though I was in great shape, I would go off on these eating benders, gain weight quickly, with no clue as to why. I went for professional help ( to find that perfect diet!) and got a megadose of truth. Turns out I had feelings and lots of them! Learning to navigate this intersection of food and feelings opened up my life, managed the food, and most of all, led to passions I never would have imagined to be mine: Two published books, a kids program, a business, and Surprise Me! I like to call it, A Romantic Comedy Diet.
  • Print Source Nancy Goodman, director, nancygoodman100@gmail.com
 
Thursday, October 18
 

6:00pm PDT

TV Pilots | Comedy
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GREENPORT
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 27 mins. 
Director: Shannon Goldman
Greenport is inspired by personal chronicles and is a story about a struggling Hollywood filmmaker who is determined to show the world that an autistic kid can do anything.
 
WED-LOCKED
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 23 mins. 
Director: Malcom Barrett and Tina Huang
Recently married, Denise & Robert deal with the ups & downs of marriage in this true to life comedy. Laugh and cry alongside our fledgling couple as they navigate everything from sex shop shyness and pubic hair politics, to having to tell their spouse they can’t cook.
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Malcom Barrett and Tina Huang

Director
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Shannon Goldman

Director


Thursday October 18, 2018 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  TV Pilots, Comedy
  • Total Running Time 50 min

6:10pm PDT

TV Pilots | Thriller/Crime
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THE ONLY FLIGHT
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 13 mins. 
Director: Royston Innes
When a group of unwitting strangers wake up on an airplane in midair they must learn the true nature of why they were deemed enemies of the state.
 
PAWG - DAY12 “PRETTY ASS WHITE GIRL"
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 20 mins. 
Director: John Eddins 
The uniqueness at the very end of this tale gives birth to a strange beginning as lovers reunite 12 days after one of them gets a whole new lease on love.
 
THE PLURAL OF BLOOD
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 20 mins. 
Director: Mary-Lyn Chambers
Diana Santiago is an African American police wife, joyfully on the verge of adopting a black baby boy. Her world unravels when her husband, LAPD officer Alejandro Santiago finds himself amidst the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
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John Eddins

Director
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Mary-Lyn Chambers

Director
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Royston Innes

Director


Thursday October 18, 2018 6:10pm - 7:03pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  TV Pilots, Thriller/Crime
  • Total Running Time 53 min

7:15pm PDT

All Creatures Here Below
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Gensan and Ruby struggle to thrive in the face of abject poverty. When Gensan loses his job and gambles his last paycheck, he sets in motion a series of events with dire consequences. Little does he know, Ruby has taken the one thing she’s always yearned to possess - a child of their own. Racing across the country with the infant, they seek refuge in their hometown of Kansas City, a place filled with the dark secrets that have haunted them since they fled years ago.
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Amanda Griffin

Editor
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Amy Greene, Chris Stinson and Nacho Arenas

Producer
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Bongani Mlambo

Director of Photography
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Collin Schiffli

Director
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David Dastmalchian

Screen Writer


Thursday October 18, 2018 7:15pm - 8:46pm PDT
Regal Cinema LA Live Theatre 11
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/291763736
  • Genre Drama
  • Cast Karen Gillan, David Dastmalchian, Jennifer Morrison, David Koechner, John Doe, Richard Cabral
  • Total Running Time 91 min
  • Social Media Instagram Account: @allcreaturesherebelowmovie2018 Twitter Account: @ACHBmovie2018
  • Director's Bio Collin Schiffli graduated with a BA in film from Columbia College. His directorial debut, ANIMALS, won special jury award at SXSW in 2014 and was distributed by Oscilloscope/Showtime. Collin paired with writer David Dastmalchian for his second feature, ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW. His follow up, DIE IN A GUNFIGHT, begins 2019.
  • Print Source Evelyn Leigh, evelynleigh@gmail.com

7:25pm PDT

Original Sin (Pecado Original) Spanish with English Subtitles
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After moving to Spain for her husband, Eva, a Paraguayan woman of class and elegance who always behaves in an appropriate way, finds herself bored, unhappy, and sexually frustrated. After Eva compulsively buys a provocative and offensive piece of art the painter shows up to hand-deliver his work. Their sexual tension grows until they inevitably end up in bed. When Eva’s husband returns home early, an absurd battle of strengths and weaknesses among the three characters ensues.
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Arturo Cardelus

Composer
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Cacho Falcon, Marta Di Bello and Alejandro Gonzalez

Associate Producer
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César Di Bello, Jean Lee, Maia Nikiphoroff, Eung-Jin Lee, Álvar Carretero and Miriam Ditchfield

Producer
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Jaime Coco Villa Ruiz

Director of Photography
avatar for Jean Lee

Jean Lee

Director
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Jean Lee and Maia Nikiphoroff

Screen Writer
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Leire Alonso and Eung-Jin Lee

Editor


Thursday October 18, 2018 7:25pm - 8:40pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer youtu.be/A0sUgpGbELI
  • Genre Absurdist Rom Com
  • Cast Maia Nikiphoroff, César Di Bello, Alejandro Torres Menchaca, Licia Alonzo, Tomas Perez
  • Total Running Time 75min
  • Website www.originalsinfilm.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com
  • Director's Bio JEAN LEE is a writer/director focusing on global cinema. Her works have been selected by Berlinale, Film Independent, AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Ryan Murphy's HALF TV Directors Mentorship, and Fox Filmmakers Lab. Recently, Jean’s short STRONG won the Google Grant and Sundance/Knight Foundation Grant. Pecado Original is her first feature!
  • Print Source Maia Nikiphoroff, nikimaia@gmail.com

7:30pm PDT

Spare Change World Premiere Party
Opening this year's Immersive Documentary Category for DTLA Film Festival is the virtual reality experience, “Spare Change,” directed by Donnie Oceans. This documentary follows the director as he spends a week living on the streets of Skid Row and beyond in order to capture not only the stories of the city’s current homelessness crisis, but also to reflect on his own time as a homeless youth in Los Angeles. Hosted in partnership with The Healthy Housing Foundation and BBG & HOEHL, attendees will be treated to food, refreshments and watch "Spare Change" in Oculus Go VR headsets.

Thursday October 18, 2018 7:30pm - 10:00pm PDT
King Edward Hotel ,121 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA
  Events, Panels-Mixers

7:35pm PDT

All Creatures Here Below (Additional Screening)
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Gensan and Ruby struggle to thrive in the face of abject poverty. When Gensan loses his job and gambles his last paycheck, he sets in motion a series of events with dire consequences. Little does he know, Ruby has taken the one thing she’s always yearned to possess - a child of their own. Racing across the country with the infant, they seek refuge in their hometown of Kansas City, a place filled with the dark secrets that have haunted them since they fled years ago.
Credits
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Amanda Griffin

Editor
AG

Amy Greene, Chris Stinson and Nacho Arenas

Producer
avatar for Collin Schiffli

Collin Schiffli

Director
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David Dastmalchian

Screen Writer


Thursday October 18, 2018 7:35pm - 9:05pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/291763736
  • Genre Drama
  • Cast Karen Gillan, David Dastmalchian, Jennifer Morrison, David Koechner, John Doe, Richard Cabral
  • Total Running Time 91min
  • Social Media Instagram Account: @allcreaturesherebelowmovie2018 Twitter Account: @ACHBmovie2018
  • Director's Bio Collin Schiffli graduated with a BA in film from Columbia College. His directorial debut, ANIMALS, won special jury award at SXSW in 2014 and was distributed by Oscilloscope/Showtime. Collin paired with writer David Dastmalchian for his second feature, ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW. His follow up, DIE IN A GUNFIGHT, begins 2019.
  • Print Source Evelyn Leigh, evelynleigh@gmail.com

8:00pm PDT

Cannabis | Culture | Film Party presented by EAZE
The culture of cannabis begins with creativity and arts, the DTLA Film Festival is excited to introduce an exclusive cannabis experience, powered by EAZE and their brand partners. Learn about the influence of cannabis in film and the difference between Sativa and Indica, while vibing on the rooftop of the exclusively historic Haas Building in the center of DTLA's Jewelry District. Please contact info@dtlaff.comfor more information.

Tickets: Invitation Only (RSVP required)

Thursday October 18, 2018 8:00pm - Friday October 19, 2018 12:00pm PDT
Haas Building
  Events, Panels-Mixers

9:00pm PDT

Perception
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When Daniel, a successful real estate developer, must evict Nina, a mysterious small-time psychic struggling to provide for her young son, the last thing he expects in return is a free reading. But when Nina senses the spirit of Daniel’s dead wife, a once-promising artist, his desire to reconnect with her quickly becomes an obsession. Haunted by memories, Daniel is determined to reunite with his wife—who may have designs of her own. Soon, Daniel and Nina must each decide how far they’ll go to get what they want in this supernatural, psychological thriller.
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Brian Smith, Ilana Rein and B.D. Gunnell

Producer
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Ilana Rein

Director
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Ilana Rein and Brian Smith

Screen Writer
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Matthew Skala

Director of Photography


Thursday October 18, 2018 9:00pm - 10:41pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Genre Psychological / Thriller
  • Cast Wes Ramsey, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Caitlin Mehner, J Ro, Max Jenkins
  • Total Running Time 101 min
  • Website perceptionamovie.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/perceptionamovie/
  • Director's Bio Ilana Rein is a filmmaker from New York City living in Los Angeles. “Perception” is her debut feature film. Her short films “Ellipse” and “Periphery”, and her award-winning sci-fi documentary, “We are All Cylons”, have screened at festivals and galleries internationally. Her work has been featured in publications including Wired and Art in America.
  • Print Source btsmith23@gmail.com

9:20pm PDT

The Edge of Success
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The Edge of Success examines the epidemic of teenage suicide that has hit hundreds of communities across the United States, going deep into the recent teenage suicide clusters in Palo Alto, California. The Stigma around mental health and suicide leads many who need help unable or unwilling to seek it. This is especially true for teenagers, who feel immense pressure to “fit the mold” defined for them by their families, peers, and social media. Many feel that nothing short of perfection is good enough.
Through the honest and heartfelt first hand account of five unique high school students, The Edge of Success seeks to end to the stigma surrounding teenage mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts and show kids don't have to feel the need to succeed no matter the high price.
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Jeff Clayton

Editor
avatar for Kathryn Basiji

Kathryn Basiji

Director
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Liza Meak

Screen Writer
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Liza Meak and Kathryn Basiji

Producer
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Steve Pitre

Director of Photography


Thursday October 18, 2018 9:20pm - 10:32pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/290304216
  • Genre Teen
  • Cast Martha Cabot, Lisa Hao, Tone Lee, Sawyer Lythcott-Haims, Olivia Eck and Nikhil Ghosh
  • Total Running Time 69min
  • Website www.edgeofsuccessmovie.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/edgeofsuccessmovie
  • Director's Bio LIZA MEAK spent much of her career as an award-winning broadcast journalist at TV stations across the country. Liza also produced the critically acclaimed 2015 documentary, Batkid Begins. The Documentary won audience awards at numerous film festivals. She now works in tech in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kathryn Basiji - hails from Palo Alto, California, and The Edge of Success marks her producing and directing debut. The film is a passion project for Kathryn as she felt compelled to uncover the truth behind the burgeoning teenage mental health crisis in her hometown.
  • Print Source Liza Meak, director, lizameak@gmail.com
 
Friday, October 19
 

4:00pm PDT

Evolve Entertainment Fund: Ensuring Inclusion | Industry Mixer
Evolve Entertainment Fund co-hosts an evening of influential changemakers in Hollywood with executives from The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Ava DuVernay's ARRAY, and the Ghetto Film School to highlight key initiatives amplifying diversity & inclusion. Inside the fabulously redesigned Hotel Figueroa, adjacent to L.A. LIVE - enjoy your complimentary first cocktail on us, provided by Fort Pointe beer.

