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The Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival features short films with original scores performed live-to-picture. The 2018 festival on Saturday, July 21st at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is presented by Helix Collective in collaboration with the Academy of Scoring Arts. Films for the 2018 festival are curated by the faculty at the New York Film Academy – Los Angeles, the L.A. Film School and Columbia College, Hollywood.

6:00pm Composer and Filmmaker Panel

7:30pm Screening

9:00pm Reception

Free Parking in Barnsdall Art Park

Selected film composers are paired with a winning filmmaker to create an original score for the festival. The film is screened with the score performed live by the renowned performance and recording ensemble, Helix Collective. The screening includes an interview with the filmmakers and composers with host Brian Ralston, co-host of the SCOREcast podcast. Awards for Best Picture and Best Musical Score are presented at the close of the festival.

Now in it’s fifth season, LALSFF’s goal is to highlight the role of collaboration between composers and filmmakers. Acting like a talent agent, the festival brings experts in the two disciplines together. At the screenings, filmmakers and composers hear and see the work of new colleagues, meet new collaborators, and establish working relationships with each other. Helix Collective proves that it is possible to get talented, experienced film musicians to play and record for independent films!

The 2018 festival is sponsored by Orange Tree Samples, Sonic Fuel Studios, White Bear PR, ASCAP, and the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

2018 Festival Lineup

Aphrodite

Director – Nicolas Varela (NYFA)

Composer – Drum & Lace

A frustrated career on singing drives Aphrodite to pay with her own flesh and identity for an uncertain opportunity into the industry.

Arrow And Oil

Director – Lanyue Zhang (NYFA)

Composer – George Oldziey

Around 1010 A.D. during the Northern Song Dynasty. Chen YaoZi, a civil officer from the imperial court with superb archery skills starts thinking and questioning about the relationship between his archery and his work after he met an old oil seller.

The Bag and the Bike

Director – David Haye (LAFS)

Composer – Marco Valerio Antonini

The Bag and The Bike follows the journey of a poor little backpack, as it copes with the realities of being replaced. The film was shot over the course of 48hrs, for a final class assignment.

Bam Bam

Director – Logan McDonald (LAFS)

Composer – Erik Desiderio

Bam-Bam is a drama about a browbeaten mechanic who wants to keep his girlfriend happy. When he is forced to choose between her and his layabout brother, he must decide what is best for himself before they decide for him.

Devil’s Hour

Director – Brandon Garman

Composer – Nathalie Bonin (LAFS)

An evil presence has taken possession of Sam and attempts to take the soul of her sister Ash. Ash is forced to fight for her life and murder her beloved sister, or did she. Now the hour of the devil has struck and the demon claws its way once more into the body of Sam. Will Ash be able to make it out of the house with her soul intact, or will she fall victim to the demons insatiable hunger?

Liminal

Director – Vicken Joulfayan (NYFA)

Composer – Shaun Chasin

Nadim tries to escape his own reality but soon realizes that he is being forced to confront it more than ever.

Niara

Director – Victoria Gagieva (NYFA)

Composer – Steph Kowal

A lonely child soldier trapped in horrors of African militant group experiences a simple act of humanity from a person she is about to condemn to death.

L’Ombre Amoureuse

Director – Glenn Morisse (LAFS)

Composer – Joy Ngiaw

A susceptible college student dreams to escape the charade he’s built to protect himself from people’s judgments.

The Pill

Director – Oliver Weinmann (NYFA)

Composer – Jonathan Keith

A short description of my The Pill is: A dark comedy about a women who is trapped in a relationship and the only way she is able to go on is by taking a pill.

There She Was

Director – Yesmalem Yeshaw (CCH)

Composer – Peter Lam

He loves her. He loves her not. How many petals will this young lady have to pull to turn her friend into her lover?