New Filmmakers Los Angeles

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1940s Noir, an Exploitative Acting Gig, and Bad Dinner Parties Highlight NFMLA’s In Focus: Indigenous Cinema Program

A darkly comic noir set in 1940s Hollywood, a series of increasingly uncomfortable dinner parties, and an exciting but exploitative…

2 months ago
  • Movie News

In ‘Essentials’ by Allison Torem, Two Generations Connect Through Small Talk

In Allison Torem's film "Essentials," she plays a woman returning from a poorly planned trip to the grocery store in…

10 months ago
  • Festivals

NFMLA Celebrates Indigenous Cinema With Tales of Family, Resilience — and Magic

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated Indigenous Cinema with riveting stories that included a Native American foster youth struggling after his…

2 years ago
  • Festivals

NFMLA Salutes Veteran Cinema With Tales of Encouragement, Struggle — and Dogs

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated military movies as it screened films about a Mexican family receiving a surprising visit from I.C.E.,…

2 years ago
  • Festivals

Time Travel, Estranged Lovers and the Power of Touch: NFMLA Celebrates Films Made in California

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated a slate of acclaimed shorts made in California and specifically Los Angeles, with stories that…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Aliens, a Big Drug Deal and a Dog Translator: NFMLA Celebrates Disability Cinema

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated the disabled film community with a presentation of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge finalist films…

2 years ago
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NFMLA Showcases Asian Filmmakers’ Stories of Belonging and Perseverance

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles celebrated Asian and Asian-American filmmakers with stories of a young man meeting his birth mother, a child…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Veteran Cinema With Supernatural Tales of Class Disparities, Acts of Courage and Heroes

New Filmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated the cinema of veterans with stunning tales of class disparities, supernatural occurrences and acts…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Stories Portraying Diverse Experiences of Women in the Modern World

A mother dealing with dementia finds an unexpected connection with her daughter, a group of not-yet-humans anxiously wait to be…

3 years ago
  • Festivals

NFMLA and the Academy Explore Finding Solace in Tough Times Through Middle Eastern, Arab and Dutch Cinema

A husband trying to find his wife a gift in the West Bank, women protecting an infant from Nazis, and…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Israeli Cinema Film Festival Focuses on Israeli Identity, in Love and War

One young man's humanity is tested by a stolen bicycle. Another becomes an unwitting war hero. A middle-aged Ukrainian woman…

3 years ago
  • Festivals

NFMLA Showcases Female Cinema With 6 Jessicas, Best Friends at a Bar, and a Political Mom

Two best friends put aside their religious convictions to go to the bar for the first time, a woman returns…

4 years ago
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Celebrate Anti-Ageism Films With NFMLA

A queer teenager discovers her grandfather was once in love with another man, a devoted sister seeks to save her…

4 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Indigenous Cinema During November 2019 Film Festival

On November 16th, 2019, the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles  (NFMLA) Film Festival hosted “InFocus: Native Cinema” with support from UCLA’s American…

4 years ago
  • Directing

NewFilmmakers LA: Ryan Casselman, Yvette Angulo, Pedro Gonzalez, and More

This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers Ryan Casselman and Yvette Angulo, Pedro Gonzalez, Jorge Ossio Seminario, Hernán…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

NewFilmmakers LA Part 1: Moviemaking Wisdom with Directors Chad Fisher and Kevin Davenport, AK Hottman, Taylor Gahm, and more

This week’s edition of NewFilmmakers LA is overflowing with moviemaking wisdom! Featuring interviews with directors Chad Fisher and Kevin Davenport, AK Hottman,…

10 years ago
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Enter “On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project” for a chance at winning over $50,000 in Prizes by Rory Owen Delaney

ATTENTION! Create and enter a film in "On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project" and have a shot at winning…

11 years ago