Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA) 2010 edition set for Sept. 8-12
Written by Al Borde News Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:20
The 3rd annual Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA) will be held in venues throughout downtown Los Angeles, Sept. 8-12. Embracing ‘Urban WILDLife’ as its theme, DFFLA challenges audiences to take a ‘magical carpet ride’ through the diverse neighborhoods of Downtown L.A.
The festival celebrates downtown L.A.’s renaissance and pays tribute to the unique role the city’s center played in development of American cinema.
With “Urban WILDLife” as its theme, the 2010 edition of the annual event will focus on delivering a different “downtown experience” every day across five days and evenings.
“Nobody knows downtown L.A. like our festival. We live here, work here and play here,” said Festival Co-Director Henry Priest. “We’re all about embracing the downtown vibe from Chinatown to South Park and Westlake Village to the Arts District. We want our audience to come with us on our adventure as we explore the many varied environs of downtown L.A. We’ll supply the magical carpet through our unique film festival programming.”
Programming highlights will include a gourmet street food and film fest at Los Angeles Center Studios; the Los Angeles premiere screenings of the films of Alice Guy Blaché, a pioneering Silent Era filmmaker, at a movie palace in the historic Theatre District on Broadway; “Sustainable L.A.,” an all-day film and green fair dedicated to ecologically aware urban living; a film and live musical performance at The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live; a free-to-the-public outdoor screening of a classic film in Chinatown, and an interactive digital moving images experience in conjunction with Los Angeles Center for the Digital Art (LACDA) and the September edition of Art Walk.
The 2010 Downtown Film Festival L.A. will be held Sept. 8-12 in venues throughout Los Angeles’ historic core. More than 100 feature-length and short films – narrative, documentary and experimental – will be presented along with filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, cocktail parties, live music events and receptions.2010 OPENING NIGHT FILM – ‘American: The Bill Hicks Story’
“American: The Bill Hicks Story” will be presented as the 2010 festival’s Opening Night Film, Wed., Sept, 8th, 7:30 pm at the new 400-seat Civic Center F. Deaton Auditorium, at corner of 1st and Main St., across from City Hall in downtown L.A.
The presentation will mark the Los Angeles premiere for the critically acclaimed film that has been commercially released in Europe and previously screened in North America at HotDocs in Toronto, SXSW in Austin, the Boston Int’l Film Festival and the Seattle Int’l Film Festival.
With exclusive interviews from the people who knew Hicks intimately, filmmakers Paul Thomas and Matt Harlock boldly recreate scenes throughout the comedian’s life using a stunning new form of photo-animation allowing the audience to be immersed in Bill’s world as he moves from Houston to Los Angeles, where he achieved his first level of success at the famed Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip.
His life and career, which promised even more to come, was tragically cut short when he was diagnosed at age 32 with pancreatic cancer and died in 1994 within a matter of months. Known as a comedian in the vein of Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory and Mort Sahl who wasn’t afraid to tackle “big ideas” on politics, religion and even the meaning of life in a stand-up comedy routine, Hicks started with a cult following, first through word-of-mouth, bootlegs and VHS, and is now tipping into a much wider mainstream following.
Headlining at festivals around the States, and now the second most successful theatrical documentary release in the UK this year, the film is now primed to firmly secure Bill’s place on America’s cultural map.
Watch the “American: The Bill Hicks Story” trailer here:
Link:
www.dffla.com.
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