MISSION & OBJECTIVE
The Los Angeles Movie Awards' mission is to celebrate the independent motion picture and literary arts by providing a platform for filmmakers and writers to have their work awarded and screened.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Welcome to the 2024 Los Angeles Movie Awards. The LAMA offers more than just a handful of award possibilities. We pride ourselves in providing a wide variety of award opportunities between our 10 categories. Not only will filmmakers have a higher chance of landing an award, they also will not be at risk of jeopardizing their world premiere status with other festivals. Films that are selected to screen with us will have the opportunity to opt out of their screening while still maintaining their award/s if there is a conflict with another festival or event. At that point, the next runner up will move in to the screening spot. “Best” films of each category will be guaranteed a screening spot,and will have the opportunity to win our Audience Choice Award. Official selections and honorable mentions will also have the opportunity to win the Audience Choice Award. All winners will receive official LAMA award certificates.

Awards & Prizes

Audience Award
Best Narrative Feature
Best Narrative Short
Best Doc Feature
Best Doc Short
Best Animation
Best Music Video
Best Student Film
Best Experimental
Best International
Best Script
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Honorable Mentions

Rules & Terms

-You may have multiple entries and submit to multiple categories.
-Each entry and submission category must have its on submission fee.
-Submission in other than English must have subtitles
-Works in progress are accepted
-If Mailing a DVD: please label your disc with: Title, Director, Submission Categories, Runtime and email address.
-Press kits are not required initially
-We do not confirm receipt by telephone or email. Please include a self-addressed stamped postcard with each entry if you want confirmation of receipt.
-Entry fees are non-refundable.
-Entries will not be returned.
-Films, videos and scripts can be from any year
-Entry Fees are in $USD

The Los Angeles Movie Awards is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The Competition reserves the right to refuse entries. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless Los Angeles Movie Awards from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. Entries will not be returned.
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  • natalin avci

    Thank you to LA Movie Awards for screening our film and recognizing us with honorable mention. It was an overall great experience.

    October 2024
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  • Allan Wasserman

    Honored to have our film, Disability in Focus, nominated as Best Documentary Short. Fantastic organization, setup, and experience! Included such a great variety of films. Cool to have a Q&A at the end of the screening.

    September 2024
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  • Auri Streets

    This was a really lovely festival. It was quaint and intimate. The host was great and the theatre was nostalgic. I appreciated the love our project received and to have the opportunity to network with other creatives. Thank you for having us!!

    June 2024
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  • stephan morrow

    Since this was the first festival we applied to we were thrilled that our screenplay 'The Coming Storm' received an honorable mention award. I wrote it because I had been profoundly disturbed by the depravity of Oct 7 and felt that it revealed the issue in Gaza was not about land but a blood thirst for Israeli genocide. Hence, by revisiting Berlin in 1933 I assumed it would remind people of how brutal anti-Semitism could be. (A Jewish professor is ejected from his position at a university). Since between the time I wrote it and the deluge of anti-Semitism across the U.S. (veiled as anti-Israeli sentiment) esp on college campuses - has made me think that it's become more of a prophetic statement than I ever imagined it would become. It also delves into the competition between Oppenheimer and Werner Eisenberg (who was mentored by the Jewish professor who was brutally removed from his university position (- at the beginning of Los Alamos the Germans were two years ahead of the U.S. in developing a nuclear fission weapon and in my narrative it's only because Eisenberg (who led the German program) decided not to pursue further development of a nuclear device - that the U.S. went on to successfully develop the A bomb. So far we have done one public reading of the material and it has been invited to be staged in a full production in September at Theater for the new City in NYC. So we are very grateful for the encouragement that LA Movie Awards gave us. It showed us that we weren't completely crazy in thinking this was an important story to tell. And I look forward to filming the stage production ( several of which we've won awards for as feature films and which hearken back to the Golden Age of TV in NYC in the 50's and 60's. ). 'Darkness After Night: Ukraine' won Best Original Screenplay (adapted from another medium) in The Marina Del Rey Film Festival last December. Sincerely.
    Stephan Morrow
    Artistic Director
    The Great American Play Series.
    stephanmorrow@juno.com

    June 2024
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  • Ron Kaehler

    Thank you for honoring my play POOR PLAYERS with a Best Script award! A great opportunity. Appreciate the recognition!

    June 2024
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