International LA Punk Film Festival
Previous Inaugural winners include
Code Blue: a Love Story – Written by Jack Grisham TSOL and Produced by Susan Dynner (Punks Not Dead)
Pretend we’re Dead – by L7
Riot Grrrl Presentation
Los Punks: We are all we have – Angela Boatwright
Who is Billy Bones – Kathy Koller
X- Alphabetland – Exclusive with LA Punk Film Festival host John Doe of X + Gilbert Trejo
VOTE LIVE
LA Punk Film Festival Official
Oct 9th-18th 2025
Laemmle Royal Theater, West Los Angeles, located at 11523 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Welcome to the Punk Worldwide Portal 2026
https://filmfreeway.com/LAPunkFilmFestival Tickets are on sale for 2026, grab yours.
Welcome to the Punk Worldwide Portal
2026 Line Up TBA
LA Punk Fim Festival
LA Punk Fim Festival
Welcome to the Punk Worldwide Portal 2026
10yr Annivesary LA Punk Film Festival 2026 – Oct 8th-18th 2025
Oct 9th Filmmaker Meet & Greet PR Red Carpet & Interview Day at Beach Dancer Films – Film, Media Industry Invite only RSVP @beachdancerfilms310@gmail.com~
Oct 16 & 17th Laemelle West Los Angles – -Official Screenings
Oct 18th – Online Wordwide Voting and Film Award
LA Punk Film Festival Favorite Audience Award
LA Punk Film Festival Punk Online Winner 2025
INCLUDES WINNERS SHOWCASE 2017-2025 and The Documentary P.U.N.K will be filming
FILM FESTIVAL + FILM AWARDS LINE UP
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025 –
TRAILERS HERE – TBA
Oct 9th 6-9pm Red Carpet PR Day @Beach Dancer Films Encino – RSVP Guest list only- press credentials & film industry – meet the filmmakers 2025.
Punk Birthday Cake for LA Punk Film Birthday in honor of our LA roots the band “X”. Councilman Mitch O Connell declared Oct 9th Punk Birthday on our 2nd year of the LAPFF!
THE FILMS 2025 AT THE FESTIVAL
Podcast Live: Ryan Donovan Purcell Podcast Creator/Host Soundscapes NYC, Best Indie Podcast 2025
Q & A”s with filmmakers
Live Music from Smoke in the House, Julie Fergus from Babylon Julz
Block One
Father Brown
The Last Note
Bad Generation – Q & A
Ya Dig It
Ariel’s Prized Posession
Beethoven’s Great Great Great Great Grandchild
Block Two
Nexel – Q & A
I’d Rather Be Turned into Catfood – Q & A
For the Record
Danimal
Diary of an unknown band
Block Three
Anonymous -Q & A
Insidious – Q & A – (Spotlight Showcase Exclusive Preview)
Couple Goals
Thousand Paper Cuts
Dark Room to Silver Screen – Through the Lens
Block Four
Smoke in the House – Q & A
Amber – Q & A
Eat – Q & A
The Fools Prison and Babylon
Deformelody – Q & A
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The Sherry Theater North Hollywood Oct 12th 5.30pm Red Carpet -6pm-til 12.30am
Film Awards Host comedian Annie McFunny McKnight & Co Hosts TBA – Winners Engraved Punk Tags – we don’t do oscars but we do…………… safety pins and dog tags just as you’d expect!
Music Showcase – The Pawns from the film 1986 Punk Show
Podcast Live with Ryan Donovan Purcell Podcast Creator and Host of Soundscapes NYC
Block One
Rufus – Q & A
1986 Punk Show – Q & A
Sunshine
Hollywood Rex – Q & A
Summer
Block Two
Vienna Vienna – “God Save the Queens”
Blood On the Saddle – Q & A –
Tall Girl Sad Girl are Friends
Filthy and Wrecked
Lazy Generation – Oct 18th Online Worldwide Stream Q & A
Block Three
How to survive Hollywood
The Runaway – Q & A
Diese Alten Punks / These Old Punks
Power of Permanance
Block Three
Smoke in the House – Q & A
Amber
Eat – Q & A
The Fools Prison and Babylon
Deformelody – Q & A
Music Showcase and after party with The Pawns
Entries are STILL open for new short and long form Films and Documentary, Music Documentary (drama, comedy, thriller, horror, sci fi, animation, LBGDQT, environmental, political and music videos) Cinematographer and ‘Director as well as screenwriters : Sept 8th, through Oct 9th -18th
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Produced by Sandie West and Beach Dancer Films
Punk and alternative films are on the increase in the mainstream as well as punk icons who are producing TV and Films about the punk genre. It’s all about music and unity.
