FIFTEENTH ANNUAL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES FILM LINE-UP
North Hollywood, California – The
fifteenth annual Valley Film Festival (VFF) announces its complete line-up and
Opening Night screening. VFF returns in
full force with a five-day festival showcasing 40 of the best independent
films, from the (818) and from around the world, October 21-25 at Laemmle NoHo7
in the NoHo Arts District. Tickets are $12 and available at ValleyFilmFest.com.
The Festival kicks off Opening Night, Wednesday, October 21,
with a special screening of FORBIDDEN ZONE – in color! Referred to as the Citizen
Kane of underground movies, a French girl falls into an insane underworld ruled by a horny little king and his
jealous queen. This cult classic stars Susan
Tyrrell, Herve Villechaise, Danny Elfman, Matthew Bright, and Marie-Pascale
Elfman. The soundtrack features music by Danny Elfman, Cab
Calloway, Josephine Baker and others. Preceded by a fun,
live pre-show with Richard Elfman, this screening is a tribute to Producer,
Jack F. Murphy, who served on VFF’s Advisory Board from 2008 until his passing
in 2014. 
Other celebrity-driven films include TOM IN AMERICA, with Academy Award® nominees Sally Kirkland (JFK) and Burt Young (Rocky), OUR FATHER (Michael Gross, Family
Ties), MARIYLN AND I (Ray
Anthony, legendary trumpeter) ALL INTIME (Lynn Cohen, Sex and the City)
PRETTY GOOD DAY (Chris Woods,
comedian/violinist, Abby Elliott, Saturday
Night Live and Marion Ross, Happy
Days), I’LL TEXT YOU (Victor
Williams, The King of Queens), BONED (Bai Ling, The Crow) and FRENCH KISS
(Tyler Ritter, The McCarthy’s).
The Festival continues to proudly support local independent
production, with twenty films made by Angelenos, Vals, and shot in or about the
glamorous San Fernando Valley. THEWRISTWATCH, a drama directed by Gino Gaetano, uses Woodland Hills as the
backdrop to transform the lives of four people who come in contact with a
supernatural wristwatch. Other local features include DIRTY BEAUTIFUL, a dysfunctional love story, and our closing night feature, ACTOR FOR HIRE, a comedy about a bald actor in Hollywood who discovers the power of persona in the form of a cheap wig.
VFF continues to program diverse films from around the country
and the world. This year’s programs include films from New Jersey to Ohio and
Spain to Serbia.
7 DAYS IN SYRIA
kicks off our documentary programming and follows Newsweek Middle East Editor,
Janine di Giovanni, who risks it all to ensure the world knows about the
suffering of the Syrian people. While CONGOBEAT THE DRUM takes us on an adventure, to catch-up with forgotten Reggae
artists of the 70s & 80s, SLINGSHOT takes
us into the world of Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, and his work to solve the
world’s water crisis.
LA Premieres include the feature films: Boned, Congo Beat
the Drum, It Plays Like Love, and The Wristwatch. Short films making their LA
debut are: As it is in Heaven; A Divinely Twisted Comedy, Blue-Eyed Me,
Californication, Fruitcake, It’s a Journey, Not a Destination, Number 2: If I
Were Marilyn, Omid, Marilyn and I, My Sardasht, Pretty Good Day, and Wings
THE VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL:
CINEMA SO INDEPENDENT
IT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN THE (818)!
IT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN THE (818)!
Founded in 2000, The Valley Film Festival, a project of Community Partners®, is the first and longest continually running film festival in the San Fernando Valley. With a mission to join established and emerging talent with adventurous audiences in Los Angeles, VFF screens shorts, features, documentaries, animated films, experimental works, and music videos from around the world. While emphasizing independent film, the festival also has screened studio productions including BOOGIE NIGHTS, CHINATOWN, ENCINO MAN, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, MAGNOLIA, TERMINATOR 2, VALLEY GIRL, and WORLD TRADE CENTER.
In addition to screenings, the festival provides educational
panels, social mixers, audience awards, and the juried "Ten Degrees
Hotter" award.
THE VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL 2015 will open on Wednesday, October 21
and continue through Sunday, October 25 with daily screenings at the LAEMMLE
NOHO 7, located at 5240 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood. Tickets are $12.
For more information and tickets, visit ValleyFilmFest.com.
THE VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
2015 SCREENING SCHEDULE
2015 SCREENING SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY - 10/21
8:00 pm - Opening Night Feature: Forbidden Zone – in Color! Includes Fun, Live Pre-Show with Richard Elfman
THURSDAY – 10/22
8:00 pm - Girls on Film Shorts Program:
It’s a Journey, Not a Destination, Our Father, Pig, Pretty Good Day, Texting: A
Love Story, and Wings
FRIDAY – 10/23
7:30pm – “Made in the (818)” and Alumni Shorts Program: Attraction, The Co-Star, Cocaine vs. Corn 4 Gold Malt Liquor, A Craigslist Exorcism, Did You Hear the One About…, Dog Bowl, and The One and Only Eddie Duke
9:00 pm - Feature Program: Boned with Number 2: If I Were Marilyn
7:30pm – “Made in the (818)” and Alumni Shorts Program: Attraction, The Co-Star, Cocaine vs. Corn 4 Gold Malt Liquor, A Craigslist Exorcism, Did You Hear the One About…, Dog Bowl, and The One and Only Eddie Duke
9:00 pm - Feature Program: Boned with Number 2: If I Were Marilyn
SATURDAY – 10/24
12:00 pm/noon – Documentary
Program: 7 Days in Syria with My Sardasht and Omid.
2:00 pm – Feature Program: The
Wristwatch with As it is in Heaven: A Divinely Twisted Comedy
4:00 pm – Feature Program: It Plays
Like Love with Dreamcatchers
6:30 pm – Feature Program: Dirty
Beautiful with Mulligan’s Island
9:00 pm – Feature Program: All in Time
with Shelter from the Storm
SUNDAY – 10/25
12:00 pm/noon - Documentary Program: Congo Beat the Drum with The Fallen Phoenix
2:30 pm – Documentary Program: SlingShot with Blue-Eyed Me
4:00 pm – “Love My Way” Shorts Program: The After Party, Californication, French Kiss, Hanky Panky, I’ll Text You, Marilyn and I, and Tom in America
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