One year ago, local actor and producer Ben Stobber and local filmmaker Jeremy Settles launched the Lucky Sevens Film Challenge. The aptly named contest invited seven Las Vegas filmmakers to produce and direct a film in one week on a $7,000 budget.

February 26 and 27, three of those films—along with four others that were not specifically produced for the contest, but chosen by supporters of Lucky Sevens’ fundraising campaign—will screen at Galaxy Theatres at the Boulevard Mall, with the proceeds from the seven screenings going to the charities of the filmmakers’ choosing.

Even though the challenge only resulted in three produced films, Stobber says he’s happy with the results. “In my career as an actor and filmmaker, I find that this can be a very self-focused industry. … This was an opportunity to give everyone an equal opportunity to see what they could create,” he says. “And it’s raising awareness for seven charitable organizations.”

Screenings by the three filmmakers who completed the challenge—Brenda Daly’s revenge thriller Rogue Angel, Dale Neven’s time travel drama House in Time and Mike Conway’s survival horror film Drone Down—were close to selling out at press time, with the proceeds benefiting Project 150, Hookers for Jesus and Heaven Can Wait Animal Society, respectively. Other screenings will benefit BurlyCares, the Leah Willis Dance Arts program and more. For more information on the films, charities and event tickets, visit Lucky Sevens’ Facebook event page at bit.ly/3LPJRJt.

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