Topanga Film Insti­tute is gear­ing up for a year of spe­cial events lead­ing up to and fol­low­ing this 2010 Topanga Film Fes­ti­val. The insti­tute was formed to inspire, inform and inter­con­nect a gen­er­a­tion of film­mak­ers to pio­neer a fer­tile new era of global, trans-format con­tent creation.

A tra­di­tional hotbed of counter-culture, the region has long beck­oned artists, seek­ers and thinkers drawn to the region’s wild beauty, authen­tic­ity and sense of com­mu­nity. A stone’s throw from Hol­ly­wood yet worlds removed, Topanga is his­tor­i­cally, geo­graph­i­cally and philo­soph­i­cally per­fectly sit­u­ated to gather today’s most forward-thinking indi­vid­u­als in main­stream and alter­na­tive media with the sin­gu­lar pur­pose of illu­mi­nat­ing the intri­ca­cies of a bour­geon­ing global media paradigm.

With the advent and accep­tance of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies in con­tent cre­ation and dis­tri­b­u­tion, the play­ing field for sto­ry­tellers has lev­eled. TFI is com­mit­ted to stay­ing ahead of the curve so that its mem­bers and sym­pa­thiz­ers are con­tin­u­ally availed to infor­ma­tion on new ideas and result­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for expression.

The insti­tute has secured var­i­ous loca­tions through­out the Canyon from which the a ssociation’s mem­bers are com­mit­ted to shar­ing human and intel­lec­tual resources through fre­quent salons, pan­els, sem­i­nars, screen­ings, men­tor­ship pro­grams, net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties cul­mi­nat­ing in the annual Topanga Film Fes­ti­val, held every August.

We are cur­rently pulling together some of the world’s top film­mak­ers and con­tent vision­ar­ies to co-navigate this cre­ative adven­ture.