Welcome to the 2024 edition of Yale in Hollywood Fest, a global virtual film festival streaming worldwide from December 5 to 7, 2024. The online event will stream FREE its programs (Animation & Dramatic Shorts, Comedy Shorts and Romantic Comedy Shorts) with its opening feature Midas on VOD from Dec 5 to Dec 7 with FREE LIVESTREAMING Q&A events every day. Yale in Hollywood Fest showcases features and short films that include at least one Yale student, alumnus or current staff in the starring, producing, writing or directing chair.
Read the Yale Alumni article on the launch of Yale in Hollywood fest 2024
All programs of 2024 will go live at midnight 12/5 until midnight 12/8/2024! Tune in!
THURSDAY 12/5
Opening Feature: MIDAS
Written and directed by Yale in Hollywood Fest 2020 winner TJ Noel-Sullivan, Midas is a dramatic feature about a charismatic college dropout lying his way into a job at an insurance juggernaut and recruiting his two best friends for a plot to steal thousands to save his mother.
Watch the livestream Q&A with filmmaker TJ Noel-Sullivan discussing his first feature Midas now, recorded on Thursday Dec 5, 2024, at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET:
At 7 pm PT, join the opening party celebrating Yale in Hollywood Fest 2024 sponsored by and taking place at St. Felix Hollywood in Los Angeles:
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FRIDAY 12/6
Animation & Dramatic Shorts
The selection includes two spriteful animation shorts “La La La” and “Bright College Years” from Eunice Kiang. “Key of Genius” is a delightful short story exploring the relationship between a music teacher and child prodigy. “Evergreen” revisits an old relationship. “BRETT WAS A F*CK” is a masterful edge-of-your-seat thriller about a reunion of four secret society friends.
Watch the livestream Q&A with Daniel Persitz, Director of “Key of Genius,” recorded on Friday Dec 6, 2024, at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET:
Romantic Comedy Shorts
The selection opens with Nathaniel Dolquist’s fan fiction short “Hulking and Wiccan: Love is Power.” “2008” is a delightful experimental short about two lesbian parents’ relationship seen through the eyes of their child in 2008. “Tutto Peppe” is a bitter-sweet romantic comedy set in an Italian restaurant. “At Capacity” and “Stand Off” are two unexpected romantic comedies with a genre twist.
Watch the livestream of the Q&A with Romantic Shorts Filmmakers, recorded on Friday Dec 6, 2024, at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET:
SATURDAY 12/7
Comedy Shorts
The selection opens with “Sequin,” a cutely comedic short about a young girl bonding over a small gift with a stranger despite her grandmother’s disapproval. “The Folly of Paris, or, The Or…” is Yale in Hollywood Fest 2023 winner Laura Lionetta’s second short film cheekily reinterpreting a classic legend. “Knead” is an unexpected and hilarious comedy about an “alien invasion.” “White Wash” is a queer horror comedy. “The Girls at the Painted Bird” tells the comical story of a group of “fallen women” in the Old West getting rich quick when they discover the true gold rush – charging men for their emotional labor.
At 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET, watch the livestream Q&A with filmmakers of Comedy Shorts and Closing Awards of Yale in Hollywood Fest 2024 via the Youtube link below.