Official Selections: 37th LA Comedy Film Festivals
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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STEAKOUT!
Short
Los Angeles Premiere
Sean is going to a steak dinner. Patrick’s going to a stakeout. Unfortunately they’re both in the same car.
Director: Max Neace
Producer: Gi Gonzales, BJ Alvarez, Kevin Huie, Brian George Randles
Writer: Max Neace
Cast: Sean O’Bryan, Patrick Taft, Nihan Gur
Cinematographer: TJ Thickett
Editor: Grant Vance
Instagram: @max9neace
The Blistering Blundering West
Short
World Premiere
A bumbling, lovestruck cowboy stumbles through the western frontier, overcoming a series of comical obstacles in the hopes of making it on time for a date with the potential love of his life.
Director: Quinton Buxton
Producer: Jeri Rafter
Writer: Quinton Buxton
Cast: Quinton Buxton, Fionn Camp, Jace Smethurst, Debbie Feigle
Cinematographer: Luke Sargent
Editor: Quinton Buxton
Instagram: @qbcomics or @theblisteringblunderingwest
The Dairy Experiment
Animation
A hapless cow with a heart of gold attempts to save his bovine beloved from her alien captors
Director: Fabian Johnston, Luke Johnston
Producer: Fabian Johnston, Luke Johnston
Writer: Fabian Johnston, Luke Johnston
Editor: Fabian Johnston, Luke Johnston
Winner of 2025 Soho Cinema Club Award: "Most Outrageous Comedy"
Nominee for Best Animated Film at the "Remember the Future; World Film Festival in Cannes"
Honorable Mention at the 2026 Kraken International Film Festival
2D Traditionally animated characters and FX with hand-painted backgrounds and CG elements.
the EYE
Short that has a Music Video at the end.
Los Angeles Premiere.
In this sly comic zinger from Director Deanne Bray and Executive Producer Troy Kotsur, a hearing Hollywood casting director
is having no luck casting a Deaf role, whom she thinks are inexperienced. When an actor named Frank (played by John Maucere) walks in, however, the casting director gets more than she bargained for.
Director: Deanne Bray
Executive Producer: Troy Kotsur
Story created by Troy Kotsur
Screenplay Writer: Deanne Bray
Cast: Suanne Spoke, John Maucere, and Igor Djenge
Cinematographer: Austin Chapman
Editor: Deanne Bray
Finishing Editor: Glen Stephens
The Eye just started in the Film Festival circuit. The Eye will have its premiere in Wolverhampton, England, on May 8, 2026, at DeafFest (a film festival for Deaf filmmakers only). LA Comedy Film Festival will be the first LA Premiere. Grateful for the opportunity!
American Sign Language with subtitles and some Simultaneous Communication.
The film was made by 12 Deaf and hard-of-hearing crew members and 2 Deaf actors with 1 hearing actor and 2 hearing crew.
The film is for everyone.
The Magnificent Gyno
Short
USA Premiere
A woman gets her first pap smear, and her doctor practices a new hobby.
Director: Adeel Shamsi
Producer: Emily Callahan, Julia Ettlinger, Glenna Walters, Adeel Shamsi, Adrian Altobelli, Justin Campbell
Writer: Emily Callahan, Julia Ettlinger, Glenna Walters, Adeel Shamsi,
Cast: Emily Callahan, Julia Ettlinger, Glenna Walters
Cinematographer: Rijul Kathuria, Kia Mozaffari
Editor: Kia Mozaffari, Rijul Kathuria,
‘The Magnificent Gyno’ has won Best Comedy Short -- The Toronto Sketch Comedy Film Festival, Best Comedy Short --Toronto Short Film Festival, and Emily Callahan won Best Performance -- The Toronto Sketch Comedy Film Festival for her role in the film.
Instagram:@redhotsilipepperss
The creative team is made up of award-winning sketch troupe, The Red Hot Sili Peppers (Emily Callahan, Julia Ettlinger, Glenna Walters), and award-winning director, Adeel Shamsi. They all met at their first-everimprov class at The Second City Toronto. While their creative and comedic pursuits have pulled them in many directions, they were very excited to reunite for this project.
