IFFCA short film festival

So this writer actually got out of the house and stopped writing long enough to see a night of short films at the 2nd IFFCA short film festival. I'd recently become "online" screenwriting friends with a director, Amir Masud from Stage 32 connections. His friend was the creator of the IFFCA film festival and Amir was nice enough to invite me. It was held at the quaint ACME theater on La Brea. Being that that was my old neighborhood post-college for many years, I was more than thrilled to head back for a night on the town. I dragged along my talented ex writing partner, Andy Glickman, and he too was pleasantly surprised at the films we saw. I guess surprised might be the wrong word, because that connotes we didn't expect good films. But the thing is, you just never know what you'll see at a film festival. But this one had some really nice pieces. From humor, to horror, to sci-fi, to drama, to documentaries.

We made it to the last night of the film festival and since they were all really well done, I'm sorry now that I didn't make it to more. Amir swears I'll be invited every year and I'm hoping he sticks to that.

I think I owe it to each filmmaker to give a new post about each film, so tonight I'll post about one that I actually saw the next day, today. See, someone else I met from a film group on linkedin, William Hellmuth, got one of his short films into Thursday night's showings. When I saw his name on the festival lists I had to email him and say hey, maybe I'll see you there. But turned out we didn't get to go on the same nights.

William was nice enough to send "Attic" to me to watch after the festival was over. "Attic", a horror short about a young girl who hears noises in, yes, you guessed it, her attic. I don't want to give it away because you should watch it for yourself. But I will post the link in here so you can decide on your own what you think. But I'll give you my opinion, and let's just say, I was scared! I felt he had the right paces and tension to keep me wondering what was just around the corner and on the edge of my seat. I have since watched another short of his and I think he does a great job with casting and imagery to be a director I look forward to working with in the future. We've talked about it, but we haven't quite found the right project. Someday! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkeo4gtzPmA&feature=youtu.be