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2019 SHORTS Screening | LA Femme Women Film Festival

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by | Sep 19, 2019 | Past Screening Programs

This is a list of the SHORT FILMS screening at 2019 LA FEMME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Location: Regal Cinemas 14 at LA LIVE 1000 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90015

Venue 1- Auditorium 13

Venue 2- Auditorium 14


Title of Film


 

#3 NORMANDY LANE

OCT. 18th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

BRENDA STRONG

PRODUCERS

KELLY FRAZIER

VINCENT CARDINALE

THOMAS MARCHESE

WRITER/PRODUCER

JOHN FARMANESH-

BOCCA

 

RT: 22

CAST: Scottie Thompson, Christine Lakin, James Edward Bane, Aidan Sutton, Ender Sutton

SYNOPSIS: Army wife and Young Mother, Sarah Winston’s life is inextricably altered when 

a series of visitors arrive on her doorstep.

 

11:40

OCT. 20th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR

CLAUDIA RUIZ

RT: 12

SYNOPSIS: Damián and his little brother Matias begin to attend a school located next to a jail. 

Damien look at the watch he just received for his birthday and wait anxiously for the 11:40 hour.

 

 

 

AMERICAN BOYFRIEND

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

HELEN MORALES

PRODUCERS

NICHOLAS KERR

BOYD KERR

KARINA MICHAEL

ALEX SANTO SPIRITO

VICKI SANTO SPIRITO

RT: 7

CAST: Olivia Payson, Jade Huber, Nic Ouporov

SYNOPSIS: A 15-year-old girl experiences an anxiety attack while on a school field-trip to the beach.

 

ANXIETY’S WILMA

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

ALEXANDRA KYLE

PRODUCERS

R.J HAYNES

JACKIE LANDES

WRITER

ALEXANDRA KYLE

RT: 10

CAST: Martin Starr, Alexandra Kyle, Abby Miller, Myron McClure

SYNOPSIS: A short romantic comedy about a young woman and her anxiety.

 

BABA YOGA

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR

MICHALINA PRZEWDZING

RT: 30

SYNOPSIS: Dorota is a young mother, she works in the library, she is limping on one leg. 

She lives in a small town, that seems to be as dormant as her, her husband Marek and their dreams.

 

BUTTERFLY

OCT. 19, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

BONNIE FOSTER

PRODUCERS

TIM ASTOR

JEFF LACOUR

RT: 22

CAST: Jade Lorna Sullivan, Micah Fitzgrald, Ryan Manuel

SYNOPSIS: A fashion model drives into the desert and meets a mysterious stranger who 

finally brings the change she’s been looking for.

 

CHEMISTRY

OCT. 19th, 10:00 – 12:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

CYNTHIA SILVER

PRODUCERS

CAMDEN ELIZABETH

PAUL MARCARELLI

WRITER/KEY CAST

CHARLOTTE MARTIN

RT: 5

CAST: Meghan Rafferty, Jillian Oliver, Moira O’Sullivan, Katie Honaker, Michael R. Piazza

SYNOPSIS: As the audition tape continues to roll, a casting director and producer are caught 

candidly discussing the repercussions of casting a mixed-race actress.

 

CREAM

OCT. 20th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

PALESA LEBONA

RT: 15

CAST: Ayianna Madison

SYNOPSIS: A 1960’s period piece set in Oakland California centred around a 12 year-old, 

dark-skinned girl who is torn between her own personal identity ,and seeking the love and 

affection from her light-skinned grandmother.

 

CREATIVE URGES

OCT. 19th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CAST

NARINEH TAHMASEBIAN

WRITER/PRODUCER/CAST

LUKE SCORCIO

RT: 21

CAST: Dave Huber, Eric Walsingham, Holly Anabel Brown, Jessica Heidenreic, 

Kelsey Morgan Arnold, Sarah Derry

SYNOPSIS: Serial killers search for fame in Hollywood.

 

 

DANKALICIOUS

OCT. 17th, 6:00 – 8:30

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

AUSTIN STOCK

PRODUCERS

JENNIFER DEL REY

KATY BALES LOHMANN

ZAC BECKER

ALBERT LORENZO

WRITER

ADAM GARLAND

RT: 12

CAST: Andy Petruzzo, Barrett Epstein, Megan Tully, Timothy Haug, Riria

SYNOPSIS: A washed up erotic thriller author uses his son’s special gift to help him write his next book.