LA Punk Film Festival Winners 2020
LA Punk Film Festival Hosts Mars Roberge and Debra Haden Roberge
Award Winning Movies and New Releases now streaming at LA Punk Film Festival Channel. Celebrate 50 yrs of all things Punk. Here’s the 8th Annual LA Punk Film Festival Winners catch their films right here.
OFFICIAL FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION STREAMS
WINNERS 2024
Winners 2023
Best Documentary – N Men – James Sweigert/Josh Brolin
Best Film – Lulu – Paddy Murphy, Michael Casey
Best Music Documentary – Dogmatics – A Dogumentary – Rudy Childs
Best Short Film – Jesus of Suburbia – Ciara Kay, Ramsay Burgess
Best LBGDQT Film – Anna Capunay
Best Sci Fi Film – Halo: The Rebellion- Jamon Holmes
Best Comedy Film – Bali Frodo – Felix
Best Horror Film – Michael Mallot Bed of Nails – Michael Mallot
Best Music Video – Dirty Freakin’ Joe
October 6-9th 2024 LA Punk Film & Music Festival
(This year is special we are including the music performances from the films)
Contact us for our Booking Agent to be included in this new exciting part of the festival. Live Stream and Films will be presented online worldwide
Produced by Sandie West and Beach Dancer Films
Punk and alternative films are on the increase in the mainstream as well as punk icons who are producing TV and Films about the punk genre. It’s all about music and unity.
LA Punk Film Festival Producer Sandie West
Maz and Sue from Londons’ West End
WINNERS 2022
Best US Film – Tour Bus Legends – Austin Jones
Best US Short Film – Punk it Tender – William J Blythe
Best International Film – I’m Full of it – Paulo Miguel Antunes
Best International Short Film – Always Young and Brave – Ilia Smirnov
Best US Documentary – American Society – Travis Calvert
Best International Documentary – Venezuelan Punk Rock History is not a fad !- Ismael Torrealba
Best US Short Documentary – Team Pierre – Pete Koff
Best International Short Documentary – Akogare –
Best LGBQT Film – Mister Sister – Mars Roberge
Best Comedy Film – Green Rush – Duncan Thomsen
Best Animated Film – What happened to Stephanie – Jessica Elizabeth Davenport
Best Horror Film – Seth and Tia – Steve Hasse
Best US Music Video – DFMK – Jenny Otero
Best International Music Video – Das Volk – Pascal Plantinga
Humanitarian Award – La Entrega – Ricky Gonzales
Honorable Mention – Free your Mind – Kevin Mahn
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Oct 14th Film Awards and Award Winning Films and Screenings at Beach Dancer Films
Red Carpet 5,30-7pm
Screenings begin at 2,30pm and then Red Carpet Reception 5.30-7pm
Then 7-11pm Film Awards Show
12.30pm Punk it Tender (William J Blythe – LA| USA) 13:34
That Sucks (Weird Al Yankovich – OR | USA) 13:45
Team Pierre |Peter Koff – SF | USA) 42:05
Binge & Purgatory (Becca Kozak | Canada) 4.11
Tour Bus Legends (Austin Jones | Los Angeles) 29:24
LA Entrega (Ricky Gonzalez | LA | USA) 40.00
Dealoo (Paul Voinovich) /Los Angeles | USA) 4:47
3 Punks (Hedi Boudaloun | France) 19:02
Silicone Wave (Jeff Hillard | Los Angeles ) 3:33
DAS VOLK IST EIN FRESSENDER KADAVER
(Pascal Plantinga | Netherlands | USA) 2:03
Bathroom Boy (Diego Torrado |Chicago| USA) 23:00
Truck Dad ((Tamir Rawlings | Austin, TX | USA) 5:17
