New Media Film Festival

Director: Ronnie Cramer
Country: USA

Description:
500 years of world art, animated old-school style. Celebrating our 10th Anniversary, this visual short film will be part of our sizzle reel paying homage to our archived "Art on Wall" experiences.

Description:
5-7 PM The Red Carpet Press Junket is fun and fabulous to watch and participate (those programmed into the festival and special guests). Directly across from the VIP Soiree in The Wine Bar during the same time. Enjoy.

Description:
5-7 PM in The Wine Bar main level The Landmark Theater. Mix, Mingle, meet the content creators and special guests. 2 glasses of wine and nosh are included in the price of the ticket.
Many long term friendships and business partnerships, even one love story we know of, happened from being at the festival!

Description:
Making new friends at the VIP Soiree

Country: USA
Running time: 5:00 World Premiere!

Description:
13 year old recording artist and actress Gigi V Cesare will be performing her newest release in the Opening Night Programming for the 10th Annual New Media Film Festival June 4th 2019.

Director: Jeff Boller
Country: USA
Running time: 2:38

Description:
An animated music video about a boy who has a crush on a girl and subsequently wants to avoid her. This 3D CG film was created by one person over the course of a year and a half.

Director: Karel Bata
Country: UK
Running time: 2:00

Description:
North London Line commuters seen at 250fps (slow motion). A pilot piece for an 8 hour installation.

Director: Nick Dangerfield
Country: USA
Running time: 0:30 World Premiere!

Description:
App Category - The official augmented reality adaptation of the legendary exhibition, introduced and narrated by David Bowie’s close friend and Oscar winner, Gary Oldman. David Bowie is allows users to explore the full museum of over 400 objects and songs in stunning detail, without glass barriers or crowds of visitors.

Director: Mark Edward Lewis
Country: USA
Running time: 1:23 World Premiere!

Description:
Trailer - RIP Richard Hatch, an amazing talent that left us too soon. New Media Film Festival is honored to screen the trailer of the show Richard was working on 2 weeks before he passed away. Logline - When the religious, headstrong, Alliance Navy Star Blade pilot ARINA KARTADES discovers that her State mandated religious upbringing is a lie, she fights a cloak and dagger war of secret rebellion in order to expose the galactic elite, route the heresy of the Alliance religions and protect the ones she loves from the clutches of her own superiors and the combined military might of the Alliance and the evil animal race, the Calinar.

Director: Arthur Balder
Country: USA
Running time: 2:27

Description:
Trailer - Screen icon Susan Sarandon and Armenian painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our modern society dominated by social media.

Director: Ted Lange
Country: USA
Running time: 3:24 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
TV - "It's hard starting back at zero when your 45..." Starring Jill Whelan

Director: Chip Taylor
Country: USA
Running time: 4:56 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Category - Hall of Famer, Singer songwriter Chip Taylor (Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning and more) reflects on life lessons including horse racing, gambling, women, and whiskey. His songs have been covered by Janis Joplin, Juice Newton, Anne Murray, Ace Frehley, Chrissie Hynde, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris including Jimi Hendrix to name a few :)

Director: Adrienne Gruben
Country: USA
Running time: 1:25 World Premiere!

Description:
Digital Comic Trailer - Artist, fugitive, trailblazer…the incredible true story of Lily Renée, who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna as a teenager, and went on to become one of the true pioneers during the Golden Age of comics.

Director: Egor Baranov
Country: Russia
Running time: 1:31 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Trailer - When all the contact with the rest of the world is lost, how far would you go to find out who the new enemy of humanity is?

Director: Kun Xia
Country: USA
Running time: 1:50 World Premiere!

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Student Category - Journey through space and the process of creation with animated discordant, combine with abstract imagery with symbolism storytelling.

Description:
Deborah Zara Kobylt is an award-winning journalist living in Los Angeles, and host of the very popular video/audio podcast, Deborah Kobylt LIVE. She has worked as a reporter for Fox11 LA, KCAL-9 News, and as a correspondent for CNN Los Angeles, covering just about every hot news story from O.J. Simpson to the Oscars. Her podcast features newsworthy guests making a difference in the community, from Gloria Allred to Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, New York Times author David Sheff, playwrights, and even Sir Paul McCartney's stepmom. Deborah is a frequent LIVE talk interviewer, a panelist on various TV news shows, and a popular public speaker. She is passionate about the environment, all women’s issues, poaching, and all activities in the water. In 2017, she completed the NYC and LA Marathons which she is deeply proud of. Deborah has three sons, and is married to powerhouse radio talk show host John Kobylt. And she's honored to be a part of this wonderful festival.

