Praised by Oliver Stone and winner of Best Film Awards at the Vail and Santa Barbara film festivals, emerging American indie director Tao Ruspoli’s Fix is an eye-popping ride through a single day in L.A. that captures the jumpy irony and restless action of Southern California’s new multicultural realities. It follows a young documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend, who abandon their day’s shoot to accompany his brother to an 8 p.m. court-appointed surrender at rehab. The duo manage to get in way over their heads in a series of incidents that include buying the world’s most unconvincing police dog, reselling several pounds of marijuana and visiting a cat toy factory. In between all this is a rapid-fire and partially deadpan tour through a virtually unrecognizable Los Angeles and environs. With a dynamite cast of up-and-comers (Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dedee Pfeiffer), Fix is funny, fast, anguished, fluid and gripping—sometimes all at once.

Short films screening in this program include: Instead of Abracadabra, Primitive Technology, Tony Zear, The Skooks, Spider, Dog Altogether