David Ansen

Type: Person

Name: David Ansen

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

LA film fest wooes Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, June 16, (RTRS): Hollywood is finally embracing the Los Angeles Film Festival. Studios once reluctant to showcase top films at LAFF, which officially opens on Thursday night in downtown LA after a pre-festival screening of “Man of Steel” ... [Published Arab Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: David Ansen, Stephanie Allain, Hollywood, Man Of Steel

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Los Angeles Film Festival world class, locally flavored

The Los Angeles Film Festival has grown into an all-things-for-all-moviegoing-people kind of event.The 19th edition officially starts Thursday with Pedro Almodovar's Spanish airliner-set orgy "I'm So Excited," but sneaks in a pre-festival screening of ... [Published San Jose Mercury News - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: David Ansen, Los Angeles, Ava DuVernay, Stepchild

First reported Dec 25 2012 - Updated Dec 25 2012 - 1 reports

David Ansen Recalls When AIDS Silenced The Arts

On Wednesday Jan. 6, 1993, the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in Paris. The initial, official cause of death was said to be a "cardiac complication" that followed a long illness. But it wasn't hard to read between the lines: everybody knew he was the ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Dec 25 2012]

Entities: David Ansen, HIV/AIDS, Rudolf Nureyev

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...It's one of the things that separates this festival," Ansen said of LAFF's attraction factor for hot new filmmakers. "and we try to take advantage of the fact that we're in l a in terms of the kind of access we have to the talent, the sort of value-added we can give to audiences in terms of all the conversations we have, the coffee talks, q and a's; we can get a lot of people down to share their knowledge of the film business."

Los Angeles Film Festival world class, locally flavored [Published San Jose Mercury News - Jun 10 2013]