Sunday Shorts #1

Short, 25 New Faces | 2016 | NR. 1hr 39min
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various

The filmmakers for each of these films will be present at The Grand following the screening on Sunday to speak about their film.

Myrna the Monster - USA (14mins)

D: Ian Samuels

A heartbroken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20something. This film played at Sundance earlier this year.

Chekov - USA (3mins)

D: Jack Dunphy

Anatomy of a love letter.

Serenity - USA (5mins)

D: Jack Dunphy

An animated memoir recounting first love, addiction, losing one’s virginity, and turning to pizza in times of crisis. Construction paper animation, Faces of Death, sex, drugs, and Citizen Kane: all collide in this tale of young love.

I Remember Nothing - France (18mins)

D: Zia Anger

A student, unaware that she is epileptic, tries to get through another day.

My Last Film - USA (8mins)

D: Zia Anger

A diptych concerning the unrelated fates of two actresses.

Last Black Man in San Francisco - USA (5mins)

D: Joe Talbot & Jimmie Fails

Jimmie Fails dreams of buying back the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Now living in the city's last, dwindling black neighborhood with his oddball best friend, Prentice, they search for belonging in the rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. This is a film trailer for an upcoming feature film project.

Secret Screening - USA (45mins)

D: Shevaun Mizrahi

A photographer who cannot see, an aging playboy who still tries to charm and seduce, and an Armenian woman who lived through the genocide 100 years ago but is still afraid of being tortured for telling her account. Time fades away and dreams mix with reality as the world outside swiftly changes. This film is a work in progress.