Full Spectrum 2023: Intermediate Films Program

Full Spectrum 2023: Intermediate Films Program

Friday May 12th, 2023

CSULB University Theater (UT)

Total Runtime: Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes

Video Essays

  • A New Era of Paranoia: Severance's Take on the Paranoid Mind-Game Film Trend by Emma Nunes
  • Oldboy By Nico Santoyo
  • Searching Video Essay by Joshua Frick
  • Volver Scene Analysis by Chase Ramsey

 

Surfside (Independent Media FEA 360)

Professor: Charlie Myers

Let's Be Playmakers

Playmakers encourage volunteers and participants to join their quickly growing program for kids who often don't get the chance to shine.

  • Director: Cesar Chavez
  • Producer: Kai Rebollo
  • Screenwriter: Cynthia Brannon
  • Cinematographer: Karla Crispin
  • Editor: Christine Chen
  • Production Designer: Sara McPhillips
  • Sound Recordist: Shannon S. Simpson

 

Experimental Media (FEA 322)

Professors: Neil Corbin and Kent Hayward 

Halfie

What happens when your culture has been so stamped out of you that you feel like an imposter in your own skin?

  • Director: Jess Scott
  • Producer: Mia Molina, Katie Dill, Laura Gueta
  • Screenwriter: Jess Scott
  • Cinematographer: Lawrence Marquez
  • Editor: Jess Scott
  • Production Designer: Nicole Acuna
Spirit of Long Beach

When a key is found, we go on a journey through campus, and beyond into opportunity.

  • Director: Wes Timmons
  • Producer: Delilah Cunneen and Amanda Ortiz
  • Screenwriter: Wes Timmons
  • Cinematographer: Wes Timmons
  • Editor: Wes Timmons
  • Production Designer: Wes Timmons
The Virtual Plaza

Take a nostalgic trip to the American mall to experience it one last time.

  • Director: Caleb Arellano
  • Producer: Caleb Arellano
  • Screenwriter: Caleb Arellano
  • Cinematographer: Caleb Arellano
  • Editor: Caleb Arellano
  • Production Designer: Jack Whittney
Essa Chapter 1: Avery

Avery is an attempt survivor who seeks neuro-therapeutic help from Essa Health & Technology, a multi-industrial company that has ulterior motives for Avery and others like him.

  • Director: Francisco Montanez
  • Producer: Jesus Cervantes
  • Cinematographer: Kousuke Nakamura
  • Editor: Kousuke Nakamura
  • Production Designer: Orlando Izazaga
First Day Jitters

A new college professor suffers from paralyzing social anxiety and goes through a stressful day while preparing to teach their first ever class.

  • Director: Siobhan Hernandez
  • Producer: Saul Haro
  • Cinematographer: Jeremy Papas
  • Editor: Christine Chen
The Radio

A man is haunted by an old radio...

  • Director: Evan Sandeen
  • Producer: Alexandra Gold
  • Screenwriter: Evan Sandeen
  • Cinematographer: Caleb Arellano
  • Editor: Christine Chen
  • Production Designer: Miranda Mendoza
Pencil

A pencil lives alone stuck in a classroom for decades until one student finds it.

  • Director: Yasmin Diaz
  • Producer: Brittney Barrett
  • Editor: Ashley Ecalnir & Genesis Arechiga

 

- Recognition of Film & Electronic Arts 2023-2024 Scholarship Recipients -

 

Junior Narrative (FEA 336)

Professors: Kent Hayward and Andrew Pearson

BroomMates

A witch, learning that she's about to become evicted, goes through magical desperate measures to pay her rent back.

  • Director: Ellie Creighton
  • Producer: Valery Perez Vega
  • Screenwriter: Ellie Creighton
  • Cinematographer: Chloe Larson
  • Editor: Ellie Creighton
  • Production Designer: Esme Farro
Fish Flakes

A young man, taking the first steps of responsibility, comes home to find his roomate with the head of a fish.

  • Director: Yasmin Hurtado
  • Producer: Michael Kelley
  • Screenwriter: Yasmin Hurtado
  • Cinematographer: Hien Hoang
  • Editor: Yolotzin Martinez
  • Production Designer: Yolotzin Martinez and Aiswarya Devi
Sick Day

Theo, a typical business man, runs into a woman named Sage at the park on his sick day off work, falling for her as he realizes she is homeless.

  • Director: Gasia Baghdassarian
  • Producer: Briana Bedawi
  • Screenwriter: Gasia Baghdassarian
  • Cinematographer: Shanaya Coloma
  • Editor: Gasia Baghdassarian
  • Production Designer: Lynus Rivera
Mosquito

Nicky, avoiding asking out his best friend, becomes dead set on hunting down a mosquito.

  • Director: Amanda Nigro
  • Producer: Kai Vargas
  • Screenwriter: Amanda Nigro
  • Cinematographer: Lois Danielle Ces
  • Editor: Hannah Reed-Elliott
  • Production Designer: Eduardo Casanova
For Sarah

A young couple with an unplanned pregnancy has to rob a store in order to gain money to provide for their child. The couple has a heartfelt conversation about their life choices before they leave their home to rob the store.

  • Director: Briana Beddawi
  • Producer: Justin Nguyen
  • Screenwriter: Briana Beddawi
  • Cinematographer: Gasia Baghdassarian
  • Editor: Briana Beddawi
  • Production Designer: Alyson Frias
Welcome!

