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Welcome to the Film and Music Forum. We are excited for you to join our community of independent filmmakers, musicians, and artists. Here we share our favorite ideas, experiences, articles, blogs, short films, trailers, and webisodes. We’d love for you to join in the conversation. At the end of every article, you may leave comments. If you’d like to send us your own contributions, please email: editor@filmandmusicforum.com.

This website was born at the end of January 2009, on the long drive back from Sundance (Park City Utah to Los Angeles). With renewed energy and in high filmmaking spirits, ready to go home and conquer Hollywood we got to thinking. What could we do differently this year, in our ever changing technological society, to promote ourselves and our projects?

We thought about it and decided that every filmmaker, musician and artist, in this day and age, needs an online presence to share his or her work. We also thought about how we know so many amazingly talented people in our combined 25 years in Los Angeles and in the entertainment business. What better way to do something pro-active than start a website to share our own work AND the contributions of all our talented colleagues? As they say, it takes a village, and isn’t the very nature of being a filmmaker collaborative? Thus, Film and Music Forum was born.

In this forum we cover news, events, exhibits, screenings, film festivals and shows. We have columnists and bloggers talking about writing, directing, painting, sculpting, playing music, managing bands, and just about every aspect of the entertainment business. Share, learn, read, enjoy, and by all means, if you see something you like, send that person a note and check out their website. This Forum is meant to be an interactive place of sharing, discovering, and promoting talent. We want YOU to be a part!

Welcome again, and thanks for visiting. Come back soon!

Sincerely,
Rebekah Sindoris
Editor – Film and Music Forum

If you didn’t make it to the Hotel Cafe (1623 1/2 North Cahuenga Blvd., 90028) April 5, YOU missed out! What a great night it turned out to be, packed with an energetic crowd that really got down to the groove. Two of our own, Christopher Hawley and the Rollers, and Bobby Syvarth, performed a truly fantastic show

If you DID miss the show, check out Christopher and Bobby’s tunes and make sure to be ready for the next great show.

The Hotel Cafe is a special place for musicians, and it is famous in the circles of true talented professionals as one of the best singer/songwriter venues in the city. It’s an intimate space that houses a fantastic sound system. Originally a coffee shop, the owners turned the place into a nightclub/bar because they found themselves turning off the coffee machines between songs and were unable to sell coffee! Well, what better to be, than a nightclub for LA’s music-going fans? The Hotel Cafe has become quite the success and prides itself on booking both amazing up-and-coming acts as well as established world-renowned musicians!