In this retelling of The Little Pigs, with all the actors inside the most amazing and elaborate masks and animation, the real star of this funny film is the remarkable production design, costuming and effects.
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This sweetly charming romantic film about a first date on a winters day, touches upon the awkwardness we sometimes have with strangers. Playing with themes and filmmaking techniques that were popular a couple of years ago, but are conspicuously absent this year, director Jim Vendiola has created a touching poem with inspiration from Italian Neo-realism, John Cassevetes and Mumblecore.
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The streets of London at night look marvelous in this short film about two strangers who meet up for a walk throughout the city, following the trail blazed by the Great Fire of 1666, each man carrying a dark secret.
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Collected texts, drawing from famous last words to excerpts from suicide notes to transcripts from war zones, are juxtaposed against surreal images telling the story of woman journeying to the ocean through a burned out and post-apocalyptic landscape in this elegant short film.
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Chilling documentary about the U.S. Governments decision to shut down major Environmental Protection Agency research libraries and discard the books within, and the aftermath of that political decision.
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Bookended videos of one of Los Angeles most famous underground hairstylists. Atilla has been shaving and cutting unique creations into peoples heads on and around Melrose since punk rock first broke, and is repersented here with an interview piece from the late 1970's and a film made this year.
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This student film shows one night in a roadside diner where a robbery becomes a reunion and important decisions about how to live and survive are made. An interesting film that stays with you.
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Director Jeff Gallea (Buried In Tucson, Belt Slave) is at it again. In this new short he revisits some of the characters, themes and footage from his divisively misogynistic underground hit feature Belt Slave, to take a slightly softer look at the thrilling, and darker aspects of the male id during its hunt for sex. Wolfgang Nelson gives us an intense and star-making performance as Jinx, a modern remodel of Stanley Kowalski.

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Every still of this short student film is cinematically stunning and filled with incredible acting, including a powerful supporting role by David Gant (Braveheart, Brazil). But no actor had a more remarkable performance in our festival this year than Philip Bender who, as Eve, had to portray a man about to end his own life only to be confronted by an assassin that he talkes into killing him, only after first making a home movie together (where he then nails a portrayal of a puffed up egomaniac) so that he can have one final testament to his life. How much more can you ask of an actor? But Philip Bender makes all seem natural and easy.

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Gorgeous twenty somethings, frightening monsters, stunning cinematography, what's not to like? Showing how much can be done with just a little this film takes its budget of under two million dollars and turns it into a Hollywood ready horror film with amazing special effects and non-stop thrills (like exploding cars). Not to be missed.

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Our other BEST HORROR FILM winner is another brilliant film that made an epic tale with a low budget. Not as Hollywood ready as Forget Me Not, but operating with less then one tenth of that budget, Rage is a fast paced thrill-ride of a movie that is genuinely scary and engaging in it's motorcycle based homage to Spielberg's early feature film Duel.

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The story of a WWII concentration camp prisoner who is asked by his captors to perform a surgery to save the life of a Nazi soldier. A well acted and well filmed in beautiful and claustrophobic sets, this film ends up being a modern day version of some of the more naturalistic episodes of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, with it's emphasis on morality and tolerance, wrapped in a suspenseful package.

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Ronny Cox (Beverly Hills Cop, Total Recall, Deliverance) stars in this entertaining sci-fi thriller about the struggle between following orders and following your instinct. An incredible labor of love, this festival favorite was labored over by the director for over three years, who did all the editing, special effects and sound design (all of which are top notch) by himself.

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This comedy uses the streets of Hollywood and the lives of the performers who work as movie hero look-a-likes as the background for a charming & romantic comedy farce about liking a girl so much you hijack her rival (only to find our that he was in fact her brother). A charming film that despite not having all the funding in the world, never seems amateurish and is always entertaining.

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This AFI produced short just had a screening at New Filmmakers Los Angeles. An entertaining horror short that takes its cues from Poe, this film features an great performance from Bob McCracken as Herman Freck the CFO of Unified Energy, who is being haunted at the airport. How did they get permission to film a horror film in an airport terminal anyway? Amazing.

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