Hollyshorts 2015

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WELCOME! Welcome Filmmakers! The 11th annual HollyShorts Film Festival will be our biggest yet! Enjoy more than 400 films from over 20 countries and countless films of all genres, to go with an amazing film conference filled with panelists from studios to digital buyers. This year’s festival will be, we hope, an inspiring and exciting and fun filled 10 days for our filmmakers and attendees. The films selected in 2015 are competing for $15,000 cash grand prize courtesy of Zype!, Company 3 and Method studios will be awarding up to $60,000 in post services prizes as well! Adding to that, we have added the first annual online HollyShorts festival through VHX, further empowering our filmmakers to be seen throughout the window of the festival to a global audience. Last but not least, our team is excited to announce the launch of All Short TV, a full service channel for short films and short content available on Roku and Amazon Fire! Further proof that HollyShorts is the only destination in Los Angeles for short filmmakers. Any other festival that attempts to duplicate just fails. Enjoy the films, panels, and parties! Team HSFF Daniel, Theo, and Nicole

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13th

7pm

HOLLYSHORTS 11th ANNUAL

OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION TCL CHINESE THEATRES 1 & 6 Hosted by Alicia Malone and Amy Paffrath

Chris Ekstein’s THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD AND BONES starring Jason Patric, Danny Trejo, Rose McGowan, Mark Boone Junior, Noah Hardin, Marissa Coughlan, and Jeff Daniel Phillips.

Gabriel Olson’s THE BRIDGE PARTNER, written by acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) starring Beth Grant (Mindy Project), Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence, Rebecca Brooks, Catherine Carlen, and Robert Forster. /3 /


WARNING LABELS, directed by Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon A Time, Warrior, Star Trek), starring Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), and Rose McIver (iZombie).

DISSONANCE, directed by Bryan Fox starring Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games), Cindy Dolenc (Eyes Wide Shut), Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos), Henry Winkler, Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons), Carly Chalkin (Suburgatory), Nancy Travis (Last Man Standing), Perrey Reeves (Entourage), Kelly Preston, Devon Graye (Legendary).

Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO centers on a group of student activists traveling to the Amazon to save the rain forest. They soon discover they are not alone after crash-landing on a remote location, and are held hostage by a native tribe they set out to help save.


FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 12pm

YOUTH | CHINESE 1 | 109 min.

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Marriage Tools

Drifting

The Listing

Roee Messinger

Luke Jaden

Compound 147

Once

Coleman Beltrami

Xuexue Pan

Alien Communications

Marriage Tools

Kris and Kurtis Theorin

Jacob Mariani

In Time

Two and a Quarter Minutes

Gabrielle Giacomo and Mary Grace Henry

Joshua Ovalle

New Neighbors Old Fights

Museum Of Unnatural Gaming

Alex Fischman

Carrington Bennett, Matthew Lungaro

2:30pm

FAMILY DRAMA | CHINESE 1 | 113 min.

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Hello Again

Hello Again

Ellie

Tom Ruddock

Allison Eckert

Suburban Memoir

Father’s Day

Mark Anthony Marez

Emily Towers

I’ll Be Home Soon

Doghouse

James Everett

Joshua Butler

Coeur d’Alene

Into Memory

Merlin Camozzi

Derek Franzese

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5:00pm WESTERN | CHINESE 1 | 95 min.

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Blackwell

Del Ciego Desert

Blackwell

François Leduc

Ed Barnes

Morgan Pickett’s Charge

Steel Town

Christopher Lawrence Chapman

Nicolas Hurt

Walker

The Weight of Blood and Bones

Adrian Orozco

Chris Ekstein

The Lotus Gun Amanda Milius

7:30pm

ADULT ANIMATION | CHINESE 1 | 120 min.

} Sumer Alvaro Garcia

Teeth

Lovesick Fool: Love in the Age of Like Dominic Polcino

T.P. Bob Blevins and Bradly Werley

Day 40 Sol Friedman

The OceanMaker Lucas Martell

My Kingdom Debra Solomon

Teeth Daniel Gray, Tom Brown

Dissonance Till Nowak

After the End Sam Southward

Driving Nate Theis

The Loneliest Stoplight Bill Plympton

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10pm

HORROR | CHINESE 6 | 114 min. Presented by Eli Roth’s THE CRYPT

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The Smiling Man

Polaroid

And They Watched

Lars Klevberg

Vivian Lin

Hag

Mr. Dentonn

Erik Gardner

Ivan Villamel

Awakenings

The Blood Of Love

Bhargav Saikia

Jeff Meyers

The Smiling Man

Hush

A.J. Briones

Michael G. Kehoe

Slut Chloe Okuno

12am

MIDNIGHT MADNESS | CHINESE 1 | 93 min.

