Sunset Film Festival - Los Angeles 2021 Edition

Sunset Film Festival- Los Angeles 2021 Edition

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LAST OF US / The last fishermen of the lake

The last fishermen of Lake Maggiore, a photograph of a vanishing world. On Lake Maggiore there are 25 remaining, the last professional fishermen who bring among themselves stories and ancient knowledge, almost forgotten. MARCO RODELLA (45) is one of the youngest fishermen left on Lake Maggiore to live solely on his passion: fishing. Life on the Fishermen's Island has changed quickly, Marco's memories of his grandfather are distant echoes. Marco wakes up every day at 2 a.m. and goes out on the boat on his own until he returns at 5 a.m. The rest of the day is made to rest and prepare the next day's fishing work. His friend IVAN SPADONI (48) is now a former fisherman. What’s left is passion and memories that the two share in a fishing museum. GIORGIO BROVELLI(60) has a business that carries on with the family, the days pass quickly between boat trips, the fish market and the family’s restaurant. Giorgio tries to train young boys at the job, but everyone leaves him alone at some point. Giorgio and Marco are distant relatives, but they hardly ever meet. They and the other fishermen live far apart on the same lake. They are a presence that becomes more and more silent. Despite everything, Marco doesn’t give up and keeps living on his catch, solitary on the waters, at night and in the evening, constantly looking for the freedom to live in nature and with nature. Last of us is a slow portrait of a life totally lived on the water of the lake, far from the noises of the modern world which takes over. Fishing is no longer what it used to be. Fishing is easier, but truly a reality with an uncertain destiny. In a journey of voices and stories, images of the past and photographs of the present, the last fishermen reveal themselves in their intimate secrets that, in the future, it is not known who will keep them again.


SUE

Sue Ferguson, at 97 years young, after losing her husband of 69 years, expresses to her daughter Nancye that she would like to meet a man to spend the rest of her life with. In the hopes to fulfill her mom’s dream, Nancye creates an online dating profile for Sue. After three months of trying, hope turns to disillusionment. Then magically one day Jim White, age 87 and also a widower, sends a message and Sue goes on her first online date. It was love at first sight and they are now a happy couple enjoying the adventures of a new romance. Whether it’s a trip to Puerto Vallarta, going to films, restaurants, parties, or just sitting at home watching old movies, they just love being together. It’s a mini-miracle! Sue in now 101 and living with jim in her home. For Sue, dreams do come true!


The Roads Most Traveled: Photojournalist Don Bartletti

Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Don Bartletti shares heart wrenching stories from his forty year career documenting history as it unfolds.

Internationally recognized for his commitment to photographing the migration of Central Americans to the United States, Bartletti’s images reveal the never ending saga of illegal immigration by individuals desperate to improve their lives.


The United States of Tomorrow

A family prepares for a day at school with their children in the not-so-distant future. But the mass-shooting epidemic that has plagued our society has only gotten worse, so this family’s routine may be typical, but it certainly isn’t what we would consider normal.


WE ABOVE III

Les Orphelins & 5S Content present a glimpse of a world at the dawn of a pandemic: from the somber desolation of Chernobyl's ruins to Tibet's untouched majestic mountains, Siberia's glacial grounds and Mongolia's snowy desert dunes.

- Winner "Best Drone Video" x the New York International Film Awards™ - NYIFA 2021 - Winner "Best Nature/Travel Film" x the Canadian Cinematography Awards 2020 - Winner "Best Drone Video" x the Istanbul Film Awards 2020 - Official Selection x Southern California Drone Film Festival 2021 - Official Selection x the Berlin Flash Film Festival 2020 - Official Selection x Directors Notes


Attila

Attila Domos is paraplegic athlete, musician, and unofficial world record holder.  In 1993, he had a falling accident and became a T11/T12 paraplegic, losing his ability to walk. He was determined to prevent his injury from redefining his life. He started taking steps to continue his dream of being an athlete at first through power lifting, and now through endurance hand cycling. In August of 2016, he broke the 24-hour Hand cycling World Record by riding 407.7 miles in 24 hours. However, it happened at his local track in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, without any official representation. As a result, his record is unofficial. The next step in his journey was to make an official attempt at the 24-hour record. Our documentary outlines his attempt and desire to break this world record.


7 Hours On Earth

This magical comedy for all the family is inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream but set in a high school instead of a forest, with aliens instead of fairies meddling in the love lives of teenagers. It all kicks off when a bunch of dysfunctional aliens have a glitch in hyper-space, which means they have to emergency download into a school office – into the bodies of the Headmaster, the Deputy Head and some naughty kids in the middle of a major telling-off. This is a bit confusing for the aliens as they’ve never had bodies or emotions or flatulence before. Once out playing their ‘roles’ in the school, they are perplexed by the heart-break of teenage love. They decide to get involved and ‘leave this funny little world a better place’. With their super-powers they are certainly clever enough to make everyone love the right person… or are they? Cue chaos. How does it all end? Let’s just say that the course of true love never does run smooth whether you are a teenager or an alien!


