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!
When a suicidal comedian is involuntarily hospitalized by her family, her ride-or-die drag queen BFF, and her unorthodox psychiatrist devise a plan to break her out, recover her eight cats, and help her to discover her reasons to live.
Narrator: Steve Rizzo –
Barbara: Julie Sheppard
Mackenzie: Val Cole
Larry: Shawn Devlin
Marlow: Allison Kampf
In the comedy-drama DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog forces three lonely people’s lives to collide.
Narrator: Val Cole
Margaret: Hannah Ehman
Carrie: Kyana Teresa
Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: 18 EVE
Best Long Form Short Film: ENAMORADO
Best Cinematography: DOGFRIEND
Best Direction: THE WAY SAM SEES IT
Best Performances: OPEN UP
Best Sound & Music: PASSION OF X
Bes Student Film: ENTER YOUR NAME
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THE WAY SAM SEES IT, 7min., Australia
Directd by Dan Sanguineti
When Sam, a talented photographer with Down Syndrome, sees a rainbow outside his window, he endeavors to capture his unique perspective of light and color to create his own masterpiece.
https://www.facebook.com/dan.sanguineti
https://twitter.com/DanSanguineti
https://www.instagram.com/dansanguineti/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
OPEN UP, 13min., USA
Directed by Amanda Maddocks
After drunkenly sending her best friend a love letter, a closeted high school grad embarks on a frantic mission to get it back.
https://seedandspark.com/fund/open-up/edit#project
https://www.instagram.com/openup_shortfilm/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
18 EVE, 2min., USA
Directed by Jonterri Gadson
A mother motivates her son to werk.
https://www.instagram.com/jonterrig/
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ENTER YOUR NAME, 3min., USA
Directed by Aubrey Scott
Enter Your Name is a surreal fantasy film that serves as an allegory to the experiences of a pre-transition trans person, with horror elements to allude to the complex emotions and inner turmoil that one can go through.
https://enteryournamenull.wixsite.com/enteryourname
https://twitter.com/enteryourfilm
https://www.instagram.com/enteryournamefilm/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
DOGFRIEND, 18min., Germany
Directed by Maissa Lihedheb
A date takes an unexpected turn in this meditation on race, politics and history in Germany.
https://www.instagram.com/hundefreund.film/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
PASSION OF X, 18min., USA
Directed by Camille Ora-Nicole Elston
Passion of X is a visual poetry anthology highlighting the joy, freedom and expanded understanding of being a trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer person of color. It is made up of five parts, each featuring an original poem created by trans, genderqueer, and/or nonbinary writers. Each part delivers the message through a different medium: animation, photography, narrative film, dance, and performance.
https://theq26.com/projects/passionofx
https://www.facebook.com/thequeer26
https://www.twitter.com/thequeer26
https://instagram.com/passionofx_film
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
ENAMORADO, 20min,. USA
Directed by Eduardo Rivera Salas
As a fateful meeting at a Liquor store leaves Damian longing for Izan, the relationship between the two blossoms out of innocence and fantasy, yet nothing ever more than that.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: LOVE ME LEX
Best Direction: TWO OF US
Best Performances: WHAT I NEED
Best Sound & Music: ONCE I PASSED
Best Cinematography: DON’T TURN OFF THE GHOST LIGHT
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LOVE ME LEX, 27min., Australia, Web Series
Directed by Sanja Katich
Work, children, family, friends, more work… Lex
Adamson is in her mid-40s and doing it all – but
without that special someone by her side. The
modern world is tough. Forget about finding time
for love when it’s hard enough to sit still and take
a deep breath! Does Lex have a fighting chance of
finding her One? Is there actually a dating pool, or
is she just playing in a muddy puddle? Then Lex
meets the perfect woman in ’off-limits’ Kat, just as
her ex, Miranda, arrives back in town determined to
win her back. Lex must now decide whether to stay
with the woman who broke her heart,or break her
own rules to be with the woman she loves
stephanie: somedaepictures@gmail.com
http://lovemelex.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lovemelex_series
https://www.facebook.com/lovemelex.com
https://www.twitter.com/lovemelexseries
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
ONCE I PASSED, 10min., Germany, Poem
Directed by Martin Gerigk
Walt Whitman is one of the most important poets in American literature. His main work, Leaves of Grass, was written over a period of forty years, and describes human nature, society, and the natural world, both physically and philosophically.