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Holloway Heights: The Grenade

Coming To

Love And A Lug Wrench

Lindsey Haun

Jeffrey Fleisig

Murphy’s Law

Millenia

Alex Fichera

Justin Amorim

Bad Guy #2

Holloway Heights: The Grenade

Chris McInroy

Jon Hoeg, John F. Beach

Back Pages

A Teenage Drama

Tony Fabro

Phillip Clark Davis

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 12pm FAMILY | CHINESE 1 | 101 min.

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Vagabond

Tsunami

The Red Thunder

Sofie Kampmark

Alvaro Ron

The Autumn Of Zao

Au Fil de l’Eau (On Flying Water)

Nikolaus Roche-Kresse

Dominique Monfery

The Apple Tree

Vagabond

Scott Storm

Pedro Ivo Carvalho

Parrot Away

The Coin

Mads Weidner

Fabien Martorell

The Night Ocean

Juliet Juliet Ken Ochiai

Maria Lorenzo Hernandez

2:30pm CINEMATOGRAPHY | CHINESE 1 | 119 min.

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Populace

Thunder

Populace

Amaro Shake

Aaron Bevan Bailey

Velvet Karma

Bosniak

Alfonso Campos

Kejd Kuqo

Pyromance

Shit Eaters

John de Menil

Agata Wojcierowska

Shok

Une Libération

Jamie Donoughue

Brian James Crewe

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5pm

ROMANCE | CHINESE 1 | 115 min.

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17 Things I Love About You

Two Dosas

Lay in Wait

Sarmad Masud

Jonathan Ade

17 Things I Love About You

Harmony

Carys Watford

Noel Douglas Orput

After Lilly

Pink Grapefruit

Aaron Webman

Michael Mohan

In The Clouds

A Lady And A Robot

Marcelo Mitnik

Toby Morris

The Ring Thing Friederike Jehn

7:30pm

DRAMA | CHINESE 1 | 129 min.

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Flowers in December

The Bravest and Boldest

Skunk

Moon Molson

Annie Silverstein

Meat

Flowers in December

Michael Forstein

JT Mollner

Birthday

In Her Place

Chris King

Kevin Hamedani

Broken Ceilings

To Dust Return

Yanillys Perez

Chris Peters

Missed Call Susana Hornil


COMEDY | CHINESE 1 | 116 min.

10pm

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The Nobodies

Intermission

The Gnome

Mark Tiedemann

Joe Price

I Love You, Dad

PGB Hot Sauce. A Punch of Flavor in Your Face

Eric Normington

Roberto Serrini, Mikko Timonen

Minimum Wage

Blunderbus

Joey Ally

Ashley Louis

The Nobodies

Career Girl

Greg Bratman & Dusty Brown

Fortunato Procopio

Tommy Chong’s Unaired Lincoln Commercial

Natural Insemination

César Gamiño

Crosby Selander

12am

MIDNIGHT MADNESS II | CHINESE 1 | 105 min.

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Larry Gone Demon

Dad In Mum

The Garden

Fabrice BRACQ

E.B. Rhee

Lifeline

Seth

Jeffery Wang

Zach Lasry

Larry Gone Demon

I Don’t Dance

Matthew John Lawrence

Brent Weinbach

Invaders

Shevenge

Jason Kupfer

Amber Benson

Oh, Sh*t Zack Akers

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 12pm WASHINGTON SHORTS | CHINESE 1 | 124 min. Presented by NORTHWEST TALENT MANAGEMENT

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Hagereseb

From The Sky

El Camino Solo

Ian Ebright

Shawn Telford

I, Charon

Julia’s Farm

Phillip Harvey, Kevin Harvey

Sudeshna Sen

The Things We Keep

Big Boy

Rosalie Miller

Bryan Campbell

Secret

Hagereseb

Tony Fulgham

ZIa Mohajerjasbi

The Gift Mardig Sheridan

2:30pm LGBT | CHINESE 1 | 112 min.

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Bowes Academy

Tom In America

Tits On A Bull

Flavio Alves

Tim Worrall

Stealth

A Private Matter

Bennett Lasseter

Kate Halpin

Bowes Academy

Closets

Greg Emetaz

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan

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5pm

THE VFX SHOWCASE | CHINESE 1 | 102 min.