Description:
Our Surprise Guest will ask questions of the content creators in attendance that screened in this section, enjoy!

Director: Platon
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo and USA
L.A. Premiere!

Description:
At the intersection of war and peace, Dr. Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a noble doctor and courageous survivors emerge as heroes and thought leaders for civil and human rights. Discover why a young woman hauntingly declares the words that inspired the title, 'My Body Is Not A Weapon.' This film was shot on Canon Mark II and iPhone 5. Still images shot on Hassleblad 555ELD and Leica M6.

Written by: June 5th needs RSVP (Backstage), June 6 does not. Click image for details
Running time: 6-10PM

Description:
June 5th from 6-10PM - Proud to announce Backstage is the sponsor of the Networking Lounge at the 10th Annual New Media Film Festival. Meet casting directors, agents, managers, producers, directors, content creators and more. Hint water has graciously donated product for this event. RSVP REQUIRED https://tinyurl.com/backstagenetworking

PLEASE NOTE - on June 6th between 6 & 10 PM The Landmark Lounge will have a casual New Media Film Festival Networking , its free for all, no RSVP needed, more chill than above, food and drink available for purchase. Thanks.

Director: Crhistopher Ruane
Country: USA
Running time: Wed. & Thurs. 6-10PM L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Visions, an Augmented Reality Artwork Series. Enjoy the artwork, then hold up our tablet and immerse yourself in an AR experience as well. Christopher Ruane is an Augmented Reality artist and photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who specializes in massive photo and video montages. Sometimes with thousands of individual layers, his work often focuses on spirituality, technology and the human experience. The complexities of each piece are made to be studied to reveal an inner meaning and viewpoint about our culture, the current climate of the world and what we believe to be the truth of our origins. THIS EXPERIENCE IS INCLUDED WITH YOUR VIP BADGE &/OR FESTIVAL TICKET.

Running time: Wed. & Thurs. 6-10PM

Description:
Visit the New Media Marketing Table - Place One/Take One (business or postcard sized materials). A very popular stop in the festival experience. THIS EXPERIENCE IS INCLUDED WITH YOUR VIP BADGE &/OR FESTIVAL TICKET.

Director: Parnaz Rad
Country: USA
Running time: 2:36 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
360 - A bluebird struggles to escape the caverns of a withered heart and find its way through the history of a scarred life in this expressive animated piece.

Director: Joerg Courtial
Country: Germany
Running time: 10:48 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A soaring VR journey through space - accentuated with the beautiful music of Debussy and Ravel - in which the viewer gets an intense feeling of being in the middle of undiscovered worlds while visiting some of the most thrilling settings of current and future space missions.

Director: David Booth Gardner
Country: Zimbabwe
Running time: 9:44 World Premiere!

Description:
Join two powerful female conservationists as they trek from sunrise to sunset among the last remaining populations of white rhinos in Zimbabwe's famed Matobo National Park.

Director: Jonathan Griffith
Country: UK, USA
Running time: 11:00

Description:
Sherpa Tenji attempts to climb Mt Everest without the use of bottled oxygen, a feat that only the strongest climbers on the planet have managed to do. Join him in this Virtual Reality film to the top of the world.

Director: Sebastiano Vitale
Country: Hong Kong
Running time: 5:00

Description:
An intimate and surreal teleport into extremely different aspects of the town. Superstitions, freaks, remote alleys, villages in islands, traditional parties, games, private life, and karaoke, kung fu, mahjong, families, buildings, and everything that contributes to create the mystery of Hong Kong.

Director: Dmitri Voloshin
Country: Moldova
Running time: 7:00 World Premiere!

Description:
About an astronaut forgotten in orbit and his dream that came true unexpectedly.

Director: Namkoong Suk, Kim Yong Hwan
Country: South Korea
Running time: 4:52 World Premiere!

Description:
Upon discovering the mysterious crystal, the size of the protagonist became smaller. Later, he is chased by the insects such as mantis and ants, and he starts the adventure. around the microworld flying as he gets snatched by bees and sparrows.

Director: Nicolas Champeaux, Gilles Porte
Country: France
Running time: 14:30 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
256 hours of sound archives recorded during the Rivonia trial (9 months) were recently unearthed and digitised by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). They bring back to life the political battle waged by Mandela and his 7 co-defendants. This film looks at one of them in particular: accused number 2, a lesser-known hero of the struggle against Apartheid, Mandela’s mentor Walter Sisulu.

