The inaugural Donate Life Hollywood Film Festival celebrates the entertainment industry’s inspiring and accurate organ and tissue donation storylines by showcasing feature films, documentaries, online shorts/videos, and news, comedic, dramatic and reality television.

Where:
Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046

When:
June 12 -13, 2009

Who:
Show business guild and union members; TV and feature film writers, directors, producers; documentary filmmakers; entertainment leaders; film students; organ donor families and transplant recipients; transplant and trauma surgeons; medical leaders; Donate Life California partners; and the general public

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 12 - Award Nominees Reception

7-10pm

Live Entertainment
Awards for Online Short/Video
Awards for Professional Video by
Organ/Tissue Non-Profits

Saturday, June 13 - Film Festival

10:30am

Registration & Networking

11:00am

Screenings (Download Screening Schedule PDF)

12:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm

Hollywood Writer-Producer Panel on Donation
“Make 'Em Laugh, Make 'Em Cry:
How Organ Donation Storylines Cut Deep”
with Carol Barbee (Three Rivers, Jericho, Swingtown), Krystal Houghton (CSI: Miami) and Lyla Oliver (Bones)

2:30pm

Screenings (Download Screening Schedule PDF)

3:30pm

Transplant & Trauma Surgeons Panel
"Ripped From the Headlines: Surgeon Hastens Death for Organs?” Featuring transplant surgeons from USC University Hospital

4:30pm

Screenings (Download Screening Schedule PDF)

5:30pm

Awards Dinner Happy Hour and Registration

6:30pm

Awards Dinner & Ceremony

9:00pm

Special Free Screening of “Seven Pounds”
Special introduction by screenwriter Grant Nieporte

Registration:
$8 for admission to Film Festival. $8 for Mexican buffet lunch. Free admission and buffet lunch for show business guild and union members who RSVP and show ID at door. Awards Dinner & Ceremony is invitation only. RSVP to Chris Sariego at (213) 500-6511, csariego@onelegacy.org or online at
https://www.regonline.com/donatelifefilmfest

Submissions:
Online Short/Video (1-5 minutes), Longer Format Film (5-20 minutes, scripted and documentary), Television Programming, and Professional Video by Organ and Tissue Non-Profits.
Deadline for Entries May 1, 2009.
Click Here to Download Submissions Form

Contact:
Chris Sariego at (213) 500-6511, csariego@onelegacy.org