SYNOPSIS
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Los Angeles Short Film Showcase is a cinematic celebration of new projects designed to encourage performers to create their own short films and web series.
Held twice a year, in April and August at our Los Angeles Actors Center, the showcase not only features a shorts program, but includes a Q&A and reception with the films’ directors, producers and actors present at the screening.
FILMS
BIRTHDAY - Chris King, writer, director, producer
A severely wounded Marine and his wife finally come home following months of surgeries and rehab.
BORN IN BATTLE - Yangzom Brauen, writer, director, producer
A boy who struggles with his past as a child soldier escapes into his dream world only to be caught up in a nightmare where he has to make a choice over life and death.
MOTHER'S DAY - Nico Raineau, co-writer, director
A hapless woman wakes up after a one-night stand and finds herself having to care for the man's 6-year-old son.
PICK UP - Joshua Alan Rogers, writer, director, producer
Jesse Ritter has been living with a secret. What begins as a quiet evening of driving for Pick Up (the latest car service to share the road with Uber and Lyft), turns into a life changing journey filled with conversations about life, sex, stigma, and guilt, as Jesse falls for one of his passengers and is forced to confess the truth.
WARNING LABELS - Jennifer Morrison, director
Two workers for the Center For Disease Control meet for drinks, only to discover that love is the most hazardous thing of all.
