Americas newest film festival is about to get underway, in Hollywoods backyard.
Were very excited to haveSugarcanebe our opening doc… Im excited about all of our films.
Along with nature, Litzinger cites community and passion as other thematic pillars of LMFF.
Ladyface Mountain Film Festival
He adds, We also have a lot of programming that were doing for kids.
Narrowing them down has been tough, Litzinger concedes.
Were not Sundance and were not Santa Barbara, even though were sandwiched in between [those festivals].
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Another big challenge: finding a screening venue for the films.
We are at the Agoura Regency, its a Regency 8, used to be a Mann 8.
Two days after our festival, the theater closes forever, Litzinger says.
The recent L.A. wildfires also complicated preparations for the festival.
But fortunately, weve been pretty lucky.
We just lost power for a couple days.
But the festival itself has not been affected, Litzinger notes.
All the filmmakers that were flying in are still very excited to come.
and those kinds of things.
Litzinger says he will evaluate the inaugural event based on a few criteria.
A lot of people are like, Thank you.
I wanted something like this in the area.
Plans are already underway for the second edition of the Ladyface Mountain Film Festival.
Were hoping to build this into something that is a yearly event in the community, Litzinger shares.
