Indie Film Festival
The American Independent Film Festival celebrates the work of indie filmmakers. It is a unique platform for new talent and a tour-de-force of low-budget creativity and innovation. The Festival attracts an amazing array of filmmakers from across the world and offers film industry professionals in LA an extraordinary chance to glimpse the future of cinema.
The American Independent Film Festival runs at the same time, and just around the corner from, the American Film Market in Los Angeles. This makes AIFF the perfect place to get your film seen by the people who make things happen in the film industry.
AIFF focuses on the work of new filmmakers and films presenting new approaches and innovative solutions to working with limited budgets.
In 2012 we’ll show dozens of low-budget features and shorts films in our top-of-the-line screening venue in Los Angeles (Laemmle Music Hall). Giving a place for new talent to shine is central to the AIFF mission, and our selection reflects a broad survey of the latest in indie film trends.
Here is the 2012 line – up:
(see below for the Official Selection)
Thursday Nov 1
Shorts Block 1 — (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 5:45pm
How They Smiled (15m)
The Note (13m)
Gyre (17m)
Thomas Edison Was a Really Cool Guy (5m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Last Push (89m)– (book tickets here)
Directed by Eric Hayden
Sci-Fi: An adventurous mission to Jupiter’s moon is cut short when disaster strikes, killing the co-pilot. The surviving astronaut struggles to keep his spacecraft and his sanity together for the long journey home.
Shorts Block 2– (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (17m)
Elegy for a Revolutionary (22m)
I’m not an Accent (11m)
Venus vs. Mars (15m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Assisted Fishing (105m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Joe Crouch
Lifelong loser Dewey Winfield dreams of finding fame and fortune by beating his arch-rival in a big fishing tournament. In order to compete in the contest, Dewey must first come up with the $200 entry fee. He takes a job watching over a group of eccentric senior citizens who live in an abusive nursing home. When Dewey takes them all fishing, comedy ensues – tragedy strikes – and Dewey discovers that his hopes and dreams of winning the fishing tournament may not be the most important thing in life after all.
—
Friday Nov 2
Shorts Block 3 — (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Hi, Lillian (25m)
Infinity (14m)
The Holiday Surprise (7m)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (15m)
Feature
6:45pm – 7:55pm
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey (70m) Preview Screening for cast & crew
– (book tickets here)
Directed by Wendy J.N. Lee
Documentary: In the wake of freak climate disasters in the Himalayas, seven hundred people journey across the perilous mountain range on foot to educate villages on global warming and environmental preservation, triggering an activist movement never before seen in the region.
Shorts Block 4 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Fight Night Legacy (23m)
Grandma, Grandma! (10m)
Dog Breath (13m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Monday Morning (108m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Nat Christian
Drama: Thomas Bach, a right wing radio talk show host and a darling of the Tea Party Movement, is deciding to run for the US Senate. When he loses his memory following an attack, he ends up on the streets of L.A. among the homeless. When Thomas recovers and is touted as a hero of survival, he must choose between career and conscience.
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Saturday Nov 3
Shorts Block 5 – (book tickets here)
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Tina Mion – Behind the Studio Door (24m)
One (32m)
Pushing Eternity (12m)
Ninety (12m)
The Axe Gang (5m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Dead Inside (82m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Pearry Teo
Horror: Sarah, a mentally disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends’ impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable… or something entirely more sinister.
Shorts Block 6 - – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
FAR (23m)
The Beast (13m)
Past Their Prime (23m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Fuzz Track City (93m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Steve Hicks
Comedy:Murphy Dunn, a private dick from the Valley, is hired by a sultry cougar to find her missing son, who disappeared after locating a rare 70′s forty-five record album. To solve the case, Murphy must travel through the city’s underbelly, a dangerous trail of fakers and shakers that will do absolutely anything to keep their dreams alive.
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Sunday Nov 4
Shorts Block 7 – (book tickets here)
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Olympia (30m)
Washed Up (26m)
The Last Prayer (13m)
Wake Up Dog (17m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
My Way (93m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Vinny Sisson & Dominique Mollee
Documentary: Frustrated by years of male-dominated corporate oppression as an AIG analyst on Wall Street, savvy businesswoman Rebekah Starr ditches the dreary and blasts off or LA’s Sunset Strip to shoot a music video of her all-girl rock band, The Rebekah Starr Band. Joined by her wild-at-heart Estonian tambourine-playing bandmate, Annika, the two free-wheeling babes set out on their own Thelma and Louise adventure, picking up temp musicians from town to town with spur of the moment concerts, hustling CDs on unsuspecting locals, partying and befriending new fans across America. The survival plan is a no-holds-barred spit-in-the-face to buttoned-down bastards, thanks to a whole lost of rock n’roll! Film commentary from rockstars Rikki Rockett (Poison,) Steven Adler (Guns N’Roses,) Chip Z’Nuff (Enuff Z’Nuff) and Ron Jeremy
Shorts Block 8 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
A.B.S (12m)
Horror Film (9m)
Freak (18m)
Gateway (14m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Dreams Awake (105m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Jerry Alden Deal
Drama: While on vacation a disconnected family gets stranded near mystical Mt. Shasta and amazing possibilities open up. A family drama expands into a spiritual mystery, finally growing into a mystical adventure. As a glimpse into the subtle but intense possibilities of the human spirit, this story delves into that magical lore between reality and illusion, dreams and awake, and life, death and immortality.
