​​Writer/Director/Executive Producer

Giovanni Zelko​

​L.A. 4ORCE 
WINNER OF 47 AWARDS AT FILM FESTIVALS

+ 21 NOMINATIONS

L.A. NEO NOIR FILM & SCRIPT FEST             BEST FILM

CULVER CITY FILM FESTIVAL                         AUDIENCE CHOICE

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CHICAGO INDIE FILM AWARDS                      BEST PRODUCER

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INDO-DUBAI INTNL FILM FESTIVAL                BEST ACTION FILM, Hon M

BERLIN INDIE FILM FESTIVAL                         BEST DIRECTOR

CANNES INTNL FILM FEST AWARDS             BEST DIRECTOR

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HOLLYWOOD INTNL INDIE FILM AWARDS     BEST DIRECTOR - Thriller

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SEVEN CONTINENTS AWARDS L.A.               BEST DIRECTOR

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                                                                            BOBBIE BRECKENRIDGE

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CANNES INDIE INTNL FILM FEST                    BEST EDITING

THE INDIEFEST FILM AWARDS                       BEST EDITING Recognition

BERLIN INDIE FILM FESTIVAL                          BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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ROME INDIE FILM FESTIVAL                            BEST PRODUCTION

SEVEN CONTINENTS AWARDS L.A.                 BEST PRODUCTION

JAIPUR INTNL FILM FESTIVAL                          BEST WARDROBE

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MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL      BEST TRAILER

GENRES
Action / Crime / Thriller / Neo-Noir / Detective

YEAR & RUNTIME
2026  / 159 minutes (2 hours & 39 minutes)

LOG LINE
L.A. 4ORCE is a gritty neo-noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles during an historic crime wave.  Two veteran homicide detectives pursue a gang of arms dealers responsible for a shocking quintuple murder while four grieving husbands turned vigilantes take justice into their own hands.

SYNOPSIS
L.A. 4ORCE is a gritty neo-noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles in the midst of an historic crime wave.  Two veteran Los Angeles homicide detectives track down a gang of arms dealers responsible for a sensational quintuple murder that has captivated the nation. Meanwhile, the four husbands of the women killed in the 'Salon Slaughter' deal with their loss as they learn to protect themselves from the escalating crime that threatens them and the city.  Frustrated with the unsolved murders of their wives and their own encounters with criminals, the four men join forces and bring frontier justice to the streets of L.A. as lethal vigilantes.  Fate soon collides together the lives of the detectives, arms dealers and vigilantes at a climactic surprise ending.

TAGLINE
When justice fails society, ordinary citizens become their own police force.

ABOUT THE FILM
L.A. 4ORCE explores crime, justice, grief and revenge against the backdrop of a crime-infested Los Angeles.  Combining classic Film Noir style & thematic influences with contemporary crime-thriller storytelling and dynamic action sequences, this multi-layered Neo-Noir film explores law enforcement, criminal organizations and civilian vigilantes as their paths intertwine and eventually collide.  It’s ethnically diverse cast of actors from around the United States and the world include 63 speaking parts, giving the film a broad metropolitan reality unseen in most films of any budget.  It’s multi-tiered story delves into the many characters lives and explores how they intertwine with one another, while always maintaining a fast pace due to the structure of short scenes as the audience is taken on an urban odyssey across Los Angeles to New York City, Chicago, D.C. and the desert of Arizona.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Winner of 47 film festival awards and recipient of 22 additional nominations across the world in all major categories: multiple Best Picture, Best Thriller, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay awards + additional Best Music, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Wardrobe & Makeup wins.  *Full list attached at end of EPK.

FILMMAKER STATEMENT   By Writer & Director Giovanni Zelko: 
“L.A. 4ORCE presents a contemporary neo-noir crime story inspired by my love of the many classic noir films of the 1940’s & 1950’s, from The Maltese Falcon in 1941 to A Touch Of Evil in 1958 and many in between, especially Kiss Me Deadly, Criss Cross and The Big Sleep, as well as the neo-noir and retro-noir films of the 1970’s to 1990’s, mostly based in Los Angeles, in particular Chinatown (1974,) Heat (1995,) and L.A. Confidential (1997).  Similar to many of these films, my film L.A. 4ORCE places a mirror up to the darker side of contemporary society and reflects real-world concerns about public safety, crime & punishment, all within the stylized context of Los Angeles based noir films.  L.A. 4ORCE blends police-procedural storytelling with character-driven drama, action and suspense via interwoven story lines involving multiple points of views from detectives, criminals, vigilantes and news coverage to create a dynamic and entertaining crime thriller.  As an homage to the preceding noir, retro-noir and neo-noir films shot in Los Angeles, I sought out the many iconic Los Angeles locations in those important films and found ways to incorporate them in my film in organic ways to compliment the story and characters, especially the Los Angeles City Hall building featured in many films such as D.O.A., Criss Cross and Crime Wave, the Frolic Room bar on Hollywood Blvd from L.A. Confidential, the Venice Beach arches on Venice Blvd from A Touch Of Evil, the Santa Monica Pier from Mildred Pierce, the 10401 Wilshire Blvd apartment building from Kiss Me Deadly, Union Train Station from Criss Cross, the  Chinatown arches from Chinatown, Angel’s Flight train on Bunker Hill from The Killing, and San Pedro harbor neighborhood from Chinatown.  The number “4” in the title of L.A. 4ORCE not only represents the four vigilantes, but also the four groups of character perspectives: vigilantes, police, criminals and society’s views via the news programs, all of which combined place the viewer in the center of the swirling city of Los Angeles.   Although L.A. 4ORCE is a contemporary crime thriller, it has all the exciting archetypal elements of classic Los Angeles Noir films: femmes fatales, crime, resolute detectives, mystery, murder, betrayal, revenge, stark camera angles, flashbacks, dreams, cigar smoking (in place of cigarettes), high contrast lighting, double crosses, venetian blinds, dark themes of a haunted past resolved in shadowy urban streets of Los Angeles, and even a fedora-wearing gangster played by Harry Lennix.”

 

MAIN CAST
Harry Lennix as Chi-Town Harry
Sharon Ferguson as Detective Ferguson 
Darrell Phillip as Detective Phillip
Carlo Mendez as John Fuente
Tomm Voss as Tom Harrington 
Geno Monteiro as Shams
Chris Zwirner as Killer Chris
Jaye Razor as Big Jay
Bobbie Breckenridge as Queen Colleen
Giuliano Belle as Giuliano
Candice Coke as Sidney Farah
Alicia Mitchell as Connie Miller
V.J. Foster as Mayor Oldman

COMPARABLE  FILMS
Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, Heat, Training Day, End of Watch and many classic noir films such as Murder My Sweet, The Big Sleep, Kiss Me Deadly, The Killing, The Asphalt Jungle and Crime Wave. 

KEYWORDS
Los Angeles, Neo-Noir, Crime Thriller, Police Thriller, Vigilante Justice, Homicide Detectives, Independent Film, Action Thriller.

PRODUCED BY
Giovanni Zelko - Executive Producer 
Harry Lennix - Co Executive Producer 
Jason Coker - Co Executive Producer 
Entire Cast – Produced by

CONTACT
All Inquiries:
L.A. 4ORCE LLC   / Att: Giovanni Zelko  / giovannizelko@gmail.comre.