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 [...]

Name this Topanga Actor

Shades of Ron Jeremy, this prominent Topanga actor is currently starring in a comedy depicting fictitious local contractors, where he plays a building inspector.
The first person to identify him wins a cup of coffee.

Topanga is not for sale: Anastasia Fite says no Hollywood sexploitation of the canyon

Long-time Topanga Film Festival supporter/programmer, filmmaker Anastasia Fite is up in arms about Hollywood coming to Topanga with an eye to create a sexploitative reality series.  Anastasia's stance is that if something walks, talks and quacks like a duck, it is likely a duck.  Such is her take on a producer David Basinski, who started his [...]

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 [...]

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