—
Monday Nov 5
Shorts Block 9 – (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Bordando La Frontera (23m)
I Am Rupert Caldwell (13m)
Nobody’s Child (24m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Finding Focus (81m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by David Henri
Drama: A fashion photographer and a makeup artist shoot ‘behind the scenes’ footage of their own relationship as they document the creative process in assembling a fine art photo project.
Shorts Block 10 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
The Life of Eric Richards (5m)
The Golden Age (23m)
BRO (17m)
Reflection of the Life (30m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Underbelly Blues (90m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Phil Messerer
Comedy: What does an albino thug, a British meth cook, a gangster rapper, a sexual deviant redneck, a pair of lesbian strippers, a Corporate CEO, a frustrated pickpocket and his Jewish dominatrix mother have in common? They are all after the same briefcase. Let the mayhem ensue.
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The American Indepdent Film Festival 2012 Official Selection includes:
Feature Films
Underbelly Blues (90m)
dir. by Phil Messerer
PAD YATRA: A Green Odyssey (70m)
dir. by Wendy J.N. Lee
My Way (85m)
dir. by Vinny Sisson, Dominique Mollee
Dead Inside (82m)
dir. by Pearry Reginald Teo
Fuzz Track City (93m)
dir. by Steve Hicks
MONDAY MORNING (108m)
dir. by Nat Christian
Dreams Awake (105m)
dir. by Jerry Alden Deal
Finding Focus (81m, U S A)
dir. by David Henri
The Last Push (89m)
dir. by Eric Hayden
Short Films
Gyre (17m)
dir. by Lindsay Morrison
Thomas Edison Was a Really Cool Guy (5m)
dir. by Josh Skelton
Venus vs. Mars (15m)
dir. by Talin Malekian
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (17m)
dir. by Eric Tozzi
The Note (13m)
dir. by Jared Cline
A.B.S (12m)
dir. by Brighid Fleming
Tina Mion – Behind the Studio Door (24m)
dir. by David Herzberg
Past Their Prime (23m)
dir. by Becca Friedman
Grandma, Grandma! (10m)
dir. by Andrea Ou
I Am Rupert Caldwell (13m)
dir. by Garrett Lee
The Holiday Surprise (7m)
dir. by Nick Lines
I’m not an Accent (11m)
dir. by Dena Hysell
Dog Breath (13m)
dir. by P.J. Ochlan
BRO (17m)
dir. by Prasong Suphachadiwong
Hi, Lillian (25m)
dir. by Douglas Wood
FAR (23m)
dir. by Brian Crewe
How They Smiled (15m)
dir. by Nicolas Wendl
Washed Up (26m)
dir. by Mark Alan Richardson
Pushing Eternity (12m)
dir. by Michael Rossi
Elegy for a Revolutionary (22m)
dir. by Paul van Zyl
Horror Film (9m)
dir. by Nathan Kiley
Ninety (12m)
dir. by Carlos Ramos
Bordando La Frontera (23m)
dir. by Rene Rhi
Freak (18m)
dir. by Eric Casaccio
One (32m)
dir. by William Sterling
Nobody’s Child (24m)
dir. by Dennis Nollette
Gateway (14m)
dir. by Tim Attewell
The Beast (13m)
dir. by Peter Dukes
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (15m)
dir. by Fernando Huerto
Infinity (14m)
dir. by Randy Crowder
Wake Up Dog (17m)
dir. by Michael Moeh
Fight Night Legacy (23m)
dir. by Hisonni Johnson
The Golden Age (23m)
dir. by Benjamin Hjelm
The Life of Eric Richards (5m)
dir. by Robert Zimmerman
The Axe Gang (5m)
dir. by Ellis M. Meng
The Last Prayer (13m)
dir. by Sampurn Anand
Reflection of the Life (30m)
dir. by Michel Hulsey
Olympia (30m)
dir. by Hisonni Johnson
The American Independent Film Festival runs at the same time, and just around the corner from, the American Film Market in Los Angeles. This makes AIFF the perfect place to get your film seen by the people who make things happen in the film industry.
