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The San Fernando Valley also known as the Six Cities area consist of Los Angeles, Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Hidden Hills, and Universal City home to Universal Studios

Beaux Arts San Diego Short Film Exhibition

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The Beaux Arts festival in San Diego presents the second annual San Diego Short Film Exhibition. We will be exhibiting short films by independent filmmakers from all over the world.

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Tarfest

TARFEST - Festival of Film, Music & Art is an annual festival held in the historic Rancho La Brea Tarpits in Los Angeles and the galleries and music venues in the historic Miracle Mile. Short film programs are presented in the park under the stars.

Santa Monica International Film Festival line up

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Santa Monica International Film Festival Sept. 19-21 The annual Santa Monica Film Festival has announced the line up of 22 films that will be screening at this years festival September 19-21. Santa Monica Film Festival is held in the world famous Downtown Santa Monica and Third Street Promenade. Films will screen from 1:00PM to 10PM at the AMC Loews Broadway 4 (Tickets $10) and at Santa Monica Public Library's Martin Luther King Jr. Theater (Tickets Free). Sponsors include: Third Street Pro...

San Diego's 2nd Annual Que Viva! Cine Latino

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(Chula Vista, California) Media Arts Center San Diego's San Diego Latino Film Festival and Otay Ranch Town Center bring the best of Spanish language shorts and feature films to enjoy this September at the 2nd Annual Que Viva! Cine Latino 2008 presented by AT&T Uverse. In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the public is invited to experience a collection of popular Latino films. In addition there will be a Latino art exhibit and live entertainment. Held weekly in September, film screenin...

San Diego's 2nd Annual Que Viva! Cine Latino

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Media Arts Center San Diego's San Diego Latino Film Festival and Otay Ranch Town Center bring the best of Spanish language shorts and feature films to enjoy this September at the 2nd Annual Que Viva! Cine Latino 2008 presented by AT&T Uverse. In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the public is invited to experience a collection of popular Latino films. In addition there will be a Latino art exhibit and live entertainment. Held weekly in September, film screenings and events will take place ...

Malibu International Film Festival line up

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9th Annual Malibu International Film Festival Announces LineUp & ScheduleThe 9th Annual Malibu International Film Festival, scheduled to take place, April4-6, 2008 in Malibu, California, announces on Monday the complete official selection of films to premiere and screen at this years prestigious boutique festival. Frank Giarmona, Festival Creative Director announced today Malibu Film Festival is a destination festival that offers something for everyone. This is both a community and a film indust...

Smogdance announced its final selection of 43 films

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The Smogdance Film Festival today announced its final selection of films for the 2008 festival, which will be held from January 25-27 at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Recognized at a national level, the three-day festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary with an eclectic mix of animation, documentaries, comedies and short dramas. The 43 films selected for 2008 represent local talent, as well as filmmakers from 9 states, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Each year ...

Welcome to LAFemme.org coming soon

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LA Femme Film Festival is a premier festival that focuses on women filmmakers' platforming their commercial films for the world wide audience. It is a Festival for those women who want to have an equal opportunity in commercial entertainment desiring to change, enhance, or become leaders in the industry as a Director, Writer, Producer or Director of Photography. Film Festival Dates & Location:Date: October 11-14, 2007 Location: Fine Arts Theatre Venue 1 & 2PARTY INFORMATION LA FEMME PARTY SCHEDU...

Celebrating Latino Community Leaders in San Diego!

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Student Filmmakers Screen Short Films Celebrating Latino Community Leaders in San Diego!Wednesday, June 27th at 6:30 PMat the Third Floor Auditorium of the Central Public Library/ 820 E Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)* Teen Producers & Documentary interviewees will be in attendanceMedia Arts Center San Diego's Teen Producers Project will screen four videos from it's Voices of Change project. Young people living in the San Diego neighborhoods of Barrio Logan, Downtown, Golden Hill, North P...

The San Diego Latino Film Festival

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The San Diego Latino Film Festival continues to showcase an amazing range of independent voices in film with Cine’mation, its first animated showcase.  The festival is proud to present this impressive array of work within the art form that includes animatics, 2D, 3D, and stop motion films.  Bringing something for everyone, the showcase presents art house programs alongside more traditional family films.While the Cine’mation Showcase may be new to the festival, Latino/a contributions to the...

The Smogdance Film Festival today announced its final selection

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The Smogdance Film Festival today announced its final selection of films for the 2007 festival, which will be held from January 26-28 at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the dA Center for the Arts, the three-day festival will celebrate its ninth anniversary with an eclectic mix of animation, documentaries, comedies and short dramas. The 40 films selected for 2007 represent local talent, as well as filmmakers from 13 states, Aust...

Driving away from the conference to LA through the desert

More to come here: come back for (better pictures... these were made with my Nokia N70. What a stunning experience, quite a long drive but a unique sightseeing trip through the Mojave Desert and Joshua Tree Park (there used to have 300 gold mines there, all gone...and nothing left, I checked). Rocks...all kind of rocks of course, pilings, liquid shapes, very unique, ask your local experts. Some great company with a couple of festival directors from Australia Toni and Philip Powell wh...

Pomona Smogdance 06 announces events

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SMOGDANCE ’06:The 8th Annual Inland Empire Film Festival!This festival features short subjects, documentaries, animation and comedy from emerging filmmakers across the continent and as far away as England. Including some award-winning films that have been screened internationally. Don’t miss out on raw, uncut, thought-provoking and comic entertainment.FREE Late Night Screenings on Friday and Saturday at 10:30 pm. dA Center for the Arts is able to present this event through the gracious as...