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Closer

Dust

A Traves Del Espejo

Michael Grier

(Through the Breaking Glass) Ivan Mena-Tinoco

Waste Paper

Death Of A Man

Derrick D. Pete

Alex Nicholson

The Army Within

It’s a Wonderful Knife

Andy Sutton

Nick Lines

Closer Angelo Licata

7:30pm

SCI-FI | CHINESE 1 | 110 min.

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The Shaman

The Edge

Eternity Hill

Simon Saulnier

Alex Feldman, Marc Jozefowicz

Helio

The Shaman

Teddy Cecil

Marco Kalantari

Romulus

The Innovators

Iñigo Oleaga

Carmen Chaplin

Odessa

Mother’s Day

Sean Michael Turrell

Jeff Tan

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THRILLER I | CHINESE 1 | 121 min.

10pm

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The Loyalist

The Loyalist

The Program

Minji Kang

Dylan Mulick

The Ascent

The Pegasus Project

Ana Soler

Aaron Wolf

600$

Midland

Oriol Cardus

Oliver Bernsen

The Canary

Human Behavior

Karl Herrmann

Carey Williams

MONDAY, AUGUST 17 12pm

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS I | CHINESE 6 | 117 min.

} The Bad Boy Of Bowling Bryan Storkel

Impact, a Boxer’s Story

Love In The Time Of March Madness Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano

Boxeadora Meg Smaker

Impact, a Boxer’s Story Keith Rivers

Tomgirl Jeremy Asher Lynch

Should Tomorrow Be Malini Goel

Luchadora River Finlay

Living With Coyote Priya Shelly

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2:30pm PERIOD SHORTS | CHINESE 6 | 114 min.

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De Smet

The Escapist

Passport

Jon Plant

Lisa Demaine

De Smet

Color My World

Wim Geudens, Thomas Baerten

Jameson Jordan

Vlado

Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist

Felipe Mucci

Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman

Patient 39 Dan Clifton

5pm

INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE | CHINESE 6 | 118 min.

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Je Suis Une Actrice

Into The Surf Tom Evans

While They Were Flying to the Moon Borisa Simovic

The Call Zamo Mkhwanazi

Zawadi Richard Card

Borderland Aleksander Olai Korsnes

Miami Simão Cayatte

Caravan Keiran Watson-Bonnice

Je Suis Une Actrice Benoit Lach

The Sky Over Your Shoulders Luiz Maximiano

Break The Rock Concept Trailer Michael O’Halloran

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7:30pm SCI FI/FANTASY | CHINESE 6 | 125 min.

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Total Awesome Viking Power

The Mule

The Leap

Mike George

Karel van Bellingen

The Witching Hour

Home

Carl Firth

John Henry Hinkel

The Walrus

Total Awesome Viking Power

Luke Randall

Morten Forland

The Sun Devil and The Princess Steve Ayromlooi

10pm MUSIC VIDEOS | CHINESE 6 | 97 min.

} Dizzy Wright “False Reality”

Claire - “The Next Ones To Come”

Love Song Joe Magee, Bill Bailey

Scott Fleishman and Fredo Tovar

C.T.R.L. Mariana Conde

Claire “The Next Ones To Come”

Gary Clark Jr. “When My Train Pulls In” Carmela Makela

Jaysin Voxx “Hands on Me”

KRONK

Carlos A. Hurtado

Sirens

Golden Leaves

Jerry Pyle

Livia Alcalde and Francesco Sperandeo

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Carla Bozulich “Gonna Stop Killing”

Warm Shadow Frank Leeman, Emily Miller

Martijn Rijnberg

Stay (The Morning Light Fades)

Lion Momma

Dillon Novak

Justin Possenti

Monster Magnet - “The Duke”

Turn It Up

Phil Mucci

Choz Belen, Steve Nguyen

In The Street

Something To Believe In

PM Romero, Scott Montgomery

David Linke & Kevin Linke

Lo! - “Orca”

Red “Jadudah”

Matt Devine

Maida Hals

Lion Shepherd - “Lights Out” Piotr Jasinski

Everything Under (EU) “Gotta Make Money”

Ivory Drive - “In Dark”

Mark J Heidecke

Van Wampler

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 12pm

GOLDEN AGE | CHINESE 6 | 126 min.

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Paris On The Water

The Late Bird

Scrabble

Sascha Vredenburg

Cristian Sulser

Our Father

Paris On The Water

Linda Palmer

Hadas Ayalon

Come Away With Me

Maurice

Ellen Gerstein

François Jaros

The Parting Shot Anirban Roy


2:30pm WOMEN IN FILM | CHINESE 6 | 124 min.

