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By Sophia Lesseos

Santa Clarita International Film Festival Set To Open Next Week

The first annual Santa Clarita International Film Festival (SCIFF) is set to kick off with a bang in Old Town Newhall next week.

The December 9-12 festival’s opening night is scheduled to be hosted at the brand new Laemmle Theatre in Old Town Newhall. After the opening night, the remainder of the festival is to be hosted a short drive away at the Valencia Regal Edwards Theater.

With awards scheduled to be hosted on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 12, giving the community four nights full of entertainment. The festival is set to host local comedians, musicians and bands, in addition to dozens of films of all lengths.

See Related: VIDEO: A Sneak Preview Of The New Laemmle Theatre In Old Town Newhall

The opening night festivities are set to be presided over by the locally famous, Southern California news broadcaster Fritz Coleman. Coleman, a well-known comic, spent his forty-year career at NBC before retiring from his role as a weathercaster.

An interesting feature of this years’ festival is that a selection of the films are to be available to stream online. Of the 100 short films obtained for the festival, approximately 30 are in preparation to be screened virtually all over the world.

Of the submissions to the festival, the content ranges all over the map, from comedy, to religion, to drama, and more. If you are a true film connoisseur with an appreciation for visual arts, this is the festival to attend.

The opening night feature film that is scheduled to kick off the weekend is Drew Dickler and Jake Hochendoner’s “Fireboys.” The feature-length film focuses on the lives of the incarcerated youth at the Pine Grove Conservation Camp east of Sacramento. The young men in this film have a unique opportunity- building a career as a wildfire fighter.

See Related: Inmate Camp Crews: Unsung Heroes Who Fight Santa Clarita Brush Fires  

To find out more info about the festival or to buy tickets, click here.


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Santa Clarita International Film Festival Set To Open Next Week

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  1. Says in this article “With awards scheduled to be hosted on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 12”, Saturday is thec11th. So are the awards going to be on Saturday the 11th or Sunday the 12th?

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About Grace Halaby

Grace Halaby is a Washington State native currently attending The Master’s University and will graduate in May 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Communications- Creative Writing and Publishing. She joined the KHTS News Team in February 2021 and when Grace isn’t writing or studying, she can be found reading, or exploring California with her husband Peyton.