NFMLA

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NFMLA Celebrates Immigrant Filmmakers With Stories of Family, Camp and Weightlifting

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles celebrated emerging Immigrant filmmakers with stories of a woke YouTube instructor, two men competing in a weightlifting…

2 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Middle Eastern, Arab and Dutch Cinema With Tales of Connection and Loss

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles celebrated Middle Eastern, Arab and Dutch Cinema with stories of a young Arab-American drag queen confronting his…

2 years ago
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NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Reveals Winners of 2022 Best of NFMLA Awards

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles has revealed the winners of its 10th annual Best of NFMLA Awards. Out of 125 nominees across…

2 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Documentary Films With Stories of Plastic, Beer, and a Caravan to the Border

The NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) DocuSlate Film Festival shared narratives about illegal recycling, a woman’s transition from the streets to…

2 years ago
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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
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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
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Work, Play, and a Puppet: NFMLA Celebrates Films by Latinx and Hispanic Filmmakers

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences celebrated a slate of acclaimed shorts by…

2 years ago
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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
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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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Natalie Shirinian Funded Her Short Film ‘Hello Mother’ By Selling a Garage Full of Furniture

Natalie Shirinian and her wife Elizabeth Baudouin star as lovers in their short film Hello Mother — or Parev Mama…

2 years ago
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NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and WarnerMedia OneFifty Announce Winners of New Artist Grant Program

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and WarnerMedia OneFifty have announced the winners of a new artist grant program called NewNarratives. Designed to…

2 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates LGBTQ+ Films About Family, a Deadly Journey and a Cat Named Mister President

A trans man navigates his father’s attempt at support, two brothers reunite, and a lonely man considers  his place in…

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 Documentary Filmmaking with Stories of Empowerment

A recent NewFilmmakers Los Angeles event celebrated documentary filmmaking through stories about empowering a culture, forced isolation in a world…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Native Cinema with an Inspiring Drag Queen, a Dying Teenager and a Hard-of-Hearing Dancer

Stories of an inspiring drag queen, a dying teenager and a hard-of-hearing dancer loomed large at a recent NewFilmmakers Los Angeles…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Sets 8th Annual InFocus: Latinx and Hispanic Film Fest in Partnership With the Academy

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are teaming up to co-host a virtual…

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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Batgirl Begins; New Mexico Gets That Money; New COVID-19 Rules

Testing starts soon for the lead in Batgirl; New Mexico beats the odds to break production spending records; producers and…

3 years ago
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New Narratives: NFMLA and WarnerMedia OneFifty Team Up to Fund New Creative Voices

Calling all filmmakers: Here's a chance to get your next project funded, thanks to a collaboration between NewFilmmakers Los Angeles…

3 years ago
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Music Crosses the Border in NFMLA’s Celebration of Latinx & Hispanic Cinema

A college student with a secret, a power-hungry leader, and an estranged son are among the people explored in a…

3 years ago
  • The Rundown

Harvey Weinstein Movie Cast; Ellie Kemper Apologizes; Rob Zombie’s The Munsters

The story of the New York Times reporters who toppled Harvey Weinstein will soon be a movie; Ellie Kemper apologizes…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Film Festival Illustrates Universal Stories of Connectedness, Social Justice and Cultural Identity

A captivating adventure into the world of our consciousness, a community’s struggle in the face of social inequality, an artistic…

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
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NFMLA Rebukes Ageism With Stories About Love and Time

A lonely woman confronts her aging self, an older couple go on a first date at an art museum, a…

3 years ago