Saturday, May 28th, Beverly Hills Music Hall

The Funeral Guest

Country: USA

Category: Romantic Dramedy

Director: Matthew Kohnen

A lonely girl seeks connection by crashing other people's funerals. When she's mistaken for the long-estranged sister of a dead woman, she goes along with the mistake in order to get close to the girl's family.

Time: 12:15pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

The Old Man
SHORTS BLOCK 28A – DRAMA AWARDS SHORTS

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Erin Kelly

A new mother, played by Erin Kelly, watches an old man waiting for a bus all day. Her attempts to connect are rebuffed until she finally manages to break through to him.

Time: 2:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Minami
SHORTS BLOCK 28A – AWARDS SHORTS - DRAMA

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Taishi Mizuno

The police found out that one of Japan's biggest underground drug dealers Muto(Boss) has been dealing with cartels in Mexico. He needs to leave Japan before he gets caught by the police.

Time: 2:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Mercy
SHORTS BLOCK 28A – AWARDS SHORTS - DRAMA

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Mylissa Fitzsimmons

So when an opportunity presents itself at her door she decides nothing will stop her from getting her birthday wish.

Time: 2:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Escape From Area 51
AWARDS SHORTS 28B - SCI-FI

Country: USA

Category: Sci-fi

Director: Greg Maksudyan

An award-winning sci-fi short packed with suspense, involving a young couple (Mark Furze, Emily Somers) who inadvertently cross over into Area 51 territory while driving through the Nevada desert. A lone guard (Brad Potts) gives them a warning and more strange events continue to unfold.

Time: 3:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Intrepid Film
AWARDS SHORTS 28B - SCI-FI

Country: USA

Category: Sci-fi

Director: Cyrus Hogg

In a corrupt future, freedom is on the brink of extinction. Phoenix Larson may be the only key to the survival of the human race. Framed for murder and on the run, Phoenix must search deep inside to alter his fate and accept his destiny!

Time: 3:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Rite
AWARDS SHORTS 28B - SCI-FI

Country: USA

Category: Drama/Thriller

Director: Morgan Roberts

Two kids search throughout New Orleans for ingredients to a spell they found in their Grandmother's voodoo book. One boy refuses to meet all of the books requirements, despite his Grandmother's warning. Morality clashes with ceremony, and things go awry.

Time: 3:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Battery Life
AWARDS SHORTS 28B - SCI-FI

Country: USA

Category: Sci-fi

Director: Justin Nixon

Battery Life is a stop motion short film that tells a story of determination, self-sacrifice, and deceit. Set in a dystopian desert landscape, a robot family, through the test of tragedy, discovers a dark secret hidden behind the doctrine of a preacher.

Time: 3:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

The Stream
AWARDS SHORTS 28B - SCI-FI

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Claudia Fucigna

When Blair, a young father who takes underground fights to support his family, learns of a brain condition that gives him supernatural visions, he must question his upcoming match against a Muay Thai champion.

Time: 3:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Countdown
AWARDS SHORTS 28C - GENRE

Country: USA

Category: Horror

Director: Justin Dec

After downloading a countdown app that claims to predict when you're going to die, a woman begins to hear and see strange things. It's not long before she begins to realize that she's invited something sinister into her life... something that won't stop until the countdown comes to an end.

Time: 4:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Nano Man: Utility Fog
AWARDS SHORTS 28C - GENRE

Country: USA

Category: Investigative Documentary

Director: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell

Investigative Filmmaker, Jeremy Corbell, explores the claims of a government funded NanoPhysicist we call Nano Man. Nano Man believes he possesses a mysterious meta-material… not created here on Earth. Corbell travels to a military installation and uses NASA's Scanning Electron Microscope to analyze and interrogate the alleged Off-World (alien) nano-robotics best described as "UTILITY FOG" (a term from Science Fiction).

Time: 4:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Organ Donor
AWARDS SHORTS 28C - GENRE

Country: USA

Category: Horror/Comedy

Director: Emily Honey

At midnight in an empty Pasadena parking lot, MAN goes to pay his ticket and get the hell home. The ticket MACHINE has other ideas, however...

Time: 4:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Scan
AWARDS SHORTS 28C - GENRE

Country: USA

Category: Expirimental

Director: Jonathon Stearns

SCAN synthesizes animation and time-lapse for a surreal and psychedelic American road trip. Accompanied by a soundtrack of constantly changing radio broadcasts and transmissions, landscapes morph westward as we glimpse ghosts of modern and ancient history, extraterrestrials, monsters, robots, hitchhikers, hipsters, and cowboys.

