Film Invasion L.A.

Thu, Aug 20–Sun, Aug 23, 2026LOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale
All Access Pass · $25

Guarantees your seat to the event you choose — plus free walk-in entry to any other event with open space. One pass, the whole festival.

Thu, Aug 20 · 8:00 PMSolar Studios

Opening Night Gala

Rub elbows with filmmakers, actors, and industry professionals as we kick off our 2026 festival. Film Invasion Los Angeles is rated a Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festival by FilmFreeway users out of 14,000 festivals worldwide!

Fri, Aug 21 · 7:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 01 — Shorts Block 1

  1. Circumstantial Forgiveness
  2. Supplemental
  3. White Meat: Appetizer
  4. Check Please

Fri, Aug 21 · 7:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Panel: Indie Film Distribution

If you want your film to reach audiences then you need to know as much about distribution as you do about filmmaking.

Panelists

Glen Reynolds — Circus Road Films

Joey Vasatka — YOW.tv

Brian Wendel — YOW.tv

Fri, Aug 21 · 7:15 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 02 — MASC

What is masculinity? And what is it doing to us?

Fri, Aug 21 · 8:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 03 — Shorts Block 2

  1. Firstborn
  2. The Candle
  3. Silent Scream
  4. Cadavre Exquis

Fri, Aug 21 · 9:10 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 04 — Shorts Block 3

  1. The Quiet Year
  2. Wonderland
  3. Everything Between Us
  4. Talented

Fri, Aug 21 · 9:30 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 05 — Shorts Block 4

  1. Sober
  2. Butt/Stuff
  3. You’re Not Safe
  4. Barbrix! or How to Maybe Capture a Psychic Hominid
  5. The Bee

Fri, Aug 21 · 9:45 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 06 — Shorts Block 5

  1. 404
  2. Dizzy
  3. Intergalactic Ingenue
  4. Right On!

Sat, Aug 22 · 6:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 07 — Nothing to See Here: Watts

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

Sat, Aug 22 · 6:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Screenplay Awards Ceremony

Each nominated screenwriter present gets to discuss their script and then we announce the Grand Jury Award winners!

Sat, Aug 22 · 6:10 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 08 — Shorts Block 6

  1. The Ottoman
  2. Little Matchmakers
  3. Closure

Sat, Aug 22 · 7:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 09 — Shorts Block 7

  1. Fireflies in the Dusk
  2. Star-Crossed
  3. The Debut
  4. No Signal

Sat, Aug 22 · 8:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 10 — Shorts Block 8

  1. EQUAL
  2. Imago
  3. Hide
  4. The Door

Sat, Aug 22 · 8:05 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 11 — Shorts Block 9

  1. Yellow Jersey
  2. the HOLE truth
  3. Vasomotor Rhinitis

Sat, Aug 22 · 9:20 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 12 — Shorts Block 10

  1. Something Borrowed
  2. Afterthoughts
  3. Majorette
  4. Bad Insect
  5. No Mercy

Sat, Aug 22 · 9:50 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 13 — Mountain King

Meeting the parents is hard. Surviving them is harder.

Sat, Aug 22 · 10:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 14 — Shorts Block 11

  1. The Reveal
  2. MascLooking
  3. Starfisher
  4. Just Visiting

Sun, Aug 23 · 2:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 16 — Shorts Block 12

  1. Soda Gardocki – Waltzes, Trains, Wires & Wood
  2. The Black Bart of Taco King #17
  3. Chicken Salad
  4. The Brutal Alchemy of Water

Sun, Aug 23 · 2:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 15 — Where Is America The Beautiful?

Part documentary and part cinematicart, this beautiful film searches for Americathrough real story, music and spoken word.

Sun, Aug 23 · 2:15 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 17 — Shorts Block 13

  1. Hey Halifax, Hello! Today!
  2. Lone Wolf
  3. Focal Point

Sun, Aug 23 · 3:15 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 18 — Sell Your House

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!

Sun, Aug 23 · 3:45 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 19 — Shorts Block 14

  1. Hill Boy
  2. A King’s Curtain
  3. The Country They Call Life

Sun, Aug 23 · 4:10 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 20 — The Way We Move

Amber Galloway, a trailblazer in sign language interpretation, takes us on a journey into the profound bond between the Deaf community and music.

Sun, Aug 23 · 5:30 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 21 — Journeys

Understanding the world of Psilocybin assisted psychedelic therapy and those that are turning to the treatment.

Sun, Aug 23 · 5:40 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 22 — What We Dreamed of Then

A passionate swim coach and dedicated father navigates the turbulent reality of invisible homelessness when he is forced to live out of his van.

Sun, Aug 23 · 6:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 23 — Shorts Block 15

  1. Consumed By You
  2. Stay In The Car
  3. Lone Crew

Sun, Aug 23 · 8:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale

Closing Night Mixer

Open to the public, after our final screenings everyone is invited to celebrate Indie Cinema at the LOOK Cinemas main bar!

Film Invasion L.A.