Film Invasion Los Angeles

2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse

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Director(s): Brett Willis
Writer(s): Brett Willis
Producer(s): Anthony Saldana, Adolfo Espinosa, Sarah Curry, Brett Willis
Key Cast: Eric Lutz, Grant Merritt, Mary Garet, Angel Garet, Andrew Tamarkin, Seth Goodfellow, Carissa Rhea Tajudeen, Christopher Sanchez, Jacklyn Dardarian, Kevin Evans Johnson, Priscilla Valldejuli

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Horror

Liana Rojas discovers a downtown Los Angeles building where her sister died is haunted by a killer who dismembered his victims years earlier, forcing Liana and her friends to find a way and escape the sinister ghost before they lose their own limbs.

Director(s): John Berardo
Writer(s): John Berardo
Producer(s): Maxwell Hamilton, Ashley Rosenberg
Key Cast: Isabella Gomez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Shireen Lai, Maxwell Hamilton, Jack Sochet, Kystle Martin

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

The Last Light explores the quiet beauty of human connection in the face of catastrophe. As two friends face an unthinkable emergency, they forgo fear and futile escape, spending their last moments reflecting on life, mortality and what matters most.

Director(s): Drew Lewis Guerra
Writer(s): Drew Lewis Guerra
Producer(s): Drew Lewis Guerra, Jarod Einsohn
Key Cast: Fiona Rene, Herman Gambhir

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Horror

Trapped in a strange surveillance-filled apartment and decaying by the minute, a young man relies on a cryptic series of vaccines to slow his demise while plotting revenge on the unseen force controlling his fate.

Director(s): Gordon Phillips
Writer(s): Gordon Phillips
Producer(s): Marcelo Quiñones, Gordon Phillips
Key Cast: Nathan Nagvajara, John Potvin

Country: Mexico & United States
Los Angeles Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Featurette – Sci-Fi

Engineer Nora arrives at a harvest site on a remote planet, seeking closure after losing a loved one to the physiological strain imposed by an arcane alien species.

Director(s): Sean Raynor
Writer(s): Sean Raynor
Producer(s): Sean Raynor, Laura Coover
Key Cast: Laura Coover, Kevin Lee Rosenblum, Sean Raynor, Gabe Garcia

Country: United States

 

 

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

A story of the aftermath.

Director(s): Kai Brown
Writer(s): Kai Brown
Key Cast: Brittany Chenowith

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2025 Official Selection: Music Video

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Director(s): Braeden Lambert
Writer(s): Nathan Lambert
Producer(s): Tyler Heydon
Editor: Robert Valentine
Cinematography: Braeden Lambert, Robert Valentine, Tyler Heydon
Key Cast: Jackson Rockowitz

Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere

 

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

As Max prepares to eulogize his sister Chloe just minutes before her funeral, he wrestles with the anger, frustration, and grief of losing her to an overdose, attempting to understand who Chloe was.

Director(s): Vince Dixon
Writer(s): Vince Dixon
Producer(s): Alyssa Callahan, Seth Woodhouse, Gabriel Donnelly
Key Cast: Josiah Sergeant, Samantha Ryan, Brooklynn Walker, Michael Mann, Angus Caldwell, Genevieve Jane, Leanne Johnson, Mac Williams, Jessie Pettit

Country: United States

 

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2025 Official Selection: Feature Film – Comedy

After moving from Los Angeles back to the southern suburbs, new parents June and Evan realize that in the chaotic tedium of suburban living they haven’t had sex in three months. They then attempt to have a childless date night to rekindle the flame and end up growing more intimate with their new home and its inhabitants than they ever thought possible.

Director(s): RJ Buckley
Writer(s): RJ Buckley
Producer(s): RJ Buckley, Natalie Buckley, Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner
Key Cast: Ariel Barber, Zach Kanner, Blake Berlin, Meagan Kimberly Smith, Rose Leisner, Kevin DeWitt

Country: United States
World Premiere

 

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Sci-Fi

The power struggle between an alien and her human test subject gets complicated when they both see their relationship differently.

Director(s): Michaela Wadzinski
Writer(s): Maria Smal
Producer(s): Michaela Wadzinski, Maria Smal, Jacob Skoda
Key Cast: Maria Smal, Ryan Goldsher, Isaiah D. Washington

Country: United States

 

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