2010 Los Angeles United Film Festival Award Winners

United Film Festivals is pleased to announce the 2010 Los Angeles United Film Festival award winners.

Jury Awards

Feature Length Narrative - Like Dandelion Dust

Feature Length Documentary - Special When Lit

Short Film - The Mouse That Soared

Audience Awards

Feature Length Narrative - Beyond the Pole

Feature Length Documentary - Official Rejection

Short Film - Turning Japanese

Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund

Film Music Award - Jeffie Was Here

Lifetime Achievement Award

We will be honoring Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb before The Shark is Still Working screening for his outstanding work in film and television.

Credits include: Jaws, The Jerk, Caveman, Doctor Detroit.

It was another great festival and we would like to thank all of the attendees, filmmakers, sponsors, and staff for making it a success. We would also like to thank the Los Feliz 3 and the Vista Theater as well as their staff and management for making the festival a pleasure for everyone involved.

Festival Review

Paul Preston from The Movie Guys recently attended the LA United Fest. Check out his review here».

Festival News

Join us for the kickoff film How To Make Love To A Woman and meet cast members Josh Meyers, James Kyson Lee, Eugene Byrd, Nora Kirkpatrick, & Lindsay Richards.

On Friday night, cast members Peter Bedgood, Alexis Raben, Todd Edwards, Christine Rose, Ken Marino, & Vanessa Ragland will be in attendance for the screening of Jeffie Was Here. Later that night, festival guru Chris Gore will be in attendance for Official Rejection.

On Saturday, there will be a panel sponsored by the Science & Entertainment Exchange at the Monsters From The Id screening. Panel members include, Kevin Hand, astrobiologist/planetary atmospheres specialist at JPL, Kristin Baldwin, stem cell researcher working on anti-aging at UC-San Diego, Randy Olson, former marine biologist turned documentary filmmaker (Flock Of Dodos, Sizzle!). For more information, visit their website: blog.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org

Monday night, Academy Award nominated Screenwriter Steven J Rivele will be in attendance for the Q & A session of Like Dandelion Dust.

Cast members Cerina Vincent & Elisa Donovan will be in attendance for the Wednesday night screening of Complacent.

Host Announcement

Los Angeles United is pleased to annouce that we will be bringing back stand-up comedian, host, and actor Sal Rodriguez to host this year's festival.

Lineup Announcement

Los Angeles United is proud to present an amazing list of Feature-Length Narratives and Documentaries. All films will be L.A. Premieres or Special Engagement Screenings and will be preceded by a few Award-Winning Short Films.

Our kick-off film is the hilarious romantic comedy, How to Make Love to a Woman, which deals with one man's quest to learn what it really takes to please his girlfriend. Starring Josh Myers, Krysten Ritter, Ian Somerhalder and Ken Jeong, this film will have a special screening April 29th at the historic Vista Theatre. Saturday’s environmental day includes mockumentary Beyond the Pole which follows a hilarious film crew on the first carbon neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. Like Dandelion Dust shows what happens when a couple’s idyllic life is shattered when their adopted son’s biological parents find a loophole in the adoption papers. Starring Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, and Cole Hauser. The nostalgic Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of the lost pop icon: pinball. Complacent is a compelling drama about two close sisters who are shaken to the core by a tragedy which questions the way that they live their lives. Starring Kerri Green, Cerina Vincent, Elisa Donovan and Joey Kern. We will be having a special screening of The Shark is Still Working, about one of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of all time, Jaws. Other films in our line-up include Jeffie Was Here, Official Rejection, Dive!, Tapped, The Rock’n’Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher, Divorcing God, Bicycle Dreams, Race Team, Facing the Fat, Frank & Cindy, Branson, Etienne!, and The Rock-afire Explosion. View the complete lineup here»

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