The first step-by-step “How To” guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird’s eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker include: Targeting the right festivals, creating a press kit, promoting and branding your film, promoting and branding yourself, filling out entry forms, creating a logline, and much more.
Events on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Event Details: Rona Edwards & Monika Skerbelis present and sign The Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals: Your All Access Pass to Launching Your Film on the Festival Circuit
7:00pm
Warped Tour Finals with Shane Eli, From Here To LA, Random Ninjas, Electric Child
8:00pm
$10
June, 2013
Charles McDowell presents and signs Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story
Jun 18 2013 - 7:00pm
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors--two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties--on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as" Time" and" Glamour." Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test.
After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was "the one," Charlie realized his neighbors' conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman's perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it--without ever having a clue of their impact on him. (Three Rivers Press)
Rock Revival presents Jeremy Sisto Is Escape Tailor, The Bunny Gang (feat. Nathan Maxwell of Flogging Molly), Johnny Madcap & The Distractions, Franky Perez & The Truth
Jun 18 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Kathy Ebel presents and signs Claudia Silver to the Rescue (Signed Edition)
Jun 19 2013 - 7:00pm
In her fiction debut, screenwriter and NBC Universal Creative Director Ebel returns to the early '90s to tell the story of 24-year-old Claudia Silver, who is trying valiantly to learn how to live after growing up in a dysfunctional family from which she is now estranged. Claudia is fired from her production assistant job and then her 16-year-old sister Phoebe, last seen two years ago, appears on Claudia's Brooklyn doorstep, desperate to escape their crazy mother and her abusive deadbeat boyfriend. How can Claudia refuse? But as well-meaning as she is, Claudia's hunger for love and lack of a normal vantage point for healthy relationships vastly complicate matters, and she winds up in an ill-advised affair, which ends a longtime friendship and breaks up several households. So who, in the final analysis, will rescue whom? The author delivers a satisfying and unexpected answer to that question. Readers will root for this deeply flawed but ultimately appealing heroine. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Knee High Fox, The Royal Sound, Malaki, Future Villains
Jun 19 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Dita Von Teese "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" Variety Show
Jun 19 2013 - 7:30pm
$40 adv, $60 reserved seat, $250 reserved seat in the pit, $350 VIP seats & table near stage, $500 downstairs seating & VIP table
Codega presents The Clay Pigeons, The Ferocious Few, Beneath The Underdog + Viva Lion, Rebels Romance, Dogs and Bones
Jun 20 2013 - 7:30pm
$15. $10 with flyer
Dita Von Teese "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" Variety Show
Jun 20 2013 - 7:30pm
$40 adv, $60 reserved seat, $250 reserved seat in the pit, $350 VIP seats & table near stage, $500 downstairs seating & VIP table
Book Soup presents Carl Hiaasen discussing and signing Bad Monkey at the Skirball Cultural Center
Jun 20 2013 - 8:00pm
Andrew Yancy--late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office--has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first--this being Hiaasen country--Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters. Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what's left of pristine Florida--now, of the Bahamas as well--get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion. (Knopf)
Shaun Peace Band, The Feaver, Patrimony, Left Foot Green, Us v Them
Jun 21 2013 - 7:00pm
Hooded Fang, Red Circle Underground, The Last Inernationale, Mora Mora
Jun 21 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Dita Von Teese "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" Variety Show
Jun 21 2013 - 7:30pm
$40 adv, $60 reserved seat, $250 reserved seat in the pit, $350 VIP seats & table near stage, $500 downstairs seating & VIP table
Shyan Selah & Republic Of Sound, Hashtag Alice, Aqua Jones, Kanvaz
Jun 22 2013 - 7:00pm
Dita Von Teese "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" Variety Show
Jun 22 2013 - 7:30pm
$40 adv, $60 reserved seat, $250 reserved seat in the pit, $350 VIP seats & table near stage, $500 downstairs seating & VIP table
The LA Debut of Hudson, Killcode, Owl, Snow In Africa, The Palace Ballroom
Jun 22 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Kirk Franklin presents Gospel Brunch
Jun 23 2013 - 10:00am
$21 child, $34.50 senior, $42.50 adult
Kirk Franklin presents Gospel Brunch
Jun 23 2013 - 1:00pm
$21 child, $34.50 senior, $42.50 adult
Janet Fitch and guests present Pamela Moore’s Chocolates For Breakfast
Jun 23 2013 - 4:00pm
This rediscovered classic is an internationally bestselling novel, back in print and available in the U.S. for the first time in 45 years. Published in 1956 by Moore at age 18, this is the astonishingly candid story of a young girl's sudden, urgent awakening to love and desire.
