2017
2017 Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20
EVENT SOLD OUT
The Breadwinner
Friday, October 20, 7pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
Fireworks
Friday, October 20, 9:30pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
Three Snow Whites
Saturday, October 21, 1:30pm
Outlandish Lands
Saturday, October 21, 11am
Google VR Lounge
Saturday, Oct 21, 12pm-6pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
Saturday, October 21, 1:30pm
Zombillenium
Saturday, October 21, 4:15pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Saturday, October 21, 4:15pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
Mutafukaz
Saturday, October 21, 7pm
Virus Tropical
Saturday, October 21, 7pm
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22
EVENT SOLD OUT
Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles
Sunday, October 22, 11am
EVENT SOLD OUT
Big Fish and Begonia
Sunday, October 22, 11am
Google VR Lounge
Sunday, Oct 22, 12pm-6pm
The LEGO Batman Movie
Sunday, October 22, 2:15pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
Lu Over the Wall
Sunday, October 22, 2:15pm
Tehran Taboo
Sunday, October 22, 5:15pm
Songs of Love and Death
Sunday, October 22, 8pm
FESTIVAL EVENT SOLD OUT
Mary and The Witch’s Flower
Sunday, October 22, 5:15pm
EVENT SOLD OUT
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Sunday, October 22, 8pm
2017 Partners & Sponsors
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Official Airline Partner
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Community Partners
Hospitality Sponsors
2017 Jury
Allison Abbate
Allison Abbate is an executive vice president at Warner Animation Group. Prior to assuming her post at WAG, Abbate was an executive producer on the global blockbuster The LEGO® Movie, and a producer on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Brad Bird’s Iron Giant.
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge is Variety’s Chief International Film Critic. He first joined the Variety team in 2005 as a features editor, compiling the magazine’s annual 10 Actors, Directors and Screenwriters to Watch lists as well as overseeing a range of special editorial sections, including those tied to the magazine’s philanthropy-driven Power of Youth and Power of Comedy events.
Carolyn Giardina
Carolyn Giardina is Tech Editor at The Hollywood Reporter and writes its Behind the Screen blog. In 2015, Carolyn was presented American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award, which recognizes a journalist for contributions to film editing. She was the 2011 recipient of the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography.
Jorge R. Gutiérrez
Jorge R. Gutiérrez is a painter, writer and director born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana. Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, and paintings exploring his love of Mexican pop and folk culture.
Charles Solomon
An internationally respected critic and historian of animation, Charles Solomon has written on the subject for the New York Times, Newsweek (Japan), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Variety, the Manchester Guardian, and National Public Radio.
Mabel Tam
Mabel Tam is VP/Head Film Buyer of LANDMARK THEATRES. Landmark Theatres is the nation’s largest theatre chain dedicated to exhibiting and marketing independent film. A 16 year veteran of the entertainment industry, she is a graduate of UCLA and resides in LA with her family.
Anne Thompson
Born and raised in New York, IndieWire Editor at Large Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, The Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com. Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment.