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1ST DOWNTOWN FILM FESTIVAL - LOS ANGELES WRAPS WITH DRAMATIC OUTDOOR SCREENING OF 'FLOW' WITH WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL AS BACKDROP

The Free-To-The-Public Screening Marked the Los Angeles Premiere
of the Documentary Feature about the Diminishing Supply of Water Worldwide

FILMMAKERS AWARDS PRESENTED IN CLOSING NIGHT CEREMONIES

August 19, 2008 (LOS ANGELES) - The first annual Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles (DFFLA) concluded its final day on Sunday with "Sustainable L.A.," an all-day, free-to-the-public program devoted to urban ecology in the heart of city's Bunker Hill business district that included an organic farmer's market, panel discussions about urban "green' topics, and the screening of a variety of related documentary films.

The day-long activities continued into the evening with the Los Angeles premiere screening of "Flow," a documentary feature by director Irena Salina, that details the precarious future of the world's rapidly diminishing supply of safe fresh water. The film was screened on Grand Avenue with the famous Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall serving as a dramatic backdrop.

Preceding the Closing Night film was the presentation of filmmaker awards. The winners were:

• Best Short Film - "A Day's Work" by Rajeev Dassani
  
  
• Honorable Mentions "DJ:LA" by Jerry Chan; "Some of an Equation" by Burke Roberts
  
  
• Programming Director's Prize for a Short Film: "I Fucking Hate You" by Zak Forsman
  
  
• Best Director for a Short Film: "Near" by Tom Gulager
  
  
• Best Short Film Documentary: "Isis Avenue" by Mr. Paul Marchand
  
  
• Best Downtown LA Short Film: "Home." by Emily-Rose Wagner
  
  
• Best Latino-American Short Film: "El Primo" by Nick Oceano
  
  
• Best Experimental Short Film: "3 Stories About Evil" by Michael Frost
  
  
• Special Jury Prize: "Just the Worst" by Marshall Cook for Best Ensemble Acting in a Short Film
  
  
• Best Feature Film: Strength and Honour by Mark Mahon
  
  
• Best Performance in a Feature: Michael Madsen for Strength and Honour

Highlights of the first Downtown Film Festival - L.A. included:

• IFC's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," by director Alex Holdridge, presented as the Opening Night Film on Wednesday, August 13th, in a special Gala program at the historic Orpheum Theater to benefit the nonprofit Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation (www.lahtf.org).
  
  
• In the beginning of a new tradition, the Festival's Centerpiece Gala presentation was devoted to celebrating Downtown L.A.'s unique starring role in the early development of the city's movie industry and American cinema. (Downtown's Historic Theater District contains more architecturally significant movie theaters than anywhere else in the world.) This year's Centerpiece film was the 1929 classic silent film "Piccadilly," starring silver screen siren Anna May Wong - the Silent Era's most significant female Asian-American actress. (Wong was born in Downtown's Chinatown neighborhood.) The film was screened at the historic Los Angeles Theatre, circa 1929.
  
  
• Other highlights included the Los Angeles premiere screenings of Overture's "Traitor" by writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of 2004's blockbuster hit "The Day After Tomorrow") and starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels; "Guest of Cindy Sherman," a documentary about the reclusive superstar artist-photographer; "Remembering Phil," starring Nicholas Turturro and Don Castellaneta (best known as the voice of Homer Simpson); and "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans," a documentary feature exploring the roots of a historic African-American community that became the birthplace of jazz and a progenitor of the civil rights movement.

