Live Festival 2026
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What begins as petty theft spirals into a personal reckoning, as a junkyard owner wrestles with survival, self-worth, and the legacy she hopes to leave behind.

Writer-director-star Trina Colon set out to make a feature with a $1,000 budget — and a deliberately twisted sense of humor. She gathered her Vegas talent circle (former Blue Men, Cirque clowns, stand-ups, and Second City improvisers), commandeered a friend's actual junkyard, and shot for nine days in 110°+ Las Vegas summer heat. The improvised dialogue, paired with boobytrap tactics quietly inspired by anti-theft tips from the LVMPD, give the film its dark, scrappy charge. The budget didn't survive. The film did.

1908. Eighth-grader Alma Richards quits school — he can earn real money as a ranch hand, and the classroom feels pointless. A chance encounter with a Michigan State professor puts him back on the road to an education, and that road leads further than he ever imagined: all the way to the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, competing for a Gold Medal in the high jump.

Director T.C. Christensen's credits span more than thirty features, including 17 Miracles, Forever Strong, and The Cokeville Miracle, alongside ten IMAX / large-format films and hundreds of commercials. He was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers in 2010.

Every April, the streets of Alcoi (Alicante, Spain) fill with music, color, and history for the Moors and Christians festivities — a centuries-old spectacle officially recognized as being of International Tourist Interest, and, since the 16th century, almost entirely reserved for men.

Through five women at the center of the change, Les Premieres tells the story of the many who have fought tirelessly to take part as equals in a tradition that long shut them out. A transformation that may have arrived late — but arrives with unbreakable strength.