2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
A social media influencer is lured into a seeming escape room but finds herself trapped at incredible heights in a sick game.
Writer(s): Bryan Ricke
FILA 2023 Complete Schedule
FILA 2023 Screening & Events Schedule
All events take place at:
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
128 Artsakh Avenue
Glendale, California 91206
Wednesday, June 21 @ 8 PM
FILA 2023 Opening Night Mixer
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas – Main Bar
Thursday, June 22 @ 6 PM
Program 1 – Visionary & Shocking
What Else Is On?
Crooks – Heart Of Vengeance
A Part of You
The Erl King
Thursday, June 22 @ 7 PM
Program 2 – Truth & Revelation
When Mama & Me Lived Outside
Bad Trails
The Story of This Life
Pretty Pickle
Thursday, June 22 @ 9 PM
Program 3 – Comedy & Calamity
Tax Time
Matched
Sloane and the Cosmic Schlep
Friday, June 23 @ 6 PM
Program 4 – Dynamic & Futuristic
Pleroma (Trailer Only)
Estate Sale
Back Home
Solus
Friday, June 23 @ 8 PM
Program 5 – Bold & Haunted
A Beautiful Escape
Spirits
Test Drive
Good Filipino Kids
Friday, June 23 @ 10 PM
Feature Film – Drama
Donut
Saturday, June 24 @ 6 PM
Program 7 – Magical & Fanciful
Margot’s Off the Market
Annie and the Scar
Fish
D.O.D.
Saturday, June 24 @ 8:15 PM
Program 8 – Terror & Flair
Exercised
Flakkus
Strawberry
Saturday, June 24 @ 10 PM
Feature Film – SciFi
Mind Thief
Sunday, June 25 @ 2 PM
FILA 2023 Screenplay Awards Ceremony
Sunday, June 25 @ 3 PM
Program 10 – Satire & Style
A Little Help?
Hey Alexa
Priding Oneself
Sunday, June 25 @ 4:30 PM
Program 11 – Avant-garde
Backwoods
The Examination of a Species
Let’s Pretend I’m Talking About You
Sunday, June 25 @ 6 PM
Feature Film – Horror
Abruptio
Sunday, June 25 @ 8 PM
FILA 2023 Closing Night Mixer
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
Sunday, June 25 @ 8 PM
Virtual Screening Program Begins
Virtual Exclusives
A Brush With Death
BREARTH
Full of Wonder: the art of Angie DeBord
Gnaw
Magic Box
Mamu
Noman
Robots Don’t Tell Jokes
The Call of Water
The Funeral Photographer
Watcher
Sunday, July 1 @ Midnight
Virtual Screening Program Ends
CandyByte
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film
Charlie, a successful smart home inventor, dies after celebrating the opening night of her latest smart home creation called CANDY. Charlie’s spirit enters into the apple-shaped device and controls CANDY while her caretaker, Billie, helps her to find her murderer. The two discover an unexpected secret. But will Charlie and Billie find the murderer before it’s too late?
Writer(s): Diana Foronda
Black Cat Meow
2023 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film
Upon the kidnapping of her beloved cat, Dotti, a not-so-mild-mannered office drone goes on a revenge fueled rampage pursuing amateur actor/criminals Ian and Anthony through a farcical Los Angeles.
Writer(s): Kyle J Kolding
Pleroma (Trailer Only)
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi
Can a discarded Robot Prototype save a company’s workers from an Unleashed AI?
Director(s): Chris Browne
Writer(s): Chris Browne, Tim Hedrick
Producer(s): Kiana Aletaha
Key Cast: Kiana Aletaha
Click here to watch the Pleroma trailer!
Tax Time
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
Say no more, say no more! We do taxes here!
Director(s): Raphael Buisson
Writer(s): Hayden Croft
Producer(s): Raphael Buisson & Hayden Croft
Key Cast: Victor A. Lin, De End Parker, Ben Solenberger
World Premiere!
Bad Trails
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror
An exhausted new mother, at the end of her rope, is plagued by intrusive thoughts and feelings.
Director(s): Colin Garcia
Writer(s): Colin Garcia
Producer(s): Gary Leo Miller, Colin Garcia, Stuart McWhirter
Key Cast: Abi Van Andel, Tamara Dearing, Katherine Martin, Gracie Taylor, Dara Jade Tiller
Los Angeles Premiere!
Robots Don’t Tell Jokes
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation
Robot thinks he has a wonderful joke, so he keeps trying to tell it, but none of the other robots ever laugh. They tell him “robots don’t tell jokes…” Will Robot give up on his awesome joke or will he find his tribe? Stop-motion using mainly wood scraps and metal pieces.
Director(s): Kelli Caldwell
Writer(s): Kelli Caldwell
Producer(s): Kelli Caldwelli
A Brush With Death
2023 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy
An Israeli mossad agents goes to a funeral and finds out he’s dead.
Director(s): Yuval Sol Boker
Writer(s): Yuval Sol Boker, Alon Karmi
Producer(s): Ariel Lavi
Key Cast: Tsahi Halevi, Gily Itskovitch, Mor Sarusi, Arik Zilberman
Strawberry
2023 Official Selection: Featurette – Horror
After the death of her abusive ex-boyfriend, Nova connects with his most recent girlfriend- only to realize that some spirits have a hard time staying buried.
Director(s): Jordan Pfeifer
Writer(s): Jordan Pfeifer
Producer(s): Jordan Pfeifer, Angela Nancy Chapman, Eliana Mullins
Key Cast: Emily Gateley, Daisy Tichenor
World Premiere!