Political Irak inspired shorts at Palm Springs Fest of shorts

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Political Inspired Shorts Screen at Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts The 11th Annual Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films presented a daring combination of documentary and dramatic shorts exploring the complexities of the US-led war in Iraq, to a full house Saturday evening. The program, cleverly titled “Iraq and a Hard Place,” included six strong films that each explored a facet of the war in a surprisingly apolitical fashion. From the story of a man in Camden, Ma...

Political inspired shorts at Palm Springs Fest of shorts

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Political Inspired Shorts Screen at Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts The 11th Annual Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films presented a daring combination of documentary and dramatic shorts exploring the complexities of the US-led war in Iraq, to a full house Saturday evening. The program, cleverly titled “Iraq and a Hard Place,” included six strong films that each explored a facet of the war in a surprisingly apolitical fashion. From the story of a man in Camden, Ma...

Huntington Surf Theatre Film Festival

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3rd Annual Surf Theatre Film Festival during the US Open of Surfing July 26th thru 29th 2005 Huntington Beach, CA Each year over a half a million people come to see the best of the best compete in the US Open Surf Championships held in Surf City Huntington Beach, Ca. If you’re surfing during the day, what does a champion surfer do at night? You watch the best of the best in surf films.Once again for the third year, Big Red Productions will present the 3rd Annual Surf Film Festival at the Man...

San Diego Latino Film Fest to present popular Santos Peregrinos

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OPENING IN SAN DIEGO ON JUNE 10th! POPULAR MEXICAN COMEDIAN ADAL RAMONES STARS IN MEXICAN COMEDY, SANTOS PEREGRINOS.Media Arts Center San Diego's San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to present Adal Ramones in the popular Mexican comedy, Santos Peregrinos, June 10-16, 2005 at Mann Theatres Hazard Center (7510 Hazard Center Dr., San Diego, CA, 92102). There's trouble in the vecindad when it is discovered that a set of holiday statuettes that once belonged to Emiliano Zapata are filled with s...

Palm Springs Desert Heats Up With Stars In Winter

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Desert Heats Up With Stars In Winter at Palm Springs International Film FestivalThe Sea Inside and Watermarks Named Audience FavoritesA beautiful starry warm evening greeted filmgoers at the Closing Night event for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. While the rest of the world was braving rain and snow, the Festival was hot with success as they celebrated the Festivals 16th year. This was a record-breaking Festival for Executive Director Darryl MacDonald and dedicated staff and the ...

San Diego Asian Film Festival Awards

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5th San Diego Asian Film Festival Awards Top Films; Enjoys Successful YearAnother year is in the books, and the San Diego Asian Film Festival is counting its successes for a fifth straight year. Nearly 9,000 people attended, a number that continues to show the positive affect the grass roots festival has taken in its community. Filmmakers, movie watchers and other guests are raving about the festival that took place October 21-24. “This was an extremely meaningful year for us, hitting a five-y...

Rick Schroeder

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The San Diego Film Festival may be new to the film community, but it is quickly becoming one of the premier events. It won the National Bulldog Award for its Excellence in Media Relations and Publicity. It was also named one of the Top 10 Film Festival Vacations by Film Threat. With its annual attendance well over 15,000, and a skyrocketing number of films being submitted from all over the globe, San Diego is quickly attaining an elite status. This year, out of the 1000+ films that applied to th...

whats up at Silver Lake fest

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Opening Night: National Premiere of United Artists' "The Yes Men" and Gala PartyThursday, Sept. 23, 7:30 pm; tickets $48"The Yes Men" follows the real-life group of prankster-activists () as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating officials of the World Trade Organization. The film is directed by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price, the filmmaking team behind acclaimed Sundance Grand Prize Jury winner "American Movie" A special appearance by The Yes Men themselves promises to make th...

Surf Film Festival inside the tube

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Surf Film Festival Make Waves The 2nd annual Surf Film Festival will take place during the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California July 27-30th 2004. Big Red Productions who is responsible for bringing surf films back to the big screen is holding it's now annual Surf Film Festival the only one of its kind in the world. With the over 300,000 people who come to attend the largest surf contest in the United States in the daytime, it was only right to have the top surfers on the big scr...

Restaurants near by

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Our selection Best bet for free table on 3rd promenade. Boathouse 301 Santa Monica Pier (310) 393-6475 (view good, food average)Carousel Cafe 1601 Ocean Front Walk (310) 451-4277 Cezanne (Le Merigot - A JW Marriott Beach Hotel & Spa) 1740 Ocean Avenue (310)395-9700 Chez Jay 1660 Ocean Ave. opposite Loews and the Ocean Lodge, try the meat.Cora's 1802 Ocean Ave. (310) 451-9562Drago 2628 Wilshire Blvd. (310) 828-1585Josie Restaurant 2424 Pico Blvd. (310) 581-9888Lobster (The) 1602 Ocean Avenue (310...

Accomodation and Santa Monica details?

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All details rates, pictures and maps from:http://www.santamonica.com/n-accommodations/accommodations.htmlTheatresAMC Santa Monica 7, 1310 Third Street, (310) 395-3030Loews Cineplex Theaters, 1441 Third Street, (310) 777-FILM, #176 Mann Criterion Theaters, 1313 Third Street, (310) 395-1599 NuWilshire, 1314 Wilshire Boulevard, (310) 394-8099Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, (310) 395-4990 Laemmle Fourplex Theaters, 1332 Second Street, (310) 394-9741 ...

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