On his first day on the job, an optimistic rookie 911 dispatcher receives the toughest call of his career.

  • Director: Gianna Labinpuno
  • Producer: Gasia Baghdassarian
  • Screenwriter: Gianna Labinpuno
  • Cinematographer: Eric J. Kim
  • Editor: Kristie Chivacharoen
  • Production Designer: Jamie Ann Aranda
Glue

A woman tries to help her husband regain his memory of her.

  • Director: Lois Danielle Ces
  • Producer: Garrett Noone
  • Screenwriter: Lois Danielle Ces
  • Cinematographer: Matthew Carver
  • Editor: Matthew Carver
  • Production Designer: Amanda Nigro
Vine and Red Wine

Matt desperately examines the items lying on three small tables in front of him, a bird cage, a shell, and a vine and glass of red wine. As he uncovers their truths he gets confronted by Mateo who undesirably inserts himself in Matt’s life.

  • Director: Gordon Buck
  • Producer: Chloe Larson
  • Cinematographer: David Wish
  • Editor: Gordon Buck
  • Production Designer: Millie Belveal
STUCK

Two captured teens struggle with the decision to escape their kidnapper. One wants to go, but the other fears taking the risk.

  • Director: Carolina Sabate
  • Producer: Amanda Nigro
  • Screenwriter: Carolina Sabate
  • Cinematographer: Takoune H. Norasingh
  • Editor: Takoune H. Norasingh
  • Production Designer: Garrett Noone
The Hallway

A quiet queer woman, Mia, expresses her anger to her straight friend Camille after Camille shares an image of the two making out at a party.

  • Director: Chloe Larson
  • Producer: Gordon Buck
  • Screenwriter: Chloe Larson
  • Cinematographer: Millie Belveal
  • Editor: Chloe Larson
  • Production Designer: Hannah Levin
Sad Tune, Story of a Punishment

A Frustrated and paranoid violinist makes a deal with the devil to bring back his wife from death. In return, he must play the saddest song to make others suicide. But coming back is never going to be the same.

  • Director: Eduardo Casanova
  • Producer: Takoune H. Norasingh
  • Screenwriter: Eduardo Casanova
  • Cinematographer: Garret Noone
  • Editor: Eddy Sandoval
  • Production Designer: Kai Vargas
illusion

When 17-year-old Amy suspects her journal has gone missing, the fear of all her secrets being exposed to the entire school gets to the best of her. So she recruits her best friend, Reyna, to help find the culprit who stole it.

  • Director: Shanaya Coloma
  • Producer: Gianna Labinpuno
  • Cinematographer: Jamie-Ann Aranda
  • Editor: Diana Rincon-Zepeda
  • Production Designer: Briana Beddawi
Pearly Gates Inc.

When an old friend becomes the next soul to be judged, an employee at Pearly Gates Inc. must decide if he will make an exception for his friend whose file recommends, he be sent to hell.

  • Director: Garrett Noone
  • Producer: Eduardo Casanova
  • Screenwriter: Garrett Noone
  • Cinematographer: Carolina Sabate
  • Editor: Kai Vargas
  • Production Designer: Lois Danielle Ces
Catfished

A young Fish Man looking for love goes on a date, only to realize he's been Catfished when his date arrives.

  • Director: Kai Vargas
  • Producer: Matt Carver
  • Screenwriter: Kai Vargas
  • Editor: Garrett Noone
  • Production Designer: Carolina Sabate
Plenty of Fish

Two college graduates struggle to disentangle their lives following their breakup, but the death of a beloved pet spurs a reunion and closure for them both.

  • Director: Hannah Reed-Elliott
  • Producer: Mason Layag
  • Screenwriter: Hannah Reed-Elliott
  • Cinematographer: Eddy Ray Sandoval
  • Editor: Amanda Nigro
  • Production Designer: Lewis Sison
Always With You

When a mother of a twenty-something woman helps her daughter move into her new apartment, she finds it hard to let her go.

  • Director: Millie Belveal
  • Producer: Esme Farro
  • Screenwriter: Millie Belveal
  • Cinematographer: Valery Perez Vega
  • Editor: Jack Laws
  • Production Designer: Chloe Larson
We used to chill here.

Two friends reunite after a year apart on their dead friend’s birthday at their favorite parking structure.

  • Director: Takoune H. Norasingh
  • Producer: Carolina Sabate
  • Screenwriter: Takoune H. Norasingh
  • Cinematographer: Eduardo Casanova Salazar
  • Editor: Carolina Sabate
  • Production Designer: Matthew Carver
Don't Overthink It

A shy and genuine young man, Jacob, tries to build up the courage to ask a pretty girl out on a date but struggles with choosing an attractive personality to stick towards.

  • Director: Lynus Rivera
  • Producer: Eric J. Kim
  • Cinematographer: Gianna Labinpuno
  • Editor: Lynus Rivera
  • Production Designer: Shanaya Coloma
Santa Files

Detective Blake is brought into his first big to interrogate his childhood hero, Santa Claus, for his suspected involvement in a small town disappearance.

  • Director: Matt Carver
  • Producer: Lois Danielle Ces
  • Screenwriter: Matt Carver
  • Cinematographer: Kai Vargas
  • Editor: Lois Danielle Ces