Cinema Speakeasy

Shorts, with One Hundred Mornings: Los Angeles, Sep 16-22

Cinema Speakeasy is partnering up with Slamdance Film Festival, CineFist, The WorkBook Project and the Downtown Independent to collaboratively curate a shorts program and a program of panels in conjunction with the theatrical run of Irish film (WorkBook Project Discovery and Distribution Award winner and Slamdance favorite) ‘One Hundred Mornings‘.

LOCATION:
Downtown Independent Theatre
251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.downtownindependent.com
(213) 617-1033

Tickets available now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/124646

SHORTS PROGRAM

**Shorts play nightly at 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM, unless otherwise specified.

Thu 16 Sep
Opening night for One Hundred Mornings: No Short

Fri 17 Sep: CineFist presents
Unawakening
Dir. by Jack Daniel Stanley (in attendance)
TRT 8.5 min.
Synopsis: Haunted by visions of murder and a macabre woodland burial, a man with a troubled marriage must distinguish reality from hallucination in this thrilling Hitchcock/Poe homage.

Sat 18 Sep: Cinema Speakeasy presents
Kitty Kitty
Dir. by Michael Medaglia (in attendance)
TRT 11 min.
Synopsis: Val’s boyfriend has been acting strange lately. She knows he is changing, but into what? A short film about love, romance, and brain parasites.

Sun 19 Sep: Slamdance & Cal Arts present
Dos, Por Favor
Dir. by Fabian Euresti (in attendance)
TRT 11 min.
Synopsis: A man gets out of prison and arrives at an impasse in life. Before he can move forward, he must re-examine his past. ‘Dos, Por Favor’ examines the choices one makes in life, by questioning whether one has a choice at all.

Mon 20 Sep: Downtown Independent presents
Look Not at the Mountains
Dir. by the Younesi Brothers (in attendance)
TRT 18 min.
Synopsis: In 1904, a team of hunters are led through the deserts of Africa by a mad Colonialist zealot.

Tue 21 Sep: Slamdance & Cinema Speakeasy present
Some of an Equation
Dir. by Burke Roberts (in attendance)
TRT 7 min.
Synopsis: A film in one continuous shot exploring just how very bad things can go in only a few minutes.

Wed 22 Sep: CineFist presents
O2
Dir. by Tim Hyten (in attendance)
TRT 7 min.
Synopsis: In deep space with a crippled oxygen supply, a three person crew grapples with the notion that life support will only allow two to survive the trip to a neighboring freighter.

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About One Hundred Mornings:
(85 mins, Ireland, written and directed by Conor Horgan)
Awards include: Slamdance Special Mention, IFTA for Best Cinematography
Synopsis: Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and external threats increase, each of them faces a critical decision they never thought they’d have to make.

www.onehundredmornings.com

About The Workbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award:

The WorkBook Project Discovery and Distribution Award is part of an expanded WBP initiative to provide tangible options for those working in film, music, games, design and software to fund, create, distribute and sustain. The award opens new channels and modes of distribution currently unavailable in the traditional system and established festival circuit. Pooling distribution channels, making them accessible, and spotlighting a featured filmmaker with theatrical run and packaged PR through secured resources, the WBP Award displaces a limited bottleneck system with an open-source, sustainability model. In addition to the winner, The WBP awarded another 20 selected filmmakers with an exclusive digital distribution access package provided by WBP Award partner IndieFlix that will place them on Hulu, iTunes, Netfilx, and variety of other outlets.

www.workbookproject.com/award

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Short Film Workshop: Los Angeles, Sep 7th

Tuesday, September 7th
Come at 7:45PM, films start at 8PM
Echo Park Film Center (
1200 N Alvarado St.)
As always: $5 and something to drink & share

Back in film school we always feared the critiques. Typically, everyone would sit around debating the failings of our work, ripping it — and our egos — to shreds. But, like anything totally unpleasant (except perhaps death), it ultimately made us better artists.

Cinema Speakeasy invites you to come and relive your most spleen-inducing moments in college with a good old-fashioned film critique – but this time it’s not YOUR ego on the line.

Our aptly titled ‘Short Film Workshop’ pits you, the audience, in support of intrepid short filmmakers. Only rules: Be constructive, be cool and help them make their work even better.

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BALLETOMANE (5 mins)
Short film in (almost) final form: We will be discussing sound editing, and providing general feedback.
Producer/Director: Bradley Miles
DP: Matt Garrett

Synopsis: Balletomane is the first film by LA-based Bradley Miles and his small but talented team. Using evocative images and music, Balletomane takes a surreal, lyrical look at an interview between a ballerina and a dance journalist.

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SIZZLEAN (13:33 mins)
Short to be turned into feature: We will be discussing the feature development process.
Writer/Director: Scott Keiner
Producer: Chris Stinson
Co-Producer: Daniela Roth

Synopsis (for short): In a time when the world is emptied out, and only a few lost souls remain, a group of children sets out on a quest. Led by the Sizzlean, and the Captain who tells him what to dream, the children are on a quest most hope never to face.  These children are orphans, and they have set out to find their family. When the orphans find a strange man living in a tunnel, they discover that the end of their quest may be closer than they think.

Synopsis/Logline (for feature): In a dark, fairy tale world, a tribe of orphans, led by a boy named Sizzlean, sets out on quest to find their long-lost parents, the tribe is threatened when a runaway girl stumbles into their camp pursued by a dark past and threatening forces.

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CEASE & DESIST (17 mins)
Short film in mostly final form. We will be providing general feedback.
Director: John Carluccio

Synopsis: Branding, addiction, sneaker culture and legal infringement are explored when artist/designer Ari Saal Forman mash-ups the lively Newport cigarette brand into a cool Nike-like sneaker. An “alive with pleasure” moment that “legally never happened”, is presented with before and after accounts.

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