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Come be a part of the Silver Lake Film Festival family- and help support independent film, arts and music, to boot! Information on volunteer opportunities will be posted as they arise. Please keep checking in!

Contact us at greg@silverlakefilmfestival.org for questions regarding volunteer opportunities at our 2007 festival and before! PLEASE include in your email what your would be interested in doing!

A call to local filmmakers: Join our archive team!
Help document the festival interview filmmakers: Its a Wonderful way to get to know the festival, the filmmakers and the community. We Want You ! Contact joshua@silverlakefilmfestival.org for more information.

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 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.