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2026 Official Selection: Thriller – Short

The only way out is through.

• Director(s): Cameron Zayec
• Writer(s): Sarah Huston
• Producer(s): Sarah Huston
• Key Cast: Sarah Huston, Shonee Samia, Allyson Henson, Lucy London, Bryan Probets, Shanay De Marco, Chloe Botha
• Editor(s): Cameron Zayec, Sarah Huston
• Cinematographer(s): Cameron Zayec, Matthew Davies
• Production Designer(s): Genevieve Morrow Ganner
• Sound Designer(s): Cameron Zayec
• Composer(s): Chloe Botha

Language: English

Runtime: 15m

Country: Australia

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: Refusing to accept the loss of her girlfriend, Quinn spirals through the suffocating confines of prison. In the depths of her grief she must navigate her unraveling mind and confront her inner demons. The only way out is through.

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2026 Official Selection: Drama – Featurette

Finding her place begins with finding her voice.

• Director(s): Anastasia Kuplinova
• Writer(s): Sarah Jane Coleman
• Producer(s): Rhea Damani
• Key Cast: Jordan Cathryn, Matthew Sy
• Editor(s): Christine Yu
• Cinematographer(s): Truman Hatfield
• Production Designer(s): Chinmayee Kharche
• Sound Designer(s): Annie Okuhara
• Composer(s): Keaton Lewis, Scott Tucker

Language: English, Russian

Runtime: 27m

Country: United States

Synopsis: A young musician has spent years silencing her gift out of fear and self-doubt. But when someone finally sees her for who she is, and who she could be, Mira must decide whether to keep running from her past or embrace the music within her.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Pilot/Series

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

After their colony ship explodes above an untamed alien planet, an ex-soldier and xenobiologist join forces to survive the perilous wilds while unraveling an insidious conspiracy.

• Writer(s): Amy Kay DuBoff

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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After their colony ship mysteriously explodes above an untamed alien planet, ex-soldier Evan and inquisitive xenobiologist Anya join forces to survive the world’s wondrous yet perilous wilds. While investigating the crash, they unravel the first threads of an insidious interstellar conspiracy—a revelation that will spark a desperate hunt for ancient alien technology capable of reshaping human civilization forever. Adapted from the internationally bestselling novel.

After their colony ship mysteriously explodes above an untamed alien planet, ex-soldier Evan and inquisitive xenobiologist Anya join forces to survive the world’s wondrous yet perilous wilds. While investigating the crash, they unravel the first threads of an insidious interstellar conspiracy—a revelation that will spark a desperate hunt for ancient alien technology capable of reshaping human civilization forever. Adapted from the internationally bestselling novel.

2026 Official Selection: Sci-Fi – Short

Find a way or die trying.

• Director(s): Anthony Ferraro
• Writer(s): Anthony Ferraro
• Producer(s): Clint Carney, Anthony Ferraro, Nate Lipp, Eric Michael Kochmer. William McHugh, David Yohe, John Dunnigan
• Key Cast: Don Scribner
• Editor(s): Anthony Ferraro
• Cinematographer(s): Jon Schweigart
• Composer(s): Matthew Patterson Curry

Language: English

Runtime: 19m

Country: United States

Los Angeles Premiere

Synopsis: Aging and adrift, a spacefisher gets one final shot at greatness when a long-lost comrade tips him off to a mythical catch — a moment that would rewrite the meaning of his entire life.

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2026 Official Selection: Comedy – Short

On the morning of her wedding, a bleeding bride and her maid of honor scramble to hide a crime, a gun, and a secret plan to prove her love.

• Director(s): Sean Dube
• Writer(s): Patrick Quinlan, Sean Dube
• Producer(s): Patrick Quinlan, Sean Dube
• Key Cast: Candice Bennett, Carrie Poyer, Patrick Quinlan
• Editor(s): Sean Dube
• Cinematographer(s): Sevag Chahinian
• Composer(s): Adam Finne & Mallory Finne

Language: English

Runtime: 10m

Country: United States

Synopsis: On the morning of her wedding, a bleeding bride and her maid of honor scramble to hide a crime, a gun, and a secret plan to prove her love.

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2026 Official Selection: Feature Film – Documentary

A first-time director convinces his best friend to sell his house to fund their first film “The Last Stop In Yuma County.” Everything goes GREAT!

