Celluloid Social Club - Nov 27, 2024 Return Extravaganza!

ANZA Club, Doors 7pm Show 8pm

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After a 5 year hiatus, The Celluloid Social Club live screening event returns for the first time since Fall 2019 to bring you exceptional short films, filmmaker Q&As and networking!

Silver Sponsor: Langara College Film Arts

Highlights include:

starring as Navarro, one of the lead stars in Fede Álvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) sharing her on-screen and behind-the-scenes experiences with clips from the film and her starring role in the currently in post-production local Telefilm-funded feature

screening his legendary Crazy8s film CYPHER and clips from DINER

(Top 12 announced online at noon Nov 27 at https://crazy8s.film)

Also screening:

RNG Run N Gun 2023 Best Film and Director winner JEFFREY by Thomas Affolter (ALTONA, COUNTER ACT, THE UNDERTAKER’S SON, producer THE CHINATOWN DINER), also screening the trailer for his 2024 Leo Award Best Documentary winning feature ALTONA by the Affolter Brothers.

Exclusive clips from the Telefilm Talent to Watch feature currently in post-production FOREIGNER by Ava Maria Safai (Crazy8s alum ZIP)

2024 Leo Award for Best Music Video LOVE SONG featuring Warren Dean Flandez

Trailers for films including:

HARD CORE LOGO (Trailer) by Bruce McDonald, screening at the RIO Theatre Thurs Nov 28

MIHNEA (Trailer) directed, written by and starring Mike Doaga

Other Films and Guests TBA!

WHEN:

Wednesday, November 27

7:00pm – 8:00pm - Doors/Mingling/Networking

8:00pm – 10:00pm - Show

10:00pm – 11:30pm - Party/Mingling/Networking

WHERE:

The ANZA Club, #3 West 8th Ave. at Ontario St., Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M8

Street Parking/close to Broadway/Main St bus routes/Skytrain

Limited wheelchair accessibility.

HOW:

Admission/Membership: $10 through EventBrite in advance or at door (inclu fees) or $10 cash at door (subject to capacity).

Note: Bring cash to purchase raffle tickets

19+/No Minors.

Call for Volunteers: for Front of House.

Arrive 5:00pm.

Free Entry & Drink. If interested: Please fill out our Google Form (https://forms.gle/EruCmmjQvzmr9D5k9)

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Hosted by David C. Jones

Produced by Paul Armstrong

Operations Manager Sierra Wilson-Furr

Technical Directors by Sierra Wilson-Furr & Nathanael Vass

Intern Samantha Teasdale

Front of House Manager Louis Poulain

Volunteer Manager Khanh Nguyen

Guest Relations Sasha Azure

Graphic Designer Eleanor Lee

Photographer Kelly Tatham

Webmaster Matangi Priya

Technical Consultation Anaïsa Visser

Founded by

PAUL ARMSTRONG, JEANNE HARCO & the late CATHI BLACK

Vancouver, B.C…The CELLULOID SOCIAL CLUB, live screening event featuring the best in independent provocative short films since November 13, 1997 followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker with networking & socializing. No Minors. Prizes galore.

SPONSORS (if interested: [email protected]):

SPONSORED BY

Silver Sponsor – Langara College Film Arts

https://langara.ca/programs-and-courses/programs/film-arts/

Bronze Sponsor – Ameland Films Inc.

IN-KIND SPONSORS:

The ANZA Club - https://www.anzaclub.org/

Red Eye Motion Pictures - https://www.redeyemotionpictures.com/

RAFFLE PRIZE SPONSORS

Red Eye Motion Pictures - https://www.redeyemotionpictures.com/

RIO Theatre - https://riotheatre.ca/

Videomatica Sales - https://videomatica.com/

SlideNight - https://www.gallery881.com/slidenight

FILMS SCREENING:

CYPHER (Short Film) directed by Lawrence Le Lam (The Blue Jet, The Chinatown Diner), written by Jerome Yoo (Mongrels, Idols Never Die), Nach Dudsdeemaytha (Mongrels, Akashi), Lawrence Le Lam, Jacques Bourassa, DOP Leonardo Harim (Cypher, Demon X), Producer Nach Dudsdeemaytha (Mongrels, Akashi), Executive Producer Paul Armstrong (Lawrence & Holloman, Cool Daddy), Starring Jerome Yoo, Alex Barima (Galapagos X, Resident Alien), James R. Baylis (So Help Me Todd), Angela Palmer (Spiral), James Yi (Pachinko). Crazy8s 2017 - 5 years after the 1992 LA Riots, a Korean-American high school student finds himself drawn to LA’s underground hip hop scene, where he discovers a platform to confront his painful past.