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Primrose

Hes The Best

Similitude

Tamyka Smith

Tim Guzman

The Haircut

Forgive Me

Alexis Ostrander Korycinski

Monique Carmona

Boys I Used to Babysit

Primrose

Leah Rachel

Clara Aranovich

The Never Bell

Everything all at Once

Emily Lobsenz

Eleanor Wilson

Election Night

Lapse of Time (3D)

Tessa Blake

Celine Tricart

Jamaica Helen Rollins

5pm DRAMA | CHINESE 6 | 122 min.

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Hyena’s Blood

Corner and The Cutman

Visible Proof

Daniel Holliday

Gabil Sultanov

It Has To Be You

Hyena’s Blood

Conrad Rothbaum

Nicolas Caicoya

American Falls

Bandito

Bé Garrett

Evan Ari Kelman

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7:30pm THRILLER II | CHINESE 6 | 100 min.

} County State USA: Sweet Corn

Thicker Than Water

If It Turns Bad, Run! David Hourregue

Jonathan Nowak

Hero.Traitor.Patriot

Transference

Weyni Mengesha & Eion Bailey

MichaĂŤl Nakache

Day One

Thicker Than Water

Leo Kei Angelos & Kristen Brancaccio

Seung Yeob Lee

10pm

ACTION | CHINESE 6 | 118 min.

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Takanakuy

Unbelief

Drone

Fabien Martorell

Justin S. Lee

Dead Hearts

Takanakuy

Stephen W. Martin

Austin Kolodney

A Gringo Honeymoon

The Toll

Alexandra Debricon

Scott Simpson

7.2

The Scuttlebutt Assassins

Nida Manzoor

Wen Ren & Dy Sao

The Other Side Akiko Izumitani


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 12pm

ROM COM | CHINESE 6 | 92 min.

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This Is When We Met

Moving On

Girl In Her Twenties

Marcia Fields and Mike Spear

Amy Reedy

Dry Me Crazy

This Is When We Met

Ethan Corn

Sean Cunningham

Matchbreakers

Tattooed

Cameron Beyl

John Michell

While You Were In A Coma JP Labbe

2:30pm COMING OF AGE | CHINESE 6 | 96 min.

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The Baddest Part

D.Asian

Kids Who Jump Off Bridges

Sarah Smith

Zoe Neary

A Band Of Thieves

The Oasis

Fidel Ruiz-Healy

Raul B. Fernandez

More Of Last Night

7UP: Feels Good to Be You

Chase Casanova

The Baddest Part Adam Azimov

Cracked

Imran J. Khan, Christopher Vennemeyer

Hardware Behn Fannin

Adria Tennor

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5pm DRAMA II | CHINESE 6 | 116 min.

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Butterflies

Tadaima

The Classroom

Robin Takao D’Oench

Vivian Miranda

Butterflies

The Red Card

Cayman Grant

Dana Brawer

Solidarity

The Fog

Dustin Brown

Ted Martland

Wedding Dress Haroula Rose

7:30pm COMEDY II | CHINESE 6 | 114 min.

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How a Man Gets Ready

Red Nuts

Somos Amigos

Jackson Mullane

(We Are Friends)

Grand Zero Kevin Oeser

Magic Matty Nico Raineau

How a Man Gets Ready Romina Schwedler

Shear The Sheep Eli Berg

Martian American Lee Citron

Carlos Solano

A Reasonable Request Andrew Laurich

Life in Your Social Network

presented by Heard

“Social Disorder” Hunter Davis

Twisted Stuart Bowen

Simpler Times Steve Monarque

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10pm WEBISODES | CHINESE 6 | 121 min.

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Downtown Girls

HelLA

Anamnesis

Rory Uphold

Alex Calleros, Michael Tucker

Discount Fitness

Kowalski

Spencer Willis & Heath Woodlief

Jason O’Mara

The Incredible Life Of Darrell

The Blind Date

Darrell Lake

Erin Cardillo, Richard Keith

Super Larry

Authentik

Gille Klabin

Anthony Lemaitre

Fish In A Sweater: Three Dollar Drafts

Downtown Girls Emebeit Beyene, Chandra Russell

Ben Barnes

Exit Project: Kate

The Process

Oleksii Sobolev, Misha Koroteev

Carey Williams

Happy And You Know It Jeremy Howe, Ramsey Robinson, Kira Hesser

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 12pm

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS II | CHINESE 6 | 129 min.

