LA Shorts Fest

PROGRAM # 13
SATURDAY - JULY 24 - 7:45 pm

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Pumzi

Sci-Fi / South Africa / 22 min.

A Sci-Fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, ‘The Water War’. This is the story of overcoming the fear and apprehension of the dead and derelict outside world to save a growing plant.

Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Producer: Simon Hansen, Hannah Slezacek
Writer: Wanuri Kahiu
 
Cast: Kudzani Moswela, Chantelle Burger
April 86

Drama / USA / 19 min.

In the spring of 1910, Pepe saw Halley’s Comet in the midst of a midnight Easter procession taking place in his small Italian village. 76 years later, Halley’s Comet made its return voyage across the night sky, but the comet’s return was nowhere near the experience it was almost a century before.

Director: Loris Lai
Producer: Trey Pool, Ryan Sholz
Writer: Loris Lai, David Teodosio
 
Cast: Beverly D. Angelo, David Pantsari
Make It Happen

Commercial / USA / 1 min.

Overcoming a turbulent and well-publicized past, American Freestyle Skiing Aerialist, Jeret Speedy Peterson has fought through the last four years for these 12 Olympic seconds.

Director: Neno DelGiudice
Producer: Neno DelGudice
Writer: Neno DelGudice
 
Cast: Jeret Peterson
Lets Pollute

Animation / USA / 7 min.

In the spirit of 50s and 60s educational films, Lets Pollute is a modern satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong while instructing us on how to be better polluters for a better blighted tomorrow.

Director: Geefwee Boedoe
Producer: Geefwee Boedoe
Writer: Geefwee Boedoe
 
Cast: Jim Thornton
The Nature of Fall

Drama / USA / 13 min.

Eleven year-old Ryan has been eagerly anticipating his brothers military leave. But when the expected return brings along a sudden change in plans, Ryan sets out to keep his brother home, even if it means defying time itself.

Director: Tomer Stolz
Producer: Tyler Knell, Peter Sjolander
Writer: Naomi Klimaszewska
 
Cast: Dylan Sylvester, Sean Hoagland
Southbound

Drama / USA / 12 min.

Gardeners in Los Angeles use their leaf blowers in surprising and magical ways.

Director: Tim Disney
Producer: Gerard DiNardi, Bill Haney
Writer: Tim Disney
 
Cast: Tomas Garcia, Brett Davidson
Journey Home

Documentary / USA / 11 min.

Monty Marsh’s journey home forces him to confront the horrors that his ancestors endured during the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade, as well as brings about many questions of what it means to be Black in America today.

Director: Monty Marsh
Producer: Monty Marsh
Writer: Monty Marsh
 
Cast: Monty Marsh
Ekoem

Experimental / USA / 6 min.

Experimental film blending animated imprints of human bodies and time-lapsed landscapes of civilized world into an EKO-logical po-EM about the unending battle between nature and technology.

Director: Kveto Hecko
Producer: Kveto Hecko, Nina Heckova
Writer: Kveto Hecko
 
Cast: Martin Hecko
 
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