LA Shorts Fest is the largest short film festival in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. In past years, 33 participants have earned Academy Award nominations, with 11 filmmakers actually taking home the Oscar. They have honored some of Hollywood’s legends of the past: Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Robert Wise; along and directors Tim Burton, Bryan Singer, Jan de Bont, Paul Haggis and Shane Black.
A South African photojournalist commits a terrible act of desperation only weeks after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl...
Directors: Jeremy Kipp Walker, J Anderson Mitchell
A cynical old man, forced to share his hospital with a stranger who he discovers is gay, learns through the power of friendship that it's never too la...
Daniel Crane, a civil engineer working to rebuild war-torn Iraq, is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. He finds himself beaten and alone, a hostag...
A boy becomes so frightened by his scout leader's campfire stories that he humiliates himself one night, and becomes the object of the scout leader's ...
A starving park squirrel and rat come across a discarded pizza slice. The duo's greed disrupts the natural order of the park. Simultaneously, across t...
Real-life Franz Stangl, the Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942-43, enjoyed a most unusual relationship with the Jewish slave who c...