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2012 LA FILM FEST LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

The line-up for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival was revealed this morning and includes the world premieres of Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike starring Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, and Alex Kurtzman’s People Like Us starring Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks and Olivia Wilde.

Summer Showcase titles include Celeste and Jesse Forever, starring Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg, and the world premiere of It’s A Disaster, starring David Cross, America Ferrera and Julia Stiles. Additional selections in the Narrative and Documentary Competition, Summer Showcase, International Showcase, Music Videos, Short Films and Future Filmmakers Showcase were also announced.

Festival events will also include The Beyond section with titles like Juan of the Dead, Cuba’s first zombie movie and the Retro section featuring a newly discovered film from music historian Alan Lomax, Ballads, Blues, Bluegrass, filmed in 1961. Among the four free Community Screenings will be a Dirty Dancing outdoor screening and salsa lessons, in honor of the film’s 25th anniversary.

See the full list of titles announced below or view the official press release. Synopses, credits and cast at lafilmfest.com.

 

 

Narrative Competition (10):

The Narrative Competition is comprised of films made by talented emerging filmmakers that compete for the Filmmaker Award. The winner is determined by a panel of jurors, and films in this section are also eligible for the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature or Best International Feature.

  • All Is Well, Pocas Pascoal – Portugal – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Breakfast with Curtis, Laura Colella – WORLD PREMIERE
  • The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man, Arturo Pons – Mexico – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Crazy and Thief, Cory McAbee – NORTH PREMIERE
  • Dead Man’s Burden, Jared Moshé – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Four, Joshua Sanchez – WORLD PREMIERE
  • A Night Too Young, Olmo Omerzu – Czech Republic – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Pincus, David Fenster – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Red Flag, Alex Karpovsky – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Thursday till Sunday, Dominga Sotomayor – Chile – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

 

 

Documentary Competition (9):

The Documentary Competition is comprised of films made by talented emerging filmmakers that compete for the Documentary Award. The winner is determined by a panel of jurors, and films in this section are also eligible for the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature or Best International Feature.

  • 25 to Life, Mike Brown – WORLD PREMIERE
  • A Band Called Death, Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives, Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore –  WORLD PREMIERE
  • Call Me Kuchu, Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall – US PREMIERE
  • Drought, Everado González – Mexico – US PREMIERE
  • The Iran Job, Till Schauder – USA/Germany/Iran – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Sun Kissed, Maya Stark, Adi Lavy – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Vampira and Me, R. H. Greene – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Words of Witness, Mai Iskander – Egypt/USA – US PREMIERE

 

 

International Showcase (15):

The International Showcase highlights innovative independent narrative and documentary features from outside of the United States. Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature, Best Narrative Feature, or Best Documentary Feature.

  • Bestiaire, Denis Côté – Canada
  • Bunohan: Return to Murder, Dain Said – Malaysia (Oscilloscope Pictures)
  • Canícula, José Álvarez – Mexico
  • The First Man, Gianni Amelio – France – US PREMIERE
  • The Last Elvis, Armando Bo – Argentina
  • Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho – Brazil (The Cinema Guild)
  • On the Edge, Leila Kilani – France/Morocco/Germany
  • P-047, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee – Thailand
  • Return to Burma, Midi Z. – Taiwan/Myanmar
  • Sister, Ursula Meier – Switzerland (Adopt Films) – NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • The Strawberry Tree, Simone Rapisarda Casanova – Canada/Cuba/Italy
  • Summer Games, Rolando Colla – Switzerland
  • Teddy Bear, Mads Matthiesen – Denmark (Film Movement)
  • Unforgivable, André Téchiné – France (Strand Releasing)
  • Without Gorky, Cosima Spender – UK

 

 

Summer Showcase (16):

The Summer Showcase section offers an advance look at this summer’s most talked about independent film releases from the festival circuit. Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature, Best Narrative Feature, or Best Documentary Feature.

  • About Face, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (HBO Films)
  • Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley
  • Big Easy Express, Emmett Malloy
  • Celeste and Jesse Forever, Lee Toland Krieger (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Gayby, Jonathan Lisecki (Wolfe Releasing)
  • Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon (IFC Films)
  • The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki
  • It’s a Disaster, Todd Berger – WORLD PREMIERE
  • La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus, Mark Kendall –                   USA/Guatemala
  • Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • An Oversimplification of her Beauty, Terence Nance – USA/France
  • People Like Us, Alex Kurtzman (Dreamworks Pictures) – WORLD PREMIERE
  • The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield (Magnolia Pictures)
  • Reportero, Bernardo Ruiz
  • Robot and Frank, Jake Schreier (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
  • Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul (Sony Pictures Classics)

 

 

Community Screenings (6):

These films will be presented free to the public. New films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature or Best Documentary Feature.

  • Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino – Grand Performances Screening
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg – FIGat7th Screening
  • G-Dog, Freida Mock – WORLD PREMIERE
  • The Invisible War, Kirby Dick (Cinedigm)
  • LUV, Sheldon Candis – Project Involve Screening (Indomina)
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Nicholas Meyer – FIGat7th Screening
  • The Beyond (3): The Beyond offers films that dare to be different. Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature or Best Narrative Feature.
  • The History of Future Folk, J. Anderson Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Juan of the Dead, Alejandro Brugués – Cuba
  • Saturday Morning Massacre, Spencer Parsons – WORLD PREMIERE
  • Retro (3):
  •    Ballads, Blues and Bluegrass (1961), Alan Lomax – WORLD PREMIERE
  •    Banishment (2007), Andrey Zvyagintsev – Russia – LAFCA’s The Film That Got Away
  •    The Breaking Point (1950), Michael Curtiz – Film Foundation Screening

 

 

SHORT FILMS

  • 3113 – DIRECTOR Eric Demeusy
  • 663114 – Japan – DIRECTOR Isamu Hirabayashi
  • ’92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card – DIRECTOR Todd Sklar
  • Against the Sea – Mexico/USA – DIRECTOR Richard Parkin
  • Another Bullet Dodged – DIRECTOR Landon Zakheim
  • The Arm – DIRECTORS Jessie Ennis, Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos
  • Asad – South Africa/USA – DIRECTOR Bryan Buckley
  • Bear – Australia – DIRECTOR Nash Edgerton
  • Big Man – Nigeria – DIRECTOR Julius Onah
  • Black Doll – Mexico – DIRECTOR Sofia Carrillo
  • Cadaver – DIRECTOR Jonah D. Ansell
  • CatCam – DIRECTOR Seth Keal
  • The Chair – DIRECTOR Grainger David
  • Cheap Extermination – DIRECTOR Minka Farthing-Kohl
  • Dog Eat Dog – DIRECTOR Sian Heder
  • Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared – England – DIRECTORS Joseph Pelling, Rebecca Sloan
  • Fireworks – DIRECTOR Victor Hugo Duran
  • First Birthday – DIRECTOR Andrew Ahn
  • The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar – Canada/Bosnia and Herzegovina – DIRECTOR Igor Drljaca
  • Good Bread – DIRECTOR Eddie Schmidt
  • Hellion – DIRECTOR Kat Candler
  • Hold On Tight – Ireland – DIRECTOR Anna Rodgers
  • I Am John Wayne – DIRECTOR Christina Choe
  • Izzy & Salvador – DIRECTOR Jean-Pierre Caner
  • Kendo Monogatari – Cuba/Guatemala – DIRECTOR Fabián Suárez
  • Kudzu Vine – DIRECTOR Josh Gibson
  • Laura Keller – NB – DIRECTOR Mo Perkins
  • Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke – DIRECTORS Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva
  • Long Distance Information – England – DIRECTOR Douglas Hart
  • Meaning of Robots – DIRECTOR Matt Lenski
  • Moxie – England – DIRECTOR Stephen Irwin
  • Mr. Christmas – DIRECTOR Nick Palmer
  • New Gift – DIRECTOR Supriyo Sen
  • Next Door Letters – Sweden – DIRECTOR Sascha Fülscher
  • Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise – DIRECTOR Kelly Sears
  • Paperman – DIRECTOR John Kahrs
  • Paraíso – DIRECTOR Nadav Kurtz
  • The Pub – England – DIRECTOR Joseph Pierce
  • Record / Play – DIRECTOR Jesse Atlas
  • Reindeer – England – DIRECTOR Eva Weber
  • Remote Area Medical – DIRECTORS Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman
  • Robots – DIRECTOR Liz Garbus
  • Sacrifice – Russia – DIRECTOR Anar Abbasov
  • Scanning – Cuba – DIRECTOR Aleksandra Maciuszek Mukoid
  • Soil – DIRECTOR Meejin Hong
  • Song of the Spindle – DIRECTOR Drew Christie
  • Thumb Snatchers From The Moon Cocoon – DIRECTOR Bradley Schaffer
  • Voice Over – Spain – DIRECTOR Martín Rosete

 

 

FUTURE FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE:

