Special Guests in Attendance
ASCO: Without Permission
- Sun, Jun 28
Sun, Jun 28 @ 4:00 pm: With Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger in Person!
Director: Travis Gutiérrez Senger Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Gronk, Harry Gamboa Jr., Nao Bustamante, Patssi Valdez, Willie Herron, Zoe Saldaña
From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna this inspiring triumph of creativity challenges the limits of documentary conventions to tell the story of a revolutionary Chicano art group who turned 1970s LA into their defiant canvas.
With Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger at the Sunday, June 28th screening!
We Are Pat
- Sun, Jun 28
Director: Ro Haber Run Time: 92 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Abby McEnany, Esther Fallick, Julia Sweeney, Kevin Nealon, Molly Kearney
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmaker Ro Haber along with comedy icons Julia Sweeney and Harper Steele, and all-around legend Alan Cumming for an extra special screening of the massively entertaining, endearing, and thought-provoking documentary We Are Pat!
The Wailing
- Thu, Jul 9
Director: Na Hong-jin Run Time: 156 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2016 Language: Korean with English subtitles
Starring: Chun Woo-hee, Hwang Jung-min, Jun Kunimura, Kim Hwan-hee, Kwak Do-won
Co-presented by Luaka Bop, the record label founded by David Byrne. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jang Young-gyu, the film’s composer and founder of the award-winning Korean psych-pop band Leenalchi
Second screening added (screening only) Friday, July 10th
Coroner to the Stars
- Sun, Jul 12
Director: Ben Hethcoat, Keita Ideno Run Time: 85 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Cyril Wecht, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, George Takei, Janice Hahn, Rosalind Marks
Join us in the microcinema for a fascinating documentary at the intersection of Hollywood, morbid curiosity, and the American immigrant experience, Coroner to the Stars - a chronicle of the extraordinary journey of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the former Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner whose groundbreaking autopsies forever shaped American culture.
With director Ben Hethcoat in conversation with Adrienne Hill on Sunday, July 12th!
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
- Tue, Jul 14
Director: Sophie Huber Run Time: 76 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2013
Starring: David Lynch, Debbie Harry, Harry Dean Stanton, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders
Join Vidiots as we celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of the legendary Harry Dean Stanton with a special screening of the critically acclaimed, unusually poetic documentary Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction with director Sophie Huber in person!
The Popcorn List: Remaining Native
- Sun, Jul 19
Director: Paige Bethmann Run Time: 87 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
A coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Editor Eric F. Martin in person!
The Popcorn List: Fucktoys
- Sun, Jul 19
Director: Annapurna Sriram Run Time: 106 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Annapurna Sriram, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Damian Young, François Arnaud, Sadie Scott
Abandon me harder daddy.
Director Annapurna Sriram and Producer Tim Petryn in person!
Zoot Suit
- Thu, Jul 23
Director: Luis Valdez Run Time: 103 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1981
Starring: Charles Aidman, Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, John Anderson, Tyne Daly
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary Luis Valdez for a special screening of Zoot Suit, his memorable musical rendition of LA Chicano history starring Edward James Olmos.