Director: Eric Mann
Country: USA
Running time: 2:30

Description:
During the solar eclipse in Wyoming, a girl witnesses the phenomenon and recognizes her own light within.

Director: Hillary Bosarge
Country: USA
Running time: 4:45 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Two friends take a road trip on a mission to define, and occasionally defy, weird laws of each state; meeting and drinking with experts and locals to see which laws may be legitimate, forgotten, or just myths. First stop, Arizona.

Director: Dan Murphy
Country: USA
Running time: 4:13 World Premiere!

Description:
About friends, fantasy, romance and what happens when the three collide, Curtis receives a knock at his door from his neighbor Cynthia as he’s heading out to a long awaited epic gaming session with his close friends. Cynthia is cute, strong-willed and does the unexpected – she asks Curtis out!

Director: Julia Meltzer
Country: USA
Running time: 0:59 World Premiere!

Description:
A relationship is tested when Brian's girlfriend, Ashley, starts to realize how much of a video gamer her boyfriend truly is. Web Series Promo

Director: Joe Bandelli
Country: USA
Running time: 1:30 World Premiere!

Description:
Web Series Promo - On a Tuesday morning in New York City, a woman signs her divorce papers with an expensive pen and a bottle of tequila. Then, the day begins. “Tuesday Nights” takes place over 24-hours, through the eyes of one woman, portrayed by five.

Director: Michelle Krusiec
Country: USA

Description:
Bi-racial couple Marissa and Mark, a married couple with young children, are struggling with sex and emotional intimacy. Part sex comedy, part comedy-drama, this web series attempts to explore the invisibility of marriage one conversation at a time.

Director: Aaron Wright
Country: Canada, USA
Running time: 8:05 World Premiere!

Description:
An original series that investigates life inside the foundation drilling industry. As seen on Construction Channel

Director: Kathleen Davison
Country: USA
Running time: 4:01 World Premiere!

Description:
A fiery feminist QA Engineer and an aimless yet searching Office Manager join forces to survive the social ineptitude of their male co-workers at this kooky stealth mode startup in NYC’s Silicon Alley.

Director: Taylor Vee Robinson
Country: USA
Running time: 3:44

Description:
Watch one woman's relentless journey to becoming the chosen matchmaker for a community of chosen people.

Director: Olivia Accardo
Country: USA
Running time: 1:24 World Premiere!

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Between her tweenhood and late twenties, Lydia meets eight different loves of her life and discovers what it means to fall in and out of true love eight times. Web Series Promo

Director: Jefferson Donald
Country: USA
Running time: 1:14 World Premiere!

Description:
Web Series Promo. A middle-aged man trapped under hypnosis believes it's still the 1980's as he pursues his now divorced, old high school crush.

Director: Steve O'Reilly
Country: USA
Running time: 1:19

Description:
Web Series Promo - In this heart-wrenching love story, a desperate scientist driven to save the world unwittingly destroys his own in the climate whiplash future.

Director: Mike Hermosa
Country: USA
Running time: 1:24 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Web Series Promo - A motley crew of talented doctors trying to survive the workplace.

Director: Marissa Vonn
Country: USA
Running time: 2:14 World Premiere!

Description:
A comedy about a group of women in film who decide to make their own movie to challenge stereotypes in the industry. While Ellie and Grace keep working on their gender-bending parody film, their male actor Matt faces some unexpected gender stereotypes of his own.

Director: Camila Martins
Country: USA
Running time: 1:30

Description:
Determined to achieve that elusive "work-life balance", a writer, a comedian, a journalist, and an actor struggle with their identities and their ability to succeed as women in the entertainment industry without losing their relationships, their stability, and their minds.

Director: Laura Clelland
Country: Australia
Running time: 0:43

Description:
Web Series Promo - Successful YouTuber, Jess Holsman, gives advice on study, success and life… but was her own life always this together? Life of Jess takes us back to Jess’ high school days to see how she survived high school and developed her positive approach to life.

Director: Morgan Gould
Country: USA
Running time: 0:47 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A 4 episode series that follows a loose narrative structure around the Brykman family.

Description:
Kathy Garver will ask questions of the content creators in attendance that screened in this section, enjoy! Most fondly remembered for her starring role as “Cissy” in the long-running CBS international television hit, Family Affair, Kathy Garver has also garnered critical acclaim in movies, stage, radio, voice-over animation, and audio book narration.