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Sunday October 9th BLOCK TWO 5.30- 10pm
What happened to Stephanie (Ciro Ayala | Los Angeles – USA) 7.42
American Society (Travis Calvert – Reno | USA) 01:29
Always Young and Brave (Illia Smirnov |Russia) 4:40
Venezuelan Punk Rock History is not a Fad (Ismael Torrealba – |LA | USA) 01:38
Free your Mind (Kevin Trung Manh | LaPuente – USA) 14:49
DFMK (Jenni Otero | Los Angeles | USA) 1:54
Ja Estou Farto (Paulo Miguel Antunes |Portugal) 01:08
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Sunday October 9th BLOCK THREE 10pm-12am
The Green Rush (| Los Angeles – USA) 7.42
Dreamer (Micheal LaRocco – Los Angeles| USA) 01:55
Seth and Tia (Steve Hasse Antunes | Michigan |USA) 1:28
Bagfaces (Also Nonas |USA) 13:00
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Friday Oct 14th 5.30-11/30pm Live @ Beach Dancer Films
I’m Full of it! (Paulo Miguel Antunes | Portual) 1.08
Freedom Parade (Micheal Brundel |Germany) 1:59
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Tuesday October 11th 7pm-10pm Live @ Beach Dancer Films
One Day The Kegels (Billy Gerhardt, Wesley Price| San Luis Obispo |USA) 0:03
Mister Sister (Mars Roberge | Los Angeles – USA) 2.30
Akogare (Masahiro Saito| Japan |USA) 0:50
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Wednesday October 12th 7pm-10pm Live @ Beach Dancer Films
Protest in Caries-land (Damir Piric Gorcin Zec | Bosnia) 1.24
Swamp City (Bogdan Puslenghea |Romania) 1:45
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Oct 14th Film Awards and Award Winning Films and Screenings at Beach Dancer Films
Red Carpet 5,30-7pm
Screenings begin at 2,30pm and then Red Carpet Reception 5.30-7pm
Then 7-11pm Film Awards Show
Sunday October 9th BLOCK ONE 12pm -5.30pm
SCREENINGS 2021
12pm – Red Carpet Meet & Greet with Filmmakers & Guest Punk Bands
12.30pm
Argumentum Ad Baculum (Phil Nohl Wisconsin | USA) 2:38
Nothing In Return (Zachariah Hagy |Jesse Barron | USA) 4:47
Lisa Suckdoll (Becca Kozak | Canada) 15.00
It Was D.O.A. (Reid Blakley | Canada) 2:38
Red Steel Dawn (Peter Tintle | LA | USA) 4.09
RKLSS (Tank Standing Buffalo | Canada) 5:07
Fashion Statement (Luis Zuniga/Garden Grove | USA) 4:47
Dear Dad, F*@# You! (Sam Horak | Canada) 7:40
Slaughter (Beach Daniel C Davis | Delaware | USA) 01:15:00
Starting a Punk Band In Your 30’s (Kyle Waters Geller | LA | USA) 13:52
Hot Dog Stand ((Kyle Waters Geller | LA | USA) 4:00
Saturday October 9th BLOCK TWO 6.30-11pm
Who Loves You (Walter Santucci | USA) 2.33
Rogue (Lina Larson | USA) 10:15
Everything is A-OK (Justin Powers | Texas | USA) 01:56:18
DDD (Eric Unusual | Texas | USA) 2:56
Always Fast, Hardly Accurate (Sal Redpath, Ben Archer | UK) 23:51
Atomic Cafe: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town (Akira Boch | Tadashi Nakamura |LA | USA) 10:00
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk (Brian L Bieber | USA) 01:19:07
Sunday October 10th BLOCK ONE 2pm – 5.30pm
Minnesota: The Modern Day Selma (Michaels Carlin | LA USA) 01:46:07
Cut Short (Marina Dodis | Canada) 4:30
Slugger (Andrew Palmer | Chicago | USA) 2:24
Devil & Me (Tom Petborisooth | LA | USA) 26:29
