22nd Annual Westflix Film Festival for California Teens
Film Festival / Saturday March 15, 2025 / Paramount Theater at Paramount Studios / 5555 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038 / 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM / Guest Speaker: David Fincher
Filmmakers' Workshop / Sunday March 16, 2025 / Harvard-Westlake Upper School 3700 Coldwater Canyon Studio City, CA 91604 / 12:30 PM -3:30 PM / Workshop Panelists: Kyle Maclachlan, Haidy Mendez, Paul N.J. Ottosson, and Erica Oyama
Read the Program
Westflix is a celebration of the best short films produced by high school students throughout California, curated and organized by student festival directors, board members, club members, and faculty advisors at Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City, CA.
Watch the Livestream
Livestream Westflix on HW Media+
Saturday March 15, 2025
- 5:45pm-6:45pm PST - Tune into our red carpet event
- 7:00pm-10:00pm PST - Watch our program of films and awards
- Don’t miss our Guest Speaker, David Fincher at 7pm
Live from the Paramount Theater in Hollywood, from the comfort of your home!
The program of student short films are showcased in an evening red carpet screening and awards event at a theater in Los Angeles and followed by a day of film workshops with industry professionals at Harvard-Westlake School, the sponsor of Westflix. Previous venues include ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, the TCL Chinese Theater, the historic Million Dollar Theater in downtown LA, and the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This year, Westflix is hosted at the Paramount Theater at Paramount Pictures Studios, and will also be live streamed via HWMedia+.
WESTFLIX IS SOLD OUT. If you registered via Greenvelope, your QR code ticket is in your email. You must bring an ID that matches your ticket registration in order to attend the Festival Screening at Paramount. Please reach out to student Director of Operations, Jasmine Sorgen jsorgen1@hwemail.com with ticketing questions.
Saturday March 15th, 2025 - Paramount - Festival Schedule:
5:30 pm - Check in begins
5:45pm-6:45 pm - HWTV Red Carpet in the Lobby
6:30 pm - Theater Doors Open and HW Jazz Explorers play live on stage
7:00 pm - Introductions and Keynote Speaker
7:30 pm-9:30 pm - 2 Act Screening of Films (with 15 minute intermission)
9:30 pm-10 pm - Lizzie Awards Ceremony
Westflix is produced by members of the Harvard-Westlake School community and thus holds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core. Each year we work to reach further to include and uplift the voices and stories of a more diverse range of young filmmakers across the state. Westflix is a brave space for creative expression and education that celebrates and recognizes student artists of different identities and backgrounds. In the past, we’ve been proud to showcase films by LGBTQIA+ filmmakers, POC filmmakers, first generation filmmakers, Jewish filmmakers, women filmmakers, first time filmmakers, filmmakers with disabilities, and other students of marginalized communities, who were able to share their own stories via our platform. As arbiters of media, we understand how much representation matters and will continue to expand our scope.