Trailer – A Mind Cannot Touch from Geoffrey Prather on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2022, United States, Director: Geoffrey Prather, Producers: Clare O’Connor, Geoffrey Prather, and Eric Toms; 15 min. In this provocative sci-fi drama, a mother uses her expertise in neuroscience to bring her deceased Read more…
Adjustment teaser1.mp4 from Neshat Bagheri on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 4 PM, AC Theater 2022, Iran, Director: Mehrdad Hasani, Producer: Hasan Mohammadi; 17 min. A school-age boy is bullied by his classmates and father for wearing nail polish. After a schoolyard confrontation, the boy must make a life-changing decision. Will Read more…
Monday, November 6, 10 AM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director and Producer: Kaitlyn Clare; 40 min. A young couple takes their dog to a wilderness cabin for an idyllic weekend under the Northern Lights. When the woman experiences troubling health symptoms, we realize that all is not well for Read more…
Sunday, November 5, 7 PM, AC Gallery 2022, United States, Director: Allison Volk, Producer: Andrea Nordgren; 4 min. When she’s not listening to New Age goddess meditations, middle-aged Marsha cooks and cleans for an overbearing husband. An argument about a ham sandwich has life and death consequences as Marsha puts Read more…
Sunday, November 5, 7 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director: Augustus Meleo Bernstein, Producers: Paulo Torres and Jhanvi Motla; 97 min. A housekeeper from El Salvador brings her son to help her clean an affluent family’s home. After a visit from law enforcement, her employers inform them ICE officers Read more…
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles Trailer from Jackson Warner Lewis on Vimeo. Sunday, November 5, 7 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Lisa Cole, Producers: Lisa Cole, Lolia Etomi, Vivian Johnson, Cindy Lu, Jolene Mendes, and Benjamin O’Keefe; 17 min. Inspired by true events and shot on location at LAX Read more…
Sunday, November 5, 7 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Jaye Pniewski, Producers: Mary O’Keefe O’Neill and Michael O’Neill; 14 min. Jason and Jim Koss are estranged brothers who have come together after the death of their father, a well-respected academic but painfully overbearing parent. Surrounded by decades of Read more…
Friday, November 3, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director and Producers: Beth and George Gage; 19 min. Sam, Matt, and Mariah are three young people who form a strong bond when their college experience proves to be less than inspiring. Guided by their motto, “everybody loves good food,” Read more…
BRIEF TENDER LIGHT – Trailer from One Day I Too Go Fly Inc on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director and Producer: Arthur Musah; 93 min. At America’s elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Nicholas Mihm, Producers: Nicholas Mihm and Lisa Rudin; 28 min. Parwiz, a member of the Iranian parliament, dedicates his life to cultivating a progressive, modern, and free society. When the rise of the Islamic Republic forces him to flee Read more…
CALL ME MULE – Trailer from John McDonald on Vimeo. Sunday, November 5, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director and Producer: John McDonald; 87 min. John Sears, otherwise known as Mule, has been roaming the western United States with his three mules for over thirty years. Bemoaning the Read more…
Called to the Mountains 2023 – Trailer from Collin Giberson on Vimeo. Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Directors and Producers: Josh Goleman and Robert H. Dyar Jr; 53 min. This English/Japanese documentary tells the story of Bluegrass 45, one of the first Japanese bluegrass bands. Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 1 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Directors and Producers: Jason Robinson and Chris Hooper; 10 min. A depressed accountant prepares to attend Career Day at his daughter’s school. Convinced that nobody cares about numbers, he decides to resurrect his former identity as a singer in a Read more…
Friday, November 3, 7 PM, AC Theater 2023, Iran, Director and Producer: Xelîl Sehragerd; 14 min. Hussain Mahmood is a skilled carpenter who makes a living carving wooden prosthetics for people who have lost their limbs in land mine explosions. However, Hussain puts his own life at risk as he Read more…
Saturday, November 11, 4 PM, Matilija Auditorium 2023, United States, Directors: Josh and Rebecca Tickell, Producers: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell, and Eric Dillon; 101 min. The highly anticipated follow up to the global hit Kiss the Ground, this documentary feature is the urgent but ultimately inspirational story of the pioneers Read more…
Friday, November 3, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director: Tara Karsian, Producer: Erin Dellorso, Julianne Dowler, and Virginia Reece; 12 min. While her husband, Derek, is working on location, Elise notices strange things happening around the house. Things come to a head when Derek returns home and Read more…
Darwin’s Notebook from Georges Schwizgebel on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 7 PM, AC Gallery 2020, Switzerland, Director and Producer: Georges Schwizgebel; 9 min. On his voyage aboard the S.S. Beagle, Charles Darwin meets three kidnapped natives of the Alakaluf people. Through a series of free-flowing animations, the three natives relive Read more…
