Calabasas Film Festival

The Calabasas Film Festival showcases major film premieres, student films, documentaries and top quality film selections from all genres that are guaranteed to entertain. CFF provides the community an opportunity to connect over mutual passions for film and television while enjoying local culinary arts and entertainment. CFF will always be where the heart of film lives.

Day 4:

11:00am-1:00pm Year of the Scab @ The Regal Theatre

During the 1987 NFL strike, teams scrambled to assemble temporary replacements to fill in for their boycotting players. The Washington Redskins were notable for their “scabs,” a collection of cast-offs who nonetheless rode a surprising wave of momentum against all odds. Directed by John Dorsey, “Year of the Scab” revisits this ultimate underdog story and the men whose ordinary lives were interrupted. Those so-called “scabs” helped break the strike and eventually deliver their team a championship, but they’ve since struggled for their place in history.

1:00-3:00pm Shorts Program @ The Regal Theatre

WOODY’S ORDER: For the first time, actress Ann Talman performs her solo show for its muse: her brother with cerebral palsy.

GOOD CRAZY: A complex chick deals with a vanilla beau, a shitty brunch and a dead coyote all in a Los Angeles day. There’s batshit crazy and then there’s good crazy…she fits somewhere in between.

LEMON: Seconds after the wedding, a bride is stunned to learn that her new husband fudged nearly everything about his past, his family, and his accomplishments—but his revelations force her to come clean about a few shocking secrets of her own.

THE SPRING: In August 2016, seven female filmmakers, all under the age of 25, traveled to Central Florida to film the women of Weeki Wachee Springs, for whom performing daily mermaid shows is more than a job – it’s a craft.

CURPIGEON: A CG animated short where a community of park pigeons, and their old men pals, come together to help one of their own get through a great loss.

OH DAMN: A dark comedy about a man who smokes too much weed and experiences a series of misadventures at a movie theater.

DON’T MESS WITH JULIE WHITFIELD: A dark comedy about the brutal, violent, and at times downright psychotic minds of elementary school moms.

3:00-5:00pm Where Have You Gone, Lou Dimaggio @ The Regal Theatre

From 1985 to1989 Lou DiMaggio, no relation to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, was a regular at the iconic “Catch a Rising Star” comedy club in New York City. For four years Lou worked along side of and made lasting friendships with a small group of comedians who are today some of the very best in the business. Larry David, Colin Quinn, Suzie Essman, Joy Behar, Jeff Garlin and Chris Rock are just a few of Lou’s old pals who appear in the film. After moving to Los Angeles in 1989 to pursue acting, Lou, in a mysterious act of career and self-sabotage, stopped doing stand up comedy forever. But why? Today Lou is an Emmy winning writer for television. He makes a quiet, modest living but a deeply repressed passion for doing stand up is beginning to emerge from Lou’s comedy hiatus. “Where Have You Gone Lou DiMaggio” follows Lou as he wakes from his long winter’s nap and seeks advice about his return to comedy from his celebrity friends while discovering along the way the real reason why he stopped doing stand up in the first place. After all this time, can Lou rediscover his comedic voice and once again become relevant in the world of comedy?

6:30pm Closing Film @ Viewpoint School