Join NFMLA on June 23rd as they celebrate their monthly film festival with a special focus on LGBTQ+

LOS ANGELES - June 14, 2018 - PRLog -- The night begins with the InFocus: LGBTQ+ shorts program, which features both narrative and nonfiction stories of struggle, triumph and personal relationships.

Next up is a shorts program of films that each exemplify strong elements of post production, in celebration of the Los Angeles Post Production Group's tenth anniversary. From sound and music to editing, VFX and stop-motion animation post-production, the program represents a wide range of skills that make films come alive once shooting wraps.

Concluding the night is the feature film Alaska's A Drag, the story of a drag performer in small-town Alaska who must survive his surroundings and find a way to follow his dreams, created from a short film made in AFI's Directing Workshop for Women.

Shorts #1: InFocus - LGBTQ+

Uniform – Directed By Ellie Foumbi and Michael Niederman

USA

Parents are at odds with what to do when their 6-year old son is sent home from school for wearing a dress.

Zoe+Ari – Directed By Rachael Meyers

USA

Zoe and Ari, a couple of two years, pack their suitcases to fly to Zoe's sister's wedding in Portland. As they decide what to bring, Ari learns a devastating truth about what Zoe's family knows.

Real Lemons – Directed By Julian Buchan

USA

World Premiere

Hardened ex-convict Jesse, openly gay to those he trusts, ropes his high-spirited and naive younger brother John into committing a robbery so they can leave their old life behind.

We Did Not Fall From The Sky – Directed By Tabs Breese and Georgia Oakley

UK, India

Purushi, Pratiksha and Shalu are three best friends and trans women struggling to find their place in contemporary Indian society, often via the only means of making a living available to them: sex work and begging.

Georgia is an award winning writer / director. Her latest project premiered at the 2017 TriBeCa International Film Festival and awarded the Kodak Kickstarter Grant, the Jameson Works Film Bursary and the Audience Award Jury Prize. She was recently selected as one of six emerging filmmakers on the BFI Flare & BAFTA mentorship scheme, as well as BFI NET.Work x BAFTA Crew 2017.

Lulu – Directed By Diana Cignoni

USA

To inhabit Lulu's world is to enter the Alice in wonderland rabbit hole and discover that nothing is as it seems. A modern day fable exploring first love, gender & sexual identity.

Shorts #2: Post Production

The New Guy – Directed By Sam Carmichael

USA

A group of teenage kids set in the late 90's make a series of prank phone calls and unknowingly stumble upon a deadly hostage situation.

Gloria Talks Funny – Directed By Kendall Goldberg

USA

When struggling voice actress, Gloria, discovers her agent failed to tell her that her claim-to-fame cartoon is being remade, she sets her sights on reprising her role as the famous BioBoy.

The Cure – Directed By Mike Olenick

USA

A mom cries, photos fly, cats spy, and bodies collide in this sci-fi soap opera focusing on the secrets dreams of people who are desperately searching for ways to cure their fears of loneliness.

Evie's Christmas Gift – Directed By Dawn Fields

USA

A bratty ten-year-old girl learns a SCARY lesson about opening her gifts before Christmas morning.

The Scorpion's Tale – Directed By Jhosimar Vasquez

USA

A notorious hitman who's facing death row is visited one last time by his seemingly innocent son. Now the hitman has to convince his son that he accepted his fate and he's ready to die.

Two Balloons – Directed By Mark C. Smith

USA

Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.

Feature Film

Alaska is a Drag - Directed By Shaz Bennett

USA

This is a fish out of water story -- literally. Everyone who slices fish all day daydreams - his are just glamtastic. He's had to learn to fight to survive. And his boss who is also an amateur boxer takes note. When a new kid offers to be his sparring partner – he and his twin are forced to confront the real reason they're stuck in fish guts.

Additional event information is available at www.nfmla.org

Founded in 2007, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. NFMLA's programs annually serve approximately 25,000 patrons in the Greater Los Angeles area. NFMLA has screened over 2,500 films from 75+ countries, highlighting local and international talent.