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🎬 Take control of your filmmaking journey!Join us for a virtual conversation with Jim Arnoff, Entertainment Career Coach...
11/25/2025

🎬 Take control of your filmmaking journey!

Join us for a virtual conversation with Jim Arnoff, Entertainment Career Coach/Talent Agent Consultant/NFMLA Workshop Facilitator! With a background as a talent agent and entertainment attorney, he has helped production companies develop and sell original programming, refine pitches, and build sizzle reels.

Arnoff will share insider strategies to help you own your vision, forge your unique path, and take charge of building the entertainment career you truly want. You’ll learn practical coaching tools to articulate your vision with clarity, remove the blocks that have been holding you back, and design a concrete action plan to create the career you deserve — on your own terms.

🗓️ December 12, 2025, 10:30 am PST Online
🎟️ For tickets and more info: www.newfilmmakersla.com/events

🃏 When Death deals the cards, the only way out is to play along…Death Comes to My Side joins the NFMLA December lineup f...
11/24/2025

🃏 When Death deals the cards, the only way out is to play along…

Death Comes to My Side joins the NFMLA December lineup for our Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema.

This darkly comic, visually striking short plunges into a twisted carnival where three dolls must outwit Death through a series of cruel games — a surreal cycle of rebirth, fate, and the inevitability that Death never truly loses.

Synopsis: In a darkly comic showdown, three dolls must outplay Death in a carnival of cruel games, where victory means rebirth-- but the cycle ends exactly where it begins. Death always wins.

Death Comes To My Side

Writer and Director: Oliver Anderson

Producer: Lena Hall

🎟️Learn more: https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/

NFMLA was proud to participate in Argentina's 2026 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which celebrated its 40th ...
11/24/2025

NFMLA was proud to participate in Argentina's 2026 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which celebrated its 40th edition! 🎉🇦🇷

Thank you to our friends at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA) for hosting our Executive Director, Larry Laboe, as a juror for the International Short Films Competition. Congratulations to all the filmmakers in this category, especially to the winners of the main prize, S**o a los 70 by Vanesa Romero (Spain), and the honorable mention, āyí by Jiayi Li (China, United States). A special thank you to the co-artistic directors of the Festival, Gabriel Lerman and Jorge Stamadimos. A shout-out to our fellow International Short Film jurors, Claudia Pino from Cine Lebu and Pablo de Vita from Arfecine.

👏 Thank you to the incredible filmmakers and creatives who shared their work with us at the NFMLA November Film Festival...
11/21/2025

👏 Thank you to the incredible filmmakers and creatives who shared their work with us at the NFMLA November Film Festival | InFocus: Indigenous Cinema!

From bold November Shorts to powerful Indigenous storytelling and the Los Angeles Premiere of Shakti, your films made this month unforgettable.

🎬 We look forward to seeing you next at our December Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema!

Learn more about our festivals and programs at https://www.newfilmmakersla.com

🚖 Some nights change you in ways daylight never could.Nightfaces opens the NFMLA December 13th lineup for our Monthly Fi...
11/20/2025

🚖 Some nights change you in ways daylight never could.

Nightfaces opens the NFMLA December 13th lineup for our Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema.

This haunting, emotionally rich drama follows a taxi driver and a mysterious passenger whose late-night journey through Vienna cracks open buried longing, unexpected compassion, and the fragile hope that can emerge in the darkest hours.

Synopsis: In the faces of the night, two wounded hearts find the courage to meet the dawn.

Nightfaces

Co-Directors: Martin Winter and Stefan Langthaler
Writer: Stefan Langthaler

Main Cast: Anton Noori, Sonja Romei, Thomas Mraz
Additional: Olivia Goschler, Marja El Gmati, Pauline Hirsch-Stronstorff
Producers: Alfie Ángel, Victoria Herbig, Stefan Langthaler, Martin Winter

🎟️Learn more: https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🎬 This December, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) elevates powerful voices and vibrant storytelling with our Monthly Fi...
11/19/2025

🎬 This December, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) elevates powerful voices and vibrant storytelling with our Monthly Film Festival, featuring InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema! 🌟🎥

Join us for an exciting international lineup, beginning with December Shorts — a dynamic collection of films exploring coming-of-age moments, cultural duality, unexpected connections, identity, and the mysteries of the beyond, including the recently Oscar-Qualified Nightfaces.

The day continues with InFocus: Arab Cinema, a standout program curated in partnership with Mizna, showcasing innovative, thoughtful, and genre-expanding work from filmmakers across Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.

