Monthly Film Festival

November 17, 2018 12:00am PST - 11:59pm PST

Community Collaborators

AIFI

The fall 2018 NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) slate continues with a presentation of InFocus: American Indian, Aboriginal & Inuit Cinema, which showcases films by indigenous filmmakers from America, Canada, and New Zealand, as well as documentaries about native subjects, in addition to a selection of local and international films.

The first screening of the evening is feature film Sometimes Our Friends Come Over (and sometimes we’re all alone), a brutally honest and startlingly timely look at the unraveling of a millennial relationship in the shadow of the Trump era, written and directed by visual and sound artist and CalArts Art/Technology MFA Daniel Watkins, who frames the film in a striking lo-fi aesthetic that places the audience in the middle of painfully realistic moments of awkwardness and confrontation.

The evening continues with shorts program InFocus: American Indian, Aboriginal & Inuit Cinema, which includes some of the strongest emerging voices in Native filmmaking today, including films which premiered at Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and ImagiNative. Themes of familial struggle, exploration of identity, the meaning of home, and childhood hope and wonder run through the selection.

The night concludes with a shorts program that carves a narrative path from an absurd prep school interview to a comical look at a routine household chore, then to the personal effects of hatred, through a quinceañera, lingering in the loneliness of alienation in a digital age, on to the poetic exploration of addiction, and finally, into a moment of kindness that emerges from tragedy. The program tells these tales through animation, music videos, and live action.

SCHEDULE
Feature
4:00 PM – Pre-Reception
4:30 PM – Feature Program
6:15 PM – Audience Q&A
InFocus – Shorts Program #1 – InFocus: American Indian, Aboriginal and Inuit Cinema
6:30 PM – Pre-Reception
7:00 PM – Shorts Program #1
8:30 PM – Audience Q&A
Shorts Program #2
8:45 PM – Pre-Reception
9:15 PM – Shorts Program #2
10:30 PM – Audience Q&A
Location:
Event Entrance
1139 S. Hill Street, Los Angeles 90015
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Parking
1133 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Feature Program

Sometimes Our Friends Come Over (and sometimes we’re all alone)

Dir & Writ Daniel Watkins
88 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Shorts Program #1 – InFocus: American Indian, Aboriginal and Inuit Cinema

Mud (Hashtł’ishnii)

Dir. & Writ. Shaandiin Tome
10 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

I Like Girls

Dir. & Writ. Diane Obomsawin
8 Mins | Canada
Film Synopsis

Unearthed

Dir. & Writ. Zulfiya Hamzaki & Erin Semine Kökdil
8 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Laundry

Dir. & Writ. Becs Arahanga
10 Mins | New Zealand
Film Synopsis

Waiting

Dir. Amberley Jo Aumua & Writ. Samuel Kamu
12 Mins | New Zealand
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Cowboy

Dir. & Writ. Boise Esquerra
21 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Nan Isht Akokpachi (The Gift)

Dir. & Writ. Steven Judd
7 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis

Shorts Program #2

The Interview

Dir. & Writ. Stanislav Sambozhuk
9 Mins | Germany
Film Synopsis

General Dupont in General Dupont Doing Laundry

Dir. & Writ. Thu Vu Kim Nguyen
3 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Pagg

Dir. & Writ. Nardeep Khurmi
17 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Camisa Al Reves

Dir & Writ Andrew Vasquez
5 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Warm Human Magic

Dir. & Writ. Madeline Zima
16 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

Poison

Dir. Erica Eng & Writ. Horace Gold
2 Mins | USA
Film Synopsis
Media Kit

When the Shadow Falls

Dir. Jeseung woo & Writ. Marco Arizpe, Jeseung Woo
17 Mins | USA
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