Official Selection

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1: OPENING NIGHT

CLARITY THEATER | 100 N. Crescent Drive | Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Block 1 (6:00PM)

WANNA BE ME
Comedy (35 min.) USA

Director: Dan Neira
Writers: Katie Love, Dennis Goldberg, Jackie Watson
Producer: Jackie Watson, Jason Hammonds, Jacov Bressler
Cast: Kim Morgan Greene, Peter Allen Vogt, Jackie Watson, Fernanda Romero, Carlos, Romirez, Michael Lohan, Patrick Kilpatrick, Alexandra Fulton, Katie Love, Braxton Honeycut, Dennis Goldberg, Lesley Ann Machado, Shalim Ortiz

Synopsis: Have you ever wanted to know what Hollywood is really like behind the scenes?Well Wanna Be Me Takes you to the heart of tinsel town.Here you will see those who "wanna be" Hollywood as they truly are; happy, sad, arrogant know-it-alls who are hilarious.  When three women and a guardian angel who haven't got a clue, yet believe they know everything about being in show business, we never stop laughing at them, with them and for them to succeed as they ask, 'Wanna Be Me”?

Block 2 (6:45PM)

NOBODY'S SHALOM
Drama/Comedy (20 min.) USA

Director/Writer/Producer: Jullian Dulce Vida
Cast: Nick Hermz, Jay Harik, Roger Marks, Assad Durrani, Adel Stasilli,  Shari Douglas, Toby Christine Douglas, Erin Feliz Douglas

Synopsis: An Arabic Muslim motel owner gets into a game of cat and rat with his wife and two nephews when he saves the life of an Orthodox Jewish man who's been violently beaten in a hate crime robbery by hiding him in one of the rooms of the motel he owns.

Block 3 (7:05PM)

DRIFTER:  HENRY LEE LUCAS
Drama (90 min.) USA

Director: Mike Feifer
Writer: Wood Dickinson & Christopher Ryan and Michael Feifer
Producers: Wood Dickinson, Barry Barnholtz and Michael Feifer
Cast: Antonio Sabato, Jr., John Diehl, Kostas Sommer, Kelly Curran,
Caia Coley, John Burke, Nicolas Canel and Ezra Averill

Synopsis: Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas is the true life story of one of America’s most prolific and controversial serial killers.  The movie details Henry’s life from his abusive childhood in Blacksburg, Virginia to his violent killing sprees as he drifted across the south with his best friend, Ottis Toole and his young fiancé, Becky and to how Henry duped the Texas Rangers by confessing to thousands of murders.

Block 4 (8:35PM)

RELAPSE
Drama (16mins.) USA

Director: Dallas Henry
Writer: Christian Ray, Dallas Henry, Vance Mitchell
Producers:  Christian Ray¸ Dallas Henry, Vance Mitchel
Cast:  Andrea de Oliveira, Christian Ray¸ Christina Miller, John Michael Thomas, Meredith Maxim, Mona Mahani, Stephen Glover, Vance Mitchell, Veronica Brogna

Synopsis: Based on true events of a rising football star; a raw portrayal of the constant struggles of drug and alcohol addiction and the fight they live with each and every day. Special guest appearance by Steven "Steve-o Glover"

CANDYLAND
Drama (87 mins.) Canada

Director/Writer: Kate Twa
Producers: Kate Twa, Ronan Reinart,
Cast: Anthony Shim, Ashley Whillans, Grace Park, JR Bourne, James Pizzinatto, Joey Pierce, Lynda Boyd, Ryan MacDonald, Tahmoh Penikett, William MacDonald

Synopsis: Terry King is not just another entrepreneurial young man. He cooks crystal meth in a garage. His brother, Jay, is his legman, hustling the drug to his network of misfits and social castaways. Terry doesn't use, but Jay does. He thinks he's in control. When Jay meets an idealistic young film student named Paul Moon, he convinces him that meth should become Paul's drug of choice. A chaotic weekend follows, and Paul descends into madness. His life, and those of the people he meets, will never be the same.

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