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The Trials of Constance Baker Motley

The Last Barn Dance

German Shepherd

Ted Richardson and Jason Arthurs

Nils Bergendal

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Above The Alley, Beneath The Sky

The Nike Chariot Earring Karen Audette

Dominic Gill

Counter Histories: Rock Hill

The Trials of Constance Baker Motley

Frederick Taylor

Rick Rodgers

2:30pm HOLLYSHORTS ALUMNI | CHINESE 6 | 98 min.

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Monkeys

Painless

Duality

Dylan Stern

Emad Asfoury

Marian

Nicotine

Shom Ghosh

Jon Ryan Sugimoto

Sick To My Bones

The Brief, Existential Crisis of a Young Underwear Model

Guy Davies & Matthew Leonhart

Brett & Drew Checkelsky

Monkeys

Zerogon

Christopher Soren Kelly

John Mattiuzzi & Joshua Planz

Russian Roulette Ben Aston

5pm GERMAN FILMS | CHINESE 6 | 164 min.

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Komm und Spiel

Dot

Daewit

Tali Barde

David Jansen

Phoenix

90 Degrees North

Florian Frerichs

Detsky Graffam

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Solo Finale

Der König Nebenan

Ingo Putze

Isa Micklitza

Bahar Im Wunderland

Komm und Spiel

Behrooz Karamizade

Daria Belova

7:30pm STUDENT FILMS | CHINESE 6 | 116 min.

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Carne Seca

The River. My Brother, Me

The Moment

Timothy Jacob Elledge

Heran Wang

Carne Seca

South Arcadia St.

Jazmin Diaz

Melanie D’Andrea

Last Base

For Ofelia

Aslak Danbolt

Christopher de las Alas

Death of a Government Clerk Mykyta Samusiev

Bie Pu (Home) Amelie Wen

Miracle Maker Kate Marks

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 2:30pm

| CHINESE 6 | 116 min.

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If The Trees Could Talk

Black and Blue

If The Trees Could Talk

Ciara Allen

Michael Weinstein

Mandie and Earring

Sin Frontera

Lucius Dillon

Iz Gutierrez

The Light Thief

Matthews Song

Eva Daoud

Nic Novicki

Among the Innocent Louis Mansfield

7:30pm FILMS THAT INSPIRE THE WORLD | CHINESE 6 | 117 min. Presented by DREAM TEAM DIRECTORS

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Chute Fighter

Bumblebees

I Want You Bad

Jenna Kanell

Bayou Bennett & Daniel Lir

Spanish Love 101

Page’s Great and Grand Escape

Peter Macaluso

The Game Ruben Languren

Guest Room

Micky Levy

Passengers Dickie Hearts

Joshua Tate

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Chute Fighter

Hursit

Laurel Parmet

Selcen Yilmazoglu

A Better Place

Nonsense

Michael Chase Gordon

Max Clendaniel

The Punishing Business

The Magic Shoes

Heather Harlow

Sahand Nikoukar

10pm | CHINESE 6 | 111 min.

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What’s Eating Dad

Karma

The 7 Sevens

Vladimir Mitrevski

Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye

Home Range

Coming to Terms

Natalia Kaniasty

David Bertran

Grit

Masterpiece

Ilan Srulovicz

Meagan Flynn and Amber Rapp

CON

What’s Eating Dad?

Christopher Miller

Michael Goldburg

House Hunting

Outside The Lines

Patrick Andrew Higgins

Scott Belyea

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 12pm | CHINESE 6 | 122 min.

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Low/Fi

Boxed

Jack Of All Trades

John T. Connor

Gregory Evans

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Mush

Prism

Yoonhee Ye

Jackson Miller

Clave

For My Next Trick

Carmen Corral

James Card

The Transplanters

Viscera

Jason Melius

Lauren Morrison

Addam

Low/Fi

Alex Nystrom

Alejandro Montoya

2:30pm MONTHLY SCREENING WINNERS | CHINESE 6 | 113 min.

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Bad Service

Doradus

Love Hurts

Fernando J. Scarpa

Albert Lopez

Bad Service

Obtuse

Hannah Macpherson

James Pomichter

GODS Dot Com

The Convicted

Richard Ciccarone

Josh Mitchell

The Test of Time Eddie Perez

5pm

LA WINNERS | CHINESE 6 | 126 min.