http://www.martin-gerigk.de/https://www.facebook.com/martin.gerigk.792/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TWO OF US, 18min., Taiwan, Drama
Directed by Eddie Chen
Han, who left Tainan for a decade, returned to join high school reunion. After few drinks, they were bounded as usual. Han kissed his best friend Yuan, who were married to his wife. However by cherishing the friendship between, Yuan kissed Han back, but they both knew that they could only stay as friend. By the dawn, they said goodbye and went back to their daily life.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
WHAT I NEED, 13min., Romance
Directed by Jake Skrok
Two lifelong friends try to reconnect a year after breaking up. But on their snack run for one who is now pregnant and married they find there are still feelings between them.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
DON’T TURN OFF THE GHOST LIGHT, 11min,. Horror
Directed by Allisyn Snyder
Every stage actor knows the old theatre lore. At night, after rehearsal, after the show, you leave the ghost light on – or else.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER
Best Short Form Short Film: SEPARATE
Best Long Form Short Film: BORN AGAIN
Best Performances: SPARE CHANGE
Best Experimental Film: SALAD, ORANGES AND FLOWERS
Best Direction: GAY CAMP
Best Student Film: THE ZOO
Best Sound & Music: Como Rome@+Juliet@
Best Documentary: DARCELLE: ONE LIFE, LOVE AND DYING
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER, 96min., Canada, Romance Drama
Directed by Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah’s Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
https://www.instagram.com/yclf_film/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SEPARATE, 6min., USA, Fantasy/Thriller
Directed by Kestrin Pantera
Separate is a post-apocalyptic survival story. When the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter and dad flee their home, dodging citizen bounty-hunters, to find refuge in a gay-ballroom safe-house across the border.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SPARE CHANGE, 13min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Jesse Randall
After being thrown out by his parents, a young, homeless, trans man fights for survival on the gritty streets of Los Angeles until he can get on his feet again. After struggling to earn money panhandling, an unhoused woman living on the streets for 16 years shows him the ropes.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE ZOO, 12min,. Canada, Drama Family
Directed by Kyisha Williams
Magi, mom of 12-year-old, Kik attempts to repair their family after two years of navigating the carceral system. Magi returns home to their partner Anaelle, who has been taking care of Kik, while Magi was away. The thing Magi wants most in the world right now is to be able to reconnect with, Kik by accompanying them on a school field trip to The Zoo.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
BORN AGAIN, 16min,. India, Drama
Directed by Rik Roy
A man embarks on a path of self discovery, only to end up being devastated by his true identity. The film tries to explore androgynous sensibilities and how humans censor their self expression even before the society does.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Como Rome@+Juliet@, 4min., Mexico, Animation
Directed by Hugo Crosthwaite
A stop-motion drawing animation that presents a modernized, U.S./Mexico Border adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SALAD, ORANGES AND FLOWERS, 10min,. France, Experimental
Directed by Luying GU
Li Yu is writing a novel based on her free-range cat. However, the image of “Catwoman” began to intrude into her life frequently, and even confused with her close friend in real life, forcing her to face the emotions she had buried for many years…
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
GAY CAMP, 10min,. USA, Comedy
Directed by Mark Marchillo
In a world where most of the population is gay, children who exhibit “straight” tendencies are sent to camps in order to convert them back to their natural homosexual lifestyle. Camp Sohomo will convert your child in record time.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
DARCELLE: ONE LIFE, LOVE AND DYING, 14min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Christena Carol Dowsett
Darcelle, at the age of 91, is the Guinness World Record holder for the oldest working drag queen. On stage Darcelle is harolded as a prominent figure in the Portland, Oregon LGBTQ+ scene but at home Walter Cole is just like anyone else who loves, laughs, and cries. In this short film, friends and family reflect with Darcelle on a long and accomplished life as the end draws near.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