Her first book, The Family Affair Cookbook, is a tasty trip down memory lane with anecdotes and photos Ms Garver’s following book, Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood was released in 2015 and sold out in three months -- a reprint has been ordered. X-Child Stars: Where Are They Now was launched in 2016 and is already planned for a reprint. Her newest book released May 19, 2019 is Holiday Recipes for a Family Affair.

Winning accolades such as Best Actress from the Family Television Awards, Kathy continues her award-winning presence through recent tributes which include two more Audie Awards. the “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Young Artists foundation, the Emerald Award from the Southern California Motion Picture Council and the highly-esteemed Golden Halo Lifetime Achievement Award.

Kathy is currently is touring with the play Dinner at Five costarring Christopher Knight of the Brady Bunch, readying for three films she will be shooting this year, assembling two film and TV projects and most importantly starring and producing a new media webisode series entitled Aunt Cissy.

Description:
Producer Panel and Pitching sponsored by Media Services - A Production payroll, accounting and software firm with 35+ years' experience in the U.S. and abroad.

Description:
Eric Calderon has been in the animation business since 1994. He is currently working as a producer at Warner Bros. Animation on an upcoming full length animated film that will be released by Warner Home Entertainment. Prior to that, he acted as Show Runner, writer, and Executive Producer for Transformers: Combiner Wars & Titans Return for Machinima. He also Executive Produced an animated TV series co-production in collaboration with Fox Home Video USA and Fox Japan based on another major feature film franchise.

Description:
Jonathan Cane is an unscripted development and production exec with 19 years of experience delivering immersive, fun and fresh content to a wide range of outlets. Prior to joining the Back Roads fold, he was VP of Development for BBC Worldwide Productions and Fremantle Media North America. He ushered original concepts into Fox, MTV, CW, Bravo, E!, GSN, Discovery, Oxygen, Style, Lifetime, VH1, National Geographic, TLC, We, Red Bull, and A&E. Jonathan got his start working at MTV News in 1998, and moved up through the MTV ranks where he ultimately served as showrunner for a diverse slate of shows; delivering a total of over 250 hours of aired content.

Description:
Sneak Preview has produced a diverse range of films since its inception, including the Golden Globe® Best Picture nominated Fox Searchlight release, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER marks Sneak Preview’s third Sundance Film Festival favorite.

Along with THE SECRET LIVES OF DORKS, the company recently completed producing a screen adaptation of David E. Talbert’s best-selling novel, BAGGAGE CLAIM, starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Jill Scott, Adam Brody, Taye Diggs, Djimon Hounsou and Trey Songz, which Fox Searchlight Pictures released on over 2,200 screens.

Description:
23-year career in the Coast Guard, over 12 years around the world working with every branch of the U. S. military and numerous allied nations ultimately retiring as a Captain. John culminated his military career as the Director of the USCG’s Motion Picture and Television Office, working on all aspects of production. John currently works in the entertainment industry in various roles on projects including scripted and reality TV, documentaries, video games, and cinema for companies including 20th Century Fox, Film Nation, Original Productions, Playtone, and Ubisoft among many others.

Director: David Freid
Country: USA
Running time: 10:05

Description:
A surprisingly non-fictional tragicomedy about how we trace guns involved in gun crimes.

Director: Kristen Shorten
Country: Australia
Running time: 6:14 World Premiere!

Description:
About trauma, resilience and post traumatic growth in the medics who served with Australia’s special forces in Afghanistan.
From losing mates in the battlefield to treating horrifically injured Afghan kids in remote surgical theatres – these sworn healers who worked alongside Australia’s most elite fighters reveal how they prepared for what they would face in combat, responded to it on the day and ultimately – even if not immediately – became better for it.

Director: Bill Wisneski
Country: USA
Running time: 2:42 World Premiere!

Description:
This is the trailer for a documentary that reveals the horrific trauma endured by victims of sex trafficking in America.

Director: Yang Liu
Country: USA
Running time: 1:44

Description:
Built by real Twitter messages, a virtual New York City / San Francisco tells its own story.

Director: Hervé Cohen
Country: USA - France
Running time: 2:45

Description:
Life Underground invites visitors on a journey through the subways of the world and into the personal stories of their passengers. By documenting passengers’ stories of love, dreams, family, migration, and much more, Life Underground reminds us that beneath the surface, we’re all connected.

