Posted by Larry Gleeson
third Annual Wealthy & Profitable Movie Pageant Declares Official Picks (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 Wealthy & Profitable Movie Pageant 3 (RSFF 3), offered by Topcat Administration, 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 competition will function 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.).
Further workshops and occasions will probably be held on September 19-20 as a part of the competition’s program and directive to help within the discovery, growth, and promotion of upcoming filmmakers who make their residence within the coronary heart of Hollywood. All Official Picks, in addition to some extra movies not included within the screenings on the Egyptian Theatre, will probably be featured in RSFF’s digital catalog, which is distributed to competition attendees and trade professionals for extra publicity.
RSFF Pageant Administrators Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose, Dylan Trupiano, and Web page Brady mentioned, “As we head into our third yr, we’re excited so as to add new alternatives to RSFF’s programming—together with talent growth workshops, stay leisure, and new areas to attach with different filmmakers. Offering considerate schooling and sources to our group is extraordinarily necessary to us, and we’re thrilled to have the ability to showcase these 13 brief movies in such an iconic movie institution on the Egyptian Theatre.”
Making its world premiere at RSFF will probably be Maky Rupert’s Peas, a coming-of-age story a few younger lady seeing her mom go on a date for the primary time since her father’s demise. An Nguyen’s Through 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.
Different brief movies highlighting promising filmmakers embody 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 means of Hillman Grad’s ‘Rising Voices’ initiative that depicts burnout by means of a surrealist lens; Creating Issues, a heartfelt documentary from brothers Bryan and Taylor Simpson that explores the legacy of their father by means of his artwork; and Stephanie Kaznocha’s award-winning Confessions, a heartfelt comedy following two nuns who ponder what their futures maintain.
This yr’s version of RSFF was curated by a novel jury comprising alumni filmmakers, junior executives, and seasoned programmers. The jury will embody Pageant Administrators Web 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 Wealthy & Profitable Movie Pageant, please go to: https://filmfreeway.com/rsff.
2024 Wealthy & Profitable Movie Pageant Official Picks
Baggage
Director: Tim Hendrix
Nation: USA, Operating 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
Nation: USA, Operating 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 understand it, they’re embarking on an journey.
CREATING THINGSCreating Issues
Administrators: Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson
Nation: USA, Operating Time: 10:20 min
Two brothers use interview fragments, items of artwork, and varied household mementos to discover the legacy of their father and what he left behind.
Half-Mild
Director: Lauren Jevnikar
Nation: USA, Operating Time: 13:25 min
A pair debates having unprotected automobile intercourse late at evening.
The Jennifer Meyers Story
Director: Caroline Symons
Nation: USA, Operating 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. Because the episode progresses, we be taught extra in regards to the girl setting up and working the reenactment mini fashions and the hazard lurking in her one-bedroom condo.
Order for Pickup
Director: Jackie! Zhou
Nation: USA, Operating 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 every part.
PEASPeas
Director: Maky Rupert
Nation: USA, Operating 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
Nation: USA; Operating Time: 16:48 minutes
When a chronically on-line music journalist encounters a worldwide pop star’s newest effort at queerbaiting, he seizes the second, activates his digicam, and expresses some selection phrases for the vapid musician and their followers. However 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.
Nonetheless Life
Director: Connor Griffith
Nation: USA, Operating Time: 6:52 min
Composed of over 1000 engravings from the 18th-Nineteenth century, Nonetheless Life is a meditation on objectivity and which means. The movie explores the concept we stay in a world of objects and a world of objects lives inside us.
The Swimmer
Director: Máté Boegi
Nation: Denmark/USA, Operating Time: 16:17 min
When a sound-recordist brings his girlfriend on a visit to the Danish west coast to file atmospheres, he picks up a disturbing sound that begins to torment his conscience.
Through The Wire
Director: An Nguyen
Nation: Vietnam/USA, Operating Time: 15:52 min
A chronically on-line and socially inept teenager takes a leap of religion to satisfy up together with her on-line bestie for the primary time.
TENNIS ORANGESTennis, Oranges
Director: Sean Pecknold
Nation: USA, Operating Time: 10:53 min
A robotic vacuum affected by burnout quits its job at a hospital and units out to seek out group and a larger goal on a quiet avenue the place two lonely rabbits are caught in perpetual loops.
VOCÊ MEANS YOU
Director: Mahyar Mandegar
Nation: USA, Operating Time: 3:18 min
Within the midst of an odd skatepark afternoon, Reza’s world transforms as he embarks on the primary steps of what could possibly be a phenomenal journey, all set in movement by an awaited encounter.
Concerning the Wealthy & Profitable Movie Pageant (RSFF)
Based in 2021 by sogbots—a manufacturing firm run by Nir Liebenthal, Noah Morse, Jeremy Roth-Rose, and Dylan Trupiano—and joined the next yr by Web 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 competition, 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 trade mainstays in search of them. A non-competitive competition, 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 best way for much more artistic collaboration. Further help may also come by means of sogbots’ Repair it in Submit Fund, which awards choose filmmakers with post-production funding for his or her shorts.
Concerning 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 means of immersive movie curation, dialog, and presentation.
The American Cinematheque celebrates the movie-going expertise on the core of its mission. Because it first started exhibiting movies in theatres in 1985, the American Cinematheque has supplied 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 yr; 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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