The Animation Show of Shows presents international award-winning animated short films from around the world, in a variety of animation techniques including traditional hand drawn 2D, computer graphics 3D, stop motion and painted clay. The festival includes four mini-portrait documentaries of filmmakers in their homes and studios, filmed on location in Russia, Ireland, the U.S. and Iran. Curated and produced by Ron Diamond, this year's festival includes: Janette Goodey & John Lewis' THE STORY OF PERCIVAL PILTS, Geoffrey Godet & Burcu Sankur's TANT DE FORETS, Conor Whelan's SNOWFALL, Lynn Tomlinson's BALLAD OF HOLLAND ISLAND HOUSE, Amanda Palmer and Avi Ofer's BEHIND THE TREES, Konstantin Bronzit's WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT THE COSMOS, Isabelle Favez's MESSAGES DANS L’AIR, Babak Nekooei & Behnoud Nekooei's STRIPY, Thomas Bourdis, Martin de Coudenhove, Caroline Domergue, Colin Laubry, Florian Laubry's ASCENSION, Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano's LOVE IN THE TIME OF MARCH MADNESS, and Don Hertzfeldt's WORLD OF TOMORROW. Don't miss your chance to see these animated gems on the big screen!

Winner of the Best Comedy Award at the 2015 Viva Latino Film Festival in New York, this new independent comedy from director Richard Montes follows a group of friends who become family, united by their shared love for internet spiritual Guru Nanak (played by Pepe Serna). The group rallies behind their agoraphobic friend Crystal Luna (played by Jade Puga) to help save her home from foreclosure, until a chance meeting with Guru Nanak leaves Crystal convinced Nanak has less-than-wholesome intentions. Can Crystal survive Nanak's attacks long enough to reach enlightenment, save her home, and overcome her phobias?

Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA'S LOST ROCK AND ROLL examines and unravels Cambodia's tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge's dismantling of the society and murder of 2,000,000 of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed.

Celebrated filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s latest film, EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO, depicts groundbreaking Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s epic trip to Mexico in 1931. In this cinematic love letter to freedom and creativity, Eisenstein (Elmer Beck) travels to Guanajuato with Eduard Tisse to make a film about Mexico and learns a lesson about love and revolution from his guide Palomino Cañedo (Luis Alberti). Equally sensuous, intelligent and visually stunning, EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO is a must-see for Greenaway fans and a striking new look at Mexico in the 1930s.

Cuco is a Mexican boy parrot that would rather imitate the crazy stunts of his TV super-parrot hero, El Americano, than help with his chores at the family bird circus. Yet when a gang of bully birds threatens his ringmaster father and takes over the circus, Cuco sets off on a hilarious and perilous journey to Hollywood to enlist his hero in his fight, only to discover the true hero within himself. Directed by Mexican animation superstar Ricardo Arnaiz and co-written by Latino animation legend Phil Roman (It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; The Simpsons, Garfield and Friends), this US/Mexico co-production features the voice talents of Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin, Kate del Castillo, Adal Ramones and Modern Family’s Rico Rodriguez. Directed by Ricardo Arnaiz. Presented in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate in OC.

Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery - but under her bandages is someone the children don't recognize... Chilling new Austrian horror film from directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Winner of 7 international awards.

More than 10 years after the release of American Idiot, 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees GREEN DAY present Heart Like A Hand Grenade. This time capsule rock doc takes us inside the songwriting and recording process of their Grammy Award winning punk rock opera.

Director Alfonso Arau’s classic film version of the beloved Laura Esquivel novel "Como agua para chocolate" stars Lumi Cavazos and Yareli Arizmendi as two sisters who live with their domineering mother, Mamá Elena (Regina Torné). The mother has decided that Tita (Cavazos) must stay single to take care of her when she becomes an old woman. A visual and sensory feast that caused a renewed appreciation of Mexican cuisine when it was released in 1992. Presented in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate in OC and followed by a closing reception.

In Dave Boyle’s neo-noir thriller, Sheriff Paul Del Moral (Pepe Serna) is driving home through the Bay Area fog when he accidentally strikes a pedestrian, a lone Japanese man. However, before an investigation can take place the man disappears from the hospital without a trace. At the same time, Japanese mystery author Aki Akahori (Ayako Fujitani) takes a trip to San Francisco in order to escape the press tour for the latest book in her world famous "Inspector Takabe" series. A charming and mysterious stranger played by Kazuki Kitamura (Killers) gets steps in and gets this white knuckle potboiler boiling.

The OC Film Fiesta is pleased to open its 2015 festival with NOSOTROS NOS NOBLES, the highest grossing Mexican film in history! In Gary Alazraki’s hilarious comedy, wealthy empresario Germán Noble (Gonzalo Vega) wants to teach his three spoiled children a lesson about life and the meaning of hard work. Things get Real fast for Javi (Luis Gerardo Mendez), Cha (LLuis Gerardo Mendez) and Bárbara (Karla Souza), when daddy cuts the purse strings and makes them fend for themselves. Based on Luis Buñuel’s 1949 comedy El Gran Calavera, which also will screen as part of the festival on Sat., Oct. 10 @ 11am! Presented in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate in OC, and the OC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Presented in Spanish with English subtitles. Doors Open at 7pm. Opening Night Reception to follow screening!

