Director: Jonathan Baker & Matt Toronto
R USA
Driven by obsession, a young mental patient forcibly attempts to rekindle his relationship with an emotionally fragile fellow inmate. When she rejects his advances, the confrontation quickly escalates into a violent battle for survival and sanity. From the executive producer of Sundance Audience Award winner, CROWN HEIGHTS and the writer/director of Netflix's FACE 2 FACE.
IFS Premiere
1:00pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Derek Carranza
R USA
Tom Berg, a quirky, cinefile, undercover cop, deep in cover, murders a young drug criminal that him and his reprobate boss, Det. Daniel Sherman, are on the verge of entrapping. It was supposed to be his last job. Thinking he's covered it up, Tom goes about his detached routine, until his boss shows up at his place, claiming he saw the whole thing. Their confrontation turns into a deadly trap for both.
IFS Premiere
1:30pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Tim Atzinger
R USA
What it means to have a Dream, and what it takes to get over one.
IFS Premiere
2:30pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: James Agiesta & Katy Dierks
PG-13 Ireland, UK
It took a career of hard work to make Joey Ryan a professional and one grab of his crotch to make him an international sensation. This is Wrestling tells Joey’s story over a two year period of what can be considered the birth of a “Golden Age” in professional wrestling. While following one of the most iconic stars of the era you see the freewheeling world of independent wrestling thrive thanks to their rabid fans as well as the unconventional lifestyle of the performers they love. Go behind the scenes and below the belt for the viral life of Joey Ryan, one of the most colorful characters in wrestlings explosive transformation.
IFS Premiere
3:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Nola Yergen
G USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17A
This is the story of a 15th century Queen to be (Marie de' Medici) to King Henry IV of France and her attention to detail in her design and construction of a dress to exceed ANY expectation from her audience at her marriage by proxy.
IFS Premiere
4:30pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Ryan Moore
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17A
Burning Man is more than a party. See why people call it home. Dive into a rabbit hole of fire and dust with one of the most captivating events in the world: #burningman. Ignite is a documentary short film captured at the annual social experiment in Black Rock City, Nevada. Filmed during the 2017 event Radical Ritual, Ignite is directed and produced by filmmaker Ryan Moore featuring original score produced by the Grammy Award winning team behind "Mission Impossible: Fallout", "The Dark Knight" and "Inception". A cinematic experience into Burning Man, #ignite pays tribute to the community that builds this temporary desert world once each year.
IFS Premiere
4:30pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Dylan Sparano
PG USA
COMEDY SHORTS BLOCK 17B
Renowned actor, Clancy Brown, (SpongeBob, Star Wars Rebels, Lego Batman, The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander) provides the voice of the title character,” Mr. Horzemen” in director, writer, animator Dylan Sparano’s sardonic tale of a bizarre student teacher relationship.
World Premiere
5:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Fiona Pan
PG USA
COMEDY SHORTS BLOCK 17B
An undateable girl tries to get rid of her bad dating habit and have a great romantic relationship one day. But it's not always that easy, especially for girls like her. Her roommate decides to help her out before a date.
IFS Premiere
5:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Joel Murray
TV-MA USA
Best Comedic Episodic Project
COMEDY SHORTS BLOCK 17B
Written by Christopher Biewer and directed by Joel Murray, Vendors tells the story of Kyle Lydecker (Christopher Biewer), a young successful business man who ends up losing everything and must start all over as a vendor at the baseball stadium where he worked in college. However, with the help of his friends Jeff (Erik Stolhanske) and Maureen and possibly the girl of his dreams, Nadia (Kim DeJesus), Kyle will discover that he had to lose everything to find himself, his purpose, and love. The journey will not be made easy because his cousin and best friend Jeff is a bordeline alcoholic overgrown toddler, his ex-girlfriend is vindictive, and he's forced to work alongside his nemesis Josh (John Bobek) and the craziest vendor of all time Len (Emo Philips).
IFS Premiere
5:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: John Eddins
PG-13 USA
COMEDY SHORTS BLOCK 17B
A young African American man reunites with his grieving fiancé 12 days after the universe grants him a new lease on life. But karma has a catch (and an ending that is priceless in so many ways).
PAWG -Day12 brings a unique cadence to socially provocative issues like race, religion, sexuality and even gender identity. PAWG offers a fresh perspective on some of the most sensitive subjects in our cultural landscape.
IFS Premiere
5:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Matthew Keoki Miller
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17C
A woman struggles to connect with her son amidst the monotony of motherhood, wishing for an emotional - and possibly literal - escape.
IFS Premiere
6:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Jadee Rhodes
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17C
Sun My Son is the story of a brave young woman tragically immersed in the horrors of one of the largest worldwide crimes, human trafficking. Set in 1970s Mexico, Sahara meets the love of her life and all is well until a traumatic turn of events has her fighting for her life and that of her unborn child. This short film is just a glimpse from the larger screenplay and leads us to where the drama begins, a heartbreaking story that needs to be told.
World Premiere
6:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Sydney Carson & Caroline Sherman
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17C
Astro Murphy is on the verge of destruction. Once the biggest rock star on the planet, he started a musicians-first investment fund to make sure profits went directly to the artists. Targeted by the record industry, the fund lost millions, and the lifesavings of many. He’s run out of options and is on the verge of ending it all, when a young reporter, Stevie Salamander, shows up at his door. As they unravel his story together, both find a reason to reconsider their paths.
World Premiere
6:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Michael Alvarado
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17C
In 4 minutes, everything can change. Commuters get on a bus; a woman has a crush and life happens.
World Premiere
6:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Brad M. Bucklin
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 17C
Two women at a police precinct deal with the agony of not knowing whether their loved ones, patrol cops policing a community parade, have survived a mass shooting. Both women soon realize that they are at opposing ends of an explosive secret.
World Premiere
6:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Chantelle Landais
R USA
Trailer Contest Winner
DRAMA SHORTS BLOCK 17D
'Always Sunny in Philadelphia', but with hippies. New-age douchebag weed farmer, Sage, divides the commune in Topanga Canyon that he shares with his best friend, Max, after Max steals his kale chips recipe to launch his fad health products line to success.
Furious, Sage makes a deal with big time drug lord ‘ Honey Bear’, to train Sage as his protégé in attempts to become rich and powerful in his pride-fueled ploy to one-up his now ex-best friend, and take back what he believes is rightfully his: alpha status.
World Premiere
7:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Amanda Raymond
PG-13 USA
DRAMA SHORTS BLOCK 17D
FROM EMILY is a film noir, that serves as cautionary tale of what can happy when you lead double lives, and is very much in the vein of the original Twilight Zone series. The story follows Mike Jamison, a successful and married businessman who ends up being haunted by an ex-fling when he hears her plane's gone down in a crash. When he sees the wreckage on TV he is overcome with guilt and, in an attempt to soothe his conscience, sends his late lover a farewell text, finally expressing his true feelings. What he never expected is that she would respond back, and when she does, Mike’s world is turned upside down through these ghostly texts that send him on a dark and painful voyage of discovery.
West Coast Premiere
7:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Larry Ulrich
R USA
DRAMA SHORTS BLOCK 17D
How does one survive an abusive relationship?
IFS Premiere
7:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Ralph Torrefranca
R USA
Best Director - Short Film
DRAMA SHORTS BLOCK 17D
At its core, Champagne Social is a drama through a hyperactive lense. The ebbs and flows of a real relationship told through a heightened awareness of a character’s inherit insecurities in the mental pitfalls of long term relationships. The short follows an indecisive couple as they struggle on their plans for New Years Eve and a simple question spirals into a fear driven examination of their long winded, broken relationship.
World Premiere
7:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Mitchell McDowell
R USA
DRAMA SHORTS BLOCK 17D
A woman develops PTSD with psychotic symptoms and has difficulty coping with reality after living through a tragedy.
IFS Premiere
7:15pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Neil Corbin
NR USA
Best Horror Feature
Best Actor - Jason Kaye
Nominee - Best Picture
A psychological horror film, set within the confines of an adult bookstore, an estranged son comes home to help his sick, ailing father’s store. The son confronts horrors, both real and imagined, as he and his father’s employees come to grips with his unrelenting sickness. Facing fears in a shifting world that seems stuck in time and irrational spacial connections, the son battles both auditory and visual hallucinations, while coming to terms with his father's seemingly worsening state. Fusing the aesthetics of horror, exploitation and art, the film attempts to show and rearrange the genres to tell a story about humanity and mortality.
World Premiere
8:00pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Rick Caplan
R USA
Inspired by classic film noir, Mr Misfortune is a character-centric tragedy peppered with dark humor. It’s about Max, who hijacks a blackmail scheme in a misguided attempt to protect his friend from an extortionist and puts himself and everyone he cares about in danger.
World Premiere
9:45pm
May 17th - Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 14