DTLAFF SCREENING SHORTS SERIES BLOCK I

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  • REGAL LA LIVE Theater 14

HOMELESS

While living on the street, Winston gets a generous donation from a friendly stranger. He uses the money and his wit to get a new job, and turn his life around ... losing a part of himself in the process. Can he redeem himself, and find what he's lost?

Director: Lance Hopper

Genre: Drama/Student

Cast: Dominique Wilson

Steve Ulman

Rick Gray

Monej Cruz

Running Time: 15:28

YANANTIN

A lonely, stay at home mother summons an Incan Priestess version of herself from a world where Incans and all other Native Americans defeated conquistadors with their special abilities like force choke holds! This isn’t an introduction or discussion about mystical travel to different dimensions because we all know it exists...so many movies have proven it so. But rather a lonely stay at home mother who abuses her Native. American abilities for a second conversation with her Incan Priestess self, breaking their agreement to never speak again. The Incan Priestess does not take this unexpected summoning lightly…however when the Incan Priestess discovers the lonely woman is a mother she decides to stay, as she and no other versions of her have a child. They serve each other’s needs as one wants to know what motherhood is like and the other just wants someone to talk to and who better to talk to when you’re lonely than yourself…from another dimension.

Director: Glenda G. Delgado

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda G. Delgado

Friday Delgado-Esquivel

Running Time: 11:32

BORDERS

“Borders” examines what it is to be a person of color in a country that is addicted to the oppression of your people. The horrors of war and at home are explored, as two veterans - a social worker making a house call to the other - discuss their service, while the client’s artwork comes alive in a surreal experience.

Director: Frank Velasquez

Genre: Drama/Student

Cast: Daniel Mora

Michael G. Martinez

Running Time: 16:57

LA CUARENTENA

"Two nurses take you on a journey about their experience during the pandemic in a colorful feel good journey of hope in this PSA short film/music video."

Director: Johaira Michelle Dilauro

Genre: Comedy, Drama, PSA

Cast: Johaira Michelle Dilauro

Jonathan Christian Fernandez

Camila Marillo

Brian Bell

Jerrell Johnson

Stephanie Bennett

Gabriel E. Encinas

Shinobou Naruse

Running Time: 6:38

AZIZAM

Set in 1970s Iran. Two young students from opposite ends of society meet by the sea in a time where revolution hangs in the air. Bijan, the son of aristocrats close to the regime of the Shah, prepares to leave for college and feels the pressures of a future already decided by his powerful father. He meets Layla, a girl from the wrong side of Tehran, who forces him to question everything. Their bond will challenge class and social divisions in a world soon to disappear.

Director: Alci Rengifo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shahrooz Mahmoodi

Rana Ghiassi

Zina Torab

Afshin Katanchi

Nakta Pahlevan

Ali Azizian

Wayne Hodges

Running Time: 21:50

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 1 hr 11 m 5 sec