AIFF focuses on the work of new filmmakers and films presenting new approaches and innovative solutions to working with limited budgets.
In 2012 we’ll show dozens of low-budget features and shorts films in our top-of-the-line screening venue in Los Angeles (Laemmle Music Hall). Giving a place for new talent to shine is central to the AIFF mission, and our selection reflects a broad survey of the latest in indie film trends.
Here is the 2012 line – up:
(see below for the Official Selection)
Thursday Nov 1
Shorts Block 1 — (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 5:45pm
How They Smiled (15m)
The Note (13m)
Gyre (17m)
Thomas Edison Was a Really Cool Guy (5m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Last Push (89m)– (book tickets here)
Directed by Eric Hayden
Sci-Fi: An adventurous mission to Jupiter’s moon is cut short when disaster strikes, killing the co-pilot. The surviving astronaut struggles to keep his spacecraft and his sanity together for the long journey home.
Shorts Block 2– (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (17m)
Elegy for a Revolutionary (22m)
I’m not an Accent (11m)
Venus vs. Mars (15m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Assisted Fishing (105m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Joe Crouch
Lifelong loser Dewey Winfield dreams of finding fame and fortune by beating his arch-rival in a big fishing tournament. In order to compete in the contest, Dewey must first come up with the $200 entry fee. He takes a job watching over a group of eccentric senior citizens who live in an abusive nursing home. When Dewey takes them all fishing, comedy ensues – tragedy strikes – and Dewey discovers that his hopes and dreams of winning the fishing tournament may not be the most important thing in life after all.
—
Friday Nov 2
Shorts Block 3 — (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Hi, Lillian (25m)
Infinity (14m)
The Holiday Surprise (7m)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (15m)
Feature
6:45pm – 7:55pm
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey (70m) Preview Screening for cast & crew
– (book tickets here)
Directed by Wendy J.N. Lee
Documentary: In the wake of freak climate disasters in the Himalayas, seven hundred people journey across the perilous mountain range on foot to educate villages on global warming and environmental preservation, triggering an activist movement never before seen in the region.
Shorts Block 4 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Fight Night Legacy (23m)
Grandma, Grandma! (10m)
Dog Breath (13m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Monday Morning (108m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Nat Christian
Drama: Thomas Bach, a right wing radio talk show host and a darling of the Tea Party Movement, is deciding to run for the US Senate. When he loses his memory following an attack, he ends up on the streets of L.A. among the homeless. When Thomas recovers and is touted as a hero of survival, he must choose between career and conscience.
____
Saturday Nov 3
Shorts Block 5 – (book tickets here)
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Tina Mion – Behind the Studio Door (24m)
One (32m)
Pushing Eternity (12m)
Ninety (12m)
The Axe Gang (5m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Dead Inside (82m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Pearry Teo
Horror: Sarah, a mentally disturbed teen, has a jarring premonition of her friends’ impending deaths one night at a sleepover. As her house guests begin to turn murderously against each other, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable… or something entirely more sinister.
Shorts Block 6 - – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
FAR (23m)
The Beast (13m)
Past Their Prime (23m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Fuzz Track City (93m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Steve Hicks
Comedy:Murphy Dunn, a private dick from the Valley, is hired by a sultry cougar to find her missing son, who disappeared after locating a rare 70′s forty-five record album. To solve the case, Murphy must travel through the city’s underbelly, a dangerous trail of fakers and shakers that will do absolutely anything to keep their dreams alive.
_____
Sunday Nov 4
Shorts Block 7 – (book tickets here)
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Olympia (30m)
Washed Up (26m)
The Last Prayer (13m)
Wake Up Dog (17m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
My Way (93m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Vinny Sisson & Dominique Mollee
Documentary: Frustrated by years of male-dominated corporate oppression as an AIG analyst on Wall Street, savvy businesswoman Rebekah Starr ditches the dreary and blasts off or LA’s Sunset Strip to shoot a music video of her all-girl rock band, The Rebekah Starr Band. Joined by her wild-at-heart Estonian tambourine-playing bandmate, Annika, the two free-wheeling babes set out on their own Thelma and Louise adventure, picking up temp musicians from town to town with spur of the moment concerts, hustling CDs on unsuspecting locals, partying and befriending new fans across America. The survival plan is a no-holds-barred spit-in-the-face to buttoned-down bastards, thanks to a whole lost of rock n’roll! Film commentary from rockstars Rikki Rockett (Poison,) Steven Adler (Guns N’Roses,) Chip Z’Nuff (Enuff Z’Nuff) and Ron Jeremy
Shorts Block 8 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
A.B.S (12m)
Horror Film (9m)
Freak (18m)
Gateway (14m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Dreams Awake (105m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Jerry Alden Deal
Drama: While on vacation a disconnected family gets stranded near mystical Mt. Shasta and amazing possibilities open up. A family drama expands into a spiritual mystery, finally growing into a mystical adventure. As a glimpse into the subtle but intense possibilities of the human spirit, this story delves into that magical lore between reality and illusion, dreams and awake, and life, death and immortality.
