Mustache de rigueur to save charter school, is Topanga next?
Topanga Film Festival supporter Chandos Erwin has never sported facial hair, barring a little weekend scruff every now and then. He admits to having been a mad Magnum P.I. and Smokey and the Bandit fan while idolizing many other mustached men of the 70s and 80s, it has taken the Community Magnet “March Mustache [...]
Topangans to rebuild Haitian orphanage leveled by earthquake
Sue and Martin Schmitt, supporters of the Topanga Film Festival since its inception, are currently in Haiti with fellow Topangan Gala Calisto and a handful of others, eagerly awaiting the arrival of geodesic dome components — stuck in customs with an airline carrier in Florida — where they arrived 5 days ago to rebuild their [...]
Dreamago expands participation in 2010 Topanga Film Festival
Every year, Dreamago, an international non-profit organization founded in France and dedicated to assisting writers and writer/directors to bring their visions to fruition, selects 10 writers to participate at their annual writers’ workshop held at Chateau Mercier in the Swiss Alps. The organization promotes the vision that if a story is well told, it [...]
This is Action new front-runner in Suitable for All Screens competition
Reynolds, who appeared in Garbage Warrior, an award-winning documentary on the New Mexico-based movement committed to the propagation of ecologically sound, self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities, led by architect Michael Reynolds and directed by Oliver Hodge — brings This Action, directed by Paul America, to the Suitable for All Screens competition.
Their short entitled This [...]
Actor Suniil Sadrangani reaches out to global filmmakers
Actor/producer/filmmaker Suniil Sadrangani joins staff and volunteers of the 2010 Topanga Film Festival in a massive outreach missive to recruit global filmmakers enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional film or digital programs to participate in the Suitable for All Screens competition, the on-line adjunct to the six year festival that will award the winning filmmaker [...]
Pico Boulevard leads the pack
As the Topanga Film Festival gears up for a Monday, March 1, 2010 launch of its Suitable for All Screens competition, a prelaunch sampling of shorts has Pico Boulevard, directed by Hso Hkam in the lead with the largest number of votes, followed by tied entries Shortn’n Break and Carpe Noctem.
To learn more about the [...]
“Students Pinch Pennies” wins multimedia category competition at Southeastern Journalism Conference
As the Topanga Film Festival prepares for a Monday, February 15, 2010 outreach to student multimedia creators with its Suitable for All Screens competition — five California media and education professionals participated in the 2010 Southeastern Journalism Conference, currently underway in Hammond, La. The 5-judge panel evaluated entries for the multimedia category remotely from the [...]
Salon Fridays at Topanga Film Festival start February 12, 2010
With much ado about the expanded 2010 Topanga Film Festival and the advent of a more formal Topanga filmmaker community-in-formation through the Topanga Film Institute, we invite you to drop in any given Friday after 2p.m. to tell us about your latest project and to hear about what we have going on.
This Friday, a part [...]
Suitable For All Screens filmmaker outreach begins
As the Topanga Film Festival readies itself for the March 1, 2010 submission trigger date for its Suitable For All Screens competition, word is clearly already out on the street already. To answer this weekend’s aggregation of voice and emails, here is a FAQ.
If you have additional questions, please click here and someone will reply [...]
Topanga Film Festival toppers to judge multimedia contest
Topanga Film Festival’s newest staffer, Milena Merrill, a professional journalist and filmmaker, was tapped by the Southeastern Journalism Conference to judge a brand new competition category for the 23-year old conference — Best Multimedia Journalist — during this year’s event to be held in South Louisiana from February 11-13, 2010. Joining Milena in selecting the [...]