David A Leffel: An American Master_Trailer from Nate Adams on Vimeo. Saturday, November 4, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2017, United States, Director: George Gallo, Producer: Sherrie A McGraw; 107 min. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931, David A. Leffel spent his childhood battling a bone disease in a series Read more…
Monday, November 6, 7 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director and Producer: Brendan Patrick Hughes; 77 min. Two couples meet for a seemingly innocuous dinner among friends. As the evening progresses, their discussions become increasingly acrimonious until a climactic confrontation inspires acceptance and reconciliation. Shot almost entirely within the Read more…
Monday, November 6, 7 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Christopher Hills Eaton, Producers: Anderson Clark, Christopher Hills Eaton, and Brad Post; 10 min. A boy survives the attack on Pearl Harbor by clinging to a floating log. When he is rescued, Askr refuses to let go of the Read more…
Esperanza Teaser from Shruti Parekh on Vimeo. Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Shruti Parekh, Producers: Shruti Parekh and Laura Scarano; 18 min. When an immigrant taxi driver in upstate New York takes an undocumented couple to the Canadian border, he finds find himself at Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2023, Canada, Director: Malibu Taetz; Co-Directors: David Mora Perea and Joshua Vanderlinden, Producers: Marlio Herrera Lira and Malibu Taetz; 15 min. A young friar tasked with extinguishing the candles in a huge cathedral gets more than he bargained for when he encounters a Read more…
First Chair | Trailer from Montgomery Brothers on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2022, United States, Directors and Producers: Ethan and Luke Montgomery; 13 min. Jin is a technically gifted clarinetist whose real vocation is playing the piano and composing her own songs. Despite her true interests, Read more…
Gather Trailer from Sanjay Rawal on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 10 AM, AC Gallery 2020, United States, Director: Sanjay Rawal, Producers: Tanya Mellier and Sterlin Harjo; 74 min Gather is an intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty Read more…
Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Peter Fox, Producers: Peter Fox, Chris Landon, and Max MacIver; 14 min. A young girl is saddened and bewildered when her music teacher suddenly retires. Stung by his perceived rejection, the girl pays the teacher a surprise visit and Read more…
Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director and Producer: Mikhail Robert Brant; 17 min. Ojai native Mischa Brant takes viewers on an odyssey to Baja to film a pod of grey whales. Footage of people communing with these gentle giants underscores the lessons that we can Read more…
Friday, November 3, 1 PM, AC Theater 2023, Israel, Director and Producer: Yuval Naveh; 18 min. A tough-on-crime judge who tries accused rapists finds himself in their shoes when he has a troubling dream suggesting that he molested his daughter. Horrified, the judge enlists the help of his brother-in-law, a Read more…
Ice Merchants a film by João Gonzalez – Trailer from Agência – Portuguese Short Films on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 10 AM, AC Theater 2022, Portugal, Director: João Gonzalez, Producers: Bruno Caetano and Michaël Proença; 14 min. Every day, a father parachutes off the deck of his mountain home to Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 7 PM, AC Theater 2023, Iran, Director: Siavash Asadi, Producers: Siavash Asadi and Nima Tabari; 120 min. As young children, Atieh and Kami are neighbors united by the close friendship between their two fathers. After Atieh’s father dies, they are separated, only to reunite years later as Read more…
Monday, November 6, 10 AM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Jordan Matthew Horowitz, Producers: Andrew Carlberg and Jordan Matthew Horowitz; 20 min. This poignant documentary profiles two Holocaust survivors miraculously reunited after 80 years. Now in their late 90s, they are spending the precious time they have left rekindling Read more…
Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2022, Germany, Directors: Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow, Producer: Johannes Schubert; 15 min. Trapped inside an enormous diving suit, Nemo is a misfit in his seaside town. When a spaceship crash lands in the field next to his lighthouse, Nemo meets Laika, whose Read more…
LÍMITE – Official Trailer from George Nicholas on Vimeo. Friday, November 3, 10 AM, AC Gallery 2023, Mexico, Director: George Nicholas, Producer: Eliza Bonev and George Nicholas; 38 min. Sixteen-year-old Manuel lives in Tijuana, Mexico with his grandfather while his mom works in the U.S. When he meets a Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 10 AM, AC Gallery 2021, United States, Director: Theodore Bogosian, Producers: Thedore Bogosian and Scott Dummler; 82 min. This star-studded documentary tells the story of two Jewish brothers who came home from WWII and transformed a family coffee shop into an entertainment empire. Now, with the club Read more…