Friday October 19, 2018 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

5:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Fri 5pm - 7pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Delusion:Lies Within VR will not have an Immersive Theater element on Friday. Please purchase tickets for 10/20 or 10/21 if you want to see Delusion: Lies within VR Immersive Theater experience.

Friday October 19, 2018 5:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

6:00pm PDT

LA Artists Shorts 1
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SOMEDAY
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 16 mins. 
Director: J.S. Mayank
Two strangers meet on a 14-hour non-stop flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. Adam is a world-famous composer, but Melody doesn't recognize her flight companion. Along the way, they laugh, flirt and pour their hearts out… a connection made more beautiful precisely because of its fleeting nature.
 
CREATE
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 3 mins. 
Director: Mikkel Aranas
An artist finds himself in the middle of the wilderness wanting to create. After seeking guidance from the ultimate creator - he’s inspired by the elements around him and begins to create using what’s in front of him. Birthed, from a place seen as barren, is a beautiful dance between art and artist.
 
ABUELA'S LUCK
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 9 mins. 
Director: Ricky Rosario
A young man’s relationship with his grandmother is altered forever after a chance visit to his neighborhood Dominican bodega.
 
THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 17 mins. 
Director: D'Angelo McCornell and Martel McCornel
A grieving mother Yvonne Pointer from Cleveland, OH and an impoverished boy from Ghana, Africa Anthony Tay, turn their pain into purpose and their purpose into action by educating the youth and strengthening communities together.
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D'Angelo McCornell and Martel McCornel

Director
avatar for JS Mayank

JS Mayank

Writer
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Mikkel Aranas

Director
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Ricky Rosario

Director


Friday October 19, 2018 6:00pm - 6:47pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Short Films, LA Artists Shorts
  • Total Running Time 47 min

6:10pm PDT

LA Artists Shorts 2
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AVOWED
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 13mins. 
Director: Summera Howell
A young nun-to-be struggles to find God inside Robin, a non-responsive adult whose brain stopped developing before he was born.

GRIT 
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 11 mins. 
Director: Charles Lee Wilson
After a long day’s work, a young teacher returns to find his home has been burglarized. When he discovers his relation to the culprit and their motive, he resorts to rogue tactics in order to save a loved one spiraling down a deadly path.

#WHERE IS BEAUTY
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 11 mins. 
Director: Angela McCrae
An introspective visual artist dealing with the pressures of social media embarks on a journey of self-discovery capturing everyday life through SnapChat which unexpectedly transforms her perspective of beauty.
 
PARALLAX
USA | Narrative | 2018 | 4 mins. 
Director: Ajiri Akpolo
Two lovers try and find the right words to say to each other.
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AA

Ajiri Akpolo

Director
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Angela McCrae

Director
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Charles Wilson

Director
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Summera Howell

Director


Friday October 19, 2018 6:10pm - 6:52pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films, LA Artists Shorts
  • Total Running Time 42 min

7:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Fri 7pm - 9pm
Buy Tickets

DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Delusion:Lies Within VR will not have an Immersive Theater element on Friday. Please purchase tickets for 10/20 or 10/21 if you want to see Delusion: Lies within VR Immersive Theater experience.

Friday October 19, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

7:10pm PDT

Life After Life
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Life After Life follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris as they return home from San Quentin State Prison. After spending most of their lives incarcerated, they are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for.
Each struggles to overcome personal demons and reconstruct their fractured lives. Grappling with day-to-day challenges and striving for success, they work to reconnect with family and provide for themselves for the first time in their adultlives.
Told in an unadorned vérité style, we experience the truth of their heartaches and triumphs. As their stories unfold over weeks, months and years, the precarious nature of freedom after incarceration in America is revealed
Credits
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Jesse Dana

Director of Photography
KJ

Kevin Jones

Editor
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Tamara Perkins

Director
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Tamara Perkins and Jesse Dana

Producer


Friday October 19, 2018 7:10pm - 8:22pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/137638023
  • Genre Social Justice
  • Cast Noel Valdivia, Sr.; Harrison Seuga; Chris Shurn
  • Total Running Time 72min
  • Website www.lifeafterlifemovie.com
  • Social Media FB @lifeafter.docfilm Twitter/Instagram @lifeafter_movie
  • Director's Bio Tamara Perkins is an award-winning filmmaker and changemaker focused on documentaries that inspire dialogue, empower and uplift voices from vulnerable communities. She founded Apple of Discord Productionsand developed programs including San Quentin Media Project training at-risk youth and incarcerated men in filmmaking; Tamara presented the TEDx talk ‘Life After: Embracing our Common Humanity’.
  • Print Source Tamara Perkins, director, tamara.perkins@gmail.com

7:25pm PDT

Holy Lands | Centerpiece Film
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Adapting her critically acclaimed novel Les Terres Saintes, Amanda Sthers writes and directs HOLY LANDS, which explores the complicated lives of the Rosenmerck family. Lapsed Jew Harry (James Caan) is a former cardiologist who suddenly decided to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, in a move which deeply shocks his family, the local community and rabbi, Moshe (Tom Hollander). Back in New York, his ex-wife Monica (Rosanna Arquette) is trying to manage the lives of their adult children Annabelle (Efrat For) and David (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), as well as her own, after finding out she has a brain tumour.

Filmed in the iconic landscapes of Israel, HOLY LANDS is a universal story about love, family, loss and tolerance, told with incredible humour and heart through career best performances by a stellar ensemble cast. HOLY LANDS shows that, even in the most dysfunctional of families, what matters is the courage to say what has been left unsaid...

Following the screening, the festivities continue with the Centerpiece Gala at DTLA Film Festival's official event headquarters, the newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

LOCATION OF GALA: ROW DTLA | 777 Alameda Street | Los Angeles, CA 90021

Friday, October 19, 2018 from 8:30 PM to 11:00 PM (PDT)
Credits
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Amanda Sthers

Screen Writer
LB

Laurent Bacri, Didier Lupfer and Alain Pancrazi

Producer
NB

Nadia Ben Rachid

Editor
RB

Régis Blondeau

Director of Photography


Friday October 19, 2018 7:25pm - 11:00pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative

9:00pm PDT

16 Bars
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16 Bars is a feature length music documentary that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories (and songs) that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons. The film follows three inmates at the city jail in Richmond, Virginia and one former inmate who was recently released and is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. The men are a part of a unique rehabilitation effort that involves writing and recording original music. In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, the men collaborate on an album with a Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the iconic activist hip-hop group Arrested Development. As the creative process unfurls, each of these men must unearth painful elements of their pasts, which hold the key to a new chapter in their lives. 

The film is set in Richmond Virginia, the former seat of the confederacy, where the legacy of systemic racism, a spiraling opioid crisis, generational poverty, and a lack of mental health services have entrapped many of its citizens in a cycle of incarceration, making the city itself a unique case study for rising recidivism rates in the U.S. at large. With the U.S. locking up more of its citizens per capita than any other nation on the planet, the music of the film serves as rare testimony to the raw and messy truth behind the criminal justice system’s revolving door.
Credits
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Adam Barton

Producer
AS

Al Shurman

Editor
AC

Alex Cullen

Director of Photography
avatar for Sam Bathrick

Sam Bathrick

Director


Friday October 19, 2018 9:00pm - 10:40pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/265112710
  • Genre Inspirational, music documentary
  • Cast Speech, Garland Carr, Devonte James, Tennyson Jackson, Anthony Johnston
  • Total Running Time 94min
  • Website 16barsthefilm.com
  • Social Media @16barsthefilm
  • Director's Bio Sam Bathrick began his career as a refugee caseworker in West Africa, interviewing survivors of war— a job that would ignite his passion for documenting stories. He fell in love with New York while producing “Run For Your Life,” a doc about the enigmatic founder of the NYC Marathon and spent some wild years chasing musicians through the streets of cities like Tokyo, Istanbul and Miami for the PBS travel series “Music Voyager.” In 2017 he directed his first feature documentary “200 MILES”, a Tribeca Film Festival premiere about a seemingly impossible run. Sam currently lives in Brooklyn, is a father, husband, and partner at Resonant Pictures.
  • Print Source Sam Bathrick, director, sam@resonantpictures.com

9:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Fri 9pm - 11pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Delusion:Lies Within VR will not have an Immersive Theater element on Friday. Please purchase tickets for 10/20 or 10/21 if you want to see Delusion: Lies within VR Immersive Theater experience.

Friday October 19, 2018 9:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

9:25pm PDT

Underdogs
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An aspiring French director is only 18 when he decides to go to the other end of the Atlantic to start a documentary film on Hip-hop culture.
The rappers of his movie? He did not know them yet when he left and yet he never imagined that this meeting could change the course of his life. So, he would never have imagined what happened next...
Credits
ED

Emile Domine and Cecile WSLT

Assistant Editor
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Teo Frank

Editor
TF

Teo Frank and Emile Domine

Screen Writer


Friday October 19, 2018 9:25pm - 10:30pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/279242095/3eb84f4ff4
  • Genre Music feature documentary
  • Cast Antwan Wiggins, Tiffany Johnson, Ian Mcingley, Marcus Whitherspoon, Pel Peltier, Mason Strehl, Flip Giles, Donique Wiggins, Chad Johnson, Shawn Whitherspoon, Marc Walker
  • Total Running Time 65min
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/UnderdogsDocumentaryFilm/
  • Director's Bio Teo Frank is a French film director best known for his collaboration with the tennis woman superstar Serena Williams and the iconic Vogue Magazine. After three years of hard work, Teo is finally releasing his first feature documentary film.
  • Print Source Téo Frank, director, teo.a.frank@gmail.com
 
Saturday, October 20
 

10:00am PDT

Web Series | Drama/Suspense
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MAKEUP AND BREAKUP SERIES - EPISODE 7 "WHEN THINGS FALL APART" OF SEASON 2
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 23 mins. 
Director: Eric J. Dickens
When Brooke blindsides Blake and ends their two-year relationship, Blake doesn't hesitate before jumping back into the New York dating scene. Instantly he finds a new love interest and regains his confidence. Once things begin to get serious, Brooke resurfaces and wants to claim what was once hers. Confused, Blake finds himself caught in the middle. When the dust settles, who will win him over in the end?
 
STAGED - EPISODE "EVERYONE ISN'T WHO THEY POST TO BE"
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 10 mins. 
Director: Abai Dunbar
Staged explores the struggle to self-discovery for four social media influencers, in a world where nothing is what it seems and no one is who they claim.
 
WHO KILLED MADAM SILVA - EPISODE 1 
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 5 mins. 
Director: Anne Reis
A maid and a driver come across the corpse of their mistress stretched out on the floor of the main living room. Both had reasons to commit the crime and so one accuses the other of having murdered the mistress.
 
CHRONICLES OF JESSICA WU- EPISODE 1 - "MEET JESSICA"
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 6 mins. 
Director: Zane Hubbard
"Meet Jessica" is all about Jessica Wu and her upbringing with her parents and living with Autism.
Credits
AD

Abai Dunbar

Director
AR

Anne Reis

Director
EJ

Eric J. Dickens

Director
ZH

Zane Hubbard

Director


Saturday October 20, 2018 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Web Series, Drama/Suspense

10:10am PDT

Web Series | Comedy
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AVANT GUARDIANS THE SERIES - EPISODE 1 "THERAPY SESSION 1" & EPISODE 2 "THERAPY SESSION 2"
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 6 mins. 
Director: Clarence Williams, IV
Episode 1 - Razz tells her therapist why she has nicknamed her beloved human Creepy Charlie, exploring re-appropriating negative labels.
Episode 2 - Razz dives into her past life and the open wounds of feeling the need to justify her lifestyle-style change to be more palatable to those who misunderstand her.
 
