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The Smogdance Film Festival will expand its program this year to include informal discussions with filmmakers, whose work will be screened during the three-day festival, April 24 to 26, at the historic Pomona Fox Theater in Pomona, California. Among the filmmakers scheduled to attend are Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Saul Landau; director Paul Hendry (and most of his cast and crew) from the comedy, The Re-Bourne Identity; and Mexican director Alonso Alvarez Barreda, whose film, The St...

The Smogdance Film Festival today announced its final selection of films for the 2008 festival, which will be held from January 25-27 at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Recognized at a national level, the three-day festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary with an eclectic mix of animation, documentaries, comedies and short dramas. The 43 films selected for 2008 represent local talent, as well as filmmakers from 9 states, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Each year ...

The Smogdance Film Festival today announced its final selection of films for the 2007 festival, which will be held from January 26-28 at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the dA Center for the Arts, the three-day festival will celebrate its ninth anniversary with an eclectic mix of animation, documentaries, comedies and short dramas. The 40 films selected for 2007 represent local talent, as well as filmmakers from 13 states, Aust...