THE CHINATOWN DINER (Teaser and Clip) directed by Lawrence Le Lam (THE BLUE JET, CYPHER), written by Lawrence Le Lam & Alex Lovekink (MR JAMES IS DEAD), produced by Thomas Affolter (ALTONA) and Lynne Lee (OBSCURA), executive produced by Paul Armstrong (LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN, COOL DADDY), Erin Mussolum (MOCKSTARS), Elizabeth Levine (TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES), Charles Chang, DOP Leonardo Harim (CYPHER, DEMON X), PM Dominique Roy (I CAN’T GO ON), Production Designer Jacqueline Miller (DETECTIVE KNIGHT), Casting Ciarra Cook (RESIDENT ALIEN), Starring Aileen Wu (ALIEN: ROMULUS), Curtis Lum (SIREN), Olivia Cheng (WARRIOR, MARCO POLO), Andrea Bang (KIM’S CONVENIENCE), Tzi Ma (RUSH HOUR, KUNG FU), Donia Kash (A MILLION LITTLE THINGS), Vincent Cheng (THE ROMEO SECTION), Lillian Lim (MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM), Tanya Jade (YELLOWJACKETS). Telefilm Talent to Watch through Crazy8s, 2025 - The Chinatown Diner is a coming of age, hip hopera, and crime drama story. When rich kid wannabe rapper Richard Meng is forced to handle his father’s real estate business, he falls in love with the doomed to be demolished greasy spoon diner/Asian hip hop club, Chinatown Diner, and sets out to save this beloved community stable. The Immortals, a hip hop group from the future, tells this story in the form of a live VR documentary rap show about how a kid from China saved Chinatown while avoiding gangsters and the ghost in his basement.

ALIEN: ROMULUS (Trailer, Clips & Behind the Scenes) directed by Fede Álvarez, written by Álvarez & Rodo Sayaguesm, produced by Scott Free Productions and Brandywine Productions, Staring Cailee Spaeny, David Johnson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu, 2024 - part of the Alien franchise, set between the events of ALIEN (1979) and ALIENS (1986). Coming out on Blu-ray, DVD and VHS Dec 3.

JEFFREY (Short Film) directed by Thomas Affolter (ALTONA), written by Thomas Affolter, produced by Thomas Affolter, Nhi Do, & Elliott Montello, DOP Brian Caissie, starring Crystal Balint (The Harpy), Gabriel Carter (Jeffrey), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Rosa), Nhi Do (Lily), Teal Fiddler (Amanda) and Eric Keenleyside (David). 7 min., Drama/Comedy/Fantasy, 2023 – Those who are filled with immense pain and anger travel far to seek out The Harpy and her creature Jeffrey with hopes of ending their suffering. WINNER - Best Film, Best Director, Best Art, Audience Award; Run N Gun Film Festival 2023; NOMINEE - Best Performance (Crystal Balint), Best Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound; Run N Gun Film Festival 2023

LOVE SONG (Music Video) winner of the 2024 Leo Award for Best Music Video, featuring WDF Warren Dean Flandez, Directed by Joe Tuliao, Cinematographer/DOP Allan Liu, Executive Producer Warren Dean Flandez, Producers Joe Tuliao & Allan Liu, Editor Allan Liu, Choreographer Joe Tuliao, Music Producer Jamie Kuse, Keys Jonny Tobin, Guitar Scott Verbeek, Featuring Kat Flandez, Noble Flandez, Poet Flandez.

FOREIGNER (Clips) Directed, Written & Edited by Ava Maria Safai (ZIP), Produced by Nicco Graham, Lesha Vescio, Ava Maria Safai, Nancy Q, Nic Altobelli, and Caylee Watrin, Director of Photography: Saarthak Taneja, Production Designer: Hannah Nicholls, HMUW: Sam Kronstal, Robby De Mesa, Michelle Stephen, Kristi McQuade, Sound: Taliesin Herb, Royal Blue Audio, Composer: Finka Wood, Starring Rose Deghanpour as Yasamin Karimi and Chloe Macleod as Rachel Stanford, 90 minutes, Horror, 2025 - In early 2000s Langley, a wannabe-Canadian teen dyes her hair blonde and becomes a demon.

ALTONA (Trailer) for directed by The Affolter Brothers (THE UNDERTAKER’S SON, COUNTER ACT), written by The Affolter Brothers, produced by Craig Langdon & The Affolter Brothers, DOP Kaayla Whachell & Thomas Affolter, starring Tyler Pelke (as himself), Gabriel Carter (as Earl Geisbrecht). Documentary/True Crime, 2023 – The true story of a horrific crime involving three teenagers in Altona, Manitoba, 1990, leaving one man on a miraculous road to recovery while the small-town community was irrevocably changed forever. WINNER - Best Documentary; Whistler Film Festival; WINNER - Best Feature Documentary, Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Editing; Leo Awards 2024; WINNER - Best Documentary; Vancouver Horror Show; HONORABLE MENTION - Best Documentary; New Jersey Film Festival

MIHNEA (Trailer) directed and written by Mike Doaga, produced by Jordan Vazquez, Kenneth Tynan, Diego Tovar, executive produced by David Aboussafy, Joel Ashton McCarthy, Starring Mike Doaga, Raresh DiMofte, Sean Depner, Anna Toth, Harnoor Gill, DOP Larius Kieninger, Music Ethan Lawrence, feature 2025 - Mihnea is a coming-of-age film about a Romanian-Canadian only child navigating mental illness, cultural identity, and crushing expectations in his final semester of University.

HARD CORE LOGO (Trailer) by Bruce McDonald, adapted by Noel S. Baker, based on the book by Michael Turner, producced by Brian Dennis & Christine Haebler, DOP Danny Nowak, Starring Hugh Dillon, Callum Keith Rennie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Bernie Coulson, 1996, narrative feature - A documentary team follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo, a once-popular punk rock band. Screening at the RIO Theatre Thurs Nov 28 https://riotheatre.ca/movie/hard-core-logo-2/

OTHER FILMS and GUESTS TBA

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Anza Club, 3 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada