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A retro sci-fi extravaganza with over 40 movie and tv references.
Director(s): Jonathan Lawrence
Writer(s): Jonathan Lawrence and Tommy Mack
Producer(s): Tommy Mack
Cast: Tommy Mack, Tally Briggs, Theresa Ireland, Andrew Elkins, Iredivina Vio, Robert Magness
In a nightmarish near-future Los Angeles where human blood is a hot commodity, a former criminal sets out on a mission of vengeance against the corrupt evangelist who nearly took everything from her.
Director(s): Quinn Bailey
Writer(s): Quinn Bailey
Producer(s): Alexandra Aguas
Cast: Alicia Blasingame, Liam Fountain, Talyn Edelson, Kyle Dal Santo, Jake O’Ceallaigh
Struggling with loss, drug addiction and a sense of reality. Matthew is terrorized by a demonic presence… can he survive?
Director(s): Gabriel Mayorquin
Writer(s): Rafael Quiroga, Gabriel Mayorquin
Producer(s): Gabriel Mayorquin
Cast: Andre Montano, Mikale Washington, Ashley Scharf, Alberto Sanchez
Camila’s world seems perfect on the outside, but appearances are deceiving. She risks everything by keeping a book a secret.
Director(s): Luisa Novo
Writer(s): Luisa Novo
Producer(s): Luisa Novo, Denise Szabo, Vanessa Sandre
Cast: Vanessa Sandre, Lucas Lacerda Albuquerque, Clei Grött
Narrative Feature Film
American SciFi
Collision
Desire Lines
DOUG
Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
Life’s A Bitch And Then One Kills You
Lupe
Three Roads
Documentary Feature Film
Comfort Farms
Starting at Zero: Reimagining Education in America
Documentary Short Film
JESSYCA
Narrative Short Film – Comedy
Casanova
First States
Granny Knows Best
Grief Vigilantes
How To Save A Marriage
Joseph turns 42 (Or the Inconsistency of Wonders)
Nailed
Possibilities
Sidepiece
Sofa Queen
Narrative Short Film – Drama
Bengal
Fantasmas (Ghosts)
FLAT
Happenstance
Kama’āina (Child of the Land)
Kids Don’t Die
LA Break up
Micky
Passenger Man
Renchik
Supernova
The Bus to Birra Birra
The Hostess
The Squirrels in the Attic
The World Inside
To the Moon and Back
Torch
Narrative Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse
His Mother
Kiko’s Saints
Narrative Short Film – Horror
Cold Hard Blood
Far Gone
Stew
Village of the Gramned
After suffering abuse from her stepfather, a 16 y/o queer Mahina must navigate life on the streets, until she eventually finds refuge at the Puuhonua o Waianae – Hawaii’s largest organized homeless encampment.
Director(s): Kimi Howl Lee
Writer(s): Kimi Lee
Producer(s): Anastasia Solovieva and Sabina Friedman-Seitz
Starring: Malia Kamalani Soon, Twinkle Borge, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Alex Suvusa, Nainoa Brown-Kahananui, Aria Alexander, Lenny.
A conflicted adult film actress attends a meditation group and mixes with an offbeat clientele and their troubled guru.
Director(s): Mehdi Avaz
Writer(s): Mehdi Avaz
Producer(s): Misam Avaz, Kim Magnusson, Sara Victoria Bjerre Pedersen
Starring: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Cecilie Stenspil, Karla Avaz, Henning Jensen, Tommy Kenter, Sebastian Jessen, Emilie Kroyer Koppel.
Online Screenings. Physical screenings are cancelled. We are exploring options for online screenings. Any online screenings will be voluntary. We are aware that some filmmakers save their “online premiere” while others fear the piracy risks posed by streaming. Next week filmmakers can expect us to share options with them and see who prefers what, if any, online screenings to participate in.
Online Filmmaker Awards. We will announce our Grand Jury Prize, Filmmakers Prize, and Programmers Prize awards with a videoconference on Sunday, June 7 at 12pm Pacific. (We are going to skip the Audience Awards because, sadly, we cannot have an audience this year.). We intentionally chose a time that allows our filmmakers in Europe to participate without being up in the middle of the night.
Online Screenwriting Awards. As we do every year at FILA, we will hold a ceremony specifically for the unproduced screenplays that are Official Selections at our festival this year. This year it will be a video conference in which each screenwriter will get their own time “on stage” to share their logline and talk a little about their script. Once everyone has shared their pitch, we will announce the Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Unproduced Screenplay.
Q&A Sessions. With or without screenings, we plan to record video chat Q&A sessions between our programmer and each filmmaker (or filmmaking team.) We plan to prepare for this by having members of our award juries write questions for the filmmakers in advance. This way the Q&A’s will have questions posed by an audience immediately after viewing your film just like we would’ve had at an actual screening. If we do work out some online screenings, we may include Q&A’s then as well. It is our hunch that a videoconference Q&A with a handful of attendees would be bedlam, but maybe we will try it.
In-Person Mixer. It is our plan to invite all of the filmmakers, screenwriters, their crews and their friends to an actual gathering as soon as it is safe to do so. July? September? Who knows. When the coast is clear and we can come out of our bunkers, everyone who should have met at FILA 2020 will meet! Hopefully we can do this somewhere fun that can show a loop of everyone’s trailers playing on TV’s in whatever bar/club/theater we rent for this event. We even plan to set up the Stand & Repeat so that we can make up for the lack of festival photographs.