What makes iHollywood Film Fest unique?
It’s all about the story, the experience and empowering storytellers.

We’re 2 festivals in one, iHollywood Film Fest and the I Am Awards, both are under the iHollywood Film Fest and awarded during the festival. iHollywood Film Fest judges films in a traditional manner with industry professionals. I Am Awards judges films based on energetic frequency. There are many crossovers and surprisingly or perhaps not so surprisingly our best films did well in both categories.

The 2023 iHollywood Film Fest is a multi-day festival celebrating storytelling.

Day 1: iHollywood Summit. Qualifying film pitches will pitch to film financiers. They’ll be in the same room and are able to meet mingle with them throughout the day.

Day 2: Movie, movies, movies.

Day 3: Movie marathon, FSD Fest (Fullerton School District), Film It West Covina, red carpet and awards

Submissions Close on July 23rd. Submit today and let's push the boundaries of storytelling together.

Do you have a story that you want to tell or needs to be told but aren’t certain where to start? Ask us about Short and Sweet. Launching soon at this year's iHollywood Film Fest. Request a consultation and we’ll connect you with award winning filmmakers that will help tell your story.

CALENDAR (ARCHIVE 2022)

LEGEND AWARDS 2022

Andre Miripolsky for Lifetime Achievement in Art

MiripolskyAndre Miripolsky is an artist of extraordinary creative abilities.

As colorful a man as the exuberantly colorific art he creates, his signature style of pop imagery is bright, whimsical, energetic, and downright fun. A true multi-media artist, Andre is much more than a painter, taking his unique pop-style into sculpture, mobiles, graphics, branding, production design, sets and costumes, and now, NFTs.

His sense of humor has been embraced by film and music stars, creating several art costumes for Sir Elton John – most notably the often-photographed “Piano Jacket” made for the famous Central Park concert.

He has also collaborated on projects for Bette Midler, Quincy Jones, Robin Williams, the Rolling Stones, MTV, and Mattel, where he was commissioned to create a one-of-a-kind “Miripolsky Art Barbie.”

From 1997-2004 he painted huge scenic sets and floors for the music segments of “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, making history as the first visual artist ever commissioned to create original scenic art. He also made basketball history in 1992 by painting a 6000 sq. ft. mural directly on UCLA’s center court at Pauley Pavilion for MTV’s Rock and Jock B-Ball Jam. His famous “Fear No Art” button has been sold continuously at LACMA since 1985 and was once carried in over 300 museums.

Miripolsky is the co-creator of Viva LA, the new iconic brand celebrating Los Angeles’ creative culture. In 2021, Miripolsky partnered with form-u.la to launch SharkTales Art, a new approach to communal art collecting and ocean conservation through edutainment, and his iconic painted sharks.

Marcie Jastrow for Lifetime Achievement in Innovative Storytelling

Marcie JastrowMarcie Jastrow is a Media and Entertainment professional with a career marked by documented achievements, future facing technologies, XR (VR,AR MR), NFT, Metaverse.

She is also skilled at making technology conversations frictionless CMO. CRO, Builder.

Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciejastrow/

ICON AWARDS 2022

Alexander Amartei for Innovation in Film

alexander_amatelAlexander Amartei is an Irish entrepreneur, Investor, CEO of Arabian Camels.

He recently won the Monaco Streaming Film Festival Award alongside James Cameron and Mark Wahlberg. Alexander is the producer of Antara – the first major DeFiHollywood Movie in history financed by tokens and the power of Web 3.

With a strong background in equities, real estate, corporate finance and an extensive Hollywood network, he has built a brand around the democratization and decentralization of the movie business through Web 3, Community and Blockchain.

In addition to launching the Antara Movie NFT, he also carried out the NFT campaigns for Arabian Camels, David Bowie and Queen, and is soon to launch the full physical DC Comic collection onto the Blockchain. He is a keynote speaker, panelist, podcast guest, and has been a governmental advisor on the future of industry as it converges with Web 3, Tokenization, DeFi and Blockchain.

Patrick Kilpatrick for Excellence in Acting

Kilpatrick’s entertainment career has spanned more than 180 films and television shows as lead actor, producer, screenwriter, director and acting coach/entertainment teacher. Most commonly playing the role of a villain, Kilpatrick has joked, “I’ve been killed, beaten-up or jailed by nearly every leading actor on earth and in outer space.”[citation needed]

His action-film villain appearances include Showdown (1993), The Replacement Killers  (1998), Eraser (1996), Last Man Standing (1996), Minority Report (2002), Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), Death Warrant (film) (1990),The Presidio (1988), and two Westerns opposite Tom Selleck, Last Stand at Saber River (1997)  and Crossfire Trail (2001). Kilpatrick also starred in Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997).

In one 18-month period Kilpatrick, reportedly acted in five major-studio films and two independent films while making 27 television guest-star spots on 18 different shows.[citation needed] Other appearances include films such as Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985); 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995), and the PBS miniseries American Playhouse: Roanoak (1981), which became the largest production in the history of PBS.

Television appearances include Dark Angel; Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994); Walker, Texas Ranger (1994); Babylon 5 (1995); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Sergeant O’Connor for 9 episodes from 1996 to 1997; ER (1997); The X-Files (2001); General Hospital (2003); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005); 24 (2005); Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) and Chuck (“Chuck Versus the Gravitron“). He co-starred in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes “Initiations” (1995) and “Drive” (2000) and in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Siege of AR-558” (1998). In January 2019, he began filming Catalyst (scheduled for 2021 release).