OC Film Fiesta returns to Santa Ana the weekends of October 9-11 and 17-18, featuring over a dozen independent and classic feature films, parties, animation, documentaries, a rediscovered Dolores del Rio silent classic with live musical accompaniment, the OC Premiere of Peter Greenaway’s new film “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” and more! This year, the festival also honors ORSON WELLES with screenings of "Touch of Evil" and "The Third Man" on October 10. **EARLY BIRD Festival Passes are now available!** - $50 Pass gets you access to ALL films on all days, and $75 Deluxe Pass gets you access to all films PLUS the OCFF Opening Night after-party! RATES INCREASE SEPTEMBER 28! Limited number of Passes available - get yours early! Proceeds benefit Media Arts Santa Ana and The Frida Cinema. Program subject to change. Keep posted at http://www.ocfilmfiesta.org/!

In this gorgeously filmed crime thriller which won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival, director Michael Dwyer brings intensity and suspense to POCHA (MANIFEST DESTINY), an engaging story of a young undocumented immigrant chasing the American dream who is arrested by the FBI and deported to México. Speaking no Spanish and lost in her foreign “homeland,” she reluctantly takes refuge at her estranged father’s cattle ranch but is swept up in forces beyond anyone’s control. Starring Veronica Sixtos (Quinceañera), Jesse Garcia (From Dusk Till Dawn), Julio Cedillo (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada), Roberto Urbina (Narcos) and Jorge Jimenez (Narcos).

Silent classic - presented with a live score! In 1928, emerging starlet Dolores del Rio took the nation by storm when she starred in Edwin Carewe’s silent film adaptation of RAMONA, Helen Hunt Jackson’s beloved tale of romance in Old California. Over the years, copies of the movie disappeared, and this important piece of film history was thought to be lost forever. Then, in 2010, a single print was discovered in a film archive in the Czech Republic. The film has been restored and preserved by the Library of Congress, and the intertitles were translated back into English. OC Film Fiesta is proud to take you back to 1928 and present the OC Premiere of this lost classic - with a new original score written and performed live by award-winning composers Joseph Julian Gonzalez and David Spear! Presented in association with the Library of Congress. Proceeds benefit Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA) and The Frida Cinema.

From the team behind the popular Saw franchise comes REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, an outlandish 2008 celebration of dirty, gory excess, replete with family melodrama, mysterious illnesses, mind-blowing future-drugs, designer organ repossessions, a few surprising cameos, and a superabundance of bloody stabs and slices that will all be brought to life in front of your eyes by ADDICTED TO THE KNIFE, an all-costumed, all-dancing, all-lip syncing troupe of actors who have excelled at performing the film Rocky Horror-style! All this, and musical numbers too!

2014 San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival winner for Best Documentary, STRIPPED is a love-letter to comic strips. It brings together the world's best cartoonists to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newspapers die. Over 90 interviews were conducted, including the first-ever audio interview with Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), as well as Jim Davis (Garfield), Cathy Guisewite(Cathy), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Keith Knight (K Chronicles), Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha) and more. STRIPPED sits down with these creators to talk about how cartooning works, why it's so loved, and how they're navigating this dicey period between print and digital options...when neither path works perfectly. Directed by Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder.

In directors Robin Blotnick and Rachel Lears' award-winning documentary, exploited undocumented New York sandwich shop workers risk deportation and the loss of their livelihood when they team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers to form a union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In one roller-coaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout, and gain the respect of their fellow New Yorkers. “Filmed with the urgency and suspense of a Hitchcock thriller” - The Village Voice

Every 2nd Friday of the month is ROCKY HORROR night at The Frida Cinema, featuring a LIVE performance by the all-costumed, all-dancing, all-lip syncing "shadow cast" troupe K.A.O.S.!! Pre-Show is at 11:30pm; the legendary Midnight Movie starts - appropriately - at Midnight! Join us Friday, October 9 as K.A.O.S. presents 2015 HALLOWEEN HOOTENANY, a special performance dedicated to everyone's favorite time of year! COSTUMES HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!! There will be Costume Contests! There will be Spookiness! There will be CANDY! And of course, there will be another amazing performance by OC's only Rocky Horror cast, K.A.O.S.!!

Musician, composer, actor, and director Neil Norman joins us in person with his full-length rock'n'roll documentary film which tells the fantastic, gleeful, tragic tale of 1960s garage rock wunderkinds THE SEEDS! Using vintage footage, rare photos, memorabilia and audio, and fresh interviews with band members and associates, as well as notable fans and observers, "The Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard" relates the bizarre rage-to-riches-to-rags tale of the rock quartet who took Los Angeles by storm in the mid-60s, and is credited with creating the idea of "flower power."

Regarded as one of the greatest British films ever, Carol Reed’s 1949 masterpiece THE THIRD MAN stars Orson Welles as the enigmatic Harry Lime, a Cold War profiteer making writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) chase shadows in postwar Vienna. Written by Graham Greene, this cinematic tour de force shows the influence of Welles as a director on Reed in every scene, and allows Welles as an actor to shine in a nuanced and memorable performance as part of an ensemble cast that includes Trevor Howard, Wilfred Hyde White, Alida Valli, Paul Hörbiger and Ernst Deutsch. Restored and remastered by Rialto Pictures!

The stories behind Orson Welles’ 1958 noir masterpiece TOUCH OF EVIL are almost as amazing as the film itself - and that’s saying a lot! After the studio heads recut his film to make it more conventional, Welles issued a 58-page memo noting detailed changes on how to restore it. It was ignored. 40 years later, editor Walter Murch and producer Rick Schmidlin restored the film and the sound mix as close to Welles notes as possible using a preview print rediscovered in 1976 - and we are excited to present this vision to our audiences!

Touch of Evil stars Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan, a sinister police captain who locks horns with Charlton Heston (playing Mexican cop Mike Vargas) in this tale of power and corruption in a gritty bordertown. Also starring Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and a gritty cast of cops and crooks.

Presented by OC Film Fiesta! This special screening will present the classic in English with Spanish subtitles.