—
Monday Nov 5
Shorts Block 9 – (book tickets here)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Bordando La Frontera (23m)
I Am Rupert Caldwell (13m)
Nobody’s Child (24m)
Feature
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Finding Focus (81m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by David Henri
Drama: A fashion photographer and a makeup artist shoot ‘behind the scenes’ footage of their own relationship as they document the creative process in assembling a fine art photo project.
Shorts Block 10 – (book tickets here)
8:30pm – 9:30pm
The Life of Eric Richards (5m)
The Golden Age (23m)
BRO (17m)
Reflection of the Life (30m)
Feature
9:55pm – 11:55pm
Underbelly Blues (90m) – (book tickets here)
Directed by Phil Messerer
Comedy: What does an albino thug, a British meth cook, a gangster rapper, a sexual deviant redneck, a pair of lesbian strippers, a Corporate CEO, a frustrated pickpocket and his Jewish dominatrix mother have in common? They are all after the same briefcase. Let the mayhem ensue.
________________________________________________________________
The American Indepdent Film Festival 2012 Official Selection includes:
Feature Films
Underbelly Blues (90m)
dir. by Phil Messerer
PAD YATRA: A Green Odyssey (70m)
dir. by Wendy J.N. Lee
My Way (85m)
dir. by Vinny Sisson, Dominique Mollee
Dead Inside (82m)
dir. by Pearry Reginald Teo
Fuzz Track City (93m)
dir. by Steve Hicks
MONDAY MORNING (108m)
dir. by Nat Christian
Dreams Awake (105m)
dir. by Jerry Alden Deal
Finding Focus (81m, U S A)
dir. by David Henri
The Last Push (89m)
dir. by Eric Hayden
Short Films
Gyre (17m)
dir. by Lindsay Morrison
Thomas Edison Was a Really Cool Guy (5m)
dir. by Josh Skelton
Venus vs. Mars (15m)
dir. by Talin Malekian
Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope (17m)
dir. by Eric Tozzi
The Note (13m)
dir. by Jared Cline
A.B.S (12m)
dir. by Brighid Fleming
Tina Mion – Behind the Studio Door (24m)
dir. by David Herzberg
Past Their Prime (23m)
dir. by Becca Friedman
Grandma, Grandma! (10m)
dir. by Andrea Ou
I Am Rupert Caldwell (13m)
dir. by Garrett Lee
The Holiday Surprise (7m)
dir. by Nick Lines
I’m not an Accent (11m)
dir. by Dena Hysell
Dog Breath (13m)
dir. by P.J. Ochlan
BRO (17m)
dir. by Prasong Suphachadiwong
Hi, Lillian (25m)
dir. by Douglas Wood
FAR (23m)
dir. by Brian Crewe
How They Smiled (15m)
dir. by Nicolas Wendl
Washed Up (26m)
dir. by Mark Alan Richardson
Pushing Eternity (12m)
dir. by Michael Rossi
Elegy for a Revolutionary (22m)
dir. by Paul van Zyl
Horror Film (9m)
dir. by Nathan Kiley
Ninety (12m)
dir. by Carlos Ramos
Bordando La Frontera (23m)
dir. by Rene Rhi
Freak (18m)
dir. by Eric Casaccio
One (32m)
dir. by William Sterling
Nobody’s Child (24m)
dir. by Dennis Nollette
Gateway (14m)
dir. by Tim Attewell
The Beast (13m)
dir. by Peter Dukes
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (15m)
dir. by Fernando Huerto
Infinity (14m)
dir. by Randy Crowder
Wake Up Dog (17m)
dir. by Michael Moeh
Fight Night Legacy (23m)
dir. by Hisonni Johnson
The Golden Age (23m)
dir. by Benjamin Hjelm
The Life of Eric Richards (5m)
dir. by Robert Zimmerman
The Axe Gang (5m)
dir. by Ellis M. Meng
The Last Prayer (13m)
dir. by Sampurn Anand
Reflection of the Life (30m)
dir. by Michel Hulsey
Olympia (30m)
dir. by Hisonni Johnson
Website:
http://www.filmfestival.us/