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

Indie Film Distribution

Learn the Ins and Outs of Indie Film Distribution from industry professionals.

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

FI-LA holds an in-person Screenplay Awards Ceremony at the theater and every nominated screenwriter in attendance gets a few minutes to discuss their script with the audience. After everyone has had their turn, we announce the Grand Jury Award winners! This awards ceremony is free to the public!

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. Chicken Salad
  2. The Brutal Alchemy of Water
  3. Soda Gardocki – Waltzes, Trains, Wires & Wood

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

Program 15 — Screening — Theater 10

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

Program 17 — Shorts Block 13

  1. Where Is America The Beautiful?
  2. Lone Wolf

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

Program 18 — Journeys

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

Sun, Aug 23 · 4:00 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 · 5:40 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 10

Program 21 — 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 · 5:45 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 8

Program 22 — 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 · 6:00 PMLOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale, Theater 9

Program 23 — Shorts Block 15

  1. Consumed By You
  2. Lone Crew
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