Mumbai, Actress Shriya Pilgaonkar will serve as a jury member for the shorts category for the 2024 edition of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA).

The film festival, which will run from June 27 to 30, will screen 20 films, including seven narrative features, twelve short films and a docu-series featuring diverse films from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan. and the United States, a press release said.

The festival's short program includes films like "Hema", "Last Days of Summer", "Wire and Cloth", "Aday (On a Sunday)", "Lullaby" and "Bobby's Beauty Parlour" starring Rajshree Deshpande.

“I am honored and thrilled to be invited as a jury member for the Short Film category at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2024. I'm looking forward to attending the festival in LA and seeing these fantastic shorts by emerging South Asian filmmakers.

Pilgaonkar said in a statement, "The atmosphere of film festivals is always creatively energetic and inspiring. I am excited to meet and interact with diverse storytellers and artists and to see the incredible line-up of films at IFFLA."

Filmmaker Tarsem Singh's "Dear Jassi" will serve as the opening film for the 2024 edition, while Tamil superstar Vijay Sethupathi's "Maharaja" will bring down the curtain on IFFLA.

The festival will also screen filmmaker Nikhil Nagesh's upcoming action thriller "Kill" and Sundance winner "Girls Will Be Girls", the first production venture of actor-duo Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha.