Official Selections: 8th LA Student Film Festival
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Girls on the Run
Los Angeles Premiere
School - Santa Monica College
A Coming of Age short film about four troubled teen runaways. The four girls each have a different reason for leaving home. It's all fun and games until they get drunk and plan to burgle a house, which ends in tragedy. The movie ends with Mazzy, the ring leader, about to recruit three new runaways. The film encompasses the feelings that all teens can relate to, friendship, not knowing where your life is going to take you, and finding the beauty in the unknown.
Director: Marley Gazaryants
Producer: Rosalia Cortese, Erille Weiss, Marley Gazaryants.
Writer: Marley Gazaryants
Cast: Rosalia Cortese, Joelle Faden, Sibyl Wulf, Bianca Turner, Austin Hebert.
Cinematographer: Blake Zundel
Editor: Asher Weiss
Awards: Screened at the Topanga Film Festival in the Emerging Topanga Auteurs Category.
Instagram: @marleysmediaa
The summer after High School Graduation in 2023, I was hanging out with my friends at a bonfire for one last time. We all knew that after this moment our lives were going to change drastically. As I sat there, a wave of something hit me. I thought to myself “this is what being a teenager feels like”. We were having fun, we truly were present, and we all had an innate sense of understanding for each other at this point in our lives. And I felt inspired. I wanted to make a film that would capture that feeling; relying on your friends, and not knowing where your life is going to take you. I then made it my mission to tell this story and put it on a screen. Being 18 years old, I had never worked with proper actors before, I had never hired anyone to do anything. So I just did it, I completely threw myself into it. And the project, thankfully, thrived. I took the script to acclaimed actor, Austin Hebert, and I was thrilled that he took a chance on me and said yes to playing the role of John. Everything then fell into place and worked out even better than I ever imagined!
Guiding Light
Documentary Short
School - Kenilworth Junior High
A teen growing up in Petaluma California looks back on the stranger abduction in her town involving a teen (Polly Klaas) of the same age that rocked the nation thirty years ago and its lasting legacy of striving to make the world a safer place for children.
Director: India Anne Mitchell
Producer: India Anne Mitchell
Editor: India Anne Mitchell
Awards: Best of Festival at Alexander Valley Film Festival and Sonoma County Student Film Festival. Screened at over 200 film festivals around the world.
Instagram: @indiaannemitchell