FML SERIES - EPISODE 2 - "BEFORE THE PARTY"
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 12 mins. 
Director: Viktoria I.V. King
We got to get tipsy before the party starts! We get an insight into the separate lives of each friend as they prepare for Jeanette's big birthday party later tonight.
 
DATING AND WAITING - EPISODE 3 "THE PACT"
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 7 mins. 
Director: Lawrence Saint-Victor
Sisters, Chastity and Geneva, face off and get real with their sex lives. What ensues is a very interesting pact.
 
THE FOB AND I - SEASON 2 EPISODE 1- "RESIST" 
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 5 mins. 
Director: Meenakshi Ramamurthy
A trip for dosas takes a turn when Sita is forced to confront her feelings about immigrants.
 
BREEDING GROUNDS-Episode - "Bake Sale Part 1"
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 11 mins. 
Director: Susan Skoog
A privileged stay at home mother aggravates her bake sale co-chair, and after the two end up on the brink of fisticuffs when Debra gets a call that her mammogram is positive.
 
SK & J - Episode 2 "Google It!" and Episode 3 "Comma"
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 5 mins. 
Director: Jenn Liu (Google it!) and Susan-Kate Heaney (Comma)
Episode "Google It!" - Sue-Kate is late (as usual!) meeting Jenn for sushi and compounds it by asking Jenn for directions. Jenn (as usual) tells her to Google it. Some things never change.
Episode "Comma" - The simple debate over the placement of a comma reveals Sue-Kate and Jenn's inner thoughts about writing, friendship, and how much they hate working with one another.
 
SYCAMORE VALLEY - Episode 1 - "Intros"USA| Narrative | 2018 | 4 mins. 
Director: Marisa Luz
Kayla and Curtis get prepped for the exciting journey of their televised home-buying adventure, and they meet their realtor, Cece, for the first time. Early warning signs that trouble may be brewing are quickly forgotten after a few glasses of cheap Chardonnay.
 
WAKING UP WITH STRANGERS- EPISODE 1- "PRETTY IN PINK" AND EPISODE 7- "PANIC ROOM"
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 7 mins. 
Director: Antoine Perry
EPISODE 1 "Pretty In Pink" - Chloe wakes to find her favorite one-piece dress has been unwittingly turned into separates. 
EPISODE 7 "Panic Room" - After a heavy night of drinking, Xavier wakes up with more questions then condom wrappers.
 
SHUGS & FATS: Season 2 Episode 2 -"SPEED DATING” and Season 3 Episode 5 "Lost in Coney Island"
USA| Narrative | 2015,2016 | 6 mins. 
Director: Alex Mallis
Episode 2 "Speed Dating" - Dating in NYC is hard. There’s OK Cupid, there’s Tinder, there’s Craigslist Missed Connections, but none of these will get you married to Justin Bieber. The surefire solution? Speed Dating. Romance is negotiable. Efficiency is key. 
Episode 5 "Lost In Coney Island" - It’s late, it’s lonely, and Coney Island is a shitty place to be stuck. Luckily, Fats has a brilliant idea for getting picked up and brought back home.
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AM

Alex Mallis

Director
avatar for Antoine Perry

Antoine Perry

Director
CW

Clarence Williams, IV

Director
JL

Jenn Liu (Google it!) and Susan-Kate Heaney (Comma)

Director
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Lawrence Saint-Victor

Director
ML

Marisa Luz

Director
MR

Meenakshi Ramamurthy

Director
SS

Susan Skoog

Director
VI

Viktoria I.V. King

Director


Saturday October 20, 2018 10:10am - 11:16am PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Web Series, Comedy

10:20am PDT

Emerging Artists
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The next generation of cinema artists. A cross-section of young filmmakers whose burgeoning voices already command attention. (Total Running Time:  82 minutes total)

THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION
Chile| Narrative | 2018 |22 min.
Director: Diego Céspedes
Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his sister, Daniela. She waits to become the seventh wife of El León (The Lion), a prophet who, rumors says, electrocutes you when you touch him.
 
KILN
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 5 min. 
Director: Salamo Manetti-Lax
A short culled from footage I shot in high school 10 years ago in Upstate New York. A remembrance, a haunted collective portrait, and a critique.
 
AKEDA (THE BINDING)
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 18 mins. 
Director: Dan Bronfeld
An orphan boyhas his humanity tested when a film director encourages him to give a violent performance that will blend fiction with reality.
 
I CAN ONLY TALK TO YOU WHEN I STAND IN SHADOWS
USA, China| Narrative | 2018 | 5 mins. 
Director: Yuchi Ma
A girl in her late teens contemplates the conflict between family identity and self, in face of the cruelty of times. This is a brief moment of my coming of age.

INSOMNIA
France| Animation | 2017 | 2 mins. 
Director: Islena Niera Lacosta
It's night and a boy can't fall asleep.
 
SOÑADORA
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 10 mins. 
Director: Maria Altamirano
A hardworking high school senior faces circumstances beyond her control that may hinder her path to college.
 
HEY, BOY!
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 20 mins. 
Director: Nathan Mulroy
St. Valentine strikes an unsuspecting teen-age lover!
 
Credits
DB

Dan Bronfeld

Director
DC

Diego Cespedes

Director
IN

Islena Neira

Editor
MA

Maria Altamirano

Director
NM

Nathan Mulroy

Director
SM

Salamo Manetti-Lax

Director
YM

Yuchi Ma

Screen Writer


Saturday October 20, 2018 10:20am - 11:42am PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 14 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films, Emerging Artists
  • Total Running Time 82min

11:15am PDT

Guardian of the Angels
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Mohamed Bzeek, originally from Libya, moved to the U.S in 1978 for the university but stayed after getting married to Dawn, a foster mom for terminally ill children. Together they looked after 80 terminally ill children. His wife passed away in 2015, yet he continues to care for the girl that they adopted together, Samantha. The little girl suffers from Anencephaly, the absence of a major portion of the brain which results in her being deaf and blind.
Mohamed must attend to her constantly throughout the day with her many needs and must always be alert in case Samantha requires medical attention.
Samantha was 6 months old when they took her in and the doctors didn't expect her to make it to her first birthday. Now she's almost seven and Mohamed wants to celebrate this success with a birthday party. However, it may not turn out as planned and may lead to a new dilemma.
Credits
EA

Ensar Altay

Screen Writer
IE

Ibrahim Eren

Producer
KU

Kursat Uresin

Director of Photography


Saturday October 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:32pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/289240873
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Mohamed Bzeek, Samantha R., Marilou Terry, Suzette Guillen, Rosella Yousef, Tamika Lamison, Joseph Rocha, Neil Zanville
  • Total Running Time 76min
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/Guardian-Of-Angels-320719888489088/?ref=page_internal
  • Director's Bio Ensar Altay – Filmmaker He was born in 1980 in Erzurum, Turkey. He received his graduate degree in economy from Uludag University, but he always had an interest in cinema. So he decided to go to London and study at the London Film Academy earning Filmmaking. He then started to work as a TV Director and Producer for four years. Since 2012 he only produced TV Documentaries. He currently produces films for TRT World Films. Guardian of Angels is his first documentary movie.
  • Print Source Ensar Altay, director, elyedor@gmail.com

11:40am PDT

Love Always, Mom
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After 3 plus years battling stage 4 breast cancer, Trish Russo and her husband Greg, make the controversial decision to embark on a journey to have a child using an egg donor and a surrogate. The couple pick up the camera and turn it on themselves, initially to provide a resource for others who need to use alternative technology to build a family but it becomes much more than that. With both tears and laughter, we follow Trish and Greg as they get unique offers from friends and family to be surrogates and egg donors, follow them in the OR as they retrieve eggs and transfer embryos, and finally experience all the nerves and joys of pregnancy and birth. This is a never before seen look into the battle against metastatic breast cancer, as well as infertility, IVF, egg donation, and surrogacy. Moreover, it is a mother’s love letter to her unborn child and a message to anyone facing an insurmountable challenge, that there is always hope.
Credits
BG

Bob Geile

Director of Photography
JD

Jake Diamond

Editor
TR

Tricia Russo and Craig E. Shapiro

Screen Writer


Saturday October 20, 2018 11:40am - 1:10pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/236616264
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Trish & Greg Russo, Kali Rogers & Andrew Solomon, Meghan & Matthew Brenner
  • Total Running Time 94min
  • Website www.cyangray.org
  • Social Media @lovealwaysmomthemovie @russotricia @trishgonnellarusso
  • Director's Bio Tricia previously worked for Miramax and Disney. After her cancer diagnosis she turned to advocacy and has appeared on CBS’ “The Doctors” and as a guest speaker. Craig has created content for networks including ESPN, VH-1, and HBO. LOVE ALWAYS, MOM won the Audience Award at its World Premiere in Bentonville.
  • Print Source Craig E. Shapiro, director, craig@cedarstreetfilms.com

12:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sat 12pm - 2pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Saturday October 20, 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

1:00pm PDT

Amplifying Stories through Music | Panel
Storytelling is an integral part of filmmaking. Our panel uncovers the overlapping but distinctly different roles of music supervisors, composers, arrangers and songwriters in creating memorable music to enhance storytelling.
Panelists:
Goapele, songwriter (#WhereIsBeauty)
Mary Ramos, music supervisor (Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight)
Kier Lehman, music supervisor (Insecure, Being Mary Jane)
Angela McCrae (moderator), director (#WhereIsBeauty)

Saturday October 20, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

1:00pm PDT

Queer Expressions
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An eclectic collection of short work navigates the vast spectrum of the LGBTQ experience. These are vibrant stories that are not only queer in content, but also in their formal construction. (Total Running Time: 93min )

MOLT
France, Sweden| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Nathalie Alvarez Mesen
The summer sun sets in rural Appalachia as 12-year-old Cadie and her neighbor, Sarah, redefine their friendship on the eve of burgeoning sexuality.
 
 
JIM
USA |Animation | 2017 | 9 mins. 
Director: Sam Gurry
Jim assembled these floppy disks in the late 1990s with images and samples sourced from online chat rooms. How do you connect with someone you can't see? That you don't know? One short email conversation provides his name.
 
 
ASIAN GIRLS
Australia| Narrative | 2017 | 6 mins. 
Director: Hyun Lee
Chan is a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the woman in the apartment next door, a Japanese office lady.
 
 
MONOGAMISH
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Nardeep Khurmi
Follows Sagar and Nishi and explores the dynamics and strength of two non-traditional couples, in which agreements are made and boundaries are challenged.
 
 
FOR NONNA ANNA
Canada| Narrative | 2017 | 14 mins. 
Director: Luis De Filippis 
A trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her – but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
 
 
WAFFLES
USA| Narrative | 2017 | 4 mins. 
Director: Foster Wilson
The morning after a casual one-nighter with an older woman, Gina scrolls through her Facebook feed, only to discover that the person in bed beside her is the epitome of everything she loathes in this world.
 
 
A DOLL'S HUG
Taiwan| Narrative | 2017 | 20 mins. 
Director: Rob Lo
Domestic violence, school violence, and societal violence continually challenge and threaten the Taiwanese teenage boy, XiangYu. He seeks to escape from the undesirable reality to take shelter in his imaginary barbie doll world. He learns to fight back to seek solutions for ever-lasting redemption. However, the relief from the redemption is impermanent…
 
Credits
FW

Foster Wilson

Director
HL

Hyun Lee

Director
LD

Luis De Filippis

Screen Writer
NK

Nardeep Khurmi

Director
NA

Nathalie Alvarez Mesen

Director
RL

Rob Lo

Director
SG

Sam Gurry

Director


Saturday October 20, 2018 1:00pm - 2:33pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 14 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films, Queer Expressions
  • Total Running Time 93 min

1:10pm PDT

Battlefield: Home - Breaking The Silence with The Price We Pay
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Battlefield: Home - Breaking The Silence
USA | Documentary | 68 min
Director: Anita Sugimura Holsapple
In an effort to unravel her own journey of dealing with PTSD and the aftermath of war, a Vietnam era military child speaks with multi-generational family members and exposes the unflinching impact of war, and the failing systems that continue the legacy of trauma from generation to generation. Filmed over a 9-year period, the documentary unexpectedly becomes a pilgrimage of forgiveness and understanding from a daughter to her dad.