MANŌ Trailer from Brittany Biggs on Vimeo. Sunday, November 5, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2022, United States, Director: Brittany Biggs, Producers: Brittany Biggs and Jeff Chasin; 10 min. Facing extinction from overfishing, sharks represent one of the most feared and least understood marine animals. Through traditional song and lush CGI Read more…
Monday, November 6, 7 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Robert Redfield, Producer: Emile Millar; 81 min Growing up in idyllic Santa Barbara during the 1970s, a surfing, basketball-playing, tango-dancing musician effortlessly achieves a taste of early fame. Faced with a harsh music industry, unrelenting personal obstacles, and cultural Read more…
Friday, November 3, 7 PM, AC Theater 2021, Iran, Director: Payam Eskandari, Producer: Shahab Hosseini; 84 min. Hossein, a man with Down Syndrome, lives an isolated life with his widowed mother and authoritarian brother. When he finds an unorthodox way to make the girl of his dreams a reality, he Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 10 AM, AC Gallery 2022, United States, Directors: Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess, Producers: Tori A. Baker, Kelly Loosli, Miles David Romney; 14 min. An ode to the body’s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them. Guided by the visionary duo, Read more…
‘No Legs. All Heart.’ Official Trailer from pdurana on Vimeo. Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director: Pablo Durana, Producers: Andrea Nix fine and Sean Fine; 89 min. After years of addiction, struggle, and coming to terms with his life-changing accident, André Kajlich aims to be Read more…
ONLY HERE & NOW – TRAILER from Raymond Singer on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 7 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Directors: Michael Hopkins and Raymond Singer, Producers: Elle Williams; 20 min. The year is 1942 and 18-year-old newlyweds Marjorie Hua and Private Tom Carlson have just arrived at a Read more…
Paul and Trisha- The Art of Fluidity_ Trailer.mp4 from fia perera on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Fia Sophia Perera, Producers: Adam Joel Fisk and Fia Sophia Perera; 76 min. Meet Paul Whitehead, a 77-year-old, gender fluid artist, and his alter ego, Trisha Read more…
Friday, November 3, 1 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director and Producer: Milana Vayntrub; 17 min. After getting into an embarrassing accident, Irina must rely on her Russian immigrant father as she recuperates. In a clash between the old world and the new, Irina’s father pesters her about starting Read more…
Friday, November 3, 7 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director and Producer: Kelly Pike; 16 min. By age twelve, Casey has lived on so many army bases, she’s lost count. Following her latest move, Casey attempts to distract herself from troubles at home by trying to fit in at Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 10 AM, AC Theater 2022, Ukraine, Director: Bohdan Romanko, Producer: Kevin Kenneth Cooper; 10 min. A Ukrainian man is drafted into military service on the front lines following Russia’s invasion of his country. When a young woman sends him a text lending moral support, they begin a Read more…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Margaret Miller (@rosegirl528) Saturday, November 4, 1 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Margaret Miller, Producer: Natalie Metzger; 11 min. Ruby and Paula are gearing up to be the ultimate girl bosses through multi-level marketing company FYZZLE Cosmetics. Then Read more…
Post Term (Trailer) 2023 from Gondala Films on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 10 AM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Saleem Nasir Gondal, Producers: Kellie Brook Malone and Rose Frullani-Bacon; 16 min. Newlyweds Rahimah and Haaris struggle to keep the passion in their marriage alive as they embark on life Read more…
Sunday, November 5, 4 PM, AC Theater 2022, United States, Director: Patrick Smith, Producer: Kaori Ishida; 4 min. A winsome mutation is shunned by a homogenous tribe of siblings and lives a lonely life until another misfit appears. Together, the two outcasts form a new generation of unique and colorful Read more…
Prisoner Outside Trailer from Igor Medvedev on Vimeo. Monday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Gallery 2021, Germany, Director: Igor Medvedev; 7 min. Shipped off to prison, a young man cherishes his only connection to the outside world—a postcard depicting a tropical island. After decades in lock-up, the man gets a Read more…
Sunday, November 5, 4 PM, AC Theater 2023 United States, Director: Rachel Ward; 84 min Film director and actress Rachel Ward is not the first person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, Rachel voyages from willful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on Read more…
Monday, November 6, 4 PM, AC Theater 2023, United States, Director: Aric Julián Lopez, Producer: Miley Luo; 6 min. Marcela is a farm worker who developed a deep affinity for the oranges she harvests. When Marcela leaves her beloved orange orchards for a job at a warehouse market, she encounters Read more…
Saturday, November 4, 4 PM, AC Gallery 2023, United States, Director and Producer: Callie Mejia; 12 min. The environmental challenges of decommissioning oil rigs off the coast of California is a seemingly intractable problem mired in political gridlock. Decision Analysis is a project that seeks to resolve this complex issue Read more…