Andrea Calvetti

I came back to the city I thought I knew — Los Angeles. My only savior became a tape recorder. Click. Start. Red light glow. Using short ends of 16mm, I went out with my DP while the streets were empty, and tried to capture the lonely beauty in five days time. In turn, I found myself. Here is my love letter to the place I can’t seem to shake.

After high-school graduation, two teenage best friends from a sleepy desert town face radically different futures: while shy Luz is preparing for her scholarship at UCLA, Paloma must stay behind to take care of her 8-month-old baby boy. In the hopes of spending the last weekend together, happy-go-lucky Paloma insists on driving Luz to UCLA, even when she finds no one else can take care of her baby.

Blending intimate voice-over with the fractured memories of a 1970s folksinger, IN THE EVER follows Sam Ellis, a mechanic, whose songs written for his dead mother become a surprise hit. Unable to cope with fame, Sam retreats to a desert ranch, where an unexpected love affair forces him to confront his pain in order to move forward. The film is a love letter infused in music. With 70s needle drops, an original score by Sonny Luca, and original music by lead actor and co-writer/director C.M. Sutton, watching IN THE EVER feels like listening to a complete album.

A madcap drifter tries to reignite a special feeling from her past by helping a vampire achieve his dreams.

A Christmas movie about family, the apocalypse and an immaculately pregnant man.