❤️‍🔥 In a world where everyone is curating an image, being your authentic self can be the most vulnerable thing of all. Jerk Chicken joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: A sexy online cook show influencer hosts a different hottie as her co-host week after week, until one particular fun guy insists on having more. Jerk Chicken ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Andrea Gilkey 🎥 Producer: Tanishka Juneja 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🤝 Growing up may take you down different paths, but some friendships have a way of bringing you right back where you started. Furious & Fat Cat: Homecoming joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: After taking different paths in life, two childhood best friends, one a former Wall Street playboy, the other a virginal, video game loving former Correctional Officer, reunite as roommates on the South Side of Chicago where it all began. Now in their late 20s, they learn to live together and navigate life's ups and downs in hilarious fashion. Furious & Fat Cat: Homecoming @FuriousandC ✍️🎥 Writers & Directors: Kevin "K.L." Reeves and Pierre Sutton Jr 🎥 Producers: Kevin Reeves, Pierre Sutton Jr and Brad Wilford 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

💌 Beneath the masks we wear and the cool we try to maintain, there’s a simple truth: we all want to be loved. Please joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: Please is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and to be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. Told through a series of loosely connected, tender and absurd scenes, the film follows people who are searching for closeness and acceptance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the sides we try to hide, such as feeling needy and pathetic. The stories overlap and reappear, gradually forming a larger portrait of collective longing. Please ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Anna Mantzaris 🎥 Producers: APPARAT, Passion Pictures, Kuli Film, Mikrofilm, Böhle Studios 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

❄️ In the Arctic, there’s no room for uncertainty, no easy escape, and no guarantee of what comes next. Breaking Ice joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: Set in the vastness above the Arctic Circle, Breaking Ice reveals the human stories of women serving aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy as they navigate missions at the intersection of national security, scientific research and exploration. Breaking Ice ✍️🎥 Writer, Director, and Producer: Mary Ellen Scherl 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎤 BUILDING FEAR: HOW HORROR FEATURES GET DEVELOPED AND FUNDED📣 📆 WHEN: OCTOBER 16TH at 2:00 PM PT on ZOOM We are pleased to announce this month's virtual conversation moderated by producer and manager Peter Katz, with Producers Eric B. Fleischman (the Wonder Company) and Peter Phok (Phok Productions). They'll discuss how a horror feature gets developed, pitched, and funded, as well as what producers look for in a potential project, how independent films work differently than studio projects, and what a filmmaker should do to get their project in a good position to be picked up. 🎟️ Click the link below to secure your tickets! newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🌲 Recovery can be a lonely road, but sometimes the smallest knock on the door can change everything. Cabin Time joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: A recently sober single mom spirals in solitude in a remote Sierra cabin, when a neighbor knocks with no eggs and a whole lot of feelings. Cabin Time ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Lina Patel 🎥 Producers: Daniel Talbott, Tina Carbone, Andrew Klaus-Vineyard 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🐦‍⬛ Sometimes, the world feels a little less frightening when you have someone worth facing it for. My Bird Is Sick! joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: When her pet crow (and only friend) falls ill, an ancient hag living in self-imposed exile must venture to the modern world for help. My Bird Is Sick! ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Rebecca Halfon 🎥 Producers: Olivia Rodrigez, Rhyan Elliott, Rebecca Halfon 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎖️ For some, the fight for a better future means risking everything, even when the country they serve refuses to see them as one of its own. No Man’s Land joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. 🎬 Synopsis: A young Mexican soldier has enlisted in the cold and brutal trenches of World War I to ensure himself citizenship in America. No Man’s Land 🎥 Co- Directors: Reed Keenan and Kristian Grimaldo ✍️ Writer: Liam Buckley 🎥 Producer: Vanessa Lopez 🎭 Starring: Liam Buckley Reed Keenan Erick Ferrufino Elisa Hegedus Caydence Johnson Chloe Lim William Altermann Kristian Grimaldo 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎥 NFMLA x AFM is back! We’re so excited to partner with the American Film Market for another superb year of film magic!✨ From November 10–15, 2026, the global film and television community gathers in Los Angeles for the @AFMOFFICIAL Registration is OPEN: tr.ee/AFM26Registration Join 8,000+ producers, sales companies, buyers, financiers, filmmakers, creators, and entertainment executives from 85+ countries — across the Market, The AFM Sessions, The AFM House, The Summit, LocationEXPO, the Innovation Hub, and more.All under one defining theme: The New Global Screen Economy. #AFM2026 #AmericanFilmMarket

🕊️ Grief is something we all experience, but learning how to live with it is a journey we rarely take together. How We Grieve: The Art of Grieving joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: A new traumedy docuseries hosted by two filmmakers (who happen to be siblings) exploring all the ways people grieve in order to process their own losses and fear of their turn in the urn. Follow along on this journey as they get people to talk about the stuff no one (especially their Arab family) wants to talk about. How We Grieve: The Art of Grieving 🎥 Co- Directors: Meghan Ross and Justin Ross ✍️ Writer: Meghan Ross 🎥 Producers: Meghan Ross, Justin Ross, Sami Abdou, Breven Angaelica Warren 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

