Moby’s directorial debut is a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights.

This film includes interviews with some of the biggest names in punk and rock history, like Ian Mackaye, HR, Dave Navarro, Ray Cappo, Andrew Hurley, Tony Kanal, Tim McIlrath, Water Schreifels, Dave Dictor, Derrick Green, Steve Ignorant, Theo Kogan, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, Amy Lee, and Captain Sensible.

Moby tells the story of how punk rock became such a fertile and surprising breeding ground for vegan activism. It’s also a call to action, unapologetically reminding people that in a deeply broken world it’s incumbent upon each of us to stand up and fight intelligently, passionately, and loudly against injustice.

COMEDY PROGRAM A-23

Lucy and Sara are sisters. They've been putting up with each other by the skin of their teeth for years. But with the passing of their father, things must change whether they like it or not.

Oddly codependent yet never truly close, the sisters delve further into the unconventional ways they are forced to lean on each other as we get to know them.

COMEDY PROGRAM A-23

Having failed to succeed as an actor in "Hollywood", 19-year-old cinephile Billy returns to his native Boston with what he believes to be a master plan for success: shooting and starring in “the greatest Boston movie of all time”.

This is a feat only possible if he can somehow wrangle the help of his equally hopeless hometown friend, Tommy, whose own dreams of playing for the Red Sox seem to be slipping away.

COMEDY PROGRAM A-23

A sex comedy that follows Paxton, a chronic self-pleasurer, and Angie, a cheerful help center worker, as Paxton realizes everyone he's ever masturbated to are getting alerts that he is doing so.

Panda Corp is a Mockumentary poking fun at reality TV shows.

This feature film is an improv-based comedy with a unique surreal aesthetic. The five main characters are hired by the Panda Corp on an interim basis. Yet, before they attain actual positions in the company, they must go on a team building adventure.

The host leads them on insane team building activities. Either they prove their worth or they don’t. It’s that simple!

GENRE PROGRAM B-23

Set in a dystopian current reality, Ryan is losing the ability to distinguish between reality and dreaming. After receiving a mysterious card he presents himself as demanded to an isolated location. There he is expected to follow a procedure which will result in the death of his best friend, someone who in turn accepts this fatal situation as inevitable and for the greater good, as it is presented to them by the authorities.

Ryan, however, questions the system and begins to suspect that people are being manipulated through something in the food and the water which has eliminated their ability to dream, and encouraged them to conform to a sinister agenda that controls their lives while promoting the illusion of freedom.

GENRE PROGRAM B-23

A woman performs a grueling ritual to banish a malevolent presence from her home, only to discover that the monster may be a manifestation of her own personal demons.

GENRE PROGRAM B-23

It is estimated that 4.8 million people have been forced into sexual exploitation across the world, commonly through prostitution. This film follows a young prostitute named Peachy (Alexis Jacquelin Smith) as she comes face to face with her young naive replacement.

Peachy is then forced to face the ghosts of her past in order to save her future and that of another young girl. Will she break the cycle she’s been trapped in?

Meet your Award Ceremony Hosts as they oversee (limited quantities) of Free Popcorn while you mingle with festival filmmakers and festival guests at this All-Ages social reception that runs from 4:30pm until 6:30pm on Friday afternoon.

Socialize with your fellow filmmakers & have some fun during a full day of festival film screenings, at this fun-filled not-to-be-missed event. This event take places at L.A. LIVE.

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LGBTQ PROGRAM C-23

A document of the 30-year history of the red AIDS ribbons on the tower of Hollywood United Methodist Church that were placed at the height of the AIDS crisis, signaling that all are welcome in this place no matter who you love.

LGBTQ PROGRAM C-23

To be a queer movie star in the golden age of Hollywood meant you’d better live a lie or get the hell out.

Fake marriages, separations, both men and women paid the price. Facing his mortality, one such movie star must reconcile with the only man he ever loved before it’s too late.

LGBTQ PROGRAM C-23

An unexpected romance unfolds between two young men who find themselves on diverging paths: one is ready for the encounter, the other is not.

This film is a surrealistic journey inward that starts to unravel the shadows of insecurity. Will love win after all, or will shame stand in the way of true happiness?

DRAMA PROGRAM D-23

Kasim Brown, the President of the prestigious Alpha Beta Gamma, a historically Black fraternity, welcomes his younger brother, Nasir Brown, into the organization. Amidst celebration, an anonymous tweet alluding to Nasir being gay creates division among the brotherhood, ...as not all of the members are accepting of it.

The organization's reputation is further damaged as students who were once interested in joining distance themselves from the opportunity during a time where the fraternity must bring in new members or it will lose university recognition.

Burdened with his responsibilities of the presidency, Kasim seeks the advice of different members and navigates tough conversations with his younger brother to ease this dilemma. In doing so he ends up confronting his own ignorance and the authenticity of the values the fraternity upholds.

DRAMA PROGRAM D-23

A forbidden love affair between a rising Black star and a white movie starlet is ruthlessly sabotaged by those who sought to maintain the oppressive status quo in 1950s America.

In the midst of a steamy romance, 'The Fool' follows the story of a rising Black star known simply as 'the artist' and his white movie starlet lover. But when a dangerous stranger threatens to expose their relationship to a society not ready for interracial love in 1950s America, the artist is given a deadly ultimatum: find a new same-race partner within 48 hours or suffer the consequences.

As the clock ticks down, the artist must decide whether to risk everything for the love of his life or give up on his soulmate and live with the weight of regret.

DRAMA PROGRAM D-23

After an evening of celebrating with friends, a young man makes a fateful decision he can't undo.

Only a conviction of conscience can save him!

Bridging the divide between the horror and science fiction genres, THE VEIL is a haunting tale about the mysteries of identity and perception told in the cadence of the classic American ghost story.

As a powerful solar storm descends on the valleys of rural Pennsylvania, bathing the rustic pines in the shimmering emerald glow of aurora borealis, a former priest named Douglas rouses awake to urgent knocking at the door of his isolated farmhouse. His unexpected midnight visitor is Hannah, a young Amish woman desperate for shelter after a personal crisis drives her to flee her insular community.

Sensing an opportunity to right a wrong that’s haunted him for decades, Douglas invites Hannah into his home and vows to protect her through the night from a malevolent pursuer he can only assume is her husband. As he tends to this enigmatic stranger — aided only by flickering candlelight following a total power outage — he finds himself embroiled in a deepening mystery that suggests her presence might be directly connected to the dancing northern lights overhead as well as a fateful & terrifying encounter from his youth.

A successful search for answers means accepting the impossible… or the supernatural.

After Rose’s makeup horrendously disfigures another influencer’s face, she faces off with an increasingly disturbed stalker.

Upon meeting Lily in a chance circumstance, she and Rose fall violently in love as Rose’s life and sanity begins crumbling. Their obsession consumes them as Rose falls down a violent rabbit hole of drugs, paranoia, and jealousy ...until she hits an unimaginable rock bottom.

Gang Violence in Los Angeles is generational.

Shane Murphy and Dre Allen grow up in the most violent area of LA called The 4 Points. Losing parents at a very young age, they first meet in their teens as rivals gang members. They meet back up as adults, becoming LAPD Detectives and then partners.

Pulled from their duties to be a two man task force to address the rising violence in the 4 Points, things get dark as they investigate the most recent gangland murders and try to uncover the dark and sinister side of gangs, bad cops, and the violence needed to maintain control of The 4 Points.