Film Independent, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit media arts organization and producer of the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced its lineup today. The 16th edition of the festival runs June 17 to 27. Documentaries are amply represented at LAFF, with several world premieres among the nine docs in competition. The International Showcase includes Sundance winners The Red Chapel (Dir.: Mads Brugger) and Space Tourists (Dir.: Christian Frei); Jeff Malmberg's Marwencal and Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story highlight the Summer Screenings strand; and free Community Screenings include Josh Fox's Gasland, Jennifer Arnold's A Small Act and Michael P. Nash's Climate Refugees.
The festival will also present selections from Ambulante, the Mexico-based traveling documentary film festival.
Here are the documentaries of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival:
Documentary Competition:
Camera, Camera (Dir.: Malcolm Murray)--World Premiere
Circo (Dir.: Aaron Schock; USA/Mexico)--World Premiere
One Lucky Elephant, (Dir.: Lisa Leeman)--World Premiere
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Dirs.: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler) - World Premiere
Farewell (Dir.: Ditteke Mensink; Netherlands)--US Premiere
Life with Murder (Dir.: John Kastner; Canada)--US Premiere
Make Believe (Dir.: J. Clay Tweel)--World Premiere
Vlast (Dir.: Cathryn Collins)
Where Are You Taking Me?(Dir.: Kimi Takesue)--North American Premiere
International Showcase:
Disco & Atomic War (Dirs.: Jaak Kilmi, Kiur Aarma; Estonia/Finland)
The Red Chapel (Dir.: Mads Brugger; Denmark)
Secrets of the Tribe (Dir.: José Padilha; England/Brazil)
Space Tourists (Dir.: Christian Frei; Switzerland)
Summer Screenings:
Ain't In It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (Dir.: Jacob Hatley)
Cane Toads: The Conquest (Dir.: Mark Lewis; Australia/US)
Kings of Pastry (Dirs.: DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus)
Marwencol (Dir.: Jeff Malmberg)
The Tillman Story (Dir.: Amir Bar-Lev (The Weinstein Company)
Outdoor Screenings at the Ford Amphitheatre:
The People vs. George Lucas (Dir.: Alexandre O. Philippe)
Thunder Soul (Dir.: Mark Landsman )
Selections from the Ambulante Film Festival:
One Day Less (Dir.: Dariela Ludlow; Mexico)
Presumed Guilty (Dirs.: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith; Mexico)
The Toledo Report (Dirs.: Albino Álvarez Gomez; Mexico)
Community Screenings:
Climate Refugees (Dir.: Michael P. Nash)
Gasland (Dir.: Josh Fox)
A Small Act (Dir.: Jennifer Arnold)
Special Screenings:
Utopia in Four Movements (Dirs.: David Cerf, Sam Green)