Los Angeles Film Festival Nominees 2012 | 2012 LAFF Nominees

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The Los Angeles Film Festival runs from June 14th to the 24th. 


The Los Angeles Film Festival 2012 Nominees are as follows:


Narrative Competition 

 All Is Well, Pocas Pascoal – Portugal
 Breakfast with Curtis, Laura Colella
 The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man, Arturo Pons – Mexico
 Crazy and Thief, Cory McAbee
 Dead Man’s Burden, Jared Moshé
 Four, Joshua Sanchez
 A Night Too Young, Olmo Omerzu – Czech Republic
 Pincus, David Fenster
 Red Flag, Alex Karpovsky
 Thursday till Sunday, Dominga Sotomayor – Chile

Documentary Competition

 25 to Life, Mike Brown
 A Band Called Death, Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino E
 Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives, Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore
 Call Me Kuchu, Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
 Drought, Everado González – Mexico
 The Iran Job, Till Schauder – USA/Germany/Iran
 Sun Kissed, Maya Stark, Adi Lavy
 Vampira and Me, R. H. Greene
 Words of Witness, Mai Iskander

International Showcase 

 Bestiaire, Denis Côté – Canada
 Bunohan: Return to Murder, Dain Said – Malaysia (Oscilloscope Pictures)
 Canícula, José Ã�lvarez – Mexico
 The First Man, Gianni Amelio – France
 The Last Elvis, Armando Bo – Argentina
 Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho – Brazil (The Cinema Guild)
 On the Edge, Leila Kilani – France/Morocco/Germany
 P-047, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee – Thailand
 Return to Burma, Midi Z. – Taiwan/Myanmar
 Sister, Ursula Meier – Switzerland (Adopt Films)
 The Strawberry Tree, Simone Rapisarda Casanova – Canada/Cuba/Italy
 Summer Games, Rolando Colla – Switzerland
 Teddy Bear, Mads Matthiesen – Denmark (Film Movement)
 Unforgivable, André Téchiné – France (Strand Releasing)
 Without Gorky, Cosima Spender – UK

Summer Showcase 

 About Face, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (HBO Films)
 Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley
 Big Easy Express, Emmett Malloy
 Celeste and Jesse Forever, Lee Toland Krieger (Sony Pictures Classics)
 Gayby, Jonathan Lisecki (Wolfe Releasing)
 Gimme the Loot, Adam Leon (IFC Films)
 The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki
 It’s a Disaster, Todd Berger
 La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus, Mark Kendall – USA/Guatemala
 Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme (Sony Pictures Classics)
 An Oversimplification of her Beauty, Terence Nance – USA/France
 People Like Us, Alex Kurtzman (Dreamworks Pictures)
 The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield (Magnolia Pictures)
 Reportero, Bernardo Ruiz
 Robot and Frank, Jake Schreier (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
 Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul (Sony Pictures Classics)

Community Screenings 

 Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino – Grand Performances Screening
 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg – FIGat7th Screening
 G-Dog, Freida Mock – WORLD PREMIERE
 The Invisible War, Kirby Dick (Cinedigm)
 LUV, Sheldon Candis – Project Involve Screening (Indomina)
 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Nicholas Meyer – FIGat7th Screening

The Beyond

 The History of Future Folk, J. Anderson Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker
 Juan of the Dead, Alejandro Brugués – Cuba
 Saturday Morning Massacre, Spencer Parsons

Retro 

 Ballads, Blues and Bluegrass (1961), Alan Lomax
 Banishment (2007), Andrey Zvyagintsev – Russia – LAFCA’s The Film That Got Away
 The Breaking Point (1950), Michael Curtiz – Film Foundation Screening


Short Films
3113 – DIRECTOR Eric Demeusy
663114 – Japan – DIRECTOR Isamu Hirabayashi
’92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card – DIRECTOR Todd Sklar
Against the Sea – Mexico/USA – DIRECTOR Richard Parkin
Another Bullet Dodged – DIRECTOR Landon Zakheim
The Arm – DIRECTORS Jessie Ennis, Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos
Asad – South Africa/USA – DIRECTOR Bryan Buckley
Bear – Australia – DIRECTOR Nash Edgerton
Big Man – Nigeria – DIRECTOR Julius Onah
Black Doll – Mexico – DIRECTOR Sofia Carrillo
Cadaver – DIRECTOR Jonah D. Ansell
CatCam – DIRECTOR Seth Keal
The Chair – DIRECTOR Grainger David
Cheap Extermination – DIRECTOR Minka Farthing-Kohl
Dog Eat Dog – DIRECTOR Sian Heder
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared – England – DIRECTORS Joseph Pelling, Rebecca Sloan
Fireworks – DIRECTOR Victor Hugo Duran
First Birthday – DIRECTOR Andrew Ahn
The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar – Canada/Bosnia and Herzegovina – DIRECTOR Igor Drljaca
Good Bread – DIRECTOR Eddie Schmidt
Hellion – DIRECTOR Kat Candler
Hold On Tight – Ireland – DIRECTOR Anna Rodgers
I Am John Wayne – DIRECTOR Christina Choe
Izzy & Salvador – DIRECTOR Jean-Pierre Caner
Kendo Monogatari – Cuba/Guatemala – DIRECTOR Fabián Suárez
Kudzu Vine – DIRECTOR Josh Gibson
Laura Keller – NB – DIRECTOR Mo Perkins
Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke – DIRECTORS Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva
Long Distance Information – England – DIRECTOR Douglas Hart
Meaning of Robots – DIRECTOR Matt Lenski
Moxie – England – DIRECTOR Stephen Irwin
Mr. Christmas – DIRECTOR Nick Palmer
New Gift – DIRECTOR Supriyo Sen
Next Door Letters – Sweden – DIRECTOR Sascha Fülscher
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise – DIRECTOR Kelly Sears
Paperman – DIRECTOR John Kahrs
Paraíso – DIRECTOR Nadav Kurtz
The Pub – England – DIRECTOR Joseph Pierce
Record / Play – DIRECTOR Jesse Atlas
Reindeer – England – DIRECTOR Eva Weber
Remote Area Medical – DIRECTORS Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman
Robots – DIRECTOR Liz Garbus
Sacrifice – Russia – DIRECTOR Anar Abbasov
Scanning – Cuba – DIRECTOR Aleksandra Maciuszek Mukoid
Soil – DIRECTOR Meejin Hong
Song of the Spindle – DIRECTOR Drew Christie
Thumb Snatchers From The Moon Cocoon – DIRECTOR Bradley Schaffer
Voice Over – Spain – DIRECTOR Martín Rosete