LA Comedy Shorts Festival Founder & Staff
LA Comedy Shorts Festival Founder & Staff

Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host, Linda Antwi, were invited to cover the 2013 L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival (LACS) Awards ceremony and gala hosted by Wayne Brady with presenting Key & Peele at the opening the show. This year LACS broke several of its past records which included over 1000 film submissions,  the largest number of international submissions received and well over 5000 attendees for the four-day event.

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Watch the Hijinks on the Red Carpet

Watch our 19 interviews from the Red Carpet with Wayne Brady, Suzy Nakamura & Jerry Minor, Matt L. Jones, Jordan Peele, Jeannie Roshar, Festival Director, John Dion, Alex Bonner & Felix Peñero, Lori Elberg, RobotDown, David Ward & Byron Brown, Jenny Wenger & Frank Giarmona, Greg Bro, Paul & Peter Vogt, Keegan-Michael Key, Gary Anthony Williams, Stanley Brode & Jessalyn Maguire, Yvette Nicole Brown & Cedric Yarbrough, Jon Bernthal & Woodhead Entertainment, and Nyambi Nyambi.

About L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival
The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival is the largest comedy film festival in the USA. Named one of the “Top Ten Film Festivals in the United States” by the Brooks Institute, LACS is dedicated to introducing the newest and hottest comedic talent to the public and entertainment industry in a four-day, fun-packed weekend of screenings, industry panels and star-studded red carpet events. LACS was founded in 2009 to celebrate and promote up-and-coming filmmakers and writers through the medium of comedic short films as well as screenplays for features, pilots and short comedies. LACS has been twice named one of the “Top 25 Festivals Worth the Fee” by Moviemaker magazine. http://www.lacomedyshorts.com Follow on Twitter at@lacomedyshorts and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lacomedyshorts.

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2013 LACS Winners

Audience Award — Harry Grows Up
Writer /Director Mark Nickelsburg, Writer Cindy Chupack
 
State Tax Credit Exchange Best of Fest Grand Prize Short — Penny Dreadful
Writer/Director Shane Atkinson, Producer Rob Cristiano, Co-Producers Tommy Woodard and Dave Bisson.
Breakthrough Award presented by Break.com — Tony Yacenda, Woodhead Entertainment
Director of Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit.
Funny or Die Best Comedy Short — Love & Germaphobia
Writer/Director Tyler Spindel, Producers Alex Cohn, Mark Hyatt, Tyler Spindel
AWTV Best Comedy Shortie-Short — Don’t Walk
Filmmakers Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman, Scott Yacyshyn
 
Best Comedy Animated Short — Pool Cat
Writer/Director Mickey Dwyer
Best Comedy Student Short — Cupid
Writer/Director John Dion, Producer Mallory Snyder
LA Comedy Shorts Festival Founder & Staff
LA Comedy Shorts Festival Founder & Staff