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 [...]
