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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Pilot/Series
Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Language: English
Country: Not Specified
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When the LAPD dismisses her uncle’s death as a suicide, a determined nurse in 1899 Los Angeles forms an unlikely alliance to challenge the official record—uncovering a conspiracy behind the first recorded, and still unsolved, murder in the city’s history.
2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Pilot/Series
Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Not many are brave enough to fight the mysterious cryptids that haunt the United States–except one woman down on her luck.
Language: English
Country: Not Specified
A stubborn and determined woman sets out on a journey across the country with her cousin to find four cryptids and defeat them, all in order to fill out the most important resume of her life.
2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film
Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM
After a skeptical investigative reporter covers a Hollywood cult that claims to predict its members’ deaths, a trail of gruesome “coincidences” forces her toward the very certainty
Language: English
Country: Not Specified
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A skeptical news reporter investigates "Las Palabras", a Hollywood death cult that claims to know the final words someone will hear before dying. When her interview subjects die exactly as foretold, she traces the chaos to a fame-hungry PA, his blood-soaked cult muses, and a supernatural promise too tempting to resist.
2026 Official Selection: Drama – Short (under 20 mins), Thriller – Short
Program: Shorts Block 15 · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 8m
Country: United States
Synopsis: In the dead of night, fifteen-year-old Salem waits in her mother’s run down El Camino. She’s told again and again to “stay in the car” while her mom and her violent partner disappear into empty buildings and dark parking lots. Hours drag on and in the backseat, Salem twists and turns, her small movements filling the silence. The night continues and the car feels less like a place of safety and more like a cage. As the hours stretch on and sirens echo in the distance, Salem
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2026 Official Selection: Horror – Short
Alice, grieving the loss of her father, tumbles into a macabre Wonderland where reality blurs with fiction and familiar characters force her to confront her intrusive thoughts.
Program: Shorts Block 3 · Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 9:10 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 13m
Country: United States
Synopsis: “Wonderland” is a grim reimagining of the Hatter’s tea party from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The film stars a 19-year-old horror veteran Lulu Wilson (The Haunting of the Hill House, Sharp Objects, Ouija: The Origin of Evil, Star Trek: Picard) in the iconic role of Alice.
2026 Official Selection: Drama – Feature
A passionate swim coach and dedicated father navigates the turbulent reality of invisible homelessness when he is forced to live out of his van.
Program: What We Dreamed of Then · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 5:40 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 44m
Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere
Synopsis: Then, Gideon was a vibrant young father and husband. Now, he is invisibly houseless, trying to hold onto his relationship with his estranged daughter. Told through a non-linear narrative, What We Dreamed of Then weaves between past and present, revealing the fragility of hope and the resilience needed to survive isolation.
2026 Official Selection: Series Episode – TV/Streaming/Web Series
A surreal, offbeat, sketch-infused anti-talk show hosted by two local nobodies with massive delusions of grandeur.
Program: Shorts Block 13 · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 2:15 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 11m
Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere
Synopsis: Hey Halifax, Hello Today! is a surreal, offbeat, sketch-infused anti-talk show hosted by two local nobodies with massive delusions of grandeur. Mick McDonald (Taylor Olson) and Robbie Buck (Bob Mann) helm their own chaotic Halifax cable access show, awkwardly interviewing "Halifamous" guests and spiraling into wild, absurdist green screen sketches.
2026 Official Selection: Documentary – Featurette
Part documentary and part cinematicart, this beautiful film searches for Americathrough real story, music and spoken word.
Program: Where Is America The Beautiful? · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 2:00 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 30m
Country: United States
Synopsis: “It is the past that tells
us who we are, without it we have no identity,”
Stephen Hawkins.
America has lost the identity that once made it great. Greatness has passed America by because history is repeating itself. This film is in search of what America was.
The interviews traffic through cultural groups from liberal to conservative. The focus is
diverse from Asian, Latin, Black and LGBTQ.
Everyone is given equal time from a Trump rally to Black Lives Matter marches.
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2026 Official Selection: Thriller – Short
A Bonnie & Clyde story but Bonnie don’t give a fuck about him.
Program: Shorts Block 12 · Sun, Aug 23, 2026 · 2:00 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 11m
Country: United States
Synopsis: A suave criminal searches for a new partner at a dive bar and finds the perfect Bonnie to his Clyde. He takes her to dinner to put her to the test, yet she has all the answers… and more.
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2026 Official Selection: Comedy – Short
A family where everyone has a special secret.
Program: Shorts Block 11 · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 10:00 PM
Language: English
Runtime: 15m
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
Synopsis: A family gathers to celebrate an anniversary. Over the course of the afternoon, a series of revelations take place that change their lives and relationships forever.