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Oxnard Independent Film Festival
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More from MoviesWhat: Screenings of nearly 60 full-length films, shorts and documentaries.
When: Today through Sunday and Sept. 28-30.
Where: Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 W. Fifth St., Oxnard.
Tickets: $12 for opening and closing films ("El Muerto" and "The Garage"), including receptions each night. $5 for all other screenings.
Teen Film Day: Free activities from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 29 will include workshops at Oxnard College (topics are Building a Dolly for $100, Making Music for Your Movie, Low-Cost Lighting, and Acting for TV and Film) followed by screenings of films by teens at Plaza Cinemas 14.
The movies: For a complete listing and description of films, visit oxnardfilmfest.com.
Picks of the flicks
Here are highlights from each day of the festival:
Today: The opening-night film, "El Muerto" ("The Dead One"), based on a comic book by Javier Hernandez, is about a young man "between this world and the next" who searches the streets of Los Angeles for human sacrifices to appease the Aztec gods that control him. 7 p.m.
Friday: The Animation Block Party will feature screenings of 12 animated shorts from around the world. 7 p.m.
Saturday: The documentary "Oxnard 1961" chronicles a year in the life of Oxnard. 7 p.m.
Sunday: The documentary "Super Amigos" is about five real-life, anonymous lucha libre wrestlers from Mexico City who don masks and costumes to fight against such evils as slumlords, pollution, homophobia and animal abuse. 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 28: The film "Jumping Off Bridges" is a fictional but realistic account of teenage friends dealing with grief after a suicide. 9:15 p.m.
Sept. 29: In "Mississippi Son," Los Angeles filmmaker Don Wilson documents the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along his native Mississippi Gulf Coast. 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 30: The festival will close with "The Garage," about a fresh-out-of-high-school guy in the 1970s who works at his dad's garage and has to figure out where to steer his life. 6 p.m.
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