Synopsis : A Young man is suddenly held captive by his own family and it is unclear as to who he is trying to escape from.
Writer: James Everett
Director: James Everett
Cast: Agata Buzek, Aharon Ipale, David Nolan
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Synopsis : After giving up on his dream of making it in the Chicago improv scene, a young comedian fatefully reconnects with the former love of his life one brisk September night while working at a coffee shop in his hometown. Afraid of growing old alone like his recently divorced father, in this inspiring story, Warren must choose between winning Emma back or finding the courage to go after his dreams a second time.
Film Length: 01 hr : 24 min : 12 sec
Writer: Alex Beh
Director: Alex Beh
Cast: Alex Beh, Andrew Santino, Austin Stowell
Crowd sourced funding is changing the way entrepreneurs, entertainers, artists, and non-profits fund their projects. Join producers Adam Carolla, Nate Adams, and Kelly Carter as they debut the World Premiere Trailer for their Feature Film ROAD HARD, which has raised the most funds for any Crowdfunding film to date. The screening will be followed with a discussion on the new era of crowdfunding.
Topics Include:
Why Crowdfund?
How to Start a Crowdfunding Campaign and Reach Your Target Audience
Comparing Major Platforms of Crowdfunding Kickstarter Vs. Indiegogo
When to Launch a Crowdfunding Campaign
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Film Title: With the Dawn
Synopsis : A husband and a wife share an intimate, possible final moment together.
Writer: Austin Sacry
Director: Austin Sacry
Cast: Kelly Dorney, PJ Evans
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Film Title: American Sweetheart
Synopsis : Clara, a suburban housewife stuck in conventionality, stumbles upon hints that her bellowed husband William has been cheating on her. Transfixed in her domestic situation, Clara re-discovers herself while baking an elegant cake for William.
Writer: Karin Binanto
Director: Karin Binanto
Cast: Emily Sandack, Jerry Prell, Elin Guthrie
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Film Title: Modern Kenpo
Film Length: 00 hr : 15 min : 44 sec
Synopsis: A look into the evolution, curriculum and teachings of a contemporary Kenpo Karate style that spread to and developed on the East Coast.
Writer: Ronald Blanco
Director: Ronald Blanco
Cast: Bill Logan
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Film Title: The Cask
Synopsis: A modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado', set in California wine country
Writer: Ryan Leeder
Director: Ryan Leeder
Cast: None Provided
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Film Title: The Girl in the Woods
Synopsis : A girl is lost in the woods, trapped in her past she tries to break free.
Writer: Ruben Pallan
Director: Ruben Pallan
Cast: Marah Fairclough, Tim Driscoll, Brian Shakti
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Film Title: Yarn
Synopsis : Craig’s father an astronomer, sees a star vanish in the sky. He becomes obsessed with discovering why, eventually leaving Craig and sailing to an island to continue his research.
Writer: Roy Kimchi
Director: Roy Kimchi
Cast: Will Thomas, Leah Lyon
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Film Title: Los Angeles Premiere Film Screening Happy Hands
Film time length: 00 hr : 19 min : 55 sec
Synopsis: How one Hollywood Starlet helped so many…and changed the face of the Industry. Documentary starring Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith’s Mother) and how she helped to create and assist Vietnamese nail salons in the United States.
Writer: None Provided
Director: Honey Lauren
Cast: Hong Lei, Martha Schad, Marlynn Thach
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Film Title: World Premiere Film Screening Angel Azul Documentary
Film Length: 01 hr : 11 min : 28 sec
Synopsis: Through the hauntingly beautiful lure of Jason deCaire's Taylor's underwater life-like statues we witness the birth of an artificial coral reef, learn how we are inextricably connected to the ocean, and are left to consider how are choices will determine what we leave to future generations.
Writer: Marcelina Cravat
Director: Marcelina Cravat
Cast: Jason DeCaire’s Taylor, Charlie Brown, Donna Barwick
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Film Title: Bis Gleich
Film Length: 00 hr : 20 min : 26 sec
Synopsis: An unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors, who share a daily ritual but who have never actually met, deepens when they face the inevitable...together.
Writer: Tara Lynn Orr
Director: Benjamin Wolff
Cast: Gertrud Roll, Horst Westphal, Julia Richter
Synopsis : A rebellious teenager, falsely accused of planning a school massacre, must survive a harrowing conflict with a prison gang leader while he attempts to prove his innocence to the community and those closest to him.
Film Length: 103 minutes
Producer: Marc Almon, Jason Buxton, David Miller
Director: Jason Buxton
Cast: Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Michael Buie
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Film Title: Check Please
Synopsis:
Writer: Geoffrey James
Director: Geoffrey James
Cast: Jared Ward, Jamie Sorge
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Film Title: Mr. Maple Leaf
Synopsis: We follow Alex on a stake-out to find a mysterious man.
Writer: Lori Miller
Director: Daniella Eisman
Cast: Gloria Votsis, Teri Polo, Ryan Hansen
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Film Title: Reaching Home
Synopsis: Still adjusting to life on her own, Janet's plans for a peaceful holiday dinner are blown astray when her grown sons face off over what should happen next--for her. Can she take back the tiller and chart her own course to recovery?
Writer: Kenneth Murphy
Director: Kenneth Murphy
Cast: Ava Paloma, Debra Monk, Eric Miller
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Film Title: The Beating
Synopsis : THE BEATING is a short film directed by Cyrus Mirakhor (Winner: Best Comedic Short, GRATITUDE - Philadelphia Independent Film Festival) and written by award-winning playwright, Paul Stroili. Pulled directly from today's headlines - THE BEATING is a dark, cautionary tale about the lengths to which one father will go to end a nightmarish problem of bullying at his son's school.