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Loveable

True Heroes

Snip

Chris Ganucheau

Eric Rippetoe

A Bird’s Nest

Based on Rosenthal

Christine Chen

Stephen Kinigoloulos

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Lovable

Trunk

Zac Taylor & Erica Silverman

Mragendra Singh

Found

Rules of Reduction

Dawn Fields

Anderson Cowan

The Red House

No Milk

Jiaqi Lin

Melanie Abramov

7:30pm | CHINESE 6 | 116 min.

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Rudie Can’t Fail

The Pavement

Spit

Taylor Engel

Mtume Gant

Green Thumb

Three Kings

Kiel Murray & Phil Lorin

Mike Schroeder

The Confrontation

The Stowaway

Michael Adams

Rpin Suwannath

Traction

The Sister I Live With

Rory Uphold

Christopher Winterbauer

Rudie Can’t Fail

Crude

Joe Bateman

Charles-Henri Joslain

Skin Liz Hannah

10pm | CHINESE 6 | 77 min. Gridiron Heroes: The Hill Chris Climbed Documentary Directed and Produced by Andy Lauer and Seth Camillo Narrated by Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, Battleship, True Detective and Lone Survivor), Gridiron Heroes is the story of high school football star Chris Canales, who was paralyzed in a championship football game.

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JURY 2015 ADAM SCHOMER

JONATHAN PEZZA

ALEJANDRO TREVINO

KAT COIRO

ANNA MOORFIELD

KEN KOKIN

ASHLEY MCKIM

KIM ADELMAN

BETSY WALTERS

LAUREN AVINOAM

CHERYL BEDFORD

LAUREN FREEMAN

CINDY BAER

LEAH MEYERHOFF

CYRUS SAIDI

MALCOLM CLARKE

DAVE HUSSEY

MARK STOLAROFF

DAVID FELDMAN

MATT IRVING

DAVID MAGDAEL

MELISSA KNIGHT

DOUG CUSHNIE

NEAL DODSON

ELLIOTT OWEN

PETER FACER

ERIC CONNER

PETER RUSSELL

GHEN LONG

REDA MUSTAFA

GREG PEDICIN

ROBERTA MARIE MUNRO

GREGORY KALLENBERG

SEAN COLEMAN

JACKIE LEE

SHARON BADAL

JAKE PUSHINSKY

SHARON LAWRENCE

JAMIE LINDEN

TANNER BEARD

JEFF BLODGETT

YUKA KOBAYASHI

JIM BROWN

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TUESDAY AUGUST 18 | 10PM Mama Shelter 6500 SELMA AVE., LOS ANGELES 90028

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 | 10PM HollyShorts Awards OHM Nightclub 6801 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. #433, LA 90028

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 | 10PM HollyShorts Closing Party TBA

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THANK YOU! DANIEL SOL would like to thank: All the filmmakers who stuck with the only true short film festival in Los Angeles. To the others who made the mistake of not participating, you have a lot to learn. Thanks to all the jurors and panelists and volunteers for all your hard work and dedication. Special thank you goes out to my love Puah Benzicron for putting up with all of this madness. A special thanks to my mom and abuela Libby for doing the best they can under hard circumstances, always treating others kindly and with respect. Love you both very much. Last, thank you to the Lezak family for their continued support. NICOLE CASTRO: Thank you to all the amazing filmmakers for having such brilliant content to showcase this year. Sincere Thank You’s from Theo, Daniel & myself to Alex, Leimomi, Carter and Kim for their tireless work all year round, we couldn’t do this without you. Our Volunteers – we appreciate all that you do to help make this run so smoothly day to day. Theo & Danny – always a pleasure to go through this ride with you. Onto AllShort TV and more! To my Best Lady – special thanks for all the love, advice and overall patience with me during these months. To my Blanton – Thanks for all your love and support. Lastly, Huge Thank You to Jerome, he makes us look good. THEO DUMONT would like to thank: My HollyShorts annual colleagues Daniel and Nicole, my wife Valerie, my kids Emilie and Camille (future co-ceos), my mother Maryse, my cousin L. Philippe Casseus, The Bijaoui family, The Robson family, Samara, The Miami family – Damon, Frantz, the Lionsgate family Ryan B. Jojo, Ryan L. (now Focus family), all 400 official HSFF 2015 filmmakers, our official sponsors, my DMG family and clients, Solmont Ent., my AllShortTV family, The Rowe family and whatever new ventures, startups and clients I’ve left out, thank you. A special thanks goes out to Ryan Leeder for all your help reviewing submissions this year! And of course, to Theo and Nicole, for making another fest come to life again!

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