This festival favorite presents a surreal visual experience for lucky viewers. As a small-budget science fiction film, The Book utilizes a number of unique visual effects to create it's own specific and fantastic universe.

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An amazing film, excellently showing how a small production with a small cast can produce a movie that elicits profound feeling. God and Vodka is well-written and directed film about a friendship between a man and woman that spans the whole first half of their lives. The excellent performances in this character-driven film are the foundation of this little masterpiece.

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Another collection of outstanding performances in this short suspense thriller about an isolated elderly couple that struggles to maintain, as the fear of an elusive killer sweeps the region of their lonely desert outpost while a mysterious stranger stops by for some gas and threatening conversation.

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A lawyer crosses paths with a friendly gas station attendant, leading to deadly consequences. Starring Jeremy Sisto and Trevor Lawrence Young.

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Adam Rose gives a terrific performance in a film filled with them, in director Ryan Eggold's debut that is as close to perfect as a comedy short can be. You will struggle with Adam as he attends his recent ex- girlfriends wedding and struggles to keep his feelings under control.

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Skills in filmmaking that are too often underestimated are on display in this incredible short film that consists simply of a conversation between a man and a 14-year-old boy who is coming to terms with the death of his father. Not one line rings false in this screenplay and the direction perfectly keeps your focus on these new friends and their stories.

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A young man battles his anxiety issues with the help of a female psychology student. He ends up with more than he bargained for in this dramatic film marked by strong performances by the lead actors and smart direction by first time feature film director J.R. Sawyers.

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Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who had disowned him over 20 years ago. Now suffering from Alzheimer's dementia, the father gets a crash course in all things gay from Stephen's eclectic mix of friends in this film that is by turns touching and funny, but always very human.

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Danny Masterson delivers a nuanced and sadly brilliant comedic performance in this funny short film about taking back your manhood. With Danny Strong (Mad Men) and Carla Gallo (Superbad).

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In a knockout performance John Robinson stars as Wayne Montgomery, an American surfer framed for phony drug charges and put into a Peruvian prison for dissidents. Wayne encounters a series of eccentric and dangerous characters in who compel him to grow up and find a way to escape in the epic independent film CITY OF GARDENS, our Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Best Picture Winner. Featuring Alex Meraz. Based on a true story.

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Musicians & comics Jimi Hendrix, Steven Stills, The Grateful Dead, The Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Blood Sweat and Tears, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Richard Prior, Lily Tomlin, and Lenny Bruce (who was famously arrested there) had some of their earliest performances at the Cafe Au Go Go nightclub in the 60's. This documentary tells the compelling story that venue and it's visionary owners Howard & Elly Solomon and the movement they helped nurture and later defend in court.

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This micro-budget gonzo horror-comedy was made by a group of high school students under the direction of actor/director John Walcutt, and tells the tale of a girl (Jennie Marie Pacelli) who can't tell the voices in her head from the creepy sounds coming from the walls of the Barbie French School For Modeling in this year's HRIFF midnight-movie selection.

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