👀 Every friend group has that one person nobody trusts. But what if there’s something far more terrifying hiding beneath the surface? Not John joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: After recently traveling to Europe together, a group of six friends discovers one of them might have come back as a changeling. Not John ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Teresa Decher 🎥 Producers: Abigail Bloom, Laura Huie, Samantha Schoen, and Alana Wright 🎭 Starring: Emmy Browning Tim Fox Moe Jeudy-Lamour Anita Kalathara Dave Merheje Victoria Ratermanis 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎤POWER PITCHING WORKSHOPS WITH JIM ARNOFF📣 WHEN: October 19th* @ 7:00PM PST & October 20th @ 10:00AM PST Master the art of the pitch! On October 19th & 20th, entertainment career coach and talent agent consultant, Jim Arnoff, will be hosting an interactive workshop built around live feedback. Learn exactly how to read the room, handle questions, and elevate your sizzle reels or scripted series ideas. Click the link below to secure your tickets!! *Limited availability on October 19th 🎟️: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎥🎓Attention student filmmakers! Thanks to @goldenglobefdn for once again offering free one-year memberships to NFMLA for greater-LA-based college and university students! 🍿Don't miss out on the chance to win access to over 36 film festivals, industry panels, and networking opportunities with creatives and executives! ⏱️Don't wait! Apply now at nfmla.org/GGF2026/. The deadline is Wednesday, October 28, 2026 @ 5 PM PT. **This opportunity is only available to NEW members. Current NFMLA members ineligible.**

🌵 Grief can follow you into the darkest places, especially when you can no longer trust the person beside you. Follicles joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. Synopsis: A trip to the desert to spread mother’s ashes unearths an ancient infestation. Follicles ✍️🎥 Writer & Director: Daniel J. Egbert 🎥 Producers: Dany Zambrano Fernandez, Natasha Borchakovskaia 🎭 Starring: Sadie: Costanza Andrade Nicole: Kyla Diane Kennedy 🎬 Crew: Cinematographer: Bella Finn Parisot Editor: 'Ben' Guangping Niu Production Designer: Simon Gao 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

📣NFMLA alum @therollingcan premieres No se ve desde acá on YouTube through PBS and ReelSouth! Screened at NFMLA in 2024 and nominated for Best Documentary Short, the film moves through contemporary Miami and archival Latin American imagery to explore immigration, aspiration, and the spectacle of wealth in pursuit of the American Dream. 📺 Now available on YouTube and nationally on PBS. 🎥 Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=suE6x0OH… Stories that resonate. Voices that matter.

🎤 One unexpected night. One unexpected connection. A new perspective on the life you thought you knew. A fleeting encounter can leave a lasting impression. ✨ Cindy joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the InFocus: Veteran Cinema program. 🎬 Synopsis: After being ridiculed online for chasing his dream of becoming a rapper, 27-year-old Alex takes an overnight driving job and meets Cindy, a stranger whose unpredictable energy pulls him into a strange, funny, and unexpectedly meaningful night. By morning, their brief connection leaves Alex seeing his life a little differently. Cindy ✍️🎥 Writer, Director, and Producer: @4lcfilm 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🌱 Sometimes moving forward means learning how to carry the past with you, not leave it behind. UnFolding joins the lineup for NFMLA’s October Monthly Film Festival, featured in the October Shorts program. 🎬✨ Synopsis: After the criminal case against USC gynecologist George Tyndall is dismissed following his death, Japanese American survivor Mai Mizuno embarks on a journey to nurture healing through reclaiming her voice, cultural reckoning, and ancestral power – in search of a justice the courtroom could never offer. Unfolding 🎥 Co- Directors: Meghna Chakraborty & @iris_kim7 ✍️ Writer: @iris_kim7 🎥 Producers: Meghna Chakraborty, Priscilla Jayne, and @iris_kim7 🎟️ Learn more: newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎬 Join us in celebrating Day of the Girl with @WomensVoicesNow at the Day of the Girl Summit! Calling all aspiring storytellers and creatives, this is an event you won’t want to miss.🎥 What’s in store: Sony film workshops, photo session w/ @kendra.harris, live talk w/ @smithsisterslive, $500 pitch comp (by @Firstent), free Oaxacan lunch (@oaxacaneats), swag from @BlkGrlSunscreen & more! 🎟️ Head over to @WomensVoicesNow to grab your tickets and learn more!

👏 Thank you and congratulations to the amazing filmmakers and creatives who shared their work with us at the NFMLA September Film Festival | InFocus: Latin & Hispanic Cinema! It was amazing to witness the creativity and artistry showcased this month! The short films showcased a wide range of perspectives, from a dying mother and her unruly daughter to a married couple dealing with demonic possession to a sensitive and anxious little girl. 🎬 We look forward to seeing you again on October 17th at our Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: Veteran Cinema and the Los Angeles Premiere of the feature drama, "Wake". 🔗 Learn more about our festivals and programs at nfmla.org/events #FilmFestival #LatinCinema #HispanicCinema #IndependentFilm #LA #California