In addition to these individual film screenings, the festival presented several curatorial film and video series:

• Afrique 360° -- A selection of feature and short films from Africa and the Diaspora, including the Los Angeles premiere of the critically-acclaimed "Confessions of a Gambler" (South Africa, 2008);
  
  
• American Latino Film Series - An exploration of the American experience through the lens of Latino-American filmmakers;
  
  
• Downtown Cinema - A program of short films from Downtown L.A. denizens;
  
  
• Best of Siggraph - The "best of show" computer animation shorts from the annual computer graphics convention, taking place in Los Angeles simultaneously with the festival;
  
  
• "Drive-In At SCI-Arc" - An authentic in-your-car drive-in movie screening at the parking lot of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Downtown's Arts District, featuring a special preview screening of "Mock Up on Mu," the latest film by avant-garde director Craig Baldwin, and
  
  
• "Digital Art LA" - In conjunction with the L.A. Center for Digital Art, the festival presented three days of new media exhibits at art galleries and venues throughout downtown L.A. from artists and institutions around the world, including the Pompidou Centre Forum des Images (Paris) , Lanzia Cinema for Contemporary Art (Danzig, Poland), the California Museum of Photography and the Austin Museum of Art.

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The Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles is presented by Barker Block live/work lofts (http://www.barkerblock.com).

The festival is sponsored by CRA/L.A., Department of Cultural Affairs - City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, FotoKem, Fox Entertainment Group, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Karl Strauss Brewing Company, Laemmle Theatres, L.A. Modern Living, Liberty Building Maintenance & Services, Patina Restaurant Group, SmartWorks Collective, Star Apparel, Stephen Doniger Law Offices, and Los Angeles City Councilmembers Jose Huizar, Jan Perry and Ed Reyes.

Event sponsors include Blue Dahlia Café & Wine Bar, California Pizza Kitchen, The Edison, Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund, Hennessy, Hilton Checkers Los Angeles, Los Angeles Center Studios, Los Angeles Theatre, Milestone Films, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Orpheum Theater, Pacific Electric Lofts, The Roosevelt, Smart Water, Thousand Cranes, Tommy Bahama Rum and Urth Cafe

Media Sponsors include CBS/Decaux, Citizen L.A., KPFK, the Hollywood Reporter, Latin Heat, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Downtown News and Time Warner Cable.

Community Partners include African Marketplace, Art Walk, Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, FilmAid International, Global Cinema, Grand Performances, Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space, Los Angeles Historical Theatre Foundation, SCI-Arc, Siggraph and the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.

Sustainable L.A. is supported by the City Hall Farmers Market, Department of Water and Power, Hollywood Green Team, Live Earth and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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About the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles

The Downtown Film Festival was established to celebrate the resurgence of Downtown L.A. in all its facets - its historic movie palaces core, its legendary cultural and ethnic institutions, and its thriving business and residential communities. In 2008, its inaugural year, the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles will showcase why Downtown has become L.A.'s most exciting "new" community.

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PRESS CONTACT

Kelly Hargraves
Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles
(213) 221-7685

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PANEL DISCUSSIONS TO COVER WIDE RANGE OF URBAN "GREEN" TOPICS DURING SUSTAINABLE L.A.

Downtown Film Festival's Environmental Program
Sunday, August 17th

August, 6, 2008 (LOS ANGELES) - Panels exploring next generation urban parks, the future of electric cars, myths and realities of green collar jobs, and the growing "slow food" movement will be part of "Sustainable L.A.," Downtown Film Festival's "green" programming being held all day on Sunday, August 17th along Grand Avenue on Bunker Hill in the heart of downtown L.A.

The panels, scheduled for 12 noon to 6 pm, will be presented entirely free to the public. Among the panelists participating are Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry, Los Angeles Times staff writers Ken Bensinger and Russ Parsons, KPCC commentator, author Amelia Saltsman, Los Angeles City Planning Commission Michael Woo and many others.

Detailed panel descriptions follow:

Urban Parks in L.A.: Rethinking the Formula
Date/Time: Sunday, August 17th, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Grand Avenue between 2nd and 4th on Bunker Hill

This panel will explore how public funds in Los Angeles might be better used to create parks in more intimate spaces and with faster turnaround time than the traditional "master plan" approach.