Written by: Daniel Dou
Country: Spain

Description:
360 VR Series Script - Alma’s ghost: She dies at a rave party but comes back in a spiritual form and tries to learn how to move in her new ghostly world and fulfill an important mission while she figures out who killed her and why.

Director: Mais Salman & Dara Masri
Country: Jordan
Running time: 1:02 World Premiere!

Description:
Lost in Refuge is an interactive documentary dedicated to capturing the voices and dreams of Syrian refugees living in Jordan through the eyes of a girl called Nour.

Director: Zoey Lin
Country: USA
Running time: 3:26 World Premiere!

Description:
Witness the evocative gestural performance animation of the main character, “Fish Bone Queen,” giving away precious gifts from her own body. The stop motion portion of this mixed media project will be screened.

Director: Abigail Cohen
Country: Argentina
Running time: 6:36 World Premiere!

Description:
A young girl follows in the steps of a prestigious profesor, when on a starry night she realizes that an unexplainable phenomenon by the laws of physics might show the answer in the origins of the cosmos.

Director: Roy Eisenstein
Country: USA
Running time: 2:46 World Premiere!

Description:
A homeless man asks a very simple question and then gives a simpler answer. A comedy.

Director: Germain Lalot
Country: Vanuatu Islands
Running time: 2:58

Description:
What do we want to pass on to future generations? A mother encourages her unborn child to look at our complex world with a different light.

Director: Becky Boggs
Country: USA
Running time: 4:58 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A man who seemingly has it all has his life ripped away from him. A parallel universe, a dream, or reality. Only one thing is certain, his superficial values brought on by social media and encouraged by today's society has finally taken it's toll.

Director: Christina Konarsky
Country: USA
Running time: 4:35 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
In a case of mistaken identities, two lives across the hall from each other, are flipped upside down and faced with unexpected situations.

Director: Chris Castor
Country: USA
Running time: 2:13

Description:
A young boy builds a cardboard airplane and departs for adventure. Will he be home for dinner?

Director: Marco G.Lerin
Country: Spain, Portugal
Running time: 5:04

Description:
A story unifying the adventurous spirit of any man with the desire for union and liberation through true love.

Director: Carlos P. Beltran
Country: USA
Running time: 6:00 World Premiere!

Description:
For some, recycling is about being environmentally conscious. For others, like Juan, plastic bottles and aluminum cans are a means to survival. A California plastic and scrap metal collector who is currently homeless, Juan depends on these containers to feed his family. Produced by NBC Left Field

Director: Kerry David
Country: Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, United States, Viet Nam

Description:
An Introduction - The sordid world of wildlife trafficking and poaching is orchestrated by ruthless crime syndicates. An unlikely group of heroes are rising up to do all they can to prevent and reverse these terrible offenses against the planet.

Director: Stefan Dezil
Country: USA
Running time: 3:00

Description:
A darkly comic, visual poem that explores a near future where an out-of-shape black man confronts his innermost demons to motivate himself to exercise. It is an examination of African American history as well as the pain and anger that every black man holds inside of them.

Director: Jevan Chowdhury
Country: UK
Running time: 14:37

Description:
Narrated by comedian Dawn French, the film brings to life more than 500 years of engravings and archive photography telling the empirical story of the Ocean City of Plymouth.

Director: Franks Duque and Norma Oliveros
Country: Colombia
Running time: 8:00

Description:
In the company of his cousin Anny, Juan shows us how he sees and listens to the universe that surrounds him, but this task is not easy because Juan is not equal to all the children you know. Here you will realize that there are no differences or limits to be happy.

Written by: Nik Theorin
Country: USA
Running time: 10 pages World Premiere!

Description:
Short Screenplay- Student, A 911 Operator struggles to pinpoint the origin of an otherworldly distress call.

Director: D. A. Henry
Country: USA
Running time: 1:13 World Premiere!

Description:
Student Trailer - Follow the Dance Studio 111 Ballerinas on their journey, as they strive to perfection on the road to the Nutcracker Performance.

Director: Finn Gatins
Country: USA
Running time: 5:00 World Premiere!

Description:
What starts out as a documentary about a summer camp serving young people all impacted by HIV/AIDS quickly turns into a personal connection the filmmaker found with a camper who is a local student athlete.

Director: Charlotte Ying Scott
Country: UK
Running time: 2:49 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Both a descriptive and personal insight into the largest famine known to man. This animation sheds light on an important part of history that has been suppressed and hidden for almost a century.

