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22nd Annual Westflix Film Festival for California Teens

Film Festival / Saturday March 15, 2025 / Paramount Theater at Paramount Studios / 5555 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038 / 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Filmmakers' Workshop / Sunday March 16, 2025 / Harvard-Westlake Upper School 3700 Coldwater Canyon Studio City, CA 91604 / 12:30 PM -3:30 PM

Westflix is a celebration of the best short films produced by high school students throughout California, curated and organized by student festival directors, board members, club members, and faculty advisors at Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City, CA.

The program of student short films are showcased in an evening red carpet screening and awards event at the Theater in Los Angeles and followed by a day of film workshops with industry professionals at Harvard-Westlake School, the sponsor of Westflix. Previous venues include ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, the TCL Chinese Theater, the historic Million Dollar Theater in downtown LA, and the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Free tickets become available 2/22 at 2:22 pm. Reserve yours here as they will likely sell out. Every guest must reserve a ticket in order to attend.

Saturday March 15th, 2025 - Paramount - Festival Schedule:
5:30 pm - Check in begins
5:45pm-6:45 pm - HWTV Red Carpet on the Paseo
6:30 pm - Theater Doors Open and HW Jazz Explorers play live on stage
7:00 pm - Introductions and Keynote Speaker
7:30 pm-9:30 pm - 2 Act Screening of Films (with 15 minute intermission)
9:30 pm-10 pm - Lizzie Awards Ceremony

Westflix is produced by members of the Harvard-Westlake School community and thus holds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core. Each year we work to reach further to include and uplift the voices and stories of a more diverse range of young filmmakers across the state. Westflix is a brave space for creative expression and education that celebrates and recognizes student artists of different identities and backgrounds. In the past, we’ve been proud to showcase films by LGBTQIA+ filmmakers, POC filmmakers, first generation filmmakers, Jewish filmmakers, women filmmakers, first time filmmakers, filmmakers with disabilities, and other students of marginalized communities, who were able to share their own stories via our platform. As arbiters of media, we understand how much representation matters and will continue to expand our scope.

Meet the 22nd Annual Westflix Directors

Director of Operations, Jasmine Sorgen ’25
Director of Submissions and Judging, Gideon Evans ’25
Director of Media and Promotion, Kate Goldberg ’25
Director of Design and Media, Aryadini Diggavi ’25
Director of Community Outreach, Tyler Castanon-Hill ‘25
Board Co-Chairs, Dominic Landes ‘25 and Micah Parr ‘25
Faculty Advisors, Ms. Brannon Rockwell-Charland Cook and Mx. Reb L Limerick

The Westflix Board is an decision-making and idea-generating body that supports the Festival Directors and completes substantive tasks central to the festival. The Westflix Board, composed of Seniors passionate about video art and filmmaking, is an extension of the leadership team.

The Westflix club is an enthusiastic group of 10th-12th graders who love film and want to help realize our film festival. Club members attend regular meetings between September and March, judge hundreds of submissions, help behind-the-scenes for promotional videos, and volunteer on the day of the festival.

There are many others who make Westflix possible and we recognize them in our annual program. Thank you to all who financially support our festival so it can be free for submitters and attendees, teachers and mentors who encourage their students to create and submit films, HW faculty/staff who help our organization run smoothly throughout the year, make the event so special each spring, and attend and support the annual festival.