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WINNERS LIST
BEST OF THE FESTIVAL How The Rose Reaches
BEST SCREENPLAY Secret in the Triangle
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR Karan Kendrick, No Pressure
BEST WRITER, Julia Pender, No Pressure
BEST DIRECTOR, Into the Reds Tale, Alisdair Zhang

BEST STORY The Black Pearl

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Event Photos and Winner's Diploma Images snapped4u.com/galleries/22201

 
Welcome to the Paramount Film Festival  
Sat, March 29, 2025  

Meet Film & TV People!  
We’ll present local, national, and international productions. Enjoy Q&A with creators.  
We have premieres and award-winning films previously screened at other events around the globe.  
Have fun. Be inspired!  

1% of all ticket and festival merchandise sales go to Free Arts for Abused Children  www.freearts.org

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Venue address:
Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory
10931 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

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SCHEDULE

Sat, March 29
Doors Open 3:45 PM
Screenings 4:00 PM

Her Nails, Director Liliana Yawen Yang, Drama, 9:40
Buffy and the Balloon, Director John Maslowski, Animation, 1:35
How The Rose Reaches, Director Belle Adams, Drama, 17:34 FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
The Spinster, Director Malin Fjellstad, Comedy, 8:06
No Pressure, Director Karan Kendrick, Drama, 9:19 FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Into the Reds Tale, Director Alisdair Zhang, Animation, 04:05 FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

5:00 PM Q&A with Filmmakers
5:30 PM Awards Ceremony
5:45 PM Socializing & Networking Opportunity
6:30 PM Festival Ends


TICKETS
$7 here online, $10 doors
SOLD OUT
Tickets still available for March 30, April 12-13, May 3-4
here
www.hollywoodsff.org/events


VENUE

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SUGGESTED PARKING

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SUBMIT YOUR FILM OR SCREENPLAY

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Are you a filmmaker or writer? If 'YES" submit your film or screenplay today for the 2026 Edition of the Paramount Film festival Los Angeles here via filmfreeway
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FILMS WE SELECTED IN THE PAST
Watch on Amazon Prime and Tubi here lacinefest.org/films

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FILMS WE SELECTED IN THIS YEAR (breakdown)

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Her Nails, Director Liliana Yawen Yang, Drama, 9:40

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Buffy and the Balloon, Director John Maslowski, Animation, 1:35
A dog meets a special balloon.

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How The Rose Reaches, Director Belle Adams, Drama, 17:34
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Talulah, pregnant with her first born, wrestles with the reality of motherhood as she is confronted with memories of her own, mentally unstable mother.

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The Spinster, Director Malin Fjellstad, Comedy, 8:06
Life gets hard when your friends, colleagues and family keep setting you up with men because they think you can't handle being alone, and you eventually break down. In this short-film we follow Mia (32) in her exhausting life of long days of nagging and terrible dates. Will she ever find love her own way?

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No Pressure, Director Karan Kendrick, Drama, 9:19
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
After the suicide of a high school senior, friends grapple with understanding the factors that led to her decision to do so.

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Into the Reds Tale, Director Alisdair Zhang, Animation, 04:05
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

An abomination mimic creature enters the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and disguises itself as her, tricking the Big Bad Wolf into walking into a trap


SCREENPLAYS WE SELECTED IN THIS YEAR

The War On, Writer Jeff Bassetti, Feature Screenplay
A retired Delta Forces couple, seeking peace and a family, must fight for survival when a series of SWATTING incidents escalate into a violent home invasion by organ traffickers, turning their home into a battlefield.

Secret in the Triangle, Writer Shelley Chester, Feature Screenplay
A century of mystifying disappearances surrounds the Bermuda Triangle. Over fifty ships and twenty planes have vanished - without a trace. In 1965, one such plane, a C119 Flying Boxcar, joined the roster of the missing. Decades later, a driven Marine Archeologist, Mickey Jameson, her granddaughter Caddy, and her crew explore perilous waters and encounter supernatural challenges and government intrigue while uncovering ancestral mysteries and aligning with inexplicable entities.