Written by: Annette Rodig
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script. In the final days of terminal illness, a hardened police chief must unravel the sinister secret behind his town's cult before cancer closes the case for him. The stakes quickly become personal as he comes to realize the cult may be the very same entity that tore his family apart years ago.

Written by: Heather Hale
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Feature Script. Tagline - Trust No One

Written by: Joe Kelly
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script. A dying Alzheimer's patient believes he has the ability to travel back in time and attempts to rewrite his past before his disease consumes him. A story about the choices we make and the futures that they create.

Written by: Sean Browne
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Feature Script. Inside the body of a sick little princess, Logiq, an anxious and timid Carbon Atom runs away from home and finds himself facing his worst fears in the outside world in this coming of age animation.

Written by: Lukas Hassel
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script. Year 2437, 3000 meters under the icy crust of earth, the last remaining pocket of humanity struggle to answer the question: Is life for the sake of living any life at all? Extinction is the rule. Survival, the exception.

Written by: Heather Farlinger
Country: Canada
World Premiere!

Description:
Feature Script. In this over-the-top sci-fi comedy, an alien-debunking psychiatrist with poor self esteem fights to save Earth after she is shocked to discover that she herself may have alien DNA.

Written by: Dale Winton and Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen
Country: Germany-UK
World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script - Two polar opposite South African sisters struggling to fit into Austin life and must overcome the revelation that they have different mothers, one dead and one alive... and white, in order to save the thing they hold most dear - their sisterhood.

Written by: Mitchell Gibson
Country: USA

Description:
Feature Script. A young medical doctor battles supernatural forces to save a young woman’s life. He risks his career and his sanity to rescue her from the clutches of dark forces.

Written by: Terrance Mitchell Thibodeaux
Running time: USA World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script. Fleeing an horrific plague, the survivors form a rigidly hierarchical female-centered society on board a giant interstellar ship. The show revolves around the trials and triumphs of one young woman as she ascends to the pinnacle of the new society.

Written by: Leah Raquel
Country: Australia & USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Short Script. A smart, but self-conscious young woman, 26, finds herself in a personal nightmare. She must confront her internal demons before she can wake from the dream and join reality.

Written by: Heather Farlinger
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Feature Screenplay - In this heart-wrenching love story, a desperate scientist driven to save the world unwittingly destroys his own in the climate whiplash future.

Written by: Joshu Fagan
Country: Canada
L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Short Script - A sitcom about the life of an extroverted teenager named Daniel James who moves from the city to the suburbs, with goals of becoming the most popular kid in high school.

Written by: LeLe Park
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Pilot Script - Are we unmoving stones, or can we wake up and drive?

Written by: Brad Wozny
Country: USA
L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Feature Script. A teen misfit in an Ancient World who has 24 hours to find a Magic Crystal and Conquer an Army invading his Planet.

Description:
Our Surprise Guest will ask questions of the content creators in attendance that screened in this section, enjoy!

Written by: June 5th needs RSVP (Backstage), June 6 does not. Click image for details
Running time: 6-10PM

Description:
June 5th from 6-10PM - Proud to announce Backstage is the sponsor of the Networking Lounge at the 10th Annual New Media Film Festival. Meet casting directors, agents, managers, producers, directors, content creators and more. Hint water has graciously donated product for this event. RSVP REQUIRED https://tinyurl.com/backstagenetworking

PLEASE NOTE - on June 6th between 6 & 10 PM The Landmark Lounge will have a casual New Media Film Festival Networking , its free for all, no RSVP needed, more chill than above, food and drink available for purchase. Thanks.

Director: Crhistopher Ruane
Country: USA
Running time: Wed. & Thurs. 6-10PM L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Visions, an Augmented Reality Artwork Series. Enjoy the artwork, then hold up our tablet and immerse yourself in an AR experience as well. Christopher Ruane is an Augmented Reality artist and photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who specializes in massive photo and video montages. Sometimes with thousands of individual layers, his work often focuses on spirituality, technology and the human experience. The complexities of each piece are made to be studied to reveal an inner meaning and viewpoint about our culture, the current climate of the world and what we believe to be the truth of our origins. THIS EXPERIENCE IS INCLUDED WITH YOUR VIP BADGE &/OR FESTIVAL TICKET.

Running time: Wed. & Thurs. 6-10PM

Description:
Visit the New Media Marketing Table - Place One/Take One (business or postcard sized materials). A very popular stop in the festival experience. THIS EXPERIENCE IS INCLUDED WITH YOUR VIP BADGE &/OR FESTIVAL TICKET.

