Film Series & Festivals

FILM FESTIVALS

• Los Angeles Animation Festival
  LAAF uniquely combines film features, short screenings, networking opportunities, parties, panels, awards and competitions for the animation community – from the newest to the careerist.

• Los Angeles Film Festival
  Showcases the best of American and international cinema.

• Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival
  Founded by UCLA students in 1982, Outfest is the leading organization that promotes LGBT equality by creating, sharing and protecting LGBT stories on the screen.

• Palm Springs International Film Festival
  This festival seeks to cultivate and promote the art and science of film through education and cross-cultural awareness.

• Screamfest Horror Film Festival
  Discovering the new blood of horror and honoring the masters.

• The Feel Good Film Festival
  The Feel Good Film Festival is a non-profit showcase encouraging the development, production and distribution of short or feature length films with happy endings that make audiences laugh, and that capture the beauty of our world.

• Topanga Film Festival
  Nominated as “one of the 25 coolest film festivals in the world” by Filmmaker Magazine, the Topanga Film Festival accepts any genre of short film into competition that challenges conventions with an original voice and point of view.

• United Film Festival – Los Angeles
  The United Film Festivals (now in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and London) have developed a rich tradition of screening exceptional independent films and have gained a respectable reputation in only a few years time.

FILM SERIES

• Cinespia
  An outdoor film series set amid the graves at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

• Film at LACMA
  LACMA’s film program presents cinema in an artistic and historical context.

• Japanese American National Museum Film Screenings
  Film screenings that support the museum’s mission to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience.

• Los Angeles Filmforum
  The only venue in Southern California dedicated exclusively to the ongoing, non-commercial exhibition of independent, experimental, and progressive cinema.

• Newfilmmakers Los Angeles
  Newfilmmakers LA showcases innovative works by emerging filmmakers from around the world and provides a forum where they can have open audience discussions about their projects and connect with industry professionals.

• Skirball Cultural Center Film Series
  The Skirball screens a variety of films, ranging from classic pictures to little known documentaries.

• The American Cinematheque
  A non-profit, viewer-supported cultural organization dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the Moving Picture in all its forms, ranging from the classics to the outer frontiers of the art form.

• The Cinefamily
  Screens a wide variety of revival films and hosts avant garde events at The Silent Movie.

• UCLA Film and Television Archive
  The UCLA Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.