• Director(s): Eric Alexander Foss, Brandon Pickering
• Producer(s): Eric Foss, Brandon Pickering, Deborah Lee Smith, Sam Chortek, Will Bakke, Clay Wolflick, Brad Blondheim
• Key Cast: Francis Galluppi, James Claeys, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelyn Donahue, Mac Fisken, Rachel Galluppi
• Editor(s): Eric Foss, Brandon Pickering, Will Bakke
• Cinematographer(s): Eric Foss
• Sound Designer(s): Juan Campos
• Composer(s): Alex Pfender

Language: English

Runtime: 1h 35m

Country: United States

Synopsis: You have to be really rich or really stupid to make a movie. James and Francis aren’t rich, so they opt for stupidity when James sells his house to finance their debut feature. This kicks off a years-long journey through the wonderful, lucrative, glamorous world of indie filmmaking, where absolutely nothing bad happens never ever ever. A comedic documentary following the making of The Last Stop in Yuma County and the complications that come with indie film distribution.

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2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

In 1860s America, the head house slave, a mixed love-child of the master, makes a secret plan to free all of the slaves from Bonchomont Plantation, but their exodus happens in a wa

• Writer(s): Brandon J. Somerville

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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In 1860s, Southern U.S.A., the most productive plantation hums along. Master Jackson Boregard Bonchomont, manifest his beliefs of the black race as an object of curiosity via procurement of “exotic” black women. It’s not until his most recent acquisition, Azra, that everything changes. In reality, Azra is a centuries old archangel sent to destroy the Bonchomont Plantation, and expedite the Civil War’s end. They yield a son, Bartholomeux, who’s mixed by ethnicity and being.

In 1860s, Southern U.S.A., the most productive plantation hums along. Master Jackson Boregard Bonchomont, manifest his beliefs of the black race as an object of curiosity via procurement of “exotic” black women. It’s not until his most recent acquisition, Azra, that everything changes. In reality, Azra is a centuries old archangel sent to destroy the Bonchomont Plantation, and expedite the Civil War’s end. They yield a son, Bartholomeux, who’s mixed by ethnicity and being.

2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

Ceremony: Screenplay Awards Ceremony · Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM

It takes a village — or at least one very questionable hockey team.

• Writer(s): Lesley Hoyt-Croft

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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A hockey-playing single mom is threatened with having her daughter taken away by her sister and her sleazy filmmaker boyfriend, She must enlist the aid of her lesbian teammates, a church choir and some “Angry Coochies” to try and stop them.

A hockey-playing single mom is threatened with having her daughter taken away by her sister and her sleazy filmmaker boyfriend, She must enlist the aid of her lesbian teammates, a church choir and some “Angry Coochies” to try and stop them.

2026 Official Selection: Arthouse/Experimental – Feature (over 60 mins), Documentary – Feature

Sixty years after the 1965 Watts uprising, the neighborhood America wrote off has shown us what is still possible.

• Director(s): Michael Soenen
• Producer(s): Michael Soenen, Todd Lieberman, Suzanne Malveaux, Stix Bailey
• Key Cast: Lawanda Hawkins, Sean Reynolds, Tim Pearce, Kristina Ripatti, Meryland Gonzalez, Erik Loomis, Cornelius Wills, Neci McKinney, Emily Avalos, Tyrone Riley, Celeste Garnica, Iris Romero, Jaime Gregory, Pastor Jose Hernandez
• Composer(s): Stix Bailey

Language: English

Runtime: 1h 30m

Country: United States

Synopsis: Sixty years after the 1965 Watts uprising, the neighborhood America wrote off has shown us what is still possible.

After a late-night police ride-along in Watts, an outsider witnesses a version of Watts that never makes the news.

Searching for a way to understand what he had seen, he poses a simple question: what would happen if the people living the story told it themselves?

Twenty residents—rival gang members, police officers, students, parents, and victims of

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2026 Official Selection: Horror – Short

He knows how close you are.

• Director(s): Jonathan Hammond
• Writer(s): Jonathan Hammond
• Producer(s): Regina Pigsley
• Key Cast: Daniel Franzese, Patrick Mayuyu, Kevin Keppy
• Editor(s): Anjoum Agrama
• Cinematographer(s): John Barett
• Sound Designer(s): Melody Gun
• Composer(s): Nick Byron Campbell

Language: English

Runtime: 9m

Country: United States

Synopsis: After two friends banter over the pros and cons of using Grindr, one is left chatting with a mysterious stranger. And he’s getting closer…

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