FEATURES 2015

 Feature Film To Screen 2015

All Film Screenings at Laemmle Theater: 9036 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90211

 

CAGED NO MORE (WCP) 
OCT. 15TH, 6-8PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
LISA ARNOLD

PRODUCERS
LISA ARNOLD
JARRED COATES

WRITERS
LISA ARNOLD
MOLLY VENZKE

RT: 98 MIN

CAST: Kevin Sorbo, Madison De La Garza, Loretta Devine.

SYNOPSIS: Aggie, A 67 year-old grandmother, risks everything to find her missing granddaughters and bring them home.

 

CASSANOVA WAS A WOMAN
OCT. 18TH, 10AM-12PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
KEVIN ARBOUET

PRODUCERS
JEZABEL MONTERO
PETER IENGO

WRITER
JEZABEL MONTERO

RT: 112 MIN

CAST: Jezabel Montero, Margo Singagliese, Paolo Andino, Monica Steuer, Carolann Valentino.

SYNOPSIS: A Latina woman discovers she is bisexual and begins to see an imaginary naked man who offers her unsolicited advice.

 

 

COME SIMI
OCT. 16TH, 8-10PM
VENUE 2

DIRECTOR
JENICA BERGERE

PRODUCERS
JAMES PORTOLESE (All Stars)
MARY VERNIEU (Trust Me)
KEITH KJARVAL (Rudderless)

WRITERS
JENICA BERGERE
DOC PEDROLIE

RT: 84 MIN

CAST: Jenica Bergere (Safety Not Guaranteed), Tawny Kitaen (Bachelor Party), Karen Landry (Patti Rocks), Fionnula Flanagan (Lost)

SYNOPSIS: “Come Simi” is a film about sisters, old and new, that have a generational bond of greed, favoritism, humor, love and a little bit of crazy.

 

DEFENDERS OF LIFE 
OCT. 15TH, 4-6PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
DANA ZIYASHEVA

PRODUCER
IGOR DARBO

WRITER
DANA ZIYASHEVA

RT: 94 MIN

CAST: Beatriz Brenes (Italia 90), Arman Darbo (Kung Fu Hero).

SYNOPSIS: For Doña Carmen, the fight to pass on traditional ways of life will take a threatening turn when she walks young Esmeralda to her first-blood ritual.

 

 

HUSBAND FACTOR
OCT. 16TH, 12-2PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
KIVANC BARUONU

PRODUCER
NECATI AKPINAR

WRITERS
SEBNEM BURCUOGLU
KIVANC BARUONU

RT: 108 MIN

CAST: Ezgi Mola.

SYNOPSIS: A traditional Turkish woman tries to find love and is forced by her family members to get married.

 

I LOVED YOU SO MUCH  
OCT. 18TH, 12-2PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR:
ORHAN TEKEOGLU

PRODUCERS
NURDAN TEKEOGLU

WRITER
ORHAN TEKEOGLU

RT: 98 MIN

CAST: Alma Terzic (blood and honey), Oktay Gürsoy (dila hanım).

SYNOPSIS: A married man, Cemal, faces a moral dilemma when he falls in love with another woman.

 

 

 

INTERRUPTION
OCT. 16TH, 10AM-12PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
MALOU REYMANN

PRODUCERS
LINE SANDER EGEDE
RENÉ EZRA
THOMAS RADOOR

WRITER
MALOU REYMANN

RT: 51 MIN

CAST: Tuva Novotny, Benjamin Kitter, Biljana Stojkoska, Sebastian Teschemacher.

SYNOPSIS: Marie (Tuva Novotny) is struggling to keep up with her demanding job, as well as the needs of her young family, when she discovers she is pregnant.

 

MLE
OCT. 17TH, 12-2PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
SARAH WARREN

PRODUCERS
PAUL BENNUN
DEIDRE GARCIA
SIMON SHORE
SARAH WARREN

WRITER
SARAH WARREN

RT: 99 MIN

CAST: Sarah Warren, Julie Sype, Jo Price.

SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Julie, a broke actor, finds herself taking on spy work from a strange family.

 

THE MORNING AFTER 
OCT. 18TH, 2-4PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
SHANRA J. KEHL

PRODUCERS
ROBERT SHAPIRO
SHANRA J. KEHL
HELEN VONDERHEIDE

WRITER
SHANRA J. KEHL

RT: 78 MIN

CAST: Michelle Lombardo (Californication, Entourage, Quarter Life), Vanessa Evigan (Blood Ransom, Christmas Mail, Sorority Boys), Cameron Jebo (Austin & Ally).

SYNOPSIS: Individuals deal with waking up next to someone new or familiar and how they handle their need for instant gratification, intimacy issues and infidelities.

