2009
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October 7th-10th
Veterans
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4117 Overland Avenue
Culver City
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2009 BACKLOT FILM FESTIVAL to honor multi-talented
MICKEY ROONEY with Thomas Ince Award
| Culver
City, CA. The 2009 Backlot Film Festival is pleased to announce
that legendary actor Mickey Rooney has accepted the honor of receiving
the Festival's prestigious "Thomas Ince Award." The award
is named for the pioneer producer of early filmmaking who introduced
production procedures and quality of standards that set the model
and helped mold the distinct image of Hollywood films to this day,
and who built two movie studios that still stand in Culver City
today – the current Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Culver
Studios. Mr. Rooney joins a stellar group of previous honorees: Daniel Selznick, Budd Schulberg and Carl Reiner. His acceptance serves to continue the mission and goals of the Backlot Film Festival: to cultivate an appreciation of the rich heritage of the motion picture industry and to bring greater understanding of the debt current filmmakers owe to the earlier pioneers. The Tribute and Gala Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday evening, October 10, 2009, at the historic Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium in Culver City. A program of Rooney’s classic films will highlight the festival, and special guests are sure to attend this tribute. In addition, the Backlot Film Festival, with the cooperation and support of Steve Saltzman, grandson of the legendary film producer Arthur Freed and President of Arthur Freed Productions, has established the “Arthur Freed Award” to the best student film submitted to our festival. Moreover, its sponsorships with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Brothers Distribution have to date attracted such industry supporters as actors Ben Stiller, Rob Reiner and John Kerr, film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, Los Angeles Times Arts Editor Emeritus Charles Champlin, casting director, film historian Marvin Paige of Marvin Paige Casting and The Motion Picture and Television Archives, writer/director/actor Stella Stevens and Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives, among others. The festival is open to fiction features and documentaries, fiction shorts and documentaries, music videos and student films. Deadline for entries is August 15, 2009. Submissions should be mailed to: Backlot Film Festival, 4244 Revere Place, Culver City, CA 90232. The 2009 Backlot Film Festival will run from October 7-10, 2009 at the historic Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium, located at 4117 Overland Avenue in Culver City, CA 90230. For additional information on the Backlot Film Festival, the Thomas Ince Award and past recipients, and the Festival’s goals, please visit the BFF website: http://www.backlotfilmfestival.com, or call 310-204-6920 |
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TRIBUTE
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ARTHUR FREED
OPENED
THE 2008
BACKLOT FILM FESTIVAL
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6 Classic Movies
8 New Independent
Feature Films
4 New Documentaries
21 New short Films
6 student films
Discover
our Program
The 2008 Backlot Film Festival Awards Winners
Best Feature
"La Cucina"
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Executive produced by Starolette
Smith. Produced by Zack Kahn,
Jackie Olsen. Directed by Allison
Hebble, Zed Starkovich.
Written by A.W. Gryphon
"Yesterday Was a Lie"
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Executive produced, written and
directed by James Kerwin.
Produced by Chase Masterson.
Starring Chase Masterson.
Best Documentary
"OJ is Guilty
– But Not of Murder
(The Overlooked Suspect)”
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A film by William C. Dear.
Directed by Phil Smith.
Assistant Directors: Chad Smith,
Phil Thompson.
Produced by John McCready
Best Short Film
“Pencil Fighting”
Executive produced by Andrew Negrin,
Franco Interian and Paula Jimenez
Directed by Fro Rojas
Best Student Short Film
"Dandelion"
By Jackie Liao,
School of Visual Arts, New York
2008 HONOREES
Thomas Ince Award
Carl Reiner
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LA County Supervisor
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