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ARAM, ARAM- the first ever Armenian film to screen at the LA Film Festival in its 20 year history. This ground breaking movie is special in more ways than one, as it’s also the first American independent drama to take viewers inside the Armenian Community of Los Angeles. Although the film centers on Little Armenia, the film’s director Christopher Chambers wanted the story to stay true to immigration as a whole and the importance of maintaining a cultural identity in a new world.
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TOO LATE - (U.S. Fiction Competition)
Written and Directed by: Dennis Hauck, Featuring: John Hawkes, Crystal Reed, Natalie Zea, Vail Bloom, Joanna Cassidy...
Synopsis:
Private investigator Mel Sampson (Academy Award Nominee John Hawkes) is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past. With this familiar setup, TOO LATE takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back toget...
A skate doc with a social conscience I AM THALENTE, world premiering at LAFF on June 15th at 8:30pm.
An exuberant, action filled skate doc with a social conscience, it follows Thalente Biyela, a 17 year old homeless skateboard prodigy in South Africa who catches the eye of the professional skate-world when a DIY video of him skating goes viral. A group of top pro-skaters and figures in the skate world, including Kenny Anderson and legend Tony Hawk, offer Thalente ...
Check the Colombian filmmaker Juan Paulo Laserna, who recently graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts. He graduated with honors and won several awards for his work, and now debuts his first feature LAS MALAS LENGUAS (“Sweet & Vicious”) at the 21st LAFF. The film will to compete amongst eight films vying in the World Fiction Competition of the festival.
Public screening: Saturday, June 13 at 1:50pm at Regal Cinemas #14
Press & Industry:...
THE CONFINES is a claustrophobic thriller that follows a troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she struggles to keep her mind from playing tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
Making his di...
A Film by Holly Morris & Anne Bogart
World Premiere Los Angeles Film Festival June 2015
Documentary Competition
"They lived through Stalin's Holodomor -- the genocide-by famine of the 1930s that wiped out millions of Ukrainians -- and the Nazis in the1940s. Some of the women were shipped to Germany as forced labor. When the Chernobyl&n...
Writer / Director: Daniela Amavia (Directorial Debut)
Producers: Keith Kjarval, Lynn Kressel, Daniela Amavia
Principal Cast: Abigail Spencer, Cheyenne Jackson, Sonja Kinski, Collette Wolfe, Elena Satine, Patrick Heusinger
Running Time: 98 minutes
Synopsis:
A group of five friends reunite for one night to save the woman, Romy (Abigail Spencer), at the center of their former circle. As the night progresses they struggle with their past relationships and finally truths are ...
Premiere: Saturday, June 13th at 7:15pm at Regal LA Live Cinemas
Website: www.bandofrobbers.com
Zeitgeist
Spanish, English
(2015 , 95 min.)
Directed by: Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
Screenwriter: Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
Producers: John Will, Rick Rosentha...
CATCHING THE SUN is a documentary feature by award-winning filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya about people daring to lead a massive global energy transition from dependence on fossil fuels to clean renewable energy.
The film will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 11, 2015 at 6:15 PM at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE 9.
The solar revolution is about much more than just saving energy; it is the intersection of environmental stewardship, social justice, an...
Skate doc I AM THALENTE world premieres at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival (details below). An exuberant, action filled skate doc with a social conscience, it follows Thalente Biyela, a 17 year old homeless skateboard prodigy in South Africa who catches the eye of the professional skate-world when a DIY video of him skating goes viral. A group of top pro-skaters and figures in the skate world, including Kenny Anderson and legend Tony Hawk, offer Thalente support and an opportunity t...
Aynada's director: Sara Blecher
Fuelled by the electric energy and ethnic diversity of 21st century Johannesburg, AYANDA tells the story of a young woman whose dreams of running a retro car restoration business are threatened by dark family secrets, the complications of love and the challenges of day-to-day life in the sprawling African metropolis.
Set in the vibrant community of Yeoville, where African migrants from across the continent live among indigenous South...
IN THE TREETOPS World Premiere at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival
Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 6:45 PM
Written and Directed by Matthew Brown
Starring Emma Corley Geer, Matthew Brown, Cameron Morton,
Joshua Pagan, Gabriel Douglas
William, Alissa, Gary and Eric are close friends at different stages in their high school careers, but the social playing field levels out when they all pack into William’s hand me ...
Martina Batan in 1980 Work by Roy Ferdinand
81 min / USA/ color / 2015 / English / US premiere
Friday, June 12, 8:45PM, Regal Cinemas L.A. Live
Sunday, June 14, 8:55PM, Regal Cinemas...
Free Community Screenings to take place during the 21st edition of the Festival including the 15th anniversary screening of Love & Basketball, The LXD: The Uprising Begins and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The Festival’s Social Impact Free Screenings include American DREAMers, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and The Politics of Race and HBO’s Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014. Also announced today, the annual Coffee Talks Panels f...
Additions to the 2015 Festival program, including Pras Michel and BT as part of the Music in Film Nights at the GRAMMY Museum, Tributes to Jonathan Demme and Rodrigo García, a Master Class with music video director Mathew Cullen, Diversity Speaks panels, the Los Angeles Times Young Hollywood Roundtable, the Steed Symposium on cyber security and Premiere section titles. Individual tickets are on sale now; please visit www.lafilmfest.com for more details.
“In addition to th...
Now in its 21st year, the Los Angeles Film Festival offers unparalleled access to creative voices through energetic film programming, Master Classes, live performances and conversations with the most compelling artists working today. The 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen a diverse slate of feature films, shorts, web series and music videos, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Music in Film at The GRAMMY Museum® and Master Classes. The Los Angeles Fil...
Two special Pre-Festival Screenings: Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope will have its LA Premiere on Monday, June 8 and Inside Out will screen on Tuesday, June 9 preceded by a Master Class with writer/director Pete Docter before the screening. Also announced today, Todd Strauss-Schulson’s The Final Girls will have a Gala Screening on Tuesday, June 16. The Los Angeles Film Festival runs June 10-18.
“With his newest film, Dope, writer/director Rick Famuyiwa ...
The programming for the LA Muse section was also announced today. Passes are now on sale to the general public. The Los Angeles Film Festival runs June 10 through June 18 and the full Festival line up will be announced on May 5.
“Under the leadership of Roya Rastegar and Jennifer Cochis, the programmers have assembled a slate of films that embody Film Independent’s mission of diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision with a special emphasis on world premieres, first time direct...
For the first time the Festival will feature a TV Gala with the premiere of the highly anticipated new MTV/Dimension TV series Scream on June 14. On June 17 the Festival will hold a Gala Screening of Benson Lee’s Seoul Searching. Also announced today, Festival Master Classes featuring director Pete Docter, editors Maryann Brandon & Mary Jo Markey and composer Mark Isham. The Buzz section of the Festival was also unveiled.
“Master Classes are an integral...
As the primary exhibition arm of Film Independent, The Los Angeles Film Festival’s mission is to showcase diversity, innovation, and unique visions in independent American and international cinema.
We are inspired by Los Angeles, a city of abundant creativity, and our programming reflects our city-muse through fil...
2015 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL: June 10-18
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Late Deadline: January 30, 2015
Exclusive Deadline* - Film Independent Members Only: February 10, 2015
WAIVED entry fees for Film Independent Filmmaker Pro Members.
Discounts for general Film Independent Members. ($10 off for feature-length films, $5 off for short films)
*PLEASE NOTE: After January 30,...
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