Past Events
The Spirit of Love Book Launch
On June 30th, Annabelle’s Book Club hosted a book launch of Lauren Kate’s new novel The Spirit of Love, with a Q&A moderated by Sarah Carter. A book signing followed the conversation.
“A vivid, life-affirming story of love across time and space.” —Library Journal (starred review)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes a magical time-slip love triangle about a man split into two—one version young and carefree, the other suave but jaded—and one woman’s quest to reunite his broken pieces.
Two loves. One soul. One choice.
Fenny’s got that boss glow. Not only did she just have the best sex of her life, but she’s finally about to direct the TV show she’s been a screenwriter on for ten years. Only one thing could floor her—finding out she’s been replaced by a hotshot director named Jude. Wait, no. Two things. Jude looks exactly like the guy who just turned her bones to jelly. Same dimples, same eyes, but he looks older and has a sadness Fenny wants to fix.
Last weekend, Fenny met Sam when he movie-style rescued her from a storm on Catalina Island. Here he is again, just … different. Can Sam and Jude be the same man? And if they are, will Fenny’s love be enough to put him back together?
No One Gets to Fall Apart Book Launch
On October 22nd, 2024, CMP hosted a book launch for Sarah LaBrie’s new memoir, No One Gets to Fall Apart, published by Harper Collins. We hosted a cacao ceremony and women’s circle to open our hearts for a spiritual release to align with the release of this incredible story.
On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness.
Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal.
Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.
In Her Name Screening
Vidiots featured In Her Name in LA to celebrate its distribution with Tribeca Films, Giant Pictures, and Drafthouse. The film screened at Vidiots Eagle Theater on Thursday, February 8th, 2024. Getty images was in attendance to cover the step and repeat.
Following the screening, there was a Q&A panel with the cast and crew, including Sarah Carter (Writer/Director/Producer/Actor), Erin Hammond (Actor/Producer), Philippe Caland (Actor/Producer), James Aaron Oliver (Actor), Cynthia Bravo (Producer), Ali Helnwein (Composer), Kevin Barth (Editor), and Iain Trimble (Cinematographer).
A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema, Vidiots is dedicated to inspiring human interaction around film through communal theatrical presentations and preserving, growing, and providing access to its diverse DVD, BluRay, and rare VHS collection, showcasing the work of emerging, master, and underrepresented artists, and producing unique and affordable film events, and vital education programs.
A Los Angeles film space founded by women, Vidiots was opened in Santa Monica as an alternative video store in 1985 by L.A. natives Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber. For nearly three decades Vidiots thrived, growing its unique collection, and serving a far-reaching, diverse, and devoted community of film lovers. In 2012, reacting to seismic changes in the film landscape, Vidiots became a 501(c)3 non-profit. 2015 brought two major donors to Vidiots — longtime customer Dr. Leonard Lipman, and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, which joined the organization at a pivotal moment, bringing a much-needed wave of new awareness, and allowing Vidiots to keep its doors open to the public. With the unwavering support of Annapurna Pictures, the organization was able to devise an extensive plan for sustainable relaunch in a new home in the heart of Northeast L.A.
Current supporters include the most innovative and community-oriented companies in LA and beyond: MUBI, A24, Alamo Drafthouse, All Facts, Cinetic Media, Criterion Collection, Final Draft, Genuine Article Pictures, GKIDS, Letterboxd, Level Forward, Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Paramount Pictures, Pascal Pictures, Pipeline Media Group, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures, Superbloom, UTA, Utopia Media, Vinegar Syndrome, WGAW, WME, Ways & Means, Zeiss, The Black List, Cinema Eye Honors, Film Independent, Outfest, Sundance Institute.
Cheshire Moon Productions was honored to be invited into this historical community and support their mission.