Description:
The Art of Prep - A nostalgic window into the life of a camera prep and her love for a dying art. By Jeff Blank & Sybilla Odenheimer USA
and
Far Away Places Song - for the short film of the same name. Based on a true story - A boy from the streets of L.A., travels to Tahiti to visit his relatives., only to find out his younger cousin is being abused by one of the locals. USA

Director: David Freid
Country: Mexico/USA
Running time: 15:37 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Originally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life — but now a great big border wall might divide the park.

Director: Yu Yamanaka
Country: Japan
Running time: 19:16

Description:
This is a story about the strong bond between a single father, Masatoshi, and his son Hayato. Hayato has always been embarrassed of his father for having stained blue hands. One day, a car accident causes them go their separate ways…

Director: Linda Jakobsen
Country: Germany
Running time: 1:12

Description:

Football is life! It's the reason we love it so much. On the pitch, every emotion is more intense: joy, pain, hope, fear, euphoria…the full spectrum. Kick off! explores our existence through the romantic lens of football. What are you waiting for?

Director: Alejo Garcerón
Country: Argentina
Running time: 2:15 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Two engineers are sent to an area colonized by extraterrestrial robots; to try to help a group of soldiers to remove from the area a technology capable of using it in their favor.

Director: Aahkan Rahgozar
Country: Iran
Running time: 2:15 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Conquer the human against his own demon.

Director: Johnny Boston
Country: USA
Running time: 1:37 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Johnny Boston was 10 years old when he first met FM-2030, a futurist who intended to live forever. But in 2000, after his body ceased to function, FM was cryonically preserved. 16 years later, an unexpected call places FM's future in Johnny's hands.

Director: Melissa Dowler
Country: USA
Running time: 1:12 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
The story of the Southern California Youth Chorale, inspired by one extraordinary Music Teacher, who took on the difficult task of challenging talented but insulated teenagers of the sixties and seventies to become Musical Ambassadors while performing around the world, and how those experiences continue to affect their lives even today.

Director: Ron Harner
Country: USA
Running time: 2:50 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Ten years after graduation, two former best friends return to their hometown for the funeral of the woman who tore them apart and discover her death might not have been an accident.

Director: Jeremy Johnson
Country: USA
Running time: 1:00 World Premiere!

Description:
Set in Los Angeles' iconic Chinatown, an unstable man becomes dangerously obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman.

Director: Heather E. Connell
Country: USA
Running time: 3:15

Description:
Ron Perelman narrates this moving, in depth look at the persecution and subsequent death of the 5 million non Jewish victims of the WWII Holocaust and the lives of those who survived. Through stories of survivors and historical footage, Forget Us Not strives to educate and give tribute to those who were killed for their religion, ethnicity, political views, sexual orientation and physical handicaps.

Director: M.A. Taylor
Country: USA
Running time: 2:21 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it.

Director: Yiyuan Yuan
Country: USA
Running time: 3:00

Description:
After the death of a whale, its corpse will become oasis for hundreds even thousands to live. Same as the death of a man - his word and love will continuously affect next generation that follow. As a great writer, that is how my grandfather affected Chinese literature and me after his death.

Director: Joel Stutz
Country: UK
Running time: 00:56 World Premiere!

Description:
A fully textured and rigged 3D circulatory system, animated in a running human body.

Director: Jordan Overman
Country: Zambia, Spain & USA
Running time: 3:00 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Any creator has battled with the process of making something interesting. Each shot in this film has its own story of struggles and successes in that effort.

Director: Clay Folden
Country: USA
Running time: 2:49 World Premiere!

Description:
A hypnotic aerial requiem that explores the beauty of the world, both urban and natural.

Director: Matt Emmi
Country: USA
Running time: 5:00 L.A. Premiere!

Description:

A film that celebrates the working culture of Burning Man and explores the build of the artworks featured on the Playa. The majority of this film is shot by drone.

Director: John Duncan
Country: Scotland
Running time: 3:00 World Premiere!

Description:
A visual trek of traveling all over Scotland capturing it's beauty, soul and heritage over a 7 month journey.

Director: Matt Dutcher
Country: USA
Running time: 2:00

Description:
An aerial view of the chaos that is Los Angeles. This film was shot with drones and consists of about 4,000 individual photos.

Director: Ludovico de Maistre
Country: Iceland
Running time: 1:53 World Premiere!