Writer: Paul Stroili
Director: Cyrus Mirakhor
Cast: Amy Farrington, Chris Wynne, Christopher Meehan
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Film Title: The Man from the City
Synopsis : A mysterious businessman visits a small town with questionable intentions as he contemplates leaving his big city life behind. Starring SAG award winner Robert Clohessy ( Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods, Wolf of Wall Street ) and Sean Young ( Blade Runner, Ace Ventura, No Way Out). Directed by Elias Plagianos .
Writer: Elias Plagianos
Director: Elias Plagianos
Cast: Robert Clohessy, Sean Young
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Film Title: Weight Classes
Synopsis: Diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, a tough young actor grapples with the notion that death has chosen him.
Writer: Charles Alexander
Director: Charles Alexander
Cast: Anthony Gaskins
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Film Title: You’re Kind of Weird, but I Like it
Synopsis : A short film depicting the best, worst blind date ever.
Writer: Christina Erwin
Director: Christina Erwin
Cast: Mark Sadr, Ally Wyzgoski, Edwin Modlin, Ego Nwodim
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Film Title: Cassandra
Synopsis: Two thieves infiltrate a besieged medieval city, in order to retrieve an artifact. They thought they had nothing to lose. They were wrong...
Writer: Guy-Roger Duvert
Director: Guy-Roger Duvert
Cast: Alex Freeman, Noemie Goetsch, Eric Kailey
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Film Title: RAB DA VAAASTA…
Synopsis: Must you kill in order to live...? When a no typical customer walks in and demands a shave, a small time barber with a traumatic past deliberates and faces an epiphany of sorts.
Writer: Chakravarty Devulpalli
Director: Chakravarty Devulpalli
Cast: Nissar Khan, Powell Jadaun, Nayeem Tomar
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Film Title: CURIO SHOP: A POST APOCALYPTIC ACID WESTERN
Film Length: 00 hr : 18 min : 10 sec
Synopsis: Oliver and John are two lonely survivors in a decayed frontier, drawn inexorably together by a web of shattering family secrets. When the watchmaker fashions a bizarre weapon for John, it opens a surrealistic Pandora's Box, engulfing everyone in a fever dream with no clear exit.
Writer: Zoe Taylor
Director: Eric S. Anderson
Cast: Robert Scott Crane, Brittany Slattery, Christopher Sweeney, Dylan Albert
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Film Title: Extending The Play
Synopsis: An observation of the lives of married American couple, Kasey and Bracey Ulin who play professional basketball in Europe. They met in Germany during the prime of their careers, only to find themselves quickly out of basketball just a few months later due to one huge mistake. As they adjusted to living just an average American life in rural America, they received a phone call from the small country of Luxembourg that changed everything.
Writer: John Dahlgren
Director: John Dahlgren
Cast: Bracey Ulin, Kasey Ulin
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Synopsis: Convinced romance is dead, a heart-broken-ed man turns to his best-friend who plans an unorthodox 'Mantervention'.
Writer: John E. G.
Director: Stuart Acher
Cast: Nick Roux, Chloe Bridges, Travis Van Winkle
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Film Title: The Algerian Feature Film Los Angeles Premiere
Film Length: 01 hr : 39 min : 00 sec
Synopsis: The Algerian is an international political thriller about the colliding worlds of the Middle East and America. It follows Ali (Ben Youcef), a Muslim sleeper cell from Algeria who is part of a plot to harm America. Hiding in Los Angeles as a university student, his life spins out of control as he becomes involved with the very people he was sent to destroy. The film races across the globe from Algeria to New York, to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, culminating in a surprise ending that will have audiences buzzing...
Writer: Giovanni Zelko
Director: Giovanni Zelko
Cast: Ben Youcef, Candice Coke, Giovanni Zelko
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Film Title: LA Premiere Documentary for Finding Gaston.
Film time length: 01 hr : 20 min : 00 sec
Synopsis: There are many great chefs around the world. Only one is considered to be a National hero. Meet chef Gaston Acurio and follow him in a journey to find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind the man that has taken his cuisine outside the kitchen in a mission to change his country with food. Let this journey take you into the world of peruvian cuisine to discover the power of food in peru. Because the people that are passionate enough to believe they can make a difference, are actually the ones who do.
Writer: Julia Patricia Perez
Director: Julia Patricia Perez
Cast: Gaston Acurio
Title: 3 NIGHTS IN THE DESERT
Director: Gabriel Cowan
Producer: John Suits
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Wes Bentley, Vincent Piazza
Synopsis:At a remote desert property, three estranged friends and former bandmates reunite to celebrate turning thirty. Travis, the wild man of the group, obsesses over producing revolutionary new music. So he has a plan in mind for his two friends: Barry, now a married lawyer, and Anna, back from years in Asia as a budding solo act.
Travis leads his friends to a cave, promising that if they enter, it has the power to give them what they need. Barry and Anna laugh off Travis, still the mythmaker of the crew, but over the weekend unsettling desires rise to the surface. Soon the friends begin to wonder if it’s the power of suggestion that affects them or if the cave has a real power to threaten all they hold to be true.
Sunday, October 12th, 2014
2014 Seventh Annual
Bel-Air Film Festival
Presented by A2E Family Partnership
Red Carpet Event Closing Awards Ceremony
Hosted by Jill-Michele Melean
Complimentary admission with a one drink minimum
