By james art More than 50 short films from filmmakers from the Inland Empire and beyond will be screened at the second Hemet Film Festival.
The event is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Hemet Theater, according to a press release.
The event will kick off on Friday, November 8 with a free opening night party at 6:00 p.m., which will be open to the public. Local music videos and skate videos will be screened while filmmakers and guests mingle, the release states.
“Junior: The Miniseries” will be shown at 8:30 p.m. It stars festival co-founder Daniel Maggio and tells the fictional story of his father as a drug lord in Hemet in the late 1980s.
On Saturday, November 9, movies can be seen from 11:00 a.m. The feature film of the day, the horror-comedy called Hemet, or The Landlady Doesn’t Drink Tea, is scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
On Sunday, Nov. 10, movies will begin at 11 a.m. A concert film for the Harvard Street Music Exchange is scheduled for 6 p.m. The Hemet Music Store recently closed, but more than a dozen bands performed a farewell show in August, and local filmmakers volunteered to film the day , the publication says.
An All Access badge for access to the festival’s Saturday and Sunday films is $20.
Films will be screened in categories that include Documentary, Comedy, Horror, Animation/Experimental and Student. Each block of films will be approximately one hour long and will include question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers. Tickets are $5 per block.
Tickets and film times are available on the festival website.
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