Posted by Larry Gleeson
3rd Annual Rich & Successful Film Festival Announces Official Selections (September 20-21)
13 brief movies from the highest rising filmmaking expertise in Los Angeles
set to display screen on the Historic Egyptian Theatre
Los Angeles, CA (August 8, 2024) – LA’s Rich & Successful Film Festival 3 (RSFF 3), offered by Topcat Management, and co-presented by sogbots and the American Cinematheque, introduced the lineup of movies set to be offered on September 20-21. The extremely curated movie pageant will characteristic 13 brief movies, spanning a number of genres, all helmed by Los Angeles-based filmmakers. For the primary time, RSFF will happen at Los Angeles’ historic Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd.).
Additional workshops and occasions will probably be held on September 19-20 as a part of the pageant’s program and directive to help within the discovery, improvement, and promotion of upcoming filmmakers who make their residence within the coronary heart of Hollywood. All Official Selections, in addition to some further movies not included within the screenings on the Egyptian Theatre, will probably be featured in RSFF’s digital catalog, which is distributed to pageant attendees and business professionals for added publicity.
RSFF Festival Directors Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose, Dylan Trupiano, and Page Brady mentioned, “As we head into our 3rd year, we’re excited to add new opportunities to RSFF’s programming—including skill development workshops, live entertainment, and new spaces to connect with other filmmakers. Providing thoughtful education and resources to our community is extremely important to us, and we’re thrilled to be able to showcase these 13 short films in such an iconic film establishment at the Egyptian Theatre.”
Making its world premiere at RSFF will probably be Maky Rupert’s Peas, a coming-of-age story a couple of younger lady seeing her mom go on a date for the primary time since her father’s demise. An Nguyen’s Thru The Wire will make its North American Premiere when it screens on the Egyptian Theater. The movie follows a chronically on-line and socially inept teenager as she meets up together with her on-line bestie for the primary time.
Other brief movies highlighting promising filmmakers embrace Tennis, Oranges, directed by award-winning cease movement animator Sean Pecknold; Rat!, a style bending horror-comedy from Neal Suresh Mulani starring Caitlin Reilly and Tyler Joseph Ellis; Jackie! Zhou’s Order For Pickup, developed by Hillman Grad’s ‘Rising Voices’ initiative that depicts burnout by a surrealist lens; Creating Things, a heartfelt documentary from brothers Bryan and Taylor Simpson that explores the legacy of their father by his artwork; and Stephanie Kaznocha’s award-winning Confessions, a heartfelt comedy following two nuns who ponder what their futures maintain.
This 12 months’s version of RSFF was curated by a singular jury comprising alumni filmmakers, junior executives, and seasoned programmers. The jury will embrace Festival Directors Page Brady, Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose, Dylan Trupiano, Producer, and former Sundance programmer DaManuel Richardson, Slamdance award-winning director Yuchi Ma, RSFF 2 alumni Tiffany Lin, Producer and former Slamdance programmer Jake Rotger, and Imani Davis on behalf of the American Cinematheque.
For extra details about the Rich & Successful Film Festival, please go to: https://filmfreeway.com/rsff.
2024 Rich & Successful Film Festival Official Selections
Baggage
Director: Tim Hendrix
Country: USA, Running Time: 13:27 min
In a universe the place everybody brings their baggage to their first date, a blind date goes awry.
CONFESSIONSConfessions
Director: Stephanie Kaznocha
Country: USA, Running Time: 11:07 min
After the demise of a buddy, two nuns of their golden years ponder what their future holds. One confession results in one other and earlier than they comprehend it, they’re embarking on an journey.
CREATING THINGSCreating Things
Directors: Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:20 min
Two brothers use interview fragments, items of artwork, and numerous household mementos to discover the legacy of their father and what he left behind.
Half-Light
Director: Lauren Jevnikar
Country: USA, Running Time: 13:25 min
A pair debates having unprotected automotive intercourse late at night time.