Courtney Farrell is a disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen-year-old. She splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress. After a boarding-school crush on a female teacher ends badly, Courtney sets out to learn everything fast. Her first drink is a very dry martini, and her first kiss the beginning of a full-blown love affair with an older man. (Harper Perennial)
"Found this book in my parents' library, a risqué looking paperback--read it over and over again. Every naughty thing I hoped life would be like."--Janet Fitch, author of "White Oleander"
Hollowbody LA presents Marla, The Crimson Curtains, The Dirty City Brothers, Mesia
Jun 23 2013 - 7:00pm
$10 adv, $15 dos
Free Music Monday with Heaven Below, Malaki, Goldsboro, Rooftop Revolutionaries, Praise The Dead
Jun 24 2013 - 7:30am
Iris Smyles presents and signs Iris Has Free Time (Signed Edition)
Jun 24 2013 - 7:00pm
"There, I came across a cluster of NYU graduates standing in cap and gown. They were laughing and posing for photos. Was it June again already? Their voices echoed through the subway tunnel. "Congratulations!" "Congratulations!" their parents said. And I wanted to yell, "Don't do it! Go back! You don't know what it's like!""
Whether passed out drunk at The New Yorker where she's interning; assigning Cliffs Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college; getting banned from a fleet of Greek Island ferries while on vacation, or trying to piece together the events of yet another puzzling blackout--"I prefer to call them pink-outs, because I'm a girl"--Iris is never short on misadventures. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Timecharts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age--one's twenties--when childhood is over, supposedly. (Soft Skull Press)
Ed Hardy & co-author Joel Selvin presents and signs Wear Your Dreams: My Life In Tattoos (Signed Edition)
Jun 25 2013 - 7:00pm
"Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubiquitous. But long before the fashion world discovered his iconic designs, the man behind the eponymous brand spearheaded nothing less than a cultural revolution. InWear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a valid and rich art form, through to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multi-billion dollar branding empire. From giving colored pencil tattoos to neighborhood kids at age ten to working with legendary artists like Sailor Jerry to learning at the feet of the masters in Japan, the book explains how this Godfather of Tattoos fomented the explosion of tattoo art and how his influence can be witnessed on everyone, from countless celebs to ink-adorned rockers to butterfly-branded, stroller-pushing moms. With over fifty different product categories, the Ed Hardy brand generates over $700 million in retail sales annually. Vividly packaged with original Ed Hardy artwork and ideal for ink devotees and Ed Hardy aficionados alike, Wear Your Dreams is a never-before-seen look at the tattoo artist who rocked the art world and has left a permanent mark on fashion history. (Thomas Dunne Books)
Surge presents Zaiya, Don Tonic, Storey And The Tellers, The Status Fiction, Jimmy Riggs Band
Jun 25 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $15 dos
Robert K. Elder presents and signs The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love (Signed Edition)
Jun 26 2013 - 7:00pm
