AFFAIRS OF STATE director Eric Bross and director of photography Horacio Marquínez will participate in Q&A's at the Music Hall after the 7:20 show on Friday, June 15; both screenings on Sunday and Monday, June 17 and 18; and after the 7:20 show on Thursday, June 21. Screenwriter Tom Cudworth will join them for all but the Thursday

This is a Free Event RSVP on EventbriteJoin us as LAEMMLE LIVE proudly presents musicians from Orchestra Santa Monica at the Monica Film Center July 15. Lisa Kohorn-clarinet, Larry Kohorn and Cindy Bandel-violins, Brooke Wharton-viola, Eran Marcus-cello perform Alexander Krein Jewish Sketches #1, op. 12 and Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115  for clarinet in A with String Quartet.Founded in 2012, Orchestra Santa Monica (OSM) has already established itself as an important civic institution, providing Santa Monica and its surrounding communities with a first-class orchestra which presents accessibly-pr [...]

THE VALLEY Q&A schedule: Saturday, June 9, 7:00pm: Jacob Yoffee and Tom Marks; Sunday, June 10, 7:00 PM TBD; Monday, June 11, 7:00pm: Salma Khan; Wednesday, June 13, 7:00pm: Lauren Herrel; Thursday, June 14, 7:00pm

THIS IS CONGO producer Geoff McLean and a representative from Friends of the Congo will participate in Q&A's at the Music Hall following the 7:20 PM screenings on Saturday, June 30th and Thursday, July

BILLY BOY writer-star Blake Jenner will participate in Q&A's at the Music Hall following the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, June 15 and

EN EL SEPTIMO DIA filmmaker Jim McKay will participate in Q&A's at the Music Hall following the 7:30 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, and after the 2:30 show Sunday, June

Meet the HOW JACK BECAME BLACK filmmaker at the following screenings:  Friday, June 1, 7:40 PM screening Theme: Ready for a fearless dialogue on identity politics and the multiracial baby boom? Featuring: Filmmaker Eli Steele  Saturday, June 2, 7:40 PM screening Theme: What is it like raising multiracial families in today’s America? Featuring: Buddy Sosthand - an award winning stuntman (Pirates of Caribbean, etc.) and the father of a multiracial family. David Raysse - a legendary shoe designer (FILA, Adidas, Skechers, Brand Black) who is mixed himself and the father of a m [...]

MAINELAND director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by UCLA professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagn at the Music Hall following the 4:50 PM screening on Saturday June 9 and director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by journalist Jeff Yang following the 4:50 PM screening on Sunday, June

STRANGERS ON EARTH director Tristan Cook will participate in post-screening Q&A's at the Music Hall June 1-3 following the Friday & Saturday 7:20 PM shows and the Sunday noon

Join us on June 3 as LAEMMLE LIVE proudly presents chamber players from The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra at the Monica Film Center. LAYO is comprised of pre-college age musicians from greater Los Angeles who rehearse and perform classical symphonic masterworks and contemporary music. Collective talent, intellectual curiosity, and discipline are key to student performances of programs that model professional orchestras, more than conventional youth orchestras.Each season, the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra serves over 120 student musicians, ages 8-18, who hail from 60 different public and private schools. In addition to studying privately and atte [...]

Join the WELCOME TO THE MEN'S GROUP filmmakers for a panel discussion this week at the Music Hall: Tuesday May 22, after the 4:45 pm show. Panel discussion by The Good Men ProjectMelissa Drake – Partnership Director for The Good Men Project Evan Stein – Co-Founder Experience Music Group Kyle Lipton – Founder Embodied Truth Adam Shell – Where #MeToo and Stay at Home Dads ConvergeJoseph Culp – director-writer/producer Scott Ben-Yashar - writer/executive producerWednesday May 23, after the 4:45 pm showPanel discussion with Movember Foundation - Changing the Face of Men’s HealthDoug Prusoff - Movember Foundatio [...]

AFTER AUSCHWITZ Q&A's: Director Jon Kean will attend every 5:30pm showing at the Music Hall. Of special note: Saturday 5:30 Q & A will be moderated by Jane Lynch (Glee, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel). Sunday 5:30pm Q & A will be moderated by Melissa Rivers (E! Television Network) and will include survivor Renee Firestone. Monday at 5:30 we welcome Dr. Miriam Koral, UCLA professor of Yiddish language for our post film talk about Yiddish Culture Pre-Post War. Wednesday at 7:10 our talk will be moderated by Dr. Michael Berenbaum who will talk with three generations of Holocaust survivors including Renee Firestone. In Encino, join us May [...]

RAY MEETS HELEN director Alan Rudolph and the cast including Keith Carradine, Sondra Locke and Jennifer Tilly will participate in a Q&A at the Music Hall, on Sunday May 6 following 4:50 PM screening. L.A. entertainment journalist Susan King will moderate. “Filled with imaginative visuals populated by the ghosts of the gone and hopes for the future, the movie is wonderfully, magically humane.” - Jeannette Catsoulis, New York

THE TEST AND THE ART OF THINKING filmmaker Michael Arlen Davis will participate in a Q&A at the Music Hall after the 7:30 PM screening on Friday, May

THE RACHEL DIVIDE director Laura Brownson will participate in a Q&A at the Music Hall after the 5 o'clock screening on Saturday, April 28.

THE TEST AND THE ART OF THINKING director-producer Michael Arlen Davis will participate in Q&A's at the Music Hall after the 7:30 PM screening on Friday, May 4. Mr. Davis is a vice president of Canobie Films, a small independent documentary film company. He was an assistant on its production of ‘Martha and Ethel’ (1994, Sony Picture Classics), and a producer on its production of ‘Hats Off’ (2008, Abramorama).

This is a Free Event RSVP on EventbriteLAEMMLE LIVE proudly presents the Academy Philharmonic, Sunday, May 6, 2018. Middle school students from the woodwind and brass sections of Elemental Music perform chamber music from different genres. Sunday's program will include Fire Dance by David Shaffer, March (from Second Suite in F) by Gustav Holst, arr. Scott Stanton, Amparito Roca by Jaime Texidor, arr. James Curnow, and additional selections announced from the stage.Academy Philharmonic is a program of Elemental Music, created to inspire, train, and nurture young musicians in Santa Monica. The organization began in 2004 by a SMMUSD mu [...]

KRYSTAL actor-director William H. Macy will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Music Hall on Saturday, April

LOVE & BANANAS writer-director Ashley Bell will not participate in a Q&A's at the Music Hall after the 7:40 PM screening on Thursday, May

FOURPLAY producer Jamie Dolan will participate in Q&A's after the 7:40 PM screenings at the Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, and Monday, April 2. Executive producers Chris Eyre ('Smoke Signals') and Romina Caruana will join him for the Friday