Time: 4:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Hill Hive
AWARDS SHORTS 28C - GENRE

Country: USA

Category: Drama/Thriller

Director: Maxwell Morro

Jade maintains a sanctuary with fresh vegetation, which aids her research in uncovering a solution to the occurrences affecting them and their world. Val patrols the perimeter fences while nightmares of the past and present begin to poison his mind. Their bond will soon be tested; for the terrifying forces lurking beyond the fences have found them.

Time: 4:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Beyond Doubt
AWARDS SHORTS 28D - DRAMA II

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Matthew Hermosillo

A former police officer, AJ Stocker, is accused of murdering the man that he holds responsible for his father's death; is he guilty? The first project of writer-director, Matthew Hermosillo, Beyond Doubt, places its audience in the position of the film's jury to determine the ultimate question of guilt.

Time: 5:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Night
AWARDS SHORTS 28D - DRAMA II

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Xiomara Bernard

A group of friends get together at the beach to celebrate. Two former childhood friends, Rose and Marcus, reunite after a ten year separation. They reminisce on their connection that once was love.

Time: 5:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Nakama
AWARDS SHORTS 28D - DRAMA II

Country: USA

Category: Buddy Film

Director: Darin DiNapoli

Nakama was made for the 2015 Los Angeles 48 Hour Film Project. The film requirements included a genre (buddy film), a character (Cash Fitzwater), a prop (a handbook or instruction manual) and a line of dialogue ("No. Guess again."). Nakama was inspired on the real life adventures of hitchBOT.

Time: 5:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Speak
AWARDS SHORTS 28D - DRAMA II

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Laura Seay

Girl meets boy. So begins that fumbling, but honest attempt at intimacy; the meet cute, the first date, the banter.

Time: 5:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Skin
AWARDS SHORTS 28D - DRAMA II

Country: USA

Category: Drama/Thriller

Director: Jessica Makinson

Skin, a first film by writer/director Jessica Makinson and starring Johnny Sneed (Trumbo, Love & Mercy). Skin is a twisted and passionate story about a connection beyond words. Charlie receives an unusual piece of mail. Only Holly could have sent it. They aren't together anymore.

Time: 5:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Fa Fu
AWARDS SHORTS 28E - DRAMA III

Country: USA

Category: Thriller

Director: Yu Jung Hou

'Fa Fu' (direct translation: 'Skin and Hair') is a story about a timid woman who begins to lose her hair due to stress, only to find her personality undergoes a transformation as a result.

Time: 6:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Other Side
AWARDS SHORTS 28E - DRAMA III

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Tudor Munteanu, Amy Tofte

A small time drug dealer convinces a successful lawyer to take his case. But the truth flares between them and old wounds re-open, revealing their damaged past. Set in a morally ambivalent Los Angeles, Other Side explores the origin of opposites. What makes us go "Yin" versus "Yang" -- and how can you tell the difference?

Best Independent Short

Time: 6:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Play Faire

Country: USA

Category: Coming of Age

Director: Teo Guardino

Play Faire is a story about Trey Foster, a high school graduate, who accepts a summer job with his pottery teacher, Ron Walters, at a local Renaissance Faire. At the Faire, Trey experiences hard work, human folly, and a subculture of debauchery. Ron, a seasoned potter, has become disheartened by his struggles as an artist and his hardships in maintaining his business. During the run, Trey's work inspires his teacher and in the process, discovers his own passion for becoming an artist.

Best Family Feature Film

Time: 6:30pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

All I Ever Wanted

Country: USA

Category: Drama

Director: Markiss McFadden

Frustrated by the repititious grind of a drug dealing life, part time street mime "Ace" tries to escape the life he once chose out of desperation

Best Cinemetography - Moziko Wind
Best Actor - Mason Roy

Time: 8:15pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Sharkskin

Country: USA

Category: Drama/Comedy

Director: Dan Perri

Sharkskin's story tells the tales of tailor Mike Esposito and his unexpected relationship with neighborhood crime boss "Fat Angel o" Piano. To make Piano a special suit, Mike has to give up his morals and principles to do it. Chided by his son, Sammy, Mike finally has to confront Don Piano, his wife, Lilly and his own ethics to extricate his family from the clutches of danger.

Time: 10:00pm

Date: May 28th - Beverly Hills Music Hall

Memorial Weekend Party      
IFS SPECIAL EVENT

Category: IFS Special Event

Begin your memorial day weekend with this Saturday night After-Party event and socialize with filmmakers, actors, and festival guests at this party.

Meet and greet with filmmakers and industry professionals at a venue in Beverly Hills.

Venue announced on May 10th.

Time: 9:30pm

Date: May 28th