The
2005 Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16 - June 25) will open with the North American premiere of David Jacobson's
Down in the Valley, festival organizers announced yesterday.
"We are thrilled to be opening the festival with this homegrown film in which the city itself is a major character," said FIND (formerly IFP/Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Film Festival's Director of Programming Rachel Rosen in a prepared statement. "David Jacobson is a director with a truly independent vision and Down in the Valley exemplifies the kind of films we're proud to present at the festival."
A Los Angeles native, Jacobson was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards for his previous feature,
Dahmer, which was based on events from the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Down in the Valley stars Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse, Rory Culkin, and Bruce Dern. The festival's press release describe it as a "suspenseful crime story set at the edge of the San Fernando Valley, a seedy place of horse ranches and immigrant gangs, where ten-lane freeways converge to create a cultural no man's land."
The festival also announced that George Clooney will receive the inaugural Spirit of Independence Award and that the cash prize of the Target Documentary Award has been increased to $50,000. The full program will be announced later this month.
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# posted by Matthew Ross @ 5/12/2005 01:08:00 PM
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