SoCal Independent Film Festival
It seems self-serving to me that my first post here is about the film festival that I am working on, but one of the reasons that I am involved with the film festival is my love of film, especially short, foreign, and independent films. The Director of the SoCal Festival wanted to create a festival that focused on the filmmakers, and to offer them an event that would expose them to distributors, producers and fans that share a love of independent film, and based on the press, industry interest, and the number of submissions that were received this year, it is a large community that shares our passion.
I have two future posts in my head that I will prepare regarding the festival; the first will be an account of the festival itself, the second about just how passionate, creative, and crazy a person has to be to put on a film festival. When you attend a well run festival it looks as if someone just rented a space, displayed some films, and invited people to spend some time, but, like so many things in life, there is so much more that happens behind the scenes to put on an event like this….
Here is a preview of the festival in the OC Weekly, our local independent weekly. Below is your invitation to the festival, if you live in or will be visiting Southern California this week.
Please join us for the
2006 SoCal Independent Film Festival
“It’s What You Haven’t Seen”
Wednesday, September 6th through Sunday, September 10th.
Presented at the Huntington Beach Library Theater
7111 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA
Shorts * Documentaries * Features * Screenplays
The SoCal Independent Film Festival exhibits truly unique and entertaining filmmaking from around the world.
THIS YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
- Q&A sessions with the cast and crew members of the films
- FREE Screening on Opening Night
- FREE Family Program at 12 Noon on Saturday
- FREE Workshops and Seminars on Saturday and Sunday
- Closing Award Banquet on Sunday
We are screening 41 films throughout the five day festival in 12 programs. Prices for each program range from $3 to $5 with “All Fest” passes available.
For a complete schedule of events, descriptions of the films, and to purchase tickets
Visit our website at www.socalfilmfest.com
Or join us on www.myspace.com/socalfilmfest
We will have t-shirts, stickers and copies of the 2005 SoCAL Independent Film Festival Short Film Collection DVD available at the festival.
Entertainment – Art – Independence
SoCal Independent Film Festival
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Is there any discount/freebies for PFC readers at the film festival? :d
Anyone who is interested can contact me beforehand and I will see what I can arrange. More than likely I will be managing ticket sales for most of the event, so if anyone will be coming, be sure to say hello!
Some of the programs are free programs so that the festival is accessable to everyone!
Of course, Oz already has an all access pass and a ticket for the Closing Award Banquet on Sunday!
t!
For all of us who are not in Cal we will be definitely missing it all.. So, T can you come up with a tete-a-tete kinda report about it?
yeah T … Would request you to cover the event too please, otherwise sponsor my ticket from india [-(
just kidding bro … :d
- Guys, T is neck deep in managing the festival from Wednesday onwards until Sunday. She’s promised me that she will have a neat coverage of the festival for PFC after the closing ceremony. Meanwhile if I get time from my busy schedule I’ll be spending a few hours on Saturday and Sunday at the festival and “interviewing” a few at the Festival “if” I get the chance.
Wow.. Sounds Yumeeeeeee