Green Salon Short Film Festival returns this weekend

SANTA FE SPRINGS – The Green Salon Short Film Festival returns to Santa Fe Springs on Saturday, June 23 at 7 p.m. The festival, which features the work of local filmmakers, happens the fourth Saturday of each Summer month – June, July, and August – at Studio GalleRoy, the painting studio of Roy Anthony Shabla. 

It is a free-admission event.

The Green Salon is a monthly gathering of artists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, and other cultural enthusiasts. It is usually located in Downey, in the private garden of Roy Anthony Shabla, but moves to Santa Fe Springs for the Short Film Festival each Summer. It is the longest-running monthly cultural event in the immediate area.

The Green Salon always hosts an open mic and featured reader. This month, the featured reader is Jo Scott-Coe, author of Teacher at Point Blank, Listening to Kathy and most recently, MASS: A Sniper, a Father, and a Priest. She is an English professor at Riverside City College and facilitates community writing workshops for the Inlandia Institute.

The Green Salon will also host favorite filmmaker Dustin Michael Krapes this month/ Krapes gravitates toward the surreal, comedic, and absurd. His film this month, Beverly Sauce 90210, is an absurdist romp through the difficult life of being a condiment.

This ties into a food theme to much of the work this month. Wear a lobster on your head and receive a free glass of wine.

This year, the festival is combined with a small art fair. Local artists and craftsmen will exhibit and sell their work on site. Drawing and painting, sculpture, jewelry, and ceramic art will be featured. Studio GalleRoy itself will exhibit a different series of large paintings each month, encouraging the public to attend all three evenings of film and art.

One of the Art fair featured artists is Anthony Cano, a self-taught ceramicist and painter who will exhibit a variety of objects d’art including tile and ceramic sculpture – especially depicting sea life, organic material face-masks, and recycled bottle art. His work emphasizes the natural world and shines a spotlight on the ecological issues of our time.

Also, Studio GalleRoy shares space with Gallery Frames, a fine-art framer. Any framing job brought and booked the evenings of the festival receives a 20 percent discount.

Studio GalleRoy is located at 11210 Greenstone Avenue, Santa Fe Springs.