SCREENERS' RELEASE MEANS LAFCA WILL ISSUE AWARDS.Byline: Bob Strauss Film Writer The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Film Critics Association, which had canceled its 2003 awards to protest the Motion Picture Association of America's ban on home video and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. screeners, decided Tuesday to proceed with its year-end polling. The latest move was in response to a temporary restraining order temporary restraining order: see injunction. issued in a federal court last week that enjoined the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America from preventing distributors and producers from sending such videos to groups that hand out movie awards. Members of critics organizations, movie craft guilds and outfits such as the Golden Globes-distributing Hollywood Foreign Press Association have already begun to receive some screeners. LAFCA LAFCA Los Angeles Film Critics Association has yet to decide when a vote will take place, although it plans a meeting Saturday to discuss issues surrounding its awards, and will probably decide by then, if not before. The organization had canceled the awards because it felt that ``the ban on screeners hurt the smaller, independent films,'' which often received a boost from winning critics' awards, said President Jean Oppenheimer. ``In light of the court ruling which has lifted the ban, even if just temporarily, and the fact that various film companies are now allowed to send out screeners, that meets the criteria we had'' for reinstating the LAFCA awards, Oppenheimer said. Bob Strauss, (818) 713-3670 bob.strauss(at)dailynews.com |
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