Full Spectrum 2024: Intermediate Films Program

Friday May 17th, 2024

CSULB University Theater (UT)

 

Surfside (Independent Media FEA 360)

Professor: Quinn Winchell

College of the Arts Sizzle Reel
  • Director: Evan Shicks
  • Producer: Adrian Gonzalez
  • Scriptwriting: Mia Liu
  • Cinematographer: Jessica Pedro
  • Editor: Jenny Soh

Video Essays (FEA 101, FEA 301, FEA 380 & FEA 395)

Professors: Katherine Guerra, Seung-hoon Jeong, José Miguel Palacios, Rowena Santos Aquino

  • Borrowing the Serials in the Mood for Love by Grace Westervelt
  • Learning to Live (video essay on It’s Such a Beautiful Day) by Jake Ritter, Rylan Sampson, and Alan Suarez
  • Nope by Brian Hoang
  • Perception in Darkness (video essay on Notes on Blindness) by Sungbin Moon and Alaina Romero
  • Burning by Abigail Celine Alonzo
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Nolan Kennedy

Experimental Media (FEA 322)

Professors: Neil Corbin and Kent Hayward 

Portrait of a Monster

An experimental dance film of a monster

  • Director & Screenwriter: Alan Gurrola
  • Producer: Devyn Ivy Connor Eaten
  • Cinematographer: Dane D. Thomas
  • Editor: Jann Serrano
  • Production Designer: Alan Gurrola and Connor Eaten
STATIC AND FRENETIC

A person engages in a typical conversation while her body is static but her mind is frenetic. A visualization of what is happening inside the mind of someone with ADHD, while they are in an interview.

  • Director, Screenwriter, & Editor: Leaphea Sambath
  • Producer: Dominique Roldan
  • Cinematographer: Joshua Adarjar
The Cheeto of Dustiny

A student eats an infected cheeto right before his test, causing him to experience psychedelic visions and sensations.

  • Director, Producer, & Screenwriter: Viraaj Lamba
  • Cinematographer: Jorge Torres, Riley Peters, Alyssa Lopez
  • Editor: Andrew Ferrer
At A Glance

When paranoia takes over. a young girl runs from what she thinks is a monster. But the monster is closer to her than she thinks.

  • Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, & Editor: Kristina Thomas
  • Producer: Casandra Olvera
  • Production Designer: Casandra Olvera and Leaphea Sambath
To Be Determined...

A lost soul must confront his past in order to move on.

  • Director & Editor: Blake Chaney
  • Producer: Karina Grado
  • Cinematographer: Daniel Oh
  • Production Designer: Ruby Funches
Pins and Needles

Anxiety nightmare

  • Director & Screenwriter: Makenna Conahey
  • Producer: & Editor: Lexi Hermes
  • Cinematographer: Nav Sabillo
Empty Spaces

A surveillance camera captures a high school classroom just moments after an evacuation.

  • Director & Producer: Riley Duthaler
  • Cinematographer: Alisa Camarena
  • Editor: Andrew Ferrer
  • Production Designer: Ava Contreras

 

Intermission

 

Recognition of 2024 – 2025 Film & Electronic Arts Department Scholarship Recipients

Junior Narrative (FEA 336)

Professors: Sharri Hefner, Kevin O'Brien, and Andrew Pearson

What Once Was...

A couple reunite at a park that was special to them. They go over what could've been and how to move on.

  • Director: Colin Miller
  • Producer: Colin Miller and James Howard
  • Cinematographer: Shane Washington
  • Editor: Colin Miller and Shane Washington
Darcy's Awakening

An after-class picnic turns into an 8bit adventure when Darcy, an awkward guy finally gets to know his pretty classmate, Beth.

  • Director, Screenwriter, & Editor: Anahi Galvez
  • Producer: Daniel Hernandez
  • Cinematographer: Akhila Bordag
  • Production Designer: Samantha Miranda
My Brother’s Keeper

Two brothers are faced with a decision that will have life altering consequences.

  • Director, Screenwriter, & Editor: Julio Jimenez
  • Producer: Colin Miller
  • Cinematographer: Josh Baldwin
  • Production Designer: Victoria Hernandez
Santa

Finding a letter from Santa that he received when he was a little boy and looking back at it now as an adult to see what he can do for his daughter.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Mamiya Ichihara
  • Producer: Destiny Carachure
  • Cinematographer: Sam Miranda
  • Editor: Sam Miranda
  • Production Designer: Daniel Hernandez
Away From Home

Away from home logline: "Away From Home" follows Travis, a young man grappling with loss and homelessness, who finds solace on a city park bench. An unexpected encounter with an older man offers wisdom and prompts Travis to confront his past, leading to a

  • Director & Screenwriter: Shane Washington
  • Producer: Joshua Baldwin
  • Cinematographer: Julio Jimenez
  • Editor: Shane Washington and Jackson Demorest
SPEECH THERAPY

After ceasing to speak, a young girl is sent through a strange therapy session where a familiar face guides her to make sense of past memories and time.

