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The LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival, which continues through Sunday, opened last night at the Downtown Independent with a program that included familiar faces seemingly having a whole lot of fun with the short-form genre. Of course, the usual suspects were found in festival sponsor Funny or Die’s block—from Zach Galifinakis and a few Oscar nominees in Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 1 or Drunk History vol. 6 with John C. Reilly & Crispin Glover as Tesla and Edison, respectively, fighting it out for electricity supremacy. (We'd seen those on the Internets, so we were happy that the block didn't go on for too long.)
But among the films in competition, which we (and you) probably haven’t seen, we spotted Missi Pyle in Killing Vivian by Mandy Fabian; Cuba Gooding Jr. in Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit by Tony Yacenda; and Ellie Kemper and Zach Woods from The Office in Emily Halpern’sRich Girl Problems. (Timmy Muldoon was our personal fav as well as Greg Sharp's Iron Sheik animation.)
Now in its fifth year, the festival continues throughout the weekend with more animated and live-action shorts screenings, but don’t forget that there are panels and parties, too. We looked over the schedule and here are highlights:
