Ashes to Films Inaugural Film Festival<\/a>, running Jan. 9\u201311 at the historic Huron Substation in Cypress Park. The festival includes screenings, filmmaker Q&As, and opening- and closing-night gatherings.<\/p>\n
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The nine films explore wildfire loss from a range of perspectives, including community, family, and survival. Some of the films include:<\/p>\n
Altadena: The Heart. The Art. The Soul, by Eric Dyson, examines how the Eaton Fire threatened Altadena\u2019s Black arts and cultural legacy.Disaster Cats recounts the true story of a house cat that survives the Eaton Fire and reunites with its owner 32 days later. Co-directors\u00a0 Jennifer Kim and David Knott were both displaced by the fire. Kim is still unable to return home.\u00a0\u00a0Eaton Alive, directed by Kristen O\u2019Meara, follows a family living in an RV on their burned lot while navigating post-fire realities.\u00a0O’Meara lost her home to the fire and is currently living in an RV with her husband on their burned lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ashes to Films says it plans to continue the festival annually and remain focused on supporting Los Angeles\u2013based artists affected by extreme adversity.<\/p>\n
The original version of this story was generated by an AI system and then reviewed and edited by Jes\u00fas Sanchez.<\/p>\n
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\u2014Jes\u00fas Sanchez, Publisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scene from\u00a0Altadena: The Heart. The Art. The Soul,\u00a0from\u00a0documentarian\u00a0Eric Dyson. Photo courtesy Ashes to Films Cypress Park\u2014After\u00a0fires ravaged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65210,26738,4300,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-125400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ashes-to-films","9":"tag-cypress-park","10":"tag-eaton-fire","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}