Daddydelphia

Five twenty-somethings become lost while on a road trip to a weekend getaway due to their navigator’s alcohol-fueled gross negligence. As a result, they are no longer destined for sunshine and pool time. Rather, they are relegated to life in a small, peculiar town filled with inhabitants who hold mysterious beliefs, strange traditions, and a determination to burn them at the stake.


Writer's Block

Every filmmaker has heard the phrase, "Write what you know," but what happens when it's taken too far? A filmmaker suffering from writer’s block on his murder mystery feature film takes the advice  “write what you know” too literally.


Fearless

An intimate portrait of a boxing gym in a small town of Conroe, Texas. The film is constructed as an allegory for the challenges faced by people of color and immigrants in the US.


Dad Pals

Three friends are put to the test when they find out their childhoods were shockingly different.


God Save the Queen

A disgruntled prom queen embarks on an impulsive odyssey and dissects the circumstances that led her there.


FREED CLIMB

Antoine Le Menestrel, former high-level climber, tells us with sincerity and sensitivity, his history at the cliff of Buoux, France and his vision of climbing today.


Eden Neville - Video Games (Official Music Video)

This is a music video that I wrote and co-directed for my original song Video Games. The video shows a boyfriend distracted by his video games, while behind him, his girlfriend is dealing with three very different situations. This is the first project that I worked on with my brother, who co-directed the video. We shot, edited and released it all within two weeks. We shot it all in his apartment, following COVID regulations.


Ark Exitus

Doppelgängers from a parallel universe have secretly assumed the identities of their opposites. To stop the threat of a mass invasion, STRUCTURE, a covert agency that polices interdimensional travel, has sent its best assassin.


First Holiday

A recent widow tries to find some normalcy at her "first holiday" despite her not-so-normal guests.


Happy Trails

During the pandemic, a young woman makes a plan to meet her therapist in the mountains but as she hits the trail alone, nothing goes as planned.


All-American Boy

When Sean returns home from college break for the summer, he makes the decision to confront his long time crush from high school only to be stuck in a web of blackmail and abuse.


Return

A women was peddling while light was red, not a single person noticed her A few meters apart was a women who was selling her body,but nobody noticed red light Maybe prostitute was a peddler someday This documentary is about the problems of the girls who sell their own bodies for money and also examines the conditions for returning to society


Shots in the Dark

The Inside Story of the World's Most Popular Only-at-Night Campus Disc Golf Cours. A group of friends leave a fun legacy at their alma mater by creating a not-so-secret, only-at-night disc golf course on campus that is still being played by students and alumni almost two decades later.


Space Case

Space Case follows Bobbie Almond, a social outcast who has dreams to escape her small town life. She has a ticket to Mars! But when Bobbie's ticket to a new life gets stolen by her super Preppy sister, she's forced down a road of conformity, to be a part of the towns Beauty pageant! Will she conform? Or will she bail and follow her dreams!


The Cure

Short action film aiming to break stereotypes. Craig's friend plants a seed that suggests his job may be tampering with his lifesaving research. After stealing the data from his job he sets out on a mission across Dublin city. Craig's journey takes an ill-fated turn and he ends up in a situation that leads to a life or death decision.


The Mandrake

Herman, a farmer content to live out his life alone out in the woods, tends his garden day in and day out. Except for the regulars that come to his market to buy his giant carrots and radishes, he rarely gets visitors. When a witch approaches his cottage one day, asking for a special ingredient and supplying a spell, he is understandably shaken. He wakes up the next morning to the cries of a screaming baby, unaware that his life has taken an incredible turn.


Til Life Do Us Part

Barnaby and Timothy are a match made in the grave. One is a miserable misanthrope and the other a paranoid hypochondriac; together they are 70-year-old best friends who make a suicide pact to spite the world and end it all before a disease does.

When Timothy unexpectedly chooses life, Barnaby accuses him of betraying the sacred suicide pact, corrupting their friendship into a struggle for the ground they walk on or the dirt underneath it.


The Praetorian

On New Year's Eve, the former operative returns from the hostilities to his hometown and faces a suspicious activity. Instead of support from others he sees only indifference and misunderstanding. Then the retired military man decides to investigate this independently


The Pulse Within Us

Natalie, a passionate new ballroom dancer, is taken under the wing of Ana, her dancing idol, during the pandemic. Because of the quarantine, Ana and Natalie only have each other to rehearse with, as their male counterparts are stuck in different places. The unexpected duo grow closer together as the isolation persists, and an unexpected opportunity soon arises, will they risk it all?...


Madeleine

When Madeleine goes back to her old family house in search of an item precious to her, she finds herself haunted by strange forces, looking to destroy her sanity at all costs.


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Viewing Time

  • May 15, 2021, 9:00 am PST

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VOD Start: May 15, 2021, 2:00 pm

VOD End: May 22, 2021, 9:00 am

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