The Los Angeles premiere of “The Gene Pool”, an hour-long comedy feature film by Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller (@veritablepictures) starring Veronika Slowikowska (@veronika_iscool) as a young woman who seriously injures a kid she’s nannying and, to convince herself she'd be a good mother, attempts to conceive a child as soon as humanly possible via her friends’ unwittingboyfriends. The cast includes Caroline Yost (@caro.snake) of Simple Town, King of Car World William Banks (@williambanks_)(@carworld.nyc), Rahul Gajasmharamoorthy, Emilia Michalowska (@emilia.mich), Bryson Brunson (@brunsoninc), and Otter Lee (@otterleemoy).

The screening will begin with a reading by Anastasia Denos (@Runny__Babbit) and a program of shorts, new and old, narrative and otherwise, by Marie Menken, Lucky Marvel (@luckyluckymarvel), William Wegman, Galaxia Miller (@winon.miller), Primordial Freak (@primordialfreak), Bardia Salimi (@bardiasalimi1), Alice Guy, and Aki Kaurismaki.

The first issue of MOVIE POLEMICS will be available for purchase.