Short
West Coast Premiere

In a story told through dance, a young woman is caught by surprise while on her way to her rooftop to smoke a cigarette.

Director: Rosalind Joyce
Producer: Rosalind Joyce
Choreographers: Annika Voorheis, Pimprenelle Noël, Rosalind Joyce
Cast: Annika Voorheis, Pimprenelle Noël
Cinematographer: Rosalind Joyce
Editor: Rosalind Joyce

Awards + additional details: 

Don't Look Down was named a Winner for Best Dance Film at the LA Film Awards and an Honorable Mention for Best Microfilm at the Red Movie Awards, in France. Don't Look Down is also expecting its second international screening, which will take place at the Berlin Dance Festival later this year. 

Don't Look Down's music production was done by Billy Shapiro, as well as for my camera operator, Matty Darragh-Ford, without whom this film could not have been shot. It was only five of us total who worked on the film, and I'm extremely grateful for every one of my cast and crew.

Instagram: @rosalind.joycee

World Premiere

Domingo insists he is no longer interested in love. He says it confidently, usually right before chasing it again every weekend. After his ex, Daniel, moves to Argentina and disappears from his life, Domingo, a Venezuelan immigrant living in Mexico City, becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of failed dates and binge eating that temporarily replaces intimacy.

Determined to lose weight and get his life together, Domingo starts exercising and blocking people, only to have something always derail him. Another date, another relapse, another dinner that goes too far. His love life quickly becomes unsustainable.

Sunday Boyfriends is a bittersweet comedy about grief disguised as hunger, desire that cannot sit still, and the messy process of reinventing yourself when home feels far away, and love runs away at the worst possible time.

Director: Gabriel Ordoñez
Producer: Gabriel Marin, Cesar Briceño
Writer: Gabriel Ordoñez             
Cast: Gabriel Ordoñez, Paco Gorriz, Cesar Medina, Barbara Gutierrez, Melina Hidalgo Llovera, Chema Fuentes, Eduardo Cordoba, Alex Rumart, Tomás Coxe.
Cinematographer: Cesar Briceño
Editor: Gabriel Ordoñez

Instagram: @Ramonalopezfilms, @cineimperfecto

Short, Drama, Coming of Age
World premiere

Luna has a dream about her best friend Marysol whom she has been in love with for a long time. In her therapy session, Luna describes to her therapist her complicated relationship with Marysol and her heartbreaking, even demoralizing view of love.

Have you ever had something that was so hard to let go of, yet you knew letting go was the only way to grow?

This film is an anthem for sad queer people. It captures the tenderness, the longing, and the lies we tell ourselves in queer love. This isn’t a story about “Will they or won’t they.” It’s about how love distorts our understanding of our own emotions and relationships. In the moment, moving on feels like the worst possible choice. But eventually, something has to change, and somehow we still recover..... and make a song or movie about it.

Director: Chaewon Suh
Producer: Orange Chan
Writer: Samantha Sarmiento              

Cast: 
Paulina Ocampo Restrepo(LUNA)
Camille Marquez(MARYSOL)
Joy Goodrich(DR.MORALES)
Gabi Guevara(MARIA)
Elena Bisharat(SOFIA)
Maya Chizer(JULIETA)

Cinematographer: Yiwei Drew Ma
Editor: MacKenzie Fisher

Instagram: @suhchae (director's Instagram)