IN THIS ISSUE…
- Last Call-For-Entries for 2013 Festival
- “The Wedding Party”
This Week’s Film Festival Flix Pic!- DFFLA Filmmakers In The News:
“Beyond The Mat,” “Delusions of Grandeur”- It’s A Wrap: Miss California Candidate
Hosts Successful DFFLA Fundraiser- Sponsors Spotlight:
Jerome Courshon Distribution- Volunteer Opportunities
Downtown Film Festival L.A. Announces 2013 Call For Entries
LOS ANGELES — October 29, 2012 — The 5th annual Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles will be held July 12-18, 2013, and filmmakers are invited now to submit their films for screening consideration.
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Downtown L.A. Spotlight
Downtown L.A.’s real estate transformation is building speed
Downtown Los Angeles has changed dramatically in the past dozen years from being known as a high-rise office park ringed by poverty to an actual neighborhood where thousands live and more come to play.
Its transformation into a fully rounded 24-hour urban center is far from complete, but the process is well underway and accelerating, said Derrick Moore, a property broker who finds space for such street-level businesses as restaurants, shops and bars.
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Downtown L.A.: Always Changing
The Los Angeles of America’s imagination is rarely downtown Los Angeles. When we envision L.A., we think of the beach, 15 miles away, or the starred sidewalk of Hollywood, or the sprawling suburbs of the San Fernando Valley. While not the center of our Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles is nonetheless visible—it is a backdrop to films and television shows set in L.A., and, just as frequently, serves as Any City, U.S.A., easily transformed into New York City, Washington, D.C., and the generic cities of car, cell phone, or drug store commercials.
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Downtowners vote ‘yes’ on new tax to fund DTLA streetcar
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The proposed streetcar for DTLA has gotten the official stamp of approval from Downtown residents. Preliminary results reported Monday night say that 73 percent of people voted in favor of a property tax that will help cover a portion of the streetcar’s cost. The turnout surpassed the two-thirds vote the tax needed to pass.
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