 The Price We Pay:
USA |  Narrative Short | 9 min
Director:Jesse Garcia
A soldier is caught in an ambush and gets knocked unconscious. He returns home earlier than expected, scarred but looking forward to seeing his friends, family and most importantly his young bride. When he arrives he finds something unexpected but resigns himself to the fact that those important to him may be better off with the way things are and it would be best if he weren’t there. But are these events reality or is his concussed brain playing tricks on him?

Cast: Jesse Garcia, Andrew Keegan, Cheyenne Nguyen, Marianna Palka, Gina Rodriguez, Kelsey Siepser, Lynn Marie Stewart
Credits
AS

Anita Sugimura Holsapple

Screen Writer
BJ

Brent Joseph and Avaryl Halley

Editor
KJ

Keith J. Ebow

Director of Photography


Saturday October 20, 2018 1:10pm - 2:27pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/216757889
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Anita Sugimura Holsapple, Caroline Taule, Christopher Giza, Dalton Wilturner, Daphne (Dee) Wright, Gregory Stewart, Harriet Zeiner, Jessica Breaux Rogers, Jessica Galle, John Keith
  • Total Running Time 68min + 9min
  • Website battlefield-home.com/
  • Social Media Twitter: @BattlefieldHome FB: Battlefield: Home Instagram: Battlefieldhome
  • Director's Bio Anita Sugimura Holsapple: A first-generation award-winning Japanese-American filmmaker, Anita began her career in broadcast news in the US and Japan. Battlefield: Home – Breaking The Silence, is Holsapple’s first film, and was inspired by her own experiences as military child during the Vietnam War, and was recently awarded 2018 SAMHSA Voice Award for Documentary.
  • Print Source Anita Sugimura Holsapple, director, anita@battlefield-home.com

1:40pm PDT

Women Like Us
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Women Like Us — Features the story of three women as they take an incredible journey across the United States and Kenya, engaging with powerful women leaders who are confronting social injustices by advocating for and equipping women with tools to create positive change in such areas as sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, depression, teen suicide, women’s access to education, homelessness, and more.
Produced by Dream on Productions, a female-driven production company established in 2004 by international filmmaker, television host and entrepreneur, Sally Colón-Petree, Women Like Us presents a thought-provoking call to action for women everywhere to join forces through the innate power women possess of compassion, courage and communication. Also, featuring actress/comedian, Sherri Shepherd, award winning journalist, Catt Sadler and music by Grammy nominated artist, MOBY.
Credits
RC

Rebecca Carpenter

Director of Photography
SC

Sally Colón-Petree and Gabriel Sabloff

Screen Writer
avatar for Sally Colón-Petree

Sally Colón-Petree

Director
SC

Sally Colón-Petree, Catt Sadler, Mark Gould and Angela Palmieri

Producer


Saturday October 20, 2018 1:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/236159572
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Catt Sadler, Sherri Shepherd, Moby; Sally Colón-Petree, Linda; Rendleman, Mama Margaret, Kim; Dewitt, Nancy Noel, Ida Odinga; Caroline Barnett, Kyla Benay; Dianne Hudson, Tim Storey
  • Total Running Time 89min
  • Website www.womenlikeusdocumentary.com/
  • Social Media INSTAGRAM/TWITTER: @WOMENLIKEUSDOCU FACEBOOK: @WOMENLIKEUSDOCUMENTARY
  • Director's Bio Sally Colón-Petree is a native of Chicago with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. In 1996, Sally relocated to Los Angeles. Soon after arriving, Sally was hired by MTV Networks to work as a contestant coordinator on the dating show hosted by Jenny McCarthy, "Single Out", where she worked for 2 years, before landing a role in the dark comedy, "Eight Heads in A Duffel Bag", starring Joe Pesci & David Spade; followed by several guest starring roles on network television shows such as "Suddenly Susan", "Family Matters" and "The Young and The Restless”, plus National commercials for "Radio Shack", "JcPenny" and “Honda”, and co-hosted several female based talk shows, as well as landing a coveted spot on the cover of "Woman's World” magazine. Her cross over success in the entertainment industry has encompassed signing a music record deal under the management of music mogul, Suzanne DePasse in 2001, with the latin girl group, So Luna.
  • Print Source Sally Colon-Petree, director, sally@dreamonprod.com

2:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sat 2pm - 4pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Saturday October 20, 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

3:00pm PDT

“Seen and Heard: Women’s Empowerment in the #metoo Era” | Panel
This pivotal moment in women’s history and the evolution of the film industry requires safe, open and informed female voices. The panel aspires to be one stop on this journey to gender equality.

Panelists:

Moderator: Amy Adrion, director/writer/producer — Amy's debut feature, “Half The Picture," had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, was released theatrically in June and will have its television premiere on STARZ in October. She is a graduate of the MFA Film Directing program at UCLA, with an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. Amy grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Tina Lifford, actress/ author/ playwright/ CEO of the Inner Fitness Project — Tina Lifford has played more than 100 characters on film and television over the past 25 years. Currently she stars as Aunt Vi on the critically acclaimed show, Queen Sugar airing on OWN. She is the recognized playwright of The Circle, about how seven diverse women navigate the choppy waters of life together, and is CEO of The Inner Fitness Project, her passion work that focuses on making the benefits of inner fitness as familiar and well understood in the world as those of physical fitness. In 2019 Harper Collins will release her book The Little Book of BIG LIES.

Carmen Cabana,cinematographer — Carmen Cabana is a cinematographer of Afro-Hispanic descent. Fresh off a DP seat on Starz TV show “Vida S1 and S2 ” and Netflix's show "Narcos Season 2", Carmen's years of experience and ability to visually capture the emotions of any story, has catapulted her towards the top choices for female cinematographers among filmmakers. She has shot over 23 features around the world, with many name talents and screenings at many renowned festivals. Quickly to adapt and collaborate with locals, Carmen has filmed features in 14 US states and in Mexico, Cuba and Colombia. Carmen was listed in the magazine American Cinematographer under the Rising Stars of Cinematography article (February 2017 issue) and was also listed in Variety's 2016 Below the Line report "Up Next" as one of the most promising filmmakers.

Suzi Yoonessi, director — Award-winning director Suzi Yoonessi’s UNLOVABLE (2018) premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and is being theatrically released by MGM Orion November 1. DEAR LEMON LIMA (2009) premiered at the LA Film Festival and was released by Phase 4. Yoonessi directed DAPHNE AND VELMA (2018) for Warner Bros., which is the origins story of two super sleuths from Scooby Doo and currently streaming on Hulu.

Saturday October 20, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

3:00pm PDT

Surviving Home
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SURVIVING HOME is an intimate documentary that follows four U.S. military veterans from different generations over an eight year period as they rebuild their lives after war. Interwoven with veterans' voices from across the country, their unique paths of healing and transformation shed light on long-term consequences of war and raise questions about the roots of war and societal cycles of violence.
A Vietnam War veteran becomes a Buddhist monk in an effort to come to terms with guilt over the people he killed in combat. A severely injured Iraq War veteran discovers a new voice that helps heal his wounds of war, as he and his wife struggle to keep their marriage alive. A female Iraq War veteran fights through the effects of Military Sexual Trauma and takes on the U.S. government in a class-action lawsuit that could improve the lives of same sex couples in the military. A World War II veteran, who waited years to receive military benefits, spends time helping others with the support of a young, civically-minded Marine Corps veteran looking out for him.
Through perseverance, humor, inner reflection, courage and the determination to help others, they overcome many challenges, yet they cannot foresee each bend in the road that lies ahead.
Credits
FM

Frederick Marx, Kirk Moul and Lydia Moul

Executive Producer
JM

Jillian Moul and Matthew Moul

Screen Writer
JM

Jillian Moul, ACE and Matthew Moul

Editor
MM

Matthew Moul

Director of Photography


Saturday October 20, 2018 3:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Documentary
  • Trailer vimeo.com/292415815/e259de91e9
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Claude AnShin Thomas, Tracey Cooper-Harris, Bobby Henline, Richard Green, Jeff Prutz
  • Total Running Time 85min
  • Website survivinghomemovie.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/survivinghomemovie/
  • Director's Bio JILLIAN MOUL, ACE - Director/Producer/Editor Jillian Moul is a Primetime Emmy Award nominee and a member of the American Cinema Editors. Among her credits are the feature documentary Fame High with Oscar-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy and three feature films with director Jon M. Chu for Paramount, Universal and Blumhouse. She worked on two award-winning, critically acclaimed Showtime series, Time of Death and L Word Mississippi. Ms. Moul edited HBO's Brave New Voices, the Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet and RJ Cutler’s 30 Days. Ms.Moul recently worked on a Netflix series, Remastered, with directors Sara Dosa and renowned filmmaker Barbara Kopple. MATTHEW MOUL - Director/Producer/Editor Matthew Moul is a Primetime Emmy Award-winning editor, producer and director who has worked for HBO, Showtime, PBS, among other networks and platforms. He edited and produced the feature documentary, N OF 1, which premiered at the 2018 Cinequest Film Festival. He is Co-Executive Producer of the Netflix series Made in Mexico, and was Co-Executive Producer and Editor of The Runner-Up, produced by Lightbox Entertainment. Matthew has three Emmy nominations and was part of the bilingual team which earned a Peabody Award for the groundbreaking series, A Place of Our Own/Los Niños en su Casa.
  • Print Source Matthew Moul, director, matthewmoul@aol.com

3:30pm PDT

Our Modern World
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These brief, sterling portraits of “how we live now” unpack and explore our complex world in 2018. (Total Running Time:88min)

RAPAZ
Chile| Narrative | 2018 | 13 mins. 
Director: Felipe Gálvez
Ariel gets involved in a teenager's civil arrest, who is accused of stealing a phone. A mob surrounds the young man and some curse and beat him, some defend him. The police isn't showing up. Ariel has to decide what side he is on.
 
PERFECT MAN
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 9 mins. 
Director: Nic Collins and Jake Andrews
Set in the very near future, a virtual reality addicted girl must follow a government mandate to remove her VR headset for 3 hours. When her dismal reality sets in, she goes online and orders Perfect Man: a robotic humanoid love companion.
 
VERMINE
Denmark| Animation | 2018 | 6 mins. 
Director: Jeremie Becquer
A Rat poet, whose hopeful poetry contrasts the world in which he lives in, gets confronted with the harshness of a society bias towards Mice.
 
CAROLINE
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 10 mins. 
Director: Logan George and Celine Held
When plans fall through, a six-year-old is faced with a big responsibility on a hot Texas day.
 
THE BRINK
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 7 mins. 
Director: Ricky Rhodes and Arnold Aldridge
Pushed to the edge by abusive co-workers, an odd IT guy takes unthinkable steps to handle his grim reality.
 
NADIA'S VISA
USA,Jordan| Narrative | 2018 | 18 mins. 
Director: Hanadi Elyan
After failing to obtain a travel visa to meet with her family, Nadia finds herself stuck in a moral dilemma.
 
JUDGEMENT
Philippines| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Joy, a mother of a 4-year-old girl, finally decides to file a case under domestic violence against her abusive husband, Dante.

