You’re Dirty Now

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Trigger Warning (SA): What started off as an idea intended to make people feel uncomfortable about single-use plastics ended up becoming a much deeper conversation in the realm of gender and the ways in which stories are absorbed and experienced based on our lived realities.

Director(s): Christine Celozzi
Producer(s): Christine Celozzi, Jeremy Sless, Sean Carmichael
Writer(s): Christine Celozzi
Key Cast: Jeremy Sless, Christine Celozzi, Sean Carmichael

Country: United States

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We Have Notes

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Comedy

A comedy about the making of one scene in a new Joan of Arc movie.

Director(s): Jordan McKittrick
Producer(s): Gabriel Berk Godoi, Austin Welsh, Ginge Cox, Erika Renson
Writer(s): Jordan McKittrick
Key Cast: Madeleine Coghlan, Michael Strassner, James Tupper

Country: United States

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Somniscience

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi

In a fractured world, Emmett holds the key to objective truth within his dreams but will uncovering those answers do good…or only more harm?

Director(s): Jerry Brown Jr.
Producer(s): Jerry Brown Jr.
Writer(s): Jerry Brown Jr.
Key Cast: Jerry Brown Jr., Lanre Animashaun, Ben Michaels, Sophie Labelle, Rahkua Ishakara

Country: United States

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Cyano Sun Suite: Culture Starter

2024 Official Selection: Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse

Culture Starter is the first piece of CYANO SUN SUITE, a live concert film of poetry and improvised hipjazzsoulbopfunkhop, shot at the iconic Montreal Biosphere. Directed by Stefan Verna; written, performed and produced by poet Tawhida Tanya Evanson; and featuring improvised music by members of Kalmunity Vibe Collective. This visual album is an afro-ancestral dream told through word, sound and science. The entire suite is a must-see and can be viewed as part of Film Invasion Los Angeles’ virtual screenings.

Director(s): Stefan Verna
Producer(s): Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Writer(s): Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Key Cast: Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Jean-Michel Frédéric, Erik Hove, Mark Haynes, Jahsun, Elli Miller Maboungou

Country: Canada

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The Carrier

2024 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360

The harrowing tale of a family fleeing an unseen danger, as experienced through the eyes of a baby strapped into the back seat of the family car.

Director(s): Andrew Cochrane
Producer(s): Stacey Cochrane, Virginia Galloway, Adam Cohen
Writer(s): Andrew Hanson, Andrew Cochrane
Key Cast: Karolina Wydra, Nicholas Massouh, Stefanie Black, Anthony Hull

Country: United States

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Moving Day

2024 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

While a couple is moving out of their apartment, a smiley drawing on one of their boxes comes to life, falls in love with a drawing on a distant box and sets out on a box hopping adventure to reach their beloved.

Director(s): Sean Mirkovich
Writer(s): Sean Mirkovich
Producer(s): Sean Mirkovich, Ashley McKenna
Key Cast: Sean Mirkovich, Ashley McKenna

Country: United States

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Look At Me

2024 Official Selection: Feature Film – Drama

A fictional autobiography about an insecure, awkward and lonely bisexual actor who goes on an unwitting journey of self-love in the midst of an eating disorder relapse.

Director(s): Taylor Olson
Writer(s): Taylor Olson
Producer(s): Taylor Olson, Koumbie, Kirsten Bruce
Key Cast): Taylor Olson, Koumbie, Stephanie MacDonald, Sam Vigneault

Country: Canada

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