 

NO LETTING GO (LAP)
OCT. 17TH, 4-6PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
JONATHAN BUCARI

PRODUCERS
CARINA RUSH
JONATHAN BUCARI
RANDI SILVERMAN

WRITER
JONATHAN BUCARI

RT: 104 MIN

CAST: Cheryl Allison, David Schallipp, Noah Silverman, Richard Burgi, Alysia Reiner

SYNOPSIS: A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

 

 

THE OTHER KIND
OCT. 17TH, 2-4PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
ROSALYN ROSEN

PRODUCERS
ROSALYN ROSEN
MICHAEL SALEMAN

WRITER
ROSALYN ROSEN
RT: 114 MIN
CAST: Jo Harvey Allen (Secondhand Lions), Richard Dillard (The Last Stand), Dane Seth Hurlburt (Paradise Recovered), Justin Arnold (The Prey), Paula Rhodes (Love in the Time of Monsters)

SYNOPSIS: Reality is turned upside down when a family sets out on a mission to rural Texas to save the youngest of their brood.

 

 

REIGN
OCT. 16TH, 2-4PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
COREY MISQUITA

PRODUCERS
ANNELI EKBORN
EVA ZIEMSEN
YUSUF ALVI

 

WRITER
COREY MISQUITA

RT: 70 MIN

CAST: Jordan Todosey, Samantha Weinstein, Julian Richings.

SYNOPSIS: Reign follows the deterioration of the relationship between two long-time best friends as one becomes a bully and the other a victim.

 

THE SCARAPIST (WP)
OCT. 15TH, 10AM-12PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTORS
JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA
SYNTHIAN SHARP

PRODUCERS
JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA
DAVID SPICUZZA
MARJORIE SPICUZZA
SHARI HAMRICK

WRITER
JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA

RT: 81 MIN

CAST: Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, R. Michael Gull

SYNOPSIS: An insane therapist entangles a suburban novelist in a web of hypnosis, drugs, kidnapping, depravity and murder. Based on a true story.

 

SILVER SKIES 
OCT. 17TH, 10AM-12PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ

PRODUCERS
ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ
NESTOR RODRIGUEZ
FRED ROOS
ARTHUR SARKISSIAN

WRITER
ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ

RT: 96 MIN

CAST: Mariette Hartley (Emmy Winner) Ride the High Country, Marnie, The Incredible Hulk (Emmy Winner), Barbara Bain (Emmy Winner) Mission Impossible, George Hamilton (Golden Globe nominee) Love at First Bite, Godfather 3, Jack McGee The Fighter, The McCarthy’s, Rescue Me, Valerie Perrine (Oscar Nominee) Lenny

SYNOPSIS: A group of eccentric tenants’ lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.

 

SOMEONE TO CARRY ME
OCT. 18TH, 4-6PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
TERRY ALLEN

PRODUCERS
SAMUEL THOMAS
TERRY ALLEN
AMBER SMITH

WRITER
SAMUEL THOMAS

RT: 102 MIN

CAST: Samuel Thomas, Gwendoline Taylor, David Capstick, Paul Lewis, Josiah Harrold.

SYNOPSIS: Dan, an aspiring young musician becomes a target after witnessing a brutal murder.

 

STRAY
OCT. 15TH, 2-4PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR
NENA ESKRIDGE

PRODUCERS
NENA ESKRIDGE
DAVID LANDAU

WRITER
NENA ESKRIDGE

RT: 107 MIN

CAST: Gabrielle Stone, Andrew Sensenig, Arita Trahan, Dan McGlaughlin

SYNOPSIS: A killer decides to settle down and start a family, But first she has to find the right guy to help make it happen – whether he wants to or not.

 

SURVIVING ME: THE NINE CIRCLES OF SOPHIE (WP) 
OCT. 16TH, 4-6PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTOR, WRITER
LEAH YANANTON

PRODUCERS
CAPELLA FAHOOME
ORLANDO BUSTOS
LARRY ENGEL

RT: 104 MIN

CAST: Mira Furlan, Frederic Lehne, Leah Yananton, Vincent Piazza, Christine Ryndak.

SYNOPSIS: When college sophomore Sophie loses her moral compass she must journey through her own Dante’s inferno to find redemption.

 

 

THE TREE INSIDE  
OCT. 15TH, 12-2PM
VENUE 1

DIRECTORS
MICHELLE KIM
ROB LEICKNER

PRODUCERS
MICHELLE KIM
ROB LEICKNER

RT: 90 MIN

CAST: Michelle Kim, Casey Manderson, Cameron Crosby, Diana Bang, Michael Turner

SYNOPSIS: When a commitment-phobic woman meets the man of her dreams, she must find a way to fight against her seasonal impulse to change.