Rotten Looking Kid (Julie Nunis | LA | USA) 52:03
Witch Haunt (Matthew Quaid | LA | USA) 09:30
Jazz v. Punk: Hermosa Beach (Julie Nunis | LA | USA) 36:00
Punk is not Dead (Juliette Angelica-Martrès | France ) 14:42
Svengali (Gino Elorie | Coachella Valley | USA) 4:30
How To Get Out Of Here? (Marcin Jażyński | Poland)3.00
Leftover Bowlskis – Dichotomy (Joey Zamjahn | USA) 4.39
Madame Dishrags | Carmen Pollard |Canada) 3:00
Sunday October 10th BLOCK TWO 6.30pm – 10pm
Love Letters Template (Joselito Sering | San Francisco) 1.27)
Exposition Demolition (Carmen Pollard | Canada) 3:00
Russian Tzar (Péter Kálló | Hungary) 01:47
Gridlocked: On Tour with The Briggs (Kevin James Barry | USA) 01:21:55
Infected (Alfonso ‘Cronopio’ Moreno | Spain) 4.00
How to get out of here (Marcin Jażyński |Poland) 3:14
Mojo Tango (Jonny Stanger|TX|USA) 1:16
Menetetty Maa: Turhan Lähellä Reunaa (Janne Piipponen | Finland) 3.40
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Award Winners 2019 & 2020
Award Winning Movies and New Releases now streaming at LA Punk Film Festival Channel. Celebrate 50 yrs of all things Punk. Here’s the 5th Annual LA Punk Film Festival Winners 2020, catch their films right here which were released daily over 4 days in 2020:
Watch the Red Carpet and Awards Show here:
Best US Film
Anne and Andy – Jordan Selander
Best International Film
Fall Back Down – SB Edwards – Canada
Best US Short
Johnnie Anarchy – Ed Abroms
Best International Short
Stay Sharp – Lauren Hester – Australia
Best US Documentary
Pick it up Ska in the 90’s – Taylor Morden – Pop Motion Pictures
Best International Documentary
I’ve Won I’ve Lost – Gian Luca Rossi – Italy
Best Comedy
Melvin and the Microphone – Chris Yongless
Best Animated Film
Bathtub – Dylan Mars Greenberg
Best Horror Film
Straight Edge Kegger – Jason Zink
Best LGBTQ+ Punk Film
Sweet Tender Hooligan – Jose Alfredo Garcia
Best Thriller
Neutrals – Jacob Horne
Best Music Video
Rubys Song – Walter Santucci
Best Script
Finding Normal – Nathaniel J Ryan
http://www.LAPunkFilmFestival.com
Produced by Sandie West Beach Dancer Films
Punk and alternative films are on the increase in the mainstream as well as punk icons who are producing TV and Films about the punk genre.
William Badgely – Best Feature Film 2019 “Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits”
Mark Covino – Best Documentary Film 2019 “A Band called Death”
Jenn Wexler – Best Horror Film 2019 “The Ranger”
Angelo Moore – Best Crossover Artist 2019 “Optimistic Yes”
Honoring 2018 Awards
Jaime Brooks & Sheldon Chick – Best Feature Film 2018 “Bomb City”
Mars Roberge – Best Comedy Film 2018 “Scumbag”
Erica Schisler – Best Documentary Film 2018 “SpokAnarchy”
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April 19th 6pm Arrivals, 6:30pm Awards
Beach Dancer Films 3401 Pacific Ave, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
The venue changed this year which actually is great as we will have an Awards Show and can give away FREE tickets on certain Punk Online Sites, DoLA is giving away a pair †oo! BYOB is welcomed, you can pick up within walking distance if needed! Snacks and soft drinks provided. The films this year are of a great calibre, we are growing.
