Film Festival at Hollywood Park

Film Festival at Hollywood Park is the first and only film festival at Los Angeles' newest entertainment hub, Hollywood Park. This 300-acre complex -- the largest urban development in the western United States -- is in the heart of Los Angeles, just 3 miles from LAX.

The sprawling campus boasts world-class venues including SoFi Stadium, Kia Forum, YouTube Theater and the primary site of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Now, with the arrival of our festival, Hollywood Park is home to a world-class film event with screenings taking place at the state-of-the-art Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas at Hollywood Park.

The mission of the festival is to exhibit in the Film Capital of the world independent films from a wide array of genres and filmmakers from throughout the U.S. and abroad. The vast majority of the films screened at the festival will be making their Los Angeles theatrical premieres.

Our primary focus is to explore the cultural diversity and contemporary social and political issues of the modern urban landscape. In a phrase, the festival is dedicated to promoting diversity in cinema. Specifically, the festival strives to showcase filmmakers from demographic groups traditionally underrepresented by the major studios. These groups include women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ communities as well persons with disabilities, the economically disenfranchised, people experiencing homelessness, the recently incarcerated and so on.

Produced by an IRS tax-exempt, charitable nonprofit organization created in 2000, Film Festival at Hollywood Park was previously known as Downtown L.A. Film Festival, which was established in 2008 and Silver Lake Film Festival, started in 2000. Both festivals were honored multiple times with L.A. Weekly calling Silver Lake Film Festival a Top 5 Los Angeles film festival, and DTLA Film Fest winning the Best Live Event in downtown Los Angeles for 4 consecutive years by readers of Downtown L.A. News.

Since 2000 our festivals have screened thousands of narrative and documentary features and shorts as well as sidebars offering TV pilots, web series, AR, augmented reality and dome films. In the tradition of its predecessors, Film Festival at Hollywood Park leans into films that push the creative envelope and demonstrate some aspect of diversity in terms of its cast, crew or screenplay.

Through the years the festivals have honored a variety of artists who have contributed to this spirt of independent cinema, including Mira Sorvino, Rosanna Arquette, Malcom McDowell, John Hawkes, Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo, Charles Burnett, Penelope Spheeris, Allison Anders and Robert Altman. Film Festival at Hollywood Park will build on this legacy by embracing diversity in front of and behind the camera.

This combination of cinematic innovation, diversity and celebrity involvement has captured the media's attention over the years. The festival has been covered by such major outlets as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and NPR.

Our audiences are comprised largely of entertainment industry professionals: producers, agents, filmmakers, film financiers and other film, music, TV, video game, internet, marketing, social media influencers, fashion industry creatives and cinephiles. Films at our festival enjoy the advantage of being seen by a range of the aforementioned creatives that can make a difference in your film and your career. We also are known for our parties and panels where everyone can network and have the full festival experience.

Film Festival at Hollywood Park is committed to exploring the future of cinema while remaining committed to a tradition of fearless innovation and diversity in programming.