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****IFP LOS ANGELES****
Listed below are the upcoming events for March
Visit the website at www.ifp.org for more information and ticket prices.
If you are interested in attending an event, please call 310/432-1222 to make a reservation. Please note: We do not accept reservations by email.
THE MONTH IN A VIEW
Call for Entries:
IFP Los Angeles Film Festival
Deadline: Shorts and Music Videos: March
Deadline: Features: April
Announcements:
IFP/LA closed for President's Day
Spirit Award Ballots due in March
Independent Spirit Awards: Viewing Party in March
Learn Your Craft:
March 12 - Market Orientation: American Film Market
March 13 - Intermediate Final Cut Pro 4
March 25 - Director Series
March 26 - Meet the MacArthur Foundation
See a Film:
March 1-14 - Spirit Award Screenings
March 5 - Preview Screening: The Dreamers
March 19 - New Film Works Screening: Bought & Sold
March 23 - Cinema Lounge
March 24 - Preview Screening: Broken Lizard's Club Dread
****IFP LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL****
Call for Applications
IFP/Los Angeles is now accepting submissions for the Los Angeles Film Festival, which will take place in June. Short films and music videos must be submitted for the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival no later than March. Full-length narrative and documentary features (U.S. and international) must be submitted no later than March. Entry forms are now available at the IFP/LA office, or visit the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival web site at www.lafilmfest.com.
****SPIRIT AWARD BALLOTS****
Due March 17
Please mark your choices on your ballot and make sure it is postmarked for return on or before March. There will be two drawings from the ballots received; win a pair of tickets to the event or for the official Independent Spirit Award Presenter Gift Basket. But you have to vote to win!
****INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS****
Viewing Party: March 28 at 1pm * Canal Club
It's time to celebrate and find out who takes home the bird! The Canal Club is once again hosting the Spirit Award viewing party, open to IFP/Los Angeles members only. If you can't make our party, throw your own. The ceremony airs live on IFC beginning at 2:00 pm. The show will rebroadcast on Bravo at 10:00 pm. To make your reservation, call 310/432-1222. Capacity is limited to 300, so call now.
****AMERICAN FILM MARKET****
Market Orientation: Learn Your Craft
March 12 at 7:30pm * IFP/Los Angeles Office
The business of motion picture production and distribution reaches its peak every year at the American Film Market. Over 300 motion picture companies and 7,000 industry leaders including producers, distributors, financiers, directors, writers, agents, film commissioners, attorneys, buyers and press, convene to pursue the business of film. At this orientation, Jonathan Wolf, Executive Vice President of AFMA and Managing Director of the American Film Market, gives insight on how to capitalize on the AFM's opportunities. The AFM runs Feb. 25 - Mar. 30.
****FINAL CUT PRO 4****
Master Workshop
March 13 at 10am * Moviola Education Center
IFP/Los Angeles is pleased to offer a special Intermediate Workshop in Final Cut Pro 4. The course will include both demonstration and hands-on practice, with time for experimentation with sample material. Topics covered will include basic motion effects and filters; Live Type, the titling program; Compressor, the exporting program for Internet or DVD; trimming techniques; and color correction. Participants are required to have a basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro in order to take this course (which compliments our one-day introductory class).
****DIRECTOR SERIES****
The Independent Spirit: A Director's Roundtable
March 25 at 7:30pm * Blue Conference Center at the Pacific Design Center
The Director Series kicks off with a roundtable discussion with directors of films nominated for the IFP Independent Spirit Awards. Representing the independent spirit, these filmmakers have found a way to balance their artistic integrity with the tangible pressures of getting a film made. Moderator Hilary Birmingham leads filmmakers Jim Sheridan (In America), Billy Ray (Shattered Glass), Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas), and Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini (American Splendor), as they share their experiences and creative vision. For more information on the Director Series, go to www.ifp.org.