The third annual Punk Film Festival April, 2019 at 6:30pm for The Awards Show .Below is the schedule of the program on 2 screens.
The 4th Annual LA Punk Fim Festival 2020 is proudly accepting entries on FilmFreeway, the world’s #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests.
Special thanks some of major sponsors
SM1 Music Group/Sony Music
Buy your tickets here, $15 get them in advance before they sell out
Arrivals 6pm
Red Carpet
6.30pm Awards Ceremony
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Main Garden Screening Room
LA Punk Film Festival April 2019 6.30pm
Award Winning Movies and New Releases on 2 screens at LA Punk Film Festival, we are celebrating 50 yrs of all things Punk. The price of the event includes drink ticket and snacks for the evening. Prizes will be given for the worst punk T shirt so put on the neon, pink and green, add some rips!
After the 1st Inaugural Punk Film Festival, the City of LA, gave punk… National Punk Day and created X as the emblem of LA and all things Punk!
3401 Pacific Ave,1st Flr, 2B, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
(Enter reception area by the ocean porch) 310-721-2389
Shuttle service available and free street parking or $4-6 paid beach parking enter at end of Washington Bl, go south, park and walk up Catamaran Street to Pacific.
Schedule of event
6.30pm Red Carpet and Awards Show hosted by Mars Roberge and Debra Haden live with Punk Rock Demonstration Radio Show and photo ops
7.30pm Q and A with William Badgely, a new movie release
Here to be Heard- The Story of The Slits
9:15pm Get your Gonads, a new film release preview by Sandie West
9.30pm Optimistic Yes produced by Angelo Moore of Fishbone featuring HR of Bad Brains
Angelo Moore is a singer and performer who hardly needs an introduction. Through his legendary band Fishbone, Angelo has influenced and defined a musical style and performance ability that has crossed generations and genres.
10 pm A new movie release
The Ranger by Jenn Wexler
The Ranger (2018) Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against the local authority, an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.
Outdoor Screening Room 2
Short Films
8pm Green Army produced by Nicholas Keefer/Association Utopia 18.30
8:20pm Johnny Colarado produced by Michael Benton 18:34
Videos
8.50pm Me Love to drive on the Wild Side by Walter Santucci
8.52pm More Freaks “Millennial Meltdown”
by Sean Melen
10pm A Band Called Death
Peru’s own Los Saicos, Sex Pistols, The Ramones, New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Dictators, or even Death, was the first punk band in the history of punk bands.
Rockumentary and family love story, A BAND CALLED DEATH chronicles what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of the attic.
Death is a Detroit rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1971 by brothers Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney. The trio started out as a funk band but switched to rock after seeing a concert by The Who. Wikipedia
11:20p One Man’s Madness by Director Jeff Baynes
A fresh, disorienting, quirky, slapstick romp through the history of Madness, accompanied by their irrepressible, flying saxophonist, Lee Thompson. And it is probably mostly true.
This year is the 3rd year we celebrate all things punk here in Los Angeles, a scene that has been underground and going
http://www.LAPunkFilmFestival.com
3401 Pacific Ave,1st Flr, 2B, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
(Enter reception area by the ocean porch) 310-721-2389
Produced by Sandie West Beach Dancer Films
We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of the programming times for the festival due to circumstances beyond our control.
Suzi Quatro trailer
Suzi Quatro, the first women of Punk….. Known as Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days.
Trailer:How to talk to Girls at Parties
Trailer: Her Smell
Punk Chill Lounge
Vendors, Food, Beer and Wine in the garden area
Venice is the most visited city outside of Disneyland in America. Indeed the venue Beyond Baroque is celebrating their 50th year, and they have been the our local Venice mainstay; Beyond Baroque which has been a space for cultivating innovative artists for over 50 yrs in Los Angeles – literature, writers, poets, thinkers, a vital center for community and art.
Beatnick, and then punk in Los Angeles, grew from this epi-center and we are proud to be showing films about punk here in Los Angeles for the third year.
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