Filmex

Filmex was an annual Los Angeles film festival held in the seventies and early eighties. It was the predecessor of the American Film Institute's Los Angeles International Film Festival. After the final Filmex festival in 1983, the founders/organizers of the festival devoted their attentions to developing a new non-profit cultural organization, the American Cinematheque - which they created to be a permanent year-round film festival in Los Angeles... more

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