 

EVERY GRAIN OF SAND

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

AMANDA SPENCER

WRITER

TOBY OSBORNE

RT: 10

CAST: Tarra Riggs, Regina Williams

SYNOPSIS: Mae, a woman who thinks she has it all, has to reevaluate what is really important to her 

when her sister falls ill and the medical bills take every penny she has.

 

FISH HEAD

OCT. 20th, 10:00 – 12:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

MARCOS DURIAN

PRODUCERS

CYNTHIA SHREVES

Ee T. LIM

RT: 17

CAST: Madison Rojas, Aina Dumlao, Grant McLellan, Cynthia San Luis, Michael Kuya

SYNOPSIS: A Filipino-American coming of stage story which chronicles a young boys

 adversity with childhood, identity and being bullied at school.

 

GOOD COP, BAD COP, and MAUDE

OCT. 18th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER/CAST

NIRAV MEHTA

PRODUCERS

ADAM LESAR

NUPUR MEHROTRA

WRITER/CAST

AARON DANCIK

RT: 5

CAST: Kirby the Dog

SYNOPSIS: When a deadly terrorist threatens the world, an UNCONVENTIONAL team is called upon to save the day.

 

HASTINGS

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

ELLA BISHOP

PRODUCERS

AXEL OHMAN

PAU SURIS

SAM TIPPER-HALE

RT: 12

CAST: Elinor Crawley, Phoebe Nicholls, Amelia Clarkson, Frank Blake, James Northcote

SYNOPSIS: Isabel returns home to celebrate her mother’s birthday, but the family reunion 

is interrupted by an impromptu road-trip to Hastings.

 

HE SAID, SHE SAID

OCT. 19th, 8:00 – 10:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CAST

SARA FRIEDMAN

PRODUCER

JOHN HERMANN

RT: 5

CAST: Cayson Ruoff, Jody McColman, Paul Kingston

SYNOPSIS: Sara goes up for a job against a real crybaby in a world where men and women 

are held to very different standards.

 

I AM EVELYN ROSE

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR

BECCA FLINN-WHITE

PRODUCERS

MALERI SEVIER

WRITER/CAST

AUDREY GOODMAN

RT: 11

CAST: Mindy Sterling, Jim O’Heir, Helen Slayton-Hughes, Patricia Belcher, Lonikaye Harkless, 

Brenden, Pam Murphy

SYNOPSIS: Following a dramatic breakup, Evelyn Rose, an awkward 16 year old gets sent to her Grandma, 

Carly’s house for the summer to learn about love, friendship, and life after 60.

 

I WISH

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER

DOKYUNG SONG

PRODUCER

HYUNKYU PARK

RT: 24

CAST: Guem-sun-a Yoon, Jiwon Cha

SYNOPSIS: On the way back home from a failed job interview, Soohyeon comes across Hyeri, who used to be her school friend. Hyeri looks quite successful in her career and marriage. Depressed, Soohyeon scrolls through Instagram feeds and sighs with jealousy looking at Hyeri’s happy life on Instagram.

 

 

 

IT CUTS WITHIN

OCT. 18th, 10:00 – 12:00

 

VENUE 1

CO-DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CO-WRITER

JOAO VIEIRA

CO-DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CO-WRITER

SYLVIE SUTTON

RT: 17

SYNOPSIS: Three explorers travel up North in search of a rare flower. One dies, and the other must fulfill her last wish.

 

IV-EFFING

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR

ANNA DOKOZA

PRODUCER

DAVE HILL

WRITER/CAST

JEAN VILLEPIQUE

RT: 8

CAST: Anjali Bhimani

SYNOPSIS: Jean wants a baby. But does she want one bad enough to deal with the subtle indignities of in-vitro fertilization?

 

JACK AND ANNA

OCT. 19th, 10:00 – 12:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

KSENIA IVANOVA

PRODUCERS

EVA HERNDON

MIKA SANTIAGUEL

WRITER

SAVANNAH OAKES

RT: 15

CAST: Kate Smith, Brookelyn Hebert, Joe Chapleau

SYNOPSIS: a young couple who live a happy life on their farm when suddenly a man from the past reveals Jack’s biggest secret – that he is, in fact, a woman named Helen Hilsher.

 

JUDAS COLLAR

OCT. 19th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER

ALISON JAMES

PRODUCER

BROOKE SILCOX

RT: 15

SYNOPSIS: In outback Australia a wild camel is captured and fitted with a tracking device known as a Judas Collar. Based on a real life practice, Judas Collar is a scripted, no-dialogue, live action short that explores the story of a camel used to betray her kind.