The Jennifer Meyers Story
Director: Caroline Symons
Country: USA, Running Time: 12:21 min
A mock true-crime episode covers the 1988 disappearance of a fictional teenager named Jennifer Meyers, however the reenactments are acted out with crudely made mini fashions. As the episode progresses, we study extra concerning the lady setting up and working the reenactment mini fashions and the hazard lurking in her one-bedroom residence.
Order for Pickup
Director: Jackie! Zhou
Country: USA, Running Time: 12:30 min
Trapped in a cycle of labor and self-isolation, burnt out Kelsey’s actuality begins to blur till an irregular order for pickup disrupts all the things.
PEASPeas
Director: Maky Rupert
Country: USA, Running Time: 12:06 min
A drolly coming-of-age story following a younger lady as she witnesses her mom go on a date for the primary time since her father’s demise.
Rat!Rat!
Director: Neal Suresh Mulani
Country: USA; Running Time: 16:48 minutes
When a chronically on-line music journalist encounters a world pop star’s newest effort at queerbaiting, he seizes the second, activates his digicam, and expresses some alternative phrases for the vapid musician and their followers. But as his social capital rises and the web is ready ablaze, he unknowingly traces a bold-faced arrowhead to his entrance doorstep, the place the pop star’s overzealous followers present as much as wreak havoc and search retribution.
Still Life
Director: Connor Griffith
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:52 min
Composed of over 1000 engravings from the 18th-Nineteenth century, Still Life is a meditation on objectivity and which means. The movie explores the concept that we dwell in a world of objects and a world of objects lives inside us.
The Swimmer
Director: Máté Boegi
Country: Denmark/USA, Running Time: 16:17 min
When a sound-recordist brings his girlfriend on a visit to the Danish west coast to document atmospheres, he picks up a disturbing sound that begins to torment his conscience.
Thru The Wire
Director: An Nguyen
Country: Vietnam/USA, Running Time: 15:52 min
A chronically on-line and socially inept teenager takes a leap of religion to fulfill up together with her on-line bestie for the primary time.
TENNIS ORANGESTennis, Oranges
Director: Sean Pecknold
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:53 min
A robotic vacuum affected by burnout quits its job at a hospital and units out to search out group and a better goal on a quiet road the place two lonely rabbits are caught in perpetual loops.
VOCÊ MEANS YOU
Director: Mahyar Mandegar
Country: USA, Running Time: 3:18 min
In the midst of an odd skatepark afternoon, Reza’s world transforms as he embarks on the primary steps of what might be an exquisite journey, all set in movement by an awaited encounter.
About the Rich & Successful Film Festival (RSFF)
Founded in 2021 by sogbots—a manufacturing firm run by Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose, and Dylan Trupiano—and joined the next 12 months by Page Brady as Lead Producer, RSFF curates a slate of brief movies by LA-based filmmakers throughout all genres. Focus is positioned on the attending filmmakers on the pageant, who discover themselves in a supportive and hyper-engaged ambiance the place movies are devoured, relationships are fostered, and expertise is found in an environment surrounded by each rising expertise and the business mainstays on the lookout for them. A non-competitive pageant, RSFF as a substitute emphasizes the platforming of its chosen movies and filmmakers, in addition to offering unique workshops, panels, and sponsorships to hopefully, pave the way in which for much more inventive collaboration. Additional assist also can come by the use of sogbots’ Fix it in Post Fund, which awards choose filmmakers with post-production funding for his or her shorts.
About the American Cinematheque
Established in 1984, the American Cinematheque is a member-supported 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural arts group devoted to constructing an engaged movie group by immersive movie curation, dialog, and presentation.
The American Cinematheque celebrates the movie-going expertise on the core of its mission. Since it first started displaying movies in theatres in 1985, the American Cinematheque has offered a variety of movie programming, with each new and repertory cinema, internet hosting screenings, panels and particular occasions with hundreds of filmmakers and luminaries.
The Cinematheque showcases over one thousand 5 hundred movies per 12 months; it connects the filmmaker to the viewers and movie historical past to its future. Presenting in 35mm, 70mm, uncommon nitrate, and state-of-the-art digital.
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