The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards as well as the Festival, today announced a major new partnership with ArcLight Cinemas. The 22nd edition of the LA Film Festival will take place June 1 – June 9, 2016 at ArcLight Cinemas around the city, including ArcLight Hollywood and the brand new ArcLight Santa Monica. The Festival headquarters will be at ArcLight Culver City. The 2016 call for submissions is now open.
The Hollywood Reporter
AIDS, alcoholism, kidnapping and rape — they’re not typical plot elements in the tales children invent. The young storytellers in the deeply moving documentary Liyana aren’t trying to be sensationalistic when they place such obstacles on their fictional heroine’s path; they’re simply drawing on what they know. They’re among the estimated 200,000 orphans in Swaziland, a tiny country with the world’s highest HIV infection rate.
Richard of PopCults.com writes "Recently, at the 2015 LA Film Fest, a sparkling new romance by director Emily Ting debuted and I will admit that I was completely taken aback by how much I enjoyed the film – It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong. Not only did I enjoy the film for the story and the stars, Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch, Once Upon A Time) and Bryan Greenberg (Vice, One Tree Hill), but because of the dialog of the film which seemed to me the most realistic and genuine scripting I have seen in a romance film in a long time."
Richard of PopCults.com writes "These are the films that have something about them that has called me to them; whether it is the actors that are featured in these films, the source materials of the documentary subject, or something intangible that I cannot quite describe – like some kind of natural attraction to the project. Whatever it is, it has me anxious to see these films in particular over the others that I have seen or come across in materials leading up to the LAFF. So please let me indulge myself a bit as I list off the films I am excited about seeing at the Los Angeles Film Festival."
