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!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But we live in a world that is obsessed with one specific, narrow type of beauty. How would our perceptions of beauty change if we dared to idealize other types of beauty?
Cydney is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington; a Texas-raised filmmaker originally from San Antonio. She developed a passion for creative storytelling while attending the North East School of the Arts. After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Film and Media Arts in 2014, she worked as the Program Coordinator for the USA Film Festival. She currently serves as the Programs Chair for Women in Film Dallas for the second year in a row following the rewarding experience of being the Shorts Programmer for the 2016 Chick Flicks Festival. While she was a graduate teaching assistant at UTA she completed her thesis project, a pilot entitled “Group,” a dark comedy about a group therapy which has since won awards at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. She works in the DFW film community as an Assistant Director, Producer, and Script Supervisor while expanding her body of work that focuses on stories that explore the human condition and the expressions of trauma, adversity, and mental illness.
We are proud to present a story about Queer Love. With women comprising more than 60% of all production roles including directing & producing and a cast/crew as ethnically and gender-diverse as all the types of love stories that exist out in the world, we are sure you’ll fall head over heels in love with “Old Flames” too.
We aimed to take a classic genre of story-telling, romantic-comedy, and re-envision it in a more modern format. By placing a Queer man of color at the center of this story, we gave ourselves the liberty to reconstruct just exactly what “rom-coms” are about and remind ourselves that love and the way it affects us, is always a universal experience.
Damian likes to daydream, especially about his ex-boyfriend, Jessie. And on one quiet night in a bar, we see his fantasies take shape and he meets face-to-face with the man of his dreams. As he journeys back to the “love of his life”, Damian gets the wake-up call that memory and desire don’t always match who we are in real life.
“”Laughing Out Loud”- Short Film Program 2019 “
OUT HERE NOW: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival
“Honorable Mentions for ISA 2019- “Old Flames””
Independent Shorts Awards
https://independentshortsawards.com/honorable-mentions-april-2019/
“”Old Flames”- New Entry”
Independent Shorts Awards
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: DOST
BEST PERFORMANCES: DOST
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: CRUSH
BEST MUSIC: AB LIB
THEME: Choices
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
The theme of the August 2019 LGBT Feedback Film Festival in Toronto was “Choices”.
Each film was about a character(s) who has a gigantic, life altering choice to make.
The 8th event of the Los Angeles festivals in 2019.
4 more festivals to go in Toronto this year.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
TURN IT AROUND, 9min., Netherlands, LGBT/Drama
Directed by Niels Bourgonje
At a house party fifteen year old Bram is surrounded by friends and draws the attention of many pretty girls. But he has no interest in them. He has fallen hopelessly in love with the pretty boy on the dance floor: seventeen year old Florian.
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TURN IT AROUND, 9min., Netherlands, LGBT/Drama
CRUSH, 16min., USA, LGBT/Thriller
AD LIB, 7min., USA, LGBT/Romance
GAMERS, 10min., USA, LGBT/Drama 
CHANDELIER, 9min., Greece, LGBT/Comedy 
DOST, 41min., Netherlands, LGBT/Drama
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