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EXCLUSIVE: LA's Dances With Films celebrates 26 Years of storytelling June 22-July 2 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.  The festival will open with the World Premiere of Good Side of Bad, a powerful drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Beverly Olevin. Directed by Alethea…

The drama America’s Family had a strong showing at the 25th annual Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles, claiming the Grand Jury Award for Features as well as the Audience Award for Competition Features when the fest wrapped on Sunday. The film from writer-director Anike L. Tourse watches as the Diaz family home…

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to a pair of coming-of-age dramas: writer-director Alana Waksman’s debut feature We Burn Like This, and writer-director Anna Matz’s first feature, Love You Anyway. The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group plans to…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen icon Sean Young (Blade Runner, Dune) has signed on for a role in the horror film Ouija Witch, which is currently in production. She’s set to star alongside Miley Rose, Jeremy Dean, Cheyenne Phillips, Ryan M. Shaw, LeJon Woods, Rivera Reese, Maggie Wagner and Sean Michael Conway. The film concerns a…

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles’ Dances with Films has announced the lineup for its 2021 film festival, setting Oscar nominees Paul Greengrass and Michael London as the speakers for its inaugural First Films series. The Dances With Films festival, which had to go virtual in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is returning…

EXCLUSIVE: The Dances With Films festival, which had to go virtual for its 2020 edition because of the coronavirus pandemic, is returning bigger than ever this year for its 24th edition, with organizers expanding the Los Angeles-based indie film event to three weeks, from August 26-September 12. The festival’s lineup…

Stuart McBratney’s Don't Read This On a Plane, which had its world premiere and won the Audience Award at the just-wrapped Dances With Films, has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures. The dramatic comedy is getting a digital release in the U.S. beginning Tuesday. The pic, a Australia/Romania co-production, stars Sophie…

The coming-of-age film Paper Spiders will open a virtual version of the Dances With Films Festival, the producers announced today. DWF:LA’s 2020 lineup has more than 200 titles, including narrative features, documentaries, pilots, web series, music videos, short films, and films by young people. The entire festival…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Fleming, a producer and president emeritus of Women In Film, and Dear White People and Real Women Have Curves producer Effie Brown have joined the board of advisors at DWF-LA, the new name of the annual Los Angeles-based film festival Dances With Films. The additions, which also include making longtime…

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Los Angeles Dances With Films Festival will open with the Michael Worth-directed indie feature Apple Seed, which marks the final film of Rance Howard, father of director Ron Howard. The 22nd annual Dances With Films Festival kicks off June 13 and continues through June 23 with Apple Seed making…

EXCLUSIVE: No Alternative, the Harry Hamlin and Kathryn Erbe starring indie drama, is opening the Los Angeles-based festival Dances With Films on June 7 in what also is the William Dickerson-directed film’s world premiere. The drama that confronts mental illness while delving into the world of grunge-era teenagers…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jared Januschka-directed Shooting In Vain is making its U.S. premiere next month at Dances With Films, the indie festival that runs June 7-17 in Hollywood. The drama stars Sebastian Gregory, Goliath‘s Diana Hopper, The Royals‘ Alexandra Park, MacGyver‘s Isabel Lucas and Ryan Shoos. Above is the…