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 Screening Room, 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
THE ACCOMPLICE - John F. Beach, co-director, producer, actor
Arriving home from a long business trip, Jerry discovers a number of urgent messages on his answering machine from his impulsive and inept friend, Randy. Much to his surprise, Jerry is now an unwilling participant in one of Randy's boneheaded schemes.
BURNING ANGEL DUST - Jackie J. Stone, producer, writer, director
There is a price to keep traditions alive.
IT'S JUST A GUN - John Sayage, producer
Imagine in the life time of a gun all the hands it passes through. It's Just A Gun is just one chapter in that story.
NIGHT CALL - Amanda Renee Knox, director
When, on a routine patrol, a Black female cop living in and patrolling Inglewood gets called to a disturbance she is forced to make an unprecedented life altering decision.
THE POINT SYSTEM - Conner Bell, writer, director
In a candid interview on raising her two young sons, a mother reveals the system by which every aspect of her children's lives is monetized, including affection.
SAM DID IT - Dominic Burgess, producer, director, actor
Sam is about to meet his celebrity idol... The only problem is, Sam works in a morgue... and his idol is dead.
