From an intense “Editing for Film Writers” Master Class conducted by renowned USC School of Cinema Professor Michael Economou, to an esteemed industry panel discussion featuring high-ranking agents, filmmakers and studio executives to be moderated by one of the festival’s founders, attendees of the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival stand to learn a great deal this year’s event.


People who come to Hollywood with a…

                              Salmon Fishing in the Yemen   

If you choose a movie by who directed it, like I frequently do, then add “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” to your list. Some of my favorite films are directed by Swede Lasse Hallstrom including “Chocolat”, “The Cider House Rules”, “My Life as a Dog”, and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” (The last starring a young Johnny Depp without scary Tim Burton make-up and Leonardo DiCaprio in his first Oscar nominated role.)

Ewan MacGregor plays Fred, a fisheries expert who is recruited by Harriet (Emily Blunt), a government representative assigned to seal a business deal with a sheikh from Yemen who dreams of salmon fishing in his homeland.

The preposterous and improbable idea of building a dam in the desert…

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Palm Springs Cultural Center brought out a nice crowed for the opening of the twelfth annual
 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival which Thursday, May 10th (through Sunday, May 13th) 2012 at the Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs.




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Orpheus Award winners to be selected among a field of twenty-two feature and short narrative and documentary films aimed at “Defeating the Crisis Through The Viewfinder.”  Exclusive Awards Party at the home of Greek Consul General, Elisabeth Fotiadou, to include Live Performance by Greeksinger Vassy.




Named for the legendary Greek poet and “father of songs”, the Orpheus Award is the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival’s annual prize intended to honor the best in Greek and Greek inspired cinema, and for the 2012 fest May 31^st-June 3^rd, the most prestigious jury in LAGFF’s history is…

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Twenty-two feature and short narrative and documentary films, a screenwriting master class, and a tribute to the late director Theo Angelopoulos—as well as gala opening and closing nights and the annual Orpheus Awards ceremony—aimed at “Defeating the Crisis Through The Viewfinder” May 31 – June 3^rd, 2012…

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