Description:
Iceland is one of the wildest places on earth. You could be caught up in the midst of snowstorms and blizzards, but you are never alone... Although tourists from all over the world have started a silent invasion, nature keeps on winning. This film was shot entirely with a smartphone, the tool most used by modern explorers.

Director: Robyn McSheehy Hartman
Country: USA
Running time: 9:51 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Schoolteacher Mrs. McSheehy ignites a love of reading in 10-year-old Kevin's heart with the book, "Where the Red Fern Grows." She has compassion for Kevin, a child of the military, lonely and shunned by his classmates, and reaches out to him with an act of kindness that changes his life.

Director: Nikki Coble
Country: USA
Running time: 0:39 World Premiere!

Description:
Awkwardly is a pocket-sized series, with a mighty, quirky heart, linking twenty New Yorker's in an endearing off-beat loop of life's awkward moments. We're all connected... Awkwardly.

Director: Emmett Jack Lundberg & Sheyam Ghieth
Country: USA
Running time: 0:30

Description:
Three trans men look for love and sex in Brooklyn.

Director: Paul Todd
Country: USA
Running time: 0:32 World Premiere!

Description:
Join Candice, Deborah, and Stephen as they explore love, ambition, and turtles in a chaotic world of vaseline abusers and terrifying magicians.

Director: Lily Baldwin
Country: USA
Running time: 0:35 World Premiere!

Description:
A Fosse-esque dance plague contaminates the neutrality of a pizza shop.

Director: Michael Ryan Clark
Country: USA & Iceland
Running time: 0:30 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A whales call is so powerful it causes vibrations in the water. The study of visual wave vibrations from sound.

Director: Sydney Weiss
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Your go-to podcast for heartfelt storytelling and conversations on all things self-love, joy, connection, wellness, and spirituality. Inspired by Sydney's ongoing journey toward growth, empowerment, and self-love, every episode offers a fresh perspective, "aha!" moments, laughs, stories and wisdom that will stick with you throughout the week.

Director: Anthony Phills
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Knight is trained for death but is afraid to die. “The Blackouts” are reflective short stories. Does a near death experience change a person’s perspective on life?

Director: Danny Peña
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
Catch up with Gamertag Radio as they deliver their twice weekly podcast filled with news, reviews, exclusive interviews, and round table discussions about the gaming and entertainment industry. Podcasting about Video Games since Feb 2005.

Director: Jonathon Kimble
Country: USA
Running time: 3:22 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Epic Games Fortnite E-sports star Ninja finds himself in a post-apocalyptic after the death of his friends. He begins searching the world for them, refusing to believe they are gone. Artist - Half an Orange

Director: Erik Stabenau
Country: USA
Running time: 0:59 World Premiere!

Description:
Filmed at the site of their burned- down house teen band Violet Saturn showcases their first song release Sweetest Life which depicts the dark and sweet of life's many trials and tribulations.

Director: Dana Tynan, Kario Salem
Country: USA
Running time: 7:00

Description:
A haunted ex-soldier suffering from PTSD on a journey toward the ultimate confrontation with himself. Starring Billy Bob Thornton

Director: Uga Carlini
Country: South Africa
Running time: 4:41 World Premiere!

Description:
Artist Christia Visser sings in her native Afrikaans. The song is the reminder, of how everyday is another chance to start over, to make better, to be better and try again; of how the cracks are OK, because that really is, how the light gets in.

Description:
Chanté Griffin will ask questions of the content creators in attendance that screened in this section, enjoy! Chanté Griffin is an entertainment and culture journalist living in Los Angeles. She attended Pomona College and Spelman College as a Media Studies major, where she studied how TV and film media construct and intersect with race, culture, and gender. She’s written for EBONY, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The LA Times, LA Weekly, and others.

Description:
1st time ever in the United States - 1st time ever at New Media Film Festival. A Fashion Show programmed to the winning Music Only category. Italian designer Nira de Best showcases designs from her personal collection.

Written by: David Ari Leon & Guy Erez

Description:
Music for the Fashion Provided by Guy Erez and David Ari Leon (ScoreSongs) who provide music compositiona, songwriting, production and music supervision to leading media giants such as Marvel, Netflix, Disney, Electronic Arts and others. With award winning singer, Padruna, lending her rich and evocative voice.

Description:
Judges from HBO, Marvel, Emmys, BMI, Grammys, 20th Century Fox and more. Thank you to our fabulous judges and reviewers. Thank you to all that submitted and congratulations to all of the nominees for our 10th Annual New Media Film Festival.