Moderator: Anna Scott, Staff Writer, Downtown News, where she often writes about land use and development-related issues. Anna recently penned an article on "Downtown Stakeholders Weigh in on the Area's Lack of Green."

Panelists:

Ron Crockett - Skid Row community activist and sports coach, leading a neighborhood parks effort in Skid Row with an emphasis on play space

Vaughan Davies - Principal and Director or Urban Design, an architect and urban designer waterfront, whose mixed-use developments and transit centers emphasize the creation of pedestrian-focused, urban neighborhoods. in cities large and small, nationwide and abroad. Vaughan led the design efforts for many of Los Angeles' precedent setting projects, including the 'Bridge to Breakwater Master Development Plan' in San Pedro for the Port of Los Angeles, Paseo Colorado, Union Station, Hollywood & Highland, and Rainbow Harbor. Most recently, he led the visioning for EDAW's 'PARK 101' - a proposal to deck the trench in Downtown L.A. with a hillside park and urban campus.

Mark B. Haefele - KPCC-FM reporter, who has been living in and writing about Los Angeles for 27 years. Mark's writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times opinion section. During his long stint at LA Weekly, he won a "best column" award from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. In the early 2000's, he hosted the morning drive time segment on KPFK.

Mia Lehrer - landscape architect who has worked closely with the City of Los Angeles in developing several neighborhood park master plans. Mia Lehrer is the founding principal of the Los Angeles firm, Mia Lehrer + Associates. Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Ms. Lehrer received her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is internationally recognized for her progressive landscape designs, unique amalgamations of graphic configurations, working with natural landmarks such as parks, lakes, and rivers, and her advocacy for sustainable and people-friendly public space.

Lili Singer - Special Projects Coordinator for the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants, California's only nonprofit native plant nursery, seed source, bookstore and education center. Lili is a horticulturist, educator, garden consultant and garden writer. She has published and edited two award-winning periodicals, The Southern California Gardener and The Gardener's Companion. For more than a decade, she hosted "The Garden Show," a live call-in radio program on KCRW. Lili was named 1997 Horticulturist of the Year by the Southern California Horticultural Society.

Michael Woo - member of the L.A. City Planning Commission. Michael teaches urban planning at USC and is a consultant to ClimatePlan, a statewide coalition advocating compact land use and reduced driving to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions. He was the first trained urban planner and the first Asian- American elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Last year, he authored a proposal to Farmlab for converting the Cornfield near Downtown L.A. into an environmentally and economically sustainable urban farm.


Buy Local, Eat Slow: A New Way of Thinking About Food Date/Time: Sunday, August 17th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: Grand Avenue between 2nd and 4th on Bunker Hill

Good Clean and Fair. The Slow Food movement is about shortening the distance, literally and figuratively that our food travels to us.

Moderator: Russ Parsons, food columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and the author of How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table. Parsons has won almost every major American food writing award, including the Association of Food Journalists, the James Beard Foundation, the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Bert Greene Award and the University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for consumer writing.

Panelists:

Jules Dervaes - founder, Path to Freedom, a grassroots, family-operated urban homestead project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle. Mr. Dervaes and his three adult children have a one-fifth acre lot in Pasadena, where the family grows around 400 varieties of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers, totaling over 6,000 pounds a year. Their award winning "green" business, Dervaes Gardens, sells fresh organic produce to local restaurants and caterers.

Gypsy Gifford - Executive Chef, Cafe Pinot. Chef Gifford has been heralded in national publications such as Food Arts, Life Magazine, and Woman's Day. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of American and formerly Executive Chef of Manhattan's top-rated Rain restaurant, her cooking style is inspired by France and California, with accents of the Asian cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam.

Lisa Lucas - Vice President, Los Angeles chapter, Slow Food Nation, and an active member of the Slow Food movement since the mid-1990's. Ms. Lucas is also an attorney specializing in publishing law and related matters.

