Sexy is to me – without a doubt – nearly synonymous with the word acceptance. To be sexy is to accept our own inherent beauty, despite whatever flaws might also be apparent

L’asilo di Brea is a recent submission to ECU 2010’s Non-European Dramatic Short category. Set in Los Angeles, the film traces the meeting between two strangers who after a casual night of intimacy make the twisted discovery that their relationship is more than they realized.

Canadian director Dan Clements whose recent submission to ECU 2010’s Non-European Dramatic Short category is entitled Patient, talks to us about blind dates, false teeth and his motivations as a filmmaker.

Our favourite superhero takes on a new dimension in this short film from director Hadrien Soulez Lariviere. A Parisian call-girl is summoned to Room 212 of a hotel where she is faced with a rather unusual client, whose sexual fantasy doesn’t quite conform to the normal..

While many reviewers are billing Precious as heart-warming , readily aligning the film with the nauseating sentimentality suffered by so many inner-city school dramas, don t be fooled.

A panel of well-known Angelenos, representing civic, creative and corporate communities, including Richard Dreyfuss, CSI-NY Hill Harper, Chef Evan Kleiman, David Strasberg, MALDEF’s Thomas Saenz and more, to judge a month-long FREE TO ENTER video contest online at lamag.com/citythink/getla