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MOSS (LA Film Festival Review)

It’s not just real estate that lives by the mantra, “location, location, location”. Films are as equally dependent upon same and MOSS is the perfect example of that. The banks of a lazy river winding its way around Paradise Island and Cape Fear into the bogs of North Carolina lends

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IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD (LA Film Festival Review)

Competing in the World Fiction Category at Los Angeles Film Festival 2017 and a “Must See” film by any standard is the animated IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD. Directed by Sunao Katabuchi, once an assistant to Hayao Miyazaki, we are transported to WWII Hiroshima with the story of Suzu.

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AND THEN I GO (Los Angeles Film Festival Review)

Book to film adaptation are always tricky, even for the most seasoned of screenwriters and directors. Adapting a novel like AND THEN I GO is even more challenging given the subject matter. But scribes Brett Haley and the book’s author Jim Shepard more than deliver, as does director Vincent Grashaw.

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YOUR OWN ROAD (Los Angeles Film Festival Review)

Who doesn’t want to take their own road, chart their own course, on the journey of life? We all do. And that’s exactly what our lead character Brian does in first-time writer/director Brandon Buczek’s love letter to not only the struggling filmmaker, but the struggle within each of us to

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REPLACE (LA Film Festival Review)

Always a favorite category of films at LA Film festival is Nightfall. Boasting some of the best horror, sci-fi, jump out of year seats, nail-biting and/or blood fests on screen, LA Film Festival 2017 is no different thanks to director Norbert Keil and his cinematographer Tim Peter Kuhn who bring

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LIYANA (LA Film Festival Review)

Talk about the embodiment of creativity, imagination and inspiration! One need look no further than LIYANA for a “Must See” film, be it at Los Angeles Film Festival or elsewhere, as it finds its place in the cinematic ether. A documentary for the whole family, directors Aaron and Amanda Kopp

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HUMOR ME (LA Film Festival Review)

How can you go wrong with Elliot Gould and Jemaine Clement together? The answer is, you can’t. Making its world premiere at LA Film Festival, HUMOR ME comes from the fertile comedic mind of writer/director Sam Hoffman, who here makes his directorial debut. Inspired by Hoffman’s website “Old Jews Telling

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LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL 2017 – And The Winners Are. . .

Today the LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, announced the winners of the 2017 Festival at the Awards Reception presided over by Festival Director Jennifer Cochis and Film Independent President Josh Welsh. The Festival’s juried awards include the U.S. Fiction Award, U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award presented by Aputure, World

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SHOT CALLER (LA Film Festival Review)

Written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, SHOT CALLER is a companion to Waugh’s acclaimed film FELON which stars Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff. With SHOT CALLER, we now meet successful businessman Jacob Harlon. On top of the world, Harlon has it all; that is until he’s drinking and driving,

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