Held in the most prestigious theater in Los Angeles at LA Live: Regal in a 300 seat theater: Rising Above was created by multi-award winning Producer/Actress/Writer Summer Moore to feature projects that “rise above” obstacles and challenges and empower a change. We are a hybrid evolving festival with the ability to shift it’s focus to issues that require a change. Again in 2018, we celebrate women who are working to make the world a better place through Film/TV, Music, and Fashion.
In 2017, many press venues were in attendance, including “Huffington Post” and "Getty Images."
As we strive to help advance women in their careers, we welcome projects to submit that have a woman: Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, or Director.
Watch films that rise above challenges, hear powerful speakers share their experience of rising above, and a red carpet that rises above others. All genders welcome!
Notable Attendees Include:
• Festival Founder/Actress - Summer Moore
• Celebrity Host/Actress/Comedian – Lisa Ann Walter
• Actress – Miya Cech (The Darkest Minds)
• Actress - Raegan Revord (Young Sheldon)
• Emmy-Winning Actress/Television Academy Performer’s Group Co-Governor - Patrika Darbo
• Forbes 30 Under 30 - Kaitlyn Yang
• Actress - Lidya Jewett (The Darkest Minds)
• Nickelodeon Star - Maya Le Clark (The Thundermans)
• Actress – Rosa Blasi (Strong Medicine)
• Actress - Scarlett Estevez (Daddy’s Home)
• Emmy-Winning Director - Mary Madeiras
• Actress – Mackenzie Hancsicsak (This is Us)
• Talent Manager – Cinda Snow
• Singer – Lily Kincade (American Idol)
• ABC Talent Development Manager - Kristi Shuton
• Youtube Influencer - Gia Fey (Body by Gia)
• Youtube Influencer – Lesley Fightmaster (Fightmaster Yoga)
View our website to see some images from it and also LA Live Event page for more info:
https://www.lalive.com/events/regal-cinemas-la-live/detail/film-fest-la
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0005527/overview/
ALL Official Selections will receive Distribution with our partner Filmhub. They will receive free ingest, QC, storage, cataloging, promotion to channels, transcoding, delivery, collection and reporting with only a Twenty Percent (20%) revenue share. In addition, they will receive free translation of English captions into at least one foreign language (selected by Filmhub). Normally filmmakers have to pay aggregation fees and translation fees.
All award winners will win a reduction of their revenue share from 20% to 10% for the first year (coincident with the Commission Year, etc).