In this book, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems. Among these guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival are unsung noirs ("Murder by Contract"), famous flops ("Can't Stop the Music," " Joe Versus the Volcano"), art films ("L'ange"), theatrical adaptations ("The Iceman Cometh"), B-movies ("Killer Klowns from Outer Space"), and even a few Oscar-winners ("Some Came Running"). In these conversations, the filmmakers defend their choices. These films, they argue, deserve a larger audience and for their place in movie history to be reconsidered. But the conversations' tangents, diversions, and side trips provide as much insight into the directors' own approach to moviemaking as into the film they're discussing. The filmmakers are the perfect hosts, often setting the tone, managing expectations, and giving advice about how you should watch each movie. They're often brutally honest about a film's shortcomings or the reasons why it was lost in the first place. The Best Film You've Never Seen is not only a guide to some badly overlooked movies but a bold attempt to rewrite film history. (Chicago Review Press)
Back Alley Music Review, Zookeeper's Palace, Peanut Butter Lovesicle, Snow In Africa, Addictive Stranger, Arielle Deem
Jun 27 2013 - 7:15am
Bonded By Blood, Hatchet, Hexen, Ophiuchus, Slain Vitals, Canopus, Syndrome
Jun 27 2013 - 7:00pm
William Stout presents and signs Legends of the Blues (Signed Edition)
Jun 27 2013 - 7:00pm
Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters--say their names out loud and you can just hear the blues. Now, acclaimed artist William Stout visualizes these artists and their music with 100 stunning portraits. This graphically powerful collection includes profiles of classic musicians drawn by a master illustrator. Stout beautifully captures the signature style of each blues legend and then adds authoritative biographical text with personal and humorous writing that brings it on home. Includes recommended playlists and an exclusive bonus music CD. (Abrams Comicarts)
London Cries, Sunset Riot, Queen V, Johnny's Sister
Jun 27 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Some Kind Of Wonderful, No One's Mercy, The Cherry Wire, Oblio, Above Seculsion, Cohasset, The Rhythm Section
Jun 28 2013 - 7:00pm
Bryce Soderberg & 2nd Wheel, Checkpoint Charlie, The Alarm Science, The Lonely Drunks Club Band
Jun 28 2013 - 7:30pm
$12 adv, $15 dos
Frankmusik, The Bolts, Sleep For Dreaming, Tiffany Madadian, To Humans, Tigercide, Macy Kate Band
Jun 29 2013 - 8:00am
Prey On The Fallen, CitySin Angles, Real Fiction, Dirty Machine, Deliverance, Global Affront
Jun 29 2013 - 7:00pm
Hillbilly Herald, Love & A.38, Tommy Peacock & The Gas, Marishi Ten
Jun 29 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Back Pocket Memory, The Material, Beta State, Good Morning Orbit
Jun 30 2013 - 7:00am
Matt Bell presents and signs In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (Signed Edition)
Jul 1 2013 - 7:00pm
In this epic, mythical debut novel, newlyweds escape the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost uninhabited lakeshore, where they plan to raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world. (Soho Press)
"Gorgeous, brilliant, often darkly hilarious and always moving.... Written with an ingenuity and joy that call to mind Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities."--Karen Russell, author of "Swamplandia!"
Surge presents Red Ink The Band, President Clint, Jake & Papa, Chozen, Saafir & 2 Seater, The Letters Home
Jul 2 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $15 dos
Kirk Franklin presents Gospel Brunch
Jul 7 2013 - 10:00am
$21 child, $34.50 senior, $42.50 adult
Kirk Franklin presents Gospel Brunch
Jul 7 2013 - 1:00pm
$21 child, $34.50 senior, $42.50 adult
Taingapalooza with Handsome As Sin, Attaloss, On Fire, Cyler James, Jason Caira, Jeff Michael
Jul 7 2013 - 7:00pm
$10/$8 for Apple Employees
Dayle Gloria presents Downtown Attraction, Albert Garrett & The Bad Romantics, Brando's Island, TB5
Jul 8 2013 - 7:30pm
$10
Jennifer Armstrong discusses and signs Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Jul 9 2013 - 7:00pm
When writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: "American audiences won't tolerate divorce in a series' lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York."