The Black Pearl, Writer Sue Karypidis, Feature Screenplay
The Black Pearl is a compelling Psychological Thriller that feels like an Alfred Hitchcock twisted tale. It takes place in Santorini .
The idea of a couple deciding to swindle and then murder a lonely, old woman to live the good life is a concept with strong merit. However, the real wicked twist is that the elderly woman has her own murderous intents. It's a lot of fun to watch the cat and mouse game evolve.


LYNCH, Writer Peter Herlan, Feature Screenplay
Sergeant Joseph White, a peaceful post-Civil War reconstruction soldier falls in love, marries and has a baby with the sister of three confederate soldiers, Harriet. But her brothers' prejudices and hatred for the north runs deep and they devise a plan to put an end to the marriage and Joe.

Respawn, Writer D. Hunter Fein, Feature Screenplay
"How many times can you die before you lose yourself? A former assassin, suffering from dementia, undergoes an experimental treatment that turns her into an unstoppable force—one who can't stay dead. But as she pieces together her fractured memories, she must face the enemies of her past and a truth that could shatter her reality."

Zooey Sunshine: Good Vibes, Writer Shaun J. Guzman, Short Screenplay
Zooey lives the life of good vibes, she is probably if not the most beautifuk and courageous person you will ever meet in your lifetime, she does not enjoy to see people suffer, she dislikes negative can't stand bad energy. she refuses to hear impossible because shge knows deep down there always possibilities in this world of ours.

Barry & Harry The Movie, Writer Shaun J. Guzman, Short Screenplay
A freshly groovy story about two best buds in their 30’s whom still can’t seem to adjust or blend in the generation of today’s pop culture or world according to them. The language barrier isn’t what they were raise of; instead it confuses them in a way that always reminiscence the good ol days in the 90’s where in that oldies but goodies era was simply the greatest times ever. When MTV announces an audition casting call for a silly groovy role, Harry takes up on the chance of a lifetime; Harry ponders if acting is his calling called or not as both go on an adventurous ride when stumble upon some today’s generation with weird attitude and whole different aspect of languages that Barry & Harry gets in a hilarious out of control words. Is acting Harry’s calling card and is the offer at Universal Studio will cater to Barry or not?

OUTERBOUND, Writer Nathan Rohan, Feature Screenplay
Outerbound is a coming of age comedy centered around two college girls Mia & Barbara, who show up to the same job interview who haven't talked in years. They get thrown back into each other's lives as friends, but couldn't be more different from one another. Hi jinx ensues as their two personalities clash while they deal with life, love and friendship. It's a story about life, and what we all go threw when we enter that chapter in adulthood. Film tackles relatable but important issues of financial insecurity and mental health.

Poor Animals, Writer Mariana S. Belaval, Short Screenplay
When Mike is obligated by his father to put down their oldest horse Stick, Mike blackmails his older sister Frankie into helping him hide Stick from his father and convince him the horse is dead.


The festival organized by the festival founder and filmmaker
Mark Mos

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The Festival is organized by Mark Mos, Los Angeles-based Kodak Entertainment Imaging Awarded filmmaker and Film Premieres organizer. Mark has organized premieres such as Oscar's Awarded "Gladiator" (Russell Crowe), "Mission Impossible 2" (Tom Cruise), "Gone in 60 seconds" (Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie), "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Jim Carrey), and much more. Mark is also a filmmaker; he has a master's degree in TV and Film Production. His films were shown at film festivals in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago or Salt Lake City, and also European countries.

Mark also selected short comedies from the previous events and created these compilations below

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Come to the festival and help us organize it!
We always need an extra hand to  
- greet guests  
- set up chairs for Q&A with filmmakers  
- hang some posters  
- set up tables

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