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The 2006 Liberty Film Festival launched last night at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. Now in its third year, the Festival has become a linchpin in the social calendar for many LA Conservatives. This year the Festival has joined forces with David Horowitz' Freedom Center, and played a to full house on its opening night.
Festival Co-Founder Jason Apuzzo.
Festival Co-Founder Govindini Murty.
This year the Festival gave a special Freedom of Expression Award to Cyrus Nowrasteh, writer of the miniseries, The Path to 9/11, and to ABC, for their courage in writing and airing it, against great political pressure. Cyrus said that he wrote it very quickly, because he wanted to get paid before the project was canceled, as he expected it to be, given its politically charged subject matter. Then, to his surprise, ABC greenlit it for production. The resulting series achieved higher ratings than Monday Night Football.
Director David Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun, Scary Movie 3 and 4) and his co-producer Myran Sokoloff presented their very funny campaign commercials, which were widely distributed via YouTube preceding the recent Congressional elections. Their Albright ad currently shows over 800,000 views on YouTube, and their Taxman ad shows over 60,000 views.
Joel Surnow, Writer and Producer of one of the best series on TV, "24," screened highlights from his comedy news pilot, "This Just In." (I attended the shooting of this pilot and posted on it here.) Joel noted that it appears that this may air as a series of specials on the Fox News Network.
Festival Co-Founders Jason and Govindini then spoke. Their inspirational and insightful views are key to the success of the Festival, and are having a continuing and significant impact on the Conservative movement in LA. Last night they spoke about the need to have films from all viewpoints in order to foster healthy civil debate. They noted that this was traditionally the case in Hollywood. They would like to see a marketplace of films containing, not only Conservative pictures; not only Liberal pictures; but a variety of films representing all views.
Films screened last night included the comedy, This is DNN - showing what TV coverage would have looked like if World War II had been covered by today's MSM; and Border War, the latest film from Kevin Knoblock and David N. Bossie - an illuminating documentary on illegal immigration, showing its impact on all the parties involved. Knoblock and Bossie appeared afterwards and stated that they are currently working, with Dick Morris, on "the definitive Hillary Clinton film," scheduled for release this time next year.
