LGBT Los Angeles Film Festival
Showcasing the best of short films and screenplays from the LGBT community. Screenplay Winner every single month performed by professional actors. Film Festival occurs 3 times a year!
It’s 1953 and Helen Parker’s husband has been MIA in Korea for 18 months. When a local bully graffiti’s her white fence, handy woman Lou Taylor shows up to paint the fence and steal her heart. In the end Helen must decide on which side of the fence to live.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Helen: Hannah Ehman
George: Steve Rizzo
Modern day adaptation of Dickens “A Christmas Carol.” Evan Scrooge lives his life as a rich, greedy, bitter, closeted gay man, who despises the holidays. Until one Christmas Eve night, when his dead, ex-lover and business partner, Jake Marley, along with the three spirits of Christmas Present, Past, and Yet to Come, show Scrooge the errors of his ways. Leading Scrooge to open his heart and love for the holidays, as well as his sexuality.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Evan: Geoff Mays
Jake: Steve Rizzo
Bette: Hannah Ehman
Frank: Sean Ballantyne
Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Long Form Short Film: SUNFLOWER NICKY
Best Short Form Short Film: LOVE IS HELL
Best Performances: HOW TO SPOT A HETEORSEXUAL
Best Cinematography: AT LUCY’S LAST NIGHT
Best Student Film: A SOUND TO REMEMBER
Best Direction: FAMILY AFFAIR
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
A SOUND TO REMEMBER, 6min., USA
Directed by Tyler Holmes
After losing his singing partner and lover during a jazz club mass shooting, Worthy Love struggles through PTSD and grief to sing again.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SUNFLOWER NICKY, 19min,. USA
Directed by Clifton J. Adams
Eight year old Nicolas dreams of owning a Nikki doll, but when his dream becomes a reality it sends a shift through his home as his parents grapple with their beliefs of how their young son should express himself.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
FAMILY AFFAIR, 16min,. USA
Directd by Julio Dowansingh
A young adult’s secret relationship puts him at odds with his friends, family, and other commitments in this short queer comedy.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LOVE IS HELL, 3min., UK
Directed by Brendan Void
LGBTQ Love
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
HOW TO SPOT A HETEORSEXUAL, 8min., USA
Directed by Adamson Novak
George Hughes (Kyle Dal Santo) informs the American public of the looming terrors of heterosexuality infiltrating our society. Through a series of examples, Hughes illustrates the best practices in How to Spot a Heterosexual. This satirical film reimagines an America where queerness is the standard, flipping the script on the history of the Lavender Scare.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
AT LUCY’S LAST NIGHT, 17min., USA
Directed by Ethan Roberts
The morning after hooking up, two recent college grads wrestle with their feelings for each other while a strange and inexplicable phenomenon creeps up in the background.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Bantamweight boxer Alfonso ‘Panama’ Brown, the first Latin American world champion, gains fame and fortune while living a torrid love affair with poet Jean Cocteau in 1930’s France; until the Nazis goose-step into Paris.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Cocteau: Geoff Mays
Al: Steve RIzzo
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