Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television

In 1876 Bulgaria, a desperate revolutionary must convince a room of suspecting Ottoman soldiers that he is innocent. Based on the history of the April Uprising -- a struggle for independence between Bulgaria and the immense Ottoman Empire.

A young Japanese-American girl struggles with discovering her identity, heritage, and the loss of her connection to her past in the context of the Japanese-American Internment during World War II.

When washed-up actor David Eastman participates in a comic convention in order to earn money for his granddaughter, he encounters his former co-star and rival Rick Majors for the first time in 40 years.

A group of animators pitch The Unlucky Rabbit, a documentary exploring Walt Disney’s earliest creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Through storyboards, they retrace the 1920s from Disney’s arrival in California, to his collaboration with Ub Iwerks for the character Oswald at Universal Pictures.

Presents a hilarious, imaginative mock-documentary about Wayne and Rich, who are two aging background vocalists who claim to have been behind some of the biggest rock-and-roll songs recorded in the 1950s and 60s. We see 'film clips' of them in youthful action and also 'stills of the era'. The flashback performances are all in perfect synchronisation and it is extremely inventive - and it's fun!

The Weezers live in a big-city tenement. Ethel smokes cigars and crunches her beer can when she's finished; Earl shuffles and stutters, reduced to slobbering slavery. When a cockroach disturbs their marital bliss, it's all out war, climaxing in a display of witty special effects.

This experimental film was created via one pass through the camera without special visual effects. Each frame of the film was taken at night via a long time-lapse ("time-exposure") which created the actual images, and each frame of film was taken after a period of time from the previous frame, creating the movement of the images. What looks like the sun in some shots is actually the moon, over-exposed to allow the capture of the much-dimmer stars in the sky. Longer exposures for each frame can make a night-time shot look like a day-time shot, except that you can still see stars moving in the sky. This film won a CINE Golden Eagle.

Hyun-sook pressures her anxious daughter to greet her strict grandmother for Lunar New Year, but when her daughter, Jisoo cannot speak, she must choose between punishment or defying generational expectations.

Years after their father vanished while searching for proof of extraterrestrial life, a skeptical sister and her obsessed brother embark on a trip to the desert to uncover the truth, forcing them to confront their beliefs, and each other.

When an ambitious animator pitches his idea to a skeptical producer, it comes to life - inside his backpack!

An unreleased short film about an Elvis Presley impersonator (which serve as a basis for the Cartoon Network original show and character Johnny Bravo.)

A caring but overbearing father builds a robot hoping for it to become a successful doctor, but as the robot grows older, it pursues its dream of being a rock and roll musician.

Two LAPD officers answer a disturbance. Inside, signs of an unseen tragedy emerge, forcing Officer Alvarez to confront his cultural identity, ethical duty, and empathy amid a divisive immigration debate.

When his time machine fails, a time-traveling salesman is stranded in a strange room outside of time. As memories resurface, he must decide whether to continue running from his past or finally face the imperfect reality he once abandoned.

Nationally-known disability rights advocate Carole Patterson takes on the world with her offbeat humor and brutal honesty in "Independent Little Cuss," a profile of her challenging life as she prepares to marry a non-disabled man despite his family's concerns.