Los Angeles Film Festival
Confessions of a Film Festival Junkie: LAFF 2015
The Los Angeles Film Festival took a look at a festival topographical map and considered the needs of its core membership and made some sage decisions. The program is chock-a-block with films by members and other indies. Ideally there ought to be a prize somewhere in this box of crackerjack.
Read the full article »DP/30: LA Film Festival 2012, artistic director David Ansen
DP/30 @LAFF: Somewhere Between, director Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Linda Goldstein Knowlton was an Exec Producer on Whale Rider and the co-director of The World According To Sesame Street. But her personal journey into the world of adoption – specifically adopting a daughter from China – brought her to her newest film, which tells the story of four girls and their families years after coming to America.
Read the full article »LAFF 2009 Wrap
The stars and film fans were out in force for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, whose slate included indie fest circuit faves, arthouse foreign fare and mainstream popcorn flicks. Fun at the fest ranged from Johnny Depp and Christian Bale on the red carpet for Public Enemies, to transforming robots in summer tentpole Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,…
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In a recent interview, Los Angeles Film Festival executive director Richard Raddonmade it quite clear that the organization’s goal was to create a world class movie event in the city most associated with the seventh art. While he admitted that the LAFF wasn’t at that vaunted level, he offered no benchmarks for when he hoped to…
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