THE RIGHT CHOICE
UK| Narrative | 2018 | 10 mins. 
Director: Tomisin Adepeju
With the help of The Adviser, a husband and wife must answer three seemingly harmless questions to create their perfect designer baby.
Credits
FC

Felipe Chavez

Director
HE

Hanadi Elyan

Director
JB

Jeremie Becquer

Director
LG

Logan George and Celine Held

Director
NC

Nic Collins and Jake Andrews

Director
RR

Raymund Ribay Gutierrez

Director
RR

Ricky Rhodes and Arnold Aldridge

Director
TA

Tomisin Adepeju

Director


Saturday October 20, 2018 3:30pm - 4:58pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 14 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films, Our Modern World
  • Total Running Time 88min

3:40pm PDT

Elevate
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When elevators get stuck, Trina is the overweight dispatch operator on the other end of the emergency line. Trina’s job gets the best of her as she tries to complete just one day of healthy eating.
Harassed by her cruel boss and overwhelmed by the trapped elevator occupants that reach out to her for help, her only escape is Lola, a fitness guru who she desperately tries to emulate.
In this slow building drama of intertwining stories about Angelenos trapped in elevators, our heroes and villians must fight to overcome their struggles with homophobia, food addiction and racism.
Credits
AM

Angela Matemotja

Screen Writer
CF

Cira Felina Bolla, Dana Rice and Kenneth Yeung

Director of Photography
DO

Dele Ogundiran

Producer


Saturday October 20, 2018 3:40pm - 5:15pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/229201068
  • Genre Drama
  • Cast Amir Abdullah, Brianna Brown, Alexis Carra, Ben Jurand, Angela Matemotja, Dr. Daniel Matemotja, Adenrele Ojo, Sascha Rosemann and Kit Williamson
  • Total Running Time 95 min
  • Website elevatefilm.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/ElevateTheFilm/
  • Director's Bio Angela Matemotja is an award winning Los Angeles based writer/director and actor. Her journey as a director began in 2004 directing a play entitled “Sunshine for a Midnight Weary” which garnered her a NAACP Theatre nomination. Her first two short films received multiple awards including Best Short Film at Las Cruces International Film Festival, the Making a Difference Award at Toronto Global Community Film Fest and the Excellence in Writing Award at AOF International Film Festival in 2012. Angela looks forward to premiering her first feature film at DTLA Film Fest.Angela Matemotja is an award winning Los Angeles based writer/director and actor. Her journey as a director began in 2004 directing a play entitled “Sunshine for a Midnight Weary” which garnered her a NAACP Theatre nomination. Her first two short films received multiple awards including Best Short Film at Las Cruces International Film Festival, the Making a Difference Award at Toronto Global Community Film Fest and the Excellence in Writing Award at AOF International Film Festival in 2012. Angela looks forward to premiering her first feature film at DTLA Film Fest.
  • Print Source Angela Matemoja, director, amatemotja@hotmail.com

4:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sat 4pm - 6pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Saturday October 20, 2018 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

5:00pm PDT

Octavio is Dead!
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Tyler (Alias Grace’s mesmerizing Sarah Gadon) is unemployed and unsettled after learning that her father, a man she’s never met, has died and left her everything, including an apartment cluttered with the detritus of a complicated life. Her mother Joan, played by the legendary Rosanna Arquette, doesn’t even want to talk about it. Impulsively deciding to explore her father’s stomping grounds before the apartment is sold, Tyler’s curiosity about her fathers lowly evolves into a sensual exploration of her own identity and desires.
Credits
AO

Ajla Odobasic

Editor
DG

Daniel Grant

Director of Photography
JW

Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl and Jamie Manning

Producer
SG

Sarah Gadon

Executive Producer
SL

Sook-Yin Lee

Screen Writer


Saturday October 20, 2018 5:00pm - 6:20pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLzPTom7YQ
  • Genre Drama, Romance, Supernatural
  • Cast Sarah Gadon, Rosanna Arquette, Raoul Trujillo, Dimitris Kitsos
  • Total Running Time 89min
  • Website www.thefilmfarm.ca
  • Social Media www.twitter.com
  • Director's Bio Filmmaker, broadcaster, musician, and activist Sook-Yin Lee affirmed her dedication to representing positive and fluid sexualities through her starring turn in the groundbreaking LGBT movie, Shortbus. She makes the podcast Sleepover on CBC, plays in the band Jooj and choreographs dance and performance. Her movies Year of the Carnivore and Octavio is Dead! wrestle love and connection.
  • Print Source Sook-Yin Lee, director, notdougholmes@gmail.com

5:00pm PDT

Immersive & Interactive Music Panel
That is the current interactive/immersive soundtrack practice on VR and AR platforms and what will it look like in the near future? Answering those questions are top specialists from across the industry, who provide the most comprehensive idea of immersive music creation and implementation. Topics will include ambisonics, music and audio creation, implementation and and deliverables as well as new software and hardware releases.
 
Panelists:
Clark Wen—Clark Wen is a game industry veteran, having got his start in 1997 after three years of working in traditional audio production.
From working alongside Shigeru Miyamoto on the award-winning Metroid Prime series to developing the epic sound of the record-breaking Call of Duty titles, Clark has shipped dozens of titles across 16 platforms and countless sound engines. From the early days of coding sound tables in C to working with middleware platforms such as Wwise and FMOD, he has few peers with his level of experience and expertise in interactive audio. Throughout the years, he has received several accolades for his work, from being twice nominated for the prestigious BAFTA awards as well as receiving nods from the DICE, GDC, and GANG awards. He also holds several patents for his design contributions to the Guitar Hero series. IN his spare time, Clark is an avid gamer, cineaste, and world traveler.

Viktor Phoenix—Viktor Phoenix is a creative and technical audio director with expertise in interactive audio, sound design, and 3D audio with a passion for non-linear, reactive storytelling. Viktor has collaborated with partners at Felix & Paul, WEVR, MPC, Sony Pictures, MAP Design Lab, Annapurna Pictures, With.in, The New York Times, Kite & Lightning, Cloudhead Games, and ThreeOneZero on VR projects in recent years, including Documentary Emmy®-nominated The Click Effect, ADR1FT - 2016 NAVGTR winner, Sound Mixing in VR and Insurgent - Shatter Reality - 2015 Proto Awards nominee, Best Sound Design. Phoenix previously held senior positions at Technicolor, Turtle Rock Studios, and Pandemic Studios.

Julia Zuzanna Sokolowska—Julia Zuzanna Sokolowska is a media and VR composer. She’s a co-founder of Hazard VR - startup that focuses on immersive soundtrack creation and implementation with the use of ambisonics. She’s also a founder of LA’s music production hub Hollywood Arrangers. Her VR work includes commercial projects for 3D Sound Labs VR as well as VR division of Riot games. Julia has composed and arranged music for Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Empire, Troll Hunters, The Whistle and music giants including Rod Stewart, David Foster, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, El Debarge, India Arie, Judith Hill and others. She’s a winner of KOMEDA International Award for music composition and ASMAC Big Band music awards.

Catherine Joy (moderator) — Catherine recently arranged and orchestrated on the Emmy-winning Netflix doc series Wild Wild Country, music edited the Joan Jett: Band Reputation feature and was both orchestrator and score supervisor on the documentary RBG. Catherine Joy is the Executive Director for the Alliance for Women Film Composers

Saturday October 20, 2018 5:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

5:40pm PDT

Silver Lake
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Silver Lake is a story set in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Nathan (Martin Starr) is a struggling novelist who works as a writing teacher. After getting a prestigious writing fellowship he finds himself unable to work. In a way his life is split in half, each side pulling him in an opposite direction. On the one said are his eccentric friends like his prickly mentor, Howard (Fred Melamed). On the other is the more normal world of his girlfriend (Deborah Ann Woll) and her young children.
Credits
CN

Chuck Norris

Editor
HR

Heath Ryan, Peter Bobrow, Thomas Scott Stanton and Martin Starr

Producer
SM

Sean McGinly

Screen Writer
TS

Thomas Scott Stanton

Director of photography


Saturday October 20, 2018 5:40pm - 8:00pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/290029315
  • Genre Drama / Comedy
  • Cast Martin Starr, Deborah Ann Woll, Fred Melamed, Seth Gilliam, Avi Rothman, Lawrence Kao
  • Total Running Time 95min
  • Website www.seanmcginly.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/sean.mcginly
  • Director's Bio Sean McGinly has directed 2 Days, starring Paul Rudd; Lawless Range, starring Kris Kristofferson; the documentary film Brothers Lost: Stories of 9/11, which was part of the Cinemax Reel Life series and The Great Buck Howard, starring John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt and Tom Hanks.
  • Print Source Sean McGinly, director, seanmcginly@gmail.com;

6:00pm PDT

Spotlight on Latin Stories
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This series highlights short films by artists who explore Latin identity in urgent, tender, and powerful portraits. (Total Running Time: 90min)

ONE OF THESE DAYS
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 20 mins. 
Director: Rudy Lopez
After unfortunate circumstances, Manny, an aspiring musician, must decide between becoming the sole guardian of his uncle's daughter, Marisol, and pursuing his band’s tour of the U.S
 
CHIADO
Brazil| Narrative | 2018 | 15 mins. 
Director: Fenando Belo
A woman and her boyfriend go on a last road trip when she decided to end her own life.
 
"KEEP EM’ WHITE"
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Sandra Lindqvist
2 Hispanic teenage boys from South Central LA take a bus ride to the other side of town in search of a famed basketball player.
 
EL GALLO
USA, Mexico| Documentary | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Michael Medoway
Gallo takes us on a visceral journey through the life of Juan 'El Gallo' Estrada, the former Flyweight champion of the world and one of Mexico's most famous boxers.
 
¿FAMILIA?
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Kase Pena and Marlene Forte
A transgender woman navigates life while dealing with a pesky teenage neighborhood boy who's in love with her, a married lover with empty promises and a family back home who demands her financial support at any cost, even her personal safety.
 
CARRO
USA,Brazil| Narrative | 2018 | 12 mins. 
Director: Gustavo Rosa
An undocumented Brazilian immigrant living in the Boston area decides to buy a car in an effort to better his life before returning home.
Credits
FB

Fernando Belo

Editor
GR

Gustavo Rosa

Screen Writer
KP

Kase Pena and Marlene Forte

Director
MM

Michael Medoway

Director
RL

Rudy Lopez

Director
SL

Sandra Lindqvist

Director


Saturday October 20, 2018 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 14 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films, Spotlight on Latin Voices
  • Total Running Time 90min

6:00pm PDT

Alliance of Women Film Composers Happy Hour | Industry Mixer
Following our Immersive and Interactive Music discussion on current interactive/immersive soundtrack practice on VR and AR platforms, join the Alliance of Women Film Composers for a networking mixer to learn of their initiatives with sneak peek of their film "Women Who Score." Inside the fabulously redesigned Hotel Figueroa, adjacent to L.A. LIVE - enjoy your complimentary first cocktail on us, provided by Fort Pointe beer.

Saturday October 20, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

6:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sat 6pm - 8pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Saturday October 20, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

7:00pm PDT

"Culture of Fear” Honoring Malcolm McDowell | Independent Film Pioneer Award
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Amidst the back drop of film noir, a journalist becomes the target of those in power (Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell) after she attempts to reveal their illusions to the public. Does monetary gain really out weigh the value of human life? Culture of Fear is a social term illuminating when those in power instill fear into the masses to gain control. This parallels much of what is happening today within the political climate.
Credits
DC

David C. Eichhorn and Joel Griffen

Editor
EP

Egor Povolotskiy

Director of Photography
KT

Kayla Tabish

Screen Writer
NL

Nick Liam, Mariietta Volynska, Kayla Tabish, Sara Gasperov and Lee Williams

Producer


Saturday October 20, 2018 7:00pm - 8:28pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/249648246
  • Genre Drama/Political thriller
  • Cast Malcolm McDowell, Steven Bauer, Kiki McCleary, Kayla Tabish, Nick Liam, Gibson Bobby Sjobeck
  • Total Running Time 88min
  • Social Media Instagram: @cofmovie
  • Director's Bio Gotham Award nominee, Kayla Tabish, is driven by content that parallels our current political and social climates. She produced Loren Cass shot on super 16mm film, for which she was nominated for an IFP Gotham Award. Loren Cass went on to receive limited theatrical distribution and was called "One of the Years Greatest Discoveries" by The New York Times. This is her directorial debut.
  • Print Source Kayla Tabish, director, kayla044@yahoo.com

8:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sat 8pm - 11pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Saturday October 20, 2018 8:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

8:00pm PDT

L.A. Artists Celebration
Downtown L.A. has emerged as the premiere art scene in greater Los Angeles, and a force to be reckoned with internationally. Join us for a celebration of the arts as DTLA Film Festival celebrates its own 10thanniversary. Live music, complimentary appetizers, drink discounts, art exhibits and live art performances.

