presented by The Discover Indie Film Foundation
A mercenary with a silver case chained to his wrist is hunted from the city through the wilderness
Director(s): Colin Best
Producer(s): Chris Martin, Joby Ogwyn, Colin Best
Key Cast: Stuart Reid, Lara Marian, Tom Ohmer, Verity Jones
Country: United States
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
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
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
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
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
Anansi the Spider must outsmart the most dangerous animals in the jungle or be eaten himself.
Director(s): Jared Hall
Key Cast: Daniel Jennings, Elijah Gallimore-Repole, Jared Hall
Country: Jamaica
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
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
A future historian explores the LA River’s past in VR, only to find a distorted world that could become his sole sanctuary.
Director(s): Yuxing Xu
Writer(s): Yuxing Xu
Producer(s): Liam Young, Jeremy Kamal Hartley
Country: USA