Forty years later, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show "is one of the most beloved and recognizable television shows of all time. It was an inspiration to a generation of women who wanted to have it all in an era when everything seemed possible. Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted tells the stories behind the making of this popular classic, introducing the groundbreaking female writers who lent real-life stories to their TV scripts; the men who created the indelible characters; the lone woman network executive who cast the legendary ensemble--and advocated for this provocative show--and the colorful cast of actors who made it all work. (Simon & Schuster)
Blue Embrace, Soulbeer, Katharina Harer & Adah Glen, Christie Brooke, Felipe Jones
Jul 9 2013 - 7:00pm
Hollywood Sheriff productions & House of Metal presents White Wizzard, Death Dealer, Octane Mob, Devil Seed
Jul 9 2013 - 7:00pm
Matthew Specktor discusses and signs American Dream Machine
Jul 10 2013 - 7:00pm
The story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life. (Tin House Books)
"Specktor's book deserves a special space in the L.A. canon, somewhere looking up at Pynchon and Chandler. Even as the narrator searches through his past to uncover the truth about his family, the author is searching, too." --"LA Weekly"
Brendan I. Koerner discusses and signs The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Jul 11 2013 - 7:00pm
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. In 1972, a shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars. He combed through over 4,000 declassified documents and interviewed scores of key figures in the drama--including one of the hijackers, whom Koerner discovered living in total obscurity. Yet "The Skies Belong to Us" is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent, and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
Barbara Rose Brooker discusses and signs The Viagra Diaries
Jul 12 2013 - 7:00pm
Just because Anny Applebaum qualifies for a senior discount doesn't mean she's ready for retirement. But if she wants to keep her job at the "San Francisco Times, "she'll have to find a way to spice up her lifestyle column. Even if it means posting her profile as an eligible single on JDate .com. Sure, Anny's a little out of practice. She hasn't been with a man since she found Viagra in her ex-husband's suit pocket, and he wasn't taking it for her. But she's got her friends to help her fumble her way through the strange and intriguing world of online dating. After hearing cautionary tales from the trenches--about "boomer oldies" who drag around pictures of their dead wives and fixed-income misers who wine and dine their dates at chain restaurants--Anny is relieved to meet Marv Rothstein, a charming . . . 75-year-old diamond dealer. Unfortunately, he's also a Digital Age Don Juan who prowls singles sites for younger women. Not be outdated by this "Serial JDater," Anny realizes Marv is the perfect subject for her flagging column and chronicles his sexcapades for the reading public. But when the new column becomes an overnight hit, Anny can't help but feel conflicted--because now she's having sex with Mr. X . . . and it's nothing less than extraordinary.
Cold Blue Rebels, Scurvy Kids, Still Not Dead, Orewell's Nightmare
Jul 12 2013 - 7:00pm
Kendra Morris, David & Devine, Kingsley, Mia Von Glitz
Jul 12 2013 - 7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Young Dubliners CD release, Brother Sal, Nina Storey, Steel Toed Slippers
Jul 12 2013 - 8:00pm
Kirsten Smith discusses and signs Trinkets
Jul 13 2013 - 2:00pm
Sixteen-year-old Moe's Shoplifters Anonymous meetings are usually punctuated by the snores of an old man and the whining of the world's unhappiest housewife. Until the day that Tabitha Foster and Elodie Shaw walk in. Tabitha has just about everything she wants: money, friends, popularity, a hot boyfriend who worships her...and clearly a yen for stealing. So does Elodie, who, despite her goodie-two-shoes attitude pretty much has "klepto" written across her forehead in indelible marker. But both of them are nothing compared to Moe, a bad girl with an even worse reputation.
Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout-a more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. And yet, when Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, so begins a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing and the reasons that spawn it.
Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten Smith tells this story from multiple perspectives with humor and warmth as three very different girls who are supposed to be learning the steps to recovery end up learning the rules of friendship. (Little Brown for Young Readers)
Jason Charles Miller, California Windfall, Broadcast Station, Scotty Boy McCoy, Damien Short
Jul 13 2013 - 7:00pm
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