Saturday October 20, 2018 8:00pm - Sunday October 21, 2018 1:00am PDT
Harbor House (1000 Wilshire Bl., DTLA 90017)
  Events, Panels-Mixers

8:30pm PDT

A Tuba To Cuba with Patron Saint of Jazz Fest
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A Tuba To Cuba
USA | Music Documentary | 82min
Director: T.G Herrington and Danny Clinch
A son, seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream, takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans to the shores of Cuba; Where, through the universal language of music, dark and ancient connections between our people will be revealed.

Patron Saint of Jazz Fest
USA | Music Documentary Short | 17 min
Director: Christopher Stoudt
Patron Saint of Jazz Fest is a loving look at the colorful fans, vibrant culture, and soulful music that make up the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The film follows three Jazz Fest “die-hards” who experience the festival with such joy and obsessive fervor that attending Jazz Fest has become not just a fun annual tradition, but a soul-nourishing act bordering on religious devotion

Credits
BJ

Ben Ja

Executive Producer
DC

Danny Clinch

Director
DC

Danny Clinch and T.G Herrington

Co - Director
DW

Dayn Williams, Kyle Curry and Luis Carballar

Editor
JG

Josh Goleman

Director of Photography
NH

Nicelle Herrington, T.G Herrington and Han Soto,

Producer
TH

T.G Herrington

Screen Writer

Saturday October 20, 2018 8:30pm - 10:09pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary

8:40pm PDT

Give Us This Day
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GIVE US THIS DAY tracks a year in the lives of three police officers and three residents living in East St. Louis, the city with the highest homicide rate in the United States. A police chief attempts to lower the homicide rate amidst political obstacles and a decreasing number of officers. A 12-year-old African-American boy sets his sights on becoming a police officer, risking alienation from his peers. A young hustler's dream of leaving the streets and pursuing a legitimate career is challenged by an immediate need to provide for his girlfriend and baby on the way. A former LAPD officer attempts to change his aggressive ways, but struggles with his addiction to adrenaline. A high school student who almost lost his life after being shot in the head by a rival gang tries to get a college scholarship and make it out of East St Louis. This documentary explores the humanity in each of these six lives as they intersect, develop and transform.
Credits
AB

Adam Booher

Director of Photography
JK

Jacob Kindberg

Editor
JW

John Ward, Shane Elrod, Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley , Victoria Vaughn, Chris Long, Colby Gottert & Mike Rae Anderson

Producer
MZ

Michael Zimbalist and Jeff Zimbalist

Screen Writer


Saturday October 20, 2018 8:40pm - 10:40pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 14 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Documentary
  • Genre Inspirational
  • Cast Michael Hubbard Debra Wood Richard Sharp James Samuel Dortavus Boey, Jr. Deshaun Jones Lemario Jones
  • Total Running Time 120min
  • Director's Bio Jeff & Michael are Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer/directors whose films have broadcast and theatrically distributed worldwide. Their past films include THE TWO ESCOBARS, FAVELA RISING, PELÉ, YOUNGSTOWN BOYS, and BOLLYWOOD; THE GREATEST LOVE STORY. This year, they are releasing NOSSA CHAPE, GIVE US THIS DAY, and MOMENTUM GENERATION.
  • Print Source Rick Corcoran, pc7391@att.com

9:00pm PDT

Rich Kids
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Rich Kids is a film that sympathetically views the modern day and ongoing challenges of economic disparities, gentrification, displacement and evictions faced through the lens of Latino and Afro-Latino American youth.  
The screenplay (by Somers & Saldaña) is based on an actual event that took place in Somers’ childhood home, after a group of neighborhood teens broke into the family home and stayed for several days before the event ended in tragedy. The film’s title, Rich Kids, signifies the wealth of love, talent, intelligence, and emotional resilience that the characters have in spite of their economic challenges while living in a world that views them with skepticism and indifference.
Matías is a bright teenager whose family struggles with harsh financial troubles. When he discovers “Los Ricos”, a wealthy family, are out of town, Matías breaks into their mansion where he and his friends spend an afternoon basking in the good life. The party is soon disrupted when a trouble-making relative shows up uninvited. Loyalties are then pushed to the breaking point as Matías’s desire for power in the house rises.
At it's heart, Rich Kids is about a young man’s transformation from the person he thinks he's supposed to be into the person he really is, as he comes to terms with the realities and consequences of living a community ravaged by the wealth gap and income inequality.
This vibrant portrait of six troubled teenagers showcases the talents of our young charismatic cast, and is set over a period of less than 24 hours in a limited number of locations in South Houston, TX.
Credits
EL

Eun-ah Lee

Director of Photography
avatar for Laura Somers

Laura Somers

Director
LS

Laura Somers and David Saldaña

Screen Writer
LS

Laura Somers and Eddie Rodriguez

Producer


Saturday October 20, 2018 9:00pm - 10:37pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8K2wIjitk
  • Genre Teen Drama
  • Cast Gerardo Velasquez, Justin Rodriguez, Michelle Magallon, Ulysses Montoya, Naomë Antoinette, Alessandra Mañon, Kenneth W. Bradley, Ricky Catter, Amelia Rico
  • Total Running Time 97min
  • Website www.richkidsthemovie.com
  • Social Media instagram.com/richkidsthemovie
  • Director's Bio Laura is originally from Pasadena, TX. She wants to live in a world where female directors are hired for 51% of the jobs in film and television. She is a solid, nurturing, and enthusiastic director committed to being an in demand film director. Laura’s directing strengths lie with her solid storytelling skills, powerful use of imagery, and her ability to inspire passionate performances from actors.
  • Print Source Laura Sommers, director, laurassomers@yahoo.com
 
Sunday, October 21
 

10:00am PDT

LA Artists Shorts 3
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BLACK CHICKS
USA, Canada | Narrative | 2017 | 12 mins. 
Director: Neil LaBute
a man and a woman. one white, one black. what could possibly go wrong?
 
LET MY PEOPLE VOTE 
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 18 mins. 
Director: Gilda Ann Brasch
Filmed during the 2016 presidential election, this verité short covers a day-in-the-life of civil rights activist and former felon, Desmond Meade. What begins as an upbeat day of faith in our democratic process, ends with a heartbreaking realization and a call-to-action.
 
GLORIA'S CALL
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 16 mins. 
Director: Cheri Gaulke
From the cafes of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism.

FOXES 
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Tristan Taylor
An African-American man struggles to unmask his depression, while admitting he's never been his younger brothers’ hero.
 
 

Credits
CG

Cheri Gaulke

Director
GA

Gilda Ann Brasch

Director
JG

Jesse Garcia

Director
JN

Jesus Nebot

Director
NL

Neil LaBute

Director
TT

Tristan Taylor

Director


Sunday October 21, 2018 10:00am - 11:02am PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Short Films, LA Artists Shorts

10:10am PDT

Strange Encounters
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Filmmaking that explores the fantastical, unexpected, and beguiling. These are singular short works with exuberant ideas and playful styles that go to surprising places.

BOTANICA
Netherlands| Narrative | 2017 | 13 mins. 
Director: Noël Loozen
A garden-center employee fears his possible infertility. While the pregnancy wish of the love of his life is growing, shame starts to take a hold on him.

INTIMITY
Netherlands| Documentary | 2017 | 5 mins. 
Director: Elodie Dermange
As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her soul.
 
THE CHIRPING
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 10 mins. 
Director: Matt McKinney
A mother and her adult son work some things out while trying to rid their home of a pesky cricket.
 
LIRA'S FOREST
Canada| Narrative | 2017 | 8 mins. 
Director: Connor Jessup
As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.
 
TRESPASS
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 6 mins. 
Director: Erik LeDrew
The actions of a trigger-happy cop come back to bite him in the ass. A P.O.V. fright flick.

PRIVATE JOY
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 9 mins. 
Director: Owen Kaye
In the final days of their relationship, a fading actress and her younger, animal lover are torn apart by lust, jealousy, anger and magic.
 
HEART CHAKRA
USA| Animation | 2017 | 7 mins. 
Director: Angela Stempel
Mae's life is routinely disrupted by the advice from her online crystal healer and her devotion to horoscopes. Armed with healing crystals and numerology, Mae is ready to follow the predictions on an unexpected path to find her soulmate.
 
KIMCHI
USA,South Korea| Narrative | 2018 | 14 mins. 
Director: Jaclson Kiyoshi Segars
As his family argues about his end-of-life care, an elderly Korean man reflects on his life with a stranger.
 
SOLAR WALK
Denmark|  Animation | 2018 | 20 mins. 
Director: Réka Bucsi
Follows the unreal journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space.
Credits
AS

Angela Stempel

Director of Photography
CJ

Connor Jessup

Director
ED

Elodie Dermange

Director
EL

Erik LeDrew

Director
JK

Jaclson Kiyoshi Segars

Director
MM

Matt McKinney

Director
NL

Noël Loozen

Director
OK

Owen Kaye

Editor
RB

Réka Bucsi

Director


Sunday October 21, 2018 10:10am - 11:43am PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Short Films
  • Total Running Time 93 min

11:00am PDT

Birds Without Feathers
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A bleak reality introduces us to six characters yearning to be seen and heard. Janet aka The Janet J, a wannabe Instagram star, seeks identity in others’ approval, while her boyfriend Sam remains unable to face his fears and perform as a stand- up comedian. Tom, a Russian Cowboy obsessed with Jeff Goldblum, desperately wants to fulfill his image of the American Dream. Daniel, a self- help tape maker, has never been able to help himself, and Marty, a victimizing caretaker, uses her profession to gain attention and the help she is incapable of asking for. And Jo, a desert dwelling woman with multiple personas, stealing the identities of others to avoid her inability to be vulnerable. These humans collide in hopes of connection, and in the process create a world of disillusion.
Credits
NC

Nate Cornett

Director of Photography
WM

Wendy McColm

Screen Writer
WM

Wendy McColm and Brian Robertson

Producer
WM

Wendy McColm, Phillip Vernon and Susan LaMarca

Editor


Sunday October 21, 2018 11:00am - 12:23pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/250859887
  • Genre Dark Comedy
  • Cast Wendy McColm, Cooper Oznowicz, Alexander Stasko, William Gabriel Grier, Lenae Day, Sara Estefanos
  • Total Running Time 83min
  • Website www.birdswithoutfeathers.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/birdswithoutfeathers/
  • Director's Bio Wendy McColm is an up and coming Director Writer with a mind for the surreal. Her work has been described as darkly comedic and out of this world, bringing a certain surrealism to vulnerable thoughts, feelings and characters.
  • Print Source Brian Robertson, producer, br@seedaylight.org

12:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sun12pm - 2pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Sunday October 21, 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

12:20pm PDT

Love, Cecy
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Ripped from the headlines, Love Cecy takes audiences back to the cholo, free-style culture of 1990s Richmond, California as it retells the story of 15 year old Cecilia Rios. The film follows Cecy’s promising beginnings- striving to become a lawyer while keeping her cholo boyfriend off the streets- to its tragic end on March 14, 1994, when her brutal murder was chronicled by newspapers across the country.
Credits
JF

Jay Francisco Lopez

Screen Writer
JS

Jimmy Spadoni

Editor
KM

Kenneth Medina

Producer
RV

Richard Valencia

Director of Photography


Sunday October 21, 2018 12:20pm - 2:00pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgMVreDA60&feature=youtu.be
  • Genre Drama, Urban, Youth
  • Cast Angie Marie Espinoza - Cecy; Vince-Anthony Ramirez - Julio; Karen "Karatz" Gonzalez- Eva; Carlos Velez- Juan; Alessandra Cowan- Estela
  • Total Running Time 100 min
  • Website www.lovececymovie.com
  • Social Media Facebook- LoveCecyMovie Instagram - LoveCecyMovie
  • Director's Bio Jay Francisco Lopez was born to a family of immigrants of Honduran descent in the Mission District of San Francisco but grew up in Richmond CA. He want to get to the humanity of Cecilia Rios story and make a film that everyone, no matter your race, or age , could relate to. This story isn’t a “Latino Story” its a human story and the message is very universal, Forgiveness, Love and Family altough its been 24 years since she was murder her legacy well forever live on”
  • Print Source Jay Francisco Lopez, director, lovececymovie@gmail.com

1:00pm PDT

How are Location-Based Experiences Redefining Cinema | Panel
As Location Based Experiences are becoming a staple marketing tool for major brand campaigns, how are these experiences also beginning to redefine cinema? Are you ready to get out of the theater seat and step into the action?
 
