Extend beyond the fest with the Screening Room. A screening series, classes, event venue, pro screening facility for filmmakers & more!
The SoCal Film Festival Screening Room and Event Center!
Now entering its eighth year, the SoCal Film Festival in Huntington Beach continues to provide an outlet for independent filmmakers, screenwriters and artists to gather to share in the exhibition and development of art and culture through film and will continue to do so with the development of our Screening Room and Event Center!
What we are doing in 2012 – The SoCal Screening Room (We Need You)! Our goal is to raise $7,500 for our SoCal Screening Room. Of course, if we raise more, we can do more.
Join us in launching the long awaited SoCal Screening Room! The SoCal Screening Room will be a mini-theatre (or theater, depending on your spelling preference) professionally furnished for filmmakers to have a theatrical screening option outside of Los Angeles for private and public movie exhibition. Additionally, the Screening Room will host a variety of industry related groups and events in Orange County. We are looking at a number of suitable locations and hope to finalize a location by the end of the year and be up and running by the 2012 festival event.
What does that mean and what will happen there?
Well, a variety of events will take place at the SoCal Screening Room, including:
- Offering a monthly movie screening series of past and present festival movies;
- Providing a venue for filmmakers to host private or public screenings of their movie;
- Providing a venue for filmmakers to do technical checks of their movies in a professional screening environment;
- Providing a home for the SoCal Film Academy – the festival’s film school offering youth and adult courses in filmmaking, screenwriting, editing, and production;
- Providing a venue from Orange County and nearby filmmaking and screenwriting discussion groups to regularly meet;
- Offering a venue where filmmakers can hold auditions, have production meetings, and even have a small sound stage for production!
- Providing a place where actors can also get involved by easily, inexpensively and quickly getting headshots for their resumes in our always-ready-to-go studio.
Why in Orange County?
There is a huge filmmaking, screenwriting, and entertainment industry population in Orange County, California. However, in most cases, we must travel to LA to get some very basic services not offered in Orange County. Additionally, these services get very expensive in LA. The SoCal Screening Room will be a unique option and opportunity not readily available outside of the Los Angeles area.
About the Festival
The SoCal Film Festival held its first event in 2005, hosting a unique celebration of filmmaking in Orange County’s Huntington Beach. In that time we have screened and celebrated nearly 1,000 movies and screenplays. Additionally, we have held regular community events such as outdoor movie screenings and discussion groups. 2012 will mark the eighth year of the festival. This has been a grassroots festival and organization from the beginning, organized by a high school English teacher who has worked professionally in the entertainment industry for many years (and continues to do so). The festival has longed for the screening room and in 2012, it will happen!
Some Pictures from the past 8 years of the SoCal Film Festival!
Yeah, we have a story to tell. Let's see if some of the video and pictures below will help us explain our passion, desire and excitement for independent filmmaking!
Events, screenings, guests (Hey, there's Andy Dick)!
Event Director Brian Barsuglia on KOCE's Real Orange discussing the 2010 Event!
KOCE's Real Orange discussing the 2008 SoCal with guests J.F. Lawton (writer of Pretty Woman, Under Siege) who premiered his film Jackson at the 2008 festival, alongside Scott Sampila, co-writer and producer of Remarkable Power with Kevin Nealon, Tom Arnold and Christopher Titus.
Outdoor Screenings by the pier (Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Endless Summer I & II, The Wizard of Oz, and others).
2008 SoCal Film Festival Event Recap Video
Guests, volunteers, highlights, events!
SoCal Film Fest Interview with District 9 Cinematographer, Trent Opalach.
Dinners, awards, step-and-repeat, photo opps!
SoCal Film Festival Mini-Documentary made by a student volunteer.
Endless Summer event at the HB Pier with Robert August and Bruce Brown!
2010 Screenplay Readings
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FILM FAN! Get an ALL-FEST pass to the 2012 film fest (Sept. 23-30)!
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TOPAZ PATRON ($75+) A permanent place on our Patrons of the Arts wall plaque, an invite to our grand opening gala in 2012; two All-Fest Passes to our 2012 signature event in September; two free movie screening passes for the Screening Room; and the collector’s edition of the 12”x18” 2011 SoCal Film Festival poster.
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RUBY PATRON ($175+) Patron of the Arts wall plaque inclusion; 2012 grand opening gala invite; four 2012 All-Fest passes; two 2012-2013 Screening Room Season Pass for our movie series; the 12”x18” 2012 SoCal Film Festival Poster; and one SoCal Film Festival t-shirt.
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DIAMOND PATRON ($350+) Patron of the Arts wall plaque inclusion; 2012 grand opening gala invite; four 2012 All-Fest passes; two 2012-2013 Screening Room Season Pass for our movie series; the 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Festival Poster; two SoCal Film Festival t-shirts; optional business card ad in our Screening Series Program for the first year.
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DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($500+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; Framed Patrons of the Arts ; 2012 invite to opening gala; four 2012-2013 All-Fest passes; four 2012-2013 Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional business card ad in our Screening Series Program for the first year.
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PRODUCER’S CIRCLE ($750+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; 2012 invite to opening gala; four 2012-2013 All-Fest passes; four 2012-2013 Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first year.
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FOUNDER’S CIRCLE ($1,000+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; 2012 invite to opening gala; two lifetime All-Fest passes; two lifetime Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first year.
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DIRECTOR ($2,500+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; 2012 invite to opening gala; three lifetime All-Fest passes; three lifetime Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first year.; host an optional private screening event at the Screening Room.
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PRODUCER ($3,500+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; 2012 invite to opening gala; four lifetime All-Fest passes; four lifetime Screening Room Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first two years; host an optional private screening event at the Screening Room.
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ($5,000+) Patron’s Circle wall plaque inclusion; 2012 invite to opening gala; four lifetime All-Fest passes; four lifetime Screening Room Season Passes; 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Fest Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first two years; host an optional private screening event at the Screening Room annually for each of the next two years.
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BENEFACTOR OF THE ARTS ($7,500+) Ready to go all in? Love the fest? Love the movies? Then this is for you! Individual Benefactor of the Arts Theatre Plaque (The “Benefactor Name” Theatre); lifetime invite to opening galas; four lifetime All-Fest passes; four lifetime Screening Room Season Passes; framed 20”x30” 2012 SoCal Film Festival Poster; four festival t-shirts; optional full page ad in our Screening Series Program for the first five years; host an optional annual private screening event at the Screening Room for the first five years.
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