Organizers of the New Media Film Festival held last weekend are conscious of the irony of hosting a “new media” film festival in old-fashioned movie houses in the center of the American film industry.

The categories included Documentaries, Feature Length and 3-D, as well as newer forms of the medium such as Webisode and Mobile. The festivities took place at Downtown Independent Theatre in LA and proved the creativity and ingenuity of film.

Some highlights? ‘Double Take’, a darkly funny Cold War tale that casts 20th century director Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, and ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto’ (trailer below), a documentary made by web activist Brett Gaylor, who explores intellectual property rights in the digital information age.

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