 

LADIES MOST DEJECT

OCT. 18th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/CAST

MARTHA ELCAN

PRODUCER/WRITER

MARK SALYER

PRODUCER

MELISSA PALMER

WRITER/CAST

CONNER WHARTON

CAST: Pepper Binkley, Robin Mullins, Marty Elcan, Ben Mackel, Ellie Williams, Sofia Adams, Josiah Wells

SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl from the Appalachian mountains struggles to protect her siblings from an addict mother.

 

LAPSUS

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR

MARGINEANU ANA

RT: 13

SYNOPSIS: Maria stops in her hometown on her way to the airport for a brief conversation with her sister Bianca. Although she hasn’t been in town since high school, Maria shares the news that she is going to sue their father.

 

LET IT GO

OCT. 17th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER/

STEPHANIE HEIM

PRODUCERS

ROBERT OWOC

WARREN LEWIS

RT: 5

CAST: Leaphy Khim, Ozzy Ramirez, James Taku Leung

SYNOPSIS: A Marine deals with loss. 

 

LILI

OCT. 18th, 10:00 – 12:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER

YFKE VAN BERCKELAER

PRODUCERS

JORGEN VAN DONGEN

STEVEN WILLEMS

RT: 9

CAST: Lisa Smit, Derek de Lint

SYNOPSIS: Lili knows she has to nail this audition. The Man she auditions for, knows this too — thus starts an uncomfortable cat and mouse game in this single-shot. 

 

MIMICRY

OCT. 19th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 2

CO-DIRECTOR/CO-PRODUCER/WRITER

LAUREN GLEASON

CO-DIRECTOR/CO-PRODUCER

ANNA WHOLEY

RT: 5

CAST: Justin Lieberman

SYNOPSIS: A man returns home to find something isn’t quite right with his roommate.

 

MY SHELL

OCT. 18th, 6:00 – 8:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

AUVEEN LUSH

PRODUCER

CIARA APPELBE

RT: 11

CAST: Serena Brabazon

SYNOPSIS: A new mum to be and an egg work through all her fears before her due date.

 

OUR ALBERTINIA

OCT.18th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

CHANTEL CLARK 

PRODUCER

MORGAN ACKLEY

RT: 21

CAST: Crystal-Donna Roberts, Shimmy Isaacs, Deon Lotz

SYNOPSIS: When the crumbling Apartheid regime affords Marie Abrahams an opportunity to sell the family farm, her daughter Inge fights to keep their ancestral land. 

 

 

 

PRAYERS OF A SAINT

OCT. 19th, 2:00 – 4:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

SANTHO GOONEWARDENE

RT: 10

CAST: Amber Midthunder

SYNOPSIS: A small town girl escapes her abusive home in the hopes of something better than the life she and her mother have been trapped in.

 

 

 

 

 

REPERCUSSIONS

OCT. 19th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 2

CO-DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

CHUCK MARRA

CO-DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

MEGAN MARRA

WRITER/PRODUCER/CAST

SUSAN DAMANTE

RT: 10

CAST: Jessica Marie Taylor, Andrea Geones

SYNOPSIS: Two women have a meeting. The topic: revenge. 

 

ROCK OUT

OCT. 19th, 6:00 – 8:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

ALICE GADBLED

RT: 23

SYNOPSIS: Activist and atheist all his life, Bob asked to be buried religiously, which disturbs his three children, but delights his sister. 

 

 

 

SEXO Y TORTILLAS

OCT. 19th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

PRISCILLA ALVAREZ

RT: 12

CAST: Christina Rabago, Celia Garza

SYNOPSIS: An American woman flies to a small town in Mexico to visit her estranged auntie. She is a traveling saleswoman. What she sells shocks the culture and vibrates the town, but it also brings women together.

 

SMILE

OCT. 19th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

LESLIE ALEJANDRO

WRITER/PRODUCER/CAST

KEVIN ALEJANDRO

RT: 4

CAST: Emerson Basco, DB Woodside

SYNOPSIS: An over privileged 7 year old bites off more than she can chew when she devises a plan to deceive the Tooth Fairy.

