Cinema Speakeasy

Past Events

Below you will find a list of all our events in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Palm Springs since we started at the Echo Park Film Center in LA in 2009.

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2013

Feb 1, 2013: CS presents Anil Jacob Kunnel’s Pixelschatten at Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles

2012

Oct. 12, 2012: CS presents Mark Harris’ ‘The Lost Children’ with TransBay Fest in San Francisco

Aug. 17, 2012: CS presents ‘A Super Secret Show‘ in partnership with sub rosa, in Los Angeles.

May 8, 2012: CS:LA presents Occupy Film at Space 15 Twenty: A collection of shorts about Occupy Wall Street, curated by occupy.com

April 15, 2012: CS:LA presents ‘Tierra Brillante’, dir. José Luis Figueroa Lewis and Sebastián Díaz Aguirre, at Atwater Crossing

March 29, 2012: CS:LA and KPCC 89.3 presents ‘We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists’ at the Crawford Family Forum.

February 23, 2012: CS:LA presents ‘The 5 for 5 Clothing Swap for the EastSide Lady‘ at Atwater Crossing, Los Angeles

January 15, 2012: CS:LA presents ‘Funny Shorts to Drink to’, at Ace Hotel + Swim Club, Palm Springs

2011

November 16, 2011: CS:LA presents ‘There’s No There, There: LA Films LA‘, with Big City Forum, at Goethe Insitut

November 3, 2011: CS:SF presents ‘They Live’ Drink-Along, at GAFFTA

October 28, 2011: Cinema Speakeasy teams up with WorkBook Project for DIY Days LA at UCLA

October 16, 2011: Inaugural Palm Springs screening, at Ace Hotel + Swim Club:Relationship Therapy for the Modern Human

October 15, 2011: CS:LA presents ‘Relationship Therapy for the Modern Human‘ at Space 15 Twenty

October 6, 2011: CS:SF presents Evil Dead and The Evil Dead 2 double-header-drink-a-long

September 10, 2011: CS:LA presents ‘An American Werewolf in London’ drink-along at Royal/T, thanks to Newcastle Werewolf Limited Edition Ale, and BBQ Films

September 8, 2011: CS:SF presents ‘Humpday’ + Indie Erotic Film Fest Shorts at GAFFTA

Aug. 12, 2011: CS:SF teams up with Friends with Benefits to present The Blunder Years. A benefit to make someone’s teen years less sh*tty than yours.

July 29th, 2011: CS:LA presents the LA premiere for ‘Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer‘, directed by James Dirschberger

July 7th, 2011: CS:SF presents the ‘Revenge of the Nerds Drink-Along‘ at GAFFTA

June 18th, 2011: CS:LA presents its two year anniversary party! The first ever Music Video Mega-Mix at Voyeur

June 2nd, 2011: CS:SF presents Wholphin Shorts, curated by Wholphin DVD

May 25th, 2011: CS:LA presents the LA premiere of Anthony Ferraro’s ‘The Writer’

May 5th, 2011: CS:SF presents a screening of Jim Granato’s D Tour

May 4th, 2011: CS:LA presents a workshop screening of Mark Harris’ ‘The Lost Children’

April 21st, 2011: CS:SF presents Joshua Leonard’s ‘The Lie’

April 20th, 2011: CS:LA partners with Cinefist to present a test screening of Gary King’s ‘How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song’.

April 3rd, 2011: CS:LA partners with Royal/T to present Mike Ott’s LiTTLEROCK.

March 19th, 2011: CS:LA presents a double-feature drink-along featuring Labyrinth and The Neverending Story, at the Downtown Independent

March 3rd, 2011: CS:SF presents The Warriors drink-along, at GAFFTA

February 10th, 2011: CS:LA presents the closing night of Zenith at the Downtown Independent

February 3rd, 2011: CS:SF presents Drunken Mixtape, comedy shorts at GAFFTA

January 6th, 2011: CS:SF screening of Wah Do Dem, Written & Directed by Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner, at GAFFTA

2010

December 13th, 2010: CS:LA screening of Ride the Divide dir. by Hunter Weeks, with Cinefist and Film Courage at the Downtown Independent Theatre

December 5th, 2010: CS:LA screening of Typeface, plus potato-type ransom note workshop. Thanks to Machine Project, KERNSPIRACY, and Echo Park Film Center.

December 2nd, 2010: CS:SF  screening of The Two Escobars by Jeff & Michael Zimbalist at GAFFTA

November 2nd, 2010: CS:LA screening of The Two Escobars by Jeff & Michael Zimbalist at Laemmle’s Music Hall

October 24, 2010: Inaugural CS:SF Screening! Grace by Paul Solet at GAFFTA

October 19, 2010: CS:LA Screening of Grace by Paul Solet and The Worm, Ep. 10: Tent Hopping by Austin Young at Echo Park Film Center

September 7, 2010: CS:LA presents a Short Film Workshop, with Balletomane by Bradley Miles, Sizzlean by Scott Keiner, Cease & Desist by John Carluccio

August 10, 2010: CS:LA presents its one year anniversary party! A Reality Bites Drink-Along (with drinking game!)

May 28, 2010: CS:LA presents Art By Chance Ultra-Short Film Festival, Var. Directors, with live participative score.

May 4, 2010: CS:LA presents FYI Films: Films by Incarcerated Youth, Var. Directors, presented by Alex Muñoz.

April 6, 2010: CS:LA presents Hilarious, Slightly Raunchy Shorts, Var. Directors: Suzi Barrett, Lindsay Ames, Jon Stokes & Jeremy Cohen, Bryan Gaynor, Dustin McLean, Cream, Rebecca Addelman, Inessa Frantowski, Gavin McInness & Last Picture Show, Josh Soskin, and more.

March 5, 2010: CS:LA presents Who Is KK Downey?, directed by Pat Kielyand produced by Kieran Crilly, Kidnapper Films

February 2, 2010: CS:LA presents a short film workshop, featuring ‘All American Tooles‘ by M. David Melvin; ‘Procession‘ by Beth Spitalny.

2009

December 2, 2009: CS:LA presents Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag, curated by Austin Young & Saskia Wilson-Brown. Films by Mathu Anderson & Andrew Schneider with RuPaul, Willam Belli, Jer Ber Jones, Lawrence Elbert with Jackie Beat, Selene Luna and Nadya Ginsburg, Mike Karma, Kurt Koehler with Chico’s Angels, Clay Weiner, Calpernia Addams, Chris Crocker, Matther Snead with Taylor Mac, Zackary Drucker, Austin Young with Jackie Beat, Mario Diaz, Sean Mullens with The Steve Lady, Karis, Fredrik S. Hana, Barry Morse with Pickle Surprise, Jackie Beat, Peter Pizzi with Ben McCoy. Also featured a critical panel moderated by Jackie Beat, with Calpernia Addams, Zackary Drucker, Buck Angel.

November 3, 2009: CS:LA presents a Short Film Workshop, featuring ‘Kitty Kitty’ by Michael Medaglia; ‘Civil‘ by Weston Middleton; ‘9 Chassidic Tales; The Stories of the Baal Shem Tov- Ep. 1‘ by Tawd b. Dorenfeld.

October 6, 2009: CS:LA presents Helvetica directed by Gary Hustwit

September 1, 2009: CS:LA presents The Green Rush directed by Jason S. Edwards, produced by Casey Casseday

August 4, 2009: Inaugural Cinema Speakeasy event! CS:LA presents Visioneers, directed by Jared Drake


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  2. Meg Cranston says:

    I am an artist and the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Otis College of Art. I’d like to speak to you about the possibility of bringing one of your programs to Otis next spring.

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