****MEET THE MacArthur FOUNDATION****
March 26 at 7pm * IFP/Los Angeles
Attention Documentary Filmmakers! IFP/Los Angeles is initiating new opportunities for documentary filmmakers. We will begin our efforts with a special presentation by Kathy Im, Program Officer of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Ms. Im will explain the Foundation's mandate for funding projects and grants guidelines for documentary filmmakers. This is a great opportunity to hear directly from the source what types of projects the Foundation supports and how to apply to their grants program. For more details, please check our website and click on Programs and Events in the Los Angeles area.
****SEE A FILM****
Spirit Award Screenings
We are gearing up for the IFP Independent Spirit Awards. Now it's up for you to decide who should win this special honor. You should have received your Nomination Packet. Please check your Nomination Guide for a complete list of dates and locations. Use your Independent Spirit Award Nomination Guide as a reference for who is nominated for each category. If you miss a screening, we also have a tape of each film to view at the IFP/Los Angeles office. Just call 310/432-1222 to make a reservation for the Screening Room. Please mark your choices on your ballot and make sure it is postmarked for return on or before March.
****PREVIEW SCREENING****
"THE DREAMERS"
March 5 at 7:30pm * Laemmle Sunset
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Written by Gilbert Adair, Produced by Jeremy Thomas
Left alone in Paris while their parents are on holiday, Isabelle and her brother Theo invite Matthew, a young American student, to stay at their apartment. Here they make their own rules as they experiment with their emotions and sexuality while playing a series of increasingly demanding mind games. Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France in Spring 1968 when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, The Dreamers is a story of self-discovery as the three students test each other to see just how far they will go. The film stars Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor, and Florian Cadious.
****FILM WORKS SCREENING****
"BOUGHT AND SOLD"
March 19 at 7:30pm * SilverScreen Theater
Written and Directed by Michael Tolajian; Produced by Bergen Swanson and Michael Tolajian
Ray Ray Morales has been dreaming of buying the DJ's turntable rig in the window of the local pawnshop and spinning for the Friday night crowds. But that isn't going to happen with his low-paying job as a shoe store clerk, so Ray Ray joins his friend Papo working part time for Chunks, who runs the pawnshop owned by Uncle Kutty. Kutty owes Chunks a considerable debt, and soon Ray Ray is caught between Chunks, Kutty, and Kutty's beautiful niece, Ruby, who helps Ray Ray find his true calling in the world. Bought & Sold's uplifting narrative anchors the colorful world of Jersey City in the tough-guy tradition of classic American cinema.
****CINENA LOUNGE****
March 23 at 7:30pm * Temple Bar
In David Presley's Face of the Enemy, a young war photographer finds himself in the trenches with the enemy. A group of bank robbers roll into a small town and encounter a supernatural opposition in Michael Strode's Black Gulch. In Chance, written and directed by Paul Baker, a man with Parkinson's is taken hostage, in his own apartment, by an injured thief on the run. A wealthy black couple fear for their lives during the 1921 Tulsa race riot in Stone Mountain, directed by JJ Goldberger.
****Preview Screening****
"BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD"
March 24 at 5pm & 7:30pm * Laemmle Sunset
Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar; Written by Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske; Produced by Richard Perello
From the guys who brought you Super Troopers, Broken Lizard is back, surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked resort owned by Coconut Pete, a rock star has-been. But the non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up faster than you can drink a rum punch. Everyone begins to look suspicious. Can the inhabitants of Pleasure Island unite, solve the mystery, and restore happy hour to this tropical bacchanal? Broken Lizard's Club Dread stars Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, and Bill Paxton.
****LEARN ABOUT IFP IN LOS ANGELES****
Membership Orientation
March 10 at 6:30pm * IFP/Los Angeles
Whether you're new to IFP/LA or still trying to make a decision about joining, here's your chance to get in-depth information about our services. Don't miss this informative session to discuss IFP/LA benefits, services, resources, and reservation policies. Led by the Membership Department, this gathering is your chance to jump-start your IFP/LA involvement. Open to both members and non-members.
