Report from LAFF
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Atomic Bomb Drama Wins $15K Film Independent Grant
Organization also announces participants in Fast Track financing and filmmaker support program
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LAFF Opens: Superheroes, Violent Action, Whimsical Murder
Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Ryan Gosling, Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey add the requisite star power to the downtown L.A. Film Festival
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L.A. Film Fest Preview: Event Opens Thursday, Sans Lakers Game 7 Traffic
Festival, which had its opening night both disrupted and buoyed by Game 7 of the NBA Finals at Staples last year, returns downtown
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LAFF: So, Did Downtown Work?
Caught between the Lakers and the Twi-hards, the festival staked out a new home in downtown Los Angeles
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LAFF Audience Awards to ‘Four Lions,’ ‘Thunder Soul’
Mexican film “Presumed Guilty” wins international award
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Los Angeles Film Festival: What’s Up? Docs
“I think we put together an amazing group of documentaries this year”
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Middle Ground Is Tricky Terrain for ‘Climate Refugees’
A non-partisan film about a highly politicized subject has to tread carefully with its distribution
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Festival Notes: Waiting for ‘Twilight’
As LAFF heads into the homestretch, things are going on besides that big vampire movie
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It’s a ‘Twilight’ Campout
Two days before the LAFF premiere of “Eclipse,” Twi-hards have turned L.A. Live into a campground
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Festival Notes: Sports & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
The first weekend of the L.A. Film Festival settled into a lively downtown groove
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Festival Opens Amid Laker Madness
The Lakers championship brought energy and unpredictability to LAFF’s opening night
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Charles Burnett, Larry Karaszewski Among LAFF Jurors
They’ll judge narrative films; Sandra Tsing-Loh on shorts jury
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Night 1, Game 7: Look Out
The film festival kicks off across the street from the deciding Lakers/Celtics game, and the LAPD is ready
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13 Reasons to Head Downtown for the L.A. Film Fest
From elephants to “Knight Rider” to Levon Helm — and, of course, there’s always “Twilight: Eclipse”