Topanga Film Festival unveils 2010 key scheduled events
The Topanga Film Festival to be held August 19-22, 2010, today rolled out the most ambitious screening schedule in the festival’s history. Since its inception six years ago, the Topanga Film Festival was a short film festival known for its eclectic mix of global content, with a reputation for “the smallest film festival with the [...]
Youth Salon at 6th annual Topanga Film Festival sponsored by Family Magazine Group
Nurturing creativity in youth has always been a strong motivator in Sara Baur’s life, a common denominator with Family Magazine Group publisher, Mary Potter.
As co-founder of the Topanga Film Festival, the mother of three children and an artist herself, Sara proudly announced that she expects “even a larger participation than in past years” of Sunday’s [...]
Dear Diary: A Message (and film) from Heaven
Dear Diary,
It is Saturday. Les jeux sont faits.
Last night we worked into the wee hours sorting through the final submissions to the festival as Friday, July 16, 2010 marked the close of entries to the 2010 Topanga Film Festival, with the knowledge that two stragglers were given a 12-hours reprieve to bring their shorts.
We got [...]
The Piece Process signs on as 2010 Topanga Film Festival sponsor over the weekend
North Carolina-based philanthropic connector Dena Patrick — who operates three parallel non-profit organizations dedicated to the arts and creative empowerment of artists, artisans, writers, musicians, filmmakers, digital artists and others — came on board as a sponsor of the 2010 Topanga Film Festival.
Although Dena also operates One Voice Rising and Wishadoo, the official festival sponsor [...]
Dear Diary: Local artist Rebecca Catterall to conjure Coveted Coyote Award
Sinisa Balandzic once said that the older you get the shorter days get. Nothing seems more true as August 19th draws near.
His explanation in a very Slavic, factual, authoritative, mathematical manner went something like this (read with implied heavy accent): "When you are five, one day represents 1/365 of five years, or, 1/1825 of your life. [...]
Dear Diary: A tent saga
There is progressively less and less space in the office as submissions to the 6th Annual Topanga Film Festival converge from everywhere. Yesterday's offerings came from New Mexico, Sao Paolo, Brazil and Madrid. No doubt, this year's selection will have more of an international flair but now that we've got the films . . . [...]
Topanga Chamber of Commerce latest sponsor of 2010 Topanga Film Festival
With six weeks remaining until the 6th Annual Topanga Film Festival, the Topanga Chamber of Commerce has given its vote of confidence to the 2010 event by coming on board as an official sponsor of the festival. In addition, the Chamber reached out yesterday to its general membership encouraging local businesses to support the film [...]
Stella Artois: Stars align for 2010 Topanga Film Festival
As the June Gloom finally lifts in mid-July, the 2010 Topanga Film Festival gears up for some hot summer fun with one of Europe's greatest and oldest beers — Stella Artois. The good news came by way of a phone call this afternoon from a marketing executive with the Woodland Hills offices of Anheuser Busch. Yes. They [...]
Dear Diary: Full house on Monday, new super volunteers and sponsor added as 2010 Topanga Film Festival nears
Now that the World Cup is out of the way with Spain having crushed the spirit of the Big Orange, staff and supporters of the 2010 Topanga Film Festival are back to work full throttle to bust out the most ambitiously programmed festival since its inception seven years ago.
Today started with a Planes, Trains and [...]
Logitech buys Norway-based Paradial and signs on as 2010 Topanga Film Festival sponsor
The Topanga Film Festival just received confirmation that Logitech back on board with an expanded bundle of goodies for deserving filmmakers at this year’s festival to be held August 19-20, 2010.
Focused on innovation and quality, Logitech designs personal peripherals to help people enjoy a better experience with the digital world. The company was formed in [...]




