Nihilist Film Festival at the Echo Park Film Center

Among Hollywood agencies, there exists a notorious Black List of the best unsold scripts floating around L.A. at any given moment. The Nihilist Film Festival is sort of the exact opposite of that -- short films that in one way or another proved too hot, too appalling or too flinty for the local festival circuit. Catch a bevy of them surrounded by a surely rowdy crowd. Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St., L.A. 7:30 p.m. Sun. A donation of 99 cents is requested. www.echoparkfilmcenter.org.