High School Shorts 1-2

  • The Artist’s Way – DIRECTOR Elmer Reyes
  • Binary            – DIRECTOR Hunter Peterson
  • Break Up? – DIRECTOR Matt Thompson
  • Bully – DIRECTORS Harry Barnes, Greg Nachmanovitch
  • Code Red – DIRECTOR Zach Prengler
  • Connecting the Dots – DIRECTOR Marissa Dodds
  • Creative Growth – DIRECTORS Matthew Zabb-Parmley, Julian Compagni-Portis, Stephanie Hwang
  • Dr. Funkenstein – DIRECTORS Roz Naimi, Joe Kitaj
  • Even Handed – DIRECTORS Samantha Highsmith, Gabriella Huggins
  • Full Out – DIRECTOR Camille Wilson
  • The Girl Who Lived in her Nightmare – Mexico – DIRECTORS Juan Gerardo Hernández Santiz, Victor Díaz Gómez, Patricia López Hernández
  • The Girl with the Birds – DIRECTORS Dova Isabel Castaneda Zilly, Eliza Otto, Natalie Andreen
  • HUMANIZED – DIRECTOR Olivia DeLaurentis
  • I Am an Asiacan – DIRECTOR Jesus Olvera
  • James – DIRECTOR Maya Ragazzo
  • Knit-Picky – DIRECTOR Bobby Jorgenson
  • The Landlady – DIRECTOR Katherine Maxwell
  • Learn the Difference – DIRECTORS Rebecca Hutman, India Wilson, Adam Yaron
  • Maestro – DIRECTOR Neeraj Jain
  • Metro – DIRECTORS Eric Brownrout, Nick Escobar
  • My License – DIRECTOR Elizabeth Herrick
  • Need Gas – DIRECTOR Alex Herz
  • Playing Pirates – DIRECTOR Hanna Peterson
  • The Power of Words – DIRECTORS Renee DuBois, Annicia McLellan
  • The Rialto: A Fading Treasure – DIRECTOR Miranda Gontz
  • Secret Club – DIRECTOR Ben Kadie
  • Self Deterioration – DIRECTOR Madeline Spanier
  • Sunday – DIRECTORS Erin Cole, Mallory McDaniel
  • This PSA Is Gay – DIRECTORS Miranda Kasher, George Khabbaz, Patric Verrone
  • Unplugged: A 14 Day Challenge – DIRECTOR Kaylor Myers
  • Whither from Above – DIRECTOR Joshua Masters

 

 

MUSIC VIDEOS:

Eclectic Mix

  • Abducted: Cults – DIRECTOR David Altobelli
  • Amateur Rocketry: Dan Wholey – DIRECTOR Sean Donnelly
  • Big Bad Wolf: Duck Sauce – DIRECTOR Keith Schofield
  • Control: Spoek Mathambo – South Africa – DIRECTORS Pieter Hugo, Michael Cleary
  • Echo Chamber: Parts & Labor – DIRECTOR Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor
  • Ice Cream: Battles f. Matias Aguayo – Spain – DIRECTOR Nicolas Mendez
  • In Your Arms: Kina Grannis – DIRECTOR Greg Jardin
  • It: Rich Aucoin – Canada – DIRECTOR Noah Pink
  • Latinoamerica: Calle 13 – Peru – DIRECTORS Milovan Radovic, Jorge Carmona
  • Lose this Child: Eatliz – DIRECTORS Yuval, Meral Nathan
  • Machine Civilization: World Order – Japan – DIRECTOR Genki Sudo
  • Piranhas Club: Man Man – DIRECTOR Lex Halaby
  • Shady Love: Scissor Sisters vs Krystal Pepsy – DIRECTOR Hiro Murai
  • Staring Out the Window: Fulton Lights – England – DIRECTOR Ninian Doff
  • The Greeks: Is Tropical – France – DIRECTOR Megaforce
  • To the Sea: Mint Julep – Germany – DIRECTOR A Nice Idea Every Day
  • True Loves: Hooray for Earth – DIRECTOR Young Replicant
  • Tuck the Darkness In: Bowerbirds – DIRECTOR Carlos Lopez Estrada
  • Two Against One: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi f. Jack White – DIRECTORS Chris Milk, Anthony Francisco Schepperd
  • Weights and Measures: Dry the River – England – DIRECTOR Corin Hardy

 

Thunderdome: DANIELS vs Walter Robot
DANIELS and Walter Robot go head to head in an event peppered with music videos, shorts, production secrets, feats of strength, audience challenges and possible mime.

DIRECTORS: DANIELS

  • Dogboarding, 2011
  • Houdini: Foster the People, 2011
  • My Best Friend’s Sweating, 2011
  • My Machines: Battles f. Gary Numan, 2011
  • Pockets, 2011
  • Puppets, 2011
  • Rize of the Fenix: Tenacious D, 2012
  • Simple Math: Manchester Orchestra, 2011
  • Simple Song: The Shins, 2012
  • That New Kanye Song, 2011

DIRECTORS: WALTER ROBOT

  • C/U Porn, 2012
  • Give Me the Meltdown: Rob Thomas, 2009
  • Grapevine Fires: Death Cab for Cutie, 2009
  • HP Soldiers, 2009
  • I Hate Drake (Mortified), 2006
  • Missed the Boat: Modest Mouse, 2009
  • Mojowski, 2012
  • Slippin: Quadron, 2011
  • Teleport 2 Me: Kid Cudi, 2012
  • Underneath the Sycamore: Death Cab for Cutie, 2011

 


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