We close the night with InFocus: Middle Eastern Cinema, featuring deeply personal stories about memory, grief, friendship, trauma, displacement, and love — including the World Premiere of Sahar Ghorishi’s Whispers of Home.

🌍✨ Experience a day of films that traverse borders, challenge expectations, and celebrate the richness and complexity of Middle Eastern and Arab storytelling.

📅 Mark your calendars – December 13, 2025 02:30pm PST - 10:00pm PST

Program #1 – December Shorts
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM – Pre-Reception
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Program
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM – Audience Q&A

Program #2 – InFocus: Arab Cinema
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM – Pre-Reception
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM – Program
7:00 PM – 7:15 PM – Audience Q&A

Program #3 – InFocus: Middle Eastern Cinema
7:15 PM – 7:45 PM – Pre-Reception
7:45 PM – 9:45 PM – Program
9:45 PM – 10:00 PM – Audience Q&A

🎟️ Learn more about our festivals and other programs at https://www.newfilmmakersla.com

🙌 Thank you so much to MovieMaker Magazine for recognizing NFMLA as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World!!W...
11/17/2025

🙌 Thank you so much to MovieMaker Magazine for recognizing NFMLA as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World!!

We're honored to be among such peers and this just exemplifies our mission in championing independent filmmakers, here at home and around the world. Thank you to all our supporters and friends! Congratulations to all our fellow films festivals on this list as well! 🫂

Read more at MovieMaker.com

A huge thank you to the incredible directors and filmmakers who shared their work with us at the NFMLA November Film Fes...
11/15/2025

A huge thank you to the incredible directors and filmmakers who shared their work with us at the NFMLA November Film Festival and InFocus: Indigenous Cinema! 🎬✨

Your stories — from bold shorts to powerful Indigenous narratives and the Los Angeles Premiere of Shakti — made this month’s lineup unforgettable. Thank you for your vision, your artistry, and the worlds you brought to our screens.

🎟️ Learn more about our festivals and programs at https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/

🚨 Our friends Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Collab have just announced the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows...
11/12/2025

🚨 Our friends Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Collab have just announced the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship for 2026!

They're looking to find the next 10 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows—emerging filmmakers (ages 18 to 25) who are creating stories that bring their passion, voice, and perspective to life.

👀 Applications are now open! Apply before February 12, 2026.

🔗 For more information, please visit https://collab.sundance.org/catalog/2026-Sundance-Institute-Ignite-Adobe-Fellowship

🌒 A father’s past, a daughter’s search.Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (Between the Fire and Moonlight) joins the line-...
11/11/2025

🌒 A father’s past, a daughter’s search.

Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (Between the Fire and Moonlight) joins the line-up for the annual NFMLA DocuSlate documentary program.

Synopsis: The filmmaker’s father recounts the 10 days he spent hiding as a young boy during a war in his village in West Africa.

Together, father and daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about his memory of the events quietly buried by the Ivorian government.

With the help of the children living in his village today, the three generations create a mythical tapestry of entwining timelines, nightmares, and memories.

Director: Dominic Yarabe
Producers: Dominic Yarabe, Carlo Nasisse

🎟️Learn more: https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/

11/10/2025

🏫 A small college, a national battle.

Culture War joins the line-up for the annual NFMLA DocuSlate documentary program.

Synopsis: On January 6th, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis wages a war against "wokeness" and appoints six new members to New College of Florida's Board of Trustees, marking a shift in leadership at the small, progressive public school and flipping its world upside down for the college's community.

The consequences of the appointment are immediate, with the firing of the now former president, Patricia Okker, the abolishment of the diversity and inclusion office, the end of the gender studies major, the recruitment of student-athletes, and the diaspora of dozens of faculty members.

This case has gotten national and international attention. Governor DeSantis, at the time in the race to be the Republican representative in the next presidential election, has made himself directly attached to the events happening at this small liberal arts institution.

New College's situation represents the endless opportunities for government control of public educational institutions and the many impacts on the local community.

Director & Writer: Celi Mitidieri
Producers: Milena Montero, Celi Mitidieri

🎟️Learn more: https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/

We had an amazing time in NYC for the 2025 at . Thank you to Sola, the rest of the Festival team, our Filmmakers, our m...
11/10/2025

We had an amazing time in NYC for the 2025 at . Thank you to Sola, the rest of the Festival team, our Filmmakers, our moderators from and , and all of the attendees for making this such a wonderful edition! 🗽🎥

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