Festivals: LAFF
LA Film Fest 2017 Exclusive Clip, Poster Debut: AND THEN THERE WAS EVE Gets Heated on a Porch
In our exclusive clip from And Then There Was Eve, a 'spirited discussion' breaks out on someone's porch. Yet it's understandable, because one of the women is searching for her missing husband. According to the official synopsis, "Alyssa, a successful...
LA Film Fest 2016 Review: BEYOND THE GATES, The Horror Of A VCR Board Game
The final 20 minutes or so of Beyond the Gates are rather glorious: the music soars and swells as the horror-fuelled action grows more chaotic and splattery. It's the conclusion of a story that begins at a video store. The...
Exclusive Trailer: In PLAY THE DEVIL, A Relationship Spirals Out Of Control
As its prepares to make its world premiere in the World Fiction Competition section at the Los Angeles Film Festival, we have the exclusive first trailer for Play the Devil. The movie, per the trailer, appears to be a moody...
Exclusive Festival Poster: CHEE AND T, Two Friends And A Crazy Nephew
Set to enjoy its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival tomorrow (Thursday, June 2), Chee and T is a comedy about two friends who are impressed by their boss into getting his nephew to his engagement party. We...
LA Film Fest 2016 Announces First Titles
Always a comfy stop on the summer fesitval circuit, the LA Film Festival, announced today the first batch of titles for their 2016 edition, which takes place at the Culver City Arclight Cinemas, June 1 - 9. The Buzz section...
LA Film Fest 2015 Review: VICTORIA, A Poem In Action
"You just had to be there" In a post-FOMO (fear of missing out) age this phrase is tantamount to death. "You just had to be there." It's what I said to ScreenAnarchy Editor Ben Umstead as we walked out of...
LA Film Fest 2015 Review: TOO LATE A Confident, Stylish Debut
There is a classic Hollywood feel that prevails throughout Dennis Hauck's debut feature Too Late. Namely this is due to the fact that it's shot on good old 35MM film -- a feat almost never attempted in today's world of...
LA Film Fest Review: I AM THALENTE, Skating On Passion, Finding Purpose
We all know the sound. That clack-scrape-whoosh of a skateboard on the sidewalk. For many of us it is as close to the sport as we get. When we hear that sound some of us move out of the way...
LA Film Fest Exclusive Clip: I AM THALENTE Doc Visits The Skateboarding Youth Of Durban
When documentarian Natalie Johns and her team returned to her home country of South Africa, they weren't quite expecting the story they found on the streets of Durban.Thalente Biyela is a 17-year old who is homeless and illiterate. And he...
LA Film Fest 2015 Lineup Announced
Spring is in the air and that means that the good folks at Film Independent have been hard at work putting together their lineup for the upcoming LA Film Fest. The downtown festival runs June 10-18 and features some new...
LA Film Fest 2014 Review: LAKE LOS ANGELES, Of Loneliness And Limbo In America
Director Mike Ott wraps up his trilogy of films set in the Antelope Valley of Southern California with this, his beguiling fourth feature, Lake Los Angeles. Getting a lot of mileage out of a simple, near fairy tale like story,...
LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: UNCERTAIN TERMS' Actress Cindy Silver On Her Son, Director Nathan Silver
You think running a set in general is hard? Try doing it with your mother. In an IndieWire article where filmmakers were asked what they wish someone had told them before they started shooting, Uncertain Terms writer/director Nathan Silver answered: "Don't...
LA Film Fest 2014 Review: Cross-Cultural Mystery MAN FROM RENO Both Delivers And Disappoints
Touted as a thriller leading up to its world premiere last Sunday at the LA Film Fest, Dave Boyle's fifth feature is, in many ways both refreshing and frustrating, far less a typical pulse pounding number, and more a good...
LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND Director Joe Saunders
Joe Saunders - who goes by "Joe" but is named William after his grandfather Billy Mize, the country music personality and star of Billy Mize and the Bakersfield Sound - didn't exactly realize who his grandfather was while growing up. He...
LA Film Fest 2014 Review: CUT BANK Balances Expertly On A Razor's Edge Between Thrills And Laughs
It's no easy task to write a crime thriller script that is both tense and comedic. But even when a writer is able to pull it off on the page, an even more difficult task awaits a director to...
LA Film Fest 2014 Review: JOSSY'S Playfully Parodies Power Rangers
If you're a regular reader here at ScreenAnarchy then you are probably aware of one of Japan's fastest rising directors: Fukuda Yuichi. Already a household name in his native country thanks to several TV shows, Fukuda broke out on the...
LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: ECHO PARK Director Amanda Marsalis
Anyone who doesn't live in Echo Park (an eastside Los Angeles city-burbia-ish type enclave where everyone dresses cooler than you) doesn't get Echo Park. I don't live in Echo Park. Which is why I knew I needed to watch ECHO...
LA Film Fest 2014 Review: UNCERTAIN TERMS, Between Romance And Delusion
We are walking down a serene wooded path. With our back to us is a redheaded girl, her hair in a long, tight braid, her shoulders slumped forward. She's walking through the woods, pondering her very existence: Why is she...
LA Film Fest 2014: Watch This First Clip From Dave Boyle's MAN FROM RENO
Dave Boyle's latest film, an unexpected thriller titled Man From Reno, is about to have its world premiere at this year's LA Film Festival. We put it on our list of 15 ScreenAnarchy Picks for the festival, and we now...
LA Film Fest 2014 Interview: SUPREMACY Director Deon Taylor
Deon Taylor needed something he could sink his teeth into. After a few horror films and plugging away at being an independent filmmaker in this increasingly challenging market, the script about real-life white supremacist Garrett 'Tully' Fuller and his first...
