Consumed by how she thinks she should relate to sex, a young woman is distracted from actually living her life.
Short, USA, 12:24
Director: Callie Carpinteri
Writer: Callie Carpinteri, Emma Parks
Producer: Callie Carpinteri, Emma Parks, Katrina Lee, Cassidy Campbell, Vanessa Nottingham
Actors: Emma Parks, Laura Coover, Ben Krieger, Laurel Nail
A sequence of ads and shows, and a disrupted listings scroll on the bottom of the screen, compose this absurdist TV station hijacking.
World Premiere
Short, USA, 7:52
Director: Brandon Tauszik
Writer: Joe Veix
Producer: Matty Barnes
Actors: Lauren Servideo
The power of nostalgia, habit, and the subtle ways media and branding affect our emotions and identity.
USA Premiere
Short, Iran, 7:24
Director: Mohammad Hosein Khodabandelou
Writer: Mohammad Hosein Khodabandelou
Producer: Mohammad Hosein Khodabandelou
Actors: Amir Hosein Amini, Mohammad Hosein Kia
In a self-destructive slide, college senior Chloe navigates a tightrope that won’t let her go.
Los Angeles Premiere
Feature, USA, 96 min.
Director: Brady Bryson
Writer: Brady Bryson
Producer: Nick Baudille
Actors: Courtney Campbell, Ted Sutherland, Brady Bryson
A deeper dive into the expression of dance through cinema, where a group of space travelers realize they are cut off from humanity with no hope of returning.
Short, USA, 11min.
Director: Kedric Bateman
Writer: Kedric Bateman
Producer: Kedric Bateman
Actors: Angelica Luna, Rachel Murray, Eric Lobenberg, Nadia Roberts
We often have compartments to our lives. When two compartments converge, like someone being a doctor, and also a drag performer, it can be combustible.
Short, USA, 14 min.
Director: Alice Gu
Writer: Nathan Ramos-Park
Producer: Lauren Selman, Alice Gu
Executive Producer: Daniel Dae Kim
Actors: Harry Shum Jr., Jenny Yang
When the view of oneself transcends time, how does it affect our relationships with others?
World Premiere
Short, USA, 11:56
Director: Amy Roy
Writer: Amy Roy
Producer: Andrew Bergamo, Emily Brough, Kristin Couture
Actors: Guerrin Gardner, Bart McCarthy, Robert Craighead, Valentina Garcia
In the 1960’s, Jule Campbell turned the struggling Sports Illustrated into a powerhouse by reigning over the Swimsuit Issue for 32 years.
Los Angeles Premiere
Feature Documentary, USA, 105 min.
Director: Jill Audrey Campbell
Writer: Jill Audrey Campbell
Producer: Jill Audrey Campbell, Jonathon Gray, Robert J Lyons,
Actors: Jule Campbell, Tyra Banks, Kathy Ireland, Elle Macpherson
Drinks for sale in the downstairs bar.
Come hang out.
A streaming company hires all available camera operators to film the final weeks of the last winter.
Los Angeles Premiere
Short, USA, 6:09 min.
Director: Kelly Sears
Writer: Kelly Sears
Actors: Skinner Myers
How we find purpose when the thing we thought was our calling abandons us? How we reinvigorate our joy for being alive?
USA Premiere
Animated Short, USA, 11:11 min.
Director: Emerson Tenney
Writer: Emerson Tenney
Animation Director: Arantxa Chavarri
How the idea of someone we love keeps us from clearly seeing them, and ourselves, after they're gone.
Los Angeles Premiere
Short, USA, 15 min.
Director: Valerian Zamel
Writer: Valerian Zamel
Producer: Valerian Zamel
Actors: Karole Foreman
Do you know how you feel? And what could actually capture the state you're in right now?
28 different people's feelings are woven into a emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
World Premiere
Feature, USA, 78 min.
Director: Justine Bateman
Producer: Justine Bateman
Actors: David Duchovny, Isabelle Fuhrman, Robert Patrick, Liana Liberato, Alan Ruck, Ernie Hudson, Rae Dawn Chong
Saturday wrap-up, and what to look forward to on Day Three!
The filmmaker’s nightmare depiction of what his life would've been like had he followed in his family’s footsteps instead of rejecting it.
Short, USA, 11 min.
Director: Eli Powers
Writer: Eli Powers
Producer: Eli Powers
Actors: Eli Powers
A lonely woman experiences a transformation after meeting a familiar stranger.
