Los Angeles Film Festival
The Los Angeles International Film Festival is an event held annually in June in LA for about 10 days. When you visit with your LAX car rental, you will find the festival showcases North American independent, feature, documentary, and short films as well as music videos. The festival sees an attendance of more than 80,000 people over the course of the festival and screens more than 100 feature films during its run. In a city that is based around movies, you will find there are many opportunities to experience the film industry here.
Event history
When you are here with your LAX rental car, you may learn that the festival began in 1971 as the Los Angeles International Film Exposition. In 1995, it became a 5 day festival. In 2010, the festival moved to the L.A. Live Complex in downtown Los Angeles with additional screenings taking place in other downtown venues. The festival has premiered hits such as The Devil Wears Prada and Sunshine in the past.
How to get tickets
If you would like to get tickets when you are here with your car rental LAX, you can buy them on the Los Angeles Film Festival website, by phone, in person at the Coca-Cola Center, or at the store one hour before the scheduled screening. This is subject to ticket availability.
Food and drinks at the festival
When you are here with your rental car LAX, you will find the downtown community has a lot to offer in terms of food and dink. Many downtown restaurants and clubs will welcome film goers with special discounts and offerings during the festival. Check out the festival website to see what kind of discounts are offered in any given year.
Awards
When you are here, you may have an opportunity to see some films that receive awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival is a qualifying festival for all categories for Film Independent's Spirit Awards and a qualifying festival for the short films category of the Academy Awards. Some of the awards given at the festival include the Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature, Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary Feature, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Audience Award for Best International Feature, Best Animated/Experiments Short Film, and many others.
Getting to know Los Angeles
When you are here with your LAX car rental, you can learn a lot about Los Angeles. The city is best known around the world for its film industry, and has been called the "Creative Capital of the World" due to the fact that one in six residents here work in a creative industry. Hollywood is the epicentre of the motion picture industry. The first film company was established here in 1909, but really started to flourish in the 1920s. There are many important landmarks in this part of the city that you can see when you are here with your rental car LAX. Some of the places you may want to visit include the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Grauman's Chinese Theater, Grauman's Egyptian Theater, Kodak Theater, Roosevelt Hotel, the Sunset Strip, the Laugh Factory, and much more.
When you are here with your LAX car rental, you will find the Los Angeles Film Festival takes place every June for 10 days during the month. They feature over 300 films during that time they the festival goes on and there are opportunities for you to see what may potentially become of the best movies of the year. Hollywood is also the center of the film industry, so you will be able to tour the studios at any time of the year that you are here.
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