BITCH
Director – Lilah Vandenburgh
CAST – Keira Leverton, Juan Garcia, Katlin Rivers, Zia Harris, Kathy Bell-Denton
Bitch is a pop culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes, your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will find you and she will make you pay. Love is for losers, and the PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. But when she meets a guy as antisocial as she is, it’s love at first sneer. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first. It’s a classic love story, rendered in a style so cynical, so blithely ultra-violent, and joyously scabrous as to be almost unrecognizable. This blackly comic satire draws inspiration from early cinema, mod and new wave filmmaking, punk music, newspaper collage, comic books and animation. Set to an original punk rock soundtrack and shot in 35mm black and white, the film is at once lo-fi and self consciously slick.
COLOR ME BLIND
Director: Douglas Keller
While planning a diversity rally, a misguided group of activists fail to see eye to eye with their newest member.
AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHT
Director: Hitoshi Takekiyo
Producer: Kenji Nitta
Animators : Kouichirou Matsumoto, Masako Kunikawa, Takeshi Yamazoe, Yoshio Yamanaka
A main character, 'MOCK'N' is an anatomic figure of biology classroom.
His daily work is only to display his body quietly in a boring glass box.
However, when the veil of night goes down with a sound of bell that notifies end of class, A school turns into a stage for his show time!
MAC-PC SPOOF
Producer/Writer/Director: Tvli Jacob & Steve Judd
Cast: Bill Sterchi, David Midthunder
A MAC/PC ad spoof, pitting the Native American (MAC:
Mistreated After Columbus) against the Caucasian American (PC: Post Columbus).
EL CHISME (The Gossip)
Writer/Director– Miguel Becerra
CAST - Freddy Gaitan, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Soledad St. Hilaire, Harold Cannon-Lopez, Salvador Benavides, Sabella St. Hilaire, Livia Trevino, Michael Colon, Darien Dikeos, Evelyn Candelaria-Kinsey, Michael Gonzalez, Bernardo Salazar
El Chisme is a comedy about the highly addictive world of gossip. We all know it quite well. But they know it especially well in East Los Angeles. Here Edward has just told his mother Martha he’s going to propose to his girlfriend Paulina. Trouble is that his mother is the biggest gossiper on the block. The whole neighborhood soon finds out even before Paulina. The priest, the taco vendor, the salon ladies, even the friendly neighborhood gangsters create a soap opera around the young lovers with their gossip. Edward must then become the soap opera’s leading man and rise above the “chisme” to find out for himself the truth about Paulina. Is she truly the one? Love, gossip and roosters take over East L.A.
A FAT GIRL'S GUIDE TO YOGA
Co-Writer and Co-Director – Tajamika Paxton & Gregory M. T. Colleton
CAST – Wendy McKinney, Mecca Dickerson, Lalanya Masters, Joi Osmanski, Alice Kim
Oversized and with a knack for wise cracks, Wendy turns to yoga to lose weight. Insecure about whether she’s cut out for yoga, in the beginning she's a disastrous combination of self-consciousness and overly enthusiastic. She undergoes a series of new challenges, giving audiences a comical glimpse into the skewed mind of a woman trying to find her 'Om.' Gregory Colleton and Tajamika Paxton wrote and directed this irreverent take on the world of tangled limbs and incense, inspired by Paxton’s experiences as a Los Angeles yoga instructor. The film features Lalanya Masters and Joy Osmanski and introduces new talents Wendy McKinney and Mecca Dickerson.
AQUARIUM
Writer/Director – Rob Meyer
CAST - Jeremy White, Kaitlin Kiyan, Zach Brian, Matthew Simpson, James Lurie, Maggie Phillips, Barbara Ann Davison, Kurt Braunohler
At fifteen, David and his two buddies are the youngest members of the Boston Aquarium Society. Theirs is an introverted world of breeding fish, training parrots and Latin Club. The three make their way through the deadpan reality of the suburbs to a monthly meeting at the New England Aquarium. As his buddies bicker over wet-dry filters and Gorbachev, David struggles alone with a moral dilemma. It takes Ellen, a disarmingly open neighbor, for David to finally share his secret and find a human connection in the surreal world of sea turtles, penguins, and jellies.
SUNDAY MAN
Writer/Director – Danielle Shumash
CAST: Annie Potts, Peter Coyote, Ted Rooney
A very unusual story about the misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is. It takes place in a sleepy little town tucked very far away. In fact, you’d never have heard of it at all, if not for one very peculiar man, Mr. Culp. As a boy Mr. Culp had come to realize he is something that men can never be. He'd lived as an outcast all his life, until one day the most remarkable thing happened that gave credence to Mr. Culp's outrageous claim. In this playful tale of whimsy and wonder, one boy will make a discovery that will change his life forever.
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