HOLLYWOOD COMEDY SHORTS FEST UNVEILS OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
HOLLYWOOD COMEDY SHORTS FEST UNVEILS OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Hollywood March 28, 2017---The Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival (HCSF) presented by BITPIX is unveiling its lineup today of the shorts selected for the 2nd annual edition of the comedy celebration which takes place April 14-16, 2017 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres. Over 110 of best comedy short films from around the world will be showcased.
The official selections include short films starring Emma Thompson (High Road by Justin Harwood), Alec Baldwin (Curse of Don Sarducci by Chris Fondulas), Linda Hamilton (Shoot Me Nicely by Elias Pagliano), Erik Boccio's Wiretap Scars features Mike Starr, Samm Levine, Kevin Pollak, and Scott Murphy. Other selected titles include: Neil Patrick and Harris: The Chronicles of Conjoined Triplets by Adam Fynke and Jesse Eisenberg Uses the Urinal by Alec Brown.
Hollywood Comedy Shorts will feature the officially accepted filmmakers, talent from the films and a variety of stand up comedians. The festival is helping highlight the next generation of comedy voices creating short form content. This year's festival will feature 3 days of screenings, receptions, power panels and more all in Hollywood. Sponsors include BITPIX and GotVape. The festival also features a comedy screenplay competition.
Below is a breakdown of all of the Comedy Short Films & Screenplays competing at HCSF.
All Access Badges for the festival are available now.
2nd Annual Hollywood Comedy Shorts
Film Festival Official Selections:
A Christmas Surprise-by Sara Lew
Acting Class-by Aaron Fradkin
Beside Myself-by Jeff McCafferty
Best Served Cold-by Andoni Elias Nava
Big Manly Chess-by George Fleming
Blazing Saddles-by Maxi Witrak and Keaton Kaplan
Born Again-by Jason Tostevin
Braggage-by David Mun
Breaking Up With Bacon-by George Williams III and David Kerns
Brosa Nostra-by Mike Smith
Brown Terror-by Tim Bathrust
Bullfrog Bullfrog-by Robby Descant and Brian Christ
Cabin-by Luke Hollingshead
Cash Only-by Jake Rasmussen
Church-by Stephen Bodossian
Cindy's New Boyfriend-by Robert Brinkman
Crystal-by Crystal Correa
Death in Bloom-by Dael Oates
Dickey Sledgehammer-by Landon Ashworth and Matt Dean
Dissecting Gwen-by Katharine Barrell
Divorce Party-by Lauren Manes
DIY Daisy-by Erik Boccio
Don't Tell Anyone, But I'm Dating the President-by Tim Martin Gleason
Don't Think About It-by Niv Klainer
Fab Life Teresa XO-by Rob Janas
Farm to Table-by Ian McClellan
First Night-by Daniel Gomez
First Word-by Thomas R. Martin
Friends on a Bench: A Relationship in Six Acts-by Sean George
Friendship Without Love-by Sebastien Auger
Game Of Thrones Divorce-by Andrew Pifko
Girls I Audition With-by Corey Harrell
Grocery Store Action Movie-by Matthew Campbell
Happy Birthday Kevin-by John Psathas
Have A Little Faith-by Ashton Avila
Help! I'm Trapped In A Movie-by Riley Mandincea
Here's The Thing-by Seth Berkowitz
High Road-by Justin Harwood
How To Save Your Darling-Leopoldo Caggiano
Hush Hush-by Tom Nolle
I Wanna Date U-by Lisa Ovies
In the Hole-by Courtney Thomas
Jesse Eisenberg Uses the Urnal-by Alec Brown
Justin Has A Date-by Justin Ray
Kyloki-by Jordan Henry
Let's Do It-by Joel Jay Blacker
Lone Douche-by Katie Locke O'Brien
Managed-by Kenneth Bauer
Mere Players-Dan Levy Dagerman
Mike Holt 4 Ever-by Kenneth Anderson
Millions of Drops-by Matt Larson
Mommy Heist-by Anna Gutto
Movie Night-by Hamish McCollester
Neil Patrick and Harris: The Chronicles of Conjoined Triplets-by Adam Fynke
New Roommate-by Victor Yerrid
Now's A Bad Time-by Michael Oberst
ObSETHed: Memorial Day-by Zack Matzganis
Oh Baby-by Rory Rooney
One Under-by Ruth Pickett
Pee Sitting Down-by Misha Calvert
Real Good Drinking with Dan Peff-by Paul Thomas
Reckless Juliets-by Skylar Barrett
Sammy S&M-by Donnie Hobbie
Shoot Me Nicely-by Elias Plagianos
Shout at the Ground-by Joe Lonie
Shy Guys-by Frederic Lehne
Sixty-Five Drive-by Darrel Herbert
Skinny Fat Girl-by Brandon Baer
So F*cking Happy For You- by Lina Suh
Spaceman- by Christopher Oliva
Standards & Practices: A Short Film About Modern Romance-by Ellena Chmielewski
Strayed-by Heather Edwards
Takanakuy-by Austin Kolodney
Tales from the Toilet- by Pete Novitch
The Apology by Eamon Glennon
The Baby Shower (Short Film) by Kiley Lane Parker
The Bearded Lady-by Dan Riesser
The Chad-by Matthew Moore
The Curse of Don Scarducci-by Chris Fondulas
The Day LA Stood Still-by Karl Harpur
The Driving Seat-by Alexei Slater
The Haunt-by Isabel Cueva & Douglas Tait
The Haunting of Lester House-by Michael Benni Pierce
The Heist-by Luke Harris
The Line-by Jerome Velinsky
The Nation Holds It's Breath-by Kev Cahill
The Other Side-by Michael Degani
The Plumber (Le Plombier)-by Méryl Fortunat-Rossi & Xavier Séron
The Pretender-by Nathan Morse
The Rough Part-by Ryan Brown
The Schwartz Test-by Josh Yunis
The Short Short-by Martin White
The United Guys Network-by Tabatha Golat
The Way I Love You (Como Yo Te Amo)-by Fernando García Ruiz
Think Twice-by Eliaz Rodriguez
Time Travel Romance-by Ben Giroux
True Dating Stories- Jesse-by Andy King
Vantastic-by Alik Griffin
Weekend Warriors-by Julien Lasseur
Wire Tap Scars-by Erik Boccio
Woman of My Dreams (La Mujer de Mis Suenos)-by Javier San Roman
Working With Jigsaw-by Chris Capel
You, Me & Me-by Micah Paisner
You're Alive-by W. Alex Reeves
Your Mom Says Hi!-by Rocco Urbisci, Carlie Mantilla, Doni Carley
Zombie Family-by Joseph Weisman
Screenplay Official Selections
Mitch Yapko & Allen Rueckert
Phillip O' Sullivan
Travis Lemke
Emmett Raitt
Mark Renshaw
Stuart Creque
Dawn Burgess
Tom Radovich
Margina Sisson
Alicia Lomas-Gross
Gerard George
Troy Graham
Leslie Lyshkov
Matthew Holt
Amelia Solommon
3 To Die
Antoine's Play
Echo Chamber
It's A Job
Local Hero
Lovin' It
Randall Lipschitz Is A Star
Red Velvet
Remedy
Spooky Kind of Love
The Appetizer
The Day The Earth Stood Awkardly
The Dumbest Generation
The Unsocial Network
The Will
