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Speaker 1: Let's say, good morning now two the president and founder

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Speaker 1: of the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Nino Simone.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, hy Me, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: So if you love a good film festival, Nino, you

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Speaker 1: don't even have to go to the Sundance Film Festival

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Speaker 1: because we have our very own and it's about to

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Speaker 1: get underway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's right here in our backyard. Why would you

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Speaker 3: want to go there and freeze?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? Okay, So tell us, tell us about the Beverly

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Speaker 1: Hills Film Festival and what attendees can expect from it

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, we're going into our twenty sixth year. We

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Speaker 3: were generally more of the industry festival. We've opened the

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Speaker 3: doors to the community the last several years and it's

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Speaker 3: really become it's really become almost a family affair for

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Speaker 3: the who's who as well as the community. This year

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Speaker 3: we have I want to say, four hundred plus film homes, panels, events,

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Speaker 3: special screenings, red tarpet events, after parties, you name it.

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Speaker 3: We got it all.

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Speaker 1: Kinds of stuff. And I would imagine that like I

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Speaker 1: know that you have a gala, and if somebody wants

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Speaker 1: to go to the gala, are there still spots available

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Speaker 1: for that.

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Speaker 3: Believe it does sell out as of right now. I

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Speaker 3: believe there might be like two tables left. It's it's

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Speaker 3: a it's a really sought after event. So I encourage

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Speaker 3: anybody that wants to do it, get it this morning.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And if you are just a movie lover and

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Speaker 1: you want to see some some cool, fun new movies.

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Speaker 1: You've got some big names in the movies this year,

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Speaker 1: tell us about like Socket to Me has some huge names.

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Speaker 3: Taka to Me has been getting a lot of buzz,

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Speaker 3: and we're hearing rumors that a lot of them from

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Speaker 3: the movie are going to come out to support. So

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Speaker 3: we're looking looking forward to that. Yeah, you got Socket

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Speaker 3: to Me and some four hundred plus.

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Speaker 1: Yes, some of the names in there just it's the soccer.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's the legend of George Slatter, Tom Hanks,

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Speaker 1: Billy Crystal, Goldie, Han Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, Michael Douglas,

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Speaker 1: Bill mar Jimmy Kimmel, Sherry Lansing, Jay Leno, Clive Davis,

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Speaker 1: and Moore. If you can believe that. So that's okay,

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Speaker 1: and then yeah, let's see then this one looks interesting.

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Speaker 1: Eddie Cochrane, don't forget me starring Keith for Sutherland. It

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Speaker 1: has Keith Richards in it, Roger Daltrey, Billy Idol.

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Speaker 2: So kind of something for everybody, right, there's something for everybody,

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Speaker 2: from documentaries to really I mean amazing narrative feature films.

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Speaker 3: Our short subjects are are are just out of this world,

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Speaker 3: you know. So yeah, we got something for everybody. You know,

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Speaker 3: once we kind of got that state of mind of

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Speaker 3: expanding and becoming more of a community event, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we had to open the door absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And where where are the movies being screened?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: I know that some of them are at the TCL

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Speaker 1: Chinese Theater, but there's got to be more places. If

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Speaker 1: there's four hundred and fifty of them.

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Speaker 3: Well, we are eight days now and we do have

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Speaker 3: these cineplex the Chinese six. Programming is pretty programming is

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Speaker 3: pretty tight. So there are many theaters in there. But

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Speaker 3: that is our our only theater. Oh that's cool, okay,

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Speaker 3: our theaters, I should say. Yeah, it's always really nice

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Speaker 3: when you can gather everybody in one place all over town. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a takeover. Yeah, so we kind of do have

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Speaker 3: the best of both worlds. Both Beverly Hills and the

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Speaker 3: theater there Hollywood. Okay, and you get to watch and

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Speaker 3: you get to watch Spider Man and Batman beat each

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Speaker 3: other up out the front Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a side perpose. So Nino, tell us why

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Speaker 1: did you why did you do this? You're the guy

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Speaker 1: who founded it. Why are you doing this?

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Speaker 3: Well? I used to be, you know, in the film business,

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Speaker 3: and it just it just made sense. On Ty five,

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Speaker 3: twenty six years ago, you know, with everybody was headed

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Speaker 3: to Can, headed to Berlin, headed here, headed there, and

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Speaker 3: of course you know you want to go to Can

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Speaker 3: the French riviera. But it was like, hey, we have

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Speaker 3: everybody right here, you know, let's just launch this thing

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Speaker 3: and see what happens. And sure enough it happened.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And then is this like a sun Dancer a

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Speaker 1: can where producers are looking to get their movies to

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Speaker 1: give them a boost to get them wide distribution, or

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Speaker 1: are they already there and they're coming out anyway, or

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Speaker 1: how does that work?

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's a it's a little of both. In

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Speaker 3: the early days of the festival, we were known more

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Speaker 3: as you know, an industry event where where our job

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Speaker 3: was to for the most part fulfill your objective as

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Speaker 3: a filmmaker or as a writer. You know, if it

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Speaker 3: was a screenplay writer that was looking to make it

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Speaker 3: into a feature, we would, we would try to help

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Speaker 3: do that. If it was a short filmmaker trying to

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Speaker 3: turn it into you know, a feature, we do that.

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Speaker 3: If it's an actor trying to get an age, we would,

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Speaker 3: you know, So it was more that. Now it's become

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Speaker 3: all of it. You know, if you're a film buff,

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Speaker 3: if you're looking to get you know, if you're looking

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Speaker 3: to get your film picked up, if you know, it's

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Speaker 3: the whole, it's the whole gamut now, Okay, So we

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Speaker 3: are a destination to watch films, do shopping, go to

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Speaker 3: great hotels. Uh, you know, wheel and deal. You can

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Speaker 3: do it all Okay.

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Speaker 1: And it starts on Sunday and goes for a whole week.

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Speaker 3: Right, we are Sunday to Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Where do we get tickets?

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Speaker 3: Need? You can just hop right online Beverly Hills Film

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Speaker 3: Festival dot com and our social media the bh Film Fest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you can get all the information you need

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Speaker 1: about all the different events and the panels and everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on. We wish you tremendous look. It looks

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Speaker 1: like you've got some great movies this year. I think

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Speaker 1: I might have to go and grab them, at least one.

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Speaker 3: Or two, you know what I mean. We'd love to

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Speaker 3: have you. All right, drag yourself out.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll do it. Nino Simone, the president

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Speaker 1: and founder of the Beverly Hills Film Festival that's going

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Speaker 1: on from April twelfth through the nineteenth at the TCL

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Speaker 1: Chinese Theater.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Hear me all right,