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Sci-Fest LA (The Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival) is an annual festival featuring one-act plays in the science fiction genre, held in Los Angeles. It was co-founded by veteran Los Angeles theatre producers Michael Blaha and Lee Costello and actor David Dean Bottrell (“Boston Legal”), and was first held at the ACME Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles on May 6, 2014.
The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June.It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episodic television and panel conversations.
Charter group number four, in Los Angeles, had an active member in Forrest J. Ackerman, who missed the first few meetings (he was living in San Francisco with his parents), but whose enthusiasm and imagination provided a focus for the group. "Forry" and a cadre of other members kept it alive as the science fiction and fantasy genres developed.
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As of 2018, the festival is the largest film and television event in the downtown area. [6] Some of the feature films that screened that year previously debuted at Tribeca Festival, South by Southwest and Sundance Film Festival. [6] The festival was previously known as Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA). [5] [7] [8]
2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be is a 2016 Canadian short science fiction film directed by Marco Checa Garcia and based on the 1962 short story "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut. The film was an international collaboration over nearly three years, with additional crew in Sydney, London, Mexico, and the Netherlands. [ 1 ]
It was the predecessor of the American Film Institute's Los Angeles International Film Festival. After the final Filmex festival in 1983, the founders/organizers of the festival (Gary Abrahams and Gary Essert) devoted their attentions to developing a new nonprofit cultural organization, the American Cinematheque , [ 1 ] which they created to be ...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films is an American non-profit organization established in 1972 dedicated to the advancement of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. [1] The Academy is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and was founded by Dr. Donald A. Reed.