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| | FESTIVALS: LAIFF -- Los Angeles' Hardly Risky, Not So Diverse, But Consistent "Community" Festival |
 | | It is a festival of fierce intensity, where acquisitions folks, d-girls, filmmakers, producers, press people, and a few genuine film aficionados power-view films and devour a series of seminars on topics ranging from digital production to film distribution to the "craft series" on writing, directing, acting, producing. |
 | | The rest of the festival featured a host of competent and enjoyable films and none of the films compelled me to walk straight out the door after the first twenty minutes, (except for the closing night film). |
 | | On Tuesday night, the festival came to a conclusion with the presentation of the audience awards -- all of the brief acceptance speeches were highly amusing. |
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