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Silver Lake Film Festival Call for Entries!

2007 Silver Lake Film Festival
OF LOS ANGELES
Announces Call For Entries

7th Edition of L.A's Leading Independent Film, MultiMedia & Arts Showcase Unspools May 3-12, 2007

September 22, 2006 - LOS ANGELES – The organizers of Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles' leading showcase for independent and alternative film, multi-media and the arts, have announced its seventh annual edition will be held May 3-12, 2007 at venues throughout Los Angeles' Eastside, including sites in Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park and Downtown.

The final deadlines for submission of films are:

Short films – November 14th
Feature films – December 31st

In 2006 Silver Lake Film Festival screened more than 200 feature, documentary and short films, including the Los Angeles premiere of "Edmond," by director Stuart Gordon and Oscar-winning screenwriter David Mamet, starring William H. Macy. The festival also held the Los Angeles premiere of "The Great New Wonderful," by director Danny Leiner and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edie Falco, Tony Shalhoub and Olympia Dukakis. Julie Delpy and Rob Nilsson were honored with Spirit of Silver Lake Awards for career achievement in independent cinema.

The 2007 annual Silver Lake Film Festival will present an expanded MP4Fest, the digital content program that debuted at the 2006 festival. Also returning in an expanded format is MusicFest, the festival's music documentary and live-musical performance program.

FESTIVAL BACKGROUND

Before there was even a Hollywood, film pioneers, such as D.W. Griffith, Walt Disney, Tom Mix and Mack Sennett, established their
homes and studios in Silver Lake and its neighboring communities of Echo Park and Los Feliz. Today, the area is home to the highest
concentration of contemporary film pioneers [filmmakers?] in the world. Surrounded on all sides by the major Hollywood studios, greater Silver Lake remains an oasis of innovation.

Silver Lake Film Festival proudly embraces the work of alternative filmmakers. Indeed, non-mainstream and experimental film and video -- features, shorts and documentaries -- are the festival' s focus. The primary programming goal is to provide access to films that would not
necessarily be available to the public. A portion of each year's programming line-up is reserved to showcase the distinctively
alternative style of local filmmakers.

The 7th annual Silver Lake Film Festival is under the direction of Kate Marciniak, Greg Ptacek and Saskia Wilson-Brown. For more information, visit www.silverlakefilmfestival.org.

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PRESS CONTACT:
Greg Ptacek
Silver Lake Film Festival
gregptacek@earthlink
(323) 660-1935
silverlakefilmfestival.org

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