curator was Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti; “State of the Union,” films on the changing labor movement; and an extensive Fusion Asian cinema program, which presented a retrospective of legendary Japanese horror master Nobuo Nakagawa and award-winning films from festivals in Korea, Hong Kong and India. Cinema heritage Annually at every festival, Silver Lake Film Festival has paid tribute to the founding forces of cinema — fitting, since the Edendale neighborhood, between Silver Lake and Echo Park, is where the first Hollywood studios took root. Among those whose work has been spotlighted are Antonio Moreno, Clara Bow, Baby Peggy, Fatty Arbuckle, and Sessue Hayakawa. The Festival also looks to the present and future, bestowing its Spirit of Silver Lake Award for career achievement in independent cinema on such notables as actors John C. Reilly, Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo, and Julie Delpy, and filmmakers Allison Anders, Charles Burnett, Kenneth Anger, Rob Nilsson, Curtis Harrington and Penelope Spheeris Venues For the first four years, the Festival was based at the historic Vista Theatre at the corner of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards—the longest-running freestanding theater in Southern California—and included additional venues in neighboring theaters. In 2005 and 2006, the Festival took place exclusively at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, a high-profile complex that allowed increased media visibility for its programs. In 2007, Silver Lake Film Festival’s co-directors Kate Marciniak, Greg Ptacek and Saskia Wilson-Brown announced that the heart of the Festival would return to its namesake neighborhood, capitalizing on the resurgence of Silver Lake and Echo Park as entertainment and nightlife loci of note—perfectly reflecting the Festival’s philosophical and pragmatic independence. Key people Greg Ptacek Roger Mayer Kate Marciniak Saskia Wilson-Brown David Andrusia Henry K. Priest Charles Belk Bianca Bezdek Carlos Blumberg De Menezes Tiffany Naiman Jenna Didier Jason Dollar P. David Ebersole Ann Friday Vinny Gajee JoAnn Hanley Kelly Hargraves Oliver Hess Linda Huynh Bob Johnson Howie Klein Mary Ledding See also Films featured Mad Cowgirl The Oates' Valor External links Silver Lake Film Festival Official Website, at the Internet Archive from the original. Los Angeles Times article 7/26/06 on Silver Lake Film festivals in Los Angeles Digital film festivals