San Diego Film Festival
September 24 – 28, 2014
Article by Cathy Breslaw
The heart and soul of the San Diego Film Festival is the San
Diego Film Foundation whose mission is to support independent filmmaking
throughout the year by holding screenings and events, and by teaming up with
local schools to mentor and teach filmmaking. Dale Strack, CEO of the
foundation believes that bringing this festival to San Diego not only has
economic benefits for the hospitality industry, but also helps to build San
Diego as a hub for the television and film industry. Strack also notes that the
festival highlights San Diego as a potential location for new employers,
bringing job opportunities. This year’s festival hosts over 100 films from
emerging and established filmmakers, which were gleaned from among 1500 film
submissions from all over the globe - reviewed
and selected by the program team headed up by Tonya Mantooth, Vice President
and Director of Programming for the festival. The films are diverse - ranging
from documentaries to feature films to shorts to animation and foreign films. For
audiences interested in behind the scenes conversations, they can select from a
variety of panel discussions with filmmakers, critics and actors. The film
festival includes two major screening venues – the Reading Cinemas in San
Diego’s Gaslamp area and the ArcLight Cinemas in La Jolla. On Thursday
September 25th at 7:00 pm, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
will host a special tribute of awards featuring actor Alan Arkin who will receive the Gregory Peck Lifetime
Achievement Award and actor Beau Bridges who will receive the Vanguard Cinema
Award. Film lovers will have a wide
selection of films and events to attend during this exciting four day festival
and when all is said and done they will be given ballots to vote their
favorites. For more information, go to:
www.sdfilmfest.com
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