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Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
By Kristy | August 24, 2008
Good news and more good news. As summer (which never really seemed to arrive in the Bay Area) comes to a close, we have a lot of events to announce for early Fall. First of all, we will finally be playing in California. We have waited a long time to share the film with our friends and family out here and we will be screening both in Los Angeles, at the LA Latino Film Festival, and up in the Bay Area at the SF DocFest. We will also be heading (or at least our film will be) back to New York for the South Asian International Film Festival in late October and far, far into the future at the Leeds Young People Film Festival in April!
So, first things first. We just got the date of our screening for LALIFF and here it is:
Saturday, Sept 13 at 1PM in Hollywood at the Mann Cinemas
Soon! We will both be down there for the screening and we hope to bring one of the girls. It would be great if Esmeralda could make it as she hasn’t been able to come to any events so far, but she is a busy, busy lady. Since it’s the beginning of the school year, it may just end up being us, the filmmakers.
As for the Bay Area, we will be screening both in San Francisco and Berkeley. That will be mid October. Stay tuned as we make further announcements. It seems like we sent out about a million press kits this summer. I am so sick of the post office.
And, I am getting close to wrapping up the DVD which we will be selling off of our website and for educational purchase with New Day Films. One thing I have been doing is sending the film out (more press kits!) to Librarians for review. I am interested to hear what they think as it is not a strictly educational film. We also finished the study guide which will be downloadable from the website and the DVD. Did I mention how amazing that turned out?! I was really moved how Lacey Louwagie, the author of the study guide and writer of the website: New Moon Girl Media, really got our film and how elegantly she wrote about it. I think she came up with some great discussion questions and activities. We even included a section on mixed-gender screenings.
The other thing I have been working on are the bonus scenes for the DVD. That has been a lot of fun to footage for. I am sad some of these scenes couldn’t make it to the final film. Some of what I think are our funniest scenes just didn’t make the cut. But they will be yours for viewing on the DVD should you chose to purchase one! So many ways to relive the glory of the middle school years!
So let us know who we should contact in LA for promoting our screening. And if you send me your address, I will send you a postcard.
Topics: DVD, Hollywood, Leeds Young People Film Festival, SF DocFest, South Asian International Film Festival |
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