Tom Malloy for Achievement in Film Finance

Malloy has acted in other films, including Gravesend, and on television shows including Law & Order, Third Watch and Kidnapped.

He wrote the book Bankroll: A New Approach To Financing Feature Films in 2009. A 2nd Edition of the book came out in 2012.[10]

In 2013, Malloy partnered with LA based independent film producer Jason Brubaker to create The Film Finance Guide.

Malloy was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in the Whitehouse Station section of Readington Township, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Hunterdon Central Regional High School, where he acted in school performances with classmate Vera Farmiga, and of Montclair State University (1993–1997).[11] For 10 years, Malloy gave motivational speeches at schools nationwide.

Ref:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Malloy

Merle Liivand for Global Influencer for Hey Olympian efforts in Breaking World Records and Bringing Awareness to the Necessity of Cleaning up our Oceans.

Merle Liivand is a national Estonian competitive swimmer, Model, aquapreneur, SWIMERA CEO, AMBASSADOR, Triathlete, International Spokesperson and open water swimmer from Tallinn, Estonia. She is known mostly as an MODERN DAY LIFE MERMAID and ICE Princess who never stops exploring a life and passion towards to WATER WORLD. She works with many successful brands like FINIS, DERMASPORT, TRISWIM, and FOGGIES. She have been featured many Swimming technical videos like Goswim.tv, Swimspire and Usa Swimming.
On early age she loved to be active and sportive. Her mum Jaana put her to Modelling, Talent and Dance school SEMOLEN even before she finished kindergarten. There Merle had a chance to Dance as a cheerleader to famous basketball team KALEV and take part many filming, theatre and art classes. Many famous Estonian actors like Hendrik Norman, Mait Malmsten, Merle Palmiste were one of the first teachers who taught and guided Merle at her early age. On the age 11 she was spotted at TOP Olympic Centre by her coach Heidi Kaasik who invited Merle to join a swim lessons. After one year under coach Kaasik she made it to top 3 on Estonian Youth Nationals on breaststroke events.
During her career she has taken many hits and successes what she loves to share with kids and adults on the TALKs around the schools, events and podcasts. On her spread time she enjoys teaching and advocate Mermaid Swimming. On 2015 she was First Estonian who made it to tv show “Good Morning America” together with World of Swimming Mermaid School.
In 2014 she took part of 100x 100 yards record swim on “Swim with MIKE” event. Liivand have won many International Medals during her career. She´s a 3 time Baltic Champion, 2 time Silver medallist in WORLD Ice Swimming, 2 times Florida Winter Champion, 10 km Open Water Worlds Qualifier and Rio Marathon Swimming Olympic Trial swimmer. She is delighted philanthropist who has been leading many Ocean Clean Ups, health charity and drowning prevention events around the world. Past couple years Merle lives and trains in South Florida, Fort Lauderdale/ Miami .

Festival Scheduling(ARCHIVE 2022)

Opening Day and Opening Night Party

Time: Activity:
12:00PM. INTRO
Movies:
  1. Planet View
  2. Home
  3. Project 4 Degrees
  4. Father Me
  5. Journalism 101
  6. SALT
  7. First Love
  8. Hail Mary, Full of Grace
  9. Coconuts Oil for Dogs
  10. Signs of Depression
  11. Strictly Ballroom
02:00PM. Movies:
  1. Heaven and Paradise
  2. How Did We Get Here?
  3. Packed - West Coast Premiere
  4. Roommates
  5. Beyond Belief Chronicles
  6. Ang Motel
  7. A Cry for Help
  8. I Just Want to Get Home
BREAK
04:30 PM. Discussion Panel 1: System of DAO
05:15 PM. Discussion Panel 2: The Future of Film and FinTech
06:00 PM. Movies:
  1. Other Side of the Clouds
  2. My Guardian Angel
  3. Brother's Pastime
  4. End of Day - World Premiere
  5. Family Fiction - World Premiere
  6. Catch the Bus - World Premiere
  7. Reason - World Premiere
  8. Artscape
BREAK
07:45 PM. Movies:
  1. Aping Edwin Porter
  2. Zombiegeddon
09:35 PM. Movie:
  1. Esme, my Love

BitAngels Hollywood Launch, Blockchain / Film Integration, Screenings, Industry Panels

Time: Activity:
12:00 PM. BitAngels Hollywood Launch
Keynote: Michael Terpin
Special Guest: Sophia the Robot
02:30 PM. Movies:
  1. Hivemind
  2. Download My Heart in the Metaverse
  3. Couples Therapy
  4. LA County Drones
  5. San Francisco Aerial Lapse
  6. Trinity at Night
  7. Unfiltered through their Eyes
  8. Tooth Fairies in Quarantine
  9. Only Kidding
  10. Fallen
  11. The Product
  12. ORK
  13. Life's Work
BREAK
05:15 PM. Discussion Panel 3: Marketing Your Film with NFTs
06:00 PM. Discussion Panel 4:
BREAK
07:30 PM. Opening Night Party - Party Bus Hollywood Hotspots
08:00 PM. Movies:
  1. Malibu Crush
  2. Promised Land
  3. Cultura

Closing Day, Awards and Closing Night

Time: Activity:
11:00 AM. Minnesota (Documentary)
12:46 PM. Rekindling Christmas (Feature)
02:30 PM. My Life with Rosie (Documentary)
03:00 PM. RED CARPET
03:35 PM. Q & A with today's films
04:00 PM. AWARDS

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