Day 2: Friday Night Screenings

Special presentation of the Sidney Sheldon Scholarship Award for Screenwriting.

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Festival continues with a program of films and videos showcasing the diverse talents of our student filmmakers. Tonight’s program, “Relationships: Friendship Lust, Love, and Loss,” features films that explore the bonds we make – and break – with one another. Also featured: A special presentation of the Sidney Sheldon Scholarship Award for Screenwriting to Kelly Fullerton.

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Violet and Company

Directed by Edward Kim ((310) 800-8455)
Narrative DVD
Running Time, 4 min, 0 secs
Dev and Violet decide to take the relationship further than imagined…

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Sardines “Love is A Fishy Game”

Directed by Garrett Bradley ((917) 301-6515)
Narrative DVD
Running Time, 2 min, 41 secs

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Portrait of a couple

Directed by David Martin-Porras ((310) 600-1328)
Narrative DigitalBETACAM
Running Time, 7 min, 50 secs
A few days before moving out of his apartment, Ryan finds out that he might be HIV positive. Confronting his boyfriend will force him to deal with his worst fear: loneliness.

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Eight O’clock

Directed by Rachel Olson
Narrative MiniDV
Running Time, 5 min, 0 secs
Watch a relationship unfold from first date to break up.

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I Am But A Fool

Directed by Edward Kim ((310) 800-8455)
Narrative DVD
Running Time, 17 min, 0 secs
Dev finds out Violet is leaving town forever. It’s now or never…

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Come On, Let’s Make Some Pickles

Directed by Judy Prays
Documentary DVD
Running Time, 17 min, 30 secs
I couldn’t ask my dad if he had love in his life, so I turned to his three ex wives.

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California King

Directed by Eli Kaufman ((310) 344-3900)
MFA Thesis Film DigitalBETACAM
Running Time, 21 min, 0 secs
A mattress salesman, who employs faux science to get female customers into bed, falls for a skeptical insomniac who knows her science better than her heart.

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Jodi

Directed by Jordan Auten
Narrative 3/4 video DVCAM
Running Time, 4 min, 30 secs
Jodi is the story of a young divorced mother who is captured by her own fate years later in one moment’s time. While at the neighborhood grocery store with her six-year-old daughter Lux, Jodi confronts her past when she unexpectedly runs into the love of her life, Jason.

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The Smell of Water

Directed by Rahel Butah ((310-) 649-1251)
MFA Thesis Film DVCAM
Running Time, 11 min, 10 secs
A young couple, Ellen and Mark, are in need of a remedy for the wheelchair bound Ellen. Finally she receives the medicine they so desperately have been waiting for. But once the Ellen is cured, their marriage becomes strained and she must decided at what cost she is willing to save their relationship.

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Tag

Directed by Alex O’Flinn ((773) 318-7099)
Narrative DVCProHD
Running Time, 6 min, 30 secs
Tag tells the story of two teenage friends, as they wrestle with not understanding or knowing how to deal with their emotions.

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Love Affair

Directed by christopher Osborn ((415) 297-9213)
Narrative 16mm
Running Time, 9 min, 30 secs
Danny and his search for love and happiness through the bleak landscape that is Suburbia.

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Cocktales

Directed by David James (Kelly) ((408) 726-1274)
Narrative 16mm DVD
Running Time, 7 min, 45 secs
Sean came to dinner to get closer to his coworker Megan. He never dreamed how far he’d end up from her.

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Other Side of Nerds

Directed by Howie Paras ((310) 498-8302)
Narrative 3/4 video DVD
Running Time, 7 min, 0 secs
A platonic geek couple are living two lives that they don’t want each other to know but when they discover the other side of them, their relationship heats up for the better!

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The Page Turner

Directed by Michael Bodie (626) 429-5229
Narrative DigitalBETACAM
Running Time, 7 min, 30 secs
While attending a piano recital, Paul discovers a hidden desire through song, dance, and a moment of unintended honesty.