4th Annual All Sports Film Festival in Los Angeles, November 9-11!

It’s almost time once again for the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival , this is the 4th year and it keeps getting bigger and better! The All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival is the only one of this sort of genre of festival on the West Coast and what more fitting a home than in Los Angeles. The festival focuses on the world of sports, sports competition and the art of the screenwriting and filmmaking that surrounds it. This year event organizaer and founder Pat Battistini has offered some incentives for those who wish to help contribute to the festival as well as adding some great Hollywood producers to the list of celebrity judges for this years’ review panel. The 4th Annual All Sports Film Festival takes place in Los Angeles, November 9-11 at the El Portal Theater in NoHo!! Click ahead to read more…

Three new panelists for the 4th Annual All Sports Film Festival have recently been announced; Festival Director Pat Battistini will moderate the 60-minute Q&A that will include John Dove (Supervising Producer/Writer, “CSI NY”),Mike Larsen (Executive Producer, “Crash &Bernstein”, Co-Producer, “The Drew Carey Show”), & Theresa Mulligan (Co-Executive Producer, “Whitney” and “How I Met Your Mother”). All three panelists have been nominated for various awards during their illustrious careers.

Meet one of the Writers/Supervising Producers from CSI: NY

This years festival is also attempting to reach out to the Sports loving, Film Festival going audiences to help fund the Fest with a cool incentives program. Take a glance at all the cool stuff offered in return for any donation – they start at $1! There’s an amusing video that will give you a tad more insight. They have a modest goal of only $15,000 and all of that goes to marketing, location fees, printed materials, concessions, printed promotional material, programs, equippment rentals, all things which costs money when throwing a festival…you can only pay for so much out of pocket, and Pat and the staff volunteer their time too!  http://www.indiegogo.com/allsportsfilmfest

ASLAFF Founder Pat Battistini and baseball legend Pete Rose at the All Sports LA Film Festival

In case you were wondering how many sports films can there really be about Baseball, Football, and Basketball, you should factor in studio theatrical releases amidst a world of documentaries on smaller sport related topics, and then suddenly a film All Sports Film Festival makes perfect sense. With technology becoming smaller and more affordable, these lower budgeted niche films and documentaries are becoming all the more popular and broadening their production and awareness to wider audiences. “We felt that creating this festival would give the many sports fanatics out there an outlet for their love of competition”, says Battistini. Over the years some of the festival’s entries have focused on such topics as coast to coast mountain biking, an Iraq’s Women’s Rugby Team, Beer Pong, Boxing, Martial Arts, Australian Solar Powered Car racing, Surfing, Freediving and yes, even Soccer-playing Robots! Well-respected people in the film and sporting industry judge the films for their content.

For more information visit the official web site for the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival at www.AllSportsFilmFest.com