Welcome to the 2025 edition of Yale in Hollywood Fest, a global virtual film festival streaming worldwide from December 4 to 6, 2025. The online event will stream FREE its programs 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.
Stay tuned as full program will go live midnight Thursday Dec 4, 2025!
THURSDAY 12/4
COMEDY SHORTS SHOWCASE
(In order or presentation) Five Star by Kai Hamada Hasson, After What Happened by Chasan A.E. Hall, Mother Earth Inc. by Heather Mingo and Isabel Siragusa, Conflicted Cuties of Color by Roman Sanchez and Mikayla Stanley, Divine Intervention by Kelly McCready, Sophomore Major Problems by Maxwell Sternlicht
Watch the livestream Q&A with comedy shorts filmmakers discussing their works recorded on Thursday Dec 4 at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET:
7 pm PT: Join the launch party on Thursday Dec 4 in Los Angeles from 7 pm to 10 pm PT at Hyperion Social:
FRIDAY 12/5
Join Story-boards.ai CEO Markus Etter and Festival Director Quentin Lee for a livestream demo and discussion of using Story-boards.ai for filmmaking, recorded on Thursday Dec 4 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. Viewers will receive a 50% off discount code at the end of the video to join Story-boards.ai for one year.
3 pm PT: / 6 pm ET: Join Veeeu‘s Chief Marketing Officer Susana Khan and Festival Director Quentin Lee for a livestream demo and discussion of using Veeeu.com and TODAQ, a new TVOD streaming platform and micropayment service, for independent media distribution. Join the panel: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_McreVpL9TL-uK88MQGtxkw
DRAMATIC SHORTS SHOWCASE
(In order or presentation) Jeanne by Antoine Paley, Something Good Going on by Arnold Setiadi, Penguins In Paris… A Love Story? by Kenny Hargrove, Not for a Few Miles Sahvannah Rae, They Rescue Horses Don’t They? by Scott Robinson
Join the livestream Q&A with dramatic shorts filmmakers discussing their works recorded on Friday Dec 5 at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET:
SATURDAY 12/6
DOCUMENTARY & EXPERIMENTAL FORUM
(In order of presentation) The Big Sadness by Samuel Lincoln Flanders, Bardo by Sophia Wright Emigh, SoCal Snowy Owl by Christopher Angel, Bodies Apart, Moving Together by Sophia Wright Emigh, The Celery Saga by Alexis Krasilovsky, The Making of Sleepless Moon: An East-West Opera by Donna Ong, This Is for You by Kseniya Simonova
Join the livestream Q&A with filmmakers from Documentary & Experimental Forum discussing their works recorded on Saturday Dec 5 at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET:
ALWAYS LOOKING: TITUS BROOKS HEAGINS
Directed by Olympia Stone, Always Looking: Titus Brooks Heagins is a documentary on verité photographer Titus Brooks Heagins.
THE ICE KING’S HEART
Watch all episodes of “The Ice King’s Heart” by Nathaniel Dolquist & Jasmine Fontes
At 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET, watch the livestream of Yale in Hollywood Fest 2025 Awards and Q&A with filmmakers of Always Looking: Titus Brooks Heagins and The Ice King’s Heart of Yale in Hollywood Fest 2024 via the Youtube link below:
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