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10/30/24

THE CULT OF AGFA TRAILER SHOW, directed by Joseph A. Ziemba and Bret Berg, 2023.

[georgethechen]

INTRODUCING THELAND: A panel discussion with the founders of the new publication theLAnd.

January 7th Monday, Edendale Branch Library 2011 Sunset Blvd  6 pm-7:30 pm

In 2017 the new owners of the LA Weekly fired its existing staff with no notice. This action by a group of Orange County investors (Semanal Media) led to a “Boycott LAWeekly” movement that tackled advertisers and even convinced Henry Rollins to discontinue his column. Today former writers and editors from that paper have come up with their own vision for a print magazine that recaptures the rebellious spirit of the alternative weekly tradition.

Bret Berg (Voyager Institute) and George Chen present a talk with theLAnd's Jeff Weiss and Jennifer Swann.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/thelandmagazine

*Jeff Weiss is a writer from Los Angeles, Ca. He founded Passion of the Weiss in late 2005 after a drunken revel led him to get tattoos of several blog bands named after animals. He does not regret the Wolf Parade one.

Other bullet points he feels compelled to hype in this space: He is the co-host of the Shots Fired podcast. He wrote the Bizarre Ride column for LA Weekly and the Rolling on Dubs column for Pitchfork. One time he co-authored a book about Biggie & 2Pac.

Other random self-aggrandizement: he’s been anthologized multiple times in the Best American Music Writer series. Passion of the Weiss was named the LA Weekly’s Best Music Blog, 2013.  

*Jennifer Swann is a writer, producer, and editor in Los Angeles. Her culture reporting has appeared in print in Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, and the LA Times, and on the airwaves at KCRW. She currently serves as an associate producer for Refinery29's investigative documentary series, "Shady," and is a founding editor of The LAnd, a new magazine collective run by former LA Weekly writers.

*As theatrical sales director for AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), Bret Berg works with movie theaters across the globe to bring forgotten genre and arthouse classics back onto the big screen.  As education director of The Voyager Institute in Los Angeles, Bret collaborates with a wide variety of artists and thinkers on Voyager's free-admission lecture series about movies and music. 
Previous curatorial residencies include KXLU 88.9fm Los Angeles, Alamo Drafthouse, Cinefile Video and The Cinefamily.

*George Chen was a figure in the Bay Area experimental music scene, playing in groups such as KIT, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, and Common Elder King Elder amongst others. He was a promoter, stand-up comedian, zine editor, and founder of the eclectic record label Zum. George is the co-host of the Sup Doc podcast, runs the Thursday open mic at the Edendale Library, and co-hosts Giant Robot Comedy Night on Sawtelle.  

Open to the public as a free event

The Edendale library is a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the heart of Echo Park. The parking lot entrance is located on Alvarado between Sunset and Reservoir Street.

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Cinefamily programmer Bret Berg discusses some of the most exciting films he saw for the first time in 2013!

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Cinefamily Q&A Archive: "Athens, GA: Inside Out" (1 of 2)

Feb. 18, 2010 - Producer Bill Cody talks to Cinefamily's Post-Punk Junk programmer Bret Berg about the making of the 1987 music documentary "Athens, GA: Inside Out", featuring REM, The B-52's, Pylon, Love Tractor, Dreams So Real and more...

Part 2

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Cinefamily programmers Tom Fitzgerald & Bret Berg plus Heavy Midnites' Phil Blankenship went on the Killer POV podcast to talk all things United States of Horror.

Listen HERE