SCV Film Festival
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 6 - 8) at the Repertory East Playhouse, 24266 Main St., Newhall, CA 91321. Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival tickets can be purchased at the door and seating is on a first come, first served basis. Daily tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and provide admission to all screenings in a day.

Friday, Jan. 6, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
College Shorts
(film appropriate for ages 13 and older)
Films include: "Little Boat"; "Sharkdog"; "Shell Out"; "Shape"; "We'll be Fine, Probably"; "Hummingbirds and Holograms"; "Vampire Gastelbrau"; "500 Days of Winter"; "Bottle" (a stop-motion short by CalArts animator and director Kirsten Lepore. She is the first recipient of the Student Annie Award, and her short took top prizes at Slamdance and nearly a dozen other film festivals); "Living Water"; "The Good River"; "Legal Illegal"; "Remission of Sins"; "Blueberry"; and "Masks" (a professional short).

Friday, Jan. 6, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Special Screening - Non Competition Film
(film appropriate for ages 13 and older)
Film: "Smuggled "
Film Festival founders Ramon Hamilton and Jennifer Fischer debut their latest feature film, a story about a mother and son's journey into America.

Saturday, Jan. 7, 3 P.M. - 4:30 p.m.
Script 2 Screen
(films appropriate for all ages)
Films from local youth who participated in a filmmaking class with Generation Arts, a local company dedicated to teaching the arts, including filmmaking.
Films include: "Summer School"; "Airplanes"; "Lego"; "Count on Me"; "React Relate Through GATE"; "Friendship is the Newhall Way"; "Kid Kidnappers;" "Moonswept" (collegiate film).

Saturday, Jan. 7, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Junior High School
(films appropriate for all ages)
Arroyo Seco Junior High films include: "Pollution, Knowledge is a Lifesaver," "A View from the Inside."
Castaic Middle School films include: "R-Word," "Tristan - Inside Looking Out," "Newhall Incident" and "Flight of the Melvin" (a professional short by writer/director/producer and Emmy-nominated television producer Paul DeNigris was Filmmaker of the Year at the Phoenix Film Festival in 2007).

Saturday, Jan. 7, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Professional Shorts
(films appropriate for ages 13 and older)
Films include: "Before Breakfast"; "Bip, Big (Beep, Beep)"; "Almost Runaways"; "Atroz" ("Awful"); "Live Outside the Box"; "Nanuq" (work by co-writer, executive producer and cinematographer Brent Yontz has premiered at Cannes, Marbella and the Chicago International Film Festival); "A Finger, Two Dots Then Me"; "El Somriure Amagat" ("The Hidden Smile" will be screened at Sundance Film Festival in January, so this is a great opportunity to see the film locally. It has also been accepted into more than 20 other festivals worldwide and has taken home top awards in a variety of categories. This film is appropriate for 17 and older due to language or adult content).

Sunday, Jan. 8, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
High School
(films appropriate for ages 13 and older)
Saugus High School films include: "My Stupid Family" and "Spider on the Wall."
Valencia High School films include: "Positive" and "Paper Dolls."
William S. Hart High School films include: "What Happened to Lucy Roe?", "My License," "Touch," "Le Petit Chef," and "I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life with You" (a professional short).