Editor

The USA Film Festival announced NEW DATES for the 38th Annual USA Film Festival of April 21 - 27, 2008, to be held in Dallas.

The seven-day festival will feature the best new independent short and feature films from around the world, along with special tributes; the Academy-qualified National Short Film & Video Competition featuring cash awards in multiple categories; and discussions with dozens of celebrities and filmmaker guests.

ALL PROGRAMS during the seven-day USA Film Festival event will take place at the Angelika Film Center Dallas. The full Festival program and guest schedule will be announced in early April.

The prestigious USA Film Festival will continue its tradition of presenting a diverse schedule of programs during Festival Week, including retrospectives and tributes to artists who have made outstanding individual contributions to American film. Past filmmaker guests and honorees have included cinematographers Bill Butler, Owen Roizman and Conrad Hall, editor Dede Allen, production designers Henry Bumstead and Richard Sylbert, composers Mark Mothersbaugh, Quincy Jones and Elmer Bernstein, writers Donald E. Westlake and Buck Henry, producers Irwin Winkler and Bernie Brillstein, directors Milos Forman, William Firedkin, Henry Jaglom, Danny Boyle, Neil LaBute, Peter Greenaway, Ken Russell, Frank Oz, Faith Hubley, Bill Duke, Penny Marshall, John Waters, Charles Burnett, Robert Benton, Michael Apted, Arthur Penn, Alan J. Pakula, Norman Jewison, Stanley Donen, Sydney Pollack, Paul Schrader, Robert Altman, Chuck Jones, Martin Ritt, Alan Rudolph, John Cassavetes, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Lumet, Frank Capra and George Cukor, and actors Anthony Hopkins, Peter Fonda, John Turturro, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Debra Winger, Tommy Lee Jones, Richard Dreyfuss, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Hopper, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey, Martin Short, and many others.