Amelia Saltsman - television host and producer of "Fresh from the Farmer's Market," cooking teacher, and writer. Her articles have been published in the LA Times, National Geographic Traveler, and others. Saltsman's book, The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook, was published in August 2007. Alice Waters of Chez Panisse called it "an amazing resource to have with you, a complete season-by-season handbook to guide you through the bounty of the market."


Electric Cars: Ready for Their Close-up
Date/Time: Sunday, August 17th, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Grand Avenue between 2nd and 4th on Bunker Hill

Every year more than 40 million new cars are made worldwide, while in the past 10 years gas prices have increased more than 300 percent. Gas could cost $7.00 per gallon b7 2010, according to the CIBC. Electric cars represent a versatile and efficient way to diminish the need for gas consumption as well as a clean way to do everyday work. But are electric cars ready to move from "rehearsal" to mass production? To use film parlance, are they truly ready for their "close-up"?

Moderator: Ken Bensinger, automotive reporter, Los Angeles Times, who covers car manufacturers, industry trends, alternative fuel vehicles and car culture. Previously, Ken was a banking reporter at SmartMoney magazine in New York and began his career at the Wall Street Journal in New York.

Panelists:

Dave Barthmuss - Group Manager for General Motor's Western Region, Environment & Energy Communications team. As head of communications for the automaker's largest region in the United States, Dave is responsible for a wide variety of public relations assignments, including engaging GM and its brands with key stakeholder groups to help communicate the company's environmental, technology and policy initiatives.

Chelsea Sexton: Executive Director of Plug in America, a coalition of individuals and organizations that advocates for the preservation and manufacture of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and electric vehicles. Sexton also manages an alternative fuel division for the Santa Monica, California based start-up Zag.com.

Joshua Allan - Vehicle Product Development Manager for AC Propulsion. After receiving his degree in Mechanical Engineering at UCLA in 1998, he headed to Detroit as a Computer Aided Design specialist. With a passion for everything automotive, he started driving racecars in the Italian Formula Ford Championship, the training ground of Europe's aspiring race drivers. Today, he continues his passion for automotive excellence and pushing the limits of advanced drivetrain technologies with an environmentally conscious attitude.


Green Collar Jobs - Myths and Realities
Date/Time: Sunday, August 17th, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Location: Grand Avenue between 2nd and 4th on Bunker Hill

In a country increasingly divided between good intentions (environmental consciousness) and the reality of commerce and politics (e.g., Big Oil and off-shore drilling), is it still possible to find a "green collar job"? Join Councilwoman Jan Perry and her panel of green collar executives and leading environmental activists to explore the myths and reality of "green jobs" in Southern California and beyond. Be prepared for a spirited and no-holds-barred debate on this important hotbed issue. The panel is devoted to the full range of "green jobs", including:

• Positions in the environmental industry/"green" organizations
• Jobs with environmentally conscious companies in a variety of fields
• Positions with companies devoted to manufacturing and distributing environmentally conscious products
• The "greening" of jobs in Los Angeles as a mega-trend

Moderator: Jan Perry, Los Angeles City Councilperson, Council District 9. Now in her second term as Councilwoman of the 9 District, Perry represents some of the most diverse and vibrant communities in Los Angeles including Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, and South Los Angeles. Perry co-authored Proposition O to clean Los Angeles water and has greened her district by reducing blighted property and cleaning brownfields. She has spearheaded a number of measures to open up job opportunities. Among her other responsibilities, she currently serves as the chair of the Energy and the Environment Committee, the vice-chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Recovering Energy, Natural Resources, and Economic Benefit from Waste for LA (RENEW LA) Committee, and is assistant president pro tempore for the Los Angeles City Council.

