18th Santa Monica Film Festival is Coming this Weekend. Here’s are the Selections

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Screenings Followed by Award Ceremony and Reception

The upcoming 18th Santa Monica Film Festival is set to captivate audiences with a selection of award-winning independent films from local, national, and international filmmakers.

This year’s festival is designed to offer both in-person film screenings at AMC 4 Santa Monica and a virtual experience accessible to a global audience.

Event Schedule:

Screenings

AMC Broadway 4 – Theater 1

11:00 AM: “Shot Dead”
- Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
12:40 PM: “The Great Awakening”
- Followed by Q&A with Rizza Islam
3:00 PM: “Stolen Dough”
- Followed by Q&A with Claudia Wit
4:20 PM: “Influence”
- Q&A with Filmmakers

AMC Broadway 4 – Theater 2

11:00 AM: “We Will Not Be Silenced”
- Followed by Q&A with Johan Flybring and Tigran Martinian
1:00 PM: Shorts Block 1
- “The Old Young Crow”
- “Denuevo”
- “Radio Telescope”
- “Career Day”
- Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
2:15 PM: Shorts Block 2
- “Onions”
- “What Ever Happened to Jonny Faith”
- “A Wedding Day”
- Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
3:30 PM: Shorts Block 3
- “This Body Is A Shell”
- “A Night In Bridge”
- “Good Bad Luck”
- Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
4:40 PM: Shorts Block 4
- “Trundle and the Lost Borscht of Atlantis”
- “All At Once”
- “Rochelles”
- Followed by Q&A with Filmmakers