{"id":482,"date":"2011-06-26T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/06\/16\/la-film-festival-announces-2011-awards-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:52:50","slug":"la-film-festival-announces-2011-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/la-film-festival-announces-2011-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Film Festival Announces 2011 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'LAFilmFest.jpg','941','385');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/LAFilmFest.jpg\" \/><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'LAFilmFest_1.jpg','216','216');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/LAFilmFest_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"250\" title=\"LAFilmFest_1.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"LAFilmFest_1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.LAFilmFest_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>The Los Angeles Film Festival announced their jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by zLA Times, LA Live, CHAYA Downtown and Dove\u00ae Hair Care.\u00a0 Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards.\u00a0 The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David, Doug and the team continue to raise the bar with the quality of our programming slate.\u00a0 We\u2019re enormously proud to host such an exceptional and diverse group of films and filmmakers at this year\u2019s Festival, and to have introduced audiences to their wonderful work&#8221; said Los Angeles Film Festival Director Rebecca Yeldham.<\/p>\n<p>The two top juried awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival are the Narrative Award and Documentary Award, each carrying an unrestricted $15,000 cash prize, funded by Film Independent, for the winning film\u2019s director.\u00a0 The awards were established by the Festival encourage independent filmmakers to pursue their artistic ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was such a rich year in competition films, so our juries had really tough choices to make.\u00a0 The winning films are the cream of a particularly delicious crop, and we\u2019re delighted that they reflect the Festival\u2019s dedication to movies from all over the world,&#8221; said Festival Artistic Director David Ansen.<\/p>\n<p>The Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the Festival and went to St\u00e9phane Lafleur for the North American Premiere of Familiar Ground.\u00a0 The Documentary Award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition at the Festival and went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for the World Premiere of Wish Me Away.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-LAFF-Winners-Release-FINAL.doc\">http:\/\/www.lafilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011-LAFF-Winners-Release-FINAL.doc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Film Festival announced their jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by zLA Times, LA Live, CHAYA Downtown and Dove\u00ae Hair Care.\u00a0 Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards.\u00a0 The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-7M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}