7th Annual Silver Lake Film Festival dates: Los Angeles, May 3-12, 2007

In its recent celebrated Best of L.A. issue, L.A. Weekly noted that Los Angeles can now boast a film festival almost every week. "L.A. is in the midst of a film festival boom. And the competition has made almost everyone step up to the plate." Among the scores of worthy contenders, Silver Lake Film Festival was selected as one of the city's Top Five.

Surprised? We don't blame you. After only six years Silver Lake Film Festival has evolved into Los Angeles' leading independent film festival. The only major, non-genre film festival singularly focused on presenting the best of independent film in the entertainment capital of the world. The only major film festival in the U.S. showcasing independent films where the majority of independent filmmakers actually live and work.

At our last festival, we screened over 200 independent films, hosted the Los Angeles premiere of David Mamet’s new dark comedy “Edmond,” starring William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Montegna and Bai Ling; celebrated the uber independence of our festival honorees -- pioneering filmmaker Rob Nilsson, actor/writer/director Julie Delpy and iconoclastic artist Bad Otis Link; treated our audience to Q&As with celebrity guest curators k.d. lang, wild man Bobcat Goldthwait and John Doe of the legendary band X; and debuted the first-ever film festival exhibition of “Machinima,” a new digital cinematic art form. Not to mention presenting dozens of cutting-edge art, music, and other entertainment events and parties, parties, parties. Where were you?

If you're serious about reaching independent film audiences, we invite you to be, uh, a fly-on-the wall of Los Angeles' most exciting, exceptional independent film and arts event - the seventh annual Silver Lake Film Festival.

"The year 2004 marked the fifth anniversary of the once rough-hewn Silver Lake Film Festival, which has outgrown its home at the Vista theater in Silver Lake and has set down roots at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood." -L.A. Weekly - Best of 2004

"Moviegoers would be hard pressed to find a more impressive fiesta of Southern California alternative chic than the SILVER LAKE FILM FESTIVAL…" - New Times

"One of the few festivals devoted to discovering movies..." -Los Angeles Times

"A week goes by, and another film festival is born - nothing unusual nowadays - but it doesn't happen often in the historical birth place of Hollywood." -The Hollywood Reporter

"An eclectic array of pics..." -Daily Variety