The Magnificent Gyno is based on a live sketch, originally written and performed by The Red Hot Sili Peppers, and has come a long way since its first appearance as a 30 second blackout sketch. So far, it has taken home multiple awards from various festivals in Canada, and we are excited for its international premiere.
The Secret Life Of Secretaries
Short Film, Comedy, Mockumentary
West Coast Premiere, Los Angeles Premiere
The Secret Life of Secretaries is an absurd mockumentary from the early 2000s that captures four dysfunctional secretaries barely holding it together. Now, twenty years later, we revisit their lives and the chaos they never quite left behind.
Director: Tamara Hernandez
Producer: Tamara Hernandez
Writer: Tamara Hernandez
Cast: Shant’e Reese, Kelly Ryan, Meghann Mason, Piper Corbett, Tamara Hernandez
Cinematographer: Kristoffer Carrillo, Robert Murphy
Editor: Robert Murphy
Website: https://tamarahernandezdirector.squarespace.com/the-secret-life-of-secretaries
Instagram: @tamarahernandezdirector
The White Ibis
Short
World premiere
At an illustrious restaurant, a disrespected new employee must deliver a prized sandwich on foot to keep their job and test their mettle.
Director: Kyle Perrone
Producer: Shawn Arani, Tessa Faye, John Austin Kearney, Kyle Perrone, Jes Cook
Writer: John Austin Kearney
Cast: John Austin Kearney, Shawn Arani, Kevin Porter, Annie Grant, Sarah Faye Beard, Guy Whitney, Dustin Buller, Samuel Sawney, Tessa Faye
Cinematographer: Kyle Perrone
Editor: Kyle Perrone
Website: https://www.extraordinarybeingpictures.com/
Instagram(s): @extraordinary_being_pictures and @goldendragonprod
Facebook: Golden Dragon Productions - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563039659684
Tomorrow I Start My Life
Short
A delusional 35-year-old woman, Molly, enlists a film crew to follow her as she prepares to “start her life” tomorrow. Equipped with an equally overconfident Life Coach and a mess of a whiteboard, Molly races to get ready for her reinvention. But as the hours tick down, she must face her greatest enemy: reality.
Director: Alec Cohen
Producer: Molly Brenner
Writer: Molly Brenner
Cast: Molly Brenner, Ann Carr, Marina Gasparyan
Cinematographer: Andi Obarski, with additional cinematography by Zach Rockenstyre
Editor: Greg Promani
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomorrowistartmylifefilm/
Welcome to the Moon
Feature
Film director BO is invited to his friend MARTINs lonely bachelor party on the remote island of Møn. Bo wrestles with a heavy dilemma: he is keeping a painful secret from his friend
Martin. As the bachelor party unfolds, mysterious events occur. A woman vanishes. A weird clown begins to stalk them and Martins wedding rings disappear. A weekend of joints, absinthe, prostitutes and paranoia spirals into chaos. In the final hunt for the rings, Bo and Martins friendship is tested in ways neither imagined.
Director: ASKE BANG
Producer: CARLL OSBAECK ADELKILDE & CHRISTIAN JUNGET MADSEN
Writer: Aske Bang, Stanislav Sevcik, Ib Kastrup
Screenwriter: Ib Kastrup
Cast: Aske Bang, Stanislav Sevcik, Claudia Gregersen, Sus Wilkens, Malene Beltoft Olsen, Sofie Juul Blinkenberg, Morten Piilmann, Wolfgang Sürth, Jesper Schytte, Bodil Lassen, Peter Ålbæk, Erik Clausen
Cinematographers: Jesper Duelund, DFF & Daniel Stilling, DFF
Editors: Peter Wagner, Jørgen Kastrup, Johanna Lagner, Michael Bauer
Website: https://velkommenpaamaanen.dk
Instagram: instagram.com/velkommenpaamaanen
Facebook: facebook.com/velkommenpaamaanen