Dan Jacobson - Legislative Director, Environment California. Mr. Jacobson coordinates policy development, research, and legislative advocacy for Environment California. Based in Sacramento, he leads the organization's policy agenda and advocates before the state legislature. Mr. Jacobson led efforts to pass the California Clean Energy Act, the strongest renewable energy law in the country; has authored several reports, including Three Strikes and You Profit: A CALPIRG Study of Clean Water Enforcement in California; and testified before the state legislature on preservation and clean air issues. Mr. Jacobson serves on the board of the Clean Power Campaign.

Jessica Jensen - President, Low Impact Living, the largest green home-improvement site online. Jessica and her co-founder, Jason Pelletier, launched Low Impact Living to help Americans embrace eco-friendly practices in their homes and personal lives. Jessica is frequently cited in national media as an expert on green building, renewable energy, recycling and other residential sustainability issues. Prior to launching Low Impact Living Jessica worked in the financial media and management consulting fields. She is a graduate of Amherst College and holds a MBA from INSEAD.

Robert Rogan - Executive Vice President, eSolar. Robert Rogan is responsible for all domestic commercial transactions, corporate branding, and marketing activities at eSolar. Mr. Rogan obtained his MS and PhD in Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology, and he holds a BS, Scholar of the College, from Boston College.

Bill Scott - Executive Vice President, Akeena Solar. Mr. Scott holds an MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco and a BS in Economics from the University of Wyoming. His professional experience spans 18 years in the renewable energy industry. Along with Solar and Energy management, Mr. Scott spent 10 years serving leading firms in information systems technology.

More information: www.dffla.com

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Press Contact:
Kelly Hargraves - Downtown Film Festival
(213) 221-7685
Kelly@dffla.com

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DOWNTOWN FILM FESTIVAL - LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCES 2008 FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING

Inaugural Edition of Downtown Los Angeles' First Dedicated
Film Festival Unspools August 13-17, 2008

200+ Films to Screen During 5-Day Event,
Celebrating the 'Renaissance' of L.A.'s Historic Core, at Venues Throughout Downtown's Culturally Rich Neighborhoods

IFC's "In Search Of A Midnight Kiss" Set For Opening Night Gala
To Benefit Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation

July 23, 2008 (LOS ANGELES). The first annual Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles (DFFLA), the first dedicated film festival in the historic core of the Entertainment Capital of the World, announced today its 2008 programming. The five-day event, August, 13-17, will present 23 feature and 180 short films at venues throughout Downtown L.A., from the historic movie palaces on Broadway Avenue to Barker Block and SCI-Arc in Downtown's Arts District.

The festival is presented by Barker Block live/work lofts (www.barkerblock.com).

IFC's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," by director Alex Holdridge, will be presented as the Opening Night Film on Wednesday, August 13th, in a special Gala program at the historic Orpheum Theater to benefit the nonprofit Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation (www.lahtf.org). Variety said the film "recalls Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' in its celebration of a cityscape." Filmmaker Magazine proclaimed "It is so well-written, charming and beautifully photographed that it is inconceivable to think audiences not falling in love" with it. An after-screening Gala party will be held at the penthouse space of the Pacific Electric Lofts building.

The Los Angeles premiere of "Flow," a documentary feature from director Irena Salina that was a hit earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, has been selected as the Closing Night film. The film takes an unflinching look at the world's diminishing supply of fresh water as the intersection of politics, pollution and human rights.

In the beginning of a new tradition, the Festival's Centerpiece Gala presentation is devoted to celebrating Downtown L.A.'s unique starring role in the early development of the city's movie industry and American cinema. Downtown's Historic Theater District contains more architecturally significant movie theaters than anywhere else in the world. This year's Centerpiece film is the 1929 classic silent film "Piccadilly," starring silver screen siren Anna May Wong - the Silent Era's most significant female Asian-American actress. (Wong was born in Downtown's Chinatown neighborhood.) The film will be presented at the historic Los Angeles Theatre.