  • Director, Screenwriter, & Editor: Destiny Jaimes Carachure
  • Producer: Leaphea Sambath
  • Cinematographer: Anahi Galvez
  • Production Designer: Akhila Bordag
Again

Carmen tries to convince her cousin, Mia, to attend a relative's funeral after Mia has left rehab and when this conversation turns into an argument, Carmen reveals that she knows Mia has relapsed.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Victoria Hernandez
  • Producer: Leaphea Sambath
  • Cinematographer: Colin Miller
Forbidden Fruit

A young Asian woman finds herself caught in a tug of war between the approval of her mother and the love for her boyfriend.

  • Director, Screenwriter, & Editor: Sam Miranda
  • Producer: Jonah Lee
  • Cinematographer: Destiny Carachure
  • Production Designer: Kattaleya Bradford
A Love Letter to You

In an ambiguous space, the narrator reflects about their life choices.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Sean Hurd
  • Producer: Daniel Figueroa
  • Cinematographer: Kurumi Murata
  • Editor: Henry Chan
  • Production Designer: Amir Khan
SISTERS

A young sister grows up by learning her older sister's love.

  • Director: Kurumi Murata
  • Producer: Angel Garcia
The Eyes of The Muse

At the end of their artistic partnership, a female artist says goodbye to her ex-partner through a final confrontation

  • Director & Screenwriter: Michelle Pirouzmand
  • Producer & Editor: Yamile Morales
  • Cinematographer: Raelle Vargas
  • Production Designer: Annabella Vaca
Corner Store Courtship

In a modernized medieval world, an Elf begins the courtship of a Princess by bonding over corner store snacks.

  • Director & Screenwriter: AnnaBella Vaca
  • Producer: Sarah Turecek
  • Cinematographer: Derek Nguyen
  • Editor: Raelle Vargas
  • Production Designer: Marian Lopez Javier
Lola's Lumpia

A granddaughter battles between attending a work event over spending time with her family to celebrate her grandma's birthday

  • Director: Raelle Vargas
  • Producer: Marian Lopez Javier
  • Cinematographer: Yamile Morales
Last Chance

Trigger warning: depiction of suicide 

Jared regrets taking his girlfriend Amy for granted after having a dream that she commits suicide

  • Director & Screenwriter: Sarah Turecek
  • Producer: AnaBella Vaca
  • Cinematographer: Marian Lopez Javier
  • Editor: Moises Cardenas
  • Production Designer: Yamile Morales
At the End of the Day

Riley and Maisy reconnect after not seeing each other for months after their summer fling.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Yamile Morales
  • Producer: Derek Nguyen
  • Cinematographer: Sarah Turecek
  • Editor: Michelle Pirouzmand
  • Production Designer: Michelle Pirouzmand
Smells Like Soap

A young woman will do anything to prove her love to her wife.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Indica DeRose
  • Producer: Cyrene Puno
  • Cinematographer: Jessica Katz
  • Editor: Julia Lugmair
  • Production Designer: Thearanad Hart
Profile Perfect

A cocky young man consults an online dating ghostwriter to perfect his dating profile.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Sara Lam
  • Producer: Sydney Vena
  • Cinematographer: Joey Veracruz
  • Editor: Justin Toyoshiba
  • Production Designer: Ava Contreras
A Mother's Love

Arriving home from school, a loving mother in Kathryn takes care of her daughter Summer despite having headaches herself, as she tries to keep her from going to bed, when an argument emerges between the two and we are given a shocking revelation.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Joey Veracruz
  • Producer: Antonio Picon
  • Cinematographer: Hannah Hughey
  • Editor: Kalani Coquia
  • Production Designer: Joey Veracruz
Just A Phase

A moody emo teenager is enticed to go to the popular kids party by his drunk emo friend, only to find that this party is not normal, and his friend is no longer who he thought he was.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Thearanad Hart
  • Producer: Jessica Katz
  • Cinematographer: Elijah Suarez
  • Editor: Julia Lugmair
  • Production Designer: Indica DeRose
The Fang Fairy

A young adult vampire living in the 90s facing a financial crisis turns to the tooth fairy in a last attempt at saving himself and his sister.

  • Director & Screenwriter: El Suarez
  • Producer: Kristian Greene
  • Cinematographer: Ezer Kadir
  • Editor: Jann Serrano
  • Production Designer: Cyrene Puno
Just Like Magic

Two young women discover their hidden desires while attempting an amateur manifestation ritual to summon lovers.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Cyrene Puno
  • Producer: Indica DeRose
  • Cinematographer: Thearanad Hart
  • Editor: Isabella Mojica
  • Production Designer: Jessica Katz
Taking The L

A mental patient hears that she is about to be discharged, meanwhile her emotionally troubled nonverbal roommate sets a plan in motion to escape.

  • Director & Screenwriter: Jessica Katz
  • Producer: Neel Bakshi
  • Cinematographer: Indica DeRose
  • Editor: David Katz
  • Production Designer: Esme Farro