5:00 PM
Drama Shorts 8A
Director: Stephen Knudsen and Karla Knudsen
"Game of Waste" is a short narrative about a hunter who faces the jury of his own taxidermy in what might be called the longest hibernation. It is a decidedly unusual courtroom. The hunter has taken the life of his dog and his own life with the same firearm that has been the instrument of his violent pastime. Published author and Irish Poet Finn Mac Eoin narrates his own poem,as a second outside protagonist in this poetic tale based on a true story. It is filmed in the Beautiful Luberon Valley, France in a Bergmanesque formal language. It moves through cedar forests and rich natural soundscapes.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
5:00 PM
Drama Shorts 8A
Director: Boqing Tang
The story of how three little mice struggled to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism school told in this 3D computer animated short film.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
5:00 PM
Drama Shorts 8A
Director: Noor Al Yaseen
A Saudi Arabian movie dealing with the subject of sex, showing a Saudi female perspective about the issues surrounding having a physical and sexual relationship in our modern world.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
5:00 PM
Drama Shorts 8A
Director: Shad Thompson
A thief has a terrible night on the job, forcing him to reconsider his chosen profession.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
5:00 PM
Drama Shorts 8A
Director: Leonora Pitts
Starring Mary Elizabeth Ellis (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Grinder) and Artemis Pebdani (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Scandal), Step 9 is the story of two friends, one in recovery and one decidedly not, who set out on a road trip to try and make amends. Written and directed by Leonora Pitts.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
6:00 PM
FSP8A
Director: Mikey Hill
The Orchestra is a lovingly crafted hand-drawn animated film, featuring over twenty thousand individual drawings, created over five years. Imagine a world where a band of tiny musicians follow and play a soundtrack to your life. In this world lives Vernon; a lonely man whose shyness causes his musicians to perform out of tune. When Vernon and his little band fall for the next door neighbor and her classical ensemble, they find themselves presented with perhaps a chance at happiness - to strike a chord and play in harmony. But first they must confront their stage fright.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
6:00 PM
FSP8A
Director: Michael Mike Canon
In Nazi Germany, a young Jewish couple takes on a cultural practice that prohibits them from making physical contact. As they yearn for each other's touch, they express their love in ways they never could have imagined. In the midst of the Holocaust, the couple hides in claustrophobic bunkers only a wall apart. With only a lamp to soften the darkness, they remember the love story of their past, from when they first met, to the time they separated. As their love grows, the hatred during the Holocaust rises. As their touch gets closer, so does the Gestapo.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
6:00 PM
FSP8A
Director: Sheri Sussman
No matter how powerful you are in Hollywood, there's always someone more powerful than you that has your career in the palm of their hand. A satire about two Indie filmmakers who find the perfect investor for their but has one deal point - that they kill a studio executive that has crossed him. But oddly, agreeing on an ending to their film seems to be their biggest challenge!
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
6:00 PM
FSP8A
Director: Kimmy Evans and Kirsten Filonczuk
WELCOME HOME, LOSER follows three recent graduates as they transition from college life to living back at home with their parents. Over-achiever Jeanie McNulty, ambitious slacker Connor O'Conner and their affable sidekick Nut each have a new diploma in hand, but no idea what to do next... With no jobs, no prospects, and pressure from their parents, Jeanie, Connor and Nut navigate the real world trying to land a job and keep their sanity.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
7:00 PM
Director: Amy Wade
CONDO HELL is a suspenseful, bloody, action-packed horror movie. It takes place in an old, historic mill in Rhode Island. The mill has been converted into condominiums. The owner's daughters, Nancy and Sherri, decide to have an Open House weekend to attract potential buyers. Five unsuspecting guests arrive to spend the weekend in the luxorious building. Unbeknownst to them, an escaped convict is lurking in the shadows... seeking vengeance on anyone who crosses his path.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
8:30 PM
Director: Romeo Curtis Brooks
Verona, a beautiful young woman in antebellum Georgia, is born into to a prominent family. Yet she, being of mixed-race, is made a slave by her own father, and is forbidden to love anyone, slave or free. Becoming infatuated by a young slave, Verona is, soon after, forced by her circumstances to come to terms with the futility of her new romance. A haunting, uniquely somber parody of the Technicolor melodramas of the 1940s and 1950s. A backward gaze at American slavery observed through layers of history, popular cinema, culture and myth, from contemporary race relations all the way back to the antebellum.
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
9:45 PM
Director: Doug Burch
Michael, an obsessive hit-man, is in town to do a "job". But from the very beginning, nothing goes right, no matter how much his buddy Jerry tries to gloss it over. When true love comes crashing back into his life, Michael is left with his own inner struggle - fight for love or stay the cold, lonely man he's become. But fate has it's own agenda, as three corrupt detectives close the noose around him with every passing hour, fueled by their own desperate desire to stop him before he exposes them and their own illegal dealings
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Feb 25, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS