Odd Duck is a watercolor animation by Bill Plympton set to a spontaneously improvised piece of music by Pearring Sound. This collaboration is meant to fully engage the audience on both a visual and auditory expression of the moment. The abstract sounds and images convey the subtle unpredictable nature of true feeling and emotion. Rather than employing a preconceived narrative to take the audience on a journey Odd Duck invites us to be in the now.

IFS L.A. Film Festival Premiere

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Created with oil painting frame by frame, The Winter depicts a story between a peasant and a mysterious deer in a snowy forest. After searching and chasing this beautiful deer, the peasant eventually remains peaceful when he saw the mountain. The Winter is one of four short films in series called The Seasons. Each short film represents a feeling related to a season.

Los Angeles Premiere

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In a post-anthropocene era, AI and self-developing entities dwelling on a human-free earth are trying to make sense of their existence. Humans might have left the planet, but their legacy still resides on material and immaterial aspects of life on earth. Relics and reminiscences of humanity interact, fall in love and become creators in a high-resolution questionable simulation. Deriving from a non-anthropocentric point of view, this video piece focuses on offering a comforting perspective on the much discussed imminent destruction of the human race, seeking relief in the fact that the earth will well exist after humans, exactly as it did before them.

Los Angeles Premiere

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A Sonnet A Day is a web short highlighting the significant journey of Sir Patrick Stewart's quarantine project of reading all 154 Shakespeare sonnets during the 2020 pandemic. Sir Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell undertook this project in an effort to provide a moment of relief during this unprecedented time. This short is a compilation of the sonnet readings assembled as a tribute to his time and dedication.

World Premiere

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This sizzler trailer for the film "Headway" is the winner of our 2021 Best Trailer contest.

See this trailer for the film Headway: where Dylan Prescott, an expressionist painter, struggles with substance abuse, untreated bipolar disorder, a recently deceased mother and neglected childhood trauma. Dylan must face his deepest fears in a reoccurring dream; while checked into rehab. He is ready to take back his life and salvage the closest relationships, even if they are dead.

Los Angeles Premiere

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ARTISTS IN AGONY features recently discovered footage revealing how 4 famous hitmen died at the infamous Coda Teahouse Massacre -Frosty (the new father), Lucien Mercy (the stay-at-home mom), Red Rick (the Romantic), and his apprentice Lady Faith (the Rising Star). Ex-CIA Agent Jonathan Sully guides us through the footage, suspecting they were killed by the renowned assassin artist known as Rockstar, considered the greatest hitman who ever lived.

Kenneth Lui’s feature film debut is a satirical faux-documentary on the fictional world of assassination art. It’s a dark comedy of egotistical criminality, destructive vanity and reveals how four bungling psychopaths ended up dead in the criminal underground’s greatest mystery. Starring Joel Stoffer (Marvel's Agents of Shield, Stranger Things).

World Premiere

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