Pictorial: Topanga Earthday celebration
Topanga Film Institute and Topanga Film Festival celebrate 17th annual Topanga Earthday.
Treme-based creative team supports Topanga Film Festival
Dennis “DJ” Joseph, a Treme-based documentarian, music historian, filmmaker/videographer and educator best-known for his compilation of over 20-years of historical footage of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, has joined forces with developer Glenn Amedee in creating the St. Bernard Entertainment Complex and in forging an alliance with the Topanga Film Festival and the [...]
New Orleans Film Society and Topanga Film Festival commence creative alliance
This week, New Orleans Film Society board president Larry Blake and Topanga Film Festival executive producer Milena Merrill agreed to work together to bring their respective bodies of filmmakers and mediamakers together in creative and business collaboration. The New Orleans Film Society produces the New Orleans Film Festival held annually in October. Visit [...]
Environmental filmmaker Gerard Ungerman works Topanga
Documentarian Gerard Ungerman whose “Belonging” recently showed at the Artivist Film Festival recently shared his work at Yoga Desa in Topanga. The filmmaker whose moniker speaks of his work — independent documentaries for a better world — plans to collaborate with the Topanga Film Festival in building a local audience for his upcoming body [...]
ADINA FOR LIFE, INC. ADDED AS 2010 TOPANGA FILM FESTIVAL SPONSOR
Adina For Life, Inc. came on board today as the official non-carbonated beverage sponsor of the Topanga Film Festival.
Adina for Life, Inc., is led by a pioneering team of entrepreneurs from Odwalla®, and SoBe®. Inspired by the vision to create a world that “Drinks No Evil,” these industry innovators came together to grow [...]
Panavision on board as 2010 Topanga Film Festival sponsor
Panavision today confirmed its commitment to support the Topanga Film Festival with a camera package valued at $60,000. The package donated to the festival is similar to the one awarded under Panavision’s New Filmmaker Program that provides either 35mm or 16mm cameras that have been permanently set aside from their rental inventory.
Suzanne Lezotte, Panavision’s [...]
Happy Birthday Urs
Topanga Film Festival co-founder, Urs Baur, who turns 47 today, said among his goals for his new year is building an active and engaged Topanga Film Institute to best serve the local film community, to expand production in baurhouse and to a phenomenal festival in August.
According to the Los Angeles Times astrologer, “The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