Panelists:

Brooks Brown— An award winning creative and strategist, Brooks has been fortunate to work on the worlds largest brands. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, LEGO, and Avatar are among the worlds Brooks has led teams to both critical excellence and business success. Winning awards ranging from a Webby for Best Game to a Tribeca Film Festival win to Game Marketing Awards for both best family site and best community experience, Brooks has since moved into consulting and founding his own company. Brooks has an MMR in DOTA2 of 3k and recently broke 1200 hours in Rust.

Ethan Stearns— Ethan Stearns is an Executive Producer at MWM Immersive, the innovative VR/AR division of MWM - a diversified content company that produces and distributes film, television, VR/AR, live events and digital video content through, MWM Studios, MWM Immersive, MWM Live, and MWM Universe. MWMi has produced VR projects including Gnomes & Goblins in partnership with WEVR and Jon Favreau. Stearns previously served as VP of VR at Legendary Entertainment – producing its first VR experience around Pacific Rim with Oculus and Guillermo Del Toro, and later a version for Samsung’s first VR headset. Ethan was also the VR producer on the first VR experience to win a Special Academy Award, “Carney Arena”. Currently, Stearns sits on the VR advisory boards of GDC and VDR.

Andrew Shulkind— Andrew Shulkind is one Hollywood’s leading voices on the future of entertainment. Following an award-winning career as a cinematographer of film, television, and advertising with over 1 billion online views, Andrew has emerged a unique executive who understands both the value proposition of an IP-centric economy and the technical intricacies of what it actually takes to make a quality piece of entertainment. He has helped found three technology startups centered around data-driven creativity, serves as an innovation advisor for leading technology corporations and content studios, and speaks globally on how to mate creativity with products to connect with connected audiences.

Brent Bushnell Amber— Brent Bushnell is the CEO of Two Bit Circus, an LA-based experiential entertainment company building a network of micro-amusement parks. The company regularly serves as immersive entertainment partners for brands and has created VR attractions for the NFL, NBA, Dave & Buster’s and the Olympics. Brent was the on-camera inventor for the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He’s chairman of the non-profit Two Bit Circus Foundation which deploys STEAM-based programs to inspire students about invention.

Jon Braver — Jon's career has taken some very interesting turns. He has worked as a film director, a stuntman, an actor, an action coordinator and creative consultant for Disney Imagineering. He's worked with some of the top directors in the business on titles such as The Dark Knight Rises, Ironman, Star Trek, and Idiana Jones 4 has helped to bring Delusion to life. Jon demonstrates an unusual range of talent and keen ability to deliver a creative vision. He hopes to continue the evolution of the Delusion Universe in other mediums as well.

Sunday October 21, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

1:15pm PDT

DTLA Shorts
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This presentation of short films is dedicated to work that utilizes the evolving landscape and expansive culture of DTLA as the axis for their stories. A celebration of this burgeoning Los Angeles district. (Total Running Time: 100min)

REDEPMTION SQUARE
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 20 mins. 
Director: John Moody
In the footsteps of many unique Angelenos, a down-on-her-luck woman finds a new identity in Pershing Square, a notoriously unloved space in downtown Los Angeles.
 
TOKEN
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 25 mins. 
Director: Joy Shi
Two artists in different stages of life and success deal with the effects of love, ego and loss in modern-day LA.
 
BROCCOLI
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 7 mins. 
Director: Phil Rosanova and Will Reiland
After a scare at the office, a man must decide between his compulsive diet of only broccoli and his own mortality.
 
DECEMBER
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 7 mins. 
Director: Luciana Faulhaber
At year's end a woman tries to move on as her past comes rushing back. In matters of the heart do we take a risk before it's too late or hope for a second chance? This movie is about the messes we make.
 
THE HOAXING
USA| Narrative | 2018 | 25 mins. 
Director: Bevin McNamara
A young artist couple moves into a painter’s studio where the previous tenant hacked two people to death. The couple quickly discovers the studio harbors dark secrets.
 
THE LION AND HIS WALL
USA| Documentary | 2018 | 17 mins. 
Director: Raphael Krigel and Austin Dalgleish
The Lion and His Wall follows one of LA's most prolific artists as he attempts to paint the largest mural in the world by a single individual. But this artist’s aspirations extend far beyond this one wall, and he’s not afraid to prove it.
Credits
BM

Bevin McNamara

Director
JM

John Moody

Editor
JS

Joy Shi

Screen Writer
LF

Luciana Faulhaber

Director
PR

Phil Rosanova and Will Reiland

Director
RK

Raphael Krigel and Austin Dalgleish

Director of Photography


Sunday October 21, 2018 1:15pm - 2:55pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Short Films, DTLA Shorts

2:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sun 2pm - 4pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Sunday October 21, 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

3:00pm PDT

What You Need To Know About Film Distribution in 2019 | Panel
Distribution is one of the most mysterious topics for independent filmmakers. Come hear from some experts about how to go about finding a good distribution partner and what you need to do during pre-production and post production to make sure that your film is ready for distribution. We'll discuss deliverables, global opportunities, how to make sure that you partner with the best distributor or sales agent for your film and what to expect in 2019 from the ever-changing distribution landscape. From theatrical to foreign sales, to global VOD, find out how you can connect to the broadest possible audience for your film.”

Panelists:

Linda Nelson— Linda Nelson began her career as an international investment banker, IT executive an entertainment real estate developer. After meeting Michael Madison, she pivoted into the movie business finally realizing her artistic potential. As an Executive Producer on NSYNC, she quickly realized that she was interested in being more "hands on" and was the DP for her next film, SHIFTED. As a Producer on DELIVERED she was finally able to gain experience in all aspects of the financing, development, production and distribution phases of moviemaking.

Christian Meoli,CEO of Arena Cinelounge — Arena Cinelounge is a 4+ year-old art-house cinema exhibits 2-5 new films every week in the heart of Hollywood. Witha dedicated team of indie-film enthusiasts, we work with established distributors such as IFC, EOne, Magnet, Indie Rights, Level 33, Breaking Glass, XLRator Media, Devolver, Corinth, FilmCollaborative, Film Movement, Tribeca Film, Varience, Zeitgeist, Submarine Deluxe, First RunFeatures and independent filmmakers.

Glen Reynolds— Glen grew up in London and then Austin, TX. He studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC before receiving an English Degree from NYU and a Law Degree from the University of Texas School of Law, Austin. With 21 years in the indie film biz, he has produced 20 films and sold over 500 films. He founded Circus Road in 2006 and Media Circus in 2016. He is the father of Charlotte and Zoe.

Geoff Ryan — Geoff Ryan is a critical acclaimed and award-winning film director. His feature film FRAY released theatrically to rave reviews with the LA Times saying, "Superior... packs a punch" and has been ranked as one of the top 15 films on Amazon's "War & Military" movies and #2 under “Indie Arthouse” in the UK. His music videos and television commercials have aired on broadcast both nationally and across the globe for clients such as Macy's and Lord & Taylor.
Recently, Ryan has been worked in the emerging medium of social live videos as creative director on projects for numerous Netflix shows, PopSugar, and many more. He is also currently in post-production on his next feature film, Blood From Stone.

Sunday October 21, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

3:00pm PDT

River Runs Red
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An African American Judge finds himself in a situation he never imagined. No parent should ever have to burry their child, but this former police officer and judge finds himself having to do just that when his son is killed by overzealous police officers. CJ was on his way to his first day at the police academy, when a routine stop ended in his murder and coverup. Believing in the Justice System, Judge Charles is heartbroken once again when the officers are acquitted, but due to a tip from Officer Horace, Judge Charles learns that these two bad officers have a history, they killed another teen and the department covered it up. Judge Coleman unites with the father of the other slain victim and they decide to go find justice for their children.
Credits
LO

Leonard Ohaebosim, Monty Ross, Curtis Nichouls, James Bruce, Sasha Yeulan, BK Fulton and Wes Miller

Producer
MB

Michael Brouphy and Egor Povolotskiy

Director of Photography
RM

Rowan Maher

Editor
WM

Wes Miller

Screen Writer


Sunday October 21, 2018 3:00pm - 4:34pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer youtu.be/uYPdedTOb3I
  • Genre Drama / Action
  • Cast Taye Diggs, George Lopez, Luke Hemsworth, John Cusack, Gianni Capaldi, JennTaye Diggs, George Lopez, Luke Hemsworth, John Cusack, Gianni Capaldi, Jennifer Tao, RJ Mitte, Briana Evigan
  • Total Running Time 94min
  • Website www.sweetunknownstudios.com
  • Social Media Instagram: riverrunsredmovie Twitter: RiverRunsRedMovie
  • Director's Bio Wes Miller is a Memphis, TN native. Miller worked as a trial lawyer and made his Writing-Directing debut with the award winning film “Prayer Never Fails”, and is in preproduction on the Western about Bass Reeves, Hell on the Border starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo.
  • Print Source Wes MIller, director, info@sweetunknownstudios.com

3:15pm PDT

What Death Leaves Behind
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Non Linear Psychological Thriller: After a kidney transplant, Jake Warren experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be      visions of his donor's violent murder, sending him on a dark path of deranged vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth.
Credits
CM

Chad Morton, Rachel K. Ofori, Scott A. Hamilton, Nico Giampietro

Screen Writer
RK

Rachel K. Ofori

Producer
SA

Scott A. Hamilton

Editor


Sunday October 21, 2018 3:15pm - 5:21pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/246740257
  • Genre Drama / Mystery / Thriller
  • Cast Christopher Mann, Vincent Young, Erin O'Brien, Johnny Alonso, Alexandra Tydings, Shaira Barton & Introducing Khalil McMillan
  • Total Running Time 126min
  • Website www.smashentertainment.net/wdlb/
  • Social Media www.instagram.com/whatdeathleavesbehind/
  • Director's Bio Scott A. Hamilton is a tech enthusiast and filmmaker who earned a B.S. in Automotive Engineering Technology at Neumann University. Previously he held the position of Master Tech with Audi Automotive, while growing in his affinity for the art of storytelling. Always holding the title of musician, and moonlighting as a music studio engineer and producer, entering the Film world as a sound engineer seemed the best crossover option. After working for various corporate and film production companies, Scott garnered a wealth of information and positions, making his feature-film directorial debut as Editor and Director of Photography of ‘What Death Leaves Behind.’
  • Print Source rko@smashentertainment.net

4:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sun 4pm - 6pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Sunday October 21, 2018 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

5:00pm PDT

Business of Filmmaking: How To Maximize Your Income | Panel
Oftentimes the creative takes precedence over the business of filmmaking. Our Business of Filmmaking panel includes an array of accomplished industry professionals to discuss strategies for entrepreneurial success in film.