Other highlights include the Los Angeles premiere screenings of Overture's "Traitor" by writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of 2004's blockbuster hit "The Day After Tomorrow") and starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels; "Guest of Cindy Sherman," a documentary about the reclusive superstar artist-photographer; "Remembering Phil," starring Nicholas Turturro and Dan Castellaneta (best known as the voice of Homer Simpson); and "Faubourg Trem: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans," a documentary feature exploring the roots of a historic African-American community that became the birthplace of jazz and a progenitor of the civil rights movement.

In addition to film screenings, the festival will present a digital arts festival, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (www.lacda.com), and Sustainable L.A. - a full-day of "green" programming for the urban citizen that includes panel discussions, a farmer's market and family-friendly activities.

The festival will present several curatorial film series:

• Afrique 360° - A selection of feature and short films from Africa and the Diaspora, including the Los Angeles premiere of the critically-acclaimed "Confessions of a Gambler" (South Africa, 2008);
  
  
• American Latino Film Series - An exploration of the American experience through the lens of Latino-American filmmakers;
  
  
• Downtown Cinema - A program of short films from Downtown L.A. denizens;
  
  
• Best of Siggraph - The "best of show" computer animation shorts from the annual computer graphics convention, taking place in Los Angeles simultaneously with the festival;
  
  
• "Drive-In At SCI-Arc" - An authentic in-your-car drive-in movie screening at the parking lot of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Downtown's Arts District, featuring a special preview screening of "Mock Up on Mu," the latest film by avant-garde director Craig Baldwin;
  
  
• "Shorts & Sweets" - A program of short film previews presented during the work day lunch hour and designed for the Downtown's commuters. (The program will be presented at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on three Wednesdays leading up to the festival.); "The festival offers the opportunity to encounter all the fun and excitement of L.A.'s Downtown through a structured but creative entertainment experience. For cinephiles, there's something for everyone ? new Hollywood and independent narrative and documentary features, foreign films, an incredible selection of shorts and special series. For those curious about what the buzz is about in the 'new Downtown,' here's a chance to explore historic movie palaces, world-class lounges and L.A.'s hippest lofts," said Greg Ptacek, one of the festival's organizers.
  
  

The festival's complete programming line-up and ticket information is available at www.dffla.com.

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The Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles is presented by Barker Block live/work lofts (http://www.barkerblock.com).

The festival is sponsored by CRA/L.A., Department of Cultural Affairs - City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, FotoKem, Fox Entertainment Group, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Karl Strauss Brewing Company, Laemmle Theatres, L.A. Modern Living, Liberty Building Maintenance & Services, Patina Restaurant Group, SmartWorks Collective, Stephen Doniger Law Offices, and Los Angeles City Councilmembers Jose Huizar, Jan Perry and Ed Reyes.

Event sponsors include Blue Dahlia Café & Wine Bar, California Pizza Kitchen, The Edison, Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund, Hennessy, Hilton Checkers Los Angeles, Los Angeles Center Studios, Los Angeles Theatre, Milestone Films, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Orpheum Theater, Pacific Electric Lofts, The Roosevelt, Smart Water, Thousand Cranes, Tommy Bahama Rum and Urth Cafe

Media Sponsors include CBS/Decaux, Citizen L.A., KPFK, the Hollywood Reporter, Latin Heat, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Downtown News and Time Warner Cable.

Community Partners include African Marketplace, Art Walk, Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, FilmAid International, Global Cinema, Grand Performances, Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Space, Los Angeles Historical Theatre Foundation, SCI-Arc, Siggraph and the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.

Sustainable L.A. is supported by the City Hall Farmers Market, Department of Water and Power, Hollywood Green Team, Live Earth and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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About the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles

The Downtown Film Festival was established to celebrate the resurgence of Downtown L.A. in all its facets - its historic movie palaces core, its legendary cultural and ethnic institutions, and its thriving business and residential communities. In 2008, its inaugural year, the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles will showcase why Downtown has become L.A.'s most exciting "new" community.

Press Contact

Kelly Hargraves
Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles
(213) 221-7685