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“This will be an amazing season because LA Femme has expanded the competition categories for this year.” said Leslie LaPage, Founder and Director of the Festival. The “Early Bird Discount” submission deadline ends May 16th with discounted rates for submission. The last date to submit to the festival is August 22 under the “I Forgot Deadline”. Submit now on lafemme.org !
LA Femme is excited to announce this year’s festival competition categories have expanded to include not only the features, documentaries, shorts, music videos, commercials and screenplays but will be expanded to include the new categories of animation shorts, animation features, webisodes, mobisodes, and games! LA Femme has responded to the growth in all avenues of world wide media expanding into new categories for the internet, mobile, gaming and animation content. LA Femme will be working closely to assist the winners of the festival with more opportunities to show their work on a national basis under new entertainment partnerships.
The festival will run from October 13th -16th, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA screening over 100 films highlighting independent features, shorts, music videos, commercials, special screenings and seminars and much more. The four day event in Los Angeles hosts special networking events at LA hot spots and a gala Awards Ceremony attended by “A” List celebrities. LA Femme is dedicated to celebrating and empowering female artists creating media for a worldwide audience. LA Femme showcases works “by women for everyone” from all over the world. Ms LaPage sates, “No Festival does what we do for women, we actually work to get our women Filmmakers, Writers, and Producers seen, sold and produced by entertainment professionals. We have a very high success rate with distributed and produced films that were screened at our festival”.
Some previous Celebrity Award Honorees included : Angela Bassett (Green Hornet), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Marianne Jean-Baptise (Without a Trace), Sara Gilbert (Roseanne), Diablo Cody (Juno), Vivica Fox (Kill Bill), Rosanna Arquette (After Hours), Lea Thompson (Caroline in the City), Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) ( Susan Seidelman (The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club), Maria Conchita Alonso (Mermaids), Jacqueline Bisset (Domino) and many more.
To purchase Full Access VIP Pass go to: lafemme.org Regular Price ($150) Discounts for WGA and SAG Guild Members for ($59.99). Tickets for individual films are $10.00; Seminars are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door. Events held in Los Angeles. For information on the festival visit our website.
Sponsors include: (SAG) Screen Actors Guild Affirmative Action & Diversity, SAG Women’s Committee, (WGA) Writers Guild America West, Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment State of Florida, Eurochannel, Dish Network, Red Light Promotions, The Hair & Makeup Artists Network, and American Airlines.
Media Inquiries: To register press credentials for the Festival or to schedule an interview with Leslie LaPage, contact Donna Hull at 213-926-3301.
LA Femme Film Festival (lafemme.org) highlights commercially-viable films written, directed or produced “by women for everyone”. Now in its seventh year, the festival is solely dedicated to nurturing a new breed of female filmmakers and providing opportunities for those careers to blossom.
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