Panelists:

Adia May, entertainment lawyer
Carol Anne Shine, Producer / co-founder, The Black House Foundation
Carl Colpaert, producer (CineVille)

Additional panelists to be announced!

Sunday October 21, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

5:00pm PDT

How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Closing Night Film & Gala
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Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping, young islander, Winston Shakespeare. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.

THIS FILM SCREENING WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A GALA RECEPTION LOCATION 
Hotel Figueroa 8 pm – 11 pm (walking distance from the screening)

Tickets: $25 (includes Closing Night Film)

As the festival heads to the home stretch, join us for the Closing Night Gala following the 20th
anniversary screening of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.” Complimentary cocktails, appetizers and
live music at DTLA’s newest party hot spot.
Credits
DS

Deborah Schindler

Producer
GB

George Bowers

Editor
JJ

Jeffrey Jur

Director of Photography
KR

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Director
RB

Ronald Bass, Terry McMillan and Jennifer Ogden

Executive Producer
TM

Terry McMillan and Ronald Bass

Screen Writer


Sunday October 21, 2018 5:00pm - 7:05pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A1Fvc_HD5I
  • Genre Romantic/Comedy
  • Cast Taye Diggs, Angela Bassett , Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, James Pickens Jr., Suzzanne Douglas
  • Total Running Time 125min
  • Director's Bio When Kevin Rodney Sullivan created Knightwatch (1988), he became one of the first African-American Executive Producers of a network television series. His feature film directing debut How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) swept the NAACP Image Awards including outstanding motion picture. Kevin's second hit feature "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" was critically acclaimed, considered by one reviewer as "that rare sequel -- one worthy of its original." Other films include Guess Who with Zoe Zaldana, Soul Of The Game, and Conviction. He has directed an array of televisions shows from Modern Family to The West Wing, and more recently episodes of Riverdale, How To Get Away With Murder, and The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina. He has written and sold over 25 screenplays.

5:15pm PDT

Paris Window
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PARIS WINDOW follows the damaging effects of a series of hypnosis informercials on Julian and Sunny, a socially and emotionally stunted pair of adult siblings. With creeping intensity, delusional brother and sister turn on each other as Julian becomes convinced he’s the victim of a conspiracy when Sunny begins dating a man who looks exactly like him. PARIS WINDOW is a hypnogogic psychological thriller blending the single set claustrophobia of Polanski’s REPULSION with the doppelgänger obsession of Dostoyevsky’s THE DOUBLE and the hallucinatory paranoia of Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME.
Credits
avatar for Amanda Kramer

Amanda Kramer

Director
AK

Amanda Kramer and Noel David Taylor

Screen Writer
KK

Katrina Kudlick

Producer
PM

Patrick Meade Jones

Director of Photography


Sunday October 21, 2018 5:15pm - 6:40pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpmahcBkLYs
  • Genre Mystery
  • Cast Noel David Taylor, Sophie Kargman, Gina Piersanti, Anna Cordell
  • Total Running Time 85min
  • Website www.afilmbyamandakramer.com
  • Social Media @pariswindowfilm
  • Director's Bio Amanda Kramer's short films BARK and INTERVENE have played at Fantastic Fest, Monster Fest, Final Frame, Court Metrange Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Boston Underground Film Festival's Dispatches from the Underground. Her developing film projects have twice been accepted into IFP’s Emerging Filmmakers program and Frontierés International Co-Production Market in Brussels. Her second feature LADYWORLD was selected for the Frontierés Buyers Showcase at the Marche du Film at Cannes, and will have it's US Premiere at Fantastic Fest and it's International Premiere at London BFI Film Festival this fall.
  • Print Source Benjamin Shearn, benjamin.shearn@gmail.com

6:00pm PDT

NetSuite: E-Solutions For Filmmaker Entrepreneurs | Industry Mixer
Join our partner NetSuite for an evening of networking and solutions for filmmakers to dive deeper as entrepreneurs and understand how to increase your business efficiency. Inside the fabulously redesigned Hotel Figueroa, adjacent to L.A. LIVE - enjoy your complimentary first cocktail on us, provided by Fort Pointe beer.

Sunday October 21, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  Events, Panels-Mixers

6:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sun 6pm - 8pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Sunday October 21, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

7:15pm PDT

Collisions with American Nightmare
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Collisions
USA | Narrative | 90 min
Director: Richard Levien  
When twelve-year-old Itan, straight-A-smart, comes home from school in San Francisco, she is stunned to find their furniture up-ended, and no trace of her mother Yoana. Child Protective Services dumps Itan and her six-year-old brother Neto with their estranged uncle Evencio, a big rig truck driver. Itan can't stand him. He's arrogant, unreliable, and probably criminal. After a desperate search, Itan locates Yoana in an immigration detention center in Arizona and convinces Evencio to take them there.
They are propelled onto the road in Evencio’s truck, through the maddening labyrinth of immigration detention. Itan fights to free her mother before she is deported. But her mother keeps slipping from her grasp, as she is transferred from prison to prison. Their journey takes them through the deserts of the southern border, to sprawling truck stops, border patrol offices and secret immigration prisons.
In the close quarters of Evencio's truck cab, Itan and Neto begin to bring a better man out of Evencio. But Evencio abandons them just when it seems they have a chance of stopping their mother's deportation. Are they now truly on their own? Or will Evencio come through and reunite the family?

American Nightmare 
USA | Narrative Short | 8 min
Director:  Jesus Nebot
A traffic stop due to speeding takes a turn for the worse landing a mother and her 5 year old daughter in jail.
Cast: Jesus Nebot, Susana Santiago, Jo Galloway, Kiana Jun Bartholomew, Ellen Dubin, Joe ochman
 





Credits
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Frazer Bradshaw

Director of Photography
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Jesse Garcia

Director
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Richard Levien

Screen Writer


Sunday October 21, 2018 7:15pm - 8:53pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer vimeo.com/288603699
  • Genre Genre, Coming of Age
  • Cast Izabella Alvarez, Jesse Garcia, Ana de le Reguera, Jason Garcia
  • Total Running Time 90 min + 8 min
  • Website collisionsmovie.com/
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/CollisionsMovie
  • Director's Bio Richard Levien: Levien's short film, "Immersion", premiered at Slamdance, and won Best Bay Area Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the No Violence Award at Ann Arbor. "Collisions", his debut feature film as a writer / director, received SFFILM / Kenneth Rainin awards for screenwriting, development, production and post-production.
  • Print Source Richard Levien, director, richard.levien@gmail.com

8:00pm PDT

IMMERSIVE | VR-AR- Interactive Sun 8pm - 11pm
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DTLA Film Festival’s Immersive is a curated showcase of the best new Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Narrative, Augmented Reality, as well as location-based Hyper Reality experiences that extend beyond the headset — all set throughout the historic, newly redesigned Hotel Figueroa.

Encounter Augmented Reality angels exploding out of 17th-century-styled, illusionistic oil paintings while pulsating to a seven-act symphony. Watch 15 of the world’s best new 360/VR titles in our 360-VR lounge. Become the lead character in a short film that projects you directly into the action on the big screen.

Step into a full Immersive theater experience as characters lead you to "Delusion: Lies Within VR.”
Explore seven full-room-scale VR experiences, an interactive doc about Life underground, a guided tour through Hotel Figueroa that will uncover an invisible museum, panel discussions, a speaker series and so much more!

Sunday October 21, 2018 8:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Hotel Figueroa Tangier
  VR-AR-Interactive
  • Website dtlaff.com/immersive

8:30pm PDT

My Dead Selfie with Smoke And Mirrors
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My Dead Selfie
USA | Narrative | 97 min
Director: Joy Shannon
Ginger, a young and beautiful African American woman, and her professional white husband, Hal, are full of life and enjoy a passionate marriage.  However, they tiptoe around the discussion of race. Ginger spends her time enjoying the financial security that her husband brings.  Hal has a family secret though -- he comes from a long line of vicious slave overseers who secretly practiced the occult. The slaves placed a curse on Hal's family for generations to come, and in order to break it he must marry a Black woman and she must birth him a son -- a daughter won't do. Unbeknownst to Ginger, Hal
was taught about the occult as a child and summoned the wicked spirit of an overseer ancestor to assist with his scheme -- but a demon was released instead.  Now, in a house that is possessed by the evils of racism, Ginger has no choice but to hope that her life matters.

 Smoke And Mirrors
USA | Narrative Short | 19 min
Director: Jonathan Burnett
Two old friends buy into a worm farming scheme and con others to achieve their aspirations But
When they were duped out of their money the two friends turn on each other and must regain
what’s important their friendship.

Cast: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Charles Bracy, Elle Vernee, Fasika Addis, Paul Green, Chris Reeves, Charles Burnett, Daniel de Boulay, Ryan Hopkins, Tariku Abas, Neet Pannu, Dominique Guilford, Jonathan Rowan, Joel DeMay, Bryana Yarbrough, Simone Smith, Erin Crenshaw, Kara Hinton
 
Credits
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Joy Shannon

Editor
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Joy Shannon and Miriam Holder-Jacobs

Producer


Sunday October 21, 2018 8:30pm - 10:27pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 13 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer youtu.be/CUgO9fU8fIY
  • Genre Supernatural/Horror
  • Cast Sharena Walker, AJ Garrett, Linda Burzynskilm, Efe’
  • Total Running Time 97min + 19min
  • Website www.mydeadselfie.com
  • Social Media www.facebook.com/mydeadselfiefilm
  • Director's Bio Joy Shannon is a Los Angeles based writer and director of indie films; 3rd Generation Female Gangsta’, Sexless After 45, Stuck With Jazz (aka All That Jazzin') and Rags To Reality (aka Uptown Angel).
  • Print Source Joy Shannon, director, currentfilm@aol.com

9:25pm PDT

Ballet Blanc
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Set in a remote town in the Western U.S., a young boy who has a passion for ballet, appears out of nowhere. After being discovered in a church choir, he's eventually adopted by a peculiar and frightening lonely local woman who has dark ambitions for him. She seems to be his master, but is she, really? The county eventually sends a social worker to investigate a particularly gruesome incident involving the boy. But this endearing youngster has a mind of his own, exerting his power and will over everyone. His frightening grand plan eventually comes into play, as he's not who he appears to be, or is it our perception of him? Behind his innocent smile lies a gruesome secret that may change the world.
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Anne-Sophie

Director
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Ivan Dutoit, Michelle Tsukamoto and Anne-Sophie

Producer
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Sharon Rutter

Editor
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Wey Wang

Director of Photography


Sunday October 21, 2018 9:25pm - 10:53pm PDT
Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Theater 12
  Feature, Narrative
  • Trailer youtu.be/c80K2akepc0
  • Genre Horror/Drama
  • Cast Colter Carlbom-Mann, Shelley Starrett, Brian Woods, Franco Fox
  • Total Running Time 88 min
  • Website www.AnneSophieFilms.com
  • Social Media Instagram, Facebook, Twitter: @AnneSophieFilms
  • Director's Bio Anne-Sophie is an award-winning filmmaker living in the Los Angeles area. She has received international media coverage in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times (London), National Post (Canada) and numerous other newspapers, Websites and television networks. She completed her first feature film - FADED MEMORIES - at age 16 that had a limited theatrical release in North America. She is the youngest filmmaker to have her first screenplay displayed in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' prestigious Margaret Herrick library. She has directed 6th feature films, and is currently finalizing her next project.
  • Print Source Ivan Dutoit, producer, annesophiefilms@gmail.com