AFI Fest (American Film Institute’s Los Angeles International Film Festival) is one of the largest and the most influential film festival in the United States. It presents top notch new films from around the world and numerous Academy Award winning movies have premiered at the AFI Fest. The AFI Fest is the oldest film festival in LA and also hosts galas with hundreds of filmmakers, journalists, and other attendees. Some of the Academy Award winning films that first were premiered at this venue include the Cider House Rules, Monster and others. Maybe best of all, attendance here is free of charge. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes the AFI Fest as a qualifier for the Short Films category for their Academy Awards. The American Film Market, the AFM, is the partner of this movie festival.
Hollywood Film Festival happens every October at the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood. It is mostly made up of numerous sub festivals, such as its own venue from independent films, one for international films, horrors, comedies, and so on and so forth. This festival might have the heaviest emphasis on awards and its start marks the beginning of the Hollywood awards season. Usually the Hollywood Film Festival screens more than fifty movies and celebrities often use a limousine Los Angeles to attend the audience here. Some of the celebrities our clients spotted here the last time include Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. The goal of the festival is to bridge the gap between the established Hollywood industry and emerging new comers.
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, also known as Outfest, is the largest film festival in Los Angeles and also an incredibly popular destination for our limousine Los Angeles clientele. This LGBT celebration has taken place every July in LA for several decades and offers more than 200 films on average. The goal of the festival is to bring equality to LGBT Americans through the arts. Established in 1982, the LA Outfest usually lasts for about ten days on average where programs such the UCLA LegacyProject, Outfest Forward, People of Color Film Festival and the LGBT Film Festival take place. Outfest has numerous awards, known as outie awards, which are given to sixteen categories. Some of the award categories here are the US Narrative Feature Award, Freedom Award, International Feature Award, Documentary Feature Award, and so on and so forth.
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (LAISF) is the world’s largest festival of short films and is one of the most popular film festivals amongst our LA limo service clientele. The LA Shorts Fest, as it’s also known as, was established by Robert Arentz in 1997 and it quickly became one of the most prestigious movie festivals in the world. As the LA Shorts Fest is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Award winners here are eligible for Academy Awards. The 2015 festival takes place at L.A. LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles from September 3rd through the 10th.
Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival (LAWIFF) is a film festival that takes place every year in West Hollywood and show screens animations, documentaries, narratives, short films, and more on women’s issues from around the world. Is is produced by the non profit Alliance of Women Filmmakers (AWF), and seeks to empower and diversify the role of the woman. Every year, the LA Womens Fest also partners with organizations to help women throughout the world and champion women’s rights. Our LA limo services transport attendees' to this festival every year and it is absolutely worth checking out!
Downtown Film Festival (DFFLA) is another film festival that takes place through numerous smaller venues at different locations. The Downtown Film Festival finds place every July and its goal is to reflect Downtown Los Angeles vibrant and new urbanism, as well as its cultural and ethnic diversity of communities, peoples and neighborhoods. It is a nonprofit organization and it screened more than a 1,000 films during the last festival. Many filmgoers love their under the radar indie films show-screened in Silver Lake.
The City of Los Angeles and SoCal in general have so many options for film festivals that are absolutely worth checking out. Find one that fits your preferences in genre, scene and location, and call our Los Angeles Limousine Service for your luxury transportation to or from any location in Southern California. Our reservation specialists are available 24/7, so feel free to call us at any time or any day to set up your premier Los Angeles limo experience. We are the top rated limousine service in the Los Angeles area, don’t forget to check out our YELP reviews!
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