World Premiere
Short, UK, 3:21 min.
Director: Julie Mayhew
Writer: Julie Mayhew
Producer: Julie Mayhew
Actors: Melissa Berry
A poignant exploration of the human experience through “life, death and shit.”
Short, USA, 9:04
Director: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien
Writer: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien
Producer: Evan Mathis, Patrick Sean O'Brien, Michele Dupree
Actors: J.R. Reed, Patrick Sean O'Brien, Scott Murphy
With a decade’s worth of footage, LOOK invites the viewer to be fascinated with things that occur in front of us everyday, as that is where we see remarkable revelations of the human experience.
World Premiere
Feature, USA, 72 min.
Director: Justine Bateman
Producer: Justine Bateman
CREDO 23 COUNCIL FOUNDER, FILMMAKER, AND AUTHOR JUSTINE BATEMAN MODERATES THE DISCUSSION WITH INDIE FILM FINANCE / DISTRIBUTION LEGEND, CASSIAN ELWES, AND OTHERS.
A creative, stop-motion entry in the Kaiju (“strange beast” or “monster”) genre.
Short, USA, 8:07 min.
Director: Rusteen Honardoost
Writer: Rusteen Honardoost
Producer: Rusteen Honardoost
Actors: Lucas Villarosa, Laura Karoubi
The latest free healthcare product! (May include in-app purchases.)
World Premiere
Short, USA, 2:55 min.
Director: Michael Plewa
Writer: Michael Plewa
Producer: Michael Plewa
Actors: Hayley Tyler, Rachel Stubington, Kevin Hinton
The concept of a "home" being one’s body, thoughts, as well as one’s work in this avant-garde piece.
World Premiere
Short, USA, 4 min.
Director: Ethan Krahn
Producer: Ethan Krahn
Love and relationships on multiple levels, reflecting the complex manner in which we connect with others.
North American Premiere
Short, Germany, 6 min.
Director: L. Cronly
Writer: L. Cronly, Ella Shanahan
Producer: L. Cronly
Actors: Pauline Henkmann, Marie-Claire Delahn, Tom Koepke, Janik John
When hemmed in from all sides, like this informant in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia, one truly discovers their options.
Short, USA, 14 min.
Director: Margos Magossian
Writer: Margos Magossian
Producer: Wesley Barker
Actors: Astghik Vardanyan, Aram Karakhanyan, Roffi Petrossian, Mayranush Grigoryan, Artashes Shahverdyan
Drinks for sale in the downstairs bar.
Come hang out.
A grieving man tries to make sense of the loss in this horror-comedy.
Short, USA, 10:27 min.
Director: Emily Maya Mills
Writer: Ryan Meharry
Producer: Alyssa Fritz, Ryan Rosenberg, Ryan Meharry
Actors: Dave Theune, Ryan Meharry
To return to our humanity, we must begin with the people closest to us. But, do we want it bad enough to go one night without our phones?
Short, USA, 9:38 min.
Director: Max Novick
Writer: Max Novick
Producer: Pranav Kothary, Max Novick
Actors: Erika Chase, Anthony Notarile
Life can be violent, and funny, and sometimes only expressed through the movement of the body in this neo-noir Western, set in Texas.
World Premiere
Short, USA, 14:35 min.
Director: Cameron Monaghan
Writer: Cameron Monaghan
Producer: Cameron Monaghan, Nika Burnett, Maya Donato, Grant Rosenmeyer, Maria Prieto, Sara Eklund, Lily Darragh Harty
Actors: Kelli Berglund, Cameron Monaghan
Desperation and hope create a quicksand in which a rideshare driver tries to not be swallowed by it all.
Feature, USA, 86 min.
Director: Jean-Pierre Caner
Writer: Jean-Pierre Caner
Producer: Shaz Bennett
Actors: Rahad Coulter-Stevenson, Kestrin Pantera, Noel Arthur, Larry Clarke
The CREDO 23 Film Festival not only supports new filmmaking, but also new ways for those filmmakers to financially continue their work.
And so, the CREDO 23 Foundation is proud to grant the accepted filmmakers all the festival proceeds, after costs. CREDO 23 knows that with new filmmaking comes new ways to financially support and distribute this fresh work. We hope that granting festival proceeds to the filmmakers can become a new standard.
We look forward to what these filmmakers produce next.
Day Three wrap-up, end of festival.