3RD FILM FESTIVAL WINS FANS : SANTA CLARITA EVENT APPEALS TO FAMILIES.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer There's something about the third time. People sit up and notice. Thus the third annual Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, International Family Film Festival is enjoying long-awaited popularity. ``The first year, they said, what's this? It won't be around next year,'' festival chairman Mitchel Matovich said Thursday, on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the weeklong event. ``The second year they say, Hey, maybe they will be around next year. ``Then by the third year, you've arrived. They know you're there to stay and they want to be a part of it.'' The festival will open tonight at the Edwards Theatres in Valencia and will close after a week with an awards banquet. Interest - as well as excitement - are high for the event, billed as the world's only film festival for the family, said the program director, Patte Dee. On Thursday, Dee and volunteer Eric Leeson were manning a film festival kiosk in the Valencia Town Center, providing schedules and other information and selling festival-logo sweat shirts and caps. ``This is the perfect place for this kind of family event,'' Dee said. ``There's entertainment for your child or your grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl . You don't have to be embarrassed to take your grandmother to a movie.'' Kim Holmes Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., is one of Washington's foremost foreign and defense policy experts. He currently serves as the Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation and the Director of its Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. of Canyon Country stopped by the kiosk Thursday with son Alec, 4. She bought two T-shirts and a cap and said she would be back for the festival. ``I think it's a really good idea,'' Holmes said. ``This is such a family-oriented community.'' Dee said the ``family'' films simply have no frontal nudity, no profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity and no gratuitous sex or violence. ``That doesn't mean we're Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney ,'' she added. She said the festival will feature movies ranging ``from Disney to a very fierce drama - but it's not violence for the sake of violence.'' The timing is right for such films, Dee said, noting the new TV rating system. ``The world is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. family entertainment,'' she said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color only in SAC edition) Kim Holmes and her son Alec look at logo shirts and caps for the third annual Santa Clarita International Family Film Festival. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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