About this Event
Four films: Circumstantial Forgiveness, Supplemental, White Meat: Appetizer, and Check Please.
Rated a Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festival out of 14,000 festivals worldwide by actual filmmakers on FilmFreeway, Film Invasion L.A. returns in 2026 with screenings, panels, mixers and more!
FI-LA 2026 - Program 01 - Shorts Block - Frenetic Spotlight
Four films: Circumstantial Forgiveness, Supplemental, White Meat: Appetizer, and Check Please.
Circumstantial Forgiveness
2026 Official Selection: Comedy - Short
A friend starts stealing from others at a game night, and then makes matters infinitely worse.
Director(s): Alex Sovoda
Writer(s): Alex Sovoda
Producer(s): Jessica Dimento, Chet Oshima
Key Cast: Will Duncan, Haley Stiel, Maria Smal, Leo Reilly, Wes Dunlap
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
Supplemental
2026 Official Selection: Sci-Fi - Featurette
An exclusive personal development boot camp promises to remake the lives of middle aged men in crisis. Doug joins the program in the hopes of getting over his divorce, only to fall prey to a nefarious artificial intelligence that specializes in manipulating insecure men.
Director(s): Joseph Wesley
Writer(s): Joseph Wesley, Rachel Kriegshauser, Eric Fisher
Producer(s): Eric Fisher
Key Cast: Ptolemy Slocum, Marcuis Harris, Laura Niemi
Country: United States
Los Angeles Premiere
White Meat: Appetizer
2026 Official Selection: Horror - Short
True story, beneath Washington Square, an urban park in Philadelphia, lie buried the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people. What if, one night, they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people?
Director(s): David Dylan Thomas
Writer(s): David Dylan Thomas
Producer(s): Stephanie Malson, Maurice Gaston
Key Cast: Davon Cochran, Walt DeShields
Country: United States
Check Please
2026 Official Selection: Comedy - Short
Two headstrong Koreans can't agree on who's treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.
Director(s): Shane Chung
Writer(s): Shane Chung
Producer(s): Anna Castagnaro, Nick Leahy
Key Cast: Richard Yan, Sukwon Jeong
Country: United States
Event venue & nearby stays
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Glendale - Theater 8, 128 N Artsakh Ave, Glendale, United States
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