Date: March 18, 2016
Venue: ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome, 800 seats
Submissions: 219
Guest Speaker: Aaron Sorkin P'19 (Steve Jobs, The Social Network, West Wing)
Red Carpet Hosts: Tiana Coles '16 and Jack Stovitz '16
Judges: Kenya Barris P'19 (black-ish), Kate Beckinsale P'17 (Underworld), Scott Lambert P'21 (The Fighter), Liz Yale Marsh '04 (festival founder), Alexandra Milchan P'21 (The Wolf of Wall Street), Connor Pritchard (Workaholics), Tim Ryan (Rotten Tomatoes), Darren Stein '89 (Jawbreaker), Sarah Timberman P'16'20 (Masters of Sex), Eric Zumbrunnen P'16 (Her)
Workshop Leaders: Lance Acord P'17 (Lost in Translation), Scott Lambert P'21 (The Fighter), Alexandra Milchan P'21 (The Wolf of Wall Street), Aaron Sorkin P'19 (A Few Good Men)
Directors: Javier Arango '16, Tiana Coles '16, Shannyn Schack '16, Jack Stovitz '16, Jenna Thompson '16
Advisers: Cheri Gaulke, Kevin O'Malley, Alyssa Sherwood, Ted Walch
Astro, Naught, 3:28, Audience Award
Sacha Lin and Katie Speare, Harvard-Westlake, Studio City
Daggers and Daguerreotypes, 8:55, Lizzie Awards for Production Design and Directing
Natalia Ferrara, LACHSA, Los Angeles
Dear America, 6:38, Lizzie Award for Writing
Gabrielle Gorman, New Roads School, Santa Monica
Dooble: The Small Winged Quail, 7:49, Lizzie Award for Sound Design
Marcus Emery, Saratoga High School, Saratoga
Embargo on Love, 6:34
Lauren Rothman, Harvard-Westlake, Studio City
III, 2:21
Izabella Garcia, Echo Park Film Center, Cortines High School of the Visual and Performing Arts, Los Angeles
Lamplight, 4:56
Jared Gentile, Harvard-Westlake, Studio City
Lead and Shrooms, 5:06, Lizzie Award for Originality
Max Wehner, Troy High School, Fullerton
Lola & Elaine, 5:08, Directors' Choice Award
Tia Mayer, Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego
Lucky Numbers, 9:47, Lizzie Award for Best Overall
Chester Milton, LACHSA, Los Angeles
The Story of Three Rings: A Memoir of Dana Schwartz, 8:22,Humanitarian Award
Felix Audelio-Ruiz, Juli Freedman, Elly Hong, Carolina Martinez, and Dora Schoenberg, The Righteous Conversations Project (with students from Harvard-Westlake, Studio City; Immaculate Heart, Los Angeles; John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica)
Untitled Documentary Project, 5:20
Robert Gordon, El Toro High School, Lake Forest
When a Man Texts a Woman, 8:37
Jack Stovitz, Harvard-Westlake, Studio City
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Whip It, 6:05, The Sally Menke Award for Editing
Jaxon Schriever, Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana
Wolf, 5:46, Lizzie Award for Cinematography
Bridger Hart, Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana