laharborfilmfest.com<\/a> for tickets, the schedule and other details.<\/p>\nThe festival will open on Thursday with its annual \u201cRead the Book, See the Movie\u201d program, this year featuring \u201cSwiss Family Robinson.\u201d The 1960 Disney film will be shown to students coming from area schools at the John Olguin Auditorium at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. Books are distributed to schools beforehand.<\/p>\n
The festival\u2019s opening night for the public will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 6, with a reception and presentations from the oral history program \u2014 \u201cStories of Los Angeles Harbor Area For Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow\u201d \u2014 at the Dalmatian American Club, 1639 S. Palos Verdes St. The series is produced by festival founder and director Stephanie Mardesich and Jack Baric.<\/p>\n
At 4 p.m. Saturday, March 7, the festival\u2019s Hollywood Nostalgia Tribute Program will be presented on board the Battleship Iowa,250 S. Harbor Blvd., in the Port of Los Angeles. (Boarding and ship tours will begin at 3 p.m.)<\/p>\n
First up will be a screening of \u201cSkirts Ahoy\u201d (MGM, 1952), the musical about World War II \u201cWaves\u201d starring Esther Williams.<\/p>\n
Concessions will be sold at Vicky\u2019s Doghouse Cafe on board the historic World War II battleship. with the evening\u2019s film-friendly menu featuring gourmet hot dogs, soda, wine, beer, popcorn and candy.<\/p>\n
The ship event is free, but attendance is limited to 200. It is requested that reservations be made through \u201cEvent Brite.\u201d In lieu of tickets, however, the event will accept donations of non-perishable food items and new clothing to benefit various organizations, including the YWCA Harbor Area, Toberman Neighborhood Center and Harbor Interfaith Services.<\/p>\n
Closing day, Sunday, March 8, is known as \u201cDocSunday\u201d because of its focus on non-fiction film and documentaries. \u201cDocSunday\u201d will begin at 2 p.m. at the YWCA Harbor Area\u2019s Julia Morgan Auditorium, 437 W. Ninth St.<\/p>\n
This year will feature the Port of Los Angeles premiere of the short documentary \u201cCirilo, An Untold Legacy\u201d about the life of Panama native Cirilo McSween, who became a civil rights leader in the U.S. in the 1960s; and \u201cThe Eyes of Ghana,\u201d which Mardesich viewed as a press delegate for the 69th BFI London Film Festival in October. The film provides a historical perspective and account of the first African nation to be emancipated from European colonialism.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth films reflect concerns for social integrity, equity and civil rights,\u201d Mardesich said, \u201cevoking a mood of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mardesich, an alumna of USC\u2019s film school, founded the nonprofit LAHIFF in 2003 with Baric.<\/p>\n
The festival, she said, \u201cis a way to offer a collective experience, to educate, enlighten and entertain, augmenting the cultural landscape, and promoting all San Pedro and surrounding areas have to offer residents, visitors and tourists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23rd Annual L.A. Harbor International Film Festival will take place in San Pedro from Thursday to Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,12611,3172,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,1399,100,1439,77],"class_list":["post-204697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-harbor-area","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-san-pedro","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204697","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=204697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}