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The independent feature film 'Last Days Of Simon' won the award for BEST HOME GROWN feature film on Sunday, April 5th at the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The Los Angeles Film Festival, held annually for ten days in June, showcases the best of American and international independent cinema. With an expected attendance of over 100,000, the festival screens over 175 narrative features, documentaries, shorts, and music videos. Now in its fourteenth year, the festival has grown into a world-class event, uniting new filmmakers with critics, scholars, film masters, and the movie-loving public.

Any budding film makers with learning disabilities will be happy to know that the Oska Bright Film Festival is now open for submissions;

Deadline: 30 April 2009. Festival 17-19 November 2009.
Oska Bright is unique. It is the first and only festival managed and promoted by learning disabled artists as a showcase for their creativity and skill as film-makers.