film

Four couples gather for an impromptu engagement party where they get to play an underground game that tests their hidden desires and loyalties. Don't miss this award-winning short, written by Summer Sinclair ("Born Again Bohemian") & Angie Hill.

Frank Confessions is a series of Father Frank Crumb's time in the confessional while he was still a priest. Now tending bar as a profession he remembers some of the odder and funnier stories he experienced while sitting behind the screen. It's a good thing he quit. You'll see.

A collection of seven off, little brain puzzlers.

Desert is the Dirt Heart follows a mysterious cowgirl through a barren landscape as she chases faded memories and desert mirages. She encounters a cadre of dusty characters whose intentions are unclear. They push her mind and body to its limits, conjuring the source of her quest: a child.

"Lionel and Cookie" is filmmaker Greg Wall's intimate portrait of two elderly by beautiful Lions as they round out their days at the Los Angeles Zoo.

On the shores of the Salton Sea, a disenchanted killer ('Last Action Hero's' Austin O'Brien) gets friendly with the locals while clashing with his superior (Anthony DiMaria). Along the way, he crosses paths with two young women (Melissa Stephens, Ethel Mayville) on a weekend escape from the city.

A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. A raw, edgy look at what life is really like in L.A.

In this modern telling of the Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, a widowed old woman must take in a border. The border possesses something that chills the old woman: A tattoo of an eye. The eye reminds her of her husband's killer and she cannot escape it. She realizes the eye must be destroyed.

A film by L.A.’s Furious Theatre: On a fateful night in the bowels of Hollywood, three Industry bottom-feeders rescue America’s hippest, edgiest director from drowning in their pool. What follows is a violent, comic and surreal journey full of toxic desperation and soul-corroding vanity.

A recently laid off finance executive negotiates with a hapless elderly couple to rent a spare bedroom in their dingy suburban home. Before the couple knows it, he’s turned their whole world upside down. For more info: www.tenantfilm.com

Love Child is a perfect blend of horror & comedy, cute & disgusting, originality & homage. If you like babies, laughter, and dry heaving this is the flick for you. Starring Hanie Lynch, Bo Roberts and Ward Roberts, who also did the writing, directing & editing stuff.

Yard Sale is a short comedy about the interesting character types who frequent yard sales and how the people who run them cope. With a twist.

A collection of six short comedic films.

A pretentious but well-meaning documentary filmmaker (Warner) stumbles upon a hip new indie rock band called “The Moustache Bravado”. As he examines the behavior and relationships of the band members, we learn how they have each contributed to the band’s abrupt success.

An unsuspecting family gets a healthy portion of psychotherapy at "Psyche on Melrose", a restaurant where all the waiters are trained and licensed clinical psychologists.