 

 

STEALTH

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

ASTOR KAILANI STARK

PRODUCERS

DAMON LAGUNA

SAGE SOKOL LANTING

MONA XIA

RT: 20

CAST: Raven Miles, Danell Levya, Asthon Grooms, Kyler O’Neal

SYNOPSIS: Gia is a “stealth” transgender woman — able to pass as cis, but still contending with her love interest at work and a run-in with the Unicorn Gang.

 

THE BLESSING

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

LIANN KAYE

RT: 6

CAST: Ryan D. Wright, Yoko Hyun 

SYNOPSIS: When a timid, midwestern boy decides to propose to his girlfriend, he has to go through her immigrant, Chinese mother first.

 

THE GROUP CHAT

OCT. 19th, 10:00 – 12:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

PAULINE CHALAMET

PRODUCER/CAST

LILY SONDIK

PRODUCER/COLLABORATING DIRECTOR

MYRIAM DOUMENQ

WRITER/CAST

ANNE HOLLISTER

RT: 14

SYNOPSIS: A tight-knit group of four millennial women in LA begin to look at the dynamics of their friendship differently once a member of their group enters the annual ‘My Body is My Friend’ competition.

 

THE LOAD

OCT. 17th, 6:00 – 8:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER

GIULIA GIAPPONESI

PRODUCER

PAOLO MARZONI 

RT: 15

CAST: Sofia Abbati, Cristiana Raggi

SYNOPSIS: More and more women are not having children. Not because they can’t. They simply choose to do other things instead.

 

TILLIE

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

OLIVIA ANTON

PRODUCER

DAVE MARKEN

RT: 24

CAST: Charlotte Um, Uly Schlesinger, Bilaal Avaz, Olivia Bak, Nicholette Mango

SYNOPSIS: A girl is dead. And she’s just the first.

 

TIPPED

OCT. 19th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER

ALYSSE LEITE-ROGERS

RT: 14

CAST: Fiona Vroom, Brian Markinson, Teryl Rothery, Beverly Elliot, David Lewis, Luvia Petersen

SYNOPSIS: A waitress reaches her tipping point with a difficult table and serves up her own dish of revenge.

 

TRAIN STOP

OCT. 20th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1 

DIRECTOR

AUDEN BUI

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

JAMES BABBIN

PRODUCER

LAURA HAUSCHILD

RT: 7

CAST: James Babbin, Sage Porter, Tim Conlon

SYNOPSIS: Two busy professionals confront their undeniable attraction, and their demons, during a chance encounter at a train station.

 

WE VANISH

OCT. 17th, 4:00 – 6:00

VENUE 2

DIRECTOR/WRITER

ASTRID DOMINGUEZ

PRODUCERS

HAYLEY SURGERON

SANDRA DE SILVA DE LA TORRE

RT: 23

CAST: Leonardo Alonzo, Patricia Meneses, Estephany Hernandez

SYNOPSIS: In a country where violence against women has been normalised, a young mother will put her own life in danger to get legal justice over her daughter’s brutal murder.

 

 

WEEP NOT

OCT. 18th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR /WRITER/PRODUCER

LENORE THOMAS DOUGLAS

PRODUCER/WRITER/CAST

CHERAY O’NEAL

PRODUCER

TONY OKUNGBOWA

RT: 13

CAST: Beverly Todd, Rico E. Anderson, Ann Russo, Missy Yager, Alex Wells, Lou Noyce 

SYNOPSIS: Thirty years later, a survivor of child on child sexual assault confronts her abuser in an attempt to rise above the pain.

 

WHERE ARE WE?

OCT. 17th, 12:00 – 2:00

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR

HANNA BESIREVIC

PRODUCERS

MARUSKA DUKIC

KAROLINA KOWALCZYK

CAROLINA BARRIENTOS

WRITER

MARIE-CYBELE MUYSERS

RT: 13

CAST: Andres Almeida, Roxana Saucedo, Maria Andrea Araujo, Juan Antonio Edwards

SYNOPSIS: A young woman takes a road trip for four days with her boyfriend and his family.

 

YOU CAN KISS ME

OCT. 18th, 4:00 – 6:00 

VENUE 1

DIRECTOR/WRITER

JAN JALENAK

PRODUCER

BABY DOLL FILMS

RT: 19

CAST: Brandi Nicole Wilson, Ylfa Edelstein, Andrew Elvis Miller

SYNOPSIS: Penelope’s search for the kind of love that’s